Almost anyone who has argued for more efficiency in recent years just meant deregulation.

It always at least attempts to be innocent on the surface such that they and their supporters can point to the words whenever someone else shines a light on the shitty actions. I feel like one of them writing that but we have decades and decades of evidence showing just how bad shit like that is gunna get under conservatives soooo…

i think it sounds (unironically) like something from 1984, e.g. the "ministry of truth" (censorship department) or the "ministry of peace" (war department)

They won't cut any actual spending, just the benefits from the spending. They'll redirect those funds right into their own pockets.

He's going to take the same approach he did to Twitter. Just up and fire half the employees. He didn't do a detailed analysis, it's just mass firing.

Medicaid and social security. You don’t have to wonder

For those thinking "well this couldn't include things like the military", it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. "The next company" here being, likely, another country.

Yup. I made a joke to my wife before the election about taking out a loan and buying a shit ton of musk stock/doge coin and truth social stock then selling it off after the election. Their stocks are going to be too volatile for my liking now, but there was an opportunity for a payday. We ultimately didn't do it because it seemed wrong to bet against our country, but the extra money would be nice.

wow

such fascism

much crushing authoritarianism

Sounds like they’re dividing and selling our govt to oligarchs a la Russia.

By turning the US government and economy into a nuke, and collapsing the whole country... probably.

Doubtless when it results in the death of millions of innocents.

Not yet, but he's working on it!

Poor.

Owned by corporations, apparently.

Musk is vying for government contracts, and it doesn't take a genius to see that if he's put in charge of "government efficiency," he's going to turn NASA's research and engineering into skeleton crews. I can guarantee it won't be Blue Origin picking up the slack after NASA is no longer able to create spacecrafts.

Yes

I sold, I have some regrets. I've been holding since 2014.