Bone Spurs and Billion-Dollar Bombs: The High Price of the Trump’s Ego

By Rob C.

Art by John Cole

TL;DR: Our President, Captain Bone Spurs, is playing army man against Venezuela to steal their oil, all while his Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is issuing illegal “kill ‘em all” orders that will send actual soldiers to prison. Meanwhile, while Trump builds gilded ballrooms and the Senate dumps billions into the military money pit, millions of working Americans are going without medicine, heating, and food. This is the classic, sickening “Let Them Eat Cake” moment, the last words of the out-of-touch aristocracy, so the question becomes: is it time for “Off with their Heads?”

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It takes a special kind of moral sickness to be a 5 time, Draft-dodging coward who wants to send other people’s children to war, but Donald Trump has always excelled at that particular brand of hypocrisy. Our President is currently waging a tough-guy foreign policy against Venezuela to secure their oil for his corporate buddies, a geopolitical heist wrapped in the bullshit excuse of “narco-terrorism.”

But let’s be crystal clear about the high cost of this particular game of “Army Man. While Teddy Dozevelt plays general from the comfort of his gaudy, gold-plated chair, the costs are being paid in blood abroad and crippling financial hardship at home. This entire spectacle is an obscenity of priorities:

* Billionaire Vanity: Trump is sinking fortunes into gilded ballrooms and marble bathrooms for himself, while the Senate—his loyal enablers—is busy dumping our hard-earned tax dollars into the bottomless money pit that is the U.S. military.

* Murder on the High Seas: The results of this military-industrial obsession are immediate and deadly. Trump’s Defense Secretary, the macho-posturing Pete Hegseth, is issuing illegal orders to commit murder on the high seas. He gives tough-guy speeches about “manliness” while issuing orders to sink boats and eliminate shipwrecked survivors—orders that ordinary soldiers and officers may very well go to prison for when the political tide inevitably turns.

The Working Class is paying for War Crimes

And what is the net result of all this spending, Trump’s inflated ego, and austerity for the hard-working American trying to keep their family afloat? A f*cking disaster for the working class.

The Senate easily passed the $900 billion NDAA, that’s enriching military contractors, and funding the illegal killings, but when it comes to the helping average Americans with the essentials of life, the cupboard is bare:

- Healthcare Costs Tripled: Your prescription drug costs and insurance premiums have gone through the roof, forcing millions to choose between medicine and rent.

- Heating, Food, and Dignity: While the administration plots to steal Venezuela’s oil, millions of Americans are struggling to afford heating during the winter (Trump canceled subsidies), running out of food before the end of the month, and dealing with an untenable cost of living crisis.

The connection is not subtle; it is a financial gut punch to the working class. Billions for bombs, but nothing for the hardworking Americans.

This is the classic, most sickening expression of an aristocratic elite disconnected from the public: “Let them eat cake.” But we can’t eat bombs. We can’t heat our homes with oil money that goes straight into the pockets of Trump’s corporate backers. The working class is being deliberately sacrificed on the altar of El Pork-Choppo’s ego and his backers’ greed.

The question is no longer about policy differences; it’s about sheer greed. When the ruling class shows this level of contempt—committing murder abroad while creating financial ruin at home—it makes you wonder: maybe it’s finally time for “off with their heads?”

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— Robert Cain, author of Democracy for Sale: How Corporate Greed Is Corrupting Democracy and Endangering the Planet.