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They are transactional. Like whores. Money up front.
Notice how quickly MAGAs want to divert away from the malaria drugs, HIV medications, etc that will not be distributed or the clinical trials that will be stopped to talk about conspiracy theories and hypotheticals.
Predictable. It turns out that executives are actually allowed to engage in "executive powers" granted by the Constitution. Imagine that!
The more leftists challenge basic elements of the Constitution like this, the more foolish they look. Talk about self-sabotage....it's like watching a trainwreck!
Just like in Afghanistan and Vietnam and Korea how many more times do we have to make this mistake before we learn it's a mistake.If we helped them drive out Russia, we can pressure them to reform.
It wouldn't be any part of us letting anything happen we're not the global hegemon but at least we shouldn't be right? If we are let's just take Russia.If we let Russia take over, they'll get a permanent dictatro, with elections (Sound familiar? Russia, Russia, Russia).
I am they did the same thing in Afghanistan it failed they did the same thing in Vietnam it failed they did the same thing in North Korea it failed they did the same thing and parts of South America and it failed.Use your head.
Are you sure YOU understand what is actually being funded?In my opinion, a key element of MAGA's excitement to gut something is because they don't understand what it funds.
Just like in Afghanistan and Vietnam and Korea how many more times do we have to make this mistake before we learn it's a mistake.
You can't fight wars for other people if you do the people you fight the war for should be our vassel. If it's not going to be that arrangement they need to fight for themselves.
It wouldn't be any part of us letting anything happen we're not the global hegemon but at least we shouldn't be right? If we are let's just take Russia.
I am they did the same thing in Afghanistan it failed they did the same thing in Vietnam it failed they did the same thing in North Korea it failed they did the same thing and parts of South America and it failed.
How many more failures before we learn it should have only taken one.
Are you sure YOU understand what is actually being funded?
Deny what? Good grief, I don't think anyone on here KNOWS what is actually being funded. That is why it is being investigated and they have found waste.So you don't deny it.
Thank you for your honesty.
With that in mind, its worth remembering that most tyrants act within their country's constitutions. So making the argument strictly within that parameter should be met with a certain level of skepticism, if not outright suspicion.
Congress did. That's why it was funded.Deny what? Good grief, I don't think anyone on here KNOWS what is actually being funded. That is why it is being investigated and they have found waste.
Are you saying Congress is incapable of waste?Congress did. That's why it was funded.
Make malaria great again!Let the crying begin.
WINNING!
Judge gives go-ahead for the Trump administration to gut USAID's workforce
The decision comes after the judge had temporarily paused efforts to place thousands of USAID employees on administrative leave following a lawsuit by labor groups.www.nbcnews.com
USAID investigated Musk?Elon Musk wanted this to punish them for opening investigations into his criminal enterprises.
I wouldn't say it's nothing like that it's a country that can't fight its own war and we think it's our place to help them. Just like in Afghanistan and just like in Vietnam so yeah there are some similarities.The Ukraine situation is nothing like Vietnam or Afghanistan. Now you're just dodging and rationalizing.
What does malaria have to do with pro US propaganda?Make malaria great again!
Congress did. That's why it was funded.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are making decisions with no accountability and no oversight, they are dictating in direct violation of our constitution.Asking you to support your claims? Not surprising.
How so?
Let me guess it's hilariously ignorant to ask you to support this claim as well?
Does it pay well?
I wouldn't say it's nothing like that it's a country that can't fight its own war and we think it's our place to help them. Just like in Afghanistan and just like in Vietnam so yeah there are some similarities.
It's not rationalizing it seeing similarities you denying them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Congress doesn't oversee follow-through on their approved funding. It just approves or disapproves spending and doesn't look at a thing after that.
Which is why crazy waste happens, like a public high school using Covid funds to rent an MLB stadium in 2021 and multiple instance of money being allocated for a program in one country, but somehow landing in a completely different country for a completely different purpose.
Anyone whose position is that we should be turning a blind eye to this blatant corruption and recklessness is engaging in party/cultist hyperpartisan denialism. There's simply no other explanation for wanting to hide this kind of obvious problem.
The USAID embargo cut off HIV and malaria funding.What does malaria have to do with pro US propaganda?
USAID isn't the same thing as foreign aid.
Which tyrants throughout history have acted within their country's constitutions in order to establish tyranny?
So because a school rented an MLB stadium, food has to rot on the docks while people starve?
Seems sketchy.
This is surprising to many Americans. Maybe because slavery was constitutional for so long.
Hitler, for starters.
The dude running Venezuela.
That gentleman of Asian descent who ran Peru. Putin.
Weird strawman bullshit. I can't take such dishonest posts seriously.
You're right. Making strawman arguments is indeed very sketchy. You should try just talking about the topic at hand instead of attributing completely fabricated arguments to other posters.
Ummm......No.
Article 1 Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Therefore, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations, as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Not even close.
The "dude," Maduro, came into power long after the 1999 rewrite of the Constitution allowed indefinite reelections, which was primarily written for Hugo Chavez, who was also dictatorial. Maduro also oversaw a complete dismantling of the Venezuelan government that went entirely against the 1999 constitution. There was a well-known constitutional crisis there in 2017 (look it up since you obviously aren't aware). So no, Maduro didn't come to power as a dictator by following Venezuela's constitution. The guy completely dismantled it!
Putin literally changed Russia's constitution so he could stay in power.
The only argument you're making here is that leaders ignore or illegally change constitutions with corrupt actions, and this leads to dictatorship. That's pretty much what always happens. But obviously that means they're not operating in their constitution. In all the cases you've mentioned, the constitutions in play were literally altered or dismantled specifically to ALLOW for a dictator. The constitutions themselves didn't allow for dictators to rule.
That's an op-ed about how democracies can slippery slope into authoritarianism, not an article demonstrating that tyrants rise to power by following the constitution that's in place before they rise to power.
How is it a strawman? Were killing people now by revoking aid like this. It's inhumane. And you want to talk about ball fields.
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