Unreal — The Economist is out here trying to help Trump’s attack DOG(E)s Elon & Vivek blame veterans benefits for the 🇺🇸 debt now? Pretty gross. No wonder no author put their name on it. - ThreadSky

thetnholler.bsky.social • 85 days ago

Unreal — The Economist is out here trying to help Trump’s attack DOG(E)s Elon & Vivek blame veterans benefits for the 🇺🇸 debt now?

Pretty gross. No wonder no author put their name on it.

Comments

guidotoons.bsky.social•85 days ago

Izzat why Trace Atkins and Gary Sinise routinely beg for money for them 24/7?

sashat.bsky.social•85 days ago

You would think a nation that got their asses handed to them so badly (to this day) would learn to stfu and be thankful for the USA.

aalavbri.bsky.social•85 days ago

They will blame anyone just so they can gain more money for themselves

headed4thebeach.bsky.social•85 days ago

This is such vile treatment of those who served this nation. It’s difficult to get some vets to even request/accept benefits. I hate this timeline.

techychik.bsky.social•85 days ago

Um, SOMEONE has to know who wrote this.....c'mon #blueskypeeps
#WhoDunnit

notnerb.bsky.social•85 days ago

@economist.com there aren’t enough homeless veterans. Lovely xeet!

sinjinco.bsky.social•85 days ago

And this is the reason why I told my husband I wasn't renewing his subscription to The Economist for his birthday. It's become trash.

maggieww.bsky.social•85 days ago

In the ABQ VA, there's not enough $ to have PT over the weekend, not enough therapists of any kind. The people who are served there are not wealthy. They would have died for us. The ER diagnosis could have been faster, but all other services have been great. Deafness from anti-aircraft guns.

gencarter.bsky.social•85 days ago

From comments on other posts, apparently the Economist does not use bylines. 🤷🏼‍♀️

kenny80.bsky.social•85 days ago

Send those people like musk rat to Ukraine as a soldier, and let him see first hand what service members are confronted with. There are extremely few veterans who have served in a war zone that hasn’t seen some kind of injury, some taking years to manage to become a diagnose.

tedos.bsky.social•85 days ago

Who gives a crap who the author is. The Economist is considered a “serious” magazine for “serious” people. They are laying the ground to cut VA benefits as part of the broader attack on federal workers and shift to full on kleptocracy.

ac12345.bsky.social•85 days ago

Trump will love the blowback he gets from his supporters who are vets. It's a bum deal for T. M and R will slash and burn and enrich themselves and T will get the blame.

buffalojon.bsky.social•85 days ago

Pretext for cutting veteran benefits, project 2025 is coming and all those that voted for it without knowing are about to find out

asteraceaeg.bsky.social•85 days ago

Sorry, no amount of benefits will ever be enough for the men & women who go out to die or come home traumatized or broken. We owe them everything.
Take mElonia’s subsidies & give them to vets.

tigrismus.bsky.social•85 days ago

FFS. How about we keep paying vets, but cut the rest of the military budget so we aren't responsible for 40% of total world military spending?

soyballs.bsky.social•85 days ago

Well, if we keep giving them benefits we'll keep having wars. This has got to stop.

jumpmaster82.bsky.social•82 days ago

Sit down son

gandydancer1961.bsky.social•85 days ago

WTF are you talking about?

enandes2.bsky.social•85 days ago

Quite frankly, I love it! #FAFO2025

stonemom.bsky.social•85 days ago

I wish this had been published and personally delivered to every veteran before the election.

megan777.bsky.social•85 days ago

I’m a veteran. I can’t stand for more than 4 hours and need glasses and dental work. I don’t qualify for optical and dental because I’m not 100% disabled. How am I receiving absurdly generous benefits? It feels like they want to put vets out on the streets to justify putting us in prison.

princessmarie08.bsky.social•85 days ago

The US govt would be happy if every soldier was killed overseas before paying them for their service.

megan777.bsky.social•85 days ago

💯💯

karencox1963.bsky.social•85 days ago

They should suffer just like the rest of

mangycoyote.bsky.social•85 days ago

Absurdly generous… How about because our military is all VOLUNTEER, they can get whatever they want. Their housing has already been privatized and look what happened🤬

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/privatized-military-housing/

mrmalakai.bsky.social•85 days ago

My VA disability is *not* enough to live off of, and im at 100%. They taught us how to make war, how stupid are they to make us their enemy? Fkn idiots.