No one had died ...

@moonbus said
It is an entitlement, if Congress approves funding for it. It is not my idea; it's in the Constitution. Trump has no constitutional authority to unilaterally cancel what Congress approves. This is exactly what led to the first impeachment, when Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine if they did not turn up dirt on the Bidens.

It's not like the U.S.A. ...[text shortened]... ill suffer for it, and the people who voted for calculated neglect will deny they ever voted for it.

I have one interest in this topic and it is about if aid is the solution to the problems in Africa and the answer is a resounding no. In fact aid makes it worse, and proof of this is that over the last 20 years, trillions have been pumped into Africa and the continent gets worse every year.

I understand that you, with your TDS problem, need to condemn Trump. However if you want to discuss this we can continue along these lines .... Large portions of USAID does not reach the intended recipient. Instead it enriches some corrupt politicians and criminals. Here is Claude AI:

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Q: Using Nigeria as an example, examine the allegation that USAID cash, goods and services donated by the US Govt, ends up in corrupt hands and is sold to recipients or stolen and sold on the black market.

A: This is a well-documented pattern, with Nigeria providing several concrete, verified cases spanning both physical goods and cash aid — though the picture is more specific and less sweeping than the broad "USAID gets stolen" framing usually implies. Documented cases in Nigeria: goods

Malaria nets (2018). In February 2018, USAID's Office of Inspector General worked with the Nigeria Police Force to arrest four individuals for stealing and reselling USAID-funded mosquito nets — officers seized over 800 illegally diverted long-lasting insecticidal nets that had been supplied to Nigeria's National Malaria Elimination Programme under the President's Malaria Initiative. This is about as clean an example of the exact allegation you're describing as exists in the public record: donated goods stolen and sold rather than reaching intended recipients.

A related, larger-scale case: A $44.6 million USAID award was suspended after commodities were diverted to a militant organization, and the logistics company along with its local procurement/logistics manager were debarred for three years — this appears to be a Nigeria-linked case in USAID OIG's records, illustrating diversion at the supply-chain level (contractors and logistics staff) rather than end recipients.

Food aid in conflict zones (Boko Haram-affected areas, 2016). Nigerian lawmakers investigated reports that food aid — rice, oil, spaghetti released via Nigeria's customs service for displaced people in Adamawa state — was instead sold to local markets rather than distributed. Notably, a local poverty-alleviation official didn't fully deny it, acknowledging that the distribution plan itself called for some aid to be routed through "politicians and officials acting as intermediaries" — a telling detail, since it suggests part of the diversion wasn't simple theft but a built-in patronage structure. Refugees in Borno state around the same period faced similar allegations amid UN warnings that malnutrition could kill tens of thousands of children.

Documented cases in Nigeria: cash/program funds

The current, large, unresolved case (2025–2026). Following the US government's 2025 shutdown of major USAID programs, funds left with local implementing organizations for HIV and tuberculosis programs became the subject of a joint FBI-EFCC investigation announced in September 2026. US reviews reportedly found inflated budgets and other irregularities in Kano State and several other states. Separately, Nigeria's House of Representatives is already investigating $4.6 billion in combined Global Fund and USAID health grants covering 2021–2025. As of now, no dollar figure, named suspects, or charges have been made public — this is an active, unresolved investigation, not a proven case yet.

What this pattern does and doesn't support

Supports: Yes, there is real, investigated, sometimes prosecuted evidence that USAID-donated goods and program funds in Nigeria have been stolen, diverted, or resold — spanning health commodities (nets), food aid, and now potentially large sums of program cash. This isn't a fringe allegation; it's been substantial enough to trigger USAID's own OIG arrests, debarments, and now a formal binational law-enforcement investigation.

Doesn't support: The evidence points to diversion happening at specific points in the supply chain — implementing organizations, logistics contractors, local government intermediaries, market-level theft — rather than a general pattern where most USAID assistance predictably ends up on the black market. Most identified cases involve fairly small numbers of individuals or specific contractors caught and penalized (arrests, debarments), which is arguably evidence the oversight system sometimes works, not only that it fails. The scale question — what fraction of total USAID assistance to Nigeria this represents — isn't answerable from these reports; they document that diversion occurs and has occurred repeatedly across a decade (2016 through 2026), not what percentage of total aid volume it constitutes.

One important nuance from the Adamawa case: the deputy coordinator's admission that aid was routed through "politicians and officials acting as intermediaries" as part of the approved plan suggests some leakage in Nigeria isn't strictly theft in the criminal sense — it can also be baked into distribution structures in ways that function similarly to diversion without technically being illegal, which complicates a clean "stolen and sold" narrative and points toward broader governance/accountability weaknesses rather than pure criminality alone.
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@Mott-The-Hoople said
What was the other crime?

Campaign violations. Which includes using campaign funds to pay Trump's family members:

https://campaignlegal.org/update/trump-campaign-shell-corporation-funneled-617-million-according-reporting-based-clc

@vivify said
Campaign violations. Which includes using campaign funds to pay Trump's family members:

https://campaignlegal.org/update/trump-campaign-shell-corporation-funneled-617-million-according-reporting-based-clc

You are a total idiot…

You post a link to a leftwing website that “alleges” something and you think that is proof of anything?

😂 you people can’t be helped

@Rajk999 said
When you are dirt poor and your family is starving, boasting that you have the most guns in the village, only demonstrates how totally stupid you are.

I get it ... they are your type of people.

You made great strides starting a thread to celebrate a black man as an "American hero".

You'll do the same one day for Muslims. I have faith in you.

@Mott-The-Hoople said
You are a total idiot…

You post a link to a leftwing website that “alleges” something and you think that is proof of anything?

😂 you people can’t be helped

Yawn. You post from right wing Facebook groups.

From ABC news:

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-campaign-spent-dollars-businesses/story?id=40021286

Trump Campaign Paid $1.1 Million to Trump Businesses and Family

It's a crime to use campaign funds like this, which Trump covered up by falsifying business records.

@Rajk999 said
I have one interest in this topic and it is about if aid is the solution to the problems in Africa and the answer is a resounding no. In fact aid makes it worse, and proof of this is that over the last 20 years, trillions have been pumped into Africa and the continent gets worse every year.

I understand that you, with your TDS problem, need to condemn Trump. However if y ...[text shortened]... countability weaknesses rather than pure criminality alone.
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I'm not interested in debating anything with a machine. Think for yourself, or I will stop responding.

I agree with you that the world is over-populated. How do you propose to deal with that? Stop feeding people? Birth rates go down wherever prosperity rises. I'm in favor of helping poor counties to foster prosperity, rather than starving them to death.

Stopping all aid to an entire continent because a few corrupt politicians pocketed some of the aid is not the proper procedure for dealing with fraud and corruption.

@moonbus said
I'm not interested in debating anything with a machine. Think for yourself, or I will stop responding.

I agree with you that the world is over-populated. How do you propose to deal with that? Stop feeding people? Birth rates go down wherever prosperity rises. I'm in favor of helping poor counties to foster prosperity, rather than starving them to death.

Stopping all aid ...[text shortened]... iticians pocketed some of the aid is not the proper procedure for dealing with fraud and corruption.

The machine provides the data. The thinking is from me. It is easy to figure out which is which. I made the conclusions based on the data.

I never said the world is overpopulated. Africa is over populated. Maybe India as well. This is not the issue. Has USAID helped Africa to prosper? NO !! There is something else wrong and you are ignoring the core of the problem.

Nobody can be financed into prosperity. Africa eats money without progressing.

If you can answer this, then you can solve the Africa problem :

What is the reason why black communities all over the world have broken homes, father absenteeism, a very high % of single mothers, high unemployment, gangs and drugs, crime and hopelessness. .

@moonbus said
@Rajk999

What is the reason why black communities all over the world have broken homes, father absenteeism, a very high % of single mothers, high unemployment, gangs and drugs, crime and hopelessness. .

I don't know, you tell me. "Is it cuz they is Black??' (in the voice of Sacha Baron Cohen)

Take an educated guess and amaze us with your wisdom.

I'm sure you're going to say it's "white peepo fault" 🥴

@moonbus said
@Rajk999

What is the reason why black communities all over the world have broken homes, father absenteeism, a very high % of single mothers, high unemployment, gangs and drugs, crime and hopelessness. .

I don't know, you tell me. "Is it cuz they is Black??' (in the voice of Sacha Baron Cohen)

Africans and those of African origin have some specific cultural practices. One of these is polygamy. This create millions of damaged homes and single mothers and uneducated children..... in the end mass poverty and starvation.

Then you need to check into what causes corruption at such a massive scale. What is the cause of modern slavery still in existance all over Africa. Millions are still forced into unpaid labour and some inherit this status from their parents.

Maybe start with Googling the polygamy ... Jacob Zuma. Here is a bit of it :

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Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president from 2009–2018, has had four (and at times up to six) wives simultaneously and has been one of the most prominent public defenders of polygamy on the continent. His justification was explicitly cultural: he framed it as "my culture," tying the practice to Zulu tradition and identity. How widespread polygamy actually is, country by country

There's solid Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data on this, and it shows sharp regional variation — this is very much not a uniform "African" practice, but concentrated in a specific belt:

The "polygamy belt" — West and Central Africa (high prevalence, generally 25–53% of married women):

The Gambia: 53%
Sierra Leone: 47%
Senegal: 48%
Burkina Faso: 36%
Mali: 34%
Chad: 40%
Nigeria: 28%
DR Congo: 25%
Ghana: roughly 21–31% depending on survey year

East and Southern Africa (generally much lower):

Kenya: 23%
Zimbabwe: 16%
Rwanda: 14.4%
Burundi: 11.6%
South Africa: just 1.6% — strikingly, Zuma's own country has one of the lowest polygamy rates on the continent, making his personal practice more a specific ethnic/cultural exception (rooted in Zulu tradition) than representative of South African norms broadly.
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@T-R-O-L-L said
Take an educated guess and amaze us with your wisdom.

I'm sure you're going to say it's "white peepo fault" 🥴

Moonbus is a black guy living in Switzerland, living the good life among white Europeans. Naturally he is not going to want free money flowing into Africa to slow down.

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Well, of mixed heritage then. I think he has some UK connections as well. Ok so he has an adpoted African son/daughter .... cool

@Rajk999 said
Africans and those of African origin have some specific cultural practices. One of these is polygamy. This create millions of damaged homes and single mothers and uneducated children..... in the end mass poverty and starvation.

Then you need to check into what causes corruption at such a massive scale. What is the cause of modern slavery still in existance all over Afr ...[text shortened]... tion) than representative of South African norms broadly.
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So, what does the one you worship as Lord and Savior counsel? Leave unfortunate people to rot in poverty and famine?

@Rajk999 said
The machine provides the data. The thinking is from me. It is easy to figure out which is which. I made the conclusions based on the data.

I never said the world is overpopulated. Africa is over populated. Maybe India as well. This is not the issue. Has USAID helped Africa to prosper? NO !! There is something else wrong and you are ignoring the core of the proble ...[text shortened]... a very high % of single mothers, high unemployment, gangs and drugs, crime and hopelessness. [/b].

Complete with the most horrible question ever asked of AI.

"Using Nigeria as an example..."???

This was you asking AI to make a completely biased answer.