Oh if anyone is going to be successful in Kennedy-ing a President, it would be the military-industrial complex.
Keep cutting spending Donald, you're doing a great job!
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Why would defence have a "stock"
Defense contractors are mostly publicly traded companies. Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing etc.
Please keep fucking with the defense contractors, surely they won't take any drastic measures against you
I had the “wait, a good thing?” reaction too.
But thinking about potential underlying motivations, it makes complete sense that the compromised traitor holding the reins would want to weaken the military at the same time as destroying the government.
Or maybe it isn’t to help other dictators, and he just wants the opportunity to weed out more people who are loyal to the constitution.
This may signal he is getting pushback from the military which is a very good thing. If he is serious about Canada and Greenland he will need a strong military. It makes no sense to start cutting the budget now.
Refusing unlawful orders is always cool and moral.
In case y'all forgot Trump's last term, his general pattern is to constantly announce insane plans and only follow through on a fraction of them. Cutting the pentagon's budget in half is one of the distractions. Some General will dandy himself up in his class A and jingle some blueprints for a useless wunderwaffe and the defense budget will go up.
If he guts the MIC I will be extremely pleasantly surprised.
Or MIC will just arrange for another president that won't cut their funding. Either is a net positive.
I just don't even know how I'd react if he successfully cut the defense budget in half. Would i have to join MAGA at that point?
Because... yeah, I hate everything he's done or let others do so far. His Cabinet is/ will be a nightmare. I assume this defense cut would come with more egregious tax cuts for the billionaire class.
But cutting that much from our stupid war budget ... man that's such a nice thing to get...
It doesn't need to be halved. They just need to figure out where a large portion of the money goes, since they can't seem to account for it.
Yooo sick
If this happens, the US MIC will shit all over the MAGAts. How many fucked up MAGAts work in the defense industry? Exactly, fuck them and they can join the "Parasite Class."
If he actually halves Pentagon Spending, that would be..... the first good deed he's ever done.
He never will. He sent a message for weapon manufacturer CEOs to chip in, and off course they will gladlyl buy him just like how silicon techies did
Exactly, this is just fishing for a bribe, just like the tariffs. Bribe Trump enough and your program or industry will get a loop hole or passed over for 6 months or whatever.
I can see him doing away with seasonal clock shifts by accident at some point.
Good time to buy then. He already pledged to increase funding to Israel. Just need to research what company supplies the most weapons for them and invest there.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA
This fuckin timeline, man…
Realistically speaking... Is anything gonna happen?
Fuckers are just gonna invest as always, capitalism knows no morals.
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