Speaking of waste and fraud, could somebody please explain to me what qualifications musk and his kindergarten crew have to conduct such a massive audit?
Elon musk tomorrow : these stupid idiots do not know zero has no value in the number system. Zero means nothing. 3 zeros, 3 nothings. Learn your numbers first.
It's corruption if i don't anything about the subject. (Thats almost every subject apart from gaslighting 101)
Meanwhile, the current administration is headed by someone repeatedly proven to have committed fraud and running companies and charities that committed fraud.
With an attorney general who committed campaign finance violations.
That is the new Doge math. I went to my bank today and told them that the new Doge math says I actually have 10s of millions in my bank account right now and I don't see that reflected on my statement, I am contacting Doge and they will fire all the DEI people at the bank. (this comment is satire)
Wait. Wait. Let the boys cook. I really really truly believe that they have everyone’s best interests at heart…grandma doesn’t need meals on wheels and 9/11 responders don’t need medical care as much as Trump deserves to golf.
Even more if:
-Not a professional Auditor.
-No review critical functions.
-Has strong conflict of interest.
-Known drug influenced.
-Violate privacies.
-Off the leash totally.
-None congressional approval.
-Etc, etc.
Some ways this might be one of the worst parts about living in autocracy the endless stream of fucking stupid, just the stupidest fucking people doing the stupidest shit all the time
The chaos is the point. They want our heads spinning. If you haven't read it already, I recommend the Shock Doctrine by @naomiaklein.bsky.social. It's about how they keep us spinning so we don't pay attention while they're robbing us blind. It's from the Bush years, but now I know it when I see it.
Right? This is the kicker though, after they rummage through our sensitive information and pillage regulations and agencies Musk wants to write $5,000 checks IF Trump says it's okay. WTAF??
Not an audit! They are thugs, terrorizing public employees while they ransack and steal sensitive data protected by law - both sensitive national security data and our private personal data. This data, which they are misrepresenting, is copied to their own systems for continued criminal misuse.
I literally posted about this earlier. Overheard a phone convo with someone who was obviously aboard the Musk/Trump train asking the other party how many zeroes were in a million and how many millions make a billion. These people elected the current mathematically challenged “leaders.”
It's astonishing to me (but then again, my major was math) that most people don't know that each comma indicates "a thousand times more" (ie. 3 orders of magnitude):
A million is a thousand thousands,
A billion is a thousand millions,
A trillion is a thousand billions.
etc, etc....
The fact that they did this and it is being talked about nonstop to people who do not follow closely lay solely on the shoulders of every corporate media outlet.
If Leon can't figure out that a 200 y.o. getting an ss check would have been born in 1825, eligible in 1890,but since ss didn't exist until 1935 and no checks were sent until 1940, would have been 115 before the 1st check. Only a handful of 115 y.o. exist in this country. But, hell, let's gut ss.
It is not an audit. Audits require careful examination of both sides of the ledger and it would take weeks. This “audit” is false data based on numbers from cutting staff and programs and doesn’t take into consideration any other factors that may influence the so called “savings”.
They aren’t doing an audit, they are cutting random items without knowing a thing about them. An auditor would know the business and understand how it functions.
I mean, not being clear on billion vs trillion if working between the UK and US, that I could understand. Maybe. But even that I think got standardized decades ago.
They aren’t even doing audits. As others have said, if they were truly interested in finding fraud, they would be using accountants—not coders and programmers.
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It's corruption if i don't anything about the subject. (Thats almost every subject apart from gaslighting 101)
By firing hard working federal employees
Federal workers earn $281,000,000,000
Less than 1 % of the deficit .8%
I mean...
Where has our education system gone?
Meanwhile, the current administration is headed by someone repeatedly proven to have committed fraud and running companies and charities that committed fraud.
With an attorney general who committed campaign finance violations.
You are misrepresenting their letter.
And using propaganda.
The House doesn't a great deal of time hunting for that rather than legislating ( which is actually their job).
They did a lot of talking.
Notably, they lied and misdirected more than once. Omitted evidence that didn't fit their narrative. 1/
-Not a professional Auditor.
-No review critical functions.
-Has strong conflict of interest.
-Known drug influenced.
-Violate privacies.
-Off the leash totally.
-None congressional approval.
-Etc, etc.
There's absolutely no auditing.
We saw him do exactly the same to Twitter, along with the mistake firing and rehiring.
A million is a thousand thousands,
A billion is a thousand millions,
A trillion is a thousand billions.
etc, etc....
numbers we first learned the names
of them in math option.
Over 50 years later
I still hate math.
Algebra killed my
engineering dreams.
SIXTY seconds
= 1 minute
ONE MILLION seconds
= 12 days
ONE BILLION seconds
= 32 years
ONE TRILLION seconds
= 32,000 years
(Forgive me for rounding up slightly for comprehension)
1 billion seconds equals almost 32 YEARS.
In case people think it's not a big mistake.