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[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

Dickhead Oligarch Getting Enriched

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Delivering Orders from our Greatest Enemy (putin)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

Don’t Oligarchs Get Everything?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 13 hours ago

Die Of Gonorrhea, Elon

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Donald Openly Gargles Erections

[–] [email protected] 59 points 15 hours ago

Department of Obvious Grift and Extortion perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 14 hours ago

Dumb Oligarch Gets Everything

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

Department of Government Extermination.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 15 hours ago

Department Of Grifty Edgelords.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Department of Oligarchy, Graft, and Edgelords

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

graft /grăft/ noun

Deceitful or fraudulent use of one's position, especially in public office, to obtain personal profits or advantages. Money or advantage obtained by such means. 

intransitive verb

To gain money or advantage through deceit or fraud. 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm pretty sure they mean grift, since graft's most well known meaning is transplanting living tissue.

Your meaning is exists only in the US and it's not that universal.

I was making a joke given the most well known meaning.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

Department of Goebbels Employees

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Doofus Operating Goverent Entity

Dicks Organising Gorvernment's End

Don't Overexplain, Greed Everywhere

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

Department of Government Extermination

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Best I saw was department of greedy elon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

Dumbass Overlooking Governmental Existence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Move fast and break things (hopefully they follow court orders)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dicks Out Government Enemies

Dicking Over God’s Exceptionals

Dicking Over Generally Everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Dicks Out, Get Eating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Department of Gratuitous Elonery