Just be the usual suck up convention. It's sad to see people abuse themselves that way.
Just be the usual suck up convention. It's sad to see people abuse themselves that way.Can't wait to see Trump's first full cabinet meeting where the comical weirdness of each cabinet suck-up taking a turn standing from their seats and heap glory and praise on Trump while he jaw juts and nods his head agreeing with the bullshit accolades. I really do wonder what four years of this oligarchic authoritarianism will do to our democracy. Although I have high hopes that the nation's democratic style of gov't will stand the test of time, I don't think clawing back the tax cuts that Trump and his richest men in the world club will give themselves is going to happen should the Democrats reacquire a unified gov't.
People power is what it'll take and with the Republican base so mind fucked as they are, the divisiveness sewn into the very fabric of that party of Trump can't be overcome until their party's leadership goes too far in exploiting their rank and file's gullibility and emotional vulnerabilities of which will take something outrageously stupid on the part of their regime's leadership to trigger.
That 'ol saying about "fooling some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of...." doesn't fare too well within the Party of Trump. They proved that their leadership can fool all of the people in their party all of the time and make it look so easy doing it.
Yea, but someone funded an LGBTQ play in Ireland so the whole thing has to be burnt down to the ground.These people are quite literally taking food and lifesaving medicine out of millions of peoples’ hands so they can continue to build their dragon hoards of wealth already worth 10x the entire value of the agency. A bullet to the head is too good for any of them but would be an acceptable outcome of all of this.
The peasant class of America literally elected a mad king and a cabinet of lords and dukes to rule over them.
Any time they say some dumb shit like this, apply the Sartre quote: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies". They just use far-left/Marxist etc as a buzzword, detached from the actual meaning of words. You cannot and should not expect accuracy or logical or reasonable behavior.So bizarre that Musk declared
When, if there's any criticism of USAID that I've ever heard, it's that as much as being a 'humanitarian' organisation, it gets used as an instrument of US imperialism, by the radical-right neo-cons who put American interests ahead of all other considerations.
That's generally what the 'radical left' say about it. Same criticisms get leveled against all Western official 'aid' programs. I've never really had the energy to look into those allegations in detail but the idea that it's a "Marxist" organisation is just beyond bizarre.
He knows and wants to use it to help Russia by renaming to RUSAID.Trump doesnt understand what USAID is about. He just sees the letters AID and goes into brain dead repub mode and nixes it.
feature not a bug. they should be charged with crimes against humanity for intentionally shutting down aid programs. not that that will ever happenThe Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.www.propublica.orgInternal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.www.propublica.org
Some more in-depth coverage of the illegal USAID shutdowns, including some that just show the absolute grave indifference to human life (to both those receiving aid and those responsible for monitoring or distributing it). Just completely amoral assholes that America voted into office.
Pro-life party demonstrating their commitment to life.The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.www.propublica.orgInternal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway.www.propublica.org
Some more in-depth coverage of the illegal USAID shutdowns, including some that just show the absolute grave indifference to human life (to both those receiving aid and those responsible for monitoring or distributing it). Just completely amoral assholes that America voted into office.
They were never pro life, when starts the human experimentation will be the definitive changePro-life party demonstrating their commitment to life.
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
Alito, joined by Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, dissents.bsky.app
Alito coming in with the crazy dissent claiming a district court can't make the president follow the law if it's paying out a lot of money. Somehow forgetting that Congress appropriated funds in the first place...
So is the situation that Roberts and the Handmaiden didn't back them up, and that's the only reason Alito's bizarre (and nakedly political) stance is the 'minority' one?
Or a DeJoy: despite being a partisan, trying to prove they can do a job right out of spite.ACB pulling a Souter because she apparently thought the job was supposed to be at least a little bit about the law and not just whatever Trump wants would be interesting.
Or a DeJoy: despite being a partisan, trying to prove they can do a job right out of spite.
Tribunal is a strange word for firing squad.Only 5 votes for Article 1 eh? Well more than likely this court is going to cough up some really reprehensible shit over the next few years like the immunity decision.
If the government falls it will be in no small part these people’s personal fault. If the constitution is no longer operative I can’t think of any use for them besides to face a tribunal.
When did dejoy do anything "good" for USPS? As I recall he's been a roadblock to any meaningful improvements (BEVs and next gen mail truck, removal of mail sorting machines, etc.)Or a DeJoy: despite being a partisan, trying to prove they can do a job right out of spite.
I think he ended up not being as much of a roadblock as expected, and did do some things to try and modernize the USPS.When did dejoy do anything "good" for USPS? As I recall he's been a roadblock to any meaningful improvements (BEVs and next gen mail truck, removal of mail sorting machines, etc.)
That guy have been making bank on being an ex-cia officer. Seem him on some Discovery show.They touch in USAID here, quite interesting
I fully expect the US to experience a pretty significant recession driven by lack of investment.Seems that USA will slow to follow Russia's path to be mediocre and highly corrupt