| second: Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Could Be Political Suicide for Republicans
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If passed, this would be, even when adjusted for inflation, the United States’ largest defense budget ever—larger than the amount spent (again, adjusting for inflation) in any year during World War II, when the nation’s entire economy was geared to war. Is the world so turbulent, and is our position in it so precarious, that we need to increase the budget by almost 50 percent in a single year? Trump proposes boosting the budget for weapons procurement from $223 billion to $413 billion—a staggering 85 percent increase. Research and development for new weapons rise almost as steeply, from $210 billion to $344 billion—a 64 percent increase. |
| second: The war in Iran and tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have had an impact on Japan. Growing uncertainty about the United States under President Donald Trump may be forcing Japan to change its calculations. Japan is doubling defense spending and deploying long-range missiles like the Chu-SAM Kai air defense system. There are even discussions about nuclear weapons. Thank Trump! His lack of forethought is changing the world. [go to link] |
| THG: Trump in ‘worst position ever’ on Americans’ #1 issue
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| second: For Trump, everything is free and nothing matters. He has completed his journey, through the acquisition of wealth and power, to a realm outside the moral universe.
The world has always been run by rich men. The robber barons of the Gilded Age were known for their ruthlessness in the accumulation of wealth—hiring Pinkertons to shoot striking unionists. But they directly engaged with the world around them, using their wealth and power to muscle it into its most profitable form. And although today’s billionaires are clearly manipulating society to maximize their own profit, something else is also happening—a disassociation from the reality of cause and effect, from meaning and history. These men no longer feel the need to change the world in order to succeed, because their success is guaranteed, no matter what happens to the rest of us.
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| second: Another week, another false all-clear from Trump. If you ask him, he deserves the Medal of Honor for his bravery!
The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Basically, the U.S. can get the Strait reopened by loudly proclaiming victory while quietly accepting de facto defeat. All this will take is for Trump to accept reality, admittedly a hard climb. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Nothing to do with what I posted. Unless you were thinking "speaking of idiots". Yanno... Because you're a fucking idiot. |
| second: 6ixStringJoker wrote: "You're so deep." Trump, a five-time draft dodger, has plotted how to bestow upon himself the U.S. military’s highest honor while scrambling over a war he started. Trump has considered giving himself the Medal of Honor—the nation’s most prestigious military recognition—per The Wall Street Journal in a report published Saturday night. The newspaper wrote that Trump has been panicking over his handling of the war he started. He melted down so dramatically that he was banished from a briefing on a downed-pilot rescue mission. 6ixStringJoker, can you see why a quivering coward such as Trump should NOT receive a medal for bravery? [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: You're so deep. |
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| second: When a man abandons himself to Trump, he begins to melt down and liquefy into an unconstrained beast, unleashing primitive emotions. Based on reports from the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, some attendees walked out or disengaged during Donald Trump’s speech, which was described as long, rambling, and confrontational. While many initially packed the hall, audience restlessness grew, with reports of attendees checking phones, leaving early, and offering only tepid applause by the end of his overlong address. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: You're a fucking clown. |
| second: The Film That Explains Contemporary America. The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it. David Frum once wrote about the Trump era, “When this is all over, nobody will admit to ever having supported it.” I thought about that a lot while watching The Sorrow and the Pity, which showed how true it was in France. The idea that the French almost uniformly opposed Nazism, with only a few bad apples collaborating, is foundational to France’s postwar identity. The problem is that this is a myth. A big swath of French society didn’t actively collaborate, but by declining to resist and going along with the government, they enabled the Nazi occupation. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Are you afraid of continuing to have your losing record recorded for anyone to see? I'll be that's the reason. |
| 6ixStringJack: Why don't you take it up in the RWED instead of constantly flooding the tags with your TDS bullshit, faggot? |
| second: To 6ixStringJoker: In theory, the US makes weapons to defend itself, which is why the Department of Defense was named "Defense". But lately, since Trump renamed it the Department of War, US weapons are for killing children. The Republican Senators are eager to kill more children. Bernie Sanders’ fourth attempt for resolutions fails, but votes show growing appetite among Democrats to impose limits [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: And besides.. you're a fucking Democrat. You've been complaining for most of your life about how we supply arms to the rest of the world. You should be celebrating right now. |
| 6ixStringJack: And where are they going to get the money to be the world leaders of drone technology? If that isn't just a boldfaced lie in the first place, somebody is giving him that money. Soros, perhaps? Who knows. We know that Ukraine is fucking broke and begging for money constantly, so they're not funding it. |
| 6ixStringJack: No. It can't. There is zero evidence of that, and had Joe Biden not given them $200 Billion USD they would have fallen long ago. |
| 6ixStringJack: second: 6ixStringJack wrote: "And fuck Ukraine. I've been saying that way longer." You are missing the point, which is that Ukraine can win a war without Trump's help and without US weapons. The United States was the world's dominant arms exporter, controlling 42% of the global market from 2021–2025. But Trump ended that. And Europe will stop buying US-made weapons. Instead, Europe will make its own weapons, just like Russia, China, and Ukraine are doing. Trump's extremely weird behavior has ruined the export market for American weapons. |
| second: The Trump Coin! The front of the coin features an image of Trump in a suit and tie and with a stern look on his face. A federal law passed in 1866 that explicitly prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency. It's not a grey area. It's not open to interpretation. It's been sitting in the books for over 150 years. The last time this actually happened was 1926 when a coin featuring Calvin Coolidge was minted while he was still alive and serving as president. The backlash was immediate. The coins were pulled. And the law was reaffirmed.
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