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that pic of the long hair dude In Israel that's been circulating is pretty convincing, visually

FY 26 to date spending, from the treasury site (i.e. October 2025 to date--so roughly 1/4 of a year (data likely collected through Dec.)):

$402 B Social Security
$270 B Net Interest
$267 B National Defense
$261 B Health
$254 B Medicare
$166 B Income Security
$114 B Veterans Benefits and Services
$39 B Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
$33 B Transportation
$23 B Administration of Justice
-$2 B Other

That's total about 1.83T spent in 3 months; and we have about 1.22T in revenue for the same period. That means deficit this year of 1.8 to 2.4T, if we continue that pace.

Max DOGE cuts were projected at less than $100B, even if brutally thorough. (I know Musk said 2T before election, but that's more than we spend total and was just grandstanding. April 2025 max estimate was $150B and late 2025 was projected at $63B.) IMO, no matter how much you cut, it's not enough--not to say we shouldn't be careful and cut spending, too. We'd have to completely get rid of Social Security and Health assistance to get near breakeven, which some folks are okay with....

We likely don't take in enough revenue b/c low tax, which is fine, but it costs us long term. Further concerning with a shrinking population.

Tariffs only fill the gap so much and at some point are counter productive. We imported roughly 325B in goods last year. Even if we tariffed 100% (which would cause the imports and likely our GDP to drop, so at some rate, counterproductive), that's only 1/6 of the current deficit.

The debt isn't unsustainable yet as GDP grows, but we're projecting that way in the near term.

Hence the theories that DJT is crippling the dollar to make borrowing cheaper and/or, as Putin accused us, of dumping some debt into crypto and then killing whichever coin they use for the debt. IDK how there would be enough buyers though.

In short, agree with whoever said our kids are screwed.

A+

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Doesn’t for a moment, cross your mind that maybe this was a staged attack by her own side? To paint her as a victim.

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It didn't at first watch, but now that you all mention it, I can certainly see that as possible.

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2nd angle, hard to tell what he said to her

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pretty sure he says "she's not resigning" then idk after that

I don't agree with probably 70%+ of her policy stances. But (1) wtf, dude? and (2) respect that she didn't hide + went after that guy immediately. :lol: :lol:

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$3.8 million/680 sq ft is only $5,588 per square foot!

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wtf :lol:

dayum I need to go back to school

imagine, you're just chilling in your comfy breakfast nook, observing the earth rise, and then part of the building gets smoked by a space rock. Nah, I'm gonna pass.

From Nasa:

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On average, 33 metric tons (73,000 lbs) of meteoroids hit Earth every day, the vast majority of which harmlessly ablates (“burns up”) high in the atmosphere, never making it to the ground. The Moon, however, has little or no atmosphere, so meteoroids have nothing to stop them from striking the surface. The slowest of these rocks travels at 20 km/sec (45,000 mph); the fastest travels at over 72 km/sec (160,000 mph). At such speeds even a small meteoroid has incredible energy — one with a mass of only 5 kg (10 lbs) can excavate a crater over 9 meters (30 ft) across, hurling 75 metric tons (165,000 lbs) of lunar soil and rock on ballistic trajectories above the lunar surface.

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because the soil underneath is soft like pudding and it'd have to be deep af