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I’m not sure, considering the fairly obvious undertones of what the military represents in this film, that this is the statement he thinks it is.”
I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don’t,
said Verhoeven, in a quote attributed to him My favourite genre of Elon tweet is ‘doesn’t understand the source material.’
Another X/Twitter user said Please never stop right-wingers missing that Starship Troopers was satire.”
It doesn’t seem to matter what’s real or what’s not real,
said a former Infowars employee In this second term in particular, President Trump has a better understanding of what needs to be done and how to do it,
From the outside, will Musk and Ramaswamy be able to do a whole lot? It’s very difficult to see how that will be the case,
Stier said in an interview It’s unclear at this point what the exact role or mandate will be of this advisory committee,
said Joe Spielberger, policy counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan government watchdog In many ways, this sounds like just the latest iteration of the war against the federal civil service and targeting federal workers as ideological opponents or enemies of the people, not based on their ability to do the jobs they’re hired for but because folks [like] Elon and Vivek are ideologically opposed to those agencies or those departments or the specific roles that they are performing,
I’ve been saying this for a long time. You start with your defense agencies,
Placing Elon Musk, the ultimate corporate tycoon, in authority over government efficiency is laughable,
Lisa Gilbert, a co-president of the progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, said in a statement I have no idea what they’re going to do, who’s going to work for them, but I suspect that the task may be a little more difficult than they think. Rather than just slashing $2 trillion, they may want to look at exactly what the priority should be right now. And I’m hopeful they’ll be a little more careful and thoughtful than slash and burn might be.”
Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Importantly, the process will need to be as bipartisan as possible in order to help with the deliverability and implementation of ideas, ... It will take an all-hands-on-deck approach to fix our fiscal situation, and this effort could make a tremendous contribution.”
she said in a statement, adding Serious conflict of interest problems arose from having corporate CEOs scrutinizing the internal workings of agencies charged with regulating their businesses.”
In a warning that may prove prophetic given Musk’s business dealings with the federal government, the lawyer wrote It will be done much faster,
Musk said Wednesday on his X platform There are 1,200+ programs that are no longer authorized but still receive appropriations,
We have to reduce spending to live within our means,
It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” a game-changer that has the potential to overhaul and transform the entire government bureaucracy and functioning
As Trump’s statement puts it A smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy, will be the perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence. I am confident they will succeed!”
As the statement concludes If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,
