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Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
- ck2 2y agoThe USAID building, which may not have actually been an executive agency under WhiteHouse control They are in full spite mode. Will take DECADES to rebuild and that may be the point.
- actionfromafar 2y agoIt's the United States Institute of Peace building the dogebags are stealing. It's hard to keep up with all the grift.
- calculatte 2y agoName a single major accomplishment of the USIP. That's the grift.
- DarkWiiPlayer 2y agoWhatever education system you went through and came out saying shit like that is the real grift. Think about it for a second. The USIP is a think tank. Think tanks don't accomplish things, that's not their purpose. Their stated mission is "education and training" ffs. Next time at least read the opening paragraph of the wikipedia article of an org you call a "grift" on the public internet, you'll look a lot smarter that way.
- surgical_fire 2y ago[flagged]
- calculatte 2y ago[flagged]
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- spiderfarmer 2y agoThat’s assuming you’ll start rebuilding this year.
- gagagah 2y ago[flagged]
- watwut 2y agoEvery time DOGE reports were checked, they contained glaring massive mistakes ... which is still giving them massive benefit of doubt as it is equally likely they just lied. So, no. No scary waste, squandering or laundering was found by them. However, they themselves are breaking the law, lying and trying to defraud.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoI saw what kind of people were attracted to Doge before they announced their first results and I’m not surprised.
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoUS is never going to go insolvent as long as dollar is the world's main currency and as long as US has the strongest army in the world. USAID was not causing US to go insolvent, it was promoting US soft power in the world. Soft power saves money, for relevant cases it's cheaper than deploying troops.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> USAID was a massive graft machine Sort of irrelevant, right? Even if it was all grift, nothing is being saved if those resources are just stolen. > I fear they will not reach the trillion etc they need in savings to stop the US going insolvent Trump’s draft budget blows the deficit by $4 trillion to fund tax cuts for wealthy people. (I’d see my taxes go down under his plan, for what it’s worth. My mom, a bank teller, would not.)
- JohnFen 2y ago> Going through DOGE reports DOGE reports are too unreliable to be worth paying attention to.
- theshrike79 2y ago
- oldpersonintx 2y ago[dead]
- rich_sasha 2y agoHard to know if this is April Fools. United States Institute of Peace doesn't have a funny acronym.
- actionfromafar 2y agoArticle is from March 18
- blatantly 2y agoRight now, regarding US news, if it sounds like satire, it probably isn't.
- zoezoezoezoe 2y agoThis is the peak of government efficiency
- AvAn12 2y agoWhat, Elon can’t afford another office building now?
- DarkWiiPlayer 2y agoHonestly? Probably not, no. He could convince some loser investor to lend him the money because he's Elon fucking Musk, but I wouldn't assume he has even that much money just lying around. That being said, an office building or two he could probably fund by just selling some other assets, but he wouldn't have gotten this rich with an attitude of using his own money to buy things for himself.
- _ea1k 2y agoSo, the government funds them, the President issued an order to dismantle them, and now another government agency wants the building? That last part seems reasonable. Whether dismantling them is right or wrong seems to be the real question here.
- DarkWiiPlayer 2y agoBoth are wrong. The "real question" just isn't about this specific case on its own. In a vacuum, this wouldn't really be news in the first place. The problem is the pattern that this is an example of, and together with all the other cases, it starts to reveal an image of the USA turning into a cleptocracy.
- _ea1k 2y agoA Kleptocracy is when the government takes its own buildings from one department and transfers them to another department?
- actionfromafar 2y agoWhere's your creativity? Then the other department sells the building "on the private market" (some Musk company) for a "fair price" (Musk makes an offer he can't refuse to himself) and Bob's your Uncle. Have some patience, sheesh. Rome wasn't razed in day.
- blatantly 2y agoIn what f'ng way does it seem reasonable. That is almost colonialist logic. They invaded the premises.
- actionfromafar 2y agoThese people are probably beoynd saving. Up Musks "shit creek" if you will, with no map and no paddle, nor will to find one.
- SignalM 2y agoClick bait headlines allowed on here now? It clearly states they are giving it to the GSA which is the government - where the funds originally came from. Can't hand these people money without them complaining ..
- throwaway5752 2y agoIt is not an executive building, and they have not claim to it. They will take credit for the cost savings, hence "gift". This is not clickbait and can't be overstated, there is no precedent for this sort of action in recent history in the US. Your normalcy bias is the problem.
- SignalM 2y ago[flagged]
- nickthegreek 2y agoThe elected congresspeople who voted to fund this should go to jail, even though there is no law broken? You are advocating for a wild system of government sir.
- arp242 2y ago> You are advocating for a wild system of government sir. You can always finance a revolution to change it, if you're not too busy buying stereos.
- actionfromafar 2y agoWait 'til you find out what the next tax cut (for over 400k households) is going to be funded by: 4T debt.
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- lubujackson 2y agoNext DOGE will defund gasoline in police cars and applaud their "trillions of savings" over the next 1,000 years. I feel bad for anyone that is spending their lives on forums defending these puffed up hall monitors who were sent in to "fuck shit up" and will eventually end up in jail as scapegoats.
- GcryptUser 2y ago[dead]
- josefritzishere 2y agoTo be clear the United States Institute for Peace is not a federal agency. It's a non-profit buisness with an EIN 52-1503251 and a W9 like every other non-profit. DOGE seized a private business. If they can seize USIP they can seize your start up. There's no legal difference. Here's their 990 form: https://filing-service.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/scanned-pdfs/200909/521503251/9571012/52-1503251_990_200909.pdf https://filing-service.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/scanned-pd...