The absolute scam that is USAID

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, Feb 4, 2025.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Ok, I don't care about any of this, or your crusade. All I care about is eliminating waste from the federal government.
     
    #251     Feb 11, 2025
  2. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    I know.
     
    #252     Feb 11, 2025
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  3. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    #253     Feb 11, 2025
  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Awesome! Now take your randomness to one of the 1500 or so threads you start each day and try to stay on topic here.
     
    #254     Feb 11, 2025
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  5. In the intricate theater of political discourse, where the veneer of rhetoric often obscures the subterranean currents of power, one might perceive the delicate choreography of ideological posturing and pragmatic maneuvering. The dialectic between progress and preservation, though ostensibly a battle of principles, reveals itself as a mosaic of calculated gestures, each move a reflection of both the visible and the obscured. Here, the electorate becomes both participant and spectator, navigating a landscape where meaning is as malleable as the narratives that shape it, and where the true essence of governance lies not in the declared, but in the spaces between the lines.
     
    #255     Feb 11, 2025
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  6. By any means necessary! Constitution and law be dammed! Clearnace and conflcits of interest rules be damned. Elon Musk having no accountability or adherence to U.S. law be damned!
     
    #256     Feb 11, 2025
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  7. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Yeah, just give me a minute.

    Ah, but what is tyranny if not the most sincere form of flattery? The autocrat, that great admirer of monarchy, seeks not to govern but to reign, not to serve but to be served. He wraps himself in the flag, as all good scoundrels do, not out of love for it but for its remarkable ability to conceal.

    Efficiency, my dear fellow, is the refuge of the unimaginative. When a man speaks of it in politics, one must check one’s pockets and count one’s liberties, for both are soon to vanish. It is an old trick, and like all old tricks, it succeeds best when performed before an audience eager to be deceived.

    Fascism, like death and pregnancy, admits no half-measures. It arrives not with a declaration but a shrug, not in marching boots but in comfortable slippers, promising safety, order, and the thrilling relief of not having to think too hard. And once it settles in, like an uninvited guest, it is quite impossible to remove without burning down the house.

    But America, that most contradictory of republics, has always loved a spectacle. And what is dictatorship if not the grandest of all illusions, the promise of strength that masks the deepest weakness, the illusion of power that conceals the chains? The question, dear boy, is not whether the empire will rise but whether, when it does, the audience will bother to applaud.
     
    #257     Feb 11, 2025
  8. Ricter

    Ricter

    Sadly I believe this is true. Maybe living outside the USA has lifted the "can't happen here' glasses I used to wear. People do not give enough weight to psychology, and over-estimate the power of patriotism.
     
    #258     Feb 11, 2025
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  9. VOLdemort

    VOLdemort


    You're wasting your time. Fascists can normalize any actions. Even a South African flipping a switch on your SSA benefits and probing DOE nuclear secrets. These fools are content.
     
    #259     Feb 11, 2025
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  10. Ricter

    Ricter

    Unable for decades to achieve any significant support for libertarianism, or to achieve sufficient (is there ever enough?) support for Christianity, at the ballot box, we have now come to installing that blended utopia by force. So far that force is just "administrative", by gaslighting under cover of "efficiency", firing all with the power to oppose, and by simply ignoring court orders. Not to mention the third branch, Congress, is "legislating' by silence.

    Biden "ignoring" the SC ruling on student debt may be in a similar category, okay, but it was vastly different by its aim.
     
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    #260     Feb 11, 2025