Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Universal healthcare? Can’t afford it! But this….
I bet he thinks they'll be building an actual dome.
Been there, done that. Remember Reagan's bright shiny "Star Wars" that was going to end world leftism?
Swamp drained - No. Wall built - No. Mexico paying - No.
Im sure it will work this time.
The point isn't to actually build the thing, the point is to send government money over to military contractor friends.
True, but we'll still pay for the attempt.
What's worse is I doubt even half the money will be used on the project itself, it will just be pocketed by Trump's mates.
You're just paying for Yachts and Mansions.
I’m sure the ten million people losing healthcare are very happy their taxes will go toward enriching defense contractors instead
Especially given there’s absolutely no way in Hell $175b will cover a fraction of the cost of such a defense system. They will have lost health insurance in exchange for a small piece of vaporware.
The Soviet Union collapsed in good part because it bankrupted itself trying to catch up with the Star Wars program, which was not even real.
And here we’re just trying to catch up to that 0% billionaire tax rate.
Military officials said at the time that they hadn't expressed a need for such a comprehensive shield to defend the U.S., while critics noted the U.S. wasn't under threat from its neighbors, Canada and Mexico
Now we know why he started shit with Canada!
"Oh shit, if you rape your neighbours, they can fight back? Gotta get working on close air defense ASAP!"
Does the plan involve every American billionaire being paid to provide everyone with a golden shower
Yes, but you'll have to pay for the shower. Otherwise it's too much like getting something for free and that's commie bullshit.
This has zero chance of working.... Kinda like the wall.
It has every chance of working exactly the way the wall did since of course all it's just a money grift.
Just 175B into a selected few pockets.
Based on the headline I thought I was clicking into The Onion. Fuck this timeline.
So just fuck Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, etc.
Do you mean Puerto Rico?
I think they are just a time traveler who hasn’t quite caught up with all the news yet, give them time
Yes
Cuba is not a part of the US
Oops. Fixed.
Oh good, another $100+ billion of tax payer money funneled to himself and Putin.
So it's just a combover?
More concepts of a plan than a real plan
But the money will be real... Into someone's pockets
War is how you stay elected.
This shit is literally some kind of "Canadian Bacon" bizarro rat fuck timeline.
Gold would make a terrible dome.
Why do you say that? It's a metal that can be hammered extremely thinly, gold leaf etc.
Gold leaf isn't going to stop a missile.
Oh goody goody. /s
This honestly isn't that bad of an idea, but theres much more pressing issues than this