Who Benefits?
POST 1178
Last Wednesday I showed you that “repugnant, organizationally illiterate, DUI Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that he is firing 20% of our flag officers [generals and admirals]” and that he “plans to eliminate legacy weapons and equipment programs.” I asked a critical question:
Who will benefit from us hobbling our national defense?
.
There are more areas to which to apply the “Who Benefits?” question..
Trump cut military aid and satellite surveillance capability from Ukraine. Then, having eliminated all motivation for Putin to negotiate to end the war in Ukraine, he invited Putin to a 30-day ceasefire, which Putin rejected, of course.
Same question again: Who benefits from our double-dealing?
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Scott Galloway wrote in his post Brain Drain how we have massively cut our support and promotion of science, research and the things that have made us healthy, prosperous, safe and the go-to place for the best and the brightest in the world. Now those brilliant and creative people are either avoiding the U.S. entirely or are accepting schooling and R&D opportunities in other countries. And it isn’t just foreign born smart people who are abandoning us. It’s America’s best and brightest, too.
Trump’s self-defeating wounds are massively stupid actions that will crush the momentum of 80 years of our investments in growth and innovation. They will set us behind many other countries.
Same question: Who will benefit from our knee capping ourselves like that?
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More in this line from STAT:
The city of Milwaukee was in the middle of a public health crisis when the Trump administration abruptly laid off 10,000 federal health workers last month. A lead crisis, to be exact: Late last year, a student had a concerning blood test, and the source turned out to be their school. The city took on the case, but investigating more than 100 schools is much more complicated than the typical exposure that occurs inside one family’s home. The local team would often turn to CDC scientists for both strategic planning and step-by-step guidance. Then the layoffs occurred, and all of those federal scientists were gone.
Who benefits from our government abandoning our health and safety needs?
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Hint: It isn’t the lead poisoned children in Milwaukee – or those in any other place.
Trump imposed his brain-free tariffs with the precision of a car crushing machine and already our economy has been harmed, our supply chain is missing links, prices are on the rise, shelves at Walmart will be empty in not much more than a month and most of our former friends are avoiding us and looking for other partnerships.
Same question yet again: Who will benefit from our bad will, our forcing a trade war on the world and our abandoning our friends and allies?
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I could go on with many more examples. The point is that Trump and his greedy billionaire power grabbing dictator wannabes and his lying, traitorous ideological sycophants are doing everything they can to destroy our strength, our leadership, our good will and our freedom.
Who will benefit from our self-destruction?
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Here’s another question, one that you won’t like if you aren’t speaking out against these attacks on our country. It’s the one that our children and grandchildren will be asking you and me in the years to come, as the ashes from our self-immolation rain down on them.
What did you do to prevent this catastrophe?
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One More Category
Trump is offered and may receive a “gift” of a $400 million airplane.
Get serious: Nobody gives $400 million like this and expects nothing in return. It is not a gift. It is a quid with an as yet unnamed pro quo. What do the Qataris want?
This “gift,” if retrofitted to the performance, communications and security measures required for it to be used as Air Force 1, will cost we taxpayers between $600 – 900 million.
Plus, Trump has bullied our military into giving him his narcissistic “big, beautiful” military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. It will include 6,000 troops, 50 fighter jets and bombers and 150 military vehicles, including tanks that will destroy the pavement. It will cost you and me at least $45 million dollars. That doesn’t count the cost to restore Pennsylvania Avenue.
Obviously, there is no need to ask who benefits from these “mine’s bigger than yours” over-indulgences. Makes me wonder if there are limits to infantile behavior. Scratch that. Obviously, there isn’t.
Li’l Fun – Just To Lighten Up A Bit
This is to the tune of Harry Belafonte’s version of Matilda. Here it is karaoke style so you can sing along.
Orange Trumpy
- 1.
- He say dey Argentina gang bangs.
- Got no evidence of such t’ings.
- Orange Trumpy, de courts do slap down, he jus’ ain’ no big king.
- Everybody!
- .
- Chorus
- Orange Trumpy (grifting with the crypto)
- Orange Trumpy (trade apocalypto)
- Orange Trumpy he take de money and run Mar-a-Lago.
- 2.
- He say we subsidize Canada.
- Dumped a tariff on ’em, uh-huh.
- Dey fight back and send de message to Trump, “Go screw ya.”
- 3.
- Walmart say de prices get big.
- Tariffs make sick economy pig.
- Moody’s does downgrade of U.S., is no longer safe gig.
- 4.
- Orange Trumpy say he don’ really know
- If defend Constitution’s his show.
- Orange Trumpy ignore court orders and kidnap your neighbor.
- 5.
- Orange Trumpy don’ care none ’bout your health
- Just as long as he increase his wealth.
- He say Granny jus’ go die and let cancer kill kids.
- 6.
- He say burn books that ain’t enough White.
- Fire librarians just out of spite.
- Orange Trumpy, he can’t read nothin’ and wants you be dumb, too.
- 7.
- Orange Trumpy sell dinner access, is plain,
- Billionaires try to get in his brain.
- But Orange Trumpy, dementia makes him don’ know nuthin’ no more.
- Everybody!
- .
- Chorus 2
- Orange Trumpy, sucking cash and airplanes.
- Orange Trumpy, griftin’ wid just half brain.
- Orange Trumpy, he take de money and run Mar-a-Lago.
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Finally, The Scantron Crisis
Donald Trump has decreed that little girls may have only 2 dolls and 5 pencils (Merry Christmas!). Got me to wondering if pencils are still used in schools. Turns out they are, primarily for Scantron answer sheets.- But what’s a kid to do while taking her 5th grade math test, Mr. Pencil President, when her pencil points break or they aren’t sharp enough? Can you negotiate a deal for her? Your daddy got you test score deals at The Wharton School, right?
Countdown to November 3, 2026
Mid-Term Election
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