#war mongers

[mysharona1987]

[odinsblog]

Iran recently discovered it has 10% of the world’s antimony reserves (a rare metal), and also has large quantities of lithium … but I’m sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the re-scripting of, “We have to invade because they have WMDs”

[rmonti55]

Trump Says U.S. Can't Fund Health Care And More For Jaw-Dropping Reason — HuffPost

The president suggested that funding for child care, Medicaid and Medicare should come from the states.

Straight from the toxic false orange idol itself…no daycare, no Medicaid and no Medicare because the federal government’s only responsibility is FUNDING WARS!

[lizsmemes]

[tilbageidanmark]

(See all the other image macros I’ve made..)

[sugarforsalt]

March 10, 2026

Today, administration officials gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the war in Iran.

“I am most concerned about the threat to American lives, of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran…and there is also, as disturbingly as anything else, the specter of active Russian aid to Iran, putting in danger American lives. Literally, Russia seems to be aiding our enemy, actively and intensively, with intelligence and perhaps with other means, and China, also, may be assisting Iran.”

And yet, as Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling of The New Republic noted last night, according to a report from government watchdog Open the Books, the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blew through $93.4 billion in September 2025 alone, with more than $50 billion going out in the last five days of the month alone.

To spend the entirety of the defense budget, rather than lose it, Pentagon officials bought “a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.) In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.”

In October, Houghtaling noted, the administration said it could not fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, because the government had shut down. Millions of Americans lost food benefits.

[resist-much]

[grumpy-old-patriot]