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More: Technically, officially, Mr. Hegseth's $1.5 trillion was a budget request, and it had thousands of pages of figures and line items to go with it. But what's even more astonishing than its size is that it wasn't really a budget, not in the way you or I would think of it.

The word "budget" ordinarily implies picking among options, living within your means. Earlier military budgets, even the most gigantic ones, made trade-offs " canceled weapons programs, deferred maintenance, smaller fighting forces, to name a few. Mr. Hegseth's plan avoids those choices almost entirely.

It would funnel more money to the traditional military contractors that Mr. Hegseth previously called out for feasting on a wasteful, bloated system. It would bankroll President Trump's weirdly retro military wish list. On top of all that, Mr. Hegseth has asked Congress for $350 billion that would come with far less oversight or accountability than the rest of the sum. And that's before the bill for the Iran war comes due; the Pentagon estimates it has cost $29 billion so far, up from an estimate of $25 billion a few weeks ago.

"They're just doing an all-of-the-above approach," says Todd Harrison, a military budget expert at the traditionally right-of-center American Enterprise Institute, so that they "don't have to make difficult choices."

Mr. Hegseth's team says it needs flexibility in order to keep up with the head-snapping pace of change in technology but promises the budget will be "fiscally responsible." Angus King, the usually hawkish independent senator from Maine, said that a quarter of the budget was "essentially a slush fund." It's a giant blank check with "Trust me" penciled in. So let me ask you: How much do you trust Pete Hegseth?

The last US military bayonet charge was led by the late US Army Col. Lewis L. Millett (Ret.). He received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading Company E, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, in a bayonet charge up Hill 180 near Soam-Ni, Korea on 7 Feb 1951: Medal of Honor Winner

The US Army also recently reopened its Jungle Warfare Training Center in Panama. The Defense Department is truly reverting back to the 1947 Dept of War. The trillions of dollars spent on warfare and wasteful contracts guarantees there will be no funds for universal healthcare for Americans, as enjoyed by the residents of Israel, Germany, Canada, Cuba, Iran, Taiwan, Greenland, tiny Albania, and in 2027, Mexico.


This mini-pogrom, also known as the "Flag Dance," commemorates the Israeli conquest of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967. A scholar recently wrote that because of Israeli persecution against Palestinian Christians, none will be left in the country by 2050.

In Gaza, an Israeli Death Forces sniper shot Hasan Abid (24) in the head while he was distributing bread to starving people near an UNRWA clinic in the Jabalia refugee camp. Two more Palestinians were liquidated by drones, bringing the death toll to 72,782 human beings; 20,179 children, 12,500 women. The IDF has wounded or maimed 172,588 Palestinians since 7 Oct 2023.

Since 1948 under both Democratic and Republican Party administrations, the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer has sent both the Labor and Likud governments of Israel, a prosperous and nuclear-armed country, over $317.9bn, the most US economic aid given to any nation in the world.

This Pariah nation and Rogue state has been globally condemned for its inhuman ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, except inexplicably by the US government under either Republican or Democratic Party administrations.

US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.

... "$1.7 billion compensation fund for allies.

The way disgusting traitor PV1 Michael Flynt scored in court.

Between the slush funds to "compensate" his minions, the lucrative insider defense and interior contracts, and the mass pardoning of 6 Jan heathens (and the 250 coming), Dummkopf Trumpf is a sort of kind of a wealthy, but stupid, Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex (10 Nov 1565 - 25 Feb 1601).

This good-for-nothing Elizabethan misadventurer relied on the Crown (government) for his wealth (through property and rents) and was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I because this handsome wastrel "made her feel young."

As a high lord, the Earl of Essex had the power to knight men, so he overabused that privilege to amass himself a small, loyal army.

When Robert Deveraux failed to quell the Irish rebellion after his masterful boasting, this egomaniac fell out of favor with Queen Elizabeth. He and his loyal army of followers then attempted a 6 Jan-style putsch against the Crown, but failed.

Like the Earl of Essex, Dummkopf Trumpf is profiting off the "Crown" and amassing himself a small legion of loyal followers.

Except for one thing. Robert Deveraux didn't get away with it like the Dotard and the diabolical Trumpf Crime Family (TCF).


Endnote: The Earl of Essex knew the man wielding the axe because the executioner was none other than Thomas Derrick, a man Essex had personally pardoned for rape on the condition that he become an executioner. This infamous headsman separated 3,000 souls from their bodies during the Shakespearean Era.

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