Pete Hegseth -- We will audit the Pentagon.

[justoffal]

Yep, I actually agree. We do need to assess our mission around the world. And by your chart, you know what I see? Our allies spending our money, while getting a free ride on the backs of the American taxpayer...

It wouldn't be happening unless our own lawmakers will benefiting from it too.
They profit wildly for military contracts that support the bases, The food supplies and the genital logistics of running the place.

John Kerry and his wife have a massive military contract to supply mustard and ketchup to all of the military bases around the world. How much do you suppose that's worth?
.

 

[rightwinger]

If China has money to burn, let them burn it.
We do not have any money to burn, we are $37T in Debt.

We are the wealthiest country on earth
Providing humanitarian aid is better foreign policy than our military

 

[j-mac]

It wouldn't be happening unless our own lawmakers will benefiting from it too.
They profit wildly for military contracts that support the bases, The food supplies and the genital logistics of running the place.

John Kerry and his wife have a massive military contract to supply mustard and ketchup to all of the military bases around the world. How much do you suppose that's worth?
.

Please don't make me defend Theresa Heinz....

But I will say, that there are goods and services that our Military needs to sustain itself. What we need to do is scrutinize these contracts, and adjust them accordingly.

 

[j-mac]

We are the wealthiest country on earth
Providing humanitarian aid is better foreign policy than our military

It's being revealed that USAID is really not doing that, other than lip service.

 

[rightwinger]

Yep, I actually agree. We do need to assess our mission around the world. And by your chart, you know what I see? Our allies spending our money, while getting a free ride on the backs of the American taxpayer...

Our allies have modern transportation and infrastructure, free healthcare, free college, social programs

Things we say our society can’t afford while we never say no to our military.

 

[justoffal]

It's always a "freebee" with you guys....Nothing is free.

Yep, and those connected to "big insurance", "big pharma" etc. should be outed and possibly prosecuted for their corruption.

It is....And far past time for a reset. Thank God for a leader like Trump.

Why do you think the whole country holds the CEO assassin as a hero? Probably because he is one.

 

[rightwinger]

It's being revealed that USAID is really not doing that, other than lip service.

Trump claims so, but it is far from the truth

 

[justoffal]

Abolish the IRS.

Loooooooog, loooooooooooooong overdue!

 

[j-mac]

Our allies have modern transportation and infrastructure, free healthcare, free college, social programs

Yeah, who paid for that?

Things we say our society can’t afford while we never say no to our military.

Who should fill the vacuum in the wake of your isolationism?

 

[j-mac]

Trump claims so, but it is far from the truth

Prove it.

 

[j-mac]

Why do you think the whole country holds the CEO assassin as a hero? Probably because he is one.

No. I will never go as far as to condone murder. These kinds of things need to be handled in civilized ways.

 

[TimFitz]

We have an $875 billion budget to look at

DEI is small potatoes, we need to look at the mission of the US military around the world

Why do we spend 40 cents of every military dollar in the world?

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Because right wingers insist.

 

[TimFitz]

The Mother of All Audits. How much did Biden waste on a DEI Rainbow military?
How much money is wasted in general? Where did all the money go that was spent in Afghanistan?

Some folks really are stupid enough to believe that a non com whose “experience” is a weekend gig on Fox Noise is even capable of understanding what he will be looking at.

Although not quite as obviously absurd as claiming that a half dozen twenty year olds completed an entire audit of USAID in days, it’s still the sort of chaotic press release driven cofeve.

Hegseth will be gone before any real audit ever starts.

 

[justoffal]

No. I will never go as far as to condone murder. These kinds of things need to be handled in civilized ways.

I have sympathy for that of course. But what if it's gone to the point where it's no longer possible to solve it in a civilized way? Considering the unimaginable violence that has been perpetrated on the American public in the name of healthcare profits is that not also murder?

 

[rightwinger]

Yeah, who paid for that?

Who should fill the vacuum in the wake of your isolationism?

Those countries are able to provide social services we can’t afford because they don’t spend so much on their military

I do not propose isolationism but the US taking a lesser role in being the worlds policeman

The vacuum would be filled by the EU against the Russian threat, S Korea is more than capable of taking care of the N Korea threat, Japan, S Korea, Philippines need to handle most of the threat to the S China Sea

 

[justoffal]

Some folks really are stupid enough to believe that a non com whose “experience” is a weekend gig on Fox Noise is even capable of understanding what he will be looking at.

Although not quite as obviously absurd as claiming that a half dozen twenty year olds completed an entire audit of USAID in days, it’s still the sort of chaotic press release driven cofeve.

Hegseth will be gone before any real audit ever starts.

The Pentagon runs on antiquated bookkeeping OS... It would be very easy to find the fraud and duplicity for anyone trained in coding. It's literally high school level stuff and for some kids Junior high school level.

All Hegseth needs to do is grant them access. That will be fought to the nail by the people who have something to hide.l and there are literally thousands of those.

Just like it's being fought right now in the phony pretense of protecting people's private information which hasn't been private for decades. China has more access to the Treasury department, the social security administration and the IRS than Musk does currently.

 

[j-mac]

I have sympathy for that of course. But what if it's gone to the point where it's no longer possible to solve it in a civilized way? Considering the unimaginable violence that has been perpetrated on the American public in the name of healthcare profits is that not also murder?

Maybe in an academic debate kind of way, but we are talking about action....And no we are not there yet...

And we'd better hope we don't get there, it would be dystopian.

 

[justoffal]

Those countries are able to provide social services we can’t afford because they don’t spend so much on their military

I do not propose isolationism but the US taking a lesser role in being the worlds policeman

The vacuum would be filled by the EU against the Russian threat, S Korea is more than capable of taking care of the N Korea threat, Japan, S Korea, Philippines need to handle most of the threat to the S China Sea

The North Korean threat is the easiest one.
You talk straight to Beijing and tell them that the tariffs are tied to how well their dog behaves in North Korea. You'll see some pretty fucking quick changes.

 

[justoffal]

Maybe in an academic debate kind of way, but we are talking about action....And no we are not there yet...

And we'd better hope we don't get there, it would be dystopian.

Indeed

 

[j-mac]

Those countries are able to provide social services we can’t afford because they don’t spend so much on their military

I do not propose isolationism but the US taking a lesser role in being the worlds policeman

The vacuum would be filled by the EU against the Russian threat, S Korea is more than capable of taking care of the N Korea threat, Japan, S Korea, Philippines need to handle most of the threat to the S China Sea

Nonsense....the EU spends little to nothing because they have us protecting them....In the wake of us not doing that they are too lazy to ramp it up for themselves, much less fill the void left in the wake of an isolationist America....China would step forward, and sweep across the globe....Is that what you want?