#DOGE

[mostlysignssomeportents]

McKinsey is behind the majority of illegal mergers, the majority of pharma patent fraud, and the majority of illegal exclusive dealing cases. They keep asthma inhaler prices high, write strategy for ALL THREE Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and all five big defense contractors.

And now let’s move to McKinsey’s power over big business. It’s hard to find a big company that McKinsey doesn’t work for. McKinsey keeps its client list secret, but I got documents from bankruptcy filings showing who some of them are. And as it turns out, 68% of companies being sued by Federal enforcers over antitrust violations in the merger, Orange Book fraud, monopolization, or exclusive dealing are McKinsey clients. McKinsey works for the companies keeping the price of inhalers high to consumers (and the government), it works for the big three PBMs, all major big tech giants, and all five major prime defense contractors. It is the key vector for spreading bad business habits across sectors, through private equity firms and Wall Street, and into your neighborhood.

-Cutting Government Is Easy... If You Go After McKinsey, Matt Stoller

[meltakposts]

#zoomies 😀

[beardedmrbean]

[vollesroah]

Update. There are now 5 dead and 200 injured. The christmas markets are one of Germany's nicest traditions and attract visitors from all over the world. My condolences to all the families of the victims. We live in a world where people think the only way to make their point known is to murder innocent people. The attacks on free speech, the other well known way to make your point known are increasing and the owner of X is already using his medium to (edited due to restrictions on free speech) attack *inform* german politicians, very pleasing to certain other parties. It seems the US vote in November 2024 is already making waves in Europe. Also remember that his government department "DOGE" is also a title in Europe - pure coincidence ?

So a man in Magdeburg used a car to attack a Christmas market. Several people are injured, 2 people are dead. The man who did it was arrested.

That is what we know has happened.

The info that was released about this man is:

He is a doctor

He is 50 years old

He is from Saudi Arabia

And apparently those three bullet points were all a certain techie billionaire needed to call the German Chancellor an incompetent fool and that only the AFD (you know the party that about half the German population calls the "Nazi" party) could save Germany.

But there were a few more bullet points about that man:

He is known to be very islam-critic

He is known to be immigration-critic

He is known to have sympathies for the AFD

It is further known that Riad has warned Germany about him. (By now it is not public when they warned Germany, which would be a point of interest)

He was retweeting several right wing accounts on X, including Alice Weidel (head of the AFD), Naomi Seibt (right wing influencer) and yes, even a certain right leaning techie billionaire from the USA.

His tweets became more and more angry and anti-islam this autumn.

So what does that mean?

Well it means that you should wait until you have all the information before trying to add something to the situation.

It means that Elon Musk told the German Chancellor that the AFD could save Germany from attacks of AFD-leaning people (I don't know if the attacker was a party-member or just a sympathiser), just because that person was from Saudi Arabia and thus has to be an Islamist.

For fuck sake.

[nando161mando]

Elon is pro child cancer!

[superbeans89]

RIP Kabosu, who inspired one of the most influential memes of all time; Doge.

2/11/2005 - 24/5/24

[politicalantibody]

Gotcha!

[baroquepopcorn]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A real DOGE: Fire every McKinsey consultant in the federal government

Why take on management consultants? Well, for starters, the government spends far too much on people giving it advice. In it's 2024 budget, the Biden administration requested $70 billion for management consulting, aka “professional services,” which is 5% of all discretionary spending. The Defense Department alone asked for $32.9 billion. So just cutting all management consulting would be a big chunk of savings.

But it goes beyond just the raw spend on consultants, to how consultants misdirect other monies. An important study in 2023 on what it costs to resurface roads at a state level - a very simply and standard need everywhere - showed why procurement waste in America is so persistent. A key reason is consultant bloat. It turns out, when you hire government employees for long-term planning, costs go down, but when you use third party consultants, they go up.

-Cutting Government Is Easy... If You Go After McKinsey, Matt Stoller

[plantanothertree]

Exactly Right Mam! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸👍

[elderinternetresurrection]

Btw, privatization is stealing from *you.* You are the public in "publicly owned." Oligarchs are coming in to take the things we all share ownership of as Americans, like Medicare, Social Security, National Parks, PBS and scrapping them for parts they find profitable.

The right is planning to rob us and quite literally want us to thank them for the privilege by calling it "government efficiency."

[chloematis]

Goodnight Kabosu [2005-2024] many memory, much loved

[ranmagender]

18 is decently long life for a dog. RIP Kabosu! You will live forever in our hearts

[mixtapenempire]

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[southpauz]

RIP KABOSU THE DOGE MEME DOG

[jaebird88]

Kabosu, best known as the Doge meme dog, has passed away.