Socialists praise Trumps “Dept of Govt Efficiency”. Is this a sign of the end of days?

Photo above - US aircraft carrier task force 155 cruises leisurely through the Persian Gulf. Not shown . . . the 2 submarines underneath, and 3 supply ships just over the horizon. We have 11 aircraft carrier groups like this.

How far left do you have to go, to become extreme right? Or perhaps the better question: Is Trump assembling a fiscally conservative cabinet that also appeals to the left?

Case in point: America’s only socialist senator – Bernie Sanders – has nothing but praise for the new DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency). Because Musk and Ramaswamy are pointing out that America spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on defense, and has little to show for it. Except 7 failed Pentagon audits in a row. Half of our military assets missing or unaccounted for. Waste, fraud and abuse. Weapons contracts which don’t even pretend to be anything but pork, to buy votes.

You rock Bernie. And Musk-aswamy.

Okaaay - I hear you! Someone is screaming “Putin and Xi are going to love this”. Well, maybe. But If America could win a war with its 800 military bases in places like Djibouti and Somali, downsizing would be a bad idea. If we could afford more than 10 B21 Supersonic the Hedgehog bombers ($2 billion each), they might be relevant. If our 11 aircraft carrier task groups weren’t all vulnerable to nuclear strikes in the first 30 minutes of World War 3, then rethinking our nation's defense would be a bad idea. But we probably should give props to Putin for showing us that his tanks, jet fighters, and human waves of infantry don't get the job done for him in Ukraine. The only reason Russia is still in the game is from buying discount bin garage-made drones. A $20,000 Iranian drone up against $1MM defensive missile is the exact definition of disproportionate warfare.

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating. World War 3 is already underway. The Chinese and Russians are hacking the US infrastructure 24/7. The electric grid. Water supplies. Hospitals. Cellular systems. GPS. NASA/satellites. Honing their skills. If those systems all went offline at once it wouldn't matter who was in the oval office. “We surrender. Please don’t hurt us anymore.”

I imagine Bernie will STOP praising the DOGE if it starts putting the 57 varieties of overlapping consumer protection agencies under their microscope. But for now Musk and Sanders have formed a mutual admiration society.

And America could save hundreds of billions.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

‘Elon Is Right’: Bernie Sanders Praises Musk for Key DOGE Proposal

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Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

It is a very "Forceful don't mess with us picture" but the reality is it is like you say very vulnerable as well.
As a planet we should have learned something from Covid that the only solution that is truly viable is to work together.
There is actually very little sense in building billions of dollars of super weapons the majority of those for many decades have gone unused, then had to have money spent to be decommissioned as they became antiques and we had spent more billions building newer ones on all sides only to repeat the cycle many times.
In Reality we could as a human species cure the issue very simply with TRUST , RESPECT and UNDERSTANDING of each other's values and cultures.
Instead the attitude very much is we try to make the COW and the PIG behave and do the same and live in the same way, because the way the COW lives is the right way and the PIG is not doing as we say because it wants to and needs to live like a PIG and refuses to do the same as the COW scenario.

Because of this we need to spend and waste billions on both sides building super bombs etc because the solution is to kill everybody.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@Avectoijesuismoi i repost my recommendation that NATO should have been mobilized to repel Putin from Ukraine. Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania share borders with Ukraine, adn they're all NATO members.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

Nationalists and socialists have little in common but one common thread is not having love for the military. Also being relative pacifists in foreign policy.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@Burnley123 its not just nationalists and socialists. we had to be dragged into world war 1 and world war 2.

we got into vietnam and afganistan on our own, with democrat presidents.

Avectoijesuismoi · 31-35

Hungary would never agree to that, it would be very detrimental to them they would have to remove the "A" and just become Hungry instead, they are heavily reliant on Russia in many ways and are actually exempt from not buying Russian Oil they get it by pipeline and they cannot get oil there any other way that they can afford it. That is just one part of their reliance. Slovakia also gets it's oil amongst other things from Russia as well.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

Efficiency means different things to different people. Conservatives have efficiency in their movement towards ecocide.

jehova · 31-35, M

Ty for the update SOL is a good summary

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