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floofloof@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

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Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 19 hours ago
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Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says | Common Dreams
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Critics slam Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for demanding $1.5 trillion military budget. Democrats oppose massive defense spending increase.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/66435

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    Drunk Pete apparently only learned one thing about his job duties and that was how to demand more funding.

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    Go sell some stolen oil, you fucking pirate!

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    Where’s my “Taxation is Theft” guys at?

    • username123@sh.itjust.works
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      Licking boots, but silently and shamefully this time. They’ve evolved their kink.

  • SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world
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    In the end dems will muster up just enough votes for it to pass. Trump will ask for $1.5t and they’ll give him $1.8t

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    fuck him

  • DisasterTransport@startrek.website
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    What extra 5000

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    Fuck this halfwit wannabe dudebro whose penis is likely smaller than Trump’s. I cannot wait until this piece of shit is in prison getting fucked up the ass on an hourly schedule.

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    No

  • aarch0x40@piefed.social
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    How about instead the billionaires who’ll profit from these conflicts pay for the military, in whole, instead.

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      Ha ha ha! That’s a funny plebe there. Throw him into the piranha pit!

      • darthsundhaft@piefed.social
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        monty python life of brian where emperor says strike him centurian very woughly gif

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        Questioning the fuhrer? Straight to jail!

    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      Which is kind of what their endgame is.

      • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works
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        I’ve seen every other milestone get hit. So, since it isn’t stopping, how long do we have, you reckon?

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    Party of fiscal res…aww fuck it. They are traitors.

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    The same pentagon that they want to merge with the Israeli military?

    They want to give them even more money under the guise of “security.” Israel has captured the legislature. They will soon control the Pentagon.

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      Israel has captured the legislature.

      They’re hardly alone. It’s been an absolute feeding frenzy of corporate leeches sucking the US Treasury dry ever since Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan began privatizing every state function they could get their hands on.

      The joke of Hegseth’s budget request is that it won’t actually procure more hardware. He’s putting in bids against a cartel that can just raise the prices, even as it forgets how to build the things we’re buying. This, even as new entrants to the Pentagon feeding frenzy simply fail to deliver promised material

      • Defense watchdog finds new 155mm artillery plant failed to produce parts in 2 years since it was built, hindering production goals

      • Western Firms Are Stiffing Ukraine on Military Equipment Contracts

      • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says defense giants are ‘failing the American people’ by falling behind on orders

      It’s something of a joke that Israelis don’t even want the weapons we send them. They just want the money, so they can buy from their own contractors.

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      Soon? Buddy that’s been captured.

      Israel has had the US gov in its pocket since the nation was created post-world war 2.

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      Pentagone

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      That would make sense. The US military may not want to drop live ammo on US citizens. So the Israeli military could step in and do it for them.

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        If the US allowed foreign soldiers to invade and kill American citizens I think we’d have a military coup.

        No joke that might actually do it, Americans have never responded well to non-Americans killing Americans. We only let Americans kill Americans at home

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    looks at my bank account. Bruh not even 1k in mine. What ya gonna take? How about dust bunnies.

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    When the tap runs dry, the currency devalues, the food riots start, and then the military will be deployed on U.S. citizens. I know, I know, “they already are”…we ain’t seen nothing yet.

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      Dont worry. If things get bad we can always call the police. At least thats what the gun grabbers keep sayin.

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        People against guns hate cops more than 2A people. It’s actually a bit of a problem, vecause 2A people are far too chicken-shit to ever actually stand against tyranny and anti-gun people are out there with nothing but rocks and rage to throw.

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    What about socialized medicine? I can see the MAGA fucknuts paying more taxes to help their drunk friend.

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    Years of trillion dollar budgets, weapons contracts, off books funding, the list goes on.

    Choosing to voluntarily launch a ton of expensive missiles at cheap drones while wasting all of the munitions on an unnecessary war? All the funding for all of this war machine just has disappeared? That’s Soviet levels of incompetence.

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