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BootinUp

(51,255 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:02 AM Yesterday

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1 Trillion is a very small cost to pay

Nick Kristof: Linda Bilmes, a Harvard expert on financing war, told me that most of the costs will arrive later…. All told, she expects this Iran war to cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-cost.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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1 Trillion is a very small cost to pay (Original Post) BootinUp Yesterday OP

Very small cost to kick the Epstein files down the road for a couple months chicoescuela Yesterday #1

Tapes Whip-poor-will Yesterday #2

small cost to pay for WHO???? LymphocyteLover Yesterday #3

It will cost consumers far more than that. Of course, that money will be paid to our oligarch overlords. Midnight Writer Yesterday #4

chicoescuela

(3,046 posts)

1. Very small cost to kick the Epstein files down the road for a couple months

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Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:08 AM

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Whip-poor-will

(183 posts)

2. Tapes

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Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:17 AM

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The problem with tapes/CDs ,unlike facts there no alternate tapes/CDs, starring pedos .

Release the EPSTEIN tapes/CDs for the ending to unfold.

LymphocyteLover

(9,799 posts)

3. small cost to pay for WHO????

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Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:19 AM

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fuck these evil war mongering motherfuckers!

Midnight Writer

(25,355 posts)

4. It will cost consumers far more than that. Of course, that money will be paid to our oligarch overlords.

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Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:19 AM

Yesterday

War is good for business.

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