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DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

open.substack.comWe Stopped Feeding the World to Buy LobsterThe administration gutted global aid in the name of fighting government waste. At the same time, the Pentagon spent millions on steak, crab, furniture, and even a $98,000 piano.

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DOGE never stopped USAIDs humanitarian efforts. Try to report correctly. I'm sorry if your anus can't be breached in Guatemala as easily but try to be smarter.

As Trump sacrifices our military— to distract from his sins, and cuts the safety net for millions… he and his corrupt regime, including his “family”, spend lavishly looting the Treasury. Who the hell is going to stop this monster’s deadly assault on the world!

It is unbelievable how easy it was to dismantle our democracy to benefit the rich and powerful, yet all politicians have led people to believe that nothing could be done to help the working people, the struggling, we could have had Medicare for all, affordable living, a living wage, who knew

Are you saying that troops and sailors on extended deployment shouldn’t get steak and lobster before getting stuffed into another war for oil? Go ahead and criticize the stuff that’s fair game, but America already has plenty of disingenuous pricks

Couch Boy is the czar of rooting out fraud right now. I am sure he will spend his efforts rooting out fraud in the DoD. I'll just wait.

Irrelevant OT question: How much would an equivalent Yamaha piano have gone for? (I must confess that when I pass the Steinway showroom on 6th AV, I do kinda swoon... they even have a white "John Lennon" piano!)

They are watch Fox NotNews, which is nothing more than a propaganda network devoted to white nationalism, fascism, trumpism, Christian Zionism, and $$$$$$$. So they rarely, if ever, get truth and facts. Just whatever slime is pumped out of their lying machine.

Also Trump espoused this as policy in 1985, mocking our existing alliances & saying we should join Russia to bomb/starve the rest of the world into submission for “peace” & nonproliferation—the interview was republished in 2016, a month before Dowd’s “Donald the Dove” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why is anyone surprised? Rule of thumb: Whatever Trump or members of his administration says is pure gaslighting. Just like Trump, his cabinet members falsely claim fiscal responsibility in order to gut programs Americans need so that they can lavishly spend as they wish.

So you're telling me that the people who built a billion dollar gas station in the middle nowhere Afghanistan are buying Maine lobsters on the taxpayer's dime? I'm shocked...

This humanitarian program, backed by international donors, aims to combat famine by shipping Ukrainian grain to the most vulnerable regions. The program has supported millions of people in Africa and the Middle East,

Yep maga (make trump rich again! )All those candles light dinner,all those donations to sit and eat at his spa in FL! Steak,Lobster,champagne all to fill his war chest deplorable absolutely deplorable.All the while why he started a war. when he’s golfing and having candlelight dinners.

Eating lobster while sending troops haphazard and leaving citizens to find their own way home because the State Dept was gutted. I hope they get food poisoning.

How do we know that’s true? I notice these claims just kinda get made and then mindlessly repeated. Lobster and crab legs? What’s the actual source of that information? Seems like a relevant detail.

Remember they fired all the government oversight committees and the panels that overlook government spending for the Grifter-N-Thief in the White House. Now they are all doing it, remember ICE Barbie’s approved luxury planes? Patel’s luxury trips for him and his girlfriend on the taxpayers dime.

Yet the GOP has traditionally believed that if you give money to rich people, they’ll do the right thing with it, but if you give money to poor people, they’ll do the wrong thing with it. It’s never been true, and this is proof.

The lobsters and steak are 'oh shit bad news' dinners* or sometimes holiday dinners for service members. Not really a concern. The piano cost is average but should only be for professional military musicians. *Deploying to bad area or involuntary extension in bad area

EXACTLY, ADAM!! Not to mention fruit basket stands, recliners, and many, many other things that nobody ever needs!! Thank you for your attention to this matter! Future Inevitable 48th President Boss Best

You need to appeal more to the people in the US who can't afford food & healthcare now. It's a painfully selfish nation. If you want to be effective, you need to realize Americans care far more about themselves than "the world". Bonus: You get to riff off the "America First" pitch.

Please don’t reinforce the narrative that somehow the food costs cited necessarily mean fraud/waste/luxury. If there is reporting that supports it, fine; but spending $15M on ribeyes from SYSCO that go to soldiers and sailors in DFACs and Shipboard mess decks, is not in any way a scandal.

Same with the instruments. We have top notch musicians in the service and I support exposing service members and our allies (maybe embassy staff) to high quality performances as soft power. I am curious where the piano is though.

Millions, probably a billion, on wasteful excess simply because it was budgeted. Would have been better re-allocated to allow for the re-hiring of research firms whose contracts were inexplicably canceled due to fElon Musk and his DOGE BS.

Well (gluttonous) tRump does spend millions every weekend on golf & opulent "Gatsby" dinners at his country club resort w Caviar, champagne, prime rib, etc. - Hegseth is just trying to keep up...