Let's talk about Elon Musk

[michigancat]

I'm not sure he knows what a blank check is

[mocat]

I am in complete disbelief

[star seed 7]

I started getting bored and annoyed so I look to see that I'm only 90 seconds into a 20 minute video.

[Stupid Fitz]

lol

https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3lhwsmk4iac2u


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[LickNeckey]

https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/

[sonofdaxjones]

OPM spent a $106 million trying to modernize and failed. So they just kept doing this

https://twitter.com/doge/status/1889437908094042277?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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[bucket]

https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/

https://bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social/post/3lhvx77lumk2p

Similar observation but I prefer this.

[sonofdaxjones]

#blueanon/#blueanongE is taking their New McCarthyite psychotic paranoia into new realms.

Russians under every rock. Anyone who questions their now generational grift is a fascist.

The lashing out is at 14/7 levels.


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[sonofdaxjones]

https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/

https://bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social/post/3lhvx77lumk2p

Similar observation but I prefer this.

That’s incredible knowing that Democrats ceded their entire establishment to political elite grifters, megacorps and the perpetual war complex. 


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[michigancat]

OPM spent a $106 million trying to modernize and failed. So they just kept doing this

https://twitter.com/doge/status/1889437908094042277?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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Honestly this seems like something worth addressing but because it comes from musk I assume we're not getting the full story (or are being intentionally misled. Also this seems like something that will take some investment to fix!

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/tmf-announces-investments-modernizing-federal-retirement-and-immigration-systems-12032024

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

https://www.opm.gov/about-us/reports-publications/agency-reports/5-feb-25-rs-processing.pdf

[sonofdaxjones]

I’ve dealt with OPM when my mother passed. Processing the death benefits in her Federal retirement took 3.5 months. 

When I had to call because information wasn’t in her portal. Forget about calling after about 1:30 Eastern. Nobody was going to answer.

The privatized portion such as 3rd party managed life insurance took about 2-3 weeks.


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[chum1]

The existing federal government is definitely not as dumb as Musk

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YPJGD9/

[Pete]

OPM spent a $106 million trying to modernize and failed. So they just kept doing this

https://twitter.com/doge/status/1889437908094042277?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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Honestly this seems like something worth addressing but because it comes from musk I assume we're not getting the full story (or are being intentionally misled. Also this seems like something that will take some investment to fix!

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/tmf-announces-investments-modernizing-federal-retirement-and-immigration-systems-12032024

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

https://www.opm.gov/about-us/reports-publications/agency-reports/5-feb-25-rs-processing.pdf

He definitely should be scrutinized, but his track record is his teams solving inefficiencies or obstacles that others have insisted on maintaining or ignoring. If nothing else, even his biggest enemies must grant him that.

[michigancat]

OPM spent a $106 million trying to modernize and failed. So they just kept doing this

https://twitter.com/doge/status/1889437908094042277?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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Honestly this seems like something worth addressing but because it comes from musk I assume we're not getting the full story (or are being intentionally misled. Also this seems like something that will take some investment to fix!

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/tmf-announces-investments-modernizing-federal-retirement-and-immigration-systems-12032024

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

https://www.opm.gov/about-us/reports-publications/agency-reports/5-feb-25-rs-processing.pdf

He definitely should be scrutinized, but his track record is his teams solving inefficiencies or obstacles that others have insisted on maintaining or ignoring. If nothing else, even his biggest enemies must grant him that.

I shared a link showing that federal employee retirement processing was not being ignored.

[sonofdaxjones]

No one said it was being ignored, but like with most government things, they throw money at it, and don't really fix it.

The oversight on waste-fruad-abuse runs from zealot level for some stuff, to a complete grifter state on other things. USAID was a grifter state. Ukraine is a Grifter State - that's why #blueanon fiercely opposes auditing.

USAID also not being disbanded, so there is no constitutional crisis (I mean  ).  It is absolutely 1000% within the purview of the Chief Executive to realign any Federal agency that falls under the Executive Branch.

Bush, Barry and President Full Lid made multiple alignment and structural changes to USAID, unfortunately that only served to expand the USAID Grifter State.

[Pete]

OPM spent a $106 million trying to modernize and failed. So they just kept doing this

https://twitter.com/doge/status/1889437908094042277?s=46&t=-jwPwnR3rKHM9sk9hA7h8g


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Honestly this seems like something worth addressing but because it comes from musk I assume we're not getting the full story (or are being intentionally misled. Also this seems like something that will take some investment to fix!

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/tmf-announces-investments-modernizing-federal-retirement-and-immigration-systems-12032024

https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

https://www.opm.gov/about-us/reports-publications/agency-reports/5-feb-25-rs-processing.pdf

He definitely should be scrutinized, but his track record is his teams solving inefficiencies or obstacles that others have insisted on maintaining or ignoring. If nothing else, even his biggest enemies must grant him that.

I shared a link showing that federal employee retirement processing was not being ignored.

Give me the cliff notes, man. I don’t have time to read all the rough ridin' links!

[Pete]

Also, let’s hope that we don’t have typical government contractors working on that.

[Pete]

No one said it was being ignored, but like with most government things, they throw money at it, and don't really fix it.

The oversight on waste-fruad-abuse runs from zealot level for some stuff, to a complete grifter state on other things. USAID was a grifter state. Ukraine is a Grifter State - that's why #blueanon fiercely opposes auditing.

USAID also not being disbanded, so there is no constitutional crisis (I mean  ).  It is absolutely 1000% within the purview of the Chief Executive to realign any Federal agency that falls under the Executive Branch.

Bush, Barry and President Full Lid made multiple alignment and structural changes to USAID, unfortunately that only served to expand the USAID Grifter State.

Dax, as usual you’re not entirely wrong and you’re not entirely right. It would be much more helpful for the conversation if you didn’t bring up a bunch of old crap.

EDIT: I misread your post you actually did a pretty good job on this one

[michigancat]

Give me the cliff notes, man. I don’t have time to read all the rough ridin' links!

The $18.3 million TMF investment will support OPM’s transition away from legacy systems, enabling a comprehensive modernization of the agency’s core infrastructure. This transformation is expected to significantly reduce annual maintenance costs while providing an enhanced customer experience for 2.8 million federal annuitants and survivors.

Also, let’s hope that we don’t have typical government contractors working on that.

yeah I think that is fair!

[Pete]

Give me the cliff notes, man. I don’t have time to read all the rough ridin' links!

The $18.3 million TMF investment will support OPM’s transition away from legacy systems, enabling a comprehensive modernization of the agency’s core infrastructure. This transformation is expected to significantly reduce annual maintenance costs while providing an enhanced customer experience for 2.8 million federal annuitants and survivors.

Also, let’s hope that we don’t have typical government contractors working on that.

yeah I think that is fair!

Definitely in very poor taste and deliberately misleading for Elon not to mention that there’s a giant rough ridin' project associated with cleaning that up . I do not like that.

[Pete]

It’s still a useful anecdote to illustrate the challenges of the federal government and the opportunities, but was super misleading the way that he portrayed it while standing in the oval office.

[michigancat]

It’s still a useful anecdote to illustrate the challenges of the federal government and the opportunities, but was super misleading the way that he portrayed it while standing in the oval office.

yes, also this link shows 138,000 retirements were processed in 2014 which makes his claim of 10000 per month because of an elevator seem dubious. https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

even then, why would you need the capacity to process 10000 retirements in a month when you have only had the annual equivalent of 10000 per month once in the last 25 years?

[kstate4life]

It’s still a useful anecdote to illustrate the challenges of the federal government and the opportunities, but was super misleading the way that he portrayed it while standing in the oval office.

yes, also this link shows 138,000 retirements were processed in 2014 which makes his claim of 10000 per month because of an elevator seem dubious. https://www.opm.gov/retirement-center/retirement-statistics/

even then, why would you need the capacity to process 10000 retirements in a month when you have only had the annual equivalent of 10000 per month once in the last 25 years?

And in theory, shouldn't there be less fed employees hitting retirement after their "cleanout" anyway?

[Rage Against the McKee]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961

[Stupid Fitz]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961

Whoa, could this be the tweet that does it? Holy crap

edit- my bad, I thought this was recent. lol, of course no-one cared about it. What the hell have we become?