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Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building

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Re: Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building

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It is not an executive building, and they have not claim to it. They will take credit for the cost savings, hence "gift". This is not clickbait and can't be overstated, there is no precedent for this sort of action in recent history in the US. Your normalcy bias is the problem.

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Re: Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building

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The elected congresspeople who voted to fund this should go to jail, even though there is no law broken? You are advocating for a wild system of government sir.

> You are advocating for a wild system of government sir.

You can always finance a revolution to change it, if you're not too busy buying stereos.

Re: Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building

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Click bait headlines allowed on here now? It clearly states they are giving it to the GSA which is the government - where the funds originally came from. Can't hand these people money without them complaining ..

It’s an independent non-executive non-profit established and funded by congress, not an agency under the executive branch.

Re: Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building

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Name a single major accomplishment of the USIP. That's the grift.

Whatever education system you went through and came out saying shit like that is the real grift. Think about it for a second. The USIP is a think tank. Think tanks don't accomplish things, that's not their purpose. Their stated mission is "education and training" ffs. Next time at least read the opening paragraph of the wikipedia article of an org you call a "grift" on the public internet, you'll look a lot smarter t…

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