Pentagon says it will ramp up war supplies with defense companies

F****** children anyway they can

Desperate children are easier to prey upon.

Plus Jared and Don Jr’s new drone company.

Whoa man. Not just for Freedom! But for Jesus too! Israel just annex 10% of Lebanon's territory! Holy War baby!

Democrats are owned by some of the same money interests. But they've also been wildly incompetent in the Trump era. They act like it's business as usual, have done a terrible job investing in campaigning and PR, and still lean into seniority instead of listening to the voters that would win them elections. I blame their incompetence and electoral malfeasance more than anything else. It's worse than just being bought by interests, it's being incompetent to the benefit of moneyed interests.

Depends on what there buying but if we’re talking about patriots and tomahawks, then yeah. Thats like…two dozen.

What percentage does Trump take?

Healthcare, education, infrastructure, there are so many other departments that could benefit from having literally unlimited budget, which would impact an average Joe's life a million times more than what's being spent on defense. And yet, we keep flushing billions down the drain

Yeah, basically one jet and it's ordinance. And not even the top of the line jet at that.

It's to build/expand facilities to enable more production capacity, not for buying weapons directly 

Blow a quarter of your $200b

Ehhh… it depends if it’s just ramping up production and buying existing equipment and systems then it’s something. But if this is new development(which I highly doubt) then it’s nothing. Let’s say the average system rounds out at $5mn then you get 100 of these!! No doubt there will be plenty of $500k weapons and a few $10-15mn systems. I think this would be something that can support the joint services with the current war for about 6months to a year. The devil is in the details but $500mn spent well can go a long ways. I’m hoping(not really but if we want to protect or service members) there is a smaller amount but similar scale for small counter UAS systems so each base and and battalion can have a few at a time and be replenished for the same amount of time.

Thankfully, it’s still the DoD because Congress didn’t approve the name change. There were orders sent out allowing officers and NCOs to use either *DoD* or *DoW* in official correspondences, but colloquially it’s still DoD.

Don't give Trump any ideas!

That dude needs a brain scan

here is recent news on [JobsOhio](https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/25/jobsohio-oversight-proposed-by-bipartisan-ohio-lawmakers-following-podcast-scandal/) and a little more info on [Anduril](https://news.constructconnect.com/massive-drone-and-weapons-plant-construction-gets-310m-jobsohio-grant) in Ohio

>we couldnt get ourselves to vote for a woman president twice Are you referring to Hillary Clinton? Because she voted for the Iraq war and supported intervention in Libya and Syria.

To distract the news from the No Kings protests most likely

No, we’re correcting it because a congressional vote is necessary to rename it

Iran is also 2.5x the size of Texas with the altitude and terrain of Colorado. It’s f****** cold. It’s f****** hot. You’re at 4,000ft with mountains towering above you. Their air power is crippled, but you would still need to secure more than two Texases plus a coast line that’s as long as the southern tip of Florida to Delaware. You can already get lost and hide in one Texas. Now imagine how many fighters you could hide in TWO Texases. Also from what we know, there’s no major schisms or fractioning of Iran’s army or leadership. It’s not like Syria where the country Balkanized into multiple factions. Whatever is left waiting is still loyal and not going to turn on itself.

Donald Trump

Well, they certainly don't want to take the chance of putting their so-very-refined weapons technology against a peer, and especially not against China. Even barring the nuclear weapons aspect of that, if we went balls out to "Free Taiwan" it's a fight I am increasingly sure we would lose. We might lose that fight very badly, maybe even humiliatingly badly, as in "we don't know what happened to that ship, but the PLAN is picking up all our sailors bobbing in the water". Ah we keep coming back around to nuclear weapons. Increasingly, the non-nuclear nations of the earth look more and more like the colonialized of the 19th century, held under the power of steam, iron, and guns. Today there are no longer the Enlightenment notions to soften the imbalance of power, and old Rousseauism / Old Right stirrings of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" echo through the West. Along with a wholly new and totally undisguised delight in cruelty for its own sake. Not even justifying it with "anti-partisan actions" or "purifying the blood of the nation" or any of the other old time-honored excuses. People like Hegseth and his ilk find brutality amusing, and they think you should too. One wonders if they would chuck a nuke at the unsuspecting _for the lulz_, and one is not comforted.