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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 67 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And people said Trump could never live up to Reagan’s legacy. He’s already half senile, making shady deals with cartels and despots, ruining the tax code, and trying to build a missile defense system that will never exist.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The missile system, much like space force, is to grift military contracts.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm currently reading Where the Wizards Stay Up Late. According to the book, Eisenhower was annoyed at how much the military branches jumped on projects to secure funding, so he made a non-military department called ARPA. And ARPA invented the internet.

Let's do more of that.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 hours ago

And then ARPA became DARPA.

A military department.

It's murder and mass destruction for fun and profit all the way down.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 74 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

wE hAvE tO dEpOrT tHe cRiMiNaLs!

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I mean that entire family already has the requisite eight points to be deported without due process.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Nougat@fedia.io 14 points 12 hours ago
[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

This isn't shady at all.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't sound very secret.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 points 14 hours ago

Most transparent administration ever! Whether they want to be or not.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago

US government is indebted to the Cartels .... the Cartels make it possible for the CIA, NSA, FBI and every other three letter agency to do whatever they want throughout Latin America .... and if they aren't doing anything in Latin America, the Cartels are a great way for the US government to generate money through money laundering and the drug trade to get the money they need to finance whatever clandestine shit they're doing this year

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Can't wait until some power hungry and racist ICE agent that hates brown people decides to arrest them because they didn't know. It's not like this news will hit any of the sources they get their news from and since they aren't doing due process they'll probably be in El Salvador before anyone notices.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Unlikely. The important ones don’t often get overlooked.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago