The Air Force will conduct a review of how it chooses where military personnel stay overnight following reports that crews chose to stay at the President’s luxury resort in Scotland at least twice in the past year, Politico reported.
So next all government employees will have to install the Trump B&B app on their phones so they know where to spend their per diem.
In 3, 2, 1 the review did not find any issues. Or all issues were caused by the lowest ranking Airman we could find, no officers were involved.
Not quite up to shooting someone on 5th Avenue yet, but we’re getting there.
Will this be a legitimate review of corruption and self dealing inside the military or instead seeks to curry favor with Trump and is a sham review intended to allow the grifting to continue? Sadly, it’s impossible to predict.
Love that pic. The A$$hole in Chief is wearing a maga hat In Scotland.
Quite mind boggling isn’t it
Ya Know …If Obama…
Trump should just go ahead and hold a military parade every Sunday in DC, requiring about 1000 soldiers and support personnel. And have them all book a three day stay Fri>Sun at the Trump International Hotel.
It’s not as if there’s any Democrat drawing a breath that will call him on it.
So is anyone going to look at why we the taxpayers are paying commercial rates for fuel as opposed to refueling at one of the numerous military airstrips?
No.
I don’t care if the brass is sucking up to Trump. I’m more worried that the troops think it’s okay to procure luxury accommodations on the taxpayers’ dime. That reeks of lowered values and normalized corrupt thinking. If this is how the military is now thinking, we can forget about the days when duty, honor, and country were the guiding watchwords of our defenders of democracy.
Pretty much this
Yes, we need to get back to drone bombing of wedding parties, street fairs and Médecins Sans Frontières battlefield hospitals. We’ve lost our way.
Even if the Dems screamed 'til the cows came home, the lack of GOP honor is what’s keeping Mangolini safe.
In other shameless grifting news…
Feeling more cynical than usual this morning?
Never been much for rote nationalistic pom-pom waving.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the “war to end wars.” This was the “war to make the world safe for democracy.” No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a “glorious adventure”.
Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month!
All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill…and be killed”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let’s get it."
At least some of the reporting on this has maintained that combined cost of food and lodging at the Trump properties exceeded the per diem such that crews had to tap into their own money to cover the overages, but they are investigating how the crews “chose” to stay there like it was their decision? Sounds a bit like they are getting ready to throw the crews under the bus.
Things must have changed in the military. I thought you had to follow orders.