US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year.

The Senate voted 77-20 on Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a murder spree off the coast of Latin America.

Citing Trump’s statements about using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his military adventure against Venezuela…

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    I’m not advocating for dismamtling the military, but I do think we should hamstring the MAGA traitors as much as possible. Only a small minority of Americans truly support these PedoCon Traitors, and we shouldn’t allow them to turn the entire world against us. Limiting their use of the military via budget and legislation and courts is the responsible thing to do for the future of our country.

    Once America is back in the responsible hands of sane adults, we can talk about re-establishing a reasonable military budget.

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      These pedocon traitors are the majority in congress. They write the offers and we either have a military budget or we don’t. There is no middle ground we can claim.

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        That doesn’t mean they have to vote for it. They can refuse, and the MAGAs can pass it on their own. The Dems are under no obligation to support ANYTHING the MAGAs do.

        For this entire administration, there shouldn’t be a single Dem vote for ANY MAGA legislation. Force them to win with MAGA votes only. I’m keeping track of DINO appeasers, and will be loudly calling them out for their disloyalty to their constituents, and supporting their primary opponents. One of them is my own guy, who is as weak as any DINO I’ve ever seen. He needs to go.

        And if it means our military doesn’t have funding for the next year, they can blame the MAGA majority, who didn’t vote for it, not Dems, who are obligated to oppose ALL MAGA legislation.

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          They don’t have to vote for continuing to have a military budget, thats right, but they fucking should because thats unfortunately something we need as a result of eastern bloc aggression.

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            They’ve been using it to support Gaza Genocide, and to hold a hammer over Zelensky’s head, and to threaten American citizens, so they have too much.

            Nobody is coming for us, and if they do start getting froggy, we can release enough dough to get through, but not enough for MAGA to start thinking they can fund a war of corruption.

            When we have responsible people, and not toddlers, handling the guns, we’ll give them some bullets.

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              9 hours ago

              The majority of aid to israel is SELLING weapons to them, which does not require any budget because it very literally pays for itself.

              Russia is moving west, China is moving east, deny the facts all you want.