Summary
The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.
Mana Nutrition’s CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.
Despite Secretary of State Rubio’s claims that “lifesaving humanitarian assistance” would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.
These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
Cancelling contracts already in progress. The epitome of “efficiency”.
It just shows that efficiency isn’t what this is about. It’s about destruction.
Destruction is why Krasnov was selected.
Yep, they’ll get the government sued and lose so much more money through litigation and actually losing the law suits.
But of course, they don’t care, for all their talk about deficits and taxes they know it’s not their money in the end.
Unless some genius lawyer manages to somehow make Musk personally liable, of course, because none of this Doge stuff looks set up properly, so if the US ever does get back to some sort of rule of law, people will get in trouble for breaking all sorts of laws.
Trump’s admin has already shown that you can’t really sue the federal government into compliance if there isn’t anyone to enforce it. Sure, those countries and companies and people can sue the US for breach of contract. The government will laugh in their face and not pay, simple as that. Trump literally made his millions doing exactly this.
Not gonna change until it wrecks a few million maga lives.
The Dems should make some mention about this on the Sunday morning shows, if they were smart about it.
No one dumb and selfish enough to vote for Trump will care about the suffering of people outside the US.
Are you implying they care about the suffering of people within the US? Because they verifiably do not…
No, that’s literally not what they implied. You’re unironically doing the “so you hate waffles?” thing.
They literally implied that by including “outside the US”, otherwise the inclusion of those words are entirely meaningless?
I personally know Christians who voted for Trump (yeah I know, but bear with me) that would care very much, as they actually do missionary work overseas to help the kind of people that would be affected by this cancellation.
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lemmy guess, single-issue voters
lemmy guess, single-issue voters
No, according to one of them they thought the country needed fixing, and he’s the one to do it. Wrong direction, pricing, that sort of thing.
I think they were religiously anti-woke, but didn’t want to come out and say it straight.
Funny enough, they were one of those who does missionary work. I plan on asking them again after the USAID changes filters down and affects people more forcefully.
No, according to one of them they thought the country needed fixing, and he’s the one to do it.
People who think a person who handled COVID like trump did is an is the right person to manage a “crisis” he worked hard contributing to?!:D
I personally know Christians who voted for Trump (yeah I know, but bear with me) that would care very much, as they actually do missionary work overseas to help the kind of people that would be affected by this cancellation.
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lemmy guess, single-issue voters
Any response from you about my mentioning how some Christians also care? …
that was the question:D
I mean yes, but the Democratic voting base will. Then promising to restore international aid would probably secure a good number of first and second generation immigrants.
and wreck an ugly MAGA lie
The problem is that MAGA people either don’t know about the problem, don’t care about the problem, or would actively harm foreigners (or American minorities, for that matter) if it put even a penny in their pocket or made them feel superior.
Only the people that already know the republicans are lying their pants off know it’s a lie, a fact worsened by corporate news media and social media firms censoring the virality of anything that could hurt the far-right.
Many just straight up don’t believe you when you tell or even show them. They think you’re brainwashed so they don’t take you seriously. They just believe Big Brother loves them and would never lie to them.
Elon “I love killing poor children” Musk
Considering his history as a white, South African, he probably is pretty delighted that he gets to make poor black babies starve there.
If only the “pro-life” Trump voters actually cared about the lives of children.
They only care about the control using children as an excuse. Woman and abortion, privacy and csam ect.
So what I’m hearing is that peanuts and vitamins are gonna be cheaper?
And all it costs is several thousand lives in countries most Americans couldn’t pick out on a map, and a bunch of anxiety for peanut farmers.
What a great deal. Nobody could have made a better, more Christ-like deal.
Step 1: Get rid of USAID
Step 2: Cut all food stamps
Step 3: Most US farmers go out of bussiness
Step 4: Rich people buy up all farm land
Step 5: Food prices skyrocket due to monopolies and mismanagement and the rich get to become feudal lords.
Step 6: We feed the billionaires to the wood chipper and have French Revolution: American-style.
I think in the interest of efficiency we need to just skip ahead to step 6.
Woah, woah, woah, woah!
You can’t feed the billionaires to the wood chippers!
You gotta feed them to the pig farms so they finally do something useful with their worthless lives.
step 7: use wood chipper output as fertilizer for our crops in the community garden
Step 6 - Let 2/3 of the earth population die, replace most jobs with automation and AI. Keep the 1/3 of the population remaning as slaves and distraction. Enjoy the utlimate victory of capitalism.
US workers : I know it’s mighty easy to say from a distance, but now is the time for disobedience
Stay cool. It is going to hit the violent right wing especially hard. They will eventually figure it out since, in most cases, their people hold every positions of power from the dog catchers to the White house. The, “Hey look, something shiny over there”, will get old, even for those morons.
Do not stay cool! Why are you tempering yourself when your own government is being taken apart before your eyes?
Americans are cowards. Even us Canadians are largely the same in that regard. We just keep letting this stuff happen because we think we’re being clever and most of us are so fucking brain-dead that imagining a better world is next to impossible.
I suspect it’s at least partly due to the fact that both the US and Canada are too fucking large. Frankly speaking someone in California has to put in a decent amount of work to get to DC, this means that California can be more easily ignored by the Feds. The fact of the matter is that there isn’t much folks can do short of attacking federal agents, simply because there’s no way for most regions to put pressure on the Congress or the President. Even our so called representatives are almost always in DC or their isolated little shithole communities.
Except that California’s GDP is insane. It’s also the home of all the tech billionaires. We live in an age where communication is no longer really affected by distance, and even still that’s why so many governments have representatives, and if you don’t like them there are options much of the time. Americans are great at constantly reinforcing the systems they claim to hate.
Also, plenty of right-wingers in economically barren states get representation and are listened to because they make a fuss(ok it’s more like a temper-tantrum, but it does the job).
When it comes for putting pressure on folks we are still instinctually led by in person tendencies. It’s the whole “you wouldn’t say that in person” thing, if a politician fears being tard, feathered, and hanged then they tend to be a lot more amiable to the common folks.
Also these ain’t mutually exclusive things, frankly speaking I think every House district should have a home office where the representative is forced to live and operate out of where they can do votes and seat meetings. This puts them well within stabbing distance of those they should be representing, it would also allow better tracking of whomst they meet with. If they need to present a bill or meet in person they can take a train, should help get a proper rail network established.
If this seems like it’d be hard on the geriatrics, that’s the point. If they can’t handle the stress of it all and drop dead that’s a feature not a flaw, they could drop out at any time.
While I still think it’s not a very strong excuse, the distance thing, I do very much agree with the rest.
Don’t count on that. When fascism’s failures become apparent, it doesn’t retreat into self-reflection. It finds another boogeyman to refocus the efforts of its followers. If it deviated from this just a bit, then it would quickly become apparent that they have no idea how to solve any actual problem.
The best time for protest and disobedience was weeks ago. The second best time is now.
Even from a very cynical POV, this money was soft power. It was an investment to sell other products to the world.
Why do you think the world doesn’t eat north korean burgers or watch russian blockbusters?
And not to mention that the food … it’s not bought from all over the world, a ton of the money was used to buy from farmers in the USA.
A bad decision at so many levels. It’s inhumane and they are loosing a soft power of being the good guys. Then, we will hear from western propaganda that it’s China who is “buying” Africa’s favors by providing humanitarian help.
Just help others for the sake of it, it’s not that difficult.
humanitarian commitments
Don’t you know, “humanitarian” falls under their “woke” umbrella.
These people think they’re some kind of special above other humans. Musk literally believes everything is a simulation and only he is real.
Guys, is it woke to have compassion, empathy, and value humanism?
In their eyes, yes it is.
Isn’t humanitarian just some new gender? Sounds woke AF…
If Musk and Trump dislike wokeness so much, they should just go to sleep, and let others handle the statecraft.
But are they white American children?
They wouldn’t care about those either. The only children they seem to care about, are unborn.
I don’t think the title could be any more clickbaity.
“Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie”
<Unpopular person doing unpopular thing> causing <emotionally charged adjective> UNSPECIFIED event that <emotionally charged verb describing destruction> of <emotionally charged adjective> UNSPECIFIED lie of <unpopular movement [on lemmy]>
Yeah I had to downvote it on the principal of clickbait articles.
It’s the title of the article. The person posting the article here didn’t chose the article title. They could have found an alternative source with a better headline, but if we start doing that we’re going to miss out on some important news because some people are lazy or some news isn’t covered everywhere, I’m guessing.
