The "Arsenal of Democracy" Is Merely An Arsenal
$95 Billion for More War, Weapons, and Death
Surprise! The House has approved $95 billion in more weapons and war for Ukraine and Israel, along with a few billion tossed in for Taiwan. Ukraine gets the lion’s share of the aid, roughly $61 billion, while Israel gets roughly $26 billion, which is $12 billion more than the Biden administration initially asked for.
Imagine that! $26 billion for Israel as it slaughters Palestinians in Gaza. America is led by moral monsters and mental midgets.
I predicted months ago (not a tough prediction) that Republicans would eventually cave and support Ukraine. In this election year, they don’t want to be blamed for “losing” the Russia-Ukraine War. Even though the war is going poorly for Ukraine, the answer is never to negotiate or deescalate, it’s always to escalate with even more destructive weaponry. Of course, this is justified by America’s moral monsters and mental midgets (M4 for short) by saying Putin is evil and that jobs will be created in America among the arsenal-producing merchants of death.
There was a time, World War II to be exact, when it made a smidgen of sense to call America the “Arsenal of Democracy.” Those days are long gone. America is now simply an arsenal.
Of course, this is yet another triumph for the MICIMATT: the military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academe-think-tank complex. Its power and greed are almost irresistible. Add that to AIPAC, threat inflation, and fear-mongering and perhaps it is irresistible until the U.S. empire final collapses under the weight of its own folly.
But let me give the last word to my smarter wife, who upon hearing of yet another $95 billion for war put it succinctly: “All that money to kill people.” Then she added: they are the planet-wreckers.
Headline from NBC News: "Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 18, mostly children, as U.S. advances aid package. The first strike killed a man, his wife and their 3-year-old child. The woman was pregnant, and doctors managed to save the baby, the hospital said."
Congress sends another $26 billion to Israel to accelerate the killing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-strikes-rafah-killed-children-us-aid-package-rcna148702
I was listening to Joe Rogan's interview of Tucker Carlson on Spotify yesterday when the X post came out, showing House members waving Ukrainian flags and shouting "Ukraine, Ukraine.." I was appalled.
Whatever one thinks of either Carlson or Rogan isn't the point, but it was an eerie coincidence that Carlson was making the following point in the interview when i saw the X post - they (the owners) need to stop pretending this is a democracy and just tell us they don't care what we want, they do what they want, and we need to shut up and do what we're told. At that point, we can decide what we want to do about it.
He also made the point there is a large train station across from the Capitol filled with homeless people. So, Congress critters have to literally step over drugged homeless citizens on their way to work.
I am still appalled this morning