CNN poll finds 37% of registered voters say the country would be "worse off" if Democrats win Congress and 22% say it would be "no different." Jackie Kucinich: "They're not running into, you know, Democratic arms because they love them. They're looking for an alternative."🇺🇸
Tucker Carlson: How is this war viewed by the public in the United States? Stephen Semler: It's the most unpopular war since polling began... It started at negative net 13% net support... According to the latest data, it's at -35 net support🇺🇸
Carlson on the $1.1T military budget: "We can't get our fabled aircraft carriers anywhere near the Iranian coast... If you can't beat the Houthis with $1.1 trillion... What is this for?" Semler: "More than half of the annual military budget goes to for-profit contractors."🇺🇸
Semler: Lawmakers who vote to raise military spending "take three to five times more arms industry cash" than opponents, and 97% of Lockheed's revenue is tied to US policy. Carlson: "They're taking taxpayer money & using it to lobby taxpayers for more taxpayer money."🇺🇸
Stephen Semler says internal Pentagon estimates put the Iran war's 120-day cost at ~$100B, near his $103B, yet the CBO reported $38B after the Pentagon refused to share data and the CBO used a 5-week April figure for 5-month MQ-9 Reaper drone losses, leaving it "100% off."🇺🇸
Semler says the $1.1T DoD budget beats the inflation-adjusted average annual US military budget from 1942-1945 by $90B. Carlson: "Wait, it's more on average per year than we spent during World War II?" Semler: "Yes." He adds Trump proposed $1.5T for next year.🇺🇸
Stephen Semler notes the Pentagon has never passed an audit, the value of assets it cannot account for grows every year as its budget rises, proposing a law "where CEOs who produced inaccurate financial records would go to prison" be applied to the Pentagon🇺🇸
Semler says cost of living was the top issue in 116 of 117 weeks before 2024 and still is, predicting Republicans will lose in 2026 like Democrats did for putting Israel & Ukraine wars over prices. Carlson sees "no daylight between the administrations on those two issues."🇺🇦🙏
