The Department of Government Efficiency: (DOGE) A Masterclass in Waste

The Whitehouse has announced it has plans for a new top DOG. Everything is soon expected to be half-baked, failing, undone, falling apart, rushed and…
In what might be the most ironic government initiative of 2024, the newly announced Department of Government efficiency (DOGE) has managed to embody everything it claims to fight: bureaucratic bloat, inefficient processes, and vulnerability to fraud.

Let’s examine this comedy of barking mad failures and weakness.

Two Heads, No Brain

First, we have the obvious troll decision to appoint two leaders to do the job of one. Because nothing says “efficiency” quite like duplicating decision-making at the top to sow chaos and confusion. Everyone sees this rube error, as evidenced by widespread ridicule. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – both allegedly busy executives with numerous other alleged commitments – somehow agree to jointly lead this ill-conceived self-harm crusade. It’s like hiring two CEOs to run a cost-cutting consultancy branded the redundant partners of redundancy.

*cough* Krebs Stamos Group *cough*

The “Brief Visual History of Weapons” should have been updated a long time ago to better illustrate why Russia giving Elon Musk money to buy Twitter was a public safety issue.

The World’s Worst Job Posting

But the real masterpiece of inefficiency, perhaps less obvious to most, is the announced hiring process full of security vulnerabilities that should be easily flooded due to its hugely inefficient system. DOGE claims to be seeking “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week for… wait for it… zero compensation. The application process? Just slide into their DMs on the “Swastika” platform with your CV. Yes, really.

Let’s count the ways the DOGE system already is hilariously weak and vulnerable:

  1. Unqualified Applicants: When you offer zero pay for 80-hour weeks, guess who applies? People who either can’t actually take the job or have obfuscated (unknown) motives. It’s like posting “Free Ferrari” on Craigslist and expecting serious buyers to show up with boxes of cash. Come to think of it, that is in fact how Cybertruck fraud was setup to work. So many people killed by Tesla, so little accountability.
  2. Fraud Paradise: Their vague qualifications (“super high-IQ” and “revolutionary spirit”) are impossible to verify. It’s a hidden loyalty test, natch. Anyone can claim to be a revolutionary genius in a DM. And with two high-profile “super low-IQ” executives (prove me wrong) saying they are committed to personally reviewing all these applications, there’s enormous incentive and opportunity for fraud.
  3. Spam Heaven: Using X’s DM system for job applications is like making a vehicle that looks like dumpster and being surprised when raccoons try to move in. Any basic bot could flood the DOGE duplicative inboxes with millions of generated applications, each claiming to be the next Andrew Jackson of government efficiency.

The Ultimate Irony

The artificial cherry on top? The department tasked with finding government waste plans to have two extremely wealthy, busy executives manually review hundreds or thousands of applications together. Because nothing says “efficient use of resources” quite like having Elon Musk – who pretends to run multiple billion-dollar companies – spending his time reading stacks and stacks of CVs from imaginary unpaid volunteers.

A Numbers Game

Let’s do some quick math. If they receive a modest 10,000 applications (likely low given Musk’s ability to gather followers), the top 1% means 100 CVs to review. If they spend just 10 minutes per CV (being thorough efficiency experts, of course), that’s over 16 hours of combined executive time wasted – assuming they can even coordinate their schedules to do this together. And that’s a very low estimate, given how people can script a trivial bot to destroy this DOGE gambit.

The Real Waste

The true irony is that a hugely inefficient, fraud-prone process is supposedly the first step in making government more efficient. Up is down. Down is up. It’s like starting a diet by firing the kitchen staff and ordering twenty-seven of everything at McDonald’s “just to be sure.”

Conclusion

If DOGE were a private company’s efficiency consultancy, they’d fire themselves. But perhaps that’s the point – maybe this is actually a brilliant performance art piece demonstrating government inefficiency by example. If so, bravo! They’ve succeeded beyond a twelve-year old’s dreams. Next Elon Musk will prove how safe his Tesla design is by dousing himself with gasoline for self-immolation — burning himself to death like the constant tragic news stream about the predictable and unnecessary deaths of his unwitting followers.

Teslas notoriously “veer” uncontrollably and crash. Design defects (e.g. Pinto doors) trap occupants during an explosion of fire, burning everyone to death as witnesses and emergency responders struggle in horror. In one recent example in Korea, fire-fighters arrived almost immediately yet still were too late. The only way to stop the huge rise in deaths from “high-IQ efficiency experts” is to enforce basic standards of public safety (ban the waste of life inherent to these low-quality death-trap fraud schemes).

For now, we can only watch as this inefficient department of “efficiency” demonstrates exactly how not to run anything let alone a government organization. At least they’re teaching us something, even if it’s by counter-example like walking through a junkyard with hundreds of burned out Tesla that never made it to 10,000 miles.

In the spirit of efficiency, I’d write more, but I need to go submit my application to DOGE. I’m thinking of calling myself “Revolutionary McRevolutionface, IQ 250, efficiency supremacist willing to work 88 hours per week.” Think they’ll notice?

Tesla topped iSeeCars list of most dangerous car brands

As everyone must know by now, Tesla is the least safe brand.

Between seat belts, air bags, collision warnings and automatic emergency braking, cars have gotten a lot safer over the years. Still, some models have higher fatal accident rates than others [on] iSeeCars’ review of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fatality Analysis Reporting System data for most dangerous cars. Tesla topped its list of most dangerous car brands. […] The Tesla Model Y and Model S [have] fatal crash rates that are 370% and 200% higher than average.

Related: Tesla Deaths Rise in Stark Contrast to “vehicles with lowest driver death rates”

Yet Another Tesla Cybertruck Fault: Sixth Recall This Year

Everyone soon will be pointing and laughing at Tesla, as the worst car company in history.

The problem is a faulty drive unit inverter, which stranded a Cybertruck at the end of July. Tesla says it started investigating the problem a week later and by late October arrived at the conclusion that it had made a bad batch of inverters that it used in production vehicles from November 6, 2023, until July 30, 2024. After a total of five failures and warranty claims that the company says “may be related to the condition,” Tesla issued a recall.

This is long overdue. Complaints about the drive unit are well known. Note that Tesla waited from July until now to announce the problem, yet they obviously stopped using “bad batch” drive units after July 30th. Why the inefficiency?

CA Tesla Kills One Pedestrian

There has been a rising toll of pedestrians killed by Tesla since the fraudulently named “autopilot” and “full self driving” marketing campaigns started. The first Tesla pedestrian death by algorithm was April 2018, and in six years not much has changed, as today’s tragic news story makes plain to see.

A pedestrian was struck and killed on Highway 138 on Tuesday evening at approximately 5:36 PM on November 12, 2024. The incident occurred west of the I-15 freeway, near Dusty Lane.

Emergency personnel responded to the scene and found a 2024 Tesla pulled over on the right-hand shoulder of the highway, alongside an individual lying on the roadway.

A 2024 Tesla. Brand new. Latest software and hardware. Kills pedestrians.

Source: VVNG

Once again the severity of damage shows the Tesla impacted the pedestrian at full speed, acting as if completely blind… because Tesla cars are in fact unable to see.