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we're told we can't afford healthcare or food stamps, but sure, let's build this 🙄

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its a pretty simple, self-evident truth that the bigger the bully, the bigger the defenses needed. It's a helluva lot cheaper and satisfying to invest in living peacefully with your neighbors.

The only things Trump has accomplished so far is giving more tax breaks to the rich. Making himself and his family wealthier. Hiding the Epstein files from the public. Moving Maxwell for her silence. And, amassing a personal taxpayer funded army of terrorists called ICE. And, today more of the same

Destroy science research. Dismantle US foreign aid, killing millions. Create his own private paramilitary force and privately-owned concentration camps. Undermine vaccine research and distribution. Aid Russia in its efforts to conquer Ukraine. Destroy decades of cooperation with western allies.

Nailed it MAGA is building their own private militia, we the taxpayers are funding their arming and training to disrupt the midterms A revised "improved" version of the GOP 1980 Ballot Security Task Force A Voter Integrity Task Force to deter urban POC voters from showing up at the polls

And let’s increase the budget for DHS ICE so they will be more efficient in terrorizing and killing people because they have the authority to do so.

I don’t want to be under a dome with the US. We need the rest of NATO to be able to help us out if we need it. I also don’t think we should buy American weapons and planes. I don’t trust you

Here we go again For reference Star Wars,” is now in its fourth decade, having consumed $209 billion while never being tested, From Star Wars to Golden Dome: Trump Pushes US Missile Shield Despite Funding and Technology Hurdles www.military.com/daily-news/2...

military.comFrom Star Wars to Golden Dome: Trump Pushes US Missile Shield Despite Funding and Technology HurdlesTrump's promises face skepticism from experts and would require big military trade-offs, including possible troop reductions in the Army.

Can something that big even remotely be built? Like think about what it would take to even build something that goes from one end of the US to I guess Greenland if we take their idea into consideration. The time and money to build let alone maintain would be astronomical.

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1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Some of us remember that the big lesson from Reagan's SDI that antimissile defenses can work to defend a handful of high-value targets but utterly cannot defend the entire US. Golden Dome, like the White House ballroom, is a gigantic boondoggle.

The USA Spends 3.5% of GDP on defence and 19% of GDP on healthcare. Europe spends 2.0% on defence and 12% on healthcare. You don't have healthcare and food because lobbyists have purchased your politicians.

Has the media, to any extent, discussed or noticed how scary this Golden Dome thing is? People seem to assume it's just like Israel's Iron Dome, a defensive system, but this is actually a worldwide space-based defense/offense system.

not an original thought in his head. "Golden Dome" because "Iron Dome" but it has to be gold because he thinks that makes him look classy and rich. Also SDI because it sounded cool in the 80s where he is stuck.

smart societies govern their people with carrots because they understand carrots are more effective in the long run; foolish societies govern their people with sticks because they recognize sticks have an immediate effect and leaders cannot comprehend the long run;

compassion nations grant their people health care, education, housing and food before all else because healthy happy citizens are supportive; cruel societies govern their people with brute force before all else because cruel leaders think sticks are more effective then carrots;

FYI - The UK and Europe are mad as hell re Trump’s remarks about our soldiers taking a back seat in the recent conflicts. Even our far right party is silent, and they are Trump cheerleaders usually. If you can access this morning’s James O’Brien radio show on LBC, (Global Player) please do.

We can pay for most of the foodstamps and healthcare from the near billion tax payer dollars he's spending on his gifted plane that he thinks he can take with him. President's don't take gifts home from abother country. They may borrow them from the archives to put in thier Library or a Museum.

"US will work with NATO"? 🤔 Are there really NATO members interested in protecting the US, when the US is no longer interested in protecting his allies, and threatens them instead? I don't think so.

will probably make the F35 look cheap...any excuse to funnel more taxpayer money to the mil-ind complex... any excuse at all...with essentially zero oversight and it all funds his donors top to bottom...

Another Reagan scam to give tax dollars to the military contractors. It will never be built or work,stupid idea, a submarine can lay a mile off the coast and destroy anything with a hypersonic cruise missile hugging the ground in a couple of minutes ,a fucking SCAM A waste of tax dollars ,your money