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We spend Elon Musk’s entire net worth accumulated over a lifetime on the US military every 75 days or so.

We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat.



Executive orders were meant for national emergencies. Apparently we're under threat from everyone from whom we have a trade imbalance, even islands with no humans on them!

(And it's not like partisans are locking up Congress to spite him.)


and an even greater threat was from whatever's in people's underwear - that was covered early on [0].

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defe...


You guys are under threat - from your President.


We are literally two days away from Trumpers hating penguins because Trumps people are such amateurs they put tariffs on these islands and now the cult has to defend it.


> We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat.

We were in a (physical) proxy war with Russia via Ukraine until very recently, and we are currently in a digital war against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and probably other nation-states.

Should this be under the purview of the actual military? I don't know, although that arrangement is effective for Israel's cybersecurity command.

Regardless, there is an active need for defense spending now, just not the way we've been spending it.


>and we are currently in a digital war against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and probably other nation-states.

Not according to this administration - they recently ended "cyber operations" against Russia:

https://apnews.com/article/cyber-command-russia-putin-trump-...

So, we're basically going to just let Russia do whatever they want.


> We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat.

Would you just start spending when the war starts? Then you'll get a war much sooner (the enemy will see your weakness) but you'll save money (the war will end quickly).

> not under threat

China, most of all? Russia? Iran?


None of those countries want a war with the US.


That doesn't mean they don't want things that may lead to war, and may want them badly enough to risk war, such as Taiwan or parts of Europe.

If the US is weaker militarily, the risk is less and they are more likely to take it.


that puts musks net worth at 150b. you might want to update your numbers.




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