The absolute scam that is USAID

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

  1. Ricter

    Ricter

    Tsing is not a fascist by nature or choice, not at all. But he wants that Randian utopia so badly, so very very badly. You know what they say about some young men reading those books while impressionable...
     
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    #261     Feb 11, 2025
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    First, I didn't say "by any means necessary", so that's just you putting words in my mouth - something you frequently complain about people doing to you around here.

    Second, please show me where USAID is mentioned in the Constitution? Or how about foreign aid funding? Where's that at?

    And lastly, Elon Musk is a consultant. You folks keep claiming he has power, he doesn't. He's the one auditing (the government has consultants all the time). That's it.
     
    #262     Feb 11, 2025
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    That, and it could also be that your team isn't the one doing it this time.
     
    #263     Feb 11, 2025
  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    The party of tolerance. I love how you and Atticus know me so well from your interactions with me here. Go on, keep throwing mud and showing me how accepting you are of other's viewpoints, the both of you.
     
    #264     Feb 11, 2025
  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Still don't agree with it or support ignoring any federal judges. But here's another example of when Democrats did, and there wasn't any weeping and gnashing of teeth from folks around here.

     
    #265     Feb 11, 2025
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  6. Mercor

    Mercor

    Trump retires Jan 20 2029
     
    #266     Feb 11, 2025
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  7. Ricter

    Ricter

    He'll be gone long before then. The brain if not the body too.
     
    #267     Feb 11, 2025
  8. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Probably. But that doesn't mean it's going to get any less extreme.
     
    #268     Feb 11, 2025
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  9. Ricter

    Ricter

    Don't throw the baby out with the bath water... that expression came to me yesterday...

    Inside the GOP’s careful pushback to Musk’s DOGE effort

    By Annie Grayer, CNN
    7 minute read
    Published 4:00 AM EST, Tue February 11, 2025

    "Congressional Republicans are publicly projecting that they’re in lockstep with the way President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are attempting to slash the federal workforce.

    But under the surface, some GOP lawmakers are growing concerned by the effort to usurp Congress’ control of the federal purse strings. And they’re dealing with a deluge of calls from worried constituents and federal workers who are looking to their elected officials for answers.

    Some are taking action, testing the waters for what a new era of pushback in a second Trump term looks like.

    GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who supports the idea of auditing the federal government, has asked the Trump administration to go line by line through US Agency for International Development funding and pushed them to preserve the programs that serve the country’s national security interests.

    “Instead of getting rid of everything, let’s look at it selectively,” Bacon said...

    More...
     
    #269     Feb 11, 2025
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  10. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    "The year is 2058. Trump’s uploaded AI Consciousness wins its 8th term. The Department of Education building is a center for mining meme coins. A quadrillionaire buys the last available letter of the alphabet. A working class man, breathing through his Tesla Lung that’s integrated into his Meta Brain Chip, pays $25.88 for the thought: “Why come grocery prices not gooder?” Society is thriving."
     
    #270     Feb 11, 2025
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