Matt Wuerker for August 05, 2020

It’s an old joke. And it’s a costly form of social psychosis.

Having Trump in the white house and having the (pseudo) republican party backing him has all sane people feeling insecure.

Paranoid much, Uncle Sam?

warships, not battleships

And don’t forget all the tanks being built and then sent to Honey Lake.

Actually, we have NO commissioned Battleships, only several on display around the country as memorials. The U.S.S. Iowa, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Missouri, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Alabama, and Texas.

The more you spend, the bigger the kickbacks…..

Brilliantly sad comic perfectly illustrating the tragic reality!

And a tiny little … sense of reality.

I’ve seen this one before

From Eisenhower’s Farewell address, Jan. 17, 1961.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.

Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together

Just imagine the things we could do if we didn’t throw so much away through waste, fraud, abuse and obscene profits in Defense spending.

This ultimately evolved into, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.

Send him to his room to play with the toy soldiers or just go golfing for the next 3 months.

Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex.

Thy enemy is within.

The Republican covid bill had hundreds of millions for jet fighters and no money for testing or tracing which is the only way to reopen the country. Republicans are turning the USA into a dictatorship over a failed state.

Unfortunately, with updated (or down-dated) statistics, this cartoon has been valid for decades.

It’s the same complex that Eisenhower warned us about in the 1950’s – it was dangerous then and it’s still dangerous, today!

And to top it off, America now has an “idiot” that pronounces an accidental explosion in Lebanon an “Attack” without proof – he just “thinks” it was an attack!

Does anyone else see just how dangerous such a person is who has access to the nuclear codes?

C’maaan, get real. Nobody needs 283 battleships.

“Wag the Dog” Ike was right.

Brilliant? Ike would approve.

283 warships. Very few of them (I think only 1) is an actual battleship. Not to worry, though, we have about a dozen aircraft carriers, way more than the rest of the world combined.