Heidi Li FeldmanMar 10
You have GOT to read this to this to believe it. https://newrepublic.com/post/207555/pete-hegseth-billions-dollars-fruit-basket-stands-chairs-crab
Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab

The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

The New Republic
Show threadJoe

@heidilifeldman I have no doubt that they blew through billions of wasteful spending. But why is this article wasting time talking about expenditures in the tens of thousands? Those are trivial for a country with a third of a billion people, or as part of an $800 billion budget, and don't provide any real insight into where the money is going.

Even people who are good at math tend not to have any intuition for large numbers. Better to divide by population. So if the government wastes a billion dollars, that's $3 per American.

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Show threadJoeMar 10
@heidilifeldman The only large item mentioned was over 200 million for furniture. They spent tens of thousands on doughnuts? They have 2.6 million employees! That's maybe a thousandth of a doughnut per person. The article is an embarrassment. None of this is a defense of Hegseth, quite the opposite. But it's lazy, innumerate reporting.
Show threadMortenMar 10
@not2b @heidilifeldman When the average order of doughnuts is $500 worth it begins to look weird. And the Steinway may be less than $100'000 but it's still blatant corruption.
Show threadJoeMar 10
@drgroftehauge @heidilifeldman Sure. But I'm interested in the hundreds-of-millions expenses, not the small stuff, even if the small stuff is also corrupt.
Show threadJoyful JonnyMar 10
@not2b take your white privilege update and go suck CK's dead vagina.