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Why not? Apparently that's how MAGA thinks things should be handled. They should be happy to see Dems adopting the same strategy.
Why not? Because the world is at the precipice of WWIII due to the USA's diplomacy going limp and heavy aggression from Russian and Chinese expansionism. Whatever tens of millions suffer because of Republican letting social safety nets falter, which is not mutually exclusive mind you, is nothing compared to the amount of suffering caused if hostilities broke into US backed nations and states across the pacific.
It's one thing to say "we should spend less on military" or "the military should be able to pass audits", but to say "defund the US military" is some clear Tankie propaganda shit of the highest order.
I'm not advocating for dismamtling the military, but I do think we should hamstring the MAGA traitors as much as possible. Only a small minority of Americans truly support these PedoCon Traitors, and we shouldn't allow them to turn the entire world against us. Limiting their use of the military via budget and legislation and courts is the responsible thing to do for the future of our country.
Once America is back in the responsible hands of sane adults, we can talk about re-establishing a reasonable military budget.
These pedocon traitors are the majority in congress. They write the offers and we either have a military budget or we don't. There is no middle ground we can claim.
That doesn't mean they have to vote for it. They can refuse, and the MAGAs can pass it on their own. The Dems are under no obligation to support ANYTHING the MAGAs do.
For this entire administration, there shouldn't be a single Dem vote for ANY MAGA legislation. Force them to win with MAGA votes only. I'm keeping track of DINO appeasers, and will be loudly calling them out for their disloyalty to their constituents, and supporting their primary opponents. One of them is my own guy, who is as weak as any DINO I've ever seen. He needs to go.
And if it means our military doesn't have funding for the next year, they can blame the MAGA majority, who didn't vote for it, not Dems, who are obligated to oppose ALL MAGA legislation.
They don't have to vote for continuing to have a military budget, thats right, but they fucking should because thats unfortunately something we need as a result of eastern bloc aggression.
They've been using it to support Gaza Genocide, and to hold a hammer over Zelensky's head, and to threaten American citizens, so they have too much.
Nobody is coming for us, and if they do start getting froggy, we can release enough dough to get through, but not enough for MAGA to start thinking they can fund a war of corruption.
When we have responsible people, and not toddlers, handling the guns, we'll give them some bullets.