Israel has captured the legislature.

They're hardly alone. It's been an absolute feeding frenzy of corporate leeches sucking the US Treasury dry ever since Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan began privatizing every state function they could get their hands on.

The joke of Hegseth's budget request is that it won't actually procure more hardware. He's putting in bids against a cartel that can just raise the prices, even as it forgets how to build the things we're buying. This, even as new entrants to the Pentagon feeding frenzy simply fail to deliver promised material

• Defense watchdog finds new 155mm artillery plant failed to produce parts in 2 years since it was built, hindering production goals

• Western Firms Are Stiffing Ukraine on Military Equipment Contracts

• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says defense giants are 'failing the American people' by falling behind on orders

It's something of a joke that Israelis don't even want the weapons we send them. They just want the money, so they can buy from their own contractors.