Brandon
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No, they don't give me the Travis Kelsey tour.
I'm with Gin Pop.
They keep me behind the fence.
No, but they're like...
You're looking at an alien when you see them fucking trot around.
Yeah, of all the things in the world that there are to piss me off, this is probably number one because it's like the biggest or second biggest line item in the defense budget, you know, after Medicare and Social Security.
And it's an objective fact that 25% of the existing $800 billion gets lit on fire, right?
It goes to nothing, just gets price gouged because we let these four defense contractors overcharge us because it went from $200 in the 90s after the Cold War to just four or five of them today.
And when it comes to the defense contractors, they don't just want war.
They need war.
They would shrivel up and die without a war.
I'm of the belief that since World War II, we haven't had a necessary war.
We've had wars that they've lobbied for, that they've fought hard for to get into, whether it's the Korean War, whether it's the Cold War, whether it's the war against terror, whether it's the...
NATO against Russia, when Russia wanted to be part of NATO, all of those weren't necessary.
They were necessary for the beast that was created during World War II, the military-industrial complex.
Now, when it comes to this, I would cut it down to $500 billion, not increase to $1.5 trillion.
You know, make them get the most out of what they're using right now, because they're not even spending the full $800 billion of it.
$300 billion of it's going to waste.
So, what, we're just going to make the number bigger so that the number that's wasted gets bigger?
No, I'm not...