KEY POINTS
- Defense stocks dropped sharply Thursday afternoon after President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. could massively cut defense spending.
- Trump has sent mixed messages on military spending throughout his 2024 campaign and in the early days of his presidency.
Why would defence have a “stock”
Please keep fucking with the defense contractors, surely they won’t take any drastic measures against you
I had the “wait, a good thing?” reaction too.
But thinking about potential underlying motivations, it makes complete sense that the compromised traitor holding the reins would want to weaken the military at the same time as destroying the government.
Or maybe it isn’t to help other dictators, and he just wants the opportunity to weed out more people who are loyal to the constitution.
This may signal he is getting pushback from the military which is a very good thing. If he is serious about Canada and Greenland he will need a strong military. It makes no sense to start cutting the budget now.
Refusing unlawful orders is always cool and moral.
It doesn’t need to be halved. They just need to figure out where a large portion of the money goes, since they can’t seem to account for it.
If he actually halves Pentagon Spending, that would be… the first good deed he’s ever done.
I can see him doing away with seasonal clock shifts by accident at some point.
In case y’all forgot Trump’s last term, his general pattern is to constantly announce insane plans and only follow through on a fraction of them. Cutting the pentagon’s budget in half is one of the distractions. Some General will dandy himself up in his class A and jingle some blueprints for a useless wunderwaffe and the defense budget will go up.
I just don’t even know how I’d react if he successfully cut the defense budget in half. Would i have to join MAGA at that point?
Because… yeah, I hate everything he’s done or let others do so far. His Cabinet is/ will be a nightmare. I assume this defense cut would come with more egregious tax cuts for the billionaire class.
But cutting that much from our stupid war budget … man that’s such a nice thing to get…
Good time to buy then. He already pledged to increase funding to Israel. Just need to research what company supplies the most weapons for them and invest there.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA
This fuckin timeline, man…
Realistically speaking… Is anything gonna happen?
Fuckers are just gonna invest as always, capitalism knows no morals.
I don’t like it when I agree with the general notion of something Trump says or does. Makes me feel dirty.
Wait until you see how i gets halved. Im willing to bet they axe the VA, any scholastic programs, ROTC et al as most policies are about destroying America.
He’ll direct the savings to creating a new internal police force.
Thats the magic of trump though, when he’s vague about things he can sometimes spin them as something agreeable. My guess is he’ll keep the regime change bullshit and nix stuff like burn pit procedures, ukraine support, and veterans benefits
Broken clocks. If its any consolation he could be, variously-
- Floating random shit. Common Trump talk.
- Actually wanting to weaken the U.S. militarily, to the benefit of his leash holders.
- Fishing for bribes.
3 is my guess. Look at tiktok
Yooo sick
Well, couldn’t the M1 Abrams be replaced with cheaper Tesla cybertrucks?
“Sir, half of our swastitanks have burned to the ground.”
“Who attacked them?”
“Attacked?”
It just rained sir.
If this happens, the US MIC will shit all over the MAGAts. How many fucked up MAGAts work in the defense industry? Exactly, fuck them and they can join the “Parasite Class.”
If he guts the MIC I will be extremely pleasantly surprised.
Or MIC will just arrange for another president that won’t cut their funding. Either is a net positive.
