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Here is Trump's tweet on what he thinks of the domestic spending increase. "Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most i
by learc83 9y ago
Here is Trump's tweet on what he thinks of the domestic spending increase.
"Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year...most ever. Had to waste money on Dem giveaways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment." (emphasis mine)
- _bxg1 9y ago"$700 Billion to rebuild our Military" ...because, as everyone knows, the US military is in shambles compared to the rest of the world...
- maxerickson 9y agoThey are stretched thin relative to the mission they are being asked to carry out. (I'm not trying to weigh in on the politics, just pointing out one context where that remark makes sense)
- prolikewhoa 9y agoDoes it really cost this much money to destroy the world though?
- nwsm 9y agoCute
- GCU-Empiricist 9y agoDestroy, no that's a lot cheaper. Remain capable of fighting two major wars at any given time, that's more expensive I think they reduced the policy level capability requirement to one major war and something smaller within the last two years. Source was a naval officer, still keep up with the professional journals.
- sambull 9y agoWhat is their mission?
- ModernMech 9y agoI believe it's "Coming again to save the mother fing day, yeah!"
- shifter 9y agoThere's a surprising amount of super-detailed material on the state of the US Armed Forces: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov https://www.armed-services.senate.gov You can do a "wikipedia dive" on that site and take away a depth of understanding that, honestly, probably exceeds 99% of political commentators'.
- Redoubts 9y agoWorld Peace through Superior Strength.
- ModernMech 9y agoExactly. When it's money spent on warships and nuclear bombs, it's money well spent. When it's (comparatively much less) money spent on education, research, NASA, PBS, NEA, meals on wheels etc. Well now, let's not get crazy with spending.
- devmunchies 9y agoYou summarized the tweet with the same amount of words. Anyway, I don't think he cares about it as much as you think. He knows who his voters are. He also is aware that it makes people like you irritated so that you keep talking about him, which keeps him in the news.
- ModernMech 9y agoI wasn't summarizing; I was reiterating.
- devmunchies 9y agoas in echo chamber?
- ModernMech 9y agoI don't understand what you're driving at. An echo would contain no new information. There's clearly more information in my comment than the original post. That you're upset I did so in the same number of words as a tweet is confusing to me.
- devmunchies 9y agoyou replied to yourself. confused indeed. Anyway, I don't know why the language I used matters. You knew what I meant and had to be pedantic. My second point was more important.
- ModernMech 9y agoIt's a Hacker News bug apparently. There was no reply link under your name, and now there is. But there is no reply link under the reply to which I'm now replying (now that's confusing) https://imgur.com/a/5kMTA https://imgur.com/a/5kMTA
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- cabaalis 9y agoThis is kind of how politics works. He has to placate his base, while making compromises with the other side. He then has to act like it was a huge deal to make those compromises, and was against his best interests, so they will continue to vote for him.