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Home Of The Brave?

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This year, the MAGA-controlled Congress is expected to pass a Pentagon budget of $1.15 trillion, an increase of roughly $250 billion from this year’s already bloated budget. To put that in perspective, a trillion is a million millions!!! Or, to look at it another way, it’s the equivalent of the next eight nations’ military budgets combined, of which six are allies.

That doesn’t look like bravery to me. It looks like a whole lot of fear – $1.15 trillion worth.

And that’s not all. Adding to the total is the $190.6 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (in other words, defense), a department that didn’t even exist before 9/11. Removing the $26.2 billion of the DHS budget intended for disaster relief, that means taxpayers are paying a grand total of approximately $1,314,400,000,000 for defense.

Why?

I submit it’s less about defending our citizens than it is about defending our global corporate empire. In the 1980s, I asked the Central American bureau chief of a large news organization to explain the fighting in El Salvador and Nicaraugua. “Who are the good guys?” I asked. “There are none,” he replied. He told me that the U.S. doesn’t really care about international justice and human rights. That we simply support those who will support our corporate interests.

Nothing I have seen since then has contradicted that argument.

We didn’t intervene in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians perhaps because we have economic and military ties to Israel. Our intrusion in Venezuela wasn’t about human rights or communism. It was about that nation’s large oil reserves. Likewise, our attacks on Iran are all about oil. Indeed, our history of conflicts with Iran began in 1953 after the democratically elected government of Iran nationalized its oil resources.

Truth is, American taxpayers pay to defend U.S. corporate interests with our treasure and our lives. And how do our multinational corporations repay us? They pay to elect the government they want and demand ever greater tax cuts. Based on the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s April 2026 analysis, at least 88 of the largest U.S. corporations paid no federal income tax in 2025, despite earning over $105 billion in U.S. pretax income.

Home of the brave? More like home of the suckers.

The World’s Most Powerful Crime Network.

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Who could have imagined the FBI and DOJ becoming part of a crime syndicate in support of a narcissistic crime boss? But that’s exactly what has happened. Even the MAGA-dominated Supreme Court has participated in the ongoing crime spree by granting the Felon immunity while sitting in the Oval Office, and by gutting the Voting Rights Act allowing MAGA to gerrymander districts in his favor.

And, of course, all of the MAGA Republicans in Congress should be considered co-conspirators and accessories after the fact.

The Felon-in-Chief once bragged that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and people would still vote for him. Turns out he has done far worse. The first weeks in his 2nd term he froze spending for USAID. That single action is estimated to have led to the deaths of millions. Since then, he has engineered budget cuts making healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans. He and his ICEstapo have incarcerated thousands of immigrants, most of whom were here legally. He has overseen the executions of dozens of men operating boats in international waters. He has sent billions to Israel to help them continue their genocide in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. He allowed Israel to drag us into a war against Iran resulting in the deaths of 13 American service members and hundreds Iranian civilians, including 120 school children and their teachers. And he cut funding for the institutions responsible for preventing the next pandemic which could again lead to the deaths of millions.

It’s clear that his actions have killed many times the number of people as all the rest of the world’s organized crime families combined. And, with the power of the U.S. military and its stockpile of nuclear weapons, there is literally no limit to the harm the Teflon Don can inflict.

Moreover, there seems to be no limit to the amount of taxpayer funds the Felon and his charlatan family and friends plan to steal. It began with his $3.4 million weekend golf trips. Then there’s his family’s crypto schemes, his billion-dollar ballroom and other vanity projects, his $1.776 billion slush fund intended to pay off his criminal supporters, the blatant insider trading of he and his gang, Kristi Noem’s $250 million vanity ad campaign, Sean Duffy’s year-long all-expenses paid family vacation…the full extent of the corruption is much too long to cover here. (For a comprehensive list, I recommend checking the linked website: Tracking the Trump Administration’s Most Corrupt Transactions | Campaign Legal Center.) On top of all that, if the DOJ “settlement” of the Felon’s lawsuit is allowed to stand, he and his family will be able to defraud the government out of many more billions in taxes for the rest of their lives.

It’s enough to make Mafia families, Mexican drug cartels, and all the rest of the world’s organized crime families green with envy.