Closing USAID

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is bananas. As I wrote in a different thread, I'm an immigrant from subsaharan Africa and every single freaking person in the third world nations USAID controlled with its money knows that they are (were?) the "nice" face of the CIA. I am so glad Americans are finally waking up to this. We all told you for decades and there were news reports, but we were too poor and black and brown and foreign for you guys to care. Now that your fellow white men are telling you USAID is a shambolic front, you should finally listen.

The "Third World" or "global south" or whatever you want to call us poor black and brown people of the world need the U.S. to stop all of its evil, exploitative policies that keep our countries in the position of needing aid. Charity is no substitute for justice.

Whether he is doing it for the right reasons or the wrong reasons, Trump is pulling back America's predatory hand and the rest of the world is breathing a sigh of relief. USAID gives with one hand, and takes much more with the other. Just go and let us sort ourselves out without the CIA constantly in the mix engineering regime change and using monetary policy to bind our nations financially so we have to prioritize what America wants.

I'm not from Africa, but another developing country and agree with ALL OF THIS. It's time for some changes.

"Sorting yourselves out" is the thinking of an idealist. Your leaders and neighbors will always be looking out for themselves first. That's a fact of life. Look at the US. We are no different.

But also, what does the CIA have to do with your country's monetary policy?

By "our" leaders, you mean leaders whom your country's intelligence has handpicked and continues to covertly support financially, military, and politically.

Also, your question reveals you to be an unserious lightweight who has no place in this conversation. Go put the question into Google and start reading. Sometime in the next decade or so, you might catch up. In the meantime, it's OK to shut up and let people who actually know what they're talking about discuss. One of the worst things about native-born Americans, but especially you so-called progressives, is that you think you can just intuit, argue, and mindlessly slogan your way through complex issues. You have contempt for learning, foam at the mouth at any facts that contradict what you'd like to hear, and are too lazy to learn even recent history, much less learn from history. It makes you foolish voters who have squandered the democracy that your founding fathers handed you and dangerous policy makers who are making the world a worse place every day.

There are a lot of incorrect assumptions in your post, which I won't address. But I do appreciate:

1) Your reference to Google as a center of knowledge.

2) Your use of the phrase "unserious lightweight."

3) Describing a simple observation as "foaming at the mouth," which seems like exactly what you are doing in your response.

Ehn? Are you trying to get me to rake you over the coals for your flagrant dishonesty next, or what is this foolishness?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

Well, if Elon Musk tries to waltz into the Pentagon and take it over, we'll see who is emasculated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

If you can be "emasculated" by criticism, especially criticism of rapists, sexual harassers, domestic abusers, and misogynists of all stripes, then you never had any masculinity to speak of and are probably a would-be criminal yourself. We're so sorry that getting to abuse women was the only reason you could think of to work hard, keep a job, and be a leader, and now all your motivation is gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

I'm just disappointed. I just can't believe how they've all lost any gumption to stand up for what they believe in, instead they just go along with whatever they're told like children? Not good examples of how men should behave and this is not what I've taught my children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

I'm just disappointed. I just can't believe how they've all lost any gumption to stand up for what they believe in, instead they just go along with whatever they're told like children? Not good examples of how men should behave and this is not what I've taught my children.

And how should women behave? Are men allowed to tell them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

That’s not objectively true. That’s just your personal hate. You are a blind partisan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

I'm just disappointed. I just can't believe how they've all lost any gumption to stand up for what they believe in, instead they just go along with whatever they're told like children? Not good examples of how men should behave and this is not what I've taught my children.

Children in DOGE are telling them what to do. They are the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is bananas. As I wrote in a different thread, I'm an immigrant from subsaharan Africa and every single freaking person in the third world nations USAID controlled with its money knows that they are (were?) the "nice" face of the CIA. I am so glad Americans are finally waking up to this. We all told you for decades and there were news reports, but we were too poor and black and brown and foreign for you guys to care. Now that your fellow white men are telling you USAID is a shambolic front, you should finally listen.

The "Third World" or "global south" or whatever you want to call us poor black and brown people of the world need the U.S. to stop all of its evil, exploitative policies that keep our countries in the position of needing aid. Charity is no substitute for justice.

Whether he is doing it for the right reasons or the wrong reasons, Trump is pulling back America's predatory hand and the rest of the world is breathing a sigh of relief. USAID gives with one hand, and takes much more with the other. Just go and let us sort ourselves out without the CIA constantly in the mix engineering regime change and using monetary policy to bind our nations financially so we have to prioritize what America wants.

I'm not from Africa, but another developing country and agree with ALL OF THIS. It's time for some changes.

"Sorting yourselves out" is the thinking of an idealist. Your leaders and neighbors will always be looking out for themselves first. That's a fact of life. Look at the US. We are no different.

But also, what does the CIA have to do with your country's monetary policy?

It’s classified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anyone remember when Trump negotiated a pull out of Afghanistan and left Biden to deal with it and was then vilified for leaving billions in assets on the ground for the Taliban to recover?

Well this is a thousand times worse, because our people were ordered to leave the field with virtually no notice, so our facilities in each of the communities where there were USAID offices were simply left open for anyone to take information and hard assets. Thousands of sites around the world.

Crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LA Times 2015:

Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies

It’s now $20 billion. Any MAGAs care to comment?

[Anonymous]

Send your own money to feed anyone you want. I want to use my money to feed my family.

[Anonymous]

Trump judge sides with USAID employees and institutes a temporary restraining order to pause the layoffs and closings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Send your own money to feed anyone you want. I want to use my money to feed my family.

Amen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marco and Lyndsey loved USAID until last week.

What has happened to the men in our country? Why are they all so spineless over two bullies?

Funny question to ask after progressives have emasculated men for the past generation.

Well, if Elon Musk tries to waltz into the Pentagon and take it over, we'll see who is emasculated.

He’ll find that “missing” trillions for us.