Originally published at: JD Vance describes preposterous Elon Musk led commission - Boing Boing
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OH MY GOD!
I DO NOT want Leon ANYWHERE near social security. He’ll make it so much worse by investing it in private companies, most likely Xitter and Boring.
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Some reporters really need to start asking whether Trump or Musk has the higher IQ, so the worthless narcissists will turn on each other already.
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Just touch a screwdriver to it and fix it!
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Watch the DoD put a swift, firm stop to messing with their operations and budget allocations. Skum’s motorcade is likely to be accidentally crushed by an errant tank transporter as it leaves the Pentagon.
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Let’s make the VERY generous assumption that this isn’t a thinly veiled attempt to pillage and loot. Most of my experience as both a “customer” of government and as a contractor is that most of the inefficiency I experienced stem from requirements placed by congress or the courts for (sometimes) good reasons. any efforts to untangle that will require slow careful coordination with lots of lawyers involved and it won’t matter how many “smart people” are involved.
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Let’s not. Let’s not even say we did. How many benefits of the doubt have these dipshits had. At what point do we believe them when they show us who we are.
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We spent over $2.3 trillion in Afghanistan, that comes out to $330 million per day, here’s an idea: you can just pay everyone in the USA a million dollars for their retirement out of the DoD budget and cover that cost by ending the next big war (there’s always one coming) a couple days early.
At least I’m not going to use my million dollars to buy a $1000 toilet seat.
[ETA: oops, as pointed out below, I was way off with my math.]
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There is an old rhyme from thermodynamics:
There once was a man named Carnot
Whose logic was able to show
That with work source proficient
There’s none so efficient
As an engine that simply won’t go.
Whenever the right complains about inefficiency, they always mean they want the process to stop.
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Does anyone honestly believe that Elon would give any answer to Vance that took more than a quarter-second of thought?
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Need to add “Noted migrant Leon Musk.”
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Elon Musk has already identified a major inefficiency in the social security system, which is that it gives money to ordinary people instead of billionaires. Fixing this flaw is expected to be a top priority during the next Trump administration’s first hundred days.
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Who better to decide how big businesses should be regulated than the billionaire capitalists who own those businesses? 
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I think that the way that this is envisioned is you set up a, you know, you set up an organization with very smart people from the private sector and a few smart people from government and you go in and you say, ‘How are we going to fix all of these inefficiencies?’
This is how one VP candidate talks about one of their few actual major policy plans. And it sounds like something you’d hear from a friend at the bar after they’ve had a few.
He shouldn’t be near a power cord, much less political power.
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I’ve been saying for quite a while that Donald Trump’s intellectual level never rises much above “loud angry guy at the other end of the bar”.
Stupid “solutions” to complex problems is pretty much on-brand for these people.
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I’m not famous for my conversational skills (or for anything else, really…) but JD Vance seems to be utterly unable to sustain a unweird conversation.
It’s doughnut day all over again.
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That’s not true. The US of A has a population of 340 Million people. If only 1% of those were to retire each year, thats 3.4 million people (in fact, more people retire than just 1%).
3.4 million x $1 million is $3.4 trillion, i.e. roughly 1.5 Afghanistan wars per yer.
In the US, trillion means 1012, in most other places a trillion is a “long trillion”, which is 1018. Would that explain it?
Edit: 1012, not 102
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Vance is a total Dough Nuthin’
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Leon is going to make Social Security hardcore /s
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