Jesus what a burn

2 years ago by ByteOnBikes to c/enoughmuskspam

BigMacHole 112 points 2 years ago

Nothing says Government Efficiency like making a BRAND NEW DEPARTMENT with MILLIONS of Taxpayer Dollars!

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mean_bean279 59 points 2 years ago

Government Accountability Office: Am I a joke to you?

These stupid fucks don’t even realize we already have something that does this. It’s just not as in your face since you have to actually read about it.

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Mog_fanatic 12 points 2 years ago

This was my first thought to lol. It's so shocking to me that people honestly don't think there's already some form of government agency or organization that monitors and evaluates fiscal budgetary spending and legitimacy. And then not only that, is actually applauding the creation of a new one headed by some billionaire that just happened to throw the president an ass ton of money like 48 hours ago lol.

I guess I really shouldn't be surprised anymore but whatever.

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Rinox 4 points 2 years ago

It's so shocking to me

Is it really though?

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some_guy 7 points 2 years ago

Hey, my man, Lonnie, is gonna make the guberment just as awesome as Twitter, which is doing great.

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frunch 4 points 2 years ago

*Leon

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haunte 95 points 2 years ago
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Grass 15 points 2 years ago

or blowing a fuckload of money on it and having nothing to show for it

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msage 4 points 2 years ago

Just blow the money on... blow

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jballs 2 points 2 years ago

While you're right about his intentions, I'm pretty sure he's just pumping Doge Coin so he can dump it for a quick profit.

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DaddleDew 71 points 2 years ago

He's just gonna fire 70% of the people who work there and not pay their severance, only keep the "hardcore" ones, watch the whole system crash and burn as services come to a complete standstill and then give himself a 50 billion dollar paycheck for his "hard work"

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sp3tr4l 23 points 2 years ago

He'll require every American to write the IRS a multipage letter each year where they must explain why they deserve their tax rebate.

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PrincessLeiasCat 9 points 2 years ago

If they make less than $500K/yr then yes, probably.

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BeardedGingerWonder 2 points 2 years ago

And this will be by design

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5wim 61 points 2 years ago

People are so bad at punctuation now. Idiots like this just perpetuate it. Where's the last period on your acronym? It's even more cringe as a result.

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brbposting 12 points 2 years ago

So ungrateful, you should be impressed the generator pulled off the text as cleanly as it did(.)

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5wim 19 points 2 years ago

He typed "a gold sign that says D.O.G.E" and you know it(.)(.)

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stebo02 5 points 2 years ago
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5wim 3 points 2 years ago

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

My I's are up here ^

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jaybone 2 points 2 years ago

(.)( )

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jaybone 4 points 2 years ago

Department of Government. Efficiency?

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DJDarren 4 points 2 years ago

It works as Department Of Getting E, I guess, which would appeal to the ‘80s/‘90s ravers among us.

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kn0wmad1c 52 points 2 years ago

Is that picture AI-generated? Has that weirdly plastic look

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ByteOnBikes 49 points 2 years ago

It's all he does now.

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arefx 5 points 2 years ago

Powered by klorbulon-x Ai or some shit

Whats it actually called? I know the real name is equally as stupid.

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blueboy 5 points 2 years ago

Grok, yeah it's stupid.

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arefx 2 points 2 years ago

🥲

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pyre 11 points 2 years ago

also doesn't look like a troglodyte, it's definitely fake

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leftzero 7 points 2 years ago

To be fair, Musk does also have a weird plastic look in real pictures...

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MaxPow3r11 45 points 2 years ago

Billionaires should not exist.

Elon is a good example.

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DragonTypeWyvern -2 points 2 years ago

Something tells me Elon isn't going to sell his stock to take over this governmental position.

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Throw_away_migrator 4 points 2 years ago

It's cute that you think that would matter to Trump

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beebarfbadger 38 points 2 years ago

How to do efficiency:

Step 1) take over corporation/government entity and fire everybody who is getting paid. Strain the rest way beyond their breaking point until they can't deliver anymore either.

Now you may be thinking "won't this completely destroy the company's ability to even function?", and you'd be right, but that's fine as long as you

Step 2) blame the liberals.

Step 3) ???

Step 4) Profit!

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Olgratin_Magmatoe 8 points 2 years ago

You forgot the precursor steps to step 1.

  1. Complain about government budgets/taxes/the deficit/etc

  2. Reduce/stagnate funding for critical programs

  3. Critical programs begin to fail

  4. Blame the left/liberals/socialists/communists/other boogeymen

  5. Take over government entity

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wheeldawg 34 points 2 years ago

Where's the period after the "E"?

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DreadPirateShawn 14 points 2 years ago

Reminder, period trackers on social media are not to be trusted... :-|

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TriflingToad 1 point 2 years ago

why? is it targeted advertising?

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Fenrisulfir 4 points 2 years ago

It’s definitely targeted but more like a tech version of the Hitler youth snitching program or the entire 1984 book

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Notyou 11 points 2 years ago

He figured he would be efficient and just delete extra periods.

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wheeldawg 3 points 2 years ago

I feel like there a metaphysical bar that billionaires have to limbo under to become billionaires that is a hard cap on IQ.

Who among the super rich isn't on a spectrum STRICTLY ranging from "completely stupid" to "completely evil"?

I don't think they have literally any other personality traits at all. No friends outside of business partners or people trying to get a piece of it.

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dumbass 34 points 2 years ago

I cant wait for his midlife crisis to be over.

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kibiz0r 40 points 2 years ago

I cant wait for his midlife crisis to be over.

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finitebanjo 6 points 2 years ago

I celebrated the deaths of Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, and that one US General who caused the minor invasion of like 9 countries in South America and Asia for shits and giggles. His name escapes me, now.

I expect I will celebrate Musk's death as well, cheers!

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DogPeePoo 29 points 2 years ago

Douche Of Gargantuan Enormity

I like how the E in the shitbag AI photo has no period.

To his credit, I have never seen anyone destroy a company and its reputation as efficiently as he trashed Twitter.

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hessenjunge 28 points 2 years ago

He’s shilling Dogecoin, that’s all. He needs some simps to be his bagholders.

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StrandedInTimeFall 25 points 2 years ago
  • Dude isn't even efficient at his own jobs. Supposedly works 100 hour weeks. Can't delegate.
  • Dude accepts government handouts for his companies. Can't finance his own ideas or ventures.
  • Dude purchased a company as a joke and lost money/revenue streams/users/entire countries. Can't even reduce costs while maintaining the things that make him money.
  • Dude used his most profitable venture as leverage for the joke purchase. Can't even make a joke purchase without endangering his best known and most profitable company.

At what point has this guy been efficient at anything but conning the government out of money and grifting genuinely smart people into working at his companies.

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Disgracefulone 1 point 2 years ago

I mean controlling media sure shows if you're right about all this considering he's supposedly on track to be the world's first trillionaire in under a couple years - ok just over 2 years

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kofe 1 point 2 years ago

I've been saying for a while that I'd like to stage a peaceful protest taking over billionaire properties. It's not like they don't ask have 30 other properties to go stay in.

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Dasus 24 points 2 years ago

He's 53?

Damn, for having that much fucking money, he looks a fuck ton older than he could.

I genuinely thought he was like 62 or something, had yo Google his age and yeah, still 53.

That's a lousy 53.

Dude could afford to be in such good health just by hiring professionals to watch his diet and whatnot, yet he looks like someone filled a grocery store plastic bag with mac&cheese and gave it to an developmentally challenged 5-year old to make a face out of.

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Crashumbc 10 points 2 years ago

Spending years heavily abusing a variety of drugs does that to you.

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Dasus 9 points 2 years ago

Well, yes and no.

You're not wrong, but... I honestly know a lot of drug abusers of that age who seriously look much better than him. So it's not only drug abuse, it's also a shit diet and probably zero exercise.

Sure, being the richest asshole in the world probably is a bit stressful, but I think he's just a fucking slob, drub abuse or not.

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Illuminostro 2 points 2 years ago
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Dasus 4 points 2 years ago

He's a shit person and a shitty looking person.

I acknowledge one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other, but he's still both.

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fraksken 6 points 2 years ago

Lol, you should have seen him before all the cosmic surgery 😅

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__Lost__ 4 points 2 years ago

He looked 53 in college

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dejected_warp_core 4 points 2 years ago

hiring professionals to watch his diet and whatnot,

This is the part that is such a head-scratcher for me. He clearly cares about his outward appearance thanks to the million-dollar hair transplant and whatever meds he's on to keep it that way. But the rest? Yeah, I thought daily personal training, custom-built menus, personal chefs, and a personal assistant to keep that circus moving, were just SOP for rich bastards like this. It would seem that impulse and lack of foresight are traits that impact everything.

Alternatively, maybe what we're seeing is peak performance for Musk as an organism, and his overall health is actually way worse than we think.

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finitebanjo 24 points 2 years ago

Imagine being hyped that your chosen candidate literally lets you buy a government agency to run. Pathetic.

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menemen 23 points 2 years ago

Where is the burn? 53 is the age you are supposed to have a midlife crisis.

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Chickenstalker 23 points 2 years ago

Very rich (hah) for a guy who uses government funds to build his explodey space rockets.

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deltapi 9 points 2 years ago

Not the greatest example, imo.

SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts with far more cost efficiency than any of its competitors.

The most glaring example is the Commercial Crew Program. They were given far less money than Boeing, and it looks like they might end up being the sole US provider of commercial crew to the ISS.

Starship HLS (moon lander starship) is government funded, but core Starship is not, it's financed with private equity - so the rocket explosions haven't been on the taxpayers' dime.

That all said, Elon doesn't really run SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell does - which is probably the smartest business decision Elon has ever made.

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UnderpantsWeevil 7 points 2 years ago

SpaceX has been very consistent in delivering on its government contracts

"Better than Boeing" is very low bar, ATM. But SpaceX technology appears to be lagging India - which put a probe into Marsian orbit for $75M a full ten years ago - and Russians - whose Soyuz rocket continues to provide the cheapest LEO lift at $3800/kg.

SpaceX is in the traditional American contractor model of Late and Overbudget. What's more they don't pay their bills on time.

As an American firm, they're the best of the worst. Intentionally, they're experimenting with interesting techniques, but they aren't outcompeting their global peers.

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Illuminostro 3 points 2 years ago
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deltapi 2 points 2 years ago

What's that got to do with anything? SpaceX isn't traded and doesn't pay dividends.

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Illuminostro 2 points 2 years ago
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Kolanaki 19 points 2 years ago

If such a government agency existed, I'd expect C-level executives to be first on the chopping block of inefficiencies since they're absolutely pointless.

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zeppo 18 points 2 years ago

LeI’m n is so desperate for power, ugh. Those two fucknuts working together is another excellent reason to make sure DT does not take office. How horrible too, a vaguely defined department of “efficiency “? From the idiot who goes around on his production floor doing shit like “why does the driver go backwards twice before going forwards? Eliminate that step” (it prevents cross threading, but Leon doesn’t know that).

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Johnmannesca 16 points 2 years ago

Nah fam, that looks like the department of gathering evidence

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iAvicenna 16 points 2 years ago

I imagine this is what would happen if you gave a five year old billions

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Nuke_the_whales -7 points 2 years ago

To play Devil's advocate isn't he autistic?

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Soulg 11 points 2 years ago

Most autistic people still act like adults

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Diplomjodler3 7 points 2 years ago

That's no excuse for being a raging asshole.

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jj4211 5 points 2 years ago

He embraced that concept in the same way a lot of people do, as a perceived superpower of being smart. Note he particularly claimed to have Asperger's nearly a decade after the DSM removed it as a distinct diagnosis. People flocked to Asperger's as a self diagnosis of "Autism light, I'm an asshole, but it's ok because I have a condition, but I don't have any real downsides because it's not 'full' Autism".

Now with it gone as an official diagnosis, people still embrace high functioning autistic as some sort of badge of honor/superpower and explanation for why they can be assholes. So you continue to have ton of people self-diagnosing to rationalize a more comfortable, lazy interaction with the world. "neurodivergent" is cool because it has the word "divergent" in it, and who would be so lame as to be "neurotypical", which is used almost as a slur among folks eager to self-diagnose autism.

In short, I'm not particularly inclined to put much stock in anyone's self-proclamation of autistic. I've seen people struggling with it for real and I frankly find it a bit offensive how a lot of internet people have flocked to bragging about their "autism" given how much struggle people have with the condition.

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iAvicenna 2 points 2 years ago

This pretty much sums up the Elon in my mind

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Illuminostro -1 points 2 years ago
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iAvicenna 3 points 2 years ago

Is an inflated sense of self importance a symptom of autism? Of course there is also the "I have lots of money therefore whatever I think is by default true" which I would not associate with autism but more with second generation billionaires who manage to convince themselves that their success is solely a result of their skills and competence.

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Swarfega 14 points 2 years ago

What a fucking dickhead

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Grandwolf319 12 points 2 years ago

Wouldn’t that mean a bigger government?

The man has no shame, you got to troll him

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UnderpantsWeevil 7 points 2 years ago

Easiest way to troll Elon Musk is to say the word "cisgender" in earshot

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Grandwolf319 7 points 2 years ago

Nah, that wouldn’t make him look weak to his supporters, that’s what most leftist don’t get.

You can’t insult them on your level, you have to insult things they actually care about.

Hence calling them weird and its effectiveness.

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Crashumbc 5 points 2 years ago

Lol, it's amazing how much calling them "weird" then ignoring them drives trumpets nuts.

My go-to steps:

  1. Mention the couch

  2. Wait till freak about it'll not being true

  3. Tell them they're being too weird to continue to talk to and ignore them.

  4. Profit

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jaybone 12 points 2 years ago

This is the prequel to The Terminator, where he travels into the past to prevent Sarah Conner from having an abortion, so he can later travel back from the future to kill her son.

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SendMePhotos 8 points 2 years ago

Oh my Fuck I thought that was a meme that someone made.

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captainlezbian 8 points 2 years ago

A 53 year old man trying to meme like 30 year olds did a decade ago. He isn’t bussin no cap, this is the equivalent of a rage comic, but with him applying for a currently nonexistent financial leadership position in donOLD’s cabinet.

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masterbaexunn 2 points 2 years ago

Fuckin weird af

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Reverendender 5 points 2 years ago

I’m glad they put Sebastian Stan in charge instead

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Old_Yharnam 5 points 2 years ago

Cringe fellow-kids, galaxy-brained dipshit

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Hackworth 3 points 2 years ago

I read the title as "Jesus was a bum."

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VerbFlow 2 points 2 years ago

It wasn't a burn, it was just the obvious truth.

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Suavevillain 2 points 2 years ago

I'll never get over people comparing this man to Tony Stark.

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NutWrench 1 point 2 years ago

He looks like "Poochie" from The Simpsons.

I bet Elmo has all kinds of cool ideas for making the government "more efficient." Like not going after billionaires to pay their share of the tax burden.

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damnedfurry -4 points 2 years ago

Everyone in this thread is absolutely fuming over a goofy meme image, and thinks that chastising someone for being silly because they decided they're too old for it is "what a burn", lol.

Wow.

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jj4211 6 points 2 years ago

There's a wider context. Trump has declared his intent to have Musk be in charge of "Government Efficiency".

This suggests he bought his way into a position and considers it a joke, a pretty dumb one too. Also, another stab at trying to make Dogecoin a thing again is highly likely.

So mililons of dollars to buy his way into an administration position that he made up and the end result is a dumb meme... It's just some rich person bullshit.

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