Estimated cost of Trump's war: $1 billion PER DAY.
That's enough to pay for
- Medicaid for all 16 million people losing it because of Republican budget cuts
- AND daily food stamps for all 41 million people who rely on them
Imagine if we had a government put people over profit.
AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
Don’t let this admins fool you, this war is grossly unpopular and the Republican party knows it, countless people are standing together in protest against this unconstitutional war
Credit: bts news room
(CBS) Trump's War continues into its second week with oil prices ballooning over 100 per barrel and the stock market slumping. Sadly, to be expected with the autocrat in charge, willing to invade countries and forget his citizens at home.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
No Democrat should vote to fund Trump’s illegal war. Let your Members of Congress know you’re paying attention — demand that they oppose any supplemental funding package.
“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.
Just wondering, as oil prices soar past $105/bbl, is Trump still selling Venezuelan oil and putting the profits into an offshore account only he can access?
Because stealing a bunch of oil, then creating a shortage to drive up the price seems like the most Trump-like explanation of this war.
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
".. the goal seems... for Iran to do what Trump says. He’s even stated explicitly that this should be going how it did in Venezuela, where the next in command agrees to an indefinite period of vassalhood under not the US but Donald Trump himself. .."
".. You want something clear that you can achieve at your own initiative, without someone else having to agree to anything: blow up the base, occupy the country, cut off exports. These are concrete things a superior military force can achieve through its own actions. .."
This is *nothing* dignified about wearing a cheap baseball cap that promotes yourself to the otherwise solemn ceremony to receive the bodies of the troops you had killed to distract from your bad economy and rampant pedophilia.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday
61 years ago today unarmed Americans marching to demand their voting rights were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Now Republicans are pushing the SAVE America Act which would put new bureaucratic hurdles in place that make it harder to register. (1/2)
“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."
A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
Let’s be clear: Any Democrat who votes to fund Trump’s illegal war with Iran is voting for Trump’s illegal war.
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
Wow. The corruption and self-dealing is boundless — in the billions.
".. In Trump’s world, there is dominating and there is being dominated. For him, the latter is a psychic death. So leaning hard into these prerogative powers where a president is, in effect, all powerful amounts to a kind of grand and bloody self-care. .."
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
Gas prices: spiking
Grocery prices: up
Health care premiums: doubled
Jobs: lost
This is Trump's "Golden Age" where YOU pay more and he lines his pockets.
Like clockwork.
i think when we get a final reckoning of how much Noem has personally profited from her office this question might answer itself
Kristi, good luck at your new job. Because when we retake the majority, we're holding you accountable for the last one you had.
There are currently 2,200 No Kings Day events planned in all 50 states, DC, and a dozen countries.
Find your local event (or start a new one) and join us on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
History will remember Kristi Noem for her corruption and the sheer cruelty & chaos she unleashed on our streets.
Good riddance, but Congress should not tolerate more of the same from whoever comes next.
We need accountability and reform for ICE and Border Patrol.
The moment you hear ICE Barbie got FIRED.
Filing deadline in OK is April 3. If Rand Paul wanted to do something awesome he’d wait until after April 3 to hold a hearing. That way either Mullin doesn’t file for reelection & also risks not being confirmed, or hedges & files for reelection, clears the primary, & could leave Repubs w no nominee
correct
there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard
