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[–] mlfh@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TL;DR: someone goes on Tucker Carlson's podcast and claims that nearly the entire GDP of the US (Trillion with a T was not a typo) was spent building secret underground cities.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's completely fake!

Also don't come down here

I like the quiet

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And, of course, every single contractor apart from one has kept completely silent about their work on the project. This is unsurprising as such long-term secrecy and efficiency is the hallmark of democratic* governments.

(*allegedly)

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Fitbits and smart watches have famously revealed locations of secret government bases.

I think we would know!

Not to mention the infrastructure required to support such constructions.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

From the people who brought you “The government can’t do anything right”, now “the government has built a massive secret underground shadow city with your hard earned tax dollars”.

Very cool, very logical. Maybe Tucker can visit the city and jerk off to how cheap their bread is.

She lost all credibility she might have had by going to Carlson with this.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

“If you look at the soil around any large US city with a big underground homosexual population, des Moines Iowa, for example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart, you can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it, the government says it's due to poor farming, but I know what's really going on, Stuart!”

I just like that little Johnny Wurster grew up to be the drummer for the Mountain Goats and the weirdo always calling into Tom Scharpling's Best Show.

Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl anyway!?!?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Somebody really enjoyed "Paradise."

[–] railcar@midwest.social 3 points 5 days ago

The D.U.M.B. conspiracy is a jolly good read as you browse the interweb. Evidently we have nuclear powered boring machines that just melt away the earth leaving glassy walls.

[–] sittinonatoilet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

guess estimate our guess—this is totally a guess—

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

We have hidden fortresses. Some old ones discovered and toured. $21 Trillion is way too high.