Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The Doge Plan to Reform Government • Hacker News Board

Re: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The Doge Plan to Reform Government

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Post by archagon » Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 12:10 AM UTC

> Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decadeslong executive power grab.

Talk about doublespeak, given the recent Supreme Court decision to make the president essentially immune from criminal prosecution. The Trump administration's stated goals and policies could not be further removed from the ideals of small government and limited executive power.

I'm quite sure the "sharpest technical and legal minds in America" have better things to do than help these clowns, but I'm also sure they're not actually the targets of recruitment here.

Re: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The Doge Plan to Reform Government

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Post by jfengel » Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 7:22 PM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #15

ceejayoz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its chances are effectively summed up by the fact that they decided to appoint two co-chairs to it. (who are promising to personally review CVs https://x.com/DOGE/status/1857076831104434289 for its unpaid positions https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1857112441529700671 ) (and claiming "decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change" when it was 74M to 76M votes is a bit silly)

Everyone claims they received a decisive mandate, because a mandate is in the minds of people. If they think you have a mandate, then you do. So after every election, the winner claims to have a mandate, because they keep hoping that everyone else will act like they do, and therefore that they will. Objectively, of course, you're right.

I just learned from Duolingo that the French word for "term of office" is "mandat".

I started a whole unit on words about elections about two weeks ago. It was a pretty damn upsetting two weeks. I really wish Duo gave me the ability to skip a section and come back to it later.

Re: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The Doge Plan to Reform Government

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Post by ttyprintk » Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 3:44 PM UTC

archagon wrote: post #21

> Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decadeslong executive power grab. Talk about doublespeak, given the recent Supreme Court decision to make the president essentially immune from criminal prosecution. The Trump administration's stated goals and policies could not be further removed from the ideals of small government and limited executive power. I'm quite sure the "sharpest technical and legal…

This is the beginning of a long succession struggle for Trumpism. With the assurance that he won’t stand trial, Trump himself will delegate as much as he can until he ages out.

Unelected toadies will jostle for the opportunity to call each other “inefficient” or “unable to share Trump’s vision”. With algorithms deciding how that opportunity fits into attention slots.