Only In Government Could You Get Away With this Crap

This is insane. Pentagon kills off HR IT project after 780% budget overrun, years of delays

I've been on projects that have been behind schedule, but nothing like this.

[US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS)] started in 2018 with a planned development timeline of one year and a budget of $36 million, "but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget - that's 780 percent over budget," Hegseth said in a video announcing the DCHRMS and other spending cuts. "We're not doing that anymore."

They are going to try again. With luck they can get it. (Are there no off-the-shelf HR management apps?)

Hegseth credited Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency for its ability to root out the canceled programs, which, in addition to the cuts announced at the end of last week, now totals $800 million "in wasteful spending canceled over the first few weeks" of the Pentagon's DOGE review - but it won't be the last.

Hat tip to Pixy Misa and Daily News Stuff 25 March 2025: Beanz Meanz Newz Edition.

I can only dream of coasting for that long without encountering a short sharp shock.

Seriously.

Step Aside Trump Derangement Syndrome

Gothix always (or usually) has a great take on what's going on in the world.

The really sad bit is the reaction Gothix highlights on a "late night comedy show." The unhinged Left is larger than you think it is.

This is Gothix's video ELON DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

If you thought Trump Derangement Syndrome was bad, say hello to its unhinged cousin, Elon Derangement Syndrome.

The video is 7 minutes long.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Was Worse Than a Joke

From The Daily Wire: Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is one of the worst examples of government waste, and general insanity that you will ever read about.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge. FMCS recorded its director as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers, simply for showing up to the office.

That is only the beginning of the insanity, it goes off the deep end from there.

This is what the Democrats are fighting to keep. Pure insanity. Oh, and don't expect the mainstream media to report on this, people might get the idea that D.O.G.E. is justified.

Hat tip Lawrence Person's Battleswarm Blog: Another Useless Agency Bilking Taxpayers Uncovered.

Another day, another revelation of another useless government agency where bureaucrats lived like kings on the taxpayer’s dime.

The Cringe Inducing Reaction of the Left to the DOGE Audits

Larry Correia of Monster Hunter Nation has a few choice words. Educating the Stupid on How Audits Work In Real Life.

Watching everybody I know on the left pontificating about the proper way to conduct audits, after getting their accounting degrees from the University of Internet this week, is absolute cringe for me.

Guys, listen, I say this with love… You don’t know dick about shit and it’s fucking embarrassing. Just stop. You sound like idiots.

So now, as a guy who used to be an auditor, who has defended companies from dozens of audits from different government agencies, I’ll try to correct some of your incredibly stupid NPC talking points you keep endlessly barfing up.

First, the ages of the DOGE team are not all in their 20s. (The ages were researched by Newsweek.) Those ages range from the 20s up into the 40s and even 50s. A bunch of worker bees, and a few leaders. The first couple of people doxxed by the Left were young, computer experts. The kind of people I dealt with in audits, the grunts doing the research.

You do NOT need to be an accountant to be an auditor. Anybody who says this is a total dumb ass with zero grasp of how any of this shit works in real life. The people who make up your audit team are recruited from whatever skill sets are necessary to audit that particular system. I (the accountant) have been on audit teams with IT guys, programmers, lawyers, and even machinists. (why machinists, because I was auditing a factory, and I could count the parts, but I couldn’t tell you if the parts were bullshit or not)

During a career in IT, I bumped up against the auditors more than a few times. Mostly the 20-somethings doing the grunt-work, but once or twice the higher-ups. Most of the people on any audit are young, over-worked and underpaid. They aren't making any decisions; their bosses do that. The data-gathering requirements for an audit are apparently large, or they can be depending on many things.

But DOGE is going TOO FAST! Well no shit. They are on a tight time frame. The republicans control everything right now (barely, and many of them are every bit as corrupt as the dems) only the government is fucking huge, Trump got elected on cutting it, and mid terms are in two years.

Anyway, go read the whole thing. Corriea is an entertaining writer even when he's not eviscerating the insanity of the Left and the Media. (But I repeat myself.)

Won't Someone Think of the Keys?

This made me laugh, and I needed a laugh. Possibly The Dumbest Example Of Waste DOGE Has Discovered (So Far)

OK, so this isn't breaking news, it was all over social media the other day. Trump and DOGE did something, so it must be stupid or evil or whatever. The Left and the Meida are against it.

One of the dumbest and most hilarious cases of this very phenomenon was on display in a story in the Washington Post this week. It opens with this paragraph, “At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.”

I have questions.

Why is there a locksmith on staff, as a locksmith, when you could just contract with one when needed? How often in your life have you said, “Damnit, why isn’t there a locksmith on staff?!” At the most, I’d say one time. But the odds are heavily in favor of never.

The article goes on to ask those questions. Why can't you hire one from a nearby town? People used to lock keys in the car all the time. I'm pretty sure my SUV won't let me lock the keyfob in the vehicle. (It unlocks, flashes the lights, and honks at me.) So there are probably a couple of locksmiths that would love even a small .gov contract.

Why can't you make more keys?

There is more.

DOGE Finds $2 Billion Slush Fund Set Up By Biden Admin

And it is tied to Georgia politician Stacey Abrams.

Color me shocked.

This is Valliant Renegade's video DOGE Finds 2 Billion Earmarked for Failed Candidate Stacey Abrams | Elon Musk | Donald Trump

Elon musk's Doge discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling non-profit linked to Perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacy Abrams.

The video is 15 minutes.