Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the completion of the Trump administration’s six-week purge of USAID programs, eliminating 83% of the agency’s initiatives.
The remaining 18% will move under State Department control.
The administration claims eliminated programs “did not serve the core national interests” of the US. Critics argue the shutdown is illegal without congressional approval.
Aid groups report even life-saving programs received termination notices. The rapid dismantling has left thousands unemployed and billions in unpaid contracts, with many USAID staff still stranded overseas awaiting travel expenses.
I am so proud that my country is actively starving people and denying them medical care around the world, just like at home. Spreading the American way!
(do I really need to add the /s?)
The United States Agency of International Development… Is also a big part of how the CIA pays for the maintenance of the American world order overseas, which benefits America, and goes against the interests of places like Russia, and China.
From Wikipedia:
U.S. national interests
Congress appropriates exceptional financial assistance to allies to support U.S. geopolitical interests, mainly in the form of “Economic Support Funds” (ESF). USAID is called on to administer the bulk (90%) of ESF[67] and is instructed: “To the maximum extent feasible, [to] provide [ESF] assistance … consistent with the policy directions, purposes, and programs of [development assistance].”[68]
Basically that’s jargon for, we do CIA stuff to maintain US interests. Gotta fund protestors in Russia or Iran? The money is probably going through USAID. Rebels in Chad? That’ll be USAID money. Fund Israeli scouts to patrol the oil rich Golan Heights in Syria? CIA to USAID to Israel.
Without USAID America’s ability to effect events overseas will be diminished, allowing other players a greater amount of influence, for their global interests.
What’s funny to me is that a party made of people that go on RELIGIOUS MISSIONS don’t seem to understand the concept.
There is currently no standard irony or sarcasm punctuation.
Until there is one, you can use some other symbol for irony punctuation. Like ⸮, ‽, ¡ or ¿.
You can also use the rolleyes emote 🙄, strategic italics, and even rAndOMcASe capitalization.
Just don’t use the SarcMark™. A trademarked punctuation mark you have to pay to use is one of the most bullshit forms of capitalist bullshit one can imagine. Fuck that shit with a white-hot iron rebar.
Oh, before I forget, there’s also the snarkmark ( .~ ). Works like the SarcMark™, but you don’t have to tell the world you are an idiot for paying to use a punctuation mark.
