Trumper can't quite grasp how the U.S. gives foreign aid to keep the world safe
David in Pittsburg admitted "some foreign aid is needed," but still defended cutting all of it, even as people will die and governments will fall, causing a security risk for the U.S.
Sometimes it’s like banging your head against a wall. David in Pittsburgh called my SiriusXM program last week to defend Donald Trump gutting the United States Agency for International Development.
MAGA morons and Fox fantasists have convinced themselves that there’s a massive amount of waste—using few dubious claims and some known outright lies—about an agency that was less than 1% of the budget.
Even Marco Rubio—before he was Trump’s lapdog secretary of state—defended USAID on the Senate floor over and over, and urged the Biden administration to expand the program to blunt China’s influence. Now he’s part of the mob that’s gutting the agency and literally taking the sign off the building—even as a judge blocked Trump from placing 2200 people on leave.
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The facts are clear. The programs have done an enormous amount of humanitarian good. But the tiny investment for the U.S. also helps the keep governments stable, and stops them from collapsing and turning to our adversaries.
As I said to David, “if you want to be the big guy on the block,” you have to look out for your neighbors.
He couldn’t quite grasp how this worked, and said that there was waste—which, even if it is true, you could cut, without killing the entire agency.
Listen in to get a sense of how the MAGA mind works—or doesn’t. And let me know your thoughts!
Listening to MAGA these past years have led me to a conclusion about what drives their fanatical support: Racism. At the core, it’s racism.
As the Southern Strategy pitted poor Whites against even poorer Blacks, we have the Oligarchy Class lighting deep seated fears of “the others” to rouse anger and blind following of this so-called Trump Agenda.
So-called cause we all know that the true agenda is the overthrow of our liberal democracy for rule (and exploitation) by the 0.01%.
Yikes the arrogance and mediocrity of this guy Michaelangelo was unbelievably visceral. I very much wished you had mentioned Orange 47’s trip to the Super Bowl and to all his golf excursions. There’s no official sum but you factor in costs. It could be as much as $15-$20 million in taxpayer money. #LIARSDontHEAL