Yeah, no. The rhetoric is super important. I get you’re in deep pushing the rhetoric so and you are a very narcissistic person. So you see yourself as right all of the time and if you’re sharing the rhetoric then that makes the rhetoric right in your mind. And, your posts show you spend more time pushing the rhetoric than the results. So what you say and what you do does not add up. Again, suspicious. Why do one thing then say another? My reading through this thread shows you’re in a tizzy and easily manipulated by right wing rhetoric. As to USAID, it can certainly be reorganized and moved under the state department at any presidents discretion. They also have a right to prioritize spending and repurpose congressionally mandated discretionary spending. If disease prevention measures in Palestine are not a priority for Trump and the spending is discretionary- end it or repurpose. But we should not be making people who are just doing their jobs “the enemy.
The hysteria on the right needs to slow down. Trump and Musk can move as quickly as they want. The only thing that can slow them down is the judiciary. Technically Congress can too but that won’t happen. The most influential people on the rampage going through the government are republican governors. They have the direct line on what spending should continue. For example, when Medicaid payments got froze republican governors took action explaining the impact on southern hospitals would be extremely harmful. The good news is southern and midwestern states are overly dependent on federal funding to provide government services compared to blue states. So the impact of cuts domestically will be felt in red states to a greater extent than in the out of power blue states.
It’s going to be a shit show the whole way through. After they destroy these agencies they are going to find out some/much of their work is needed, even in the Trump/Musk agenda. There will be chaos in many sectors for a long time. Trump et al will say this fine but we will see what the cost benefit actually turns out out. It’s all just a temper tantrum fueled by right wing rhetoric.
Holy cow! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Dude, you've essentially described yourself perfectly here. I don't care about rhetoric, and I'm not into pushing it and you know jack shit about me. I care about the results. The end game. That's it. Which is because you see precisely what you want to, so deep in your own rhetoric you are. Do you don't think it's a waste to spend millions of dollars of US taxpayer money on DEI efforts in Serbia? Just answer that simple question (you won't). Just that one. I don't recall saying anyone was "the enemy". I recall saying they should be fired.
Brownback's Kansas experiment coulda worked. It wasn't true libertarianism, he didn't do it right. It coulda worked, it coulda.
If President Donald Trump was a real dictator, you ET trolls would all be locked up in jail already. Justin Trudeau can and will lock you up in Canada. If you as much as mouth off in your tantrums, Trudeau can charge you and give you stiff prison terms on top of it! That is the real fascism for you ET clowns without a clue.