Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’
Are you fucking kidding me? The US is ruled by memes now. How long until they reach out to Scumbag Steve or Success Kid?
I’m glad that I took vector calculus in college, so I can accurately model this fucking parabola of the country going straight into the ground.
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Let me blurt it out here, people: you are looking at your next president. And I am aware that, currently, by law, a non american can not be elected for office.
yet
By law, neither can an insurrectionist, but here we are.
You are.
I’m outside the lines watching the circus burn, keeping my hopes up the audience notices it and get out while there is time.
They sewed the tent shut long ago.
Pocket knives can do miracles.
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. I’m supporting your point that rules will be broken; they already have been.
Just trying to (more or less) clearly state, that although not being american, I am aware things are getting very bad over there and have the potential to get even worst, but I hope the people realize it in time to do something to turn it around.
Oh right, well I’m not American either. But I reckon this could have global implications and we’re all stuck on this little rock together (whatever Elon thinks about Mars).
Laws mean nothing any more. Both houses of Congress are Republican and the Supreme Court has several Trump supporters on it. No one with any power will stop him.
…and slash regulations. I know this has always been their goal but damn. He doesn’t even need anything more, he has almost everything money can buy, and he thought, “ok, I have to try to buy the government”.
When you have this much money, the life is just a game
This is beginning to sound a lot like Cyberpunk. Corporations act like governments while NUSA takes a backseat.
Mike Pondsmith just extrapolated the trends he saw in the society - corporatism, drugs, plastic surgeries, stress, crime, prostitution. He just pushed these things to the extreme and put in scifi setting. This isn’t just Trump thing, this is happening for decades now.
c/PondsmithWasRight? Anyone?
Well he can build rockets faster than he can get approval to launch them.
Because launching a rocket isn’t without consequence. Shouldn’t just launch willy nilly every day because you have it, there are other factors (environment, structural damage, etc)to consider which he does not care about.
That’s probably true for most people.
For a good reason. Approvals are thorough because they are the accumulation of our learnings throughout the decades and centuries.
I don’t know if you’re meaning to justify his actions or what, but let’s not do that justification thingy when it’s completely unjustified.
Wtf is up with this timeline?
USA doing normal business.
Just bulldoze the whitehouse and erect a circus tent
I feel like I fell in a parallel universe with the dumbest possible timeline sometime in the mid 2010s
I’m old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.
Congratulations America. You put the reins of power in the hands of toddlers coming up with cool names for made up comic book superheroes.
Tesla mogul will head up Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with Vivek Ramaswamy, to ‘dismantle bureaucracy and slash regulations’
The man who’s cars kill people, should be in charge of efficiency. Perfect. Everything goes so much better when massive numbers of people die. Melon Head Musk is such a waste of DNA.
How many senators or house members do we need to lobby to stop this?
More importantly, how do I get into a position to even begin attempting to lobby them?
None, because it’s not a real department, and has as much legal meaning as any made up department you and me can think of. But if course if Trump acts as if it’s real and listens to it’s opinions (which have the same legal weight as any private person’s opinions), then it doesn’t matter it’s not real.
Lobbying against the rich lobbying with more money to take down restrictions that will free up more money for them. Maybe I’m just a bit bleak about it all, but my pessimism can’t see how it would work.
Kabosu didn’t die for this
DEPORT HIM, FFS!!!
Oh god Lemmy is going to have such a meltdown. They already have a hate boner for him.
I really hope the next 4 Years will be hell for USA, especially for the “small people”
