Summary

Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump, is expected to step down to launch a campaign for Ohio governor.

Sources report friction between Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, and incoming DOGE staff, with Musk’s team criticizing his lack of participation and subtly encouraging his exit.

“Vivek has worn out his welcome,” one Trump associate said.

DOGE, a task force to streamline federal bureaucracy, is not a formal agency.

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    He’s running for governor of Ohio. God damn that poor fucking state. I mean really I know they deserve it to some extent cuz they keep voting for these people, but they have just some of the worst most soul-crushing politicians the last 30 years I’ve ever seen

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        Yeah, if L.A. didn’t have a lesbian firefighter in charge of fighting these fires, there would never be any wildfires in Los Angeles County.

        Lesbianism causes pyrokinesis. FACT.

        We’re just lucky she’s white.

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          What the FUCK is wrong with you? Everybody knows that only the lesbians that gather in covens to drink menstrual blood by the light of the new moon get pyrokenesis the rest just get headaches as they have to deal with constant misogyny.

          You can’t just claim all lesbians are pyrokinetic

          Final edit: could they be talking about Louisiana? They said LA not L.A.

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    Efficient as hell: first day of the regime and we’ve made it so s department doesn’t have two guys running it

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      It’s not noon yet Trump isn’t in charge and the DOGE is already coming apart at the seams.

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      I don’t know, Bobby Jindal got elected and so did Nikki Haley.

      Of course, they changed their names to something that sounded less exotic to American ears.

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    Two people can’t run the same bureau.

    You’d think there would be some government agency whose purpose it is to identify redundancies like that…

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    Great, let’s just leave it all up to Elon. What could possibly go wrong?

    The only thing worse than 2 billionaires leading an unregulated government entity is a single billionaire leading it. Giving Elon completely unchecked power.

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      It’s not a government entity.

      I don’t think it even exists. We all know Elon doesn’t do any actual work beyond tweeting and giving the engineers his latest harebrained idea. Have they started hiring staff? Office space? Anything to prove they exist at all?

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        The man just did a Nazi salute while standing behind a podium with the Presidential seal on it at the Inauguration. All bets are off if you are thinking of government as it existed before this moment.

        He has enough money to do what he wants. And there are enough idiots around him that believe his bullshit and applaud.

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        It’s about to be. That’s going to be one of Trump’s first executive orders apparently. That and declaring an emergency on the border with Mexico and canceling the Green New Deal.

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          Federal agencies cannot be created by executive order, only acts of Congress.

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              It’s more about funding and authority than anything else. Musk has to front the money to run the think tank tank and they can’t actually do anything becuase they have no authority to operate. It’s literally going to be a group of people making recommendations that congress would need to pass.

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      The last bunch were stupid too. People made fun of Hitler’s sub-literate use of German and his lack of education. Most of his flunkies were dimwits too. It didn’t stop them committing wars of aggression, mass murders and genocide, though.

      The odd exception was Mussolini, who was a journalist and novelist prior to becoming the gurning bullet-headed thug he was later famous for being. And, if we’re talking about psychopathic shit-sacks in general and not just fascists, Stalin was an award-winning poet before finding his vocation as mass murderer and totalitarian despot.

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    Seems like it’s Indians turn to experience the “scary minority” moment after Latin Americans and Muslims.

    firsttime?.meme

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    Good news: Russian Apologist and certified Idiot Ramaswarmy loses his Job Bad news: Elon isnt going anywhere