@Metal-Brain saidHere is a para in a WSJ article this morning. I have been trying to tell these guys that Trump is a great negotiator. That, he uses tariffs (sometimes he uses just the 'name' tariff) to get his way. This sort of explains him, though he is not explainable......which is his schtick. If WE can't, then the Mex president et al surely can't.
Yes, even some democrats refuse to defend USAID.
The smart democrats anyway.
Donald Trump contains multitudes. Trying to understand his thinking or divine his motives can drive you insane—which is maybe the point.
The uproar over Mr. Trump’s decision to impose and then postpone tariffs on Mexico and Canada offers competing interpretations. But I am partial to one that doesn’t seek coherence. Mr. Trump, as a variety of writers have long noted in these pages, holds two contradictory views on tariffs. First, he believes they are capable of raising enormous revenue. Second, he believes the threat of their use can persuade other nations to behave in ways that align with U.S. interests. The problem is that success in one precludes success in the other: Either you raise revenue by imposing tariffs, or you push other nations around by merely threatening to use them.
@Metal-Brain saidForeign aid buys access to local officials and thereby to foreign markets. 😆
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
Why? Simple question. Why tourism? How is that in our interest?
The US government is buying emergency access to the Suez Canal. That is why they receive the 2nd most foreign aid from the USA. It is a bribe because canal access is important to a world empire. Is funding tourism part of that bribe? I doubt it.
Why don't we fund ...[text shortened]... y cleansing Gaza is to put in the Ben Gurion Canal which you propaganda sycophants are in denial of.
China is currently spending WAY more on foreign aid than the US which is why China is gaining far more influence with other countries than we are.
$6M to Egypt for tourism is part of the larger $200M in all kinds of aid and part of the $1.4B including military aid. We pay that so that Egypt won't fuuk with Israel.
So: cutting foreign aid means a) giving up world markets to China, and b) removing an important reason for Egypt not to favor war against Israel.
Brilliant, bumpkin. Just brilliant. But hey, money was saved, right? 😆
@spruce112358 saidExplain to me how funding transgender comic books in Peru helps us gain more influence than China. It doesn't.
Foreign aid buys access to local officials and thereby to foreign markets. 😆
China is currently spending WAY more on foreign aid than the US which is why China is gaining far more influence with other countries than we are.
$6M to Egypt for tourism is part of the larger $200M in all kinds of aid and part of the $1.4B including military aid. We pay that so that Egyp ...[text shortened]... favor war against Israel.
Brilliant, bumpkin. Just brilliant. But hey, money was saved, right? 😆
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@Metal-Brain saidNo, it doesn't. The Chinese built them a $1.3B modern shipping port. 😆
Explain to me how funding transgender comic books in Peru helps us gain more influence than China. It doesn't.
Still, we did give Peru $135M to reduce cocaine production and build satellite and geospatial capability which will help preserve their portion of the Amazon rainforest. Plus the comic book!
Now. Who do you think bought more good will and access to Peru's markets - US or China? 😆
@spruce112358 saidExplain to me how funding transgender comic books in Peru helps us gain more influence than China building a $1.3B modern shipping port? It doesn't. You just proved my point. Like no1 you have run out of rational arguments.
No, it doesn't. The Chinese built them a $1.3B modern shipping port. 😆
Still, we did give Peru $135M to reduce cocaine production and build satellite and geospatial capability which will help preserve their portion of the Amazon rainforest. Plus the comic book!
Now. Who do you think bought more good will and access to Peru's markets - US or China? 😆
@Metal-Brain saidI explained to you why Musk finding a comic book was irrelevant. 😆
Explain to me how funding transgender comic books in Peru helps us gain more influence than China building a $1.3B modern shipping port? It doesn't. You just proved my point. Like no1 you have run out of rational arguments.
I shouldn't HAVE to explain such things, but I did. I took one for the team.
If you want to have a larger discussion about why we give out so little foreign aid compared to China, and what sort of projects it is for, we can have that discussion. 😆
@Metal-Brain
OK, here's the thing: Musk is manipulating you and many others to think a certain way. 😆
I along with some others are resisting it. You and your group are following him with stars in your eyes.
But at least ask yourself: why am I being manipulated like this? What's the long game? Because you can at least sense it doesn't have anything to do with comic books or piddling amounts of foreign aid. 😆
@spruce112358 saidWhy are you allowing yourself to be manipulated by Soros?
@Metal-Brain
OK, here's the thing: Musk is manipulating you and many others to think a certain way. 😆
I along with some others are resisting it. You and your group are following him with stars in your eyes.
But at least ask yourself: why am I being manipulated like this? What's the long game? Because you can at least sense it doesn't have anything to do with comic books or piddling amounts of foreign aid. 😆
You are the follower.
@Metal-Brain saidI don't think Soros said "government exists to protect all our rights equally." 😆
Why are you allowing yourself to be manipulated by Soros?
You are the follower.
Also: "do as you please as long as you don't harm, impose on or place others at risk without their consent."
Those are things I say. So if Soros says those things, he is actually following ME! But I am not trying to manipulate Soros, or you.
I'm just landing as close to the truth as I can. 😆
@spruce112358 saidYou are regurgitating propaganda.
I don't think Soros said "government exists to protect all our rights equally." 😆
Also: "do as you please as long as you don't harm, impose on or place others at risk without their consent."
Those are things I say. So if Soros says those things, he is actually following ME! But I am not trying to manipulate Soros, or you.
I'm just landing as close to the truth as I can. 😆
USAID funded the Wuhan Lab causing the pandemic. Your propaganda doesn't mention that, does it? USAID killed millions of people. Bill Gates doesn't want to talk abut that though. He wants to talk about the next pandemic and how most of us are not needed.
Since AI will replace people no work will be required of them. That means a UBI if you let them live. Gates does not want to pay UBIs to millions of people. Dead people don't eat.
https://corbettreport.com/gates/
@AverageJoe1 saidUSAID was behind the attempted coup in Venezuela using the "office of transition initiatives".
Defunding USAID is not about reducing the deficit. It is about shutting down Left-wing Propaganda. You don't even have to read this wonderful article. Just gloss over it and you will see the REAL picture. I started to 'paste' a few paragraphs but they are all too perfect. The article goes into depth, it goes BEYOND lgbtq jobs in Serbia,, transgender Opera in Columbia ...[text shortened]... /02/05/defunding-usaid-isnt-about-reducing-the-deficit-its-about-shutting-down-left-wing-propaganda/
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-uses-humanitarian-assistance-to-hide-regime-change-efforts-in-venezuela/
This is explained in depth by James Corbett. This is the best source of information I have seen so far.
https://corbettreport.com/usaid-is-a-deep-state-trojan-horse/
@Metal-Brain saidDo you ever listen to yourself? 😆
You are regurgitating propaganda.
USAID funded the Wuhan Lab causing the pandemic. Your propaganda doesn't mention that, does it? USAID killed millions of people. Bill Gates doesn't want to talk abut that though. He wants to talk about the next pandemic and how most of us are not needed.
Since AI will replace people no work will be required of them. That means a U ...[text shortened]... t want to pay UBIs to millions of people. Dead people don't eat.
https://corbettreport.com/gates/
MB: "You are regurgitating propaganda."
MB REGURGITATES PROPAGANDA: "USAID killed millions of people."
What USAID Actually did:
"Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.
"The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The program also trained nearly 7,000 people across medical and agricultural sectors in 30 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East to help them detect deadly new viruses on their own. One of those labs was the Wuhan Institute of Virology — the Chinese lab that quickly identified SARS-CoV-2....
@AverageJoe1 saidSo ignore my post because I mentioned a tyrant like Amin. You don't give a rats ass what happens to ANYONE ANYWHERE.
Sonhouse has resorted to Adi Amin.
I see no one else on your predictions in the news. Just curious, that’s all.
USAID puts BILLIONS into the hands of farmers making the crops for those starving children:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/
@Metal-Brain saidStop lying.
Sure they do. They want to make America great again, not everybody but Americans.
It was democrats that left Americans homeless while funding transgender comic books in a foreign county.
@Metal-Brain saidStop lying.
AJ's OP link said it’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda. That is part of it if the left wing propaganda is funding transgender comic books in a foreign country, but it is more than that.
USAID has been used to fund regime change operations. Why do you think so much of USAID money went to Syria and Ukraine? Read what no1 wrote in these threads regarding USAID. ...[text shortened]... r. First USAID funded the coup to overthrow Ukraine and now they are funding the war against Russia.