THE ELMO & VIVEK SHOW

Looking for something to give a pair of rich dorks who he wants to keep around f or their money, last week Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to co-lead the “Department” of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). The appointment makes them official DOGEBAGS.

The real name of this meme masquerading as a “government department” is The Department Of Breaking Shit We Don’t Understand.

Last Wednesday, the two dildos spelled out their plans in a long article in The Wall Street Journal that revealed them as pair of idiots who consider themselves geniuses despite the fact neither has a clue how government actually works.

They claimed they will “serve as outside volunteers” - which means neither has to face a background check they couldn’t pass or has to divest themselves of their money-making operations. They will be making recommendations that allow the Trump administration to “cut the federal government down to size.” Their primary focus is on cutting down the total number of federal agencies, which they view as wasteful and “antidemocratic.”

“Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but ‘rules and regulations’ promulgated by unelected bureaucrats,” write the two unelected self-proclaimed geniuses. This demonstrates their ignorance of the Adminitrative Procedures Act, in which Congress delegates the power to administer a law to the agency tasked with carrying that out. Admittedly, all this may change as the result of the Unsupreme Court overthrowing the Chevron Rules in the recent Loper Bright v. Raimondo and West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency cases - in which the court suggested that many current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law - but it’s an important marker that these two have no real clue what they’re talking about.

Musk and Ramaswamy say they’ll hire “a lean team of small-government crusaders” to work with the Trump administration and the White House Office of Management and Budget, working with Chief Sledghammer Wielder Russell Vought, who is returning as Director of the OMB.

According to the pair of dimbulbs, DOGE will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology, to apply the new rulings to federal regulations. DOGE will present this list of regulations to be done away with to President Trump, who can, by executive order, immediately pause enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission.

What they fail to realize that that they have been put in charge of a non-existent “department” that can make recommendations which would be entirely dependent on members of Congress—who will think twice about cutting $2 trillion dollars from programs that directly impact their constituents.

Muck & Vivek see Trump cutting “thousands” of federal regulations that will allow for “mass head-count reductions” of government employees. DOGE will try to determine the “minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions.” This will almost certainly hamstring many government agencies, which enforce everything from environmental protections to healthcare standards.

The two “experts” also suggest that Trump can require federal employees to return to their offices five days a week, which could bring about “voluntary terminations.” “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

The two specifically list federal expenditures they want to put on the chopping block, including “$535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting” and “$1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”

In truth, the Elmo & Vivek Show reveals they are a pair of 12-year-old boys who know nothing about the world but are confident that they can make that world bend to their will because they are 12-year-old boys who don’t fucking know better.

They claim they will be able to “eliminate the need” for DOGE’s existence by July 4th, 2026. Since that’s about the time the mid-term election campaign will be heating up, their decision to make themselves scarce will be welcomed by those Republican congress critters who who represent “competitive” districts.

That idea that DOGE will have accomplished its goals in 18 months also reveals that these two idiots not only have no clue, but no fucking clue, about what will happen with their recommendations. Those that don’t get dropped for pissing off people Trump can’t afford to piss off will immediately land in court, where the legal process will hang them up through the mid-term elections, after which Trump will definitely be a “lame duck,” and hopefully a lame duck who has to deal with a Democratic majority in both houses of congress - the result of Democrats benefiting from an election map as favorable to them in 2026 as the 2024 map was to Republicans.

Topping off the Elmo & Vivk Shitshow is the news they will “work closely” with Marjorie Traitor Goon, who House Oversight Committee Chairman Comer the Gomer has appointed to chair the DOGE Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency.

What we’re looking at is a pair of arrogant dipshits who have no idea how government works, working with the Dumbest Bimbo in Congress, who has no idea how anything works. Does anyone really think nothing can go wrong with this?

As AOC put it, “This is good, actually. She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading. To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller. Absolutely dying at those two now getting assigned the ‘privilege’ of ‘working’ with MTG. That is actually hilarious. Enjoy, fellas! Very prestigious post you have there.”

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