Watch this interview with a bedrock Republican Bush appointee who once ran USAID.

[berg80]

Is anyone saying that USAID doesnt do anything of value? Because I've not heard that.

President Trump on Friday directly called for the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development just hours before most of its staff were expected to be suspended with pay or laid off, the latest sign that his administration will dissolve the government’s main provider of global humanitarian and development aid.

“CLOSE IT DOWN!” Mr. Trump wrote of U.S.A.I.D. on Truth Social, accusing the agency of unspecified rampant corruption and fraud. He had previously asserted that the agency was “run by radical lunatics.”

Trump Calls Directly for Closure of U.S.A.I.D.

The president’s demand to end the U.S. Agency for International Development came as the vast majority of the agency’s employees were expecting to be placed on indefinite administrative leave.

www.nytimes.com

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone as ignorant an ill-informed as Dotard. Well, I suppose you'd have to count the people who believe anything he says.

 

[Lesh]

What are we going to lose, I ask again?

Influence around the world. And into that vacuum will slither China and Russia

 

[berg80]

That is a blatant lie

What’s wrong with you?

You’re talking about subscription fees and of Politico has only 8 million in revenue…. Well…. Then you’re an honest man. And we know that’s not true

If he stopped regurgitating lies he wouldn't have anything to post.

 

[berg80]

What are we going to lose, I ask again? Your your articles headline says “what the US will lose.”

Did they name something that we would lose or was that a lie?

Isn't there a 10 year old you know who can help you read the article?

 

[Lesh]

Unlike you and your Cult, we don’t always walk in lockstep. Who cares if this clown was appointed by Bush?

Oh yeah, you do…….all the sudden.

But you DO walk in lockstep… behind Trump

 

[Seymour Flops]

Influence around the world. And into that vacuum will slither China and Russia

Seriously, that’s what the article said?

We gain influence around the world by being lucrative trading partners, reliable allies, and formidable adversaries.

The Democrats idea of buying everybody off and paying them to be our friends never works. They take our money and they spit in our faces.

We funded Mexico to the tune of nearly $60 million last year. Did that prompt them to give us any help with our illegal immigration, human trafficking and drug trafficking across our southern border problem?

Nope!

They didn’t decide to do that until we had a president who let them know there would be consequences for not taking these simple humanitarian steps.

 

[Lesh]

Seriously, that’s what the article said?

We gain influence around the world by being lucrative trading partners, reliable allies, and formidable adversaries.

The Democrats idea of buying everybody off and paying them to be our friends never works. They take our foreign and they spit in our faces.

Lookup the meaning of “soft power “

 

[JLW]

Putin and Xi love that Trump did away with USAID. They really can't believe their good luck when Trump was elected.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Lookup the meaning of “soft power “

No thanks.

 

[Lesh]

No thanks.

Purposely ignorant is no way to do through life son

 

[Seymour Flops]

Purposely ignorant is no way to do through life son

Not reading a bunch of reading assignments from random posters on the Internet =/= purposefully ignorant.

You seem like you’re trying to change the subject and make it about me instead of the asinine thread that your body started.

 

[Lesh]

Not reading a bunch of reading assignments from random posters on the Internet =/= purposefully ignorant.

You seem like you’re trying to change the subject and make it about me instead of the asinine thread that your body started.

Why post about a subject you are ignorant of…

 

[Seymour Flops]

Why post about a subject you are ignorant of…

You’re the one doing that.

 

[berg80]

We gain influence around the world by being lucrative trading partners, reliable allies, and formidable adversaries.

Sounds like the opposite of trump's agenda.

The Trump administration’s moves to dismantle the U.S. agency that helps to fight starvation and poverty overseas has stoked fears that America will lose its standing on the world stage as rival powers rush to fill the void.

Concerns are growing in Washington that temporarily halting assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development “opens up a window for China and Russia,” George Ingram, a former senior USAID official, told NBC News in a telephone interview Thursday.

He was one of several experts to caution that the decision would lead to American influence waning in Africa, South America and Asia where it addresses a range of needs from health care to clean water, distributing aid to nongovernmental organizations, aid agencies and nonprofits. USAID has also provided millions of dollars in military aid to Israel and Ukraine.

“Nobody anticipated” that Trump would suspend most foreign aid “and then decapitate USAID of its personnel,” said Ingram, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.

 

[Lesh]

You’re the one doing that.

Wrong. I listened to the piece. You did not

 

[Seymour Flops]

Wrong. I listened to the piece. You did not

It made you dumber.

 

[Nostra]

But you DO walk in lockstep… behind Trump

Lies. Par for the course.

 

[Nostra]

It made you dumber.

Un-possible.

 

[berg80]

It made you dumber.

You believing information makes you dumber explains a lot.

 

[Seymour Flops]

You believing information makes you dumber explains a lot.

Disinformation makes you dumber.