You know, without having to be told, that conversations like these take place.
Nevertheless, reading the actual words is something of a stunner.
Q.: “Hamas has created additional demand, we have this $106 billion request from the president. Can you give us some general color in terms of areas where you think you could see incremental acceleration in demand?”
A.: “I think if you look at the incremental demand potential coming out of that, the biggest one to highlight and that really sticks out is probably on the artillery side.”
— from a General Dynamics third-quarter-earnings call on Oct. 25.
“Lord Death is a real big eater,” as Jim Harrison once wrote. And His shit is pure gold.
Mad Blog Media 
I hope someone, anyone, buys Von Rumor a copy of the “Elements of Style.” It works as well for speech as it does for writing. The general color of the area is blood red, but all you see is green. Me thinks this suit needs a field trip. Ukraine comes to mind. A 105mm HE round in every pot, heh? Anyone for a Willy Pete round?
It’s all widgets to these dudes, I guess. They could be selling anything from aspirin to tea cozies to fat young boys, as long as the checks clear.
Well come on wall street don’t be slow,
Why man this is war go go go,
There’s plenty good money to be made,
By supplying the army with the tools of the trade,
– Country Joe McDonald
“So how much of this opportunity is addressable to the company and if the dollars are appropriated, when would be the earliest you could see this convert to revenue?”
Somewhere I once read that war was a great way to keep employment high and profits humming while using up excess production that would disrupt the inflationary cycle. Wish I remembered where that was, but it comes to mind.
Shit, let’s do this efficiently. Seems a single W-88 or B-61 in the middle of Gaza would solve the problem once and for all but think of all the lost profits from producing conventional munitions. Collateral damage? Heck, what’s a few hundred thousand innocent dead? Just think of Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc, ad infinitum…..
Nah, we want full employment and more importantly, good return on investment. And meanwhile, Hamas needs to keep raping and murdering cute German-Israeli girls and carrying off their grandmothers, which makes for great footage at getting people homicidal. Me included.
Just change the name of the war.
That blood smells like money to me, son!
Mind you, the hypocrisy is strong here, since my old man was an Air Force lifer, mom managed the money he earned, and I inherited some of it. Also Herself is Sandia, her dad was DOE, her eldest sis worked for the military-industrial complex, etc., et al, and so on and so forth.
Sheeyit, if it weren’t for Death we woon’t have a pot to piss in or a window to th’ow it outa.
And does anyone remember this one?
i don’t think Tuli & the boys could make that viddy in today’s world…