Calling all incels
The richest man in the world seeks “high IQ revolutionaries” to work for him for free:
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are asking Americans who are “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” and willing to work over 80 hours a week to join their new Department of Government Efficiency – at zero pay.
In a new X post on Thursday that doubled as a job announcement and another one of Musk’s trolling attempts, the account for the newly formed Doge wrote: “We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.”
The name of the department, which is not part of the federal government, harkens back to a meme of an expressive shiba inu dog.
“If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,” the statement added.
In a separate post, Musk chimed in on the callout, saying: “Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero.”
“What a great deal!” Musk, the richest man in the world, wrote with a laughing emoji. He has promised to reduce federal bureaucracy by a third and cut $2tn from US government spending, an endeavor he said “necessarily involves some temporary hardship”.
It appears to me that this may be the one Trump initiative that’s going to crash and burn sooner rather than later. Obviously, they can’t just cut one third of the federal budget. Thagt would send the country into a rapid tailspin and might just initiate civil war. (Of course, tht might be the idea….)
Elon and Vivek will have their little hobby horse and then it will hit a brick wall, similar to Trump’s first term’s “voter fraud commission” which ended with a whimper not a bang.
This whole thing has the feel of a lark for Musk which he may very well lose interest in nbefore too long. And it’s already clear that Trump is getting sick of him:
I don’t know that he’s jealous of Musk exactly. He likes having the richest man in the world following him around like a dog. But he doesn’t like the fact Musk is getting any credit or that people think he’s stronger than him and taking over as “shadow president.” This bromance won’t last too much longer.