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Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Trump, is expected to step down to launch a campaign for Ohio governor.

Sources report friction between Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, and incoming DOGE staff, with Musk's team criticizing his lack of participation and subtly encouraging his exit.

"Vivek has worn out his welcome," one Trump associate said.

DOGE, a task force to streamline federal bureaucracy, is not a formal agency.

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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Good news: Russian Apologist and certified Idiot Ramaswarmy loses his Job Bad news: Elon isnt going anywhere

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Seems like it’s Indians turn to experience the “scary minority” moment after Latin Americans and Muslims.

firsttime?.meme

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think Ohio might be too racist to elect this guy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't know, Bobby Jindal got elected and so did Nikki Haley.

Of course, they changed their names to something that sounded less exotic to American ears.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So he should change his name to Vinny then?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

If he does, I’m fine with it. It’s just a name. Let people be called by the names they want to be called unless they’re unreasonably long or very difficult for anyone in pretty much any language to pronounce.

I won’t call you Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, but if you want me to call you Wowbagger, why not? I just don’t see the issue with anyone going with a name they weren’t born with other than the two things I just said.

If he wants to be called Vinny, I’ll call him Vinny.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 9 points 1 day ago (41 children)

It’s Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley

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[–] Soltros@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Efficient as hell: first day of the regime and we've made it so s department doesn't have two guys running it

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

It's not noon yet Trump isn't in charge and the DOGE is already coming apart at the seams.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Has the token brown MAGA finally realized his new buddies are using him to prove they're not racists, and now that Trump won, he's not needed anymore?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I almost guarantee you that Vivek thinks he's white. I have met more than one (wealthy) South Asian-American who literally consider themselves white and are just mystified when people react to them with racism because they're white. One old family friend who's family was from Sri Lanka was absolutely incensed that he couldn't say he was white on his passport.

I don't get it, but that is apparently not uncommon.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

I used to work with a dude who, while 100% born and raised in the USA, looked like he fell off the fucking Tapatio bottle. Him and I would go on ambulance calls together, and the folks who only spoke Spanish would start talking to him; he would shrug helplessly at them and then I, like Hank Hill levels of white, would pick up the conversation on pretty solid spanish. (They'd always give him a shit about it, which I found fucking hilarious) It straight up stumped me for a second when he started talking about "us white people" and it wasn't a joke. Still not sure what the root of it was, but I found it to be a really powerful and interesting political science moment. Dude's daddy was rich and he didn't want for anything, their family were some of the only Latinos in the area, and also his Latino heritage was about 0% important to him, so those things may have each or altogether had something to do with it.

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

He was all for deporting naturalized citizens too, he is naturalized citizen himself

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago (14 children)

He's running for governor of Ohio. God damn that poor fucking state. I mean really I know they deserve it to some extent cuz they keep voting for these people, but they have just some of the worst most soul-crushing politicians the last 30 years I've ever seen

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[–] cnirrad@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump official dropping before he even takes office. Speed running this time around.

[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 64 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Two people can't run the same bureau.

You'd think there would be some government agency whose purpose it is to identify redundancies like that...

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

The Department of Redundancy Department?

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