Dr Exiled wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 4:22 pm
canpakes wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:02 pm
Nothing in that story or the linked tweet from it claim that any of the payments are ‘unaccounted for’, nor were any details subsequently provided as to what the payments were, or to whom.
They are claimed to be missing a tracking code. That doesn’t mean that they were not able to actually be reconciled. Note the use of the word, ‘almost’, the one detail that
is included.
Words mean things, at least to most people who aren’t lackeys of the current Administration.
The payments ($4.7 Trillion) are missing the tracking code and so they don't know where the payments went. The claim is that they are "untraceable" because of the missing code. Here is the definition from Cambridge of "unaccounted for" -
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... ounted-for
Take a look at the second part of the definition and the synonyms below and let me know if there is any congruence between "unaccounted for" and "untraceable." I think others will find congruence.
I'll help. If payments cannot be traced due to a lack of a specific code, how can one account for where they went? Payments could have gone to Hunter's hooker parties for all we know or they could have gone to legitimate places (just think of the last one so your TDS can stay within limits).
Even so, I await the word order/sentence structure/punctuation police. TDS infects the mind to where it forces one to look at where commas are placed, hoping for a quick score. It twists words around in the mind to justify the TDS regardless of reality. TDS loves to accuse while claiming the accused is the one accusing in a miss mash of nonsense that makes conversation impossible.
Snap out of it please.
Good Doctor: I will quote from your original news source:
“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible,” read an X post from DOGE.
Reread that again, if you must.
There is no need to “await the word order/sentence structure/punctuation police”.
Nowhere does it say that anyone
doesn’t know where payments went. The only claim here is that payments are ALMOST ‘untraceable’ if the code isn’t added.
Not that they are actually missing.
You are literally adding words and changing the meaning of the original report, which I figure is phrased in the
interesting way that it is to fool some people into reading into it something that is NOT said.
Now, wouldn't you want to have a better accounting system where we could immediately know where each dollar is spent? Isn't correcting the system a good thing? Is the fact that the code was missing for who knows how long make fraud, gulp, a possibility? Or Trump bad, all bad?
Sounds like adding the code to every transaction is a good thing. A sloppy procedure (or one deemed unnecessary for these particular payments for reasons that have not been provided) has been rectified. Mission accomplished! And the only thing ‘bad’ here seems to be your manipulation of the language - or your acquiescence to manipulation of it by others.
Doesn't this discovery deserve more scrutiny and investigation?
Do you consider it strange that
no example of fraudulent payment activity from ALMOST untraceable payments was provided?
Maybe because there was no actual
fraud there?