DOD is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass.
  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    this would be an amazing throwaway line in a scifi, that some unreconstructed tribe of nazis in what used to be idaho are still replaying the tradition of an annual failed pentagon audit

    • ghosts [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The so-called Audit Watchmen formed in 2054 in order to tackle the rampant corruption of the ancient Amerikkkan Empire after a particularly egregious (and 38th consecutive) failed internal audit from the “Pentagon”, a shell company that laundered tax money into the pockets of gun oil salesmen. Sadly, even the noble Watchmen couldn’t escape the endless pit of IOUs and government issued IOUSA stablecoins, so after 93 failed audits of their own (excluding the Great Government Shutdown of the 2130s), the Audit Watchmen Accountants were born!

      Of course, the entire practice had been rendered obselete at that point, as the actual capital city of said civilization had long since sunk into the sea, leaving only a small internal network of chatbots - and one very frazzled tech mogul in Northern Virginia - to endlessly squabble about the skyrocketing price of threaded screws.

      And that’s why we don’t take the I-95 anymore, good question.

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I will find the constitution, or another will find the constitution, but the constitution will be restored in this year or in another year. As it once was, so shall it be again, world without end.

        edit: oh no i just realized that in this timeline, there’s also a tribe of liberals in northern california or something, who are still ritually impeaching trump every year for being russian.

    • PunsNRoses [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      Black budgets. Skunkworks funding (Joint Strike Fighter program was part of this), covert special ops, that sort of thing. You can’t accurately report assets and spending that are behind multiple layers of top-secret classifications.

      But that’s only part of it. I actually think the vast majority of unaccounted funds and assets are due to the fact that the DoD basically gets an ever increasing blank check no matter what they do. Lose track of a few dozen tanks? A couple jets? Who cares? Congress will give them another couple hundred billion to make more. The reason you see so much wasteful spending in the military is because they have a practically unlimited budget and zero accountability. None of it goes to the welfare of those in active duty, or for taking care of veterans. It all goes to flopping our giant imperial dick onto the world, and stuffing the pockets of defense company shareholders.