I just don't trust Trump and Elon to fix this. They will be completely self serving. Just look at the name of the agency. Elon named it after his scam coin. You really think he's not going to make decisions that benefit himself?
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
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Fair concerns. Elon did that because he has a bit of Loki in him. He thinks it is genuinely hilarious but also views the task at hand extremely serious and necessary. He has repeatedly said our current fiscal course is completely unsustainable. Is he wrong?
How much say did you have in the creation of any of those taxes or government charges/fees?
He's not wrong, but like I said, I don't trust him to do this right.
Fair enough. Understand apprehension. I am a prisoner of what I know. Elon is a fanatical cost examiner. It’s in his DNA.
Why could SpaceX provide launches at 1/4th the cost of a ULA before reusable rockets were even a thing?
He approved all the expenditures at SpaceX for like the first decade. It was his money that got SpaceX going.
Why can Tesla make EVs profitably while no other American manufacturer can seem to?
During 2018 model 3 production hell he went knee deep cutting cost in every facet of the manufacturing process just to survive.
He’s been through the fire. Governmental inefficiency will be child’s play for him.
Elections have consequences. Isn't that what you guys say?
God, you are bad at this
I can't imagine being a grown man and worshiping another guy the way you do with Elon. It's really bizarre.
Yeah fk me, just the greatest American entrepreneur of the last 30 years with his companies literally reshaping entire industries and humanity for the better. While the best AI/rocket science/engineering talent in the world want to go work for the guy.
His companies run circles around GM, Ford, VW, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the NASA, the ESA, China, Germany, Japan, & everyone else.
What a dunce I am to read books about that guy and know things. So weird.
Re; today's journal piece, while I don't think their view of where the line is with respect to the president's authority to cut is remotely close to where they think it is, i have to say, it was sort of an interesting and perhaps even refreshing piece in how straightforward and measured it was, and it's not every day you get to see a billionaire talking about Loper Bright and major questions and political accountability as a baseline of authority. I suspect they'll find those cases cut both ways though.
No.And who better to put an end to this conspicuous consumption than a couple of billionaires whose wealth in great part derives from government contracts, amiright!?
At no point did you deny that you "worship" Elon. Instead, you carried the spear for him with even more vigor. You're weird.Yeah fk me, just the greatest American entrepreneur of the last 30 years with his companies literally reshaping entire industries and humanity for the better. While the best AI/rocket science/engineering talent in the world want to go work for the guy.
His companies run circles around GM, Ford, VW, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the NASA, the ESA, China, Germany, Japan, & everyone else.
What a dunce I am to read books about that guy and know things. So weird.
Celebrity worship syndrome (CWS) or celebrity obsession disorder (COD) is an obsessive addictive disorder in which a person becomes overly involved with the details of a celebrity's personal and professional life.[1] Psychologists have indicated that though many people obsess over film, television, sport and pop stars, the only common factor between them is that they are all figures in the public eye. Written observations of celebrity worship date back to the 19th century.[2]
Entertainment-social
This level of admiration is linked to a celebrity's ability to capture the attention of their fans. Entertainment-social celebrity worship is used to describe a relatively low level of obsession. An example of a typical entertainment-social attitude would be "My friends and I like to discuss what my favorite celebrity has done."[5] It may also be seen in the form of obsessively following celebrities on social media, although considered the lowest level of celebrity worship. It has been seen to have a number of negative effects with regards the development of unhealthy eating tendencies (eating disorders), anxiety, depression, poor body image and low self esteem, especially in young adolescents aged 13 to mid-20s. This can be supported by a study carried out on a group of female adolescents between the ages of (17–20).[6]Mental health
[edit]Evidence indicates that poor mental health is correlated with celebrity worship.[14] Researchers have examined the relationship between celebrity worship and mental health in United Kingdom adult samples. One study found evidence to suggest that the intense-personal celebrity worship dimension was related to higher levels of depression and anxiety. Similarly, another study in 2004, found that the intense-personal celebrity worship dimension was not only related to higher levels of depression and anxiety, but also higher levels of stress, negative affect, and reports of illness. Both these studies showed no evidence for a significant relationship between either the entertainment-social or the borderline-pathological dimensions of celebrity worship and mental health.[15]
Another correlated pathology examined the role of celebrity interest in shaping body image cognitions. Among three separate UK samples (adolescents, students, and older adults), individuals selected a celebrity of their own sex whose body/figure they liked and admired, and then completed the Celebrity Attitude Scale along with two measures of body image. Significant relationships were found between attitudes toward celebrities and body image among female adolescents only.[7]
The findings suggested that, in female adolescence, there is an interaction between intense-personal celebrity worship and body image between the ages of 14 and 16, and some tentative evidence suggest that this relationship disappears at the onset of adulthood, which is between the ages of 17 and 20. These results are consistent with the authors who stress the importance of the formation of relationships with media figures, and suggest that relationships with celebrities perceived as having a good body shape may lead to a poor body image in female adolescents. This can be again supported by a study carried out, which investigated the link between mass media and its direct correlation to poor self-worth/ body image in a sample group of females between the ages of 17 and 20.[6]
Within a clinical context the effect of celebrity might be more extreme, particularly when considering extreme aspects of celebrity worship. Relationships between the three classifications of celebrity worship (entertainment-social, intense-personal and borderline-pathological celebrity worship and obsessiveness), ego-identity, fantasy proneness and dissociation were examined. Two of these variables drew particular attention: fantasy proneness and dissociation. Fantasy proneness involves fantasizing for a duration of time, reporting hallucinatory intensities as real, reporting vivid childhood memories, having intense religious and paranormal experiences. Dissociation is the lack of a normal integration of experiences, feelings, and thoughts in everyday consciousness and memory; in addition, it is related to a number of psychiatric problems.[16]
Though low levels of celebrity worship (entertainment-social) are not associated with any clinical measures, medium levels of celebrity worship (intense-personal) are related to fantasy proneness (approximately 10% of the shared variance), while high levels of celebrity worship (borderline-pathological) share a greater association with fantasy proneness (around 14% of the shared variance) and dissociation (around 3% of the shared variance, though the effect size of this is small and most probably due to the large sample size). This finding suggests that as "celebrity worship becomes more intense, and the individual perceives having a relationship with the celebrity, the more the individual is prone to fantasies."[17]
Celebrity worship syndrome can lead to the manifestation of unhealthy tendencies such as materialism and compulsive buying, which can be supported by a study carried out by Robert. A. Reeves, Gary. A. Baker and Chris. S. Truluck. The results of this study link high rates of celebrity worship to high rates of materialism and compulsive buying.[18]
A number of historical,[19][20] ethnographic,[21][22][23][24][25][26] netnographic[27] and auto-ethnographic studies[28][29] in diverse academic disciplines such as film studies, media studies, cultural studies and consumer research, which – unlike McCutcheon et al. focused mainly on a student sample (with two exceptions) – have actually studied real fans in the field, have come to very different conclusions that are more in line with Horton & Wohl's[30] original concept of parasocial interaction or an earlier study by Leets.[31]
My story is similar, and this is absolutely correct.
I take it you don’t want the responsibility of being a small d democrat?
Sorry, you can’t shirk that and stay here.
who is this deedy dude and why does he seethe with so much hate for the average hroter? the asshole might well cause the demise of this fine board. for that matter doge also
“Department of Government Efficiency” does have a nice Eastern European/ Fascist sound to it, I must admit.
I know you are a troll but you might try going out and attempt to get laid. You shouldn't spend your college years in your single dorm room.
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They’re going to host a weekly show to discuss what could have been an email. How efficient.
Select quotes:
"The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs."
"When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress."
"The use of executive orders to substitute for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront, but the use of executive orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypassed Congress is legitimate and necessary to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t simply flip the switch and revive them but would instead have to ask Congress to do so."
"DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions."
"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home."
"We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington. We expect to prevail. Now is the moment for decisive action."
Wear a rubber before you pay. Abortions are frowned upon in Iowa. God you are bad.
I remember Neal Boortz used to add up the manhours spent producing cars, automobiles and several other goods which was comparatively less than the manhours wasted on tax compliance.
Staggering waste of time.
Like HORT without the laughs.
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