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Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated.
After Donald Trump curiously started referring to the Department of Government Efficiency exclusively in the past tense, an official finally confirmed Sunday that DOGE “doesn’t exist.”
Talking to Reuters, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor confirmed that DOGE—a government agency notoriously created by Elon Musk to rapidly and dramatically slash government agencies—was terminated more than eight months early. This may have come as a surprise to whoever runs the DOGE account on X, which continued posting up until two days before the Reuters report was published.
As Kupor explained, a “centralized agency” was no longer necessary, since OPM had “taken over many of DOGE’s functions” after Musk left the agency last May. Around that time, DOGE staffers were embedded at various agencies, where they could ostensibly better coordinate with leadership on proposed cuts to staffing and funding.
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It’ll be a good day when seal team six is bin laden-ing this mangled cock ass hat.
I’ve seen it first hand. I work as a consultant in public sector. Every where we go now the teams are crippled because people took the buyouts and left. Network teams that were 7 people reduced to 2 that are barely keeping things together. I’m sure NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, etc… love selling all these consulting hours now.
I’d bet some of those ex government employees are back doing the same job as IBM contractors for 3x the cost.
Yep, exactly. That’s DOGE efficiency.
Were they hired back at the same pay rate?
I don’t see anything in the article, or did miss it?
I hope they fucking held out for more… But I’m sure it will not be as awesome as that
Many Americans may not realize this, but the actions of DOGE were effectively the destruction of their generational inheritance; decades and generations of taxpayer dollars to build an effective machine for doing the work of government.
That won’t be rebuilt in a month or a year or even a decade. Its multi-generational damage which has been done.
The only way to recoup losses from the damage done will be an effective 99%+ tax on income, from any source, on amounts over 10 million.
That and treason charges, followed by executions
I mean I’m all for the guillotines coming out. I think we should have brought them out on January 7th 2021 and start taking serious making things right then.
But even a modest wealth tax (like every red cent after a billion becomes the states or off with your head).
Like no amount of money can mend a broken heart? What was destroyed isn’t something you can just throw money at to fix. There was a breach of trust between the smartest people in our society (NASA, NIH, etc…) and society itself, in the sense that the elected government is a reflection of society.
You have my vote.
But just think of all the data that Elon Musk got to mine out of the government, to feed to his AI.
Won’t anyone think of the billionaires?
Yeah, maybe they shut it down once they got all the data out of it they wanted.
And the result is a bullshit machine that worships Muskrat.
the stupid thing is, dumpy mcshitpants has increased the national debt by $2T in less than a year. they haven’t saved shit.
Musk for prison 2026!
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DOGE couldn’t have possibly worked, ever. I think everybody knows a situation where there’s an employee who is contributing far more than their own manager knows. So the point is that even if you asked everybody’s immediate managers to decide who to lay off, you’d have huge mistakes being made.
A central bureaucracy like DOGE is so much farther removed from that situation that it’s not even funny. There is simply no way that it has the expertise to conduct layoffs, and it was obvious from the beginning. Companies facing layoffs know that they will lose unreplaceable employees, but they have to do so due to immediate financial pressures, nothing like what the government faces.
So, DOGE was either a stupid idea created by absolute morons, or it was a cover for bad actors who never intended to do what they claimed. Or a little from column a, and a little from column b.
Also, the methodology was awful. Offer buyouts for people to leave. That means the people who are the best at their job and most confident in finding a new job left.
By June, Congress was drawn, largely down party lines, on whether to codify the “DOGE process”—rapidly firing employees, then quickly hiring back whoever was needed
To consider this as an intentional “process” a person has to have zero empathy.
It’s also robbing Peter to pay Paul. You fire me for no real reason? Fine, now I’m drawing unemployment from the state and the company (which in this case, is the federal government), for not working. Now you’ve hired me back after 6-12 months, but you’ve also destroyed the infrastructure which allowed me to do my job, and you’ve jaded the shit out of me, so AT ABSOLUTE FUCKING BEST, you’ve hired me back to do 50% of what I was doing before, for the same pay, if not more. Plus you used tax money to pay me unemployment after you fired me.
It’s literally a business decision that would only be made in a world where ‘fuck it, it’s not MY money being wasted, let’s just see what happens’
And it was ALL OF OUR MONEY being pissed away, when the people making the decisions have more than enough money to perform their dipshit experiment on their own dime.
There is no way forward without about 20-40k public executions, and the seizure of trillions in assets. Dropping nukes on Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and qatar should also be absolutely on the table.
If anything. Pivot hard to Iran and India, whole simultaneously doubling down on NATO and Ukraine, to the point where they don’t need Russia, use them to neutralize their neighbors while continuing to destroy Russia economically, then deploy US troops to Ukraine and Gaza. Then we do what America always does we install our own puppet governments and take anything of value, while ensuring the trade partnerships enacted are beneficial for us and the public governments. That’s how you f****** tip the scales
There is no way forward without about 20-40k public executions, and the seizure of trillions in assets. Dropping nukes on Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and qatar should also be absolutely on the table.
It’s a little unnerving for you to make a fair bit of sense, and then to see this little tidbit of insanity slip in there. Disregarding the call for institutional public execution, I would like to formally object to your plan for nuclear war with the Middle East, please.
DOGE saw a 250lb body builder and said “Lose some weight, fatso!”
@joyjoy @MicroWave As an aside, I knew a bodybuilder some years ago, totally jacked, like 3% body fat, all natural. Couldn’t get a life insurance policy because his BMI was something like 39% and he was classified as morbidly obese.
I know this is a funny jab at BMI, which is an extremely flawed way of determining anything, but actually the risks of being a competitive bodybuilder with single digit body fat percentage are remarkably similar to being morbidly obese. Being natty certainly makes it safer but being jacked and being healthy aren’t the same thing. The people you see on stage at bodybuilding comps are a short step away from needing admittance to hospital.
Particularly on stage, or leading up to a competition.
I had a natty buddy too. Had to lock himself out of the house and sleep in a tent so he wouldn’t cave and eat in the middle of the night. Then same with water to get the paper thin skin and vascularity.
They are starving and dehydrated.
Yep. To paraphrase the wise words of Casually Explained:
Adrenaline junkies like skydivers often say something like “I love it so much I’d die for my sport”. In contrast, with bodybuilding dying is the sport.
Department Of Government Excrement
What muscle? It’s all fat.
Yeah! Who needs roads, or power plants, or clean air, or safe medication, or…
