Marco Rubio on Monday: “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”

[scottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@augieray I strongly believe, as with the religious establishment in the New Testament, that a significant portion of life is a hypocrisy test.

It explains basically everything about Donald Trump... a born rich, wise-as-a-stump person who prides himself on all seven deadly sins.

[3dogcouch@mas.to]

@augieray I feel so much safer with Passout Pete with the Nazi tatts at the helm, knowing he has our demented president's ear & access to nukes. That is so much better than health care.

[stevengrant@social.vivaldi.net]

@augieray Unrecognized is not the same thing as dead.

[chiwetel@mastodon.social]

@augieray
It does land as a stark contrast calling for investment in people abroad while downplaying it at home. That tension says a lot about priorities and what we define as “security.”

Makes you wonder: can a nation truly be secure if it underinvests in the well-being of its own people?

[jebkfan@mas.to]

@augieray Well Rubio sort of had a point (roughly).

[hamonwry@mastodon.world]

@augieray

Tone deaf … these fools are absolutely tone deaf.

[elprimo@mastodon.social]

@JebKFan @augieray not really, no. i'm the last person who will defend the islamic revolution, they're degenerates, but if they had spent their money on their people instead of the means to defend their oil fields they would have become East Iraq in the 1980s, and don't think they didn't know it then and know it now.

[augieray@mastodon.social]

@stevengrant Have you never heard the phrase "irony is dead" before?

[lefthandmonki@mastodon.social]

“Imagine an America that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of America.”

@augieray

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@augieray Irony may be dead....

But hypocrisy seems to be thriving!

[jebkfan@mas.to]

@elprimo @augieray Not wrong... what I meant is that a lot of money went into their pockets as well, probably.

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@augieray They are relying SO MUCH on their base upholding the American exceptionalism narrative to resist clueing in on the call coming from inside the house. It feels like a really dicey gamble at this stage in a way it never has in my life.

[kcpoole@mastodon.au]

@augieray jeez they are stupid!

[ttown@mstdn.social]

@lefthandmonki @augieray
Imagine if the US, instead of building the largest military in the world, had spent the money on it's citizens.

[lynnd@spore.social]

@augieray it died the day he rode down the escalator.

[smith208@mastodon.social]

@scottmichaud @augieray yo wsg

[mcslibinas@mastodon.social]

@kcpoole @augieray so stupids vote for them. Like stupids see stupid Trump and co and say yo! Our people!

[clusterfcku@mastodon.social]

@Ttown @lefthandmonki @augieray you'd then have the Norway he so admires

[darkpixel@infosec.exchange]

@augieray I feel it in my bones.

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@augieray "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican