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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 05:41 PM Sep 2020

TRUMP: Top Pentagon brass and defense contractors in cahoots (paraphrased)

TRUMP: "I'm not saying the military's in love w/ me. The soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren't, because they want to do nothing but fight wars so all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs & make the planes & make everything else stay happy."





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TRUMP: Top Pentagon brass and defense contractors in cahoots (paraphrased) (Original Post) steve2470 Sep 2020 OP
I mean.... he's not exactly wrong. AkFemDem Sep 2020 #1
Except what he really means is, dawg day Sep 2020 #4
Of course he's not wrong. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #6
Anyone else concerned he is setting this up.... TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #2
I think he's angry that no generals have stepped up to vouch for him steve2470 Sep 2020 #5
Isn't he the same guy who bragged about how much he increased the Pentagon budget? rec, nt. Mc Mike Sep 2020 #3
He just outed the scam that we've all been watching since Ike gave us the heads up. Magoo48 Sep 2020 #7
He's projecting like mad again. smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #8
he's a maniac spanone Sep 2020 #9
The military had no bullets left when trDumpie came on board after Obama. magicarpet Sep 2020 #10
Kind of a twist on Ike's MIC speech. Sneederbunk Sep 2020 #11
Yes, From 60 Years Ago ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #12

A HERETIC I AM

(24,321 posts)
6. Of course he's not wrong.
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 06:18 PM
Sep 2020

I mean, give credit where credit is due, even though he is wrong 90% of the time!

The MIC just LOVES the way Congress throws money at the Pentagon.

To think for one second they have any interest in curbing that, is foolish.

Something I heard the other day struck me as applicable here, and this is to paraphrase the sentiment;

Since 9/11, the United States has spent several TRILLIONS of dollars fighting back against a threat that had as its genesis, an operation that was carried out by 19 men who entered the US legally. They killed about 3000 people, destroyed buildings using airplanes they commandeered using items completely legal at the time to carry onboard a commercial airline flight- razor bladed box cutter type knives and hand held pepper spray dispensers, and the entire operation cost the perpetrators, including flight training, housing and food, less than $5 million.

And yet, THIS president utterly refuses to spend one dime more than he thinks is necessary to fight against a threat that at the moment, is killing the equivalent of a 9/11 EVERY THREE DAYS.

If the threat was killing only bankers, how much do you think the government would be spending?

ON edit to add....

Oh..yeah...and in the 20 years that make up the meantime, China has poured more concrete building infrastructure, high speed rail lines, divided highways etc. than the US had in the previous 50 years.

We LOVE to spend our tax dollars on Raytheon and General Dynamics and Lockheed.

FUCK the sick and the poor and the bridges and the highways.

The CEO’s of those companies need their salaries, dammit!

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
2. Anyone else concerned he is setting this up....
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 06:01 PM
Sep 2020

as an excuse to purge the Pentagon and install his loyalists?

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
5. I think he's angry that no generals have stepped up to vouch for him
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 06:04 PM
Sep 2020

So, yes, I can see him in a second term purging the Pentagon.

magicarpet

(13,941 posts)
10. The military had no bullets left when trDumpie came on board after Obama.
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 06:30 PM
Sep 2020

Not enough planes for the Air Force.
Not enough aircraft carriers or ships for the Navy.

Obama left the military in a pathetic state of readiness,... only trDumpie could get the AmeriKKKan military into a war ready fighting force. He is smarter than all the generals put together, and he is 10X braver than any soldier.

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
12. Yes, From 60 Years Ago
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 07:24 PM
Sep 2020

This isn't exactly a revelation.
And on the "soldiers but not the brass" thing: Stars & Stripes had a poll showing a large plurality voting Biden, then suddenly the plan to shutter the paper went into overdrive.
So, they love him, but they don't so he's going to get his vengeance. How does anybody listen to this tool, and not get whiplash?

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