In a normal administration, DOGE wouldn't exist.

[Aussie105]

Musk is inexperienced in how different government departments run.
He can't tell what is waste and what is effective use of money and manpower, but he does have the task of slashing costs, so he does the slash and burn thing.

In a sane world, heads of all government departments would be asked:

1. What is the function of your department?
2, What tasks are your workers normally engaged in?
3. What numbers of employees are there on each task, and materials costs. Please supply wages and materials totals, and any contracts you have with outside suppliers.
4. Please make suggestions where savings could be made in the running of your department.

But Elon does the slash and burn, sends out bulk insulting emails, and is doing major damage. And Trump doesn't care.

[Skittles]

1. Elon bought himself a "president"

who the entire greedy old pig party PIMPS for

he'll do whatever he wants

[Jit423]

7. Maybe they should be called the GOPimp4Putin Party?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. DOGE and Musk as equivalent to the corporate "efficiency officers",

those with MBAs who know nothing about how the corporation works, the industry the corporation is in, etc. All they know how to do is to slash the budget arbitrarily. Fire people without knowing how they contribute to the corporation, and hence, the shareholders. Sort of like Jack Welch on steroids.

[rampartd]

3. you may have noticed, normal world is in tthe rear view miirror and ffading fast

we dinosaurs must adapt or become extinct.

the world of the gamers seems to have spilled out onto the earth.

If our reality is created by these children, some adult must give them a time out. And their own planet not inhabited by normies, and they need to do it before billy mumy sends us to the cornfield of dreams or implants us with microchips for total control.

[sop]

5. I've taken to prefacing observations about current events with "You know, in a sane and rational world...."

America's Age of Enlightenment is rapidly ending, we are entering another Dark Ages.

[Best_man23]

4. The one thing this 'DOGE' horror is doing

Its shining a bright light on the desperate need to get rid of Citizens United. The Citizens United ruling now allows people like Leon Musk and the Crypto bros to essentially buy the Presidency and influence Senate and Congressional races.

Leon bought himself the Presidency for $277 million. The Convicted Felon may be sitting in the office, but Leon is calling the shots and running the show.

[sop]

8. 'The Pro-Money Court: How the Roberts Supreme Court Dismantled Campaign Finance Law'

Citizens United and a number of other campaign finance cases have turned democratic elections into auctions for the highest bidder. After every decision conservative justices issued majority opinons completely ignoring the real consequences of allowing wealthy interests to influence and control our elections. This Brennan Center article discusses the long list of SC decisions weakening campaign finance rules and increasing the influence of big money in elections.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/pro-money-court-how-roberts-supreme-court-dismantled-campaign-finance-law

[RoeVWade]

6. Elon can't offer them incentives like you would in a private corp. Why would they want to work harder with fewer people

and Republicans sure aren't about spending any money on it.

[Swede]

9. The plan is to destroy the government and have a dictator take over.

Tech bros will run the country.

[Irish_Dem]

10. The goal is to destroy the US government.

It is not about efficiency and wasteful spending.
That is just the cover story for taking a wrecking ball to the entire US.