USAID may be the biggest scandal in American History.

[Vol737]

Question to all:

Aside from specifics on national security/ military/intelligence, shouldn't there be transparency on where ALL of our tax money is spent in America? I seriously can't believe that anyone would take issue with this.

Yes, there should be. Normal, right thinking people wouldn’t take issue with that, but the deep state people ensuring their own survival and power….well, they don’t think like we do. They definitely take issue with it.

 

[midnight orange]

I agree. Defense is something spelled out in the Constitution as a federal role. One of the few items

But what % of the DOD budget is waste? 1/8 is over $100,000,000,000.00 annually. Gutting the Dept of Education is nothing compared to eliminating 10% of DOD waste.

Im good with eliminating all this crap abroad. But apply that same level of scrutiny to all waste, not just D waste

I agree with your sentiment but I also try to view the actions of politicians through their goals. Politics is the pursuit and use power and the goal of power is to reward your friends and punish your enemies. While conservatives were telling their young to ”toughen up and pick up an extra shift” the democrats brilliantly set up a patronage system to funnel money and votes. I view Trump’s actions as an attack on that system and punishing enemies. It could also be a Dave Ramsey like move of taking care of the small stuff first.

 

[MemphisVol77]

A theory I'm working on - DNC spam'd propaganda to Volnation.

USAIDLincoln Project@evillawyer VolNation

@evillawyer Disappeared Nov 5th, briefly returned Jan 24th - Jan 29th, dissappears right before DOGE starts auditing.

Nothing conclusive, but I'll keep watching to see what the AI algorithms conclude.

@evillawyer If it's true, I won't be mad. I'll be respectfully impressed you got paid. We've got a few that spam right-wing twitter and archaically cut-&-pasted articles for free.

 

[Ritzwatch]

A theory I'm working on - DNC spam'd propaganda to Volnation.

USAIDLincoln Project@evillawyer VolNation

@evillawyer Disappeared Nov 5th, briefly returned Jan 24th - Jan 29th, dissappears right before DOGE starts auditing.

Nothing conclusive, but I'll keep watching to see what the AI algorithms conclude.

@evillawyer If it's true, I won't be mad. I'll be respectfully impressed you got paid. We've got a few that spam right-wing twitter and archaically cut-&-pasted articles for free.

My working theory related to Kamala’s checks bouncing, but given revelations about usaid money, you may be right.

 

[Cod]

A theory I'm working on - DNC spam'd propaganda to Volnation.

USAIDLincoln Project@evillawyer VolNation

@evillawyer Disappeared Nov 5th, briefly returned Jan 24th - Jan 29th, dissappears right before DOGE starts auditing.

Nothing conclusive, but I'll keep watching to see what the AI algorithms conclude.

@evillawyer If it's true, I won't be mad. I'll be respectfully impressed you got paid. We've got a few that spam right-wing twitter and archaically cut-&-pasted articles for free.

Dude he doesn't need to get paid for being paid to post, he's a very successful lawyer just look at his bank account...... per him of course.

 

[ButchPlz]

Dude he doesn't need to get paid for being paid to post, he's a very successful lawyer just look at his bank account...... per him of course.

Isn't it weird that all the bizarre, semi-functional brainlets we have here claim to be lawyers?

It's like when you ask a 9 year old what they want to be when they grow up and they just say "lawyer" because they assume there is money and prestiege attached to it.

 

[LouderVol]

I agree. Defense is something spelled out in the Constitution as a federal role. One of the few items

But what % of the DOD budget is waste? 1/8 is over $100,000,000,000.00 annually. Gutting the Dept of Education is nothing compared to eliminating 10% of DOD waste.

Im good with eliminating all this crap abroad. But apply that same level of scrutiny to all waste, not just D waste

I would start at the very least by cutting whatever dollar amount the Pentagon lost, and can't account for the last year. clearly if they lost it, they don't need it and won't be missing it.

 

[LouderVol]

I still dont know what Gamergate is.

Gamergate was a lot of gamers pushing back on the woke culture making its way to video games and other various forms of nerd culture. "They" were making nerd culture way more PC, which could have been acceptable but it was a pretty blatant and apparent push that didn't produce quality products. Like if the PC content was good/fun/enjoyable it would have been fine. Instead a lot of things were "ruined".

A lot of preexisting characters had their gender specific traits cut back. Tomb Raider losing her triangle tits, and various fighters losing their muscles.
Violence got cut down, and becoming very unrealistic/unsatisfying
no bad guy was ever LGTBQ+, and most of the good characters became LGTBQ+. It became a trope of when you were early in a game/movie/comic/story/whatever and hadn't figured who the bad guy was yet, it was the straight guy. On its own, not a real issue, it was just done in such a boring, predictable way.

It hit everything from triple AAA games, to various indie efforts, to existing franchises with decades of history. None of the existing stuff was sacred, and that ticked off the core support for most of these things.

besides the content itself, there was a big push for inclusion amongst the staff of various nerd culture related items, and they became untouchable because they were "different". IIRC one of the big sparks was this one reviewer who wrote for several of the big game reviewers was giving obviously biases reviews, just down right bad, wrong, and people wondered if this person even made it past the start menu with how inaccurate the reviews were. Good or bad reviews were just as wrong. so there was a push to out her based on the quality of her work, but there was woke push back because she fit one of the categories.

besides the reviews its when a lot of game developers started going to "public betas" where they release a game early and let the public "play test", which was really just replacing their QA/QC. but it was because a ton of the QA/QC time was spent focusing on whatever woke agenda was present in the game. Another trope was "well the game is buggy as hades, nothing works like it should, half the visual assets don't load, but I know the preferred pronouns of my ingame non-sentient pet, and the transgender cosmetics look great!".

and as others have pointed out, don't go to 4chan unless you want to lose whatever little faith you have in humanity. even if you think you have none, don't go there. at best its trolls trolling other trolls with questionable content and messages.

 

[hog88]

I would start at the very least by cutting whatever dollar amount the Pentagon lost, and can't account for the last year. clearly if they lost it, they don't need it and won't be missing it.

I would start by cutting, no slashing the officer corp starting at the flag level then working down. That alone will cut a tremendous amount of waste. In WW2 there was one O-7 and above per every 2000 enlisted, today it's one for every 1400. Or something close to those numbers.

 

[ButchPlz]

I would start by cutting, no slashing the officer corp starting at the flag level then working down. That alone will cut a tremendous amount of waste. In WW2 there was one O-7 and above per every 2000 enlisted, today it's one for every 1400. Or something close to those numbers.

WTF

 

[GVF]

I dont think many are taking issue with reducing spending. We need to get annual federal spending back to a pre COVID baseline and cut from there (adjusted for wage inflation and higher interest rates)

The question is will DOGE go as aggressively after the Rs sacred cow (defense).

One party's waste didnt get us 36.1T in the hole as of 1/20/25. I think we need a bunch of sacred cows slaughtered, not just 1 sides....

I'd like to know who approves defense spending PO's for $500 toilet seats.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

In case anyone is looking for an investment opportunity there is going to be a giant fire sale of homes and condos in Washington DC and surrounding areas.

Not to mention government buildings.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

How many American's Student Loans could be paid off with 5.5 Billion dollars? .....sorry no money for that, got to pay to brain wash Canucks...

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Is Canada already a State and we just were not informed?

Pay off student loans??????? Hell to the NO

 

[malinoisvol]

I'd like to know who approves defense spending PO's for $500 toilet seats.

I'm assuming you are referring to toilet seats for an aircraft. What is the cost to the Mfg'r to have those toilet seats Mil-Spec'd and FAA certified? The answer will surprise you maybe.

I use to be bothered by those costs until I researched the cause. It's crazy but necessary in most cases.

 

[Grand Vol]

I'm assuming you are referring to toilet seats for an aircraft. What is the cost to the Mfg'r to have those toilet seats Mil-Spec'd and FAA certified? The answer will surprise you maybe.

I use to be bothered by those costs until I researched the cause. It's crazy but necessary in most cases.

Now here is where the savings start to come up as well...

Why on God's green earth does a toilet seat need to be FAA certified? What person wrote that regulation into play? Or Mil-Spec for that matter...

I do believe in Mil-Spec as it will save lives, but it's probably gone overboard as well.

Deregulation is where your are going to see efficiency and savings soar.

 

[GVF]

I'm assuming you are referring to toilet seats for an aircraft. What is the cost to the Mfg'r to have those toilet seats Mil-Spec'd and FAA certified? The answer will surprise you maybe.

I use to be bothered by those costs until I researched the cause. It's crazy but necessary in most cases.

Maybe I shouldn't have specified Defense PO's. It's been years beyond specific memory, but I have seen expenditure exposures in the past where people sold on government contracts hammers, toilet seats and otherwise local hardware store stuff for incredible prices.

Having managed half a facility that made welded bellows for plane landing gear, accumulators, sensors, bomb detonators, etc., to airline companies, and government contractors in aviation, space, medical, defense et al., I am aware of what our cost was for just a small segment of a microscope edge welded detonator bellow. So, yes metting gov specs in certain arenas does add lots of cost. someone has to pay the inpectors that come to your facility to clear one component section so you can make the next. And the metals for us, were lot specific and you could not use for any other product or segment of a product. But, were making highly specialized products that had to be fail proof. Cause when a missle is bearing down and the system has a milisecond to say detonate or don't detonate, the switch cannot fail because of your bellow.

 

[GVF]

Now here is where the savings start to come up as well...

Why on God's green earth does a toilet seat need to be FAA certified? What person wrote that regulation into play? Or Mil-Spec for that matter...

I do believe in Mil-Spec as it will save lives, but it's probably gone overboard as well.

Deregulation is where your are going to see efficiency and savings soar.

The plastic seats on an 747 actually seem to be less robust than mine at home. Good point.

 

[malinoisvol]

Now here is where the savings start to come up as well...

Why on God's green earth does a toilet seat need to be FAA certified? What person wrote that regulation into play? Or Mil-Spec for that matter...

I do believe in Mil-Spec as it will save lives, but it's probably gone overboard as well.

Deregulation is where your are going to see efficiency and savings soar.

Everything on a military aircraft has to be certified three ways to Sunday for safety. You and I have been all over this world on military and civilian aircraft and I thank God every time the wheels are on the ground.

Those cost need to be scrutinized, but to have those wheels touch the ground safely, I'm willing to pay those costs. That's just my take.

 

[hog88]

Now here is where the savings start to come up as well...

Why on God's green earth does a toilet seat need to be FAA certified? What person wrote that regulation into play? Or Mil-Spec for that matter...

I do believe in Mil-Spec as it will save lives, but it's probably gone overboard as well.

Deregulation is where your are going to see efficiency and savings soar.

Mil-Spec saves lives?

 

[malinoisvol]

Maybe I shouldn't have specified Defense PO's. It's been years beyond specific memory, but I have seen expenditure exposures in the past where people sold on government contracts hammers, toilet seats and otherwise local hardware store stuff for incredible prices.

Having managed half a facility that made welded bellows for plane landing gear, accumulators, sensors, bomb detonators, etc., to airline companies, and government contractors in aviation, space, medical, defense et al., I am aware of what our cost was for just a small segment of a microscope edge welded detonator bellow. So, yes metting gov specs in certain arenas does add lots of cost. someone has to pay the inpectors that come to your facility to clear one component section so you can make the next. And the metals for us, were lot specific and you could not use for any other product or segment of a product. But, were making highly specialized products that had to be fail proof. Cause when a missle is bearing down and the system has a milisecond to say detonate or don't detonate, the switch cannot fail because of your bellow.

I remember calling the Mobil Oil Co. in 1996 and asking them if they had a MilSpec for a particular product. The person I was talking to went into a lecture/ass chewing session about MilSpec cost. Damn Dude! I asked you what the time is, not how to build the clock. Lol

 

[Grand Vol]

Mil-Spec saves lives?

Potentially. Think about body armor and the testing it goes through. Or the testing for small arms (though some of that may be outdated and they are doing it "because we've always done it that way").

I'm not opposed to testing items in that kind of manner. But just as I stated, I'm not sure if it's needed or they are just doing it because of the reason I stated. You and I both know there's a bunch of old farts in the .mil that can't let go of yesterday even when technology changes. I bet you even had a bunch of old codgers ranting about how the Army should "never have given up the M14" or some such thing.

 

[Grand Vol]

Everything on a military aircraft has to be certified three ways to Sunday for safety. You and I have been all over this world on military and civilian aircraft and I thank God every time the wheels are on the ground.

Those cost need to be scrutinized, but to have those wheels touch the ground safely, I'm willing to pay those costs. That's just my take.

Again, I have no problems with testing. But I'm wondering how much of the criteria is still valid? Or are they changing with the times so to speak. I'd bet some of those testing criteria haven't been changed in 50 years.

 

[jmacvols1]

adios USAID..

 

[hog88]

Potentially. Think about body armor and the testing it goes through. Or the testing for small arms (though some of that may be outdated and they are doing it "because we've always done it that way").

I'm not opposed to testing items in that kind of manner. But just as I stated, I'm not sure if it's needed or they are just doing it because of the reason I stated. You and I both know there's a bunch of old farts in the .mil that can't let go of yesterday even when technology changes. I bet you even had a bunch of old codgers ranting about how the Army should "never have given up the M14" or some such thing.

I completely get it and yeah I heard the M-14 rants, we still had the A-1 in basic/AIT and were using modified M-14s as sniper rifles in 89.

I understand the rigorous testing on stuff like body armor and such stuff but man I also remember buying my own sleeping bag and a lot of other snivel gear because the mil-spec issued stuff sucked and was too bulky.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

LMAO at these democrats getting before the TV camera to have their clown time speech. I always knew these ppl were too woke & insane but its on TV showing each & every day now.