The White House is expected Friday to submit to Congress a supplemental funding request that will also seek money for Taiwan and the U.S.-Mexico border, sources said.
Yeah, but you have to got through hoops to maintain a veneer of a democratic and meritocratic system. Not for those who care to pay any attention to what’s going on, just good enough to keep those who rather not pay attention to that. And you don’t even need a majority to believe it, or even the majority within a party: just enough that people can be convinced that at least a majority within one party believes it.
for that you have to go back to the six day war, I think. The US brokered the peace and everybody got something. That’s why Egypt builds US designed tanks.
But like why are we paying them to buy shit from the military industrial complex?
Because its less sus than just giving free money to the military industry that spends lots of money on bribes.
It iS doing just that, though, with the added “bonus” of helping a heinously oppressive ethnostate kill and starve innocent civilians.
Yeah, but you have to got through hoops to maintain a veneer of a democratic and meritocratic system. Not for those who care to pay any attention to what’s going on, just good enough to keep those who rather not pay attention to that. And you don’t even need a majority to believe it, or even the majority within a party: just enough that people can be convinced that at least a majority within one party believes it.
It’s like a stimulus because the economy is make believe that somehow works
for that you have to go back to the six day war, I think. The US brokered the peace and everybody got something. That’s why Egypt builds US designed tanks.