President Donald Trump

[Hodor]

Did they take Trumps twitter away?

[swampdragon]

Did they take Trumps twitter away?

what makes you think that?

these are from yesterday-

Donald J. TrumpVerified account@realDonaldTrump 21h21 hours ago
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Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account@realDonaldTrump Feb 26
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For first time the failing @nytimes will take an ad (a bad one) to help save its failing reputation. Try reporting accurately & fairly!
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[Hodor]

Nothing about the Oscars yet

[Hornsby]

Today President well done steak with catsup decided that we need to increase defense spending by 10%. Now, mind you, I don't recall even the most zealous of defense folks asking for such a thing, but nonetheless, he persists. And how will we pay for this increase you ask? Good question! By slashing most discretionary spending in just about all other agencies.

[nots]

Today President well done steak with catsup decided that we need to increase defense spending by 10%. Now, mind you, I don't recall even the most zealous of defense folks asking for such a thing, but nonetheless, he persists. And how will we pay for this increase you ask? Good question! By slashing most discretionary spending in just about all other agencies.

I haven't been as critical of President Trump as most folks in here. His bathrobe situation, his daughters clothing line, his Twitter fueds I just don't see as important and as nothing more than partisan hyperventialtion. But increasing the defense spending by 10% is one of the absolute worst ideas I have seen a President propose since the Iraq War. The last, I mean the absolute last, thing we need to do is to spend more money on the military so we can make it easier to invade, bomb and/or otherwise disaffect another part of the world.
If you have some cash you want to spend, go get an infrastructure spending bill passed-- lots of folks will be on board with that. But more military spending? Seriously?

[DMT]

Imagine that, Trump making a poor decision.

[Hodor]

Imagine that, Trump making a poor decision.

As if he's actually making these decisions

[Sour Masher]

I haven't been as critical of President Trump as most folks in here. His bathrobe situation, his daughters clothing line, his Twitter fueds I just don't see as important and as nothing more than partisan hyperventialtion. But increasing the defense spending by 10% is one of the absolute worst ideas I have seen a President propose since the Iraq War. The last, I mean the absolute last, thing we need to do is to spend more money on the military so we can make it easier to invade, bomb and/or otherwise disaffect another part of the world.
If you have some cash you want to spend, go get an infrastructure spending bill passed-- lots of folks will be on board with that. But more military spending? Seriously?

I agree completely--a 10% increase on something we already spend 600 billion a year is absurd. It is also highly concerning, because why do you need to spend more on a MIC that already accounts for over a third of the entire world's military might, if you don't plan on using it. The one thing I wasn't as concerned about as some others was that Trump would bring us into another war. Now, that concern is rising. But even if that horror doesn't manifest, the untold damage this increase and the corresponding cuts to everything else will do to millions in this country, to quote the POTUS, is sad, very, very sad.

Everyone that rails against welfare spending, and keeps the welfare queen trope stuck in their head needs to educate themselves on the absurd amount of waste and corruption in the defense budget. It already dwarfs by order of magnitude all the waste in welfare programs. Yet so many seem to buy the narrative that we need to spend more to make us stronger. This choice--to increase massively military spending, while cutting all other programs, is the absolute worst possible budget outcome to me. While I would disagree with it, I could at least understand spending cuts across the board, to address our ever-mounting debt. But Trump plans to add to that debt without benefiting the American people at all.

[cardboardbox]

I haven't been as critical of President Trump as most folks in here. His bathrobe situation, his daughters clothing line, his Twitter fueds I just don't see as important and as nothing more than partisan hyperventialtion. But increasing the defense spending by 10% is one of the absolute worst ideas I have seen a President propose since the Iraq War. The last, I mean the absolute last, thing we need to do is to spend more money on the military so we can make it easier to invade, bomb and/or otherwise disaffect another part of the world.
If you have some cash you want to spend, go get an infrastructure spending bill passed-- lots of folks will be on board with that. But more military spending? Seriously?

found this interesting: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmc.../#597fa3184c47

Its a bit old, if you go here http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/...high_desc=true you can see that Russia is up to 5% of GDP and we are down to 3.3%.

Some quick fuzzy math, if we are at 3.3% now, a 10% increase would put us at 3.63% of GDP. I dont agree that we need throw more money at defense, but I'm also not going to lose any sleep over it.

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found this interesting: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmc.../#597fa3184c47

Its a bit old, if you go here http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/...high_desc=true you can see that Russia is up to 5% of GDP and we are down to 3.3%.

Some quick fuzzy math, if we are at 3.3% now, a 10% increase would put us at 3.63% of GDP. I dont agree that we need throw more money at defense, but I'm also not going to lose any sleep over it.

I don't think % of GDP tells the story in this instance as well as actual $ spent does.

[DMT]

Another depressing but honest assessment of our country.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/22/the-shallow-state-trump/

[DMT]

I don't think % of GDP tells the story in this instance as well as actual $ spent does.

Of course it doesn't, it's just a way for cbb to sleep n better tonight.

[cardboardbox]

I don't think % of GDP tells the story in this instance as well as actual $ spent does.

Actual $ makes it sound enormous, GDP% puts it in perspective.

[DMT]

Actual $ makes it sound enormous, GDP% puts it in perspective.

Right, because GDP is comprehensible?

[nots]

Actual $ makes it sound enormous, GDP% puts it in perspective.

Isn't it enormous?