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Pentagon to use $130M donation from anonymous Trump 'friend' to pay military

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown
23•breve•11h ago

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ben_w•11h ago
Oh dear.

This definitely feels like someone duct-taping a wheel back onto a wagon while in motion.

I do hope they have loyalty to the constitution, not to the de-facto new owners.

verdverm•9h ago
With the recent changes to the Pentagon press corp and policy, people are waiting on something more definitive than the Pentagon saying they "confirm" it

At a minimum, the people need to know who's behind / where the money comes from.

It seems illegal as measured by the Antideficiency Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act

burnt-resistor•6h ago
In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others.

...

It is equally evident that the members of each department should be as little dependent as possible on those of the others, for the emoluments annexed to their offices. Were the executive magistrate, or the judges, not independent of the legislature in this particular, their independence in every other would be merely nominal.

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We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State. But it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit. It may even be necessary to guard against dangerous encroachments by still further precautions. As the weight of the legislative authority requires that it should be thus divided, the weakness of the executive may require, on the other hand, that it should be fortified.

- Excerpt from James Madison, Federalist 51, 1788

The founders were unable to have conceived of a nation of 340 million, mass media or social media, or politicians beholden to foreign nations, lacking in integrity, and slavishly enriching themselves and their wealthy buddies. This is a system that that refuses to be reformed from within and is essentially completely captured as a play thing for an economic aristocracy. This is merely a pulling back of the curtain of ostensible pretense rather than a change in fundamental nature. It's a big, extra "F U" to everyone not rich.

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