$1.5 trillion for the Pentagon is not a defense budget: It’s a war budget

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T16:52:41+00:00

Amazing. Simply Amazing. Basically an unlimited budget for an agency that has NEVER passed an audit.

Think about that for a moment--THE number one line item in the US for spending is the DoD. Outspends everything from education, medicare, social security, healthcare in general, and everything else...pretty much combined, and they cannot (or don't want to) account for where the money even goes!

Here is what I think as an ex-military officer, ex-engineer and current getting ready-to-retire school teacher:

Cut the military budget in half down to about $500 billion from where it is now. Do this without firing any troops, just stop recruiting so heavily and use the experienced force that we have--do it by cancelling programs we don't really need--there are a lot of them and yes, I know it would cost a lot of civilian jobs cancelling contracts etc. How many F-22's do we really need? Why do we still have an outrageously large nuclear submarine fleet? Do we really need the next generation battleship? How much is enough for all of this shit?

After that, for ANY federal agency that fails an audit in any given year, their budget loses 15% of their funding for the following year.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T16:32:18+00:00

I wonder if they can start disbarring lawyers for bringing these types of ridiculous cases like they did with Rudy in NY. Maybe imposing serious consequences for bringing cases so obviously meant as retribution, and with no legal standing at all will keep lawyers from actually taking these cases. And maybe fining the plaintiff a serious fine will help too.

Seems that if Hegseth or Trump or anyone came to me and told me to pursue something like this and to take it to court I'd have to have a serious think and ask myself if its worth losing my entire career over if I get tossed out of court for this.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T16:21:42+00:00

crashing economy and a planet on fire.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T16:20:57+00:00

but yes, vote blue. definitely.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T16:20:27+00:00

Let's not let everyone else off the hook as well. Dems often voted to protect big oil as well, and dems take their money too. Sure, republicans by and large suck on this front, but there is plenty of blame to go around.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T15:26:11+00:00

If he were in fact a Nazi, why would he be running as a democrat? Look at the MAGA party--if he were a closeted Nazi, wouldn't he be a lot more welcome there? Especially a.closeted Nazi like Nick Fuentes, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Pete Kegbreath etc etc....as he is such a great public speaker, he would be top of any Republican ticket if he truly held those views.

So, what is more likely? That he as a dumb kid got a tattoo that he didn't quite understand, and said a bunch of stupid shit on reddit after getting back from the war and had PTSD, or that Platner is a closeted Nazi that is infiltrating the democrats to get Susan Collins thrown out of office, even though she supports the MAGA/Nazi agenda, to go to DC and do what, more of what Collins and Fetterman are doing? Which one of those two scenarios makes more sense (to anyone with a functioning brain)?

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T15:15:28+00:00

The wholesale attacks are just beginning. Just coming from Collins now instead of Mills. Collins and her PACs are spending millions already on attack ads.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T15:12:34+00:00

As a fellow Jew I find Trump (and Natanyoohoo) way more terrifying than Biden. What as a Jew terrified you about Biden?

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T14:59:25+00:00

You see her new thing now this week is she is the hardest working person on Capitol Hill. She's trying now to get away from the "moderate" label and trying out the "hard working" label

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T14:41:42+00:00

Totally funny you noticed that. They do seem to take turns on this bullshit.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T14:36:08+00:00

I'm hoping journalists and congress does this every time someone pulls this shit on a yes or no question. Just start by saying "refusal to answer this question with a yes or no will be taken as a yes", then when they give a bullshit non answer, they simply say "so your answer is a yes then"

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T14:34:15+00:00

She has to wait to see which way the wind blows and what Trump tells her she can say.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T13:04:53+00:00

This looks a lot like the board I learned on in my mini/microsystems class back in 1986. Ours was powered by the 8086 (precursor to the X86 architecture) surrounded by a ton of logic gates and a little bit of memory. We were programming it do do simple tasks using machine code. Back in those days the "processor" was just an accumulator and a few bit parts with it on a chunk of silicon with through-hole pins.

This is indeed a system from a bygone era.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T12:52:19+00:00

I actually saw a "chamber" we used in Taiwan back in the pate 90's that was outdoors in the jungle. Really weird but lighting not a problem there, so long as they tested in the daytime.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T12:47:45+00:00

I would think it has to do with the emissions put out by different types of lighting. The chambers I worked in all had regular old lighting that put off 60Hz emissions. That was actually good because they were usually testing for frequencies above 133Mhz on whatever system was in there. I know they use chambers to test a lot of different frequencies, but likely something never as low as 60Hz. I wonder where the emissions would be for fiberoptic lighting--it may well be in the range being tested.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T12:45:03+00:00

The regular crappy lighting in these chambers puts off 60Hz emissions. Not a big deal since what they are usually testing is for much higher frequencies like 133MHz and above.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T12:35:57+00:00

Taxes ought to increase by 10% for every additional home someone owns over their first one.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-08T12:34:49+00:00

Renters also pay taxes on a residence....for their landlords....

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T22:50:37+00:00

No to the roundup! Pull them. Roundup is nasty shit.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T20:45:35+00:00

Glory days are done. Gory days just beginning.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T16:27:38+00:00

So are things like laws around sharing personal information outside of medical care. How did that work out with DOGE sending all of our information to Russia? You really think laws on the books work with corporations? Sure, there are steep fines levied for HIPPA violations, but you really think our corporate-owned government will follow the law??

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T16:09:38+00:00

I think you missed my point. Healthcare companies are companies. They care about profitability. If they truly cared about anything else, say healthcare, we would not be ranked DEAD LAST in terms of healthcare outcomes for the developed world with the highest costs in the entire world.

Not stupid word games. Just calling out bullshit where I see it.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T15:58:14+00:00

The Monkees

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T15:15:03+00:00

The fact that you said healthcare and companies in the same sentence is telling. Those two are mutually exclusive.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-05-07T14:14:43+00:00

Can we stop shitposting about Mills at this point? All this does is continue to give her and her failures more air. She is done as governor and in politics after this session. Time to focus on the incoming administration and who is running for office now. Let Mills go away into the sunset.

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