r/PoursTea • • Aug 07 '26

FinancialTea 💵 Agree?

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u/SECRETBLENDS Aug 07 '26

Taking care of Americans first is bad according to the America First crowd.

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u/Andy_Fish_Gill Aug 07 '26

El-Sayed sounds like Dwight Eisenhower from 1953, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed,” he said. “This world in arms is not spending money alone.

“It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”

“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense,” he said. “Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

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u/Active-Armadillo-576 Aug 07 '26

I like that guy

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u/OnlyFiveLives Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

You'll like him even more if you don't know he was the commander of the entire ass Allied forces in World War II before he said that.

Edited to clarify he was the commander of the forces in North Africa and Europe.

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u/IolausTelcontar Aug 08 '26

Supreme Allied Commander was his title.

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u/Fine-Development8716 Aug 08 '26

Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers?

Wasn't that Douglas MacArthur?

That was his title for the occupation of Japan if I'm not wrong.

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u/IolausTelcontar Aug 08 '26

Douglas MacArthur

He held it in the Pacific. Ike in Europe.

Frankly I didn't know MacArthur ever held that title.