The Jihad-Adjacent Journalists
Clarice Feldman
We’ve grown used to the media’s joining with the Democrats to attack every move by the President, but it is still something to watch the lies and distortions about the war in Iran, where the press smears the troops in the middle of battle. Using the latest technology and working closely with the IDF and IAF, our military has achieved remarkable, unforeseen results in a matter of days. On the other hand, most major media coverage denigrates this accomplishment and regrettably advocates for our enemies.
The week began with reports that the Department of War wasted money buying lobsters and rib steaks for the troops. Actually, SNAP recipients spend much more money on those foods:
SNAP Shock: Far many more millions in Food Aid Spent on King Crab, Lobster & Steaks than the Department of War From an official government research study of $6.58 billion dollars in SNAP expenditures, $1.9 million dollars were spent on king crab, $2.2 million dollars were spent on lobster and $28.4 million on select beef loins. Federal SNAP spending in 2024 was $99.8 billion. Scaled up, that means SNAP recipients spent $28.8 million dollars on king crab, $33.36 million dollars on lobster, and $430.75 million on steaks. DoW spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak. Ask any journalist pushing the "Hegseth is spending money on lobster" propaganda if they're willing to cut out those categories for SNAP recipients. They will not be.
These DoW expenditures were normal and not extravagant, as anyone who was pushing the anti-Hegseth story could have determined with a simple check: Don Surber took time to check:
In the final month of the fiscal year -- when federal agencies drain the remains of their budget allotments -- the military spent $6.1 million on lobster, $16.6 million on rib-eyes, $6.8 million on Alaska king crabs and salmon, and $117,787 on donuts.
That was part of a $79.4 billion final spending spree for the month.
That happened in 2024, under Lloyd Austin, Biden’s occasionally AWOL secretary of defense. [snip] Iowa Senator Joni Ernst tweeted, “Maintaining our national security is the highest priority, but we must ensure that defense dollars are spent on just that, defense.
“We need a full audit of the Pentagon and to declare war on waste by ending the use-it-or-lose-it model that encourages defenseless spending.”
Ernst also tweeted, “Who needs a 5-star restaurant when you can dine at Bistro Le Taxpayer Department of Defense.”
She knows better because she served for 23 years in the Iowa Army National Guard, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
When in session, members of Congress receive $79 for meals per day -- or up to $15,000 a year.
The Pentagon spends $18-$20 a day to feed each serviceman. [snip] We have a commander-in-chief (that would be President Trump) whose war consigliere, Pete Hegseth, has supervised missions that closed the Mexican border, ended Iran’s nuclear program, cleaned up the crime and grime in DC, obliterated drug smugglers in the Caribbean, arrested Maduro and is ending a 47-year war with the Death-to-America regime in Iran.
I say a lobster in every pot and a rib-eye on the grill for these heroes because have done a decade’s worth of work in a little over a year. [snip] The same media that dismisses as Islamophobic anger against Somalians for ripping off $9 billion from taxpayers for fake daycare centers is self-righteously complaining about feeding our troops fancy food occasionally. The amount is but 0.2% of the Somalian fraud in Minnesota alone.
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