A Key House Dem Breaks Down the White House’s ‘Unfathomable’ Iran War Funding Requests

[llwillis]

@bonvivant

We need to see articles like this every day:

Pete Hegseth’s leadership leaves the Pentagon in financial and moral crisis

As you wish.

https://www.ft.com/content/c5045a09-29c1-4a9b-8f5b-f8dead22b09c?%3BsegmentId=c5045a09-29c1-4a9b-8f5b-f8dead22b09c&accessToken=zwAAAaAoklDvkdPFBFoJKcFKm9OPW_jerSKwnAE.MEQCIHpP_vKIzhfGQXykgWDZFqfIHwlT87MJcWiIgIcfqOysAiBoKAb8Ur0D6EcYyX26kng4d9EWwwbylbsBi4R9VqYiRQ&emailId=44a6be56-29a7-4cc6-9f09-637d71ba7d01&segmentId=72adc702-369e-fc3e-1b5d-cacb5d193d80&syn-25a6b1a6=1

[llwillis]

@eggrollian

There is now little likelihood of a quick resolution to conflicts in the Middle East unless you count yesterday’s decision by Trump to give the Saudis nukes, (ahem, cough) I mean “domestic nuclear enrichment”, a step in that direction.

Is it paranoid to wonder whether this is the reasonable explanation for why wind and solar and batteries, successful, practical clean energy alternatives, are ‘bad’? Let’s give everybody ‘nuclear’?

[lastroth]

@mch

Trump and, for the most part, his administration are incompetent autocrats. (Which doesn’t, of course, mean they are not extremely dangerous.)

I’ve said the same thing since Trump I. And it still boggles my mind that he even got this second term. It’s like they don’t understand that business and politics are not the same thing.

[eldonlazar]

@lastroth

And it still boggles my mind that he even got this second term. It’s like they don’t understand that business and politics are not the same thing.

It’s what happens when a country fails to severely punish the plotters of a coup attempt.

[jeater]

Nuclear cannot and will not supply enough energy at a cost we can afford. Solar is the only answer I see.

[lastroth]

Don’t forget that we were in a global pandemic. God Almighty it still makes me shudder to think how recovery would have gone if Trump had beat Biden.
I used to think these folks weren’t paying attention until I realized that they were. Except that now there is more targeted ways to feed individuals their preferred view of the world.

[gajake]

Eisenhower was a great general who knew how to win a war, and what it cost to fight one. He was a Republican and a decent human being. Not a power hungry billionaire or a MAGA yahoo. Thanks for posting that.

[gajake]

@ClutchCargo

And How the Actual Fuck is this legal?

Another thing that needs to be fixed. Executive agreements with foreign nations that somehow don’t need ratification as treaties.

[eggrollian]

Imagine the environmental risks posed by a wind spill or an unusually cloudy day.

[drtv]

Why would anyone expect an administration who so completely and spectacularly fucked up their big deal “Military Parade” last year to display any competence whatsoever here?

More to the point, though is this—They LIE about everything. You can bet (Probably on Kalshi, which is definitely not a betting site) that whatever Congress ends up appropriating for this continuing clusterfuck will find many ways to not end up being spent on the battlefield.

Other than that, this is fine.

[tacoma]

@losamigos

That is truly one sick bastard. To go to Dover, and instead of showing respect, he puts words in the mouths of ALL deceased soldiers, who he never met, and has no idea of their opinion.

and even worse; americans allow this to continues, the only way i see it ending is if somehow, our politicians grow a spine and say ‘no more’. the bastards are all getting rich from ths war..can you imagine placing a bet on how many soldiers will get killed?