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EarlG

(23,594 posts) Thu Mar 19, 2026, 10:14 AM 7 hrs ago

Pic Of The Moment: What A Difference Three Months Makes

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Remarks by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the Reagan National Defense Forum

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war

Hegseth says potential $200 billion Iran war spending request could shift: ‘Takes money to kill bad guys’

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Pic Of The Moment: What A Difference Three Months Makes (Original Post) EarlG 7 hrs ago OP

"Madness. Madness".* greatauntoftriplets 7 hrs ago #1

Except that we know how WWII ended - the good guys won! FakeNoose 5 hrs ago #8

We are not the "goodguys" anymore. At least the leaderships certainly aren't nowadays. We are hated the world over. OverBurn 2 hrs ago #13

Bingo. Old Crank 7 hrs ago #2

From my time machine (the internet) usonian 7 hrs ago #3

This collection proves one thing FakeNoose 5 hrs ago #9

Did Pig Hogsbreath criticize St. Ronald? nuxvomica 6 hrs ago #4

The MAGats threw Raygun under the bus a long time ago BumRushDaShow 6 hrs ago #5

I noticed that! jfz9580m 5 hrs ago #7

War Pigs BeneteauBum 5 hrs ago #6

Beer memory. twodogsbarking 4 hrs ago #10

There's no way this has only cost 212 billion. progressoid 4 hrs ago #11

Bud Light in that bottle. twodogsbarking 2 hrs ago #12

greatauntoftriplets

(178,917 posts)

1. "Madness. Madness".*

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 10:21 AM

7 hrs ago

The last two lines of the great movie The Bridge Over the River Kwai. That line has stayed with me from the time I first saw the movie as a kid.

FakeNoose

(41,384 posts)

8. Except that we know how WWII ended - the good guys won!

Reply to greatauntoftriplets (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 12:42 PM

5 hrs ago

That's no longer a given in 2026 ... the good guys don't seem to be winning much these days.

OverBurn

(1,292 posts)

13. We are not the "goodguys" anymore. At least the leaderships certainly aren't nowadays. We are hated the world over.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 03:39 PM

2 hrs ago

Rightfully so. Tariffs, bombing girl's schools, in effect shutting down hospitals in Cuba and starving the population.

It's really sickening. I never thought I would be not be on "our" side.

Old Crank

(6,971 posts)

2. Bingo.

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 10:38 AM

7 hrs ago

usonian

(24,990 posts)

3. From my time machine (the internet)

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 10:39 AM

7 hrs ago

Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18
6:30 AM
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-dont-want-to-be-the-policemen-of-the-world/

President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.

Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.

FakeNoose

(41,384 posts)

9. This collection proves one thing

Reply to usonian (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 12:47 PM

5 hrs ago

... Chump will post ANY opinion that his wealthy backers want him to post. It doesn't have to make sense, nor does it need to agree with anything else he has posted. It's the opinion that matters RIGHT NOW, because somebody benefits from it. Presumably ... it's somebody very wealthy.

There's no guarantee that tomorrow's tweet will be consistent with today's, or yesterday's. He can't remember what he tweeted yesterday anyway.

nuxvomica

(14,067 posts)

4. Did Pig Hogsbreath criticize St. Ronald?

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:16 AM

6 hrs ago

"This neo-Reaganite attitude led us to fritter away our soldiers' lives..." Did he mean to criticize Reagan or does he not know that "neo" means "the new form of" as in "neo-fascist", like him.