I guess they found a way to spend that $500 billion more on the military. Start a war. The way this is going, that money should disappear in about 500 days. They needed an excuse for the bloated defense budget and social service cuts.
Our taxpayer dollars at work. A terrible waste of lives.
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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In the first "Everything You Need to Know About #AEW", @rjcity.bsky.social and Renee Paquette break it all down (so far).
Watch the full video on the AEW YouTube channel: youtu.be/G6rCEvH41ds
Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures.
Congress must step up, reassert its power, and represent the American people.
We do not want another forever war.
I don't know who needs to know this... but...
A VPN is not a privacy application. It doesn't hide your location data, specifically. It doesn't encrypt your data, specifically. All it does is route your traffic through a single server somewhere else.
Let me explain. Or don't, this is the internet.
Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined.
Over half goes to private defense contractors.
This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.
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He's a trainer and coach at the WWE Performance Center.
The moment Trump and the Republicans appointed this guy to his position, members of the military should have known that none of the regime cares about their lives and wellbeing. He's neither qualified nor competent to be the head of anything, much less the DOD.
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...
McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Artist: @dccartoonist.bsky.social
Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.
You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.
Today was an important day for the opposition movement. The law firms that stood up against Donald Trump threats won.
Those that capitulated and collaborated with Trump will need to explain to their families, clients and future generations why when democracy was at stake they were such cowards.
Listed as "WWE Ancillary Programs" on Programming Insider, the Royal Rumble re-airing had 417,000 viewers, .09 in the 18-49 demo, and was 28th for the night on cable. ESPN aired live college wrestling before that, and it had 494,000 viewers, .13 in the 18-49 demo, and was 12th for the night.
Haven't seen anyone mention it beyond the initial announcement ESPN was airing a condensed version of the Royal Rumble on its cable channel on Feb. 22, but its ratings were informative on how well its audience is taking to the WWE product.
The chairman of the Board of Peace bombed the Gandhi hospital. Process that.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
I just saw a headline that Trump “seeks to overturn Government” - Ours? Hard to be sure- he sure doesn’t seem to like most of us.
Every government about itself: "It's justified and perfectly acceptable when I do it, but when YOU do it, I loudly and publicly condemn it and will enact maximum consequences against you."
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
"Trump doesn’t care about election interference. So why would he invoke Iran meddling in our election as he bombs the country? Put simply, he is trying to validate the claim that our elections are not secure as a pretext to usurp control of our elections in the name of national security.”
TLDR: "We will threaten, maim, kill, and, overall, obliterate people so we can have world peace."
WHAT?! What kind of sick and evil rationalization is this?
I will never become accustomed to Trump's depravity solely because behaving atrociously is his baseline. This man is wicked and corrupt.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
So, according to his own "logic," Trump=weak and ineffective
His past accusations are current confessions of his own plots. These messages would sure come in handy as evidence in an impeachment trial. . .
At its root, it all boils down to self-interest. While they continue to support and defend Trump for their own selfish reasons (money, fear, public image), people all over the world are suffering and dying directly because of the choices they and Trump are making. They can't wash their hands of it.
The entire Republican party knows Trump is deranged, but they keep supporting him for various reasons, some out of greed, some out of fear of retribution, and some because they are ashamed to admit that he made fools out of them.
Ah, so this is a "find out" moment for Iran, too.
One of the things people should have figured out a long time ago about Trump is he has zero loyalty to anyone beyond himself. He will turn on anyone who no longer serves his ego and interest. He has shown us over and over who he is. Believe him.
