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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
-The Chance for Peace speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
How far we have fallen. But . . .
And Dems will happily give it to him and add on a few billion as a bonus
The peace Presidebt? You don’t say…
Trump spent most of his political career casually mocking the warmongering and deficit hawkery endemic to both the George and Bill administrations (in favor of his own brand of at-home white nationalist police state).
That was his whole path to victory over the GOP Primary field in '16 and again in '24. He ran - quite literally and explicitly - as a Mussolini style “national socialist”. Nakedly and unequivocally fascist in the 1930s sense of the word.
Now he’s just another John Bolton / Jim Webb neoconservative. Everything the public soured on decades ago is coming back up like swamp gas. No wonder even lay Republican voters are souring on him. He’s indistinguishable from Jeb Bush.
Yes, yes, we’re stealing from social programs to fund a fucked up war machine to support Israel and randomly attack countries for any reason, yes.
But look, Harris was married to a Jewish man, ok? Morally, it was wrong to vote, or to vote for her. Right .ml? 👍 Plus, she wasn’t 100% onboard with transitioning herself. So. It makes complete sense that we tacitly support this.
Dems have been complicite in every Pentagon budget for decades. Gave Trump billions more than he asked for during his first term. Dems are as openly warhawkish as republicans. Not to mention, Biden’s own team is admitting they were planning on bombing Iran if Biden won a second term. Harris wanted the most lethal military and considers “all options are on the table.” regarding war with Iran
If they pushed for higher wages like we demanded we wouldnt be needing as many social programs.
Not to mention, Biden’s own team is admitting they were planning on bombing Iran if Biden won a second term.
Bullshit. Please tell us who ‘Biden’s own team’ is, and what plans they had to ‘bomb Iran if he won a second term’. That article was bullshit and now you’ve embellished it and made it gospel.
Harris wanted the most lethal military and considers “all options are on the table.”
Adults in government say ‘all options are on the table’ as a matter of course. It doesn’t mean they’re demented and incompetent enough to get into a shooting war with no fucking plan and that they’re incapable of sitting through a big boy briefing without video game explosion videos.
Both sides same? For fuck’s sake what the fuck is wrong with you people. You not only want to boil the ocean, you think it can be done in two years. Thinking like a child. “Class struggle” at ml voting for the boot how odd.
Yes, yes, we’re stealing from social programs to fund a fucked up war machine to support Israel and randomly attack countries for any reason, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spartan_Shield
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Right but this is different as it could have been
Plus openly robbing health and education without even being asked is, well, “new”.
DC is bumper-to-bumper guys heading to think tank jobs to lobby the defunding of health and education programs. We’ve been doing this Murray Rothbard’s heyday. It’s one of the various “third-rail” issues of politics that politicians keep getting bribed into grabbing.
