lol,
throwing the military a pizza party so they don’t get couped 
How long until Marines start auctioning the presidency to keep up the Rome cosplay?
Dominus Crassus, welcome back
JDPON taxing the rich :lmayo:
:lathe-of-heaven: JDPON continues to shake down his corporations and donors that so slavishly groveled at his feet to fund the government.
Ayn Rand is spinning in her grave like a pulsar. When the AI bailouts come she will collapse into an ideological black hole.
Reporter: How did you manage to find somebody to pay for our troops during the shutdown?
Trump: He’s a great gentleman. He’s a great patriot. He’s obviously a very substantial man and he contributed $130 million toward the military in order to make up any difference… he doesn’t want publicity. He doesn’t, you know, he’d prefer, I think, that his name not be mentioned. And he’s a big supporter of mine.
Reporter: Is it an American citizen?
Trump: It is. Great American citizen
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1981965865097834861#m (audio)
First Tim Apple and now Tim Mellon
wake me up when Tim Kumquat arrives
Mellon’s self-published 2015 autobiography describes his political views. Notably, it calls social safety net programs “Slavery Redux”, asserting that its beneficiaries are beholden to “a new master, Uncle Sam.”
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.
Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a “patriot” and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon.
Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was “a great American citizen” and a “substantial man.”
“He doesn’t want publicity,” Mr. Trump said as he headed to Malaysia. “He prefer that his name not be mentioned which is pretty unusual in the world I come from, and in the world of politics, you want your name mentioned.”
The White House declined to comment. Multiple attempts to reach Mr. Mellon and representatives for him were unsuccessful.
Mr. Mellon, a wealthy banking heir and railroad magnate, is a longtime backer of Mr. Trump and gave tens of millions of dollars to groups supporting the president’s campaign. Last year, he made a $50 million donation to a super PAC supporting Mr. Trump, which was one of the largest single contributions ever disclosed.
A grandson of former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. Mellon was not a prominent Republican donor until Mr. Trump was elected. But in recent years, he has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting Mr. Trump and the Republican Party.
Mr. Mellon, who lives primarily in Wyoming, keeps a low profile despite his prolific political spending. He is also a significant supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also ran for president last year. Mr. Mellon donated millions to Mr. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and has also given money to his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense.
The Pentagon said it accepted the donation under the “general gift acceptance authority.”
“The donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of service members’ salaries and benefits,” Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said in a statement.
Still, the donation appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.
It remains unclear how far the donation would go toward covering the salaries of the more than 1.3 million troops who make up the active-duty military. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Trump administration’s 2025 budget requests about $600 billion in total military compensation. A $130 million donation would equal about $100 a service member.
Greg Jaffe contributed to this report.
Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.
It remains unclear how far the donation would go toward covering the salaries of the more than 1.3 million troops who make up the active-duty military.
A very big mystery. Say, Tyler Pager, have you met Tyler Pager two sentences from now?
A $130 million donation would equal about $100 a service member.
I doubt they’re distributing it evenly.
It’s funny editing. They could’ve easily written something like “The $130 million donation is about $100 for each of the 1.3 million troops who make up the active-duty military, but it is unclear exactly how the money will be distributed.”
It’s funny editing
I get the feeling that a lot of current articles basically get no editing. Maybe they pass it onto some AI tool or something, but actual real editing work is barely getting performed.
(weirdly, I feel like this extends to a lot of stuff beyond journalism - movies are all getting to be 2½-3 hours long, we just don’t seem to get nice tightly-paced 90-min action movies or thrillers anymore; AAA games are of course leaning towards being big open worlds with lots of side activities and RPG elements to occupy your time for dozens if not hundreds of hours, with the occasional 4-5 hour perfunctory single-player campaign in games that are really supposed to be played for the multiplayer, which again is expected to last you for like a year until the next franchise entry; books are all getting to be fucking massive - a factoid that always surprises me is that the whole of Lord of the Rings is just like 1.1k pages (and a bunch of that is the Appendices), which is the length of individual Brandon Sanderson books, in a series of 5 that’s still supposed to have 5 more in the future! and of course there’s been a rise in self-distributed online novels that go on for thousands of chapters, and online streaming which is by definition completely unedited content… no-one wants to edit anymore!)
you know 3/4 of this is gonna end up in the increasingly inflated costs of the ballroom project
It’s a Christmas bonus.
A subscription to the jelly of the month club
3 months of xbox game pass (xbox console not included)
So the article doesn’t mention how word got out about who donated, right?
is out so Trump needed a new one. Conservation of melons.
