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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 20 points 2 weeks ago

Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles

President-elect Trump has tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory group focused on cutting federal spending and reducing the size of the government.

Trump announced Tuesday that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), an initiative meant to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures” and restructure federal agencies.

We live in the dumbest timeline

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 25 points 2 weeks ago

I wasn't expecting complete fascist victory to be so... cringe

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

guantanamo rizz

Fascists were always cringe. Himmler was a weird occultist. Goering was a drug addict still high on his glorious from World War I. Hitler was a profoundly lazy man with terrible taste in art. There were normal fascists (there had to be), but the leadership was always cringe. Unfortunately, being cringe doesn't stop a movement from killing vast numbers of people.

[-] hirvox@mastodon.online 7 points 1 week ago

@ahopefullycuterrobot @sc_griffith This is one of the reasons why I like Jojo Rabbit. Especially the scene where the Gestapo pays a visit to the main character's home. They all know it's ridiculous, and they find the main character's devotion absolutely hilarious. Especially when they know what they did immediately prior to the visit.

Yes! I have my issues with Jojo Rabbit, but it does a good job of portraying Nazism as a laughable ideology. It's good praxis, because Nazis like to portray themselves as being cool (fast cars, uniforms, the brotherhood of the trenches), but in reality, it was a mix of cringe, parvenu social climbing, and disgusting.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

This Adolf guy kinda had me when he was just a dude traumatized by war who liked buildings and was kinda shit at drawing them, but his political takes were full on yikes and he quickly lost me when it came to the arts as well.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago
[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

I voted for Liz in 2020 :( instead they gave me diamond joe

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is literally going to be an embezzlement op isn't it

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago

Its gonna be the largest embezzlement scheme in US history, that much I'm certain. How much damage the pair will do to the federal gov I'm not sure, but I expect there won't be much left of it once they're done.

[-] cstross@wandering.shop 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] corbin@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Personally I'm betting on Teapot Dome: somebody in the Cabinet will be convicted of something like bribery, foreign influence, or electoral interference; and the cleanup will implicate multiple other Cabinet members. Trump needs to do this at some point anyway; he's already done all of the Nixon things like Watergate and interfering in foreign wars, and while he attempted a Teapot Dome last time with Ryan Zinke, he needs to actually have a Cabinet member removed or convicted in order to truly be a worse president than Warren G. Harding.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 7 points 1 week ago

@corbin

How would that even happen with a Trumpist DOJ?

Because project 2025 and the mass deportations won't actually solve the problems his base is feeling, and at a certain point this kind of scandal will either be his downfall or his only option to scapegoat someone else.

[-] corbin@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trump would have to literally kill all lawyers. Think of the DoJ as a pile of folks who all took an oath to the law itself. When pundits complain that it's being "weaponized", they're actually talking about a facet of overcriminalization where the DoJ's limited attention can be controlled somewhat; it's always going to be a full-power laser that targets what the law perceives as criminality.

In particular, the President doesn't have the authority to tell the DoJ to stop an investigation, and the DoJ usually can't tell individual prosecutors to stop filing motions. Trump wasn't able to protect Cabinet member and Teapot Dome Candidate #2 Michael Flynn from prosecution, nor can he protect Eric Adams. The worst that he can do is a Saturday Night Massacre, where he fires lawyers until the investigations stop, and the entire pattern of special counsel is purpose-designed to prevent that from actually working.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 2 points 1 week ago

@corbin

Sweet summer child.

[-] mii@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

Such meme. Much wow. I see we’re continuing with giving dumb names to everything the Muskrat is involved in. Glad that hasn’t changed.

[-] kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

@BlueMonday1984 I am dead. From Fremdschämen

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kabosu didn't die for this.

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