Jaded US taxpayers are probably all too used to endless #DoD cost overruns and the Department of DEFENSE chronic inability to pass any kind of audit. But $500 Million to do NOTHING is a whole new level of kleptocracy.
So on brandin light of a president who managed to bankrupt SIX casions and a #SecDef known for running two veterans' services into the ground.
Thank you for all your insights.
Clearly allies are a good thing. Wonder who squandered those relationships.
A general calling it a "war?" Shouldn't there be CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL, not just the #SecDef pleading for more $$$ ?
The current state of affairs is fundamentally disrespectful of lots of people doing hard jobs.
(RantWoman is not commenting about the framing of the last 30 years of procurement patterns)
Dude speaks RantWoman's mind, though RantWoman would not be nearly as salty-tongued about it.
lexicography digression: "salty" used to mean basically foul-mouthed. Now "salty" often just means angry, PO'ed... RantWoman mainly has in mind the older usage.
RantWoman is not going to hold back on the other side.
Dear world,
WHY does anyone expect either President #StableGenius or the #DUIHire #SecDef to CARE about the well-being of the troops on the USS Abraham Lincoln. How many cracks about "suckers and losers?" How much whining about troops' physical appearance or the fact that, gasp, there are women in Leadership???
RantWoman is a cynical witch wandering whether the whole drama is just part of an orchestrated campaign to drag money out of Congress for an unpopular and unaccountable war.
Next the catering cart caper.
First, congratulations to #DonSnoreleone for destroying Iranian military infrastructure over and over, especially since you have destroyed the Iranian miliatary so well that you had to scurry out of Ankara via a catering cart for fear that your plane would get shot down. Congratulations! BRILLIANT!
Dear staff and press gaggle mad about flying on a plane President #StableGenius was not on.
Don't y'all have to sign a lot of liability waivers and other paperwork just for the priviliege of being stenographer to the Toddler in Chief. News flash. The President might get shot at. If you are on the President's plane, you might get shot at too. RantWoman wonders whether there was the same military escort for the presidentless AirForceOne as there would be with the President on it? Why would you expect this president to care AT ALL about your well-being????
Sooo, are all the assaults on the global oil and gas trade enough to re-energize moves away from dependence on fossil fuels and toward decarbonization????
Are US defense contractors afraid of Ukraine making Patriot missiles more cheaply than the US does?
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