You could already see this before they even started work. When you combine massive stupidity with supreme arrogance, and toss in trying to be a brainless sycophant with no knowledge of the content, it’s bound to happen. A crash-and-burn that makes the Hindenburg look like a girl scout campfire.
And it’s only picking up steam. First that Q-Anon retard RFK Jr. tries to basically ban vaccines in this country, and now multiple diseases basically eradicated since the 1960’s are on the rise and lives are being lost. Them DOGE douche Elon Musk tries to dismantle the National weather Service, and dozens of unnecessary deaths occur during Texas flash flooding due to a shortage of NWS staff leading to slow communications with local emergency agencies.
And now the Department of Defense chimes in, and this one is likely to have a much more severe impact much sooner than the other two. And that’s because the imbecile in charge broke the cardinal rule. Screw pissing off the boss, he went and pissed off his boss’s boss.
Here’s the 411. It seems that a little while ago, serial drunkard, failed FUX News weekend fraud, and serial lecher Pete Hegseth, in between lap dances at Cheetah III decided to arbitrarily cut off all defensive weapons aid to Ukraine. But just to put a cherry on it, he then neglected to inform anybody else in the Trump administration through proper channels. Maybe he thought that they’d see it on his open forum like the reporters and everybody else.
Which of course set Traitor Tot off like a Roman candle. Whatever Trump’s personal feelings about Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Trump was already taking heat from NATO about slowing down the flow of weapons to Ukraine. Now it looked like he was stabbing them in the back in their moment of need. Now His Lowness had to come out and announce that major defensive military assistance to Ukraine would continue, and trash talk Vlad the Imp while he was at it. All of which cut into his Executive time watching FUX News in the private quarters.
But Emperor Numbus Nuttus isn’t the only one that Hegseth pissed off with his cheap alcohol fueled stunt. He also pissed off Trump’s ultimate bosses, the GOP congress and the defense weapon industry. And they’ll be happy to pound Hegseth into poi before Trump can get to him.
Ever since the late 1950’s, when then President Dwight David Eisenhower first sounded the alarm, the country has been aware of, and scared shitless by a shadowy cabal known as the military-industrial-complex. It is perfect storm of legislators, financiers, and military defense contractors. And here’s why it’s so scary.
If you run a company, your normal course of business is that you devote time and money into a product you think that consumers will buy. When it’s ready, you start an ad campaign and roll it out to the public. If you’re right, you make a gazillion dollars and prosper. If you guessed wrong, you may not survive the lost revenue spent on research and development to your bottom line.
The military-industrial-complex doesn’t work that way. For one thing, the defense industry employs an army of lobbyists that is quite possible larger than the actual US army. And that buys them the votes of greedy politicians on both sides of the aisle, hungry for the lobbyists cash, and to tout the new or stable jobs brought back home to their state or district.
R&D in the defense industry doesn’t work like it does in the normal world. They don’t sink tons of cash into developing a new weapon, and then fobbing it off on the government. Instead, the defense industry develops the concept of a new weapon and sells that to congress, getting hundreds of millions of dollars for development, often on boondoggles that the Pentagon doesn’t even want, and which don’t even work properly when they’re finally produced. A pleasant, shade tree lined one way street.
But Ukraine is different, and even more lucrative for defense contractors, simply because no R&D is required. Here’s how that particular three-card-monte game with your tax dollars goes.
When we give, lend, or sell weapons to Ukraine, we’re not taking them from the hands of US Soldiers and handing them to Ukrainian soldiers. What we’re doing is giving them weapons and ammunition from our stockpile, supplies we keep on hand for replacements of equipment, or for use if we ever have to expand the army for a serious large scale conflict, say a ground war in the Middle East. This means that our stockpile, and our ability to respond to large scale threats is depleted.
Which of course means that those weapons have to be replaced. And who is going to replace them? Why, your friendly government defense contractor of course. And who’s doing the buying? The US government is buying them, with money appropriated by congress. Ukraine already got their toys. Now don’t get me wrong. Personally, I’d pay higher taxes for the privilege of jamming a Ukrainian flagpole up Putin’s ass.
I’m sure you can see where I’m going. At the first sign of any possible delay or interruption to the defense contractor gravy train, they’re going to make their feelings very clear to The Cheeto Prophet, and also to every congressman and Senator on their payroll. Hegseth is a loose cannon, and he almost fired a shot below the waterline to the defense industry nipple lock on the federal money teat. He has to go.
And you know what else Pete Hegseth is? He’s uber expendable. He’s a national security nightmare. From his imbecilic handling of not only national security secrets, but the secrets of foreign allies on an open online forum, to his arrogant and disjointed appearances before congressional committees, Hegseth is the lowest hanging fruit in the Traitor Tot orchard. And it looks like we’re rapidly approaching harvest season. Don’t touch that dial.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
I’m with you on the Ukraine flagpole thing. We’re both broken down senior citizens but the pair of us together could jam that thing up Putin’s ass SIDEWAYS.