Your military that's being deployed against you is being partially funded by anonymous donors

[bigtree]

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
The Pentagon accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help pay troops' salaries.

Fiscal policy experts are questioning the legality of the move.

"In general, you may not spend money that has been donated because the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act say that you can't spend money unless you have an appropriation to make it happen."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/24/military-salaries-donation-trump/

[Champp]

1. Republicans vs. America

[thomski64]

3. I believe the term to describe a Nation..

..utterly without a functioning Rule of Law is Anarchy. Have I missed something? If the Government is lawless, why should anyone obey ?

[Hotler]

2. Is everyone getting paid or, just the fascist boot lickers within the rank? nt

[popsdenver]

11. Dubious that the money

will go to the U.S. Military, but to finance Trump's Private Gestapo, ICE, and all the Nazi insurrectionists that he pardoned.......

[Wiz Imp]

4. "Fiscal policy experts are questioning the legality of the move."

What's the question? This is clearly blatantly illegal.

[TheRickles]

9. Why isn't this being challenged in court? Hard to believe that SCOTUS would OK something this blatant.

But these days, you never know.

[Wiz Imp]

13. I'm sure it will be. Wasn't it just announced a day or 2 ago?

[TheRickles]

14. Yes, you're right. I'm losing track of all the blatantly illegal and challengeable moves by Trump these days.

[MadameButterfly]

16. So oligarchs are funding the military now

They can throw in money and get anything done that they like....anonomously

[UTUSN]

5. A private army bought and donated to KRASNOV.

[leftstreet]

6. What percentage of total military pay is that?

This seems so ridiculous

[ancianita]

18. MSNBC analysts said yesterday it amounts to $10 per ground trooper.

[MLWR]

7. From RawStory:

"The identity of the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the Trump administration to pay troops amid the ongoing government shutdown has been revealed to be reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon, a donation that, according to a report from The New York Times, would likely violate federal law." https://www.rawstory.com/government-shutdown-2674232858/

[Dr. T]

8. I'm sure that $130 million is pocket change for

the donor. The question is this. What does this donor expects in return? That's the way it works in Grifter World.

[bronxiteforever]

10. Unconstitutional usurping of the Congressional power

Nepo baby Mellon believes Americans should starve.
According to wiki
Mellon gave $227 million to federal candidates and political committees from January 2020 through June 2024, nearly all of it to Republicans.[17] As of August 2024, he had donated $165 million in the 2024 elections.[23] Mellon's self-published 2015 autobiography describes his political views.[38][39] Notably, it calls social safety net programs "Slavery Redux", asserting that its beneficiaries are beholden to "a new master, Uncle Sam". Mellon writes:

For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cellphones, WIC [the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children] payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass. Something had obviously gone dreadfully wrong with the Great Society and the Liberal onslaught. Poor people had become no less poor. Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations. ... Drugs rose to the level of epidemic. Single parent families became more and more prevalent. The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pandered endlessly to fan the flames.[38][34]

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

[Bev54]

12. That $100 per active military member is not going to go a long way, especially in light of the

illegality. I suspect this $ will find its way into Trump's pockets

[bigtree]

21. what the mafia does is to get the people they recruit to do little tasks

...get them used to subservience.

A little fascism here, a little totalitarianism there.

Break a little law...

“Whether the government is or is not lawfully paying the troops salaries can’t depend on this gift. It has to depend on whether there is another appropriation available for this cost, and I don’t think there is. And if there isn’t, then they can take the gift and hold it, but they can’t spend it without approval of Congress,” Super told Federal News Network.

Similarly to the Pentagon’s legally disputed move last week to redirect $8 billion from its research and development accounts to cover military pay, the use of private funds raises concerns — government agencies can spend federal funds only as appropriated by Congress and spending in the absence of appropriations is constitutionally prohibited.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/can-dod-use-private-funds-to-pay-troops-during-shutdown/

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

15. Dollars or rubles?

[twodogsbarking]

17. I posted this quote one other place. It is so good.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
― Frank Zappa

[Initech]

20. Zappa, like George Carlin, was a prophet who saw the future!

[Initech]

19. Well who are these anonymous donors? Time to expose them.

Fuck them and their stupid money!