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Benito Tortellini

Every time it looks like some ambitious machiavellian puppetmaster is going to use Trump, it always turns out he was using them all along. Great writeup.

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May 28

My experience working as a software engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of DOGE. sahillavingia.com/doge

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Benito Tortellini

The government is inefficient because of rules Congress can fix. We *can* legislate our way to better state capacity!

Julio La Torre, MD

This highlighted portion just isn’t true. Not only did Elon deny any of said unpopular cuts. He was touting them on here in and in public….chainsaw in hand.

Benito Tortellini

He was so excited about the attention and the appearance of power that he didn't realize he was being used. But the real purpose of DOGE had nothing to do with government efficiency, and he was the last person to find out.

Maybe. But Musk didn’t exactly come away empty handed. The regulatory environment for his companies is distinctly different than the last administration.

what's the effective diff btw direct authority and having recommendations that are almost always carried out?

@sturmovikdragon

Having Musk take the blame was probably a better outcome as he had a positive reputation amoung low information voters.

Except for the real pros: Xi and Vladimir.

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