Beautiful. Trump announced a $54b increase in defense spending to be used at the discretion of the Pentagon. Chalk up another win for the military-industrial complex.
Also, in a press conference today, President Trump said ‘we have to start winning wars again’; because when he was young, people used to say ‘America never lost a war.’
"We have to start winning wars again… we never win. We either gotta win, or don't fight it at all," Trump says https://t.co/sd7lCGaQy5 pic.twitter.com/bP3jWEwbPS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2017
How about fuck the wars and let the DOD make due with the $600-900b they receive on an annual basis? Do you have any idea how absurd our defense budget is compared to other countries? We spend about 10x the amount those evil Russians and Chinese appropriate on an annual basis.
On an unrelated note, anyone else watching Homeland this year, how the CIA is trying to control and manipulate the new President elect?
Art imitating reality.
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Homeland got boring after season 3
Amen. How about we take that 54B and spend it on our inner cities. Or almost anything else. The one reason I voted for trump is evaporating. I foolishly thought he would stand up to the complex.
Praetorians sold the emperor’s seat to the highest bidder and put into power whoever would give more funds into arms. Rinse/repeat.
Interesting Roman Empire conspiracy
I mean, it’s a conspiracy that literally happened. Why couldn’t it happen again?
Permanent war economy.
Such fucking bullshit. I’d honestly rather have a wall. Trump wants missile parades a la North Korea. Really hope there’s no more wars.
so true, Monsieur le Fly — I voted for the fucker but this is so backasswards stupid, it defies logic
perhaps he is playing his 9D chess & throwing the MIC a bone to get them off his ass … but I doubt it
moron … when he was young, we were losing Vietnam, not that we every should have been there … Gulf of Tomkin event = Iraq WMD’s
People above are looking at this wrong. The way we have no wars is if you are stronger than your enemies, plain & simple.
I remember quite clearly that no one in my high school picked on the 6-2 225lb kid who was a brown belt in Muay Thai
Maybe in the old days.. Tell that to the thousands and thousands who have been killed by terrorists who don’t play fair. In a bare-knuckle fight your high school buddy would likely prevail.. but today his adversary has a machine gun, IED or whatever and is willing to die in the fight. Your boy? I doubt it.
How much more than any adversary do you suggest we spend?????????????????????????????????????????????????
The way to secure and save America is to stop supporting an unsustainable empire and live within our means.
Sigh.
You’ve got it backward. T
Trump is enamored with medal-bedazzled military men. Perhaps it’s because his dad shipped him to military school because Fred preferred throwing old ladies out of their Queens apartments rather than parenting. Of course Donnie dodged the draft and but craves a Purple Heart. Interesting. Trump is a faux-tough old man who still thinks that the strongest military always wins the fight. Building shiny new weapons is a simplistic solution to a complex world which Trump is incapable of understanding. Is there any country we can’t pulverize with our current arsenal? Of course not.
50 billion here, 30 billion for a wall, tens of billions for this and that.. fuckin waste that eventually will shit boomerang back in our faces.
The guy is spoiling for a war so he can Commander and Chief. The military wants no part of it because they actually have to see the shattered limbs and dead bodies. The first thing every new president should have to do is visit Walter Reed hospital and see the product of war.
Fuck Trump. He’s a moron. He will get people killed.
People like Fly who support Trump just want to see the establishment burn. it’s driven by hate and angst, keep that in mind.
you’re correct, finally! The establishment is indeed not only driven by hate and angst, for its citizens, but also revulsion for its citizenry, as well as greed and might for themeselves.
I’m glad you’ve finally gotten a clue
This and his ceaseless bluster only serves to make it politically imperative for our adversaries and potential adversaries to build out their militaries. 9D chess my ass …what an idiot.
Fly, you are so full of shit.
No sane person believes Trump isn’t completely mental and a con artist. Including you.
You are still sane right?
What am I missing here? I don’t agree with this Trump position and stated so, unlike your incessant shilling for democrat-maxist-neocon traitors.
Show me a politician who isn’t a con artist.
Nixon?
C’mon man. Politicians gonna politic. But Trump is on another level of con.
You’re basing your assumptions on fake news.
Bernie Sanders
Hahahaha, the old commie with three homes.
Trump is the man. Mistakes will be made. You whiners will whine. America will speed up after that speed bump of Obama.
Hard to believe the China numbers on military spending. It is all fake news. How much does it cost to make a fucking island?
Ever sit to think how much China saves on their slave labor?
Good point. That is exactly why we need a huge military. Fuck them making us slaves.
You’re a slave already.. u just don’t know it.
Fuck that Satanic horseshit. Go play with some moar pussy hats drenched in blood.
Have you ever spent time in China? Or ever made any effort to understand that huge complicated shithole?
Or are your opinions based upon talking points that you read in the MSM ?
Check the RATE of increases in military spending over the last twenty years. China vs USA. The result is sobering.
On the campaign trail he did say he was going to expand the military.
Yes, I guess people weren’t paying attention. He’s mostly doing exactly what he said, minus the entire drain the swamp thing.
Yeah, can’t fault Mr. Trump’s follow through. I’m going to go short on swamp futures.