• GoobyMcMooby@lemm.ee
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    Gee I wonder where that money went… This just in: Narcissistic racist oligarch with a breeding fetish likely stole the money for his “legion” fund. Funny how both him and Epstein were obsessed with populating the earth with their progeny. Too bad only one of them is dead.

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      The man is a thief, but there’s nothing to steal here. He’s lowering his totally bogus $ amount that he supposedly saved the government based on contract and lease cancellations.

      Every single contract (~10) that I know very specific details about that was DOGE-cancelled has a problematic “savings” amount on the doge.gov website. Every one is wrong. That’s just the 10 I know about where I have privileged information. There’s currently more than 8000 listed. I suspect most of those have similar issues with the reported “savings” amount.

      This is straight accounting that they are botching.

      Nevermind that the $ savings is bogus even if the accounting was accurate. Because these cancellations are costing the US taxpayer big-time in the long run.

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        I appreciate your input and I acknowledge I’m being a reactionary jerk off. Thanks for doing what you do.

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        Man, anytime I have been under an NDA it’s been about boring, mostly useless stuff related to Canadian telecom stuff or upcoming Microsoft products since I work in print and deal with those companies. I wish I got to see stuff like what you get to see, probably way more interesting than knowing the Xbox 360 would use an amd gpu instead of nvidia or that carrier A’s pricing strategy is to copy carrier B.

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          Unless you really care about 3080 vs 3600 funding or fixed price vs cost plus contracts, government finances aren’t all that exciting.

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      IMO I doubt there’s actually theft of the savings… there’s some real chaos. but the savings numbers are all made up with no tie to reality. Moneys not stolen, because the savings were never real… dude’s managing to shut down half the functions of the government, lay off hundreds of thousands of people… and failing to reduce costs in the process.