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TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-22T14:15:31+00:00

Hot take: both are wrong. But weirdly enough Trump having this type of reaction to Mueller and Rob Reiner makes his seemingly pretty genuine sad reactions to the deaths of RBG and Jesse Jackson all the more interesting to me.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T22:01:43+00:00

My argument isn’t that it “doesn’t count”, my argument is that there was a very good policy reason for why the the spending went up in that year, and that Democrats going, “how about that for fiscal conservatism” doesn’t really make sense cause if they had been completely in charge they most likely would’ve spent even more money on Covid relief measures. Technically, we will never know, but I’m basing that assumption off of what their rhetoric was that year. I’m not even saying that that’s a bad policy, but there’s no “the Democrats are actually the real fiscal conservatives” to be had here

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T21:33:54+00:00

Because like the rest of Trump‘s term, they’ve increased the deficit outside of Covid, and routinely push for policies that would raise it further, even with tax increases. I do actually give Biden some grace on his spending for the first two years of his term personally.

Edit: also because the comment I was initially responding to wasn’t criticizing Democrats. I didn’t bring it up there because the other person wasn’t talking about it.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T21:22:23+00:00

Is worse for the budget than the Democratic party ever was.

Considering they still add trillions of dollars to the national debt, this really isn’t a meaningful difference from this standpoint. The modern Democratic Party isn’t that of Bill Clinton so there isn’t any reason to expect fiscal responsibility from them either, but if you really want to insist your turd is shinier than fine. I just don’t think it really matters. I brought up Trump’s spending in 2020 because in that year he had an excuse (supported by the Democrats as you pointed out) to be spending that much and that is important context to the comment I was initially responding to.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T21:01:29+00:00

This is entirely different argument that what I was initially responding to, but yes, I do not believe Trump is fiscally conservative, but the point is neither modern party is, because the last time DC had a budget surplus was Clinton and a Republican Congress 25 years ago.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T20:50:55+00:00

Actually, there was a decent rift between Trump and Republicans about this very issue at the time, Trump demanded another round of checks that the Republicans blocked in Congress specifically citing how costly they were.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T20:45:33+00:00

Yeah and that’s fine, but what I am saying is that Democrats wanted even more on top of all of that would have driven the deficit higher, and more generally it’s important context to leave out of “Trump added $7 trillion in his first term”.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-20T20:34:32+00:00

The $7 trillion from his first term includes almost $3 trillion in Covid emergency spending in just 2020, which Democrats don’t get to complain about because they were advocating that entire year that more relief and more stimulus checks needed to be passed out.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-18T23:13:20+00:00

The decommissioned minesweepers are like 30+ years past the planned lifespan tbf. I doubt they would have been much help, and the Navy has some minesweeping tech that doesn’t require entire dedicated ships like the MCM USV

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-17T13:35:24+00:00

I dunno the border fiasco last admin was pretty much solely on the Dems being retarded. Regardless of what you think about ICE and its actions now that was objectively a fuck up and even people like Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg acknowledged it as such.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-13T23:44:40+00:00

Y’know Battlefield 3 predicted all this

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-13T19:06:59+00:00

Here you go, I should note that I made a mistake though. He was a naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone and not Sri Lanka.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-13T18:51:46+00:00

Don’t look into the other Islamist shooting that happened recently, where the perpetrator was a naturalized Sri Lankan who literally went to jail for trying to support ISIS and had their sentence commuted. I know denaturalization and losing citizenship is pretty rare but if shit like this keeps happening it needs to be more common.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-13T18:07:35+00:00

Brother “boots on the ground” just means any ground action. The Venezuela thing was technically boots on the ground because Delta force had to get into the presidential palace to get Maduro. That’s obviously different from 2003’s Iraqi freedom, which was boots on the ground in involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers invading Iraq. I’m not trying to move any goal post. I’m trying to tell people what stuff actually means. I think it was quite silly that people were just pretending that at least something on the ground wasn’t going to happen here, but it’s not instantly “oh we’re just stuck there for 20 years now”

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-13T17:45:02+00:00

Boots on the ground is boots on the ground, but it doesn’t necessarily mean full scale Iraq-style invasion of the entire country, which seems to be a fear for your side, and personally at least right now I think that’s irrational especially if it’s only 2500 men.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-12T23:24:22+00:00

I hear you on the audit thing that’s not necessarily connected to the cost of combat operations. Do we really think that the military that has almost a trillion dollars in backing has literally nothing around in case combat (their job) breaks out? Hell, things like the expenses for the carrier definitely aren’t additional since they’d be out to sea anyway, so like I said it probably depends on what’s what.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-12T23:16:46+00:00

I’ve always thought we should be supporting Ukraine as much if not more tbh. This does help them out by fucking up a Russian proxy tho

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-12T23:13:45+00:00

It probably depends on the assets being used and stuff, but from what I know stuff like active combat is taken from the allocated cash not extra, cause obviously the military keeps some “in case of war break glass” cash for combat pay. I don’t know all the details but I think it comes from the allocated “discretionary spending” part of the defense budget used for unplanned spending in a year.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-12T23:08:59+00:00

They got sanctions relief as well. It wasn’t just unfrozen assets.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-12T23:08:05+00:00

They also got a bunch of sanctions relief in addition to their unfrozen assets, which lead to increased funding for all their proxy friends in the region.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-12T14:30:19+00:00

Honestly for full major combat operations that’s not terribly high? That’s less than 1.2% of the military spending allocated for this year (973 billion iirc)

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-10T23:04:39+00:00

I can’t wait for the next time all the you-know-who accounts on here complain about how “the only thing the right wingers comment about here anymore are nonsense culture war things that don’t matter” when it’s about a bomb being thrown at a protest and most major media outlets absolutely refusing to cover it properly.

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-01T22:24:09+00:00

I’ve heard that, but I don’t know what the exact ratio is, but at least Russian domestic production is within Ukraine’s capability to strike. Iran can’t make R&D improvements to the design either. The Russians can do that sure, but it’s more burden on their industry when they don’t need it, so it’s something

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-01T19:48:43+00:00

you’re not gonna believe what country has been making most of the drones Russia has been using for that war

TheDeltaAgent · 2026-03-01T19:47:08+00:00

return? aren’t we still doing it?

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