Summary
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.
Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.
Musk and Ramaswamy advocate for drastic measures, including cutting grants to nonprofits and potential mass layoffs.
The difference is that it’s a lot easier and faster to break things than it is to build or repair them.
Not always.
Like, all the deportations, that would “break” our society, but to even attempt it would take huge amounts of money, planning, and competent people. Even to do it poorly.
Hell, even his threat to get rid of Department of Education, he can’t just say “you’re fired” and then everyone goes home. I mean, he could say that, he could order their pay stopped, he could even lock the doors and shut off all the networked IT.
But there would be a metric shitton of legal proceeding and resulting settlements for years.
It’s just crazy to me that everyone thinks turning (at least the remnants of) a democracy into a dictatorship is just fucking declaring it like Michal Scott declares bankruptcy.
He’s 100% going to try, I just don’t know why people suddenly expect trump and his sycophants magically became competent in the last four years.
I stand by my statement that breaking shit is faster and easier and takes less thought than fixing or rebuilding it.
Yes it can be rebuilt through those means you mentioned, but the intervening generation will be fucked over pretty hard.
I’m hoping the Incompetence that he is bringing (not to mention the infighting and backstabbing) can blunt some of the damage that he’s promising to do.