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Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month, Watchdog Claims

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Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month, Watchdog Claims - Lemmings.world

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Mar 10 at 10:54pmWeb
Show threadDr_Fetus_JacksonMar 10
Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
Show threadlettruthoutMar 11
Or…. Waste Abuse Repeat (WAR)
Show threadzigmus64Mar 11
That’s what it’s good for!
Show threadArancelloMar 10
the corruption has reached such a high level of volume and frequency now that americans dont even care any more. its now perfectly fine to spend tax dollars on steak and lobster. cant pay your rent or car loan or mortgage ? from the other side of the world you look like you are ruled by the mafia and 40% of you think its great.
Show threaddohpaz42Mar 11
We care. We just can’t do anything about it. So we dissociate to survive.
Show threadK9lifeMar 11
This, right here, you nailed it
Show threadjohanMar 11
Yes as we know that’s how tyrants have been overthrown throughout history, by all getting together and giving up.
Show threaddohpaz42Mar 11
Your lack of mental health awareness is disturbing, and dangerous. Do better.
Show threadjohanMar 11

I understand you might look at it from your personal point of view, but you gotta be able to take a step back too.

The most powerful country in the world is sliding into fascism, we are months away from from perhaps the most consequential election in US history and the response from you is “nothing can be done, and thinking about it too much is bad for my mental health”.

Of course I’m simplifying and I definitely empathise with the many Americans who are suffering and struggling, but if you think that my comment is “dangerous” then surely so is your defeatist message?

So much can still be done, and it’s vitally important to keep caring and try and protect democracy and rule of law. Who is the “we” you are talking about? Because surely it’s far from all Americans.

Show threadHasturInYellowMar 11
Mayhaps we could gather in small secret groups and decide which building look especially cold this winter. Maybe we could help warm them up.
Show threadthejoker954Mar 11
We probably be better off with the Mafia in charge.
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMar 11
the mafia is in charge.
Show threadBigMacHoleMar 10
Thank GOD we Eliminated my Children’s Free Lunch Program to afford that!
Show threadjohncandy1812Mar 11
I thought he said he wanted no fat soldiers
Show threadArchangel1313Mar 10
How?
Show threadn3m37hMar 11
Buying cocaine and claim its surf n turf
Show threadArchangel1313Mar 11
The worst part is, that’s actually a plausible explanation.
Show threadpticrixMar 11

“How do we know there are drugs being smuggled from South of the border? Well, that’s where we get ours!”

Probably why they called it “the war on drugs”. Gotta have your nostril destroyed by blow before calling those shots.

Show threadBrkdncrMar 10
Honestly feeding military workers surf & turf once a year isn’t a problem for me. I wish they would do it every year they have surplus budget.
Show threadCubitOomMar 11
They do it before they send them to war.
Show threadPyroNeurosisMar 11
Or extend deployments. The MoraleMeal^TM^ is a flexible all-in-one solution to fixing attitudea.
Show threadQuetzalcutlassMar 11
The expense of feeding the troops a fancy meal was a fraction of the cost of one of the hundreds of missiles they’ve used so far in Iran. It’s just about the least objectionable line item in the military budget right now.
Show threadsomethingsnappyMar 11
Lol. Surplus budget. It isn’t the late 1990s.
Show threadBrkdncrMar 11
That’s what was in the article.
Show threadMuffiMar 11
It’s cute that you think actual military workers got some of this surf & turf splurge. It was only for the suits on the very top - barely military.
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMar 11
Careful Pete, you can get fat on that diet.
Show threadTwinTitansMar 11
Gotta cut all those pesky government jobs! Don’t have the money folks! Healthcare? Na, fuck you too! SNAP? LOL. We just simply don’t have the money guys!!!
Show threadIAmYouButYouDontKnowYetMar 11
This whole admin is the type to go get drunk off our money.
Show threadundefinedMar 11
Big surprise they’re heavy meat eaters. If they’re not fucking up the planet through politics they’re doing so with their diets.
Show threadspookedintownsvilleMar 11
“$26,000 worth of sides???”
The Wolf of Wall Street (Mad Max scene)

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Show threadnight_petalMar 11
I may be misreading the wording used in the article, but to me it reads like they were getting orders of doughnuts at $600 each somehow. Were they just getting massive amounts of fancy doughnuts per order ?
Show threadbitjunkieMar 11
No. They were laundering public funds.
Show threadBloomcoleMar 11
that’s great.
any dammage they do to the USSA terror regime is welcomed by the world.
Show threadJaysynMar 11
I wish this was actually damaging to them.
Show threadBloomcoleMar 11
they do a lot of dammage.
Usually to the rest of the world now also themselves.
Better to have this incompetent evil government than the usual evil one.
Show threadmelsaskcaMar 11
This is probably even worse than what triggered the French revolution, but the times are different.
Show threadJaysynMar 11
$26k in sushi prep tables.