@no1marauder saidLOL
Your question assumes a transgender woman is a "man". Since that assumption is wrong, the question can't be answered rationally.
We're just all done with crap no1.
Just ... no.
@AverageJoe1 saidI hope you Golf better than you debate, or are you lousy at that also? Just asking!!! 😛
OK. Gottta go play golf, do you think there is a way I can couch my post, about you and the question, in those other forums without being kicked out? Is it kosher to copy a few of your nuggets into my post?
-VR
@no1marauder saidWhat is your source of information?
It wasn't through US Aid as I showed in another thread, but even if that's exactly what it was for it was a trivial amount meant to increase understanding of a despised minority. I don't consider it a BFD; it certainly does not justify illegally shutting down an entire agency which serves millions of poor and sick worldwide.
@no1marauder said"It wasn't through US Aid as I showed in another thread"
It wasn't through US Aid as I showed in another thread, but even if that's exactly what it was for it was a trivial amount meant to increase understanding of a despised minority. I don't consider it a BFD; it certainly does not justify illegally shutting down an entire agency which serves millions of poor and sick worldwide.
What is your source of information?
@AverageJoe1 saidHey commie mofo, TRUMP did the crimes, he just got off on ALL of them so far. It was a JURY that convicted him of felonies not DOJ.
Sonhouse…..so you really don’t want FBI and CIA getting turned inside out? After what they did to Trump.? The FISA court? The secrets they kept hidden, bout Dossier and Hillary.
Whew.
So get off your anti US horse.
TRUMP ALWAYS will be a convicted felon and there is nothing you can say or do that will change that.
The cartels and mafia are LOVING the attacks on CIA and FBI and that should be enough for ANY US citizen to think FBI and CIA help keep us safe.
All your saber rattling against them is just one thing:
Ultrarightwingnut propaganda started by your lord and savior Trump.
BTW almost ALL of his edicts are TOTALLY illegal like trying to kill the birthright deal which is embedded in our constitution.
So that is what he does, LIE LIE and more lie and doesn't give a rats ass about the constitution OR the rule of law because he considers himself ABOVE the law.
@Metal-Brain saidNot zerohedge, the Epoch Times or Pravda for sure.
"It wasn't through US Aid as I showed in another thread"
What is your source of information?
This from the Associated Press: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/claims-about-usaid-funding-are-spreading-online-many-are-not-based-on-facts/ar-AA1yCpAD?ocid=BingNewsSerp
@Sleepyguy saidWhy is it that almost every State allows a change of gender on Driver IDs then? https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/car/changing-gender-on-license/
LOL
We're just all done with crap no1.
Just ... no.
And how come the SCOTUS said in Bostock v. Clayton County that employment discrimination against transgender individuals violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County
Do you think Trump's attempt at a royal proclamation or your "holding your breath until you turn blue" tactic changes a reality that has existed for over 70 years?
@Mott-The-Hoople said20 thou, WOW, our national debt cut in half now.
how old do you have to be to spot where $20,000 was spent to create a trans comic book?
@Earl-of-Trumps saidAnd no legal experience either. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g-s1-47350/states-sue-to-stop-doge-accessing-personal-data
Doge assistants to elon: none have govt experience!!
Praise the Heavens above!!
I suspect a good many of Trump's power grab Executive Orders are going to wind up being shut down by the courts.
@Metal-Brain saidThere are two bureaus at the State Department which help fund events across the world.
"It wasn't through US Aid as I showed in another thread"
What is your source of information?
One is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with a $634 million budget last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Educational_and_Cultural_Affairs
Its mission is: "The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) designs and implements educational, professional, and cultural exchange and other programs that create and sustain the mutual understanding with other countries necessary to advancing United States foreign policy goals. ECA programs cultivate people-to-people ties among current and future global leaders that build enduring networks and personal relationships and promote U.S. national security and values."
The other is the Bureau of Global Public Affairs. https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/bureau-of-global-public-affairs/
Both esp. the first promote cooperation and understanding between the US and other countries by funding numerous cultural and entertainment events. And since, amazingly enough, there are actually gay and trans people in the world some of those events are run by and directed toward those groups.
This is the molehill of a "scandal" that right wingers are now bitching about and using as an excuse to illegally abolish a completely different agency, US Aid, which provides health and aid to millions of sick and destitute persons throughout the world.
@no1marauder saidPrincipled posters on the forum do not like one who, in this case, writes about all the stuff here in your post, when the issue is about DOGE. So you are doing this, and also creating word salad in the Thread about men swimming with women.
There are two bureaus at the State Department which help fund events across the world.
One is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with a $634 million budget last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Educational_and_Cultural_Affairs
Its mission is: "The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) designs and implements educational, professio ...[text shortened]... S Aid, which provides health and aid to millions of sick and destitute persons throughout the world.
Please stay on issue, and please answer questions on the man swimming against women.
@AverageJoe1 saidOK, anyone who is still interested in Marauder's failure to answer a simple question, his obsession with all the WOKE words of sex changes and government and authority, please allow me, with this post above that I'd posted earlier, to draw your attention to Marauder's unbeleivable candy-ass responses to my queries. You will find my very post on the previous page 11, the 5th post down.
So I see you at coffee, and tell you that my daughter is going to be in a swim meet at the subdivision pool. 12 girls have signed up. You tell me you have a son who swims, and could he enter the competition?
I say, “no it is a girls meet, but I think there will be one for the boys next week. I don’t think you have to be living in this subdivision to enter.”
At th ...[text shortened]... ng boy and girl, which, in one language or another,, has been used for about 10,000 years.Thank you.
Entertain yourself with perfectly-executed word salad from Marauder, laced with all the Woke words, I promise you will laugh. He 'answers' the question which I put forward with what my Aunt Melon calls gobbledegook.
I hope, or maybe not, that his silliness has not cost him any creds, we need him on the Forum. Who else can source links as well as he does? At least his sources are transparent,,,,,,mine, I have to keep my sources secret. So he has me beat on that score.
Anyway breeze through #5 on page 11 and what is left on page 12. Really crazy rambling, and he never mentions the issue.
@no1marauder saidMSN? You must be joking. Bill Gates is the head of the oligarchy and you trust microsoft propaganda?
Not zerohedge, the Epoch Times or Pravda for sure.
This from the Associated Press: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/claims-about-usaid-funding-are-spreading-online-many-are-not-based-on-facts/ar-AA1yCpAD?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/
@no1marauder saidYou just undercut your own position. With those 2 agencies you named why a need for USAID? You have proven nothing.
There are two bureaus at the State Department which help fund events across the world.
One is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with a $634 million budget last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Educational_and_Cultural_Affairs
Its mission is: "The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) designs and implements educational, professio ...[text shortened]... S Aid, which provides health and aid to millions of sick and destitute persons throughout the world.
You are also spreading misinformation. The USAID was never abolished and is run by Rubio as you well know and since you know it you are now spreading disinformation so stop lying.