Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

[potato in mah painus]

"Yes, I pour gas into my burning car" - pilled take.
I also don't piss against electric fences... kinda similar in concept.
Killing a small, honest, American company over this spat with ambulance chasers and their darwin award worthy tardlets isn't right - end of story.

>Warned and fined multiple times for dangerous practices.
>Business gets killed when said dangerous practices continue and finally maim or kills someone.
Darwinism applies to business and commerce too, its a two way street.

 

[オプセック]

>Business gets killed when said dangerous practices continue and finally maim or kills someone.

Yeah, but see, the retards pouring gas into open fire should be punished when they manage to injure people, not the company selling inconspicuous gas tanks.
The whole lawsuit hinges on the effectiveness of mesh flame retarders - and their effectiveness in this particular use case IS questionable, they actually don't prevent flashback - not categorically. There are studies on that. I looked into it a long while ago - I just re-remembered this case when somebody else here mentioned it.
Was it a reckless decision for the staff that their boss hill decided to die on that hill?
Yes, but I applaud him for taking a stand against this madness and trying.
This isn't what consumer protection should be about, we can't accommodate speds to such a degree.
This unfettered ambulance chasing will sooner or later grind society to a hold. This is long past punishing companies for putting agent orange in your cereal.

Darwinism applies to business and commerce too, its a two way street.

Mc Donalds is too big too fail anyhow, the only companies which get destroyed over this shit are the ones YOU don't want to get destroyed: the small ones.
This kind of overzealous "consumer protection" - also things like overbearing hygiene and other absurdist documentation standards are actually useful in driving small companies out of business, because they can't keep up with the useless bullshit. The state also uses this to generate bullshit jobs in general: Many small companies farm this stuff out, giving rise to desk jockeys concerned with basically generating "compliance" as a product.
It's all leading to more "estrangement from work" - as marx called it.
Bad for society and also the idea on whose coat tails elon's DOGE wants to ride
- there's a thrist in people to see all this nonsense burn and elon plays the piep piper to that.
It has to be faught whole sale, retards pouring gas into camp fires have to be punished all the same as companies robbing you blind with credit card interest.
We have to fight retards AND scoundrels, no matter their power level.

 

[Hubelublub]

the only companies which get destroyed over this shit are the ones YOU don't want to get destroyed: the small ones.

Because some accountant somewhere decided they could improve the balance sheet .5 cents at the cost to human lives.

Sorry your company got destroyed while you were busy destroying the lives of your customers.

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

Extra info on CFPB, the past director Rohit Chopra (who was pushing for the criminalization of de-banking) was replaced with Scott Bessent by Trump. For those not in the know, Bessent is a literal faggot Soros FM hedge fund manager who profited massively from the Black Wednesday and has been fucking with Japan's economy for more than a decade. He's an avid supporter of Abenomics and wants to replicate the complete shit show of an economy that Japan currently has in the US. Trump literally chose a Soros-trained, rootless murderer of economies as not only the new director of CFPB (whose sole action was to immediately shut down all activities of the Bureau btw) but also as his Secretary of the Treasury. Even fucking Christine Lagarde seems trustworthy in comparison to Bessent and if you think that the US isn't being plundered right now, you're blinded by ideology. These people want to turn the US into a decrepit, rotting country like Japan or UK.

 

[オプセック]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_electricity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_discharge

So why aren't plastic gas tanks prohibited? Oh right, because large mfds tell you that theirs are suddenly safe because of muh mesh-retarders... riiight...

Electrostatic discharge while fueling with gasoline is a present danger at gas stations. Fires have also been started at airports while refueling aircraft with kerosene. New grounding technologies, the use of conducting materials, and the addition of anti-static additives help to prevent or safely dissipate the buildup of static electricity. Customers who need to fill containers at gas stations are advised to set them on the ground first so that any static buildup will dissipate without risk of fire or explosion.

Weird, I thought le mesh made everything magically save... but speds and karens will never be satisfied until we are all strapped into straight jackets and placed into rubber pods, eating ze bugs. Low humidity and plastic gas cans are le bad and always will be, there's conductive plastics, which the "normal" ones still don't use - afaik. If they were serious about muh custooomers, they would've outlawed everything but actual jerry cans, they didn't and won't, because that's not what it's truly about.

Last OT on this. Pinky promise, dear mods.

 

[Otterly]

At this point Tesla is fast becoming Omni Consumer Products from Robocop.

They’re Toad Industries. We will have a cheese tax next …

 

[JaneThough]

Extra info on CFPB, the past director Rohit Chopra (who was pushing for the criminalization of de-banking) was replaced with Scott Bessent by Trump. For those not in the know, Bessent is a literal faggot Soros FM hedge fund manager who profited massively from the Black Wednesday and has been fucking with Japan's economy for more than a decade. He's an avid supporter of Abenomics and wants to replicate the complete shit show of an economy that Japan currently has in the US. Trump literally chose a Soros-trained, rootless murderer of economies as not only the new director of CFPB (whose sole action was to immediately shut down all activities of the Bureau btw) but also as his Secretary of the Treasury. Even fucking Christine Lagarde seems trustworthy in comparison to Bennet and if you think that the US isn't being plundered right now, you're blinded by ideology. These people want to turn the US into a decrepit, rotting country like Japan or UK.

Soros? No…..

 

[オプセック]

Trump literally chose a Soros-trained, rootless murderer of economies as not only the new director of CFPB (whose sole action was to immediately shut down all activities of the Bureau btw) but also as his Secretary of the Treasury.

I take one varoufakis, plox. That can't be worse, right?

 

[Standardized Profile]

DOGE is now turning on itself, from a certain point of view.

Dozens of employees at U.S. DOGE Service dismissed [archive]

It’s unclear exactly how many employees were fired, although one of the impacted employees publicly estimated that about 50 people were dismissed.

“Due to the restructuring and changes to USDS’s mission, USDS no longer has a need for your services,” reads an unsigned email sent to another USDS employee late Friday and viewed by Nextgov/FCW.

That employee was in the legacy USDS organization before it became the DOGE, and has since lost access to their work systems. They knew of 29 people who were terminated. USDS had a headcount of 200-plus as of late last year.

They're clearing out the staff from the original USDS, which DOGE parasitized like one of those wasp larvae. The original USDS was tasked with improving government web sites used by the public and generally modernizing IT.

 

[Hubelublub]

The original USDS was tasked with improving government web sites used by the public and generally modernizing IT.

As in most other jobs, if you don't do what you were tasked with, you won't be asked to come in any more.

What are the chances all the "improving government websites" work being done was adding photos of biracial families and throwing around a bunch of DEI nonsense? No fucking shit DOGE doesn't need that kind of "expertise" any longer.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

As in most other jobs, if you don't do what you were tasked with, you won't be asked to come in any more.

What are the chances all the "improving government websites" work being done was adding photos of biracial families and throwing around a bunch of DEI nonsense? No fucking shit DOGE doesn't need that kind of "expertise" any longer.

Very little. The blanket firing was on all probationary employees, meaning those in their first year of the job, including those who transferred from a different position.

It did not matter what job they were doing. If they had the label “probationary”, they were dismissed.

 

[LurkingLemur]

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/



Elon Musk is a retarded propaganda machine

 

[Standardized Profile]

As in most other jobs, if you don't do what you were tasked with, you won't be asked to come in any more.

Well, they did what they were tasked to do. Back when USDS was actually about making government more efficient and solving problems with technology.

https://www.usds.gov/resources/USDS-2024-Impact-Report.pdf [archive]

What are the chances all the "improving government websites" work being done was adding photos of biracial families and throwing around a bunch of DEI nonsense?

Zero?

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Edit:

DOGE has fired 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, including people reviewing Neuralink. Not targeted at all, honest. Your brain chips are completely safe.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fda-staff-reviewing-musks-neuralink-were-included-doge-employee-firings-sources-2025-02-17/

https://archive.md/Qo634

 

[kiwifarms net]

as marx called it.

Opinion discarded. Carry on, citizens, nothing to see here, just a commie.

 

[オプセック]

Reading the most seminal works influencing our society is le bad!

Cool story, pol pot unread newfag.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Extra info on CFPB, the past director Rohit Chopra (who was pushing for the criminalization of de-banking) was replaced with Scott Bessent by Trump. For those not in the know, Bessent is a literal faggot Soros FM hedge fund manager who profited massively from the Black Wednesday and has been fucking with Japan's economy for more than a decade. He's an avid supporter of Abenomics and wants to replicate the complete shit show of an economy that Japan currently has in the US. Trump literally chose a Soros-trained, rootless murderer of economies as not only the new director of CFPB (whose sole action was to immediately shut down all activities of the Bureau btw) but also as his Secretary of the Treasury. Even fucking Christine Lagarde seems trustworthy in comparison to Bessent and if you think that the US isn't being plundered right now, you're blinded by ideology. These people want to turn the US into a decrepit, rotting country like Japan or UK.

He is a literal faggot and Soros guy. Who basically killed the thing we probably need more than anything right now.

Cuckservatives and rightoids who cheer this on in the name of libertardian (i.e. mega rich global elites) fantasy, while being de-banked etc.. Deserve everything they have coming.

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

He is a literal faggot and Soros guy. Who basically killed the thing we probably need more than anything right now.

Shameless repost of a portion of my comment in the Trump Enslavement Syndrome thread. I feel that it is a relevant addition here:


If you would like to learn more about Scott Bessent's outlook on investing, I recommend his interview in the book Inside the House of Money. I especially liked his response regarding his personal contribution to the Black Wednesday:

So you were running the Soros London office when the pound fell out of the ERM. Can you talk a bit about what happened on that famous trade?

We’d been thinking about it for a while. The trade is a good example of what made Soros a different sort of macro fund in that we did a lot of bottom-up research. Stan and George believed that if you can find out what’s going on at a micro level, you can figure out the big picture. My very minor contribution to the breaking of the pound was an analysis I had done on the UK housing and property market. In the United Kingdom at the time, about 90 percent of mortgages were linked to the overnight rate. If the Bank of England raised rates on Wednesday, mortgages went up on Friday. I had been short UK housing stocks for a while and George was chewing on me to cover the position because they were going up. I said, “George, I have done my work. These property stocks are going under.” George likes it when you argue with him if you’re right, which is why I think I did well there. Anyway, the housing stock trade was overshadowed by the pound trade, and rightly so. What is most interesting to me about the breaking of the pound was the combination of Stan Druckenmiller’s gamesmanship—Stan really understands risk/reward—and George’s ability to size trades. Make no mistake about it, shorting the pound was Stan Druckenmiller’s idea. Soros’s contribution was pushing him to take a gigantic position. With the pound, we realized that we could push the Bank of England up against the trading band where they had to buy an unlimited amount of pounds from us. The plan was to trade the fund’s profits and leverage up at the band’s boundary. The fund was up about 12 percent for the year at the time, so we levered the trade up to the point where if they pushed us back up against the other side of the trading band, we would lose the year’s P&L but not more. The UK economy was already weak, so when they raised interest rates to defend the currency, the average person’s mortgage went up. They basically squeezed everyone in the United Kingdom with a mortgage. When they raised rates from 7 percent to 12 percent with the stated goal of defending the pound, we knew it was unsustainable and that they were finished.

What's more, I love how he correctly identified the role of policy in cockblocking poor speculators like Soros from murdering economies:

There have been numerous instances where policy makers have blamed speculators for their country’s problems. What is your view on money managers forcing policy change versus policy mistakes attracting capital?

Occasionally, there can be short-term moves as a result of speculators, but I don’t think they can drive underlying fundamentals. On the other hand, when locals want to get out and you see capital flight, there is a fundamental problem—Russia being a classic example of locals getting out. So as long as the locals maintain faith, the speculators usually can’t break a system. The problem is, with the amount of capital out there today, a small currency block can get pushed around temporarily. In general, though, if you have the proper policies, speculators can’t do anything over the medium term. A good example of this was the Hungarian forint currency band recently when there was a big speculative push to actually strengthen the currency. The Hungarian central bank started printing forints and pushed it all the way back. It was a wide band so speculators got cleaned out.

I am glad that Trump chose such an experienced man to control US' monetary policies.

Edit: Forgot this tiny little excerpt from the end of the chapter regarding Bessent's assessment of the US' future.

This is the beginning of China’s decade. We’re beginning to see China flexing its muscles, and the United States is probably where the United Kingdom was around World War I in terms of world dominance.

 

[Otterly]

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/

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Elon Musk is a retarded propaganda machine

This was discussed in the thread on it - having said that…They shouldn’t be in the database at all. Allegations of the numbers being sold for use for illegals. So I’m sure it’d be a quick clean up to fix the database, and a Quick Look to see of those numbers are being used at all anywhere won’t hurt.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Interesting read, i'm going to have to look into him more. Still not very hot on the idea but...

This is the beginning of China’s decade. We’re beginning to see China flexing its muscles, and the United States is probably where the United Kingdom was around World War I in terms of world dominance.

This is pure bunk and FUD. China is siting on so many different (social/economic) existential level time bombs at this point that it's hard to keep track. The most important one for their fantasy of future global super power, is the demographic time bomb as a result of both their ill thought out one child policy and the paradox of 1st/2nd world birth rates. (something humanity needs to solve before it reaches crisis stage) In a decade or so, they will have America worth of more older people than middle age, young adults and children. Their demographic issues are in many ways even worse than Japan or SK. And despite almost two decades of trying everything they can to get birth rates restarted, they still continue to fall. Even now, a lot of their their fighting age young people are mostly made up of those from single child families. Their military 'numbers' power ship sailed about ~30-40 years ago or more. They can't project because they can't send the country's families only children to die over something stupid. Well while not getting BTFO by their own people. And also having a work force while taking care of their old etc.

That's not even getting into the economic aspects of the demographic crash, let alone the other economic problems. Like the house of cards real estate system, an artificial bubble the likes of which the world has never seen before. (both in % and absolute numbers) Everything from construction, to banks, to the real estate industry itself, to local and regional government is in it deep.. Worst off all, because of retarded saving and investing restrictions, most families have all their savings tied up in this shit.. Like second and third houses. Less you forget that they have multiple ghost cities, some big enough to house the pop of NYC, not only sitting empty but now falling apart. Not all of those are government schemes, a lot are investments (2nd and 3rd homes) and banks etc. This is to say, that much of their money, including people's and families, is tied up in houses without someone to live in them, with a falling population, and houses that are literally past the point of being condemned. This is not going to end well, even if it ended today, but the longer it takes the worse it is going to be and the ccp seems intent on keeping it afloat as long as they can.

Western markets have been working hand in hand in the past to help keep bubble china going. This shit is only ONE of about 4 or 5 reasons why we need o FORCE the markets out and away from china. Business and jobs too.. Not just for subversion reasons. But because they will drag our economies down with them if allowed to continue. This kind of commentary in the quote above, is little more than the market and elites trying to keep it going, while tonguing ccp assholes for continued access.

These are just some of the reasons the ccp is so battshit aggressive globally, and working so hard to try and create a system of complete totalitarian control at home. They know things are on the edge of unraveling. It's now or not for another half century or so at the very least. That's what makes them potentially so dangerous now and for he next decade or so. The ccp more than the country. The fact that this guy is going to bat for this narrative tells me he is going to prioritize continued "mutual economic activity" with the ccp, as the "next big players". This is all market wankery talking points regurgitated. The exact thing these very types of people sold the west out to them with originally. And in so doing, created the beast we have today.

 

[Standardized Profile]

This was discussed in the thread on it

The ZeroHedge story in A&N? That was not an enlightening article or discussion. This is junk data that isn't used for Social Security payments, or really anything. It's not the Death Master File, so it's not even what the SSA uses to track dead people. The costs to clean it up are significant and there is no identifiable benefit to doing so. It would be wasteful, and perhaps gross mismanagement, to pull someone off an actual job that needed doing and have them play digital archaeologist. Maybe an intern could do it, if they were majoring in COBOL.

The Musky twinks are good at keyword searches and running database queries, but they don't actually understand what they're looking at or how the data are used because they have no education, training, or experience in the government operations with which they are interfering. Musk runs with these things because they look good and justify DOGE to the credulous. And ZeroHedge, well, is ZeroHedge.

a Quick Look to see of those numbers are being used at all anywhere won’t hurt.

There are countless of federal, state, local, and private systems that use SSNs. They don't talk to each other, and no one has access to all of them. The DOGE boys can't do what you propose.

Institutions that handle SSNs, at least the major ones, already check to make sure individuals aren't using a stolen SSN. They have access to SSNVS, CBSV, eCBSV, and the Death Master File. Or they can use commercial sources like credit reports and data brokers. Or if the number was issued before randomization, they can use the area number and high group list to get a pretty good idea if the number belongs to the person using it. And employers have access to e-Verify, though few states require it.

There is a market for stolen identities, but there's only so much you can do with one before setting off alarms. Using an SSN associated with someone born in 1875 would set off an alarm.