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.
I think this will be easy to hire for; imagine the damage you can do to competition, or the low cost regulatory capture you can achieve, by just getting one clever manipulator near this not too bright narcissist
Corporations will be stumbling over themselves to insert HIGHLY paid people into these positions.
Ah, this will be the Department of Dunning-Kruger. The workers are idiots who think they are supergeniuses. Led by an idiot who thinks he’s a supergenius.
During Trump’s first term, this was just a metaphor, suggested by random comedians. Now, life will imitate art to its full extent.
Fun idea: Flood their contact addresses with fake applications and fake credentials like certificates with high scores on made-up IQ tests or Mensa membership cards.
These people who get so incredulous about “soft” social sciences, (think critical theory) yet talk about IQ testing like it’s Newton’s 4th law do not value, or do not understand the science. Even the serious people who defend IQ in good faith, speak of it with qualifications.
What is so attractive about a system to categorize and rank humanity? And what do the people who are attracted to it have in common?
It’s so fucking cringe…
Fascists love the notion of a natural order, because it gives them license to hold power over people “lower in the hierarchy.” They’ll use anything and everything to establish whatever “natural order” serves their purpose at any given moment, and IQ works quite nicely in a lot of situations.
I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!
–Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
Hell yeah, clever and lazy all day
These are the people that invented automation. Why do a job when you can have a machine do it for you?
Work smarter not harder is the best advice.
Thank god most of Trump’s government by grifters are stupid and lazy.
And greedy. Can’t forget greedy.
Honestly, most of that headline should be in quotations.
“Elon Musk’s” “new department” seeks “super high” IQ “staff” for “unpaid jobs”
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Anyone smart enough wouldn’t want to work for him.
Win a grift by pretending you are an idiot
Your opponent is Elon Musk
Fuck. I can’t out-stupid this guy. I won’t win.
I think it’d be simultaneously easier, more productive, and more fulfilling to just take the L.
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.
There are only two types of “Super High-IQ” people who will go for an unpaid job working in politics for the likes of Musk:
- Very naive young things, hence very inexperienced and who are going to do all mistakes in the book and then some for the next couple of years as they learn the ropes. By the time they know enough about the job they’ll be burned out from working for a guy like Musk not to mention knowing enough to know they’re better of elsewhere.
- Grifters looking for making maximum money from being in politics. Since they’re not getting paid, that means corruption, lots and lots of corruption.
Also, even amongst the “very naive young things”, in my own personal experience, the high intelligent types with the personality to be real believers of far right stuff, are at most above average intelligence but below genius level IQ (which is 120) and hence not really “super high”-IQ (which would more 160+) - I once worked with a guy like that who thought himself very intelligent and in his new job ended up working in an office with two genious level colleagues and he was very entertaining because of his “buttons” were so obvious and he was so easy to give the run around.
Super-high IQ people are often the very opposite of street smart, but one thing they aren’t is stupid and at most fall into the first part of the saying “you can deceive most people some of the time, or some people all of the time, but you can’t deceive most people all of the time” - they can be swindled but they’ll figure it out faster than most.
Also, most actual intelligent people understand that IQ is incredibly flawed at best, and put little stock in it.
But I guess if your goal is “anti-DEI” or whatever, then of course you’re cool with intelligence tests that make white people seem smarter.
I’m a guy with a high “test IQ”, and my sister, who is in the normal range is way more succesful that me in most aspects of life. You don’t want high “test IQ”, you want “smart people” not the same, and far more difficult to measure. High IQ basically means you are good at solving certain types of puzzles
Exactly. Yes, I can tell you the chronological order of these images very quickly, but good luck getting me to do it.
And smart people don’t often work for free. Unless it’s at gunpoint or similar. Though that might be in the plans of fascist assholes like Elongated Muskrat.
Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.
I don’t know why all the people who defended Biden wasting two years of the House/Senate are so worried about trump having 2 years of the House/Senate.
According to them no one can get anything accomplished in 2 years, and historically trump won’t hold onto both the House and Senate for midterms.
The big difference seems to be Trump’s incoming admin isn’t waiting till 1/6 to start thinking about stuff, so they’ve got a big headstart on Biden’s admin.
It’s going to be real fucking embarrassing for moderates if trump pulls off something they just spent four years claiming was impossible.
The big difference seems to be Trump’s incoming admin isn’t waiting till 1/6 to start thinking about stuff, so they’ve got a big headstart on Biden’s admin.
You’re right, the appointment announcements so far weren’t a result of thinking.
According to them no one can get anything accomplished in 2 years
The difference is that it’s a lot easier and faster to break things than it is to build or repair them.
Not always.
Like, all the deportations, that would “break” our society, but to even attempt it would take huge amounts of money, planning, and competent people. Even to do it poorly.
Hell, even his threat to get rid of Department of Education, he can’t just say “you’re fired” and then everyone goes home. I mean, he could say that, he could order their pay stopped, he could even lock the doors and shut off all the networked IT.
But there would be a metric shitton of legal proceeding and resulting settlements for years.
It’s just crazy to me that everyone thinks turning (at least the remnants of) a democracy into a dictatorship is just fucking declaring it like Michal Scott declares bankruptcy.
He’s 100% going to try, I just don’t know why people suddenly expect trump and his sycophants magically became competent in the last four years.
But there would be a metric shitton of legal proceeding and resulting settlements for years.
I stand by my statement that breaking shit is faster and easier and takes less thought than fixing or rebuilding it.
Yes it can be rebuilt through those means you mentioned, but the intervening generation will be fucked over pretty hard.
I’m hoping the Incompetence that he is bringing (not to mention the infighting and backstabbing) can blunt some of the damage that he’s promising to do.
Well, if nothing else it’s efficient 😬
They are calling it DOGE? 🙄🙄🙄
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.
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
IS use to mean Information System. It now means Intellectual Slavery.
