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Scott Burson's avatar

I have seen it pointed out that the destruction of USAID was not important to Trump's base and was not an issue he campaigned on. It was all Musk's idea. And Musk would have cared about it, apparently, because USAID played a significant role in the ending of apartheid.

Puts a new spin on Musk's Nazi salute, doesn't it?

In Agatha Christie's great mystery _The A.B.C. Murders_, the killer commits a series of four murders, trying to make them look like random acts of a madman; but in fact, one of the killings is quite calculated — the others are just decoys. I submit that the same thing has happened here. Musk's goal was to obliterate USAID; everything else was just distraction. And as with Sir Carmichael Clark, Christie's perpetrator, the fact that that other people had to die — hundreds of thousands, in the case of USAID — was of no consequence to Musk.

Frank Lee's avatar

Wrong. There was a clear policy agenda to kill the corrupt dark flow of taxpayer money to fund the Democrat political machine. Yes, killing USAID, the primary corrupt funding mechanism for dirty Democrat politics, is one of the key accomplishments of DOGE. The apartheid connection claim is MDS tinfoil hat stuff. But too, simply the report to the people for how much the Democrats political establishment has been wasting. And today we have the Tim Walz Minnesota waste, fraud and abuse story... and 20 blue states failing to provide the requested data on SNAP benefits, etc. And no, DOGE is not dead. It is just pulled out of the media story because of the left losing its mind and pushing emotional terrorism into the electorate about it.

And so Sammy Soy Boy swings and misses all over the place here with his emotive hyperbole backing his Trump Derangement Syndrome focusing on everything but what Trump campaigned on and what he is doing and accomplishing. The claim of "chaos" is easily identified as only the noise in Sam's head, or the media reports of chaotic leftists protesting law enforcement with behavior not far removed from the mentally disturbed homeless people around them.

It is like the Feminized Democrats are the wife that rages, wrecks and then burns down the house after her husband told her she should stop eating so much bread and exercise a bit... and then claims that the husband caused all the "chaos".

Scott Burson's avatar

I think it's possible that a rebuttal exists that would persuade me I'm mistaken — but this isn't it.

Frank Lee's avatar

Likewise, from your original post and certainly from the article.

Kenneth Crook's avatar

Presumably you have independent evidence connecting USAID money directly funding the Democrats? While you're searching for that, any comment on the deaths that will be caused by these cuts (4 million by 2030 from HIV alone according to some estimates - but of course you will have your own, "correct", figures)?

Eric73's avatar

Wow, what an analogy, Frank! That really drives the point home—after all, who can't relate to the classic story of the fat wife who burns the house down and blames it on her reasonable husband? Classic Frank!

Tell me, is this how you square the circle between calling the Democrats "feminized" and then claiming they're responsible for all of the political violence? By claiming that it's actually women who are the violent ones?

Regardless, I'm sorry to once again have to point out who really suffers from derangement. This administration is like an assembly line in a political-scandal factory. You don't even have to go digging to see all of the blatantly corrupt self-dealing and partisan weaponization of the law. It's out in the open because SCOTUS gave Trump immunity and he can—and has—given pardons to people who help him do his dirty deeds.

And no, Joe Biden didn't weaponize the law against Trump—Trump committed crimes and got prosecuted by a DOJ led by the most cautious, button down AG you could have found. And then Trump used that to justify his legal persecution of political enemies that he's conducted entirely out in the open.

USAID was a source of corrupt financing for Democrats? Explain how that one works, Frank. Did Democrats have operatives on the ground in Africa stealing food and medicine and selling it at jacked up rates? Because when the administration tried to justify the firings of USAID workers in court by claiming fraud and waste, they couldn't come up with a damn bit of evidence of anything that didn't simply amount to uses of money the Trump administration didn't like.

There was one guy who got prosecuted for accepting bribes to steer contracts to a couple companies. Yeah, fraud like that happens in government. But not Trump's government, because they've virtually stopped prosecuting white collar crime. Can't claim corruption if nobody's investigating it!

Actually, if you want to know what corrupt financing looks like, pay attention to all the money flowing into Trump's companies via his scam cryptocurrencies and memestocks, and his kids running around making deals in foreign countries while their daddy negotiates with their heads of state. The guy's gone from being almost flat broke to being worth several billion dollars in the past year.

I know that must seem hard to believe what with his spineless party doing not a goddamn thing about it, but remember Frank, they get death threats from MAGA thugs when they cross Trump. Just ask the Republicans in Indiana—who, apparently, are at least made of different stuff than your average Republican House Rep or Senator, since all the threats just made them angry and more defiant.

Ah, but I guess that's just me and my TDS acting up again!

Frank Lee's avatar

Being feminized means less emotional regulation. More rage. More cancel culture. More violent protests and riots. More assassinations.

Bill Schmidt's avatar

Another consistent factor -- Trump and co. consistently find ways to turn the chaos into a money grab, whether its crypto, a 747, a ballroom, rare earths, or a cut of the frozen Russian assets