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.
No high-iq individual will work 2 weeks per week with no pay in a society that requires money to live.
That’s a common tactic in scams. You want to weed out the actual intelligent people as early as possible lest they disrupt your scam. That’s why scam emails tend to have misspellings and grammatical errors. Smarter people instantly ignore that. Dumb people click on through.
So you’re saying we all should apply?
So that we can disrupt this shit
Actually not a bad idea. Flood the department with bullshit resumes.
I like this idea
im saying get in and get that cut, and also disrupt their agenda, i mean someone is gonna take that bribe, might as well take it and fuck their plan.
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No they won’t… but rich people who can afford to support themselves while indulging in their love of making poor people suffer will be lined up around the block.
Making a position unpaid is a classic tactic to keep out the poors.
It’s disappointing so many aren’t getting this…
It’s the same as “unpaid internships” being advantage to rich kids who can afford to work without pay.
Like, there is an inordinate amount of rich assholes that would love to spend 80 hours a week finding way to cut taxes, regulations, and the social safety net.
If you’re rich enough to begin with, this could pay a hell of a lot better than anything else you would spend your time on. Couple hundred million in the bank or stock market, and it would be more profitable than any actual job.
And let’s be honest, Musk and Trump aren’t judging IQ by the freaking Wechsler exam, when rich idiots talk about IQ, they mean zeros in a bank account.
People with that kind of money don’t work, they own. They’ll hire somebody to do those 80 hours while they rape underage trafficked girls.
So, if you own a coal plant and the government is spending time and money on regulating your livelihood, then that would be an obvious thing to cut from the budget.
As a hypothetical sure…
But we broke fossil fuel production records under trump, we broke them under Biden, and there’s no reason to think trump won’t break them again.
For fucks sake, they had both of the only two options be pro-fracking this time…
Billion dollar fossil fuel corporations don’t have to worry, they already bought both parties. And have been lobbying trump to leave Biden’s “signature climate change legislation” intact, because it makes them a bunch of money and comes with zero negatives.
So as a hypothetical you’re example would fit.
Except no one is doing this but currently:
the government is spending time and money on regulating (fossil fuels)
Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here…?
Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there…?
Or those willing to be paid in order to influence recommendations to the highest bidder
They’ll get paid by conservative think-tanks under the table so the Dept of Efficiency looks good and can pretend that it’s efficient.
This is what I was thinking also. It will be filled with people getting paid by corps and special interests.
Rich assholes who want to influence government will.
Rich assholes who believe they are smart as a side effect of being rich assholes.
This isn’t aimed at the idiots who would line up around the block and work for free to be called high IQ by Musk. Doesn’t really matter though, it’s all performative
They already know exactly what they want to cut, and billionaires don’t need a salary to realize profits from deregulation.
The job being “no salary” isn’t indicative of how cost effictive a volunteer public servant could be - it is a dinner bell for the wealthy
My goodness we’re gonna be MAGA’d so hard*, can’t wait
*some people (with the best words) are saying this
I want to believe this, too. But considering how there are smart people clubs with upwards of 50,000 members in the US that treat “passing” an IQ test as their sole entry criterion, I am sure there are some. Not all who have intelligence also have the wisdom to use it well.
Evil ones will.
This dipshit thinks he can save the country 2 trillion dollars by firing government workers.
Even if he fired every single government position in the entire country, he couldn’t make up 2 fucking trillion dollars out of that. The budget for payroll is, what? Like 15% of the total spending?
He doesn’t genuinely think that’s true. It’s all a grift.
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I mean, it’s good but “E for Everyone” is also available.
Edited with your suggestion :)
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cross it outso we know how good @[email protected] helped ya 😉
I had to look up what an “endomorph” is; sounds like it’s the “built like a tank” body type. So I mean, c’mon man. I know the kinda people you’re aiming for, but you hit a bunch of other people in the process. Not judging you too hard, I’ve done the same thing (and will probably continue to make the same or similar mistakes), but… Yeah.
Edit: to explain my discomfort, based on what I’ve read, “endomorph” is a body type that could be described as stocky. Not fat, not obese or stupid or a meathead, but just stocky. I’ve known people like that, and none of them were the kinda people who’d get fooled by Trump. They weren’t stupid, they were in very, very good shape, and they were kind people. The implication in the post, however, is that people who have that body type are easily grifted by Trump & Co.
(Also, fat shaming isn’t a very nice thing to do. You might think obese people are ugly or gross, but they’re still people and they still have feelings. Don’t be a dick.)
Gravy seals. Yall’qaeda
See, those would be better terms to use. It wouldn’t fit the acronym, but they’d be more precise and not imply that chunky people are easily grifted.
Thanks for the constructive criticism, it has been edited for a better meaning
It was not meant to imply “that chunky people are easily grifted”, my intent was that Elon & Trump were the endomorphs, but it was obviously easily misconstrued.
Either way, your point was valid and it has been edited :)
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Eliminate military budget
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Eliminate all social services, payroll, including ACA, social security, etc.
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Suck Putin’s dick
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Profit.
- Eliminate military budget
Hah! Good one.
Here’s another bad joke:
Elect Russian puppet, trump.
You know what the punchline is?
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The funny thing is this sweep will likely be very indiscriminate so among those fired many will have voted for Trump hoping groceries will be cheaper. They will learn first hand what happens when you entrust government to psychopaths and techbros.
Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot
Your opponent is Elon Musk
I think it’d be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.
Fuck. I can’t out-stupid this guy. I won’t win.
Can this department kick it off by eliminating itself, since it’s a wish.com version of https://www.gao.gov/
It’s really great that is government efficiency department is in fact duplicative. An excellent microcosm
So… if I apply for a super high IQ job that’s unpaid, does that prove I’m under qualified?
Spoiler
Lot’s of people are gonna apply, cause the payment is the chance for grifting
So you need to be rich enough to not need the salary, morally flexible enough to work for Elmo, and stupid enough to brag about your IQ.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking
…… while not understanding the percentiles they gave you on the online IQ test.
There are oxymorons and then there is musk, the oxyless moron
Just to make sure I understand. Musk is going to run an orgination who will advise the federal government to cut regulations that are in the way of him making more money. And this is in no way a conflict of interest.
That’s specifically why it won’t be a government agency. So they won’t be bound by any ethics rules. Make no mistake, this is not a silly one-off. This is the first step of privatizing the government.
This message was brought to you by Brando. Water’s stupid.
At least they’re too cheap and lazy to properly push their fascist takeover.
It’s just gonna be rich failsons who are loving off their trust funds. It’s gonna be bad
yes they tried that in Turkey, president’s highly incompetent son in law was made minister of Finance. At the start (2018) of this I think pounds/Turkish lira was sth like 4. He stayed for two years and it ended with maybe something like 10-12. As of now it is around 50 (people after him weren’t that great either). Since nowadays production of almost anything in Turkey is tied to imports, prices of daily consumption goods as well as rent, housing etc went up by that amount too (salary increases not even comparable). good luck USA
They are calling it DOGE? 🙄🙄🙄
100% Musk’s idea. Because he doesn’t think the other 8 billion humans on the planet are real people and none of this is of any real consequence to him.
Co leader Vivek Ramswamy is the founder of DOGE coin.
TIL. I always assumed doge coin was his thing since he seemed to promote so much. Either way, these guys are insufferable nerds.
Edit: I just read he actually referred to himself as the “Dogefather.” Fucking cringe.
Trumps staff already beat you by prefacing that only super high-IQ people understand the humor
Also, fuck that guy.
Edit: and by ‘that guy’ I mean Ramaswamy. Fuck Musk too.
Ew, I’d rather not fuck Elon. He’s not my type.
Yeah, no one should actually be fucking Elon
No X in name, so not Leons idea.
They will make their money by fleecing the government of course.
Much like unpaid internships, this is also a method to prevent anyone who is not independently wealthy from applying, so they can fill the department with the same people already benefiting from the current system and allow them to design one that benefits them even further.
No one that this department is ostensibly built to serve can afford to work on it, so who is it really (clearly) for?
“high-IQ small-government revolutionaries”
No, “rich people,” because nobody else can survive with no pay.
Department of Government Efficiency is the name of the department that ends up involved in creating Soylent green or some crazy human organ harvesting thing.
This sets off all sorts of red flags that bother the shit out of me. Like I’ll take boring dystopia over human slaughterhouses TYVM
You can’t just make a department. Sorry Leon, only maga morons believe that. The actual government and CONSTITUTION work differently than what you think…
Yeah, they would also need the other two institutions to pull this off. Oh wait, shit. Well the supreme court should be able to stop this. Oh wait, fuck.
What do you think Clarence Thomas would do for a Klondike bar? Do you think he’d support this weird, smart person recruiting bullshit? Absolutely.
