politics

Every time there's a World War, a bunch of industries are put under the control of the government in a process called Nationalization, or a "War Economy"...

...this is because it's highly efficient. This is an excellent argument against free market libertarian types. They don't put business in charge of government (like is being done now, eg. Privatization) they put the government in charge of business/industry.

Efficient and complicated. Not that these dipshits would understand that.

I wouldn’t call it “efficient” but I would call it optimal given the complexity.

The people Trump fired this way in the past didn't pay for his campaign.

Trump works for Musk, not the other way around.

imagine this sentence 10 years ago!

rip Kabosu, your alias was not meant to be stained in such a way :(

They don't understand what the people being fired do. There's no marketing or awareness campaigns for the GSA clerks that keep every government office in the country stocked with chairs; or the mental health nurses that pick up the phone at 2 in the morning.

People think it's some white guy just golfing while they collect checks.

Will the statue be a dual flush model?

I mean to say.. "Don't find the student loans records and don't erase them! Migrants hate that soon much! "

This would make my year. I hope you’re right

That's how we know it was never about auditing or waste.

We have generals from the military asking for less equipment , and then congress ignores them and rubber stamps the contracts of their doners in the Military Industrial Complex.

https://apnews.com/united-states-government-united-states-congress-4416606e329b4c8baa755aad333d73db

If we want to go after real waste in our spending we need to start forcing the rich to make concessions. This becomes more true every year we allow wealth inequality to continue growing.

When they were selling DOGE during the campaign, the pitch was they’d have a year or something to do their thing. The EO might have it spelled out can’t recall. But they also said they would just be an advisory group? Not insider threat hackers and political commissars at the top of every agency. Not sure why they are sweating a time limit since they dont care about any other law, regulation or protocol. I guess if they don’t deliver enough, Trump won’t do another EO extending their presence? They’re literally reworking agency stuff so that the DOGE staff have to sign off on commissioners actions, hiring etc so are they just going to revert that once the clock strikes midnight for DOGE?

I suppose the idea is that the admin wants to lock in all the creepy shit from project 2025 prior to mid terms since they know that all of it will end up being wildly unpopular and will result in republican losses in congress and potentially gridlock from that point forward… but again, their playbook essentially calls for the end of democracy, so why are they sweating something like the midterms…

These idiots are so drunk on their own Kool aid that everyone in government is useless and corrupt and not actually working and that it's all a "waste."

Also that zillions of people are on government support that should not be, nevermind that its people, exactly like Musk, who have run their shitty corpos in such a way that people can't afford to exist anymore without government assistance.

I mean, technically he is right, there are a ton of people who should not be on government programs, that are, because profit profit profit companies have made life miserable and those people don't have a choice.