There's that crippling incompetence AOC called.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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I'm guessing it went like "Wait they're needed for what!? Okay... rehire them, but don't tell anybody."
These ones were just counting mistakes. They counted billion instead of million and counted a contract three times. The "oops, we need them after all" still needs to happen.
They have now also added a contact that Biden cancelled 6 months ago.
Season 1 writes pretty much writes itself
These are some grade-A dolts running things over at the Department. It's worth reading each instance where they lied, miscounted, misinterpreted, or all of the above. One of my faves:
A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.
He/him she/her they/them x/x? 🤔
Someone please add the option to mark my gender as "the gender previously known as Twitter" since I cant mark it as X.
twit/twat
Honestly though, why does adding a single option to a form cost half a million dollars?
Potentially a bunch of follow up logic processes need to be modified as well. Gender is probably not one of the things that would have been dynamically processed in the past.
I don't know! Maybe we should open a department that monitors the efficiency of the governments expenditures 🤔
It doesn't matter. They put the lie out there, sycophants and low info voters believe/see lie, media fact checks, sycophants and low info voters don't believe/see fact check. Mission accomplished.
Chainsaw austerity. Normal austerity can cost a country a decade or two of growth and they at least tried to not accidently cut anything too crucial.
C'mon guys they are called woopsies. You can start a totalitarian government without a few woopsies. Give them a break. They are grown men trying their best. Remember this is a guy that bought an entire social media platform just because everyone was dunking on him for being such a weird dork. Surely, he can fix 'merica right?
Because it is all a Doge & Pony Show. to distract us. All lies and subterfuge.
The firings and failures to pay money as required by law are unfortunately very real