That will eat up 20x what Doge has "saved" so far. The party of "fiscal responsibility," everyone.
You could argue that 70% of the national debt is from our insane military budgets and its consequences.
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On paper the largest part of our budget is social services but on paper even the military doesn't know it's own budget.
I’d argue more than 70 but yes
Blood for the blood god
Skulls for the Resolute desk
THAT'S TWO. still need confirmation for the acolytes to Slannesh and Tzeentch and we are cooking
(current bets are Elon and Thiel respectively but i'm open to opinions)
Why not making it one quadrillion
I keep thinking on the quip about the democratic platform being the exact same as the republicans but just a few years delayed. Hard to imagine the Harris administration wouldn't have hit this benchmark regardless, the way things have been trending. It just wouldn't have been loudly announced ahead of time as a goal to work towards
Kkkamala was promising “the most lethal military in the world” on stage at the DNC lol
i'm wondering if they're posturing the military for planned conflicts.
More likely this is the "pump" part of their pump and dump and pump and dump schemes.
