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DON'T PROMISE THE WORLD A GOOD TIME!

We must win 🇺🇸💙 http://dlvr.it/TM4Kkq

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The most vile negative political party ever. And all the Sunday church goers are falling over each other to see who can cheer the loudest.

Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)

Sometime near the end of the Biden administration, USAID spent about $800,000 on the high-energy biscuits, one current and one former employee at the agency told me. The biscuits, which cram in the nutritional needs of a child under 5, are a stopgap measure, often used in scenarios where people have lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled a war faster than aid groups could set up a kitchen to receive them. They were stored in a Dubai warehouse and intended to go to the children this year.

Since January, when the Trump administration issued an executive order that halted virtually all American foreign assistance, federal workers have sent the new political leaders of USAID repeated requests to ship the biscuits while they were useful, according to the two USAID employees. USAID bought the biscuits intending to have the World Food Programme distribute them, and under previous circumstances, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the United Nations agency on their own. But since Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me. From January to mid-April, the responsibility rested with Pete Marocco, who worked across multiple agencies during the first Trump administration; then it passed to Jeremy Lewin, a law-school graduate in his 20s who was originally installed by DOGE and now has appointments at both USAID and State. Two of the USAID employees told me that staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the food never got a response and did not know whether Marocco or Lewin ever received them. (The State Department did not answer my questions about why the food was never distributed.)

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You can almost smell the ink on the freshly signed trade agreements between non USA countries and the giggles knowing that the threats just speed up the exact opposite of what they think they will do. BRICS is becoming inevitable.

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It’s not a space program. It’s a playground where the world’s richest man “dun blowed things up “

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Kids! This is why mommy and daddy tell you about the bad things drugs and low education will do to you.

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Maybe sort out your child molestation issues first.

Then move on down your list of lesser sins!

Up next: electricity, automobiles, jazz, and deodorant.

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They are if they come in a tin can!

will be referencing this when I want to be a hater from now on

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He is saying

‘I was stupid to start off with and now I also have dementia. Opps. I think I made 💩 in my pants’.

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The plan has been around for over 50 years. Stop illegal settlements on their land. Simple and fair.

The way to end the Gaza war has been clear for nearly a year

David Ignatius at The Washington Post:

What’s agonizing is that Israeli military and intelligence leaders were ready to settle this conflict nearly a year ago. Working with U.S. and Emirati officials, they developed a plan for security “bubbles” that would contain the violence, starting in northern Gaza and moving south, backed by an international peacekeeping force that would include troops from European and moderate Arab countries.

In place of Hamas, a Palestinian government, backed by a reformed Palestinian Authority, would take political control. This wasn’t a pipe dream. Officials worked out a detailed road map. They began planning to train the Palestinian security force that would replace Hamas. This was, as golfers like to say, “a makeable putt.”

But Netanyahu said no. His right-wing coalition partners demanded “total victory,” even though they couldn’t define just what that meant.

Also:

The Israeli-Palestinian dispute might seem intractable, but ending this conflict would be relatively easy. I’m told that Israeli military officials keep working on “day after” plans, honing details as recently as this week. But they have had no political support from Netanyahu.

“The ‘exit ramp’ has been staring us in the face for a long time,” argues Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. It’s a mix of Arab states and Gaza Palestinians, operating under a Palestinian Authority umbrella, he explains. “It is messy, with overlapping responsibilities and lots of dotted lines. But it checks all the boxes to enable the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation to get off the ground.”

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This Italian anti fascist song from WW2 (English version) seems fitting to rise again in America and the other countries where the far right are looking to overthrow governments for all the people.

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This is MAGA’s replacement for the FAA. There will be trouble ahead….

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That one person who never knows the party is over and it’s time to leave.

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Part of my growing up in Nova Scotia.

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Well then, less talkie and more arrestie!

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PLUS you lost massive supply contracts selling beef and soy to Brazil, Argentina, Canada and SE Asia. Those are not coming back with many suppliers losing their businesses. Yet another avoidable disaster by a complete business moron.

Art of the deal.

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Is there a word, symbol or short phrase that says ‘FUCK OFF YOU MORONIC MELANOMA’ a million times. I’m too busy to cut and paste.

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Is she moonlighting as a

Proctologist as she is constantly trying to make this asshole look good!