Trump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead proposed government efficiency commission as ex-president unveils new economic plans | CNN Politics
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Donald Trump unveiled a slate of new economic plans Thursday, including the creation of a government efficiency commission that he said Elon Musk has agreed to lead if the former president is elected in November.

Because Musk did such a good job with that at Twitter… “I don’t understand what it is you do, you’re fired.”

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    3 months ago

    Claiming to be able to make massive cuts without cutting national defense, Social Security/Medicare, or loads of basic government stuff (like the U.S. Mint, patent office, passport services, etc.) is how you know this will never happen.

    Every conservative comes to Washington ready to cut whole departments and then learns the Department of Energy manages the nuclear weapons stockpile and the entire National Park system is a rounding error on a B-2 bomber order.

    • cannibalkitteh
      25·
      3 months ago

      I bet if we gave the national park system some nukes they could secure better funding!

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      Meanwhile the current republican plan, project 2025, involves killing the national weather service and noaa. A lot of stuff the government does without people noticing either saves average Americans’ lives, money, or both, and those departments are both.

      Round here in the Midwest the nws is the difference between a tornado being a massive loss in property and a massive loss in life. And their flood alerts and severe thunderstorm alerts are critical.

      But that’s just lives, let’s talk to the supreme deity of the American religion, the dollar. Farmers rely on the nws providing free and high quality forecasts to all weather providers. We’ve got geostationary weather satellites thanks to noaa’s goes project. And that high quality weather data shared across everything means farmers know when to plant and when to water. That does more than just preventing famine, it also keeps food prices as stable as it can. The fact that food prices are only now being disrupted thanks to climate change, corporate greed, and supply chain issues instead of just being unstable year to year is a miracle of our weather monitoring system.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Ah yes. But now the National Park System is squarely in the cross hairs of real estate and tourism developers. And we all know private ownership is far more efficient. They surely won’t do anything to mar the natural beauty of our land.

      ^Guarantees ^do ^not ^apply ^to ^ghost ^towns, ^oil, ^billionaires, ^or ^formerly ^native ^land…

  • Myxomatosis@lemmy.world
    51·
    3 months ago

    Elon is a drug addict who is high on ketamine all day long and has never worked a day in his worthless life. No wonder he and Donnie get along.

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      Oh, but they only get along as long as one doesn’t steal the other’s spotlight. They’re both narcissists, and will quickly become mortal enemies as soon as that happens. Musk sees Trump as a tool to gain (even more) political power. Trump sees him as a tool to get the tech bro vote. I don’t think either of them has real friends, or even fully understands the concept of friendship.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    38·
    3 months ago

    Trump just doesn’t realize everyone hates the assholes he’s trying to trot out as a positive to his shitty campaign. They really need to stop letting him make his own decisions.

    “Hey guys, I bet you’re all excited for our musical guest, so without further ado…NICKELBACK!!!”

  • Zeke@fedia.io
    31·
    3 months ago

    Elon: Running Twitter into the ground Trump: He’s doing a good job I guess Trump would know because he’s the master of running businesses into the ground O_o

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    28·
    3 months ago

    Has Musk actually worked a day in his life? He obviously hasn’t been working for some years now, spending all of his time shitposting and propagandizing on Twitter instead of running the multiple companies he is somehow CEO of.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    “Agreed to fork over $50 million per month until trump gets annoyed at the smallest slight or misunderstanding and fires him by tweet when he’s in the shitter.”

  • zante@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    6 months ago I made a ridiculous joke about Trump giving Musk Texas.

    This is literally worse than I could possibly imagine.

  • #!/usr/bin/woof@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Sounds like a good way to ensure it’s neither efficient or economic. I’ve come to expect nothing less from Trump’s policy suggestions.

    • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      MBFC claiming CNN is Left-Center, when it is owned by conservative billionaire John Malone. This is an example of MBFC’s intentional distortion of the political spectrum by falsely representing it as dominated by a left-wing bias.

      An example of CNN’s actual right-wing bias is when they put an obvious Trump Supporter on their recent panel of ‘undecided voters’. According to Parker Molloy from The New Republic, this isn’t “an isolated case of questionable representation in CNN’s voter panels. In fact, it appears to be part of a troubling pattern stretching back years.” She suggests it could be “a potential willingness to mislead viewers for the sake of compelling television.” - media ownership and their profit motive, and complicity of the media elite are sources of bias that MBFC does not adequately account for.

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