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.
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%.
You couldn’t be more correct. I’m a professor at the only College of Ethnic Studies in the country. Project 2025 has in its crosshairs African American Studies. What I currently teach and several thousand of my colleagues will be academically and emotionally unalived. You’re right and thensome!
I looked up the 7 million for toilets! It’s actually for sanitation systems in Philippines were 4 million out of the 6 million basically use outhouses to go to the bathroom! This was to help with sanitary conditions and basically indoor plumbing etc ….
Very true and few MAGAs will own up to how much hate and anger is part of their motivation. All kinds of benign reasons are trotted out every day so the abject cruelty of the Trump and GOP proposals can be ignored by the press and hide the underlying hatred of our fellow Americans for us.
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
No kidding. These people aren't at all concerned with saving money. I think misguided people actually believe the propaganda and I don't know how to educate them. But the big mug wumps are not trying to save money. They are out to destroy our system and country. It saddens me so much that they don't care about causing suffering and death. Scares me too!
There’s no cure for ignorance they don’t want to learn about anything! PEPFAR is the reason that AIDS is no longer a death sentence here in the former US! For every dollar that is spent on USAID we save $7 on the military I believe that came from general Miley himself. Not to mention all these people who scream about how we should be a Christian nation but they would shoot Jesus on sight for being a brown skinned immigrant in need!
Since at least the 1970s, I have heard stories about how the US government pays people to immigrate to the US and take away jobs from from good hard working Americans. I've heard they are given free airfare, housing, vouchers, cash, all sorts of things. And this is all hidden from the public! Every one of them insists this is true and is extremely resentful that "these people" get a freebie while they can barely put food on the table. I think there was a study that asked what percentage of the budget is foreign aid, and people regularly assumed it was a third of the entire US budget.
This meme has been stoked by MAGA to a fever pitch, and so they are angry and fed up with us supposedly giving away all our money. No amount of reason of facts will change that.
Even my mom has believed some of this, but it did not stop her from voting for Democrats in every election. Now she finally knows better as she approaches her 8th decade.
Thank God she knows to vote for Democrats! The Repubs don't need proof....they say ridiculous things that they heard on Fox News. I've asked them if they really hear what they're saying, but they believe every stupid thing that right-wing media spews.
Donnab, I am so appalled and saddened that way too many Americans are filled with such racism, greed, and selfishness. Oh and stupidity and the lack of critical thinking skills. I think that America may have finally jumped the shark into autocracy. I hope I'm wrong, but 2026 may be too late to revive the democracy.
I'm afraid too, Sakina. It may be too late to stop the coup. Many Americans have stopped reading. They get all of their information from Fox News. I've tried talking to Repubs, but it's impossible to get through. They are truly brain-washed.
If we would move his fat ass away from golf courses and Mar-a-Largo he’d see the abject poverty around the world. I am in Western Africa right now and the need for US aid is profound.
So many people still think Trump is just mistaken and once everything is explained to him, he will stop being a sociopath. Some people saying he should read the Constitution or the Gettysburg address or anything else and then he would change are not getting it.
So right, Curmudgeon! There's no cure for Narcissistic or Antisocial (sociopathic) Personality Disorders. Sometimes old age tamps it down a bit but not for someone like Drumpf who has managed to con his way into the US presidency.
Derrick, BOUNDARIES are so important in dealing with toxic people like NPDs. Too bad that the former GOP, Congress, SCOTUS, and the mainstream media didn't rein the guy in back in 2016.
We're in a pickle, Sakina. Our only hope right now is to win a Dem majority in the midterm elections. We need to get the House at a minimum. The Repubs in Congress merely follow the orders of the Fuhrer.
Why aren’t any democrats just fuckn screaming about Trump spending 15 million of taxpayer money to attend the superbowl. He’s making everyone’s lives financially miserable and here this asshole is again spending on himself like a drunken sailor.
Let’s talk about eggs….. crazy idea… Democrats approach egg producers and offer to reduce the cost of producing their eggs by buying advertising space on the egg containers…and I can suggest that the first message…..”The price of these eggs are brought to you by President Trump”
Yeah, there's a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. And do you know where most of it resides? In the Dept of Defense. But do you think Musk and co. will be marching in to shut down any part of that department? Ha! That's a laugh. Next go round the Congress will just throw more taxpayer dollars their way. They always do. Prove me wrong.
My two cents is that the caller believes, like you touched on that idea that isolationism is the best policy for America but he likely doesn’t know that, that has never made America Great. Tom, I live in PA and these are my neighbors literally and they believe that society has become a bit too much they can’t keep up with so they want to get “small” do they can feel like the all knowing White Man again. They feel left behind and are worried they are obsolete like little “d” tells them they are. It’s ironic because if they admitted they don’t know all they would find American’s greatness
Some of those who want USAID and other programs shut down, care nothing about what happens to people in other countries. I do not know the exact source at present, but one Republican official stated that the people are concerned only with what goes on in their own lives and homes and our nation, and don't care what happens in Europe or the rest of the world.
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%.
You couldn’t be more correct. I’m a professor at the only College of Ethnic Studies in the country. Project 2025 has in its crosshairs African American Studies. What I currently teach and several thousand of my colleagues will be academically and emotionally unalived. You’re right and thensome!
I looked up the 7 million for toilets! It’s actually for sanitation systems in Philippines were 4 million out of the 6 million basically use outhouses to go to the bathroom! This was to help with sanitary conditions and basically indoor plumbing etc ….
Very true and few MAGAs will own up to how much hate and anger is part of their motivation. All kinds of benign reasons are trotted out every day so the abject cruelty of the Trump and GOP proposals can be ignored by the press and hide the underlying hatred of our fellow Americans for us.
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
No kidding. These people aren't at all concerned with saving money. I think misguided people actually believe the propaganda and I don't know how to educate them. But the big mug wumps are not trying to save money. They are out to destroy our system and country. It saddens me so much that they don't care about causing suffering and death. Scares me too!
There’s no cure for ignorance they don’t want to learn about anything! PEPFAR is the reason that AIDS is no longer a death sentence here in the former US! For every dollar that is spent on USAID we save $7 on the military I believe that came from general Miley himself. Not to mention all these people who scream about how we should be a Christian nation but they would shoot Jesus on sight for being a brown skinned immigrant in need!
Since at least the 1970s, I have heard stories about how the US government pays people to immigrate to the US and take away jobs from from good hard working Americans. I've heard they are given free airfare, housing, vouchers, cash, all sorts of things. And this is all hidden from the public! Every one of them insists this is true and is extremely resentful that "these people" get a freebie while they can barely put food on the table. I think there was a study that asked what percentage of the budget is foreign aid, and people regularly assumed it was a third of the entire US budget.
This meme has been stoked by MAGA to a fever pitch, and so they are angry and fed up with us supposedly giving away all our money. No amount of reason of facts will change that.
Even my mom has believed some of this, but it did not stop her from voting for Democrats in every election. Now she finally knows better as she approaches her 8th decade.
Thank God she knows to vote for Democrats! The Repubs don't need proof....they say ridiculous things that they heard on Fox News. I've asked them if they really hear what they're saying, but they believe every stupid thing that right-wing media spews.
The GOP brand is racism, greed and selfishness. I want no part of Republicans.
Donnab, I am so appalled and saddened that way too many Americans are filled with such racism, greed, and selfishness. Oh and stupidity and the lack of critical thinking skills. I think that America may have finally jumped the shark into autocracy. I hope I'm wrong, but 2026 may be too late to revive the democracy.
I'm afraid too, Sakina. It may be too late to stop the coup. Many Americans have stopped reading. They get all of their information from Fox News. I've tried talking to Repubs, but it's impossible to get through. They are truly brain-washed.
They want your Social Security.
Republicons.
When isolation and supremacy are your philosophies there is no impetus to look to others to either help or be helped. Hubris fills them.
If we would move his fat ass away from golf courses and Mar-a-Largo he’d see the abject poverty around the world. I am in Western Africa right now and the need for US aid is profound.
Dennis, Trump wouldn't care. He only cares about himself and his money.
So many people still think Trump is just mistaken and once everything is explained to him, he will stop being a sociopath. Some people saying he should read the Constitution or the Gettysburg address or anything else and then he would change are not getting it.
So right, Curmudgeon! There's no cure for Narcissistic or Antisocial (sociopathic) Personality Disorders. Sometimes old age tamps it down a bit but not for someone like Drumpf who has managed to con his way into the US presidency.
Derrick, BOUNDARIES are so important in dealing with toxic people like NPDs. Too bad that the former GOP, Congress, SCOTUS, and the mainstream media didn't rein the guy in back in 2016.
We're in a pickle, Sakina. Our only hope right now is to win a Dem majority in the midterm elections. We need to get the House at a minimum. The Repubs in Congress merely follow the orders of the Fuhrer.
Read? Drumpf?
Why aren’t any democrats just fuckn screaming about Trump spending 15 million of taxpayer money to attend the superbowl. He’s making everyone’s lives financially miserable and here this asshole is again spending on himself like a drunken sailor.
Why use foreign aid when all the world is supposed to fear us? That's essentially what the mindset of the MAGAs is.
Let’s talk about eggs….. crazy idea… Democrats approach egg producers and offer to reduce the cost of producing their eggs by buying advertising space on the egg containers…and I can suggest that the first message…..”The price of these eggs are brought to you by President Trump”
Yeah, there's a lot of fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. And do you know where most of it resides? In the Dept of Defense. But do you think Musk and co. will be marching in to shut down any part of that department? Ha! That's a laugh. Next go round the Congress will just throw more taxpayer dollars their way. They always do. Prove me wrong.
Musk has HUGE government contracts. We're a lot of his bread and butter.
My two cents is that the caller believes, like you touched on that idea that isolationism is the best policy for America but he likely doesn’t know that, that has never made America Great. Tom, I live in PA and these are my neighbors literally and they believe that society has become a bit too much they can’t keep up with so they want to get “small” do they can feel like the all knowing White Man again. They feel left behind and are worried they are obsolete like little “d” tells them they are. It’s ironic because if they admitted they don’t know all they would find American’s greatness
Some of those who want USAID and other programs shut down, care nothing about what happens to people in other countries. I do not know the exact source at present, but one Republican official stated that the people are concerned only with what goes on in their own lives and homes and our nation, and don't care what happens in Europe or the rest of the world.
He will never get it.
You’re so right. I don’t understand how so many people are just buying into the narrative that is MAGA
Why does Franklin Graham still get funded but the Catholic charities don’t?
Lots of spelling mistakes. Please review. Thx
Three typos. Sorry about that, they corrected. Was writing while trying to catch a flight