Problem with the budget? Hide it. Military Costs? There are no military costs. This is fast becoming the Soviet Union. Old Russian joke:
Brezhnev is on a train. The train is a metaphor for the Soviet Economy. The train is not moving. People are complaining. Brezhnev closes all the window curtains on the train car and proclaims, "There. We're moving again."
Soviet-style secrecy. How the turn tables.
Our contributions to the war in Ukraine are totally above board and legitimate so naturally we don't need to review them.
From the ZH comments,
(How refreshing)
The Republic is being destroyed from within.
It's because it would reveal the majority of government money is going to the companies with feminist CEOs.