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Department of Veterans Affairs spent over $6 million on Chinese trinkets through a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary (twitter.com)
posted 1 year ago by Ahaus667 1 year ago by Ahaus667 +85 / -0
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– PraiseBeToScience 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I'm tired of the ragebait trash on Twitter and I'm tired of "conservatives" falling for this shit.

Did you look at his list of 'pointless' expenses? Fucking notebooks are pointless in his eyes. Great, you know what, let's save lots of money. Let's tear out things like light fixtures and replace them with bare light bulbs hanging on a wire from the ceiling. Paint on the walls? Let's rip that shit off, you get plain drywall to look at. Morale items to maybe improve people's mood even just a little while they wait in reception for hours? Fuck that, cut that too. Nobody deserves that shit, of course.

He's bitching about $2/ea water bottles that had probably the logo of the clinic printed on it. That's what you all consider the 'problem' spending?

I cannot count the number of times I've seen this "BIG SCARY DOLLAR FIGURE ALL THIS MONEY WASTED" and it ends up being mostly cherry-picking bullshit. Those gummies are $5. How many trillions of tons of gummies does he think are actually being bought to fill a little dish in reception for patients waiting?

It's like the fucking drama about "government credit cards", it's a bunch of know-nothing genuine retards being angry about a system they know absolutely nothing about and don't understand how it works. And yes, that goes for any of you who read any of those clickbait Twitter posts and also got angry. If you got angry, you are genuinely stupid. You should fucking use your brain before your womanly emotional low-IQ reactions boil out. Government credit cards? Literally every dollar is accounted for and requires substantiation, receipts, and when DOGE came out with that list they never actually said any of those purchases went through, and I know they didn't, because I know that Citibank outright blocks, at the highest level, government travel cards from being able to be used at casinos and bars and smoke shops and everything else listed on there. It was a list of DECLINED charges which is why they never had a dollar figure attached to it.

Do all conservatives now just operate on a constant baseline level of borderline-psychotic brain-melting rage about every single fucking thing on the planet?

Literally earlier today was a post about "FEMA spending $800,000 for each 400 square foot tiny home!"

It was a top to bottom complete lie, of course. But fucking MAGA doesn't care. Conservatives don't care. Anything to get that endless river of purple-faced screaming rage out of your swollen amygdala. "PLEASE TELL ME MORE THINGS TO BE MAD ABOUT!"

Fucking angry at them buying fucking notebooks, lmao holy shit.

Do you guys have even the slightest idea how much you are regularly fed a river of fucking lies you just 'believe' because it makes you mad?

Remember the drama about the $800 toilet seats? Less than 25% of that story was actually true, and when retarded public rage about it came to a head, they did an investigation and found that the 'toilet seats' were 'overcharged' by like $50 each seat. They still cost several hundred dollars, because it was never actually a 'toilet seat'.

The $2000 coffee cups? Another less-than-25%-true. Heavy aircraft in the Air Force have crew accommodations on board just like a passenger aircraft, for the same reason passenger aircraft do. Part of that is having a galley so they can have refreshments on board. Part of that galley is a coffee machine. And one of those heavy aircraft is an in-flight refueling tanker that is full of plastic bags of gas strapped to the floor and make for a dangerous environment. The electronics on-board are designed to be intrinsically safe to minimize the risk of explosion if there's a vapor leak, and that included the coffee machine, and the company that made the coffee machine closed up ages ago. The coffee machines all were breaking, so they had to get a new contract to redesign and install and replace all the broken coffee machines, which means a lot of energy and time and effort into a device that only has one application: use in in-flight refueling aircraft, which means a low manufacturing run which means pricetags tend to be extremely high to recoup the cost.

There never was a $2000 "coffee cup" that was literally just a cup that holds coffee and nothing more. It was a sealed-for-flight device designed to not blow up the entire plane in the event of an emergency.

But nah, everyone just wanted to get angry, because doing things like "reading words" is too much to ask for most people. "Tell me what to get mad about in 20 words or less" is all you want.

Remember the F-35 drama about how 'terrible' it was? The primary source for all of that information was a thankfully-dead fuckface named Pierre Sprey, who never in his life touched an F-35, literally never flew a plane, wasn't in the military, never designed any aircraft, and literally his entire claim to fame was being a 'civilian consultant' sucking fat paychecks as part of the 'fighter mafia', and the 'fighter mafia' literally was a failure that never designed a successful aircraft in their entire existence, every idea they had was shot down.

But people believed that retard's dumbass nonsense that he was completely fabricating from nothing, because it made them angry, and boy do you guys love to mainline rage, no matter how fucking retarded it requires you to become to believe it.

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– realerfunction 12 points 1 year ago +12 / -0

you sure are saying a lot and providing nothing of substance like a typical shit leftist

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– PraiseBeToScience 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Pretty sure I explicitly called out people like you already, because you refuse to read more than 10 words which is why your opinions end up being incredibly stupid and you fall for made up nonsense. Literally are the stereotype that conservatives are barely literate manual laboring third world tier simpletons.

It's why you fell for the nonsense about things like a $2,000 coffee cup, because it takes more than 10 words to explain why the coffee cup was $2,000, and your eyes glazed over and all you could think about was... I don't know, I'm smarter than you so I can't imagine what goes on in your head. I imagine a craving for Skoal and thinking about your truck? Maybe wondering about which negro would throw a ball harder than another negro this weekend? Or is your mind just kind of white noise? Like the "imagine an apple" experiment?

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– CatoTheElder 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

I imagine a craving for Skoal and thinking about your truck?

This is how anyone can tell you are a leftist.

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– PraiseBeToScience 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

What else could you possibly be using your brainpower for when it was too much to ask for any of you to even look at the pictures in the tweet thread where he complained about them buying basic office supplies?

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– PraiseBeToScience 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Unless you're saying all gov spending is 100% all legit

Of course it's not 100% legit. For starters legitimacy is entirely subjective. You can argue that stress balls aren't necessary. A therapist might say otherwise. A mental health office that wants to hand out swag to remind people that they're there so maybe someday somebody sees the sticker stuck to the door and picks up the phone to give them a call might say otherwise.

CASE IN POINT THIS GUY IS COMPLAINING ABOUT NOTEBOOKS.

Do people like you even know what the Davis Bacon act is? No seriously. If you want to get angry at government spending you should know about things like the Davis Bacon act. You should be learning. You should be reading. If you are so concerned you should be looking into this and figuring out where the problem is.

But nah it's easier to have morons on Twitter posting rage bait for you to scream at.

That's why I call you all low IQ. Because you don't actually know any of this, but you think you're entitled to opinions on it. Why are we listening to stupid people who don't know things? What value is a stupid person's opinion?

I have seen the government pay $125,000 to have 10 or 15 offices repainted because of the Davis Bacon act. Yet I have never seen any of these conservative influencers on Twitter even mention it. Do you have an explanation for why that is beyond " they are uneducated and unknowledgeable about this topic "?

And if they're uneducated and unknowledgeable, why are you listening to anything they say about anything?

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– Ahaus667 [S] 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

mental health office that wants to hand out swag to remind people that they're there so maybe someday somebody sees the sticker stuck to the door and picks up the phone to give them a call might say otherwise.

And if that mental health office doesn’t currently have the capacity to respond to that call but continue to buy trinkets advertising what does that say about them you blithering retard.

CASE IN POINT THIS GUY IS COMPLAINING ABOUT NOTEBOOKS.

Case in point you think notebooks are more important than staff to actually help veterans. Have you tried getting a VA appointment pookums?

Do people like you even know what the Davis Bacon act is? No seriously. If you want to get angry at government spending you should know about things like the Davis Bacon act. You should be learning. You should be reading. If you are so concerned you should be looking into this and figuring out where the problem is.

And who would be legally responsible if the government subcontracted shitty workers who didn’t actually do their jobs and painted with something like lead paint pookums?

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– PraiseBeToScience 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

You think you're going to hire a therapist because you didn't buy $100 worth of stress balls?

Are you even aware that that's a separate pot of money and the money is not transferrable?

No, again, that'd require to know "anything" about appropriations. But instead you just want to be mad.

And because you want to be mad you are now trying to actually argue that the VA shouldnt even be allowed to buy basic office supplies because you can't even admit that the OP tweeter is stupid for complaining about notebooks.

Like you can't even agree he was foolish to complain about that. That's how addicted you are to being mad.

And who would be legally responsible if the government subcontracted shitty workers who didn’t actually do their jobs and painted with something like lead paint pookums?

That has nothing to do with the Davis Bacon Act. Davis Bacon is a hundred years old law unions lobbied for to pay outrageous wages because unions couldn't compete with the non-union market. So every construction job the government does pays like $190/hr or something unreal and companies just pocket it.

Again, God forbid you learn anything.

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– PraiseBeToScience 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

And you sound circumcized.

Lol. See, it's this kind of shit. You all act like this, but then you can't figure out why nobody takes you seriously.

No really. Nobody. You think I'm wrong? Name a fucking person. Anyone.

Your congressman doesn't care. Not even Trump cares what you think, which is why you just post endless purple face rage on this forum and you're shouting into a void and you still haven't figured out nobody cares. We're on month four or five of you screaming " arrest someone! " And nobody cares lmao and you still haven't figured it out. But you just keep shouting and shouting because you have nothing else.

You're still talking about this vaccine 3 years after even the left stopped caring about it, and it's because it's the only thing you feel you ever accomplished.

Even though everybody knows that the vaccine was still voluntary, and therefore not getting the vaccine just required you to not do something. Which is all you conservatives are good at.

Keep raging about the government spending $20 on a notebook though, I'm sure they're all lining up to take you super seriously.

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– deleted 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0
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– PraiseBeToScience 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

And yet you whine about "people like me" being the ones in charge of important functions and it is entirely because "people like you" are dumb faggots laboring in fields like a beast of burden, because it's all you're qualified to do.

You whine about college professors being leftist communists. Why aren't you a college professor then? You whine that your congressman is a RINO. Why aren't you primarying them then?

You were too stupid to be a lawyer so all the lawyers ended up being leftists. You were too stupid to be a doctor so all the doctors end up being leftists.

People like you don't have a single vision for the future except hoping somebody else will "do something".

It's why you're still proud of "muh vaccine", it's genuinely the only thing you ever 'did' to "fight the power" and yet we all know all that was required of us to not get the vaccine was... you just didn't get it. And in your mind you act like you fucking snuck across the Berlin Wall or some shit lol.

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– SarcasticRidley 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

Imagine typing out that wall of immense faggotry.

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– Agenda47 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

I think he switched to writing his posts with AI at some point.

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– MassivePecorino 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Look at his comment history, he's admitted to using an automated AI bot.

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– PraiseBeToScience 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

The funny thing is, I personally have seen wasteful government spending. I've seen a military unit purchase $500/ea. heavy-duty cold weather jackets after they were told explicitly to not buy them by senior leadership. But they bought them anyway, spending like $300,000 on the whole order.

But something like that you would never actually 'catch' because it's 'justifiable' because obviously military cold weather jackets are necessary. It's just "are those specific jackets necessary?"

But understanding that kind of waste requires you to have an IQ beyond what is barely sufficient to clean septic tanks or whatever most of you fuckups do for a """"living"""", so you're angry at $2 water bottles instead.

You don't know anything about how money is appropriated. You don't know how/why military units will spend government money renting out a bowling alley for the day. You don't know what 'color of money' means or how budgets work.

You just know to be mad at things in general, and literally do not care to actually understand nuance and specifics, because the bottom line is most of you are genuinely unintelligent, operating on the same wavelength of Africans and other third-world riffraff.

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