This is fake, right? Like, I’m falling for fake news? Right?
imagining a 50 year old man explaining the doge meme to a nearly 80 year old man
It will become, potentially, "The Manhattan Project" of our time.
Do they even know what the Manhattan project was?
They are going to kill millions of innocent people to defend American empire and suppress the spread of Communism.
DOGE
I genuinely need Elon musk to have an aneurism and die
We live in the stupidest version of the stupidest country
"This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!" stated Mr. Musk
Lol, we're really gonna do Shock Therapy USA. Better make sure we're doing all the mutual aid / dual power things and buying up as many replacement parts and ammunition as we can afford. Clown country just isn't absurd enough as it is, I guess.
Musk is probably going to take it out on all the government agents who tried to regulate his operations, like FAA workers.
Also, it sounds a lot like a think tank, actually.
How does one do shock therapy on a country that not only created it, but actively promotes itself as not needing it because it's so "free"?
How does one do shock therapy on a country that not only created it, but actively promotes itself as not needing it
What do you mean? The American public has been primed to be obsessed for decades with government spending and govt debt. Slashing the state, austerity policy, etc are very realistic policy possibilities in the US
What do you mean? The American public has been primed to be obsessed for decades with government spending and govt debt. Slashing the state, austerity policy, etc are very realistic policy possibilities in the US
What I mean is, I thought Shock therapy is supposed to force the American ("liberalized") system on a socialist state., America already has this "liberalized" economic structure (a barely functioning social safety net, barely any SOE etc.), so they're really proposing is gutting the entire state to its bones and looting what is left for the capitalist class.
I guess that's a kind of shock therapy, a final stage of neoliberalism?
You could end social security, that's billions of dollars removed from the economy. Even excluding military and police spending there is still much spending that could be cut which would cause a huge shock.
So far its a policy that's been relegated to smaller economies (Greece, Argentina), global south economies or ones which weren't well connected with the capitalist world (Former socialist countries). It's going to be real bad if implemented in the US not just for the US but the entire world.
Btw doing the shit they did to Greece, the Germans also fucked themselves over quite a bit, though it was still fairly limited compared to what US doing it to themselves would be.
Musk hunting for people taking advantage of wasteful government spending:
It's a Good Thing NOBODY Leading that NEW Taxpayer Funded Department stands to make HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS via Deregulation!
I think nothing will come of this. Trump can't just declare a new government department into existence. I honestly doubt anything will come of it, Musk will piss Trump off and Trump will get rid of him and that'll be the end of that.
If no one stops him he can do whatever he wants. This is gonna be the worst kind of interesting.
Trump can't just declare a new government department into existence.
Congress will do whatever he asks.
and even if they had to use reconciliation to bypass the filibuster the republicans unfortunately have no problem shoving the senate paramanchurian in a locker unlike the dorks on the dem side of the aisle
the only thing potentially stopping him is the MIC and intelligence apparatus so im doubtful we'll see any seismic change in those parts of the us govt that most deserve to be cut to ribbons but it only serves their purposes if he can blow up what remains of education and social safety nets without much destabilizing backlash. it's still just "advisory" to the omb which still goes through congress but it would take liberals fighting republicans like they fight vaguely left of center 'progressives' and im skeptical of their willingness to do that
Ah yes, Elon behind the wheel, firing people as he sees fit; worked wonders for twitter, so why not on the scale of a whole country.
Was it worth it dems, going out on a limb for kid killers and losing the easiest election ever?
On one hand, this clown shit could genuinely lead to collapse
On the other, reality is notably very boring and what Trump knows best is the spectacle
Dumbest of all worlds possible
If only the dude at the Trump rally was a better shot
ing yourself instead of Japan. W honestly.
