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I wish I had the confidence of a DOGE tech bro even for a week.
First, the power was off due to planned maintenance. Second, Shang wasn’t an official federal employee yet, meaning he couldn’t access the pump. Hassen couldn’t do it either, CNN reports, because he had to fly back before the power would be restored.
“They didn’t get their photo op,” an unnamed source with knowledge of the incident told CNN, adding it represented “what DOGE has been this entire time — this slapstick operation of 20-somethings they’re seeing as whiz kids but have zero knowledge.”
lol that's amazing levels of incompetence.
Anyihing where Trump or Musk are involved there's incompetence.
I wish someone would put me in a room with these losers
No shit. Little boys would be crying for their mamas.
Yelling at various department managers and threatening to call Musk might work for the agencies they’ve gutted, but yeah fucking with any fire department during an active wildfire…I don’t care who you are, you’re gonna have a bad time. Possibly shovel related.
They weren’t fucking with the fire department. They were trying to open massive water pumps (incapable of delivering water anywhere near the fires mind you) that have the capacity to flood entire towns. If you or I did that we’d be facing terrorism charges.
These Doggy stooges are sooooo freaking annoying.
Reminder: pronounce DOGE as “doggy” to deny them legitimacy
Or just DGE like it would be if it were an actual bureau, DOGE is what they want because it minimizes legitimacy of government itself.
Always have been
I've been pronouncing it "doogie" because it makes it seem as silly as it is
I like your approach. It certainly makes me think of how all the people involved are like way too young.
I’m going to keep going with “doggy” because it reinforces to me how the decision making is on par with toddler logic
If DOGE was a movie, it would be Sausage Party.
A couple of terms that need to be resurrected and put into common use during this MAGA Occupation:
Ya know when you're a teenager and you have these delusions of grandure, and think the world would work just fine if you were allowed to run it, because these "Stupid Adults don't know ANYTHING!"
That's DOGE
“Stupid Adults don’t know ANYTHING!”
I mean... these are adults.
Only if you look at their chronological age and not their behavior.
All I'm saying is is that I could have absolutely have done a better job as a teenager then these fuckwits.
They look like my dad after he finds a new jacket at Costco.
Fucking morons.
Bout sums it up.
this whole organization runs exactly like a Seth Rogen / Michael Cera / Jonah Hill movie, except no one is likeable.
Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang are fascist toadies.
Imagine Bryton and Tyler showing up at your workplace in the middle of a crisis to take selfies and tweet about how they fixed your problems.
Remember how Musk talked about some absurd submarine design to safe the schoolkids that got trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, like 7 years ago?
Should have been warning sign for everyone who supported any of his businesses and political positions after that.
It feels like the plot of an episode of Parks and Rec, but like, stupider, and not funny at all
These idiots actually thought the only reason the fires were still burning is because someone hasn't opened up a faucet yet, and that no one else but them have thought of it.
failed PR attempt
Elon Musk needs to be tried and sentenced to death given the level of his crimes committed in and to the US.
There needs to be more articles like this that calls them out by name. It’s easy to name Trump and Musk, but call out the cronies too!
Too much credit is given to Trump, which means that if Trump leaves office people will think everything is fixed despite all the other people who steer Trump towards his worst impulses will still be around wreaking havoc.
Trump is 90% a figurehead for the shitty conservatives who wrote Project 2025. He didn't come up with most of this stuff, he is just going along with it. The 10% of the time things are his idea are fucking terrible too, but he definitely doesn't deserve most of the credit.
The fucking idiots were not just wasting water, they were depleting the reservoirs. That water will be sorely missed in the dry season.
I would reiterate a point I have made several times that Trump has taken actions a number of times that seem to me to not be a great idea for agriculture. That's a little surprising, since agriculture is normally a Republican stronghold.
This was all by design. It’s meant to fuck over this year’s harvest and drive food prices up.
Smart people thinking they know everything. I know plenty of preteens that are the same way. They don't seem to understand there's a difference between knowledge and wisdom.
They should have been arrested.
They should have ~~been arrested~~ had the absolute shit beat out of them.
Our boys in blue are fully capable of doing both.
The Sheriff has had to issue a memo in my county because the deputies are openly fantasizing about murdering Musk and his fuck boys. So yeah... Something to look forward to.
Flying across states for a photo op? Taxpayer money well spent—if you're making satire.
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Domestic terrorist, got it
