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Nov 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
US funding for war in Ukraine in 9 months:

Mar: $ 13.6 billion
May: $ 40b
Nov: $ 37.7b: Biden's new request

That $ 91.3 billion is 33% more than Russia's *total military spending for the year*

It's *double* the US's average annual expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan
If we project out to a year, that would be $120 billion each year to fuel the US proxy war in Ukraine.

That's roughly 1/8 of the entire US military budget for the year: by far the world's largest.

Congrats to Raytheon, General Dynamics and CIA!

pbs.org/newshour/polit…
Don't worry: I'm sure these billions and weapons flying around DC and Ukraine are being meticulously accounted for.

That's why Dems and GOP united to block @RandPaul's amendment for oversight.

No need! Raytheon, CIA and Ukraine are famous for transparent, honest accounting.
(In case anyone objects to calling what's happening in Ukraine a "US proxy war," that's not a real debate. Top US officials and the most influential defense policy operatives in DC call it that repeatedly, as @NoahCarl90 documented here, because it is):

noahcarl.substack.com/p/is-ukraine-a…

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Musk suggested there may be mildly less censorship on Twitter, and they can't stand the possibility that one influential venue by defy their control.
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Hakeem Jeffries is the notorious embodiment of everything sleazy and corporatist in establishment Dem politics, what "the Squad" claims to oppose: a corporate lawyer, he rose in the House by serving corporate lobbyists.

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This claim was mindlessly shared by more mainstream commentators, political leaders (including @JustinTrudeau and @tedlieu), "journalists" and activists than one could count. It went mega-viral.

Just basic skepticism would've revealed it had no credible sourcing from the start:
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These are absolutely reasonable question to ask the FBI Director -- not just reasonable but necessary.

But within liberal political culture, any questioning of authorities is castigated as "deranged conspiracy theories." Only blind and uncritical acceptance is deemed honorable.
Liberals now have all sorts of memes and clichés they've been trained to recite that mock the notion of "just asking questions."

That's what it means to build an authoritarian culture: FBI, DOJ and CIA leaders are to be honored and believed, not questioned or doubted.
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Credit to the NYT for writing this unflinching look at how puberty blockers have been handed out to kids as young as 8 with almost no data on their safety, yet now studies are finding - surprise! - they cause all kinds of harms, including to bone density:

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One of the most dishonest debate-closing tactics has been to imply those who write a lot about trans issues (that does not include me) are creepily obsessed with what adults do to their bodies.

It's just a lie: most of the debate is about what society is doing to *young kids.*
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But it's immoral to ban debate over science, especially for kids' health. Read the NYT article.
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So revealing how many liberals and "leftists" are telling Musk he's stupid and reckless for speaking irreverently to a Senator (!), especially one with power over his companies.

These people are such fucking authoritarians: you speak to Democratic Senators with respect or else!
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