@gvenables
Retired on Wadandi Noongar country. Formerly a lawyer, teacher (Law at University), and soldier. Now a writer. Foodie. Like a drop of red. Politically progressive. Don’t like misogynists, racists, hypocrites. Love Aussie Rules football.
Sen. E. Warren says it like it is:
"This is not a war the American people want us to engage in.
The Trump administration says over and over, there's no money for health care, no money for childcare, but there's $1B a day to go to the Middle East and drop bombs on Iran !"
#TrumpsWarIsNotOURWar
“The American military is tremendous. It is the greatest in the world.”
I applaud the members of our military and we have very expensive technology.
But organizations are only as good as their leaders, and we have some dumb people running our military. It shows.
Repost if you agree #BlueCrew
Not “needed to”, wanted to
Better than bombing schools
When the shit goes down everybody meet up at the library. The MAGAs don't know about that place.
Draft him first. Oh, I forgot, he’s a dodger!
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, and on and on and on. Lindsey Graham says they are “marching through the world.”
They don’t care how many US soldiers they get killed. Meanwhile, they’re building concentration camps at home for Americans to die in. What will it take for people to wake up?
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
Must be purely a coincidence that Venezuela also has huge reserves
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
NOEM: I would disagree with the judge
CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?
NOEM: A what?
CROCKETT: A law degree
NOEM: No I do no-
CROCKETT: Okay
Guaranteed
Should we be surprised? Tongue firmly planted in cheek
See a pattern here?
More thoughts: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-mounting-costs
Beauty in the midst of global ugliness!
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
“Donald Trump said on Sunday he was prepared to talk to what was left of the Iranian leadership after the killing of the country’s supreme leader”. Shoot first and ask questions later! Call that leadership?
AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?
ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed
AYMAN: Where?
LUNA: Are you serious right now?
AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation
Trump 2.0:
-Bombed Iran (twice), Venezuela, and Yemen
-Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate a ceasefire and kill civilians
-Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions
-Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities
The "Peace President."
. @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social begins her speech on the censure motion of Pauline Hanson: "Senator Pauline Hanson is a racist".
She is asked to withdraw despite, as she notes, the Federal Court finding Hanson had a tendency to make racist, discriminatory, hateful, derogatory & Islamophobic statements
The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
#SavioursOfWomen #Afghanistan #Iraq #Libya #Iran
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
