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Wednesday Morning Rant
Gates is lobbying hard to keep USAID because, per his assertion, "private philanthropy" cannot fill in the gaps left by USAID. They cannot step in to perform USAID's vital work.
Bill Gates has reportedly warned President Donald Trump's administration that his philanthropic endeavors are no replacement for the U.S. government's funding of global health care efforts. The Microsoft cofounder turned billionaire philanthropist is petitioning the Trump administration to continue funding worldwide health programs, Reuters reported, citing two anonymous sources. Gates has met with legislators and the National Security Council about his concerns."Worldwide health programs" is a pretty big topic. What about specifics? Per the article, the WHO asserts that it's about tuberculosis, and that TB cannot be vanquished without USAID.
Public health experts fear the White House's USAID scrapping could have devastating global consequences, such as a rise in global malaria cases and deaths and the spread of HIV and tuberculosis (TB). "Without immediate action, hard-won progress in the fight against TB is at risk," Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, director of the WHO's Global Programme on TB and Lung Health, said in a statement earlier this month.So disaster. Poor people dying of TB because we dissolved USAID. How about some more detail not provided by the article in Fortune? Per the WHO itself in its statement about USAID:
... the United States government has provided approximately US$ 200--250 million annually in bilateral funding for the TB response at country level. This funding was approximately one quarter of the total amount of international donor funding for TB. The 2025 funding cuts will have a devastating impact on TB programmes, particularly in LMICs that rely heavily on international aid, given the United States has been the largest bilateral donor. These cuts put 18 of the highest burden countries at risk, as they depended on 89% of the expected United States funding for TB care.There's actually rather a lot to unpack in that. The US provides a quarter billion dollars a year to TB eradication efforts. That quarter billion represents about a quarter of total global funding for TB eradication (and by extension, 'The World" spends about a billion dollars a year on TB). Despite being a quarter of the total, US funding is the majority of funding for many countries due to how it is allocated. The Fortune article about this doesn't mention those fairly low totals. It talks about the totals across the board - that USAID was costing about $45 billion per year, that the Gates Foundation spends about $9 billion per year, etc. - but not about TB. Not about the one thing they chose to focus on in the article. Well, we can put two and two together and find that it doesn't equal 45 billion. TB is half a percent of USAID's outlays, and would represent less than 3% of the Gates Foundation's outlays, if it chose to focus on it. According to Newsweek, USAID was spending about $7 billion - or less that a quarter of its budget - on "health." Even assuming that "health" means what it says and is money well spent, that's less than the Gates Foundation's annual expenditure. So it isn't about TB and it isn't about global health. If it were, outfits like the Gates Foundation and the WHO wouldn't be lobbying to maintain USAID. If it were about what they say it is about, they would be asking for money. "Hey, we really think that maintaining US involvement in global public health efforts is important. What can we do to convince to you continue funding our efforts via other mechanisms?" If it's a good idea, money well spent and the efforts are appealing to the American people, the US can find a couple of billion dollars. If it's a bad idea or money poorly spent or things not wanted by the American people , then it has no reason to. Yet this is what these organizations worldwide public and private have not asked. They have demanded that USAID be maintained, not requested money to plug gaps left by USAID's demise. That, or the reporting is disingenuous and false, and these outfits are asking for money as such but it's being spun as a demand for the continuation of USAID. Either way, that is what people used to call a "tell." Whatever these people are after, it isn't eradicating tuberculosis and it isn't "public health." Public health is just marketing spin, a false premise to try to make it appeal to Americans who are fed up with corruption and fraud. These articles throw out big numbers without context, and never discuss specifics. That would defeat the purpose of building a false premise. "Public health" doesn't need USAID. It may need US money, but it doesn't need USAID. There is a real, viable debate that we could be having about this. What is the US role in global public health? How much if any contribution is justified? How should it be managed and controlled and audited if we determine that it is justified? That debate is not happening, because that debate doesn't matter to anyone involved. With USAID's surviving operations - whatever they may be - being absorbed directly by State, so-called "public health" might actually survive. The real goal of maintaining the USAID slush fund, however, will not. The real goal is not public health or disaster relief or anything else they claim. Those are the lies they tell in an attempt to con average Americans into supporting their nefarious scams.
Comments
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1st?
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
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Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 02, 2025 11:00 AM (GYt5+)
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
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'Em status: Called.
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:02 AM (/tzYP)
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Burn it all to the ground. Salt the earth.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2025 11:02 AM (N1tpc)
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TB or not TB
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
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So is Bill Gates going to have to move money from making the planet colder to TB?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 02, 2025 11:04 AM (Hpgos)
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Musk's business philosophy is to cut to the bare bones and then add back as needed.
I think DOGE is applying the same philosophy.
Its a cancer that has to be eradicated first before you can work on becoming healthy.
I think DOGE is applying the same philosophy.
Its a cancer that has to be eradicated first before you can work on becoming healthy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:07 AM (VofaG)
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Bill Gates has reportedly warned President Donald Trump's administration that his philanthropic endeavors are no replacement for the U.S. government�s funding of global health care efforts.
Warned? Warned? Who is this deviant nickelfucker to 'warn' Trump about anythying?
You want a warning, asshole? Let's start by warning you could end up in front of a Nuremberg tribunal - and would be, if this were still a proper country.
Warned? Warned? Who is this deviant nickelfucker to 'warn' Trump about anythying?
You want a warning, asshole? Let's start by warning you could end up in front of a Nuremberg tribunal - and would be, if this were still a proper country.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2025 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)
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It's very simple- if the government stops spending tons of money on all kinds of different projects, organizations, focus groups, research, and the like, then we can't hide the money we use to attack the American people!
WORSE, we can't even hide our grift!
-The left that has been funded by money taken from the people they hate for 60 years.
WORSE, we can't even hide our grift!
-The left that has been funded by money taken from the people they hate for 60 years.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2025 11:07 AM (N1tpc)
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The Microsoft cofounder turned billionaire philanthropist is petitioning the Trump administration
to continue funding worldwide health programs,
Not our problem. Simple.
to continue funding worldwide health programs,
Not our problem. Simple.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:08 AM (BJy/u)
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Outstanding.
Posted by: Andrew at April 02, 2025 11:08 AM (FBacG)
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So is Bill Gates going to have to move money from making the planet colder to TB?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 02, 2025 11:04 AM (Hpgos)
I don't know if you have seen the people on Youtube and Rumble claiming that the clouds in Florida are now puffy and not stringy, and that is proof that USAID was paying for chemtrails?
I am almost certain they are mad and seeing insane conspiracies, but then again . . . 2020.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 02, 2025 11:04 AM (Hpgos)
I don't know if you have seen the people on Youtube and Rumble claiming that the clouds in Florida are now puffy and not stringy, and that is proof that USAID was paying for chemtrails?
I am almost certain they are mad and seeing insane conspiracies, but then again . . . 2020.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:08 AM (D7oie)
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I’m Honestly confused. Is usaid dead or not? I thought a Hawaiian judge ordered it back up and running with employees re hired.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 11:08 AM (A+/01)
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Two comments:
1. That sleazy bastard Bill Gates is a terrible vehicle for this. He's hated by almost everyone, including many on the left. If you want to find someone to get a message out, it's usually best not to choose a leper.
2. There is no machine on Earth, no matter how advanced or sensitive, that can detect how little I give a flying rat's asshole wrapped in fucks about poor people suffering from TB.
I. Don't. Care.
I'm so fucking sick and tired of being scammed and manipulated into giving more money to leftists by fake sob-sob tales of poor foreigners suffering and dying. They can all suffer and die for all I care. Let their own shithole countries take care of them.
1. That sleazy bastard Bill Gates is a terrible vehicle for this. He's hated by almost everyone, including many on the left. If you want to find someone to get a message out, it's usually best not to choose a leper.
2. There is no machine on Earth, no matter how advanced or sensitive, that can detect how little I give a flying rat's asshole wrapped in fucks about poor people suffering from TB.
I. Don't. Care.
I'm so fucking sick and tired of being scammed and manipulated into giving more money to leftists by fake sob-sob tales of poor foreigners suffering and dying. They can all suffer and die for all I care. Let their own shithole countries take care of them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:10 AM (BJy/u)
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16 I. Don't. Care.
I'm so fucking sick and tired of being scammed and manipulated into giving more money to leftists by fake sob-sob tales of poor foreigners suffering and dying. They can all suffer and die for all I care. Let their own shithole countries take care of them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
I'm so fucking sick and tired of being scammed and manipulated into giving more money to leftists by fake sob-sob tales of poor foreigners suffering and dying. They can all suffer and die for all I care. Let their own shithole countries take care of them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
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I’m Honestly confused. Is usaid dead or not? I thought a Hawaiian judge ordered it back up and running with employees re hired.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
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The Spice must flow.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)
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BillG, you still have a checkbook, don't you?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)
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Where is the EU money? Chinese money? Japanese money? Canadian money?
Why the fuck do we have to be the worlds policeman and the worlds doctor? Fuck that noise.
Shut it all down.
Why the fuck do we have to be the worlds policeman and the worlds doctor? Fuck that noise.
Shut it all down.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 11:12 AM (A+/01)
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Malaria? Bring back DDT and save lives.
And if WHO and Bill Gates wants my money to distribute Ivermectin on the African and Asian continents but I can't get it for myself unless I go to Tractor Supply, Fuck them!
And if WHO and Bill Gates wants my money to distribute Ivermectin on the African and Asian continents but I can't get it for myself unless I go to Tractor Supply, Fuck them!
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:12 AM (VofaG)
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USAID was moved to the State Department, and SoS Rubio said it was closed. It really is within his power to do so, no matter what any judge says.
I expect the admin has to be really observant of judges, since they seem to be acting like they are forestalling a coup.
I expect the admin has to be really observant of judges, since they seem to be acting like they are forestalling a coup.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:12 AM (D7oie)
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19 I’m Honestly confused. Is usaid dead or not? I thought a Hawaiian judge ordered it back up and running with employees re hired.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
Doesn’t answer my question. Because as of now a judge doesn’t need divisions just a pen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
Doesn’t answer my question. Because as of now a judge doesn’t need divisions just a pen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 11:12 AM (A+/01)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
If the children live then we won't depopulate as quickly as the globalists claim is necessary.
Now, why would they be insistent on saving certain populations while also being insistent that we need fewer overall people? That certainly seems odd.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
If the children live then we won't depopulate as quickly as the globalists claim is necessary.
Now, why would they be insistent on saving certain populations while also being insistent that we need fewer overall people? That certainly seems odd.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)
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I’m Honestly confused. Is usaid dead or not? I thought a Hawaiian judge ordered it back up and running with employees re hired.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
A judge needs no divisions if no-one has the stones to push back.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
A judge needs no divisions if no-one has the stones to push back.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (Q0kLU)
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Time on Marie Le Pen's conviction.
TIME@TIME4
It was a good day for French democracy but the far-right may still win the 2027 presidential election, writes Cole Stangler
TIME@TIME4
It was a good day for French democracy but the far-right may still win the 2027 presidential election, writes Cole Stangler
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
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How do you expect my non-profit corporation to make a profit without USAID money?
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (/iMjX)
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Gates is lobbying hard to keep USAID because, per his assertion, "private philanthropy" cannot fill in the gaps left by USAID. They cannot step in to perform USAID's vital work.
well, Bill. spend your own damned money, not mine. now fuck off and die in a fire after eating a big ol bag o dicks.
well, Bill. spend your own damned money, not mine. now fuck off and die in a fire after eating a big ol bag o dicks.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (82L3o)
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Doesn’t answer my question. Because as of now a judge doesn’t need divisions just a pen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
If he doesn't have divisions, who enforces his orders?
Answer: No one.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
If he doesn't have divisions, who enforces his orders?
Answer: No one.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:14 AM (BJy/u)
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"The US government MUST force you, the taxpayers, to subsidize the fraudulent charity front organizations of freaky creep show billionaires like me! If it doesn't, then people you've never heard of in places you don't care about might possibly catch cooties! As a pudgy, androgynous Mr. Burns imitator, I can't countenance diverting any of my precious money from my schemes to blot out the sun and feed cute puppies to carnivorous insects! You should be ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!"
Hell of a message, Billy boy. Way to read the room in 2025.
Hell of a message, Billy boy. Way to read the room in 2025.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2025 11:14 AM (BI5O2)
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Where is the EU money? Chinese money? Japanese money? Canadian money?
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We're shoveling as much money out of the country as fast as we can. Sore-y not sore-y. Sheesh.
- Canada
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We're shoveling as much money out of the country as fast as we can. Sore-y not sore-y. Sheesh.
- Canada
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
The last 10 years has really changed the meaning of when government officials claim they're doing it for the children. I totally believe it now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
The last 10 years has really changed the meaning of when government officials claim they're doing it for the children. I totally believe it now.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2025 11:14 AM (2HPSJ)
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Doesn’t answer my question. Because as of now a judge doesn’t need divisions just a pen.
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I think you meant an Auto Pen. This is what they want.
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I think you meant an Auto Pen. This is what they want.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 02, 2025 11:15 AM (Hpgos)
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Again we still have Malaria outbreaks because of the Left.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)
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I. Don't. Care.
I'm so fucking sick and tired of being scammed and manipulated into giving more money to leftists by fake sob-sob tales of poor foreigners suffering and dying. They can all suffer and die for all I care. Let their own shithole countries take care of them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
_____
[Thinks]
[Thinks again]
[Looks at Give-A-Fuck Meter]
[Taps Give-A-Fuck Meter to ensure Give-A-Fuck Meter is working properly]
"Nope, still at zero point zero."
I'm so fucking sick and tired of being scammed and manipulated into giving more money to leftists by fake sob-sob tales of poor foreigners suffering and dying. They can all suffer and die for all I care. Let their own shithole countries take care of them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
_____
[Thinks]
[Thinks again]
[Looks at Give-A-Fuck Meter]
[Taps Give-A-Fuck Meter to ensure Give-A-Fuck Meter is working properly]
"Nope, still at zero point zero."
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)
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Thx Joe. If you want to help Africa with health let the Brits , French, Belgians , Portuguese, Spanish and Germans take care of the former colonies. They sucked enough out of them for decades
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (2ZThz)
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Bill Gates has reportedly been found dead in a closet inside his Seattle compound. Lead investigator says it looks like another David Carradine style situation.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (/U5Yz)
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Per the article, the WHO asserts that it's about tuberculosis, and that TB cannot be vanquished without USAID.
meh. reopen Ellis Island. line 'em up. vaccinate the 3rd world savages. quarantine them for six to eight weeks. then release them with chips to reacquire them.
yes. this means no more than maybe 20 or 30 a month. stay in your home country shithole if you don't like it.
meh. reopen Ellis Island. line 'em up. vaccinate the 3rd world savages. quarantine them for six to eight weeks. then release them with chips to reacquire them.
yes. this means no more than maybe 20 or 30 a month. stay in your home country shithole if you don't like it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (82L3o)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (/tzYP)
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If you accept money from rich and powerful people for a cause they believe in, they're going to demand a strict accounting and will not tolerate anything that smells like skimming. You, the beneficiary, would be in a world of shit. They don't play like Uncle Sugar.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (wzAuc)
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37 [Thinks]
[Thinks again]
[Looks at Give-A-Fuck Meter]
[Taps Give-A-Fuck Meter to ensure Give-A-Fuck Meter is working properly]
"Nope, still at zero point zero."
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)
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I mean, it's fair.
Better to spend the money on a monorail.
[Thinks again]
[Looks at Give-A-Fuck Meter]
[Taps Give-A-Fuck Meter to ensure Give-A-Fuck Meter is working properly]
"Nope, still at zero point zero."
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)
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I mean, it's fair.
Better to spend the money on a monorail.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
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Gates loves to play the politics of guilt and pity.
He should have a Sarah McLachlan soundtrack on all his public appearances
He should have a Sarah McLachlan soundtrack on all his public appearances
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:17 AM (/iMjX)
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Mmm. Chips.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:17 AM (/tzYP)
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Isn't Bill Gates one of the 'reduce the human population' members? As such, he probably thinks TB is ok, maybe he thinks it works too slow so people have kids before they die of it.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 02, 2025 11:17 AM (CKOCg)
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A judge needs no divisions if no-one has the stones to push back.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (Q0kLU)
And yet... USAID is still shut down.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (Q0kLU)
And yet... USAID is still shut down.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:17 AM (ExV1e)
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I think the simple answer should be to tell Bill:
"Hey, Gatesy! You're one of the richest men in the world. You could fund a billion per year for TB all by yourself and every year thereafter. No sweat.
So, do it. And leave the American Taxpayer alone."
I think the simple answer should be to tell Bill:
"Hey, Gatesy! You're one of the richest men in the world. You could fund a billion per year for TB all by yourself and every year thereafter. No sweat.
So, do it. And leave the American Taxpayer alone."
Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2025 11:17 AM (iJfKG)
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Why, exactly, should the US fund any of this stuff? We have our own problems. Perhaps these other countries can fund their own heath care? Or maybe the EU can step in? They have loads of money, seeing how they've been grifting off of US defense outlays for about 6 decades. A novel idea, I know...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (xAP/Y)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
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A judge needs no divisions if no-one has the stones to push back.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
A judge foes need divisions. Because if they do, there's no one to enforce his orders.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
A judge foes need divisions. Because if they do, there's no one to enforce his orders.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (BJy/u)
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52 24
‘ they seem to be acting like they are forestalling a coup.’
A coup by whom?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
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The people against their betters in a blow to democracy.
‘ they seem to be acting like they are forestalling a coup.’
A coup by whom?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
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The people against their betters in a blow to democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)
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47 Isn't Bill Gates one of the 'reduce the human population' members? As such, he probably thinks TB is ok, maybe he thinks it works too slow so people have kids before they die of it.
indeed. and he's complaining that without the help of usaid, he can't do it alone:
Bill Gates has reportedly warned President Donald Trump's administration that his philanthropic endeavors are no replacement for the U.S. government's funding of global health care efforts.
indeed. and he's complaining that without the help of usaid, he can't do it alone:
Bill Gates has reportedly warned President Donald Trump's administration that his philanthropic endeavors are no replacement for the U.S. government's funding of global health care efforts.
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (oY6Yp)
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If the children live then we won't depopulate as quickly as the globalists claim is necessary.
Now, why would they be insistent on saving certain populations while also being insistent that we need fewer overall people? That certainly seems odd.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)
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Yes, that is a good question. On the one hand they are open and honest about their desire to depopulate the earth. But then they claim that they need money and resources to keep that from happening through natural selection.
Now, why would they be insistent on saving certain populations while also being insistent that we need fewer overall people? That certainly seems odd.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)
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Yes, that is a good question. On the one hand they are open and honest about their desire to depopulate the earth. But then they claim that they need money and resources to keep that from happening through natural selection.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (7fElN)
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This would be a perfect opportunity for the Vatican to step up and shell out some ducats, if they had their priorities straight.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (KtIIi)
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Outfits that are doing good generally don't need to cook the books using numerous cutouts as USAID did. That is the province of Mafioso.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (xCA6C)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
there are productuon line openings right now in the Chyna iPhone factory.
OR
there are open pit uranium mine openings in Africa.
see. keeping the little shits employed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
there are productuon line openings right now in the Chyna iPhone factory.
OR
there are open pit uranium mine openings in Africa.
see. keeping the little shits employed.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 02, 2025 11:19 AM (82L3o)
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The cry bullying has to stop.
In reality, I'm open to discussion of whether the United States has an interest in actual global public health problems like TB suppression, and if so, to what extent.
But, the moment anyone tries to guilt me about it, the next words out of my mouth are going to be "why should I be sad about foreign devils dying? I wish they had more TB. I'm gonna find some TB and just send it to foreigners in the mail. That's *my* charity, bitch. Kill yourself."
In reality, I'm open to discussion of whether the United States has an interest in actual global public health problems like TB suppression, and if so, to what extent.
But, the moment anyone tries to guilt me about it, the next words out of my mouth are going to be "why should I be sad about foreign devils dying? I wish they had more TB. I'm gonna find some TB and just send it to foreigners in the mail. That's *my* charity, bitch. Kill yourself."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2025 11:20 AM (BI5O2)
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I'd love to be Santa if I was using someone else' cash.
I think we'd want blood if we knew exactly how every dollar was spent. Hunter Biden probably looks like a choir boy compared to many of these 'people.'
I think we'd want blood if we knew exactly how every dollar was spent. Hunter Biden probably looks like a choir boy compared to many of these 'people.'
Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 02, 2025 11:20 AM (jvJvP)
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writes Cole Stangler
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Is he one of the Boston Stanglers??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (/tzYP)
_________
"We are the meninblack."
-- The Stranglers
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Is he one of the Boston Stanglers??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:16 AM (/tzYP)
_________
"We are the meninblack."
-- The Stranglers
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
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Why, exactly, should the US fund any of this stuff? We have our own problems. Perhaps these other countries can fund their own heath care?
Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
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TB is a disease that is easily and cheaply cured by a course of antibiotics, as I understand it. Leastwise if caught early enough. That's why it is practically unknown in developed countries anymore. If it's endemic in Third world shitholes, it'd because the people, or their governments, are too stupid or too corrupt to take proper measures to fight it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (8zz6B)
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Gates said something like "we can use India to test vaccines" . Implying that the Indian people are only worth experimenting on. Eff him in particular
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (2ZThz)
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Do we need to make the case against a program in order to stop funding it. The debt is $36.2 trillion. We can't afford to fund the good programs, let alone the evil ones.
Like we used to say about union negotiations: Listen to them scream and shout, then turn our pockets inside out.
Like we used to say about union negotiations: Listen to them scream and shout, then turn our pockets inside out.
Posted by: Bill Kristal and Max Boot at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (MMp6W)
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Doc Holiday had TB right?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:22 AM (VofaG)
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The cry bullying has to stop.
In reality, I'm open to discussion of whether the United States has an interest in actual global public health problems like TB suppression, and if so, to what extent.
Concur. This is largely about whether the people who say they're doing good with our money really are doing good, or if that's just a sales pitch.
In reality, I'm open to discussion of whether the United States has an interest in actual global public health problems like TB suppression, and if so, to what extent.
Concur. This is largely about whether the people who say they're doing good with our money really are doing good, or if that's just a sales pitch.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:22 AM (xCA6C)
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‘ It was a good day for French democracy but the far-right may still win the 2027 presidential election, writes Cole Stangler’
If ‘democracy’ means half or more of the electorate has no voice then it is no longer democracy and as as far as I am concerned it’s morally OK to start killing the Cole Stanglers of the world.
‘ It was a good day for French democracy but the far-right may still win the 2027 presidential election, writes Cole Stangler’
If ‘democracy’ means half or more of the electorate has no voice then it is no longer democracy and as as far as I am concerned it’s morally OK to start killing the Cole Stanglers of the world.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)
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TB is a disease that is easily and cheaply cured by a course of antibiotics, as I understand it.
There are actually newer strains that are antibiotic-resistant. This is going to become a big problem.
There are actually newer strains that are antibiotic-resistant. This is going to become a big problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
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And leave the American Taxpayer alone.
The United States has spent 37 trillion dollars that WE DO NOT HAVE, largely to solve the problems of the world. Problems which, apparently, no one else can be bothered about. Problems which, despite all the money spent, have not been solved. We must, then, conclude that these problems are not solvable and withdraw our patronage.
The United States has spent 37 trillion dollars that WE DO NOT HAVE, largely to solve the problems of the world. Problems which, apparently, no one else can be bothered about. Problems which, despite all the money spent, have not been solved. We must, then, conclude that these problems are not solvable and withdraw our patronage.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:24 AM (ExV1e)
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Bill Gates has reportedly warned President Donald Trump's administration that his philanthropic endeavors are no replacement for the U.S. government's funding of global health care efforts.
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Okay
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Okay
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 02, 2025 11:24 AM (Hlmgc)
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67 Doc Holiday had TB right?
I believe he also had a different problem; one in which he envisioned himself to be a plant.
I believe he also had a different problem; one in which he envisioned himself to be a plant.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:24 AM (xCA6C)
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How about you quit fooking around with atmospheric modifications to combat "climate change" and you stop gobbling up farmland and shilling for faux food, Gates?
You are nowhere near as smart as you believe yourself to be. Having the Blue Screen of Death as your most prominent achievement in computing goes a long way to advance an argument that you ought to be banished from anything technical in nature for the rest of your life.
How about you quit fooking around with atmospheric modifications to combat "climate change" and you stop gobbling up farmland and shilling for faux food, Gates?
You are nowhere near as smart as you believe yourself to be. Having the Blue Screen of Death as your most prominent achievement in computing goes a long way to advance an argument that you ought to be banished from anything technical in nature for the rest of your life.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2025 11:25 AM (SjKfn)
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How do you expect my non-profit corporation to make a profit without USAID money?
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (/iMjX)
They are not supposed to make a profit, they are supposed to do good, and clearly they have been doing quite well for themselves, indeed.
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (/iMjX)
They are not supposed to make a profit, they are supposed to do good, and clearly they have been doing quite well for themselves, indeed.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:25 AM (D7oie)
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Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Posted by: Archimedes
Proper border and immigration controls would largely take care of that problem.
Posted by: Archimedes
Proper border and immigration controls would largely take care of that problem.
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
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Gates said something like "we can use India to test vaccines" . Implying that the Indian people are only worth experimenting on. Eff him in particular
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (2ZThz)
He has also espoused efforts to use "vaccines" as a mechanism of birth control. Because we have to save the children in Africa or something.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (2ZThz)
He has also espoused efforts to use "vaccines" as a mechanism of birth control. Because we have to save the children in Africa or something.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:26 AM (ExV1e)
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The problem with National Rally is it's leftist.
Posted by: Bill Kristal and Max Boot at April 02, 2025 11:26 AM (MMp6W)
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Who you gonna believe?
Townhall.com@townhallcom
Claire McCaskill: "@PeteHegseth is embarrassing because he thinks it's okay to lie, and his troops know that...There is not a man or woman in the military that is not aware that @PeteHegseth is willing to lie...!"
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Well, he’s not manly like Lloyd Austin.
Townhall.com@townhallcom
Claire McCaskill: "@PeteHegseth is embarrassing because he thinks it's okay to lie, and his troops know that...There is not a man or woman in the military that is not aware that @PeteHegseth is willing to lie...!"
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Well, he’s not manly like Lloyd Austin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
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They are not supposed to make a profit, they are supposed to do good, and clearly they have been doing quite well for themselves, indeed.
USAID became a gigantic slush fund for the left. I'm sure they assuaged their consciences about hijacking the money by telling themselves that only the left could be trusted to do good for humanity, so it was okay to embezzle the funds.
USAID became a gigantic slush fund for the left. I'm sure they assuaged their consciences about hijacking the money by telling themselves that only the left could be trusted to do good for humanity, so it was okay to embezzle the funds.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (xCA6C)
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Each one of those countries in the global Healthcare have their own governments. Maybe those countries ought to pony up for their populace.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (wO8PJ)
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https://ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid
Clickable charts including Foreign Aid Given [scroll down a tiny bit].
Clickable charts including Foreign Aid Given [scroll down a tiny bit].
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (/tzYP)
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The assholes don't give a flip about saving children. They use children to melt people's hearts.
With all the money we have given them, they could have solved those problems.
They are thieves, it's all about money.
The assholes don't give a flip about saving children. They use children to melt people's hearts.
With all the money we have given them, they could have solved those problems.
They are thieves, it's all about money.
Posted by: four seasons at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (3ek7K)
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There are actually newer strains that are antibiotic-resistant. This is going to become a big problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
Largely because we give antibiotics to people who won't take the full course.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
Largely because we give antibiotics to people who won't take the full course.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (ExV1e)
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Besides our government handing money out like candy our domestic charities fund foreign and 3rd world counties to the tune of 50 billion a year . That's more than the government gives.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)
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I'm willing to listen to TB concerns.
The HIV/AIDS stuff? Nope, no more than I'm willing to pay for the prevention (and maybe the drugs) here. We've known how to not catch or spread that disease for 30+ years. At some point we just isolate the carriers and let it end.
The HIV/AIDS stuff? Nope, no more than I'm willing to pay for the prevention (and maybe the drugs) here. We've known how to not catch or spread that disease for 30+ years. At some point we just isolate the carriers and let it end.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (Hlmgc)
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F**king recycling. And Gates is a high lord of it.
>NPR, Health
Bill Gates Predicts 'What's At Stake' With Proposed Trump Foreign Aid Cuts
September 13, 2017
There's at least one thing Bill Gates and President Trump agree on: The media don't always get things right.
For Gates, the problem is with the foreign aid coverage.
"The nature of news is mostly to cover big setbacks," Gates says. "So if a little bit of money was spent improperly, that's what gets the news coverage, even though 99 percent of it was spent well."
This focus on failure leads to false impressions about the effectiveness of foreign aid, says Gates."
More followed. Reading suggested.
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>AI Overview: TB Trends:
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, TB in the United States had been decreasing steadily since 1992.
During the pandemic, there was a sharp decline in TB cases, but cases began to rebound and have continued to increase since 2021.
In 2023, there was a 16% increase in TB cases across the 50 U.S. states and DC, compared to 2022.
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Breakthrough Energy
State of the Transition 2024
Climate Tech Has Arrived. Learn more about the companies, technologies, and policies shaping our clean energy future
>NPR, Health
Bill Gates Predicts 'What's At Stake' With Proposed Trump Foreign Aid Cuts
September 13, 2017
There's at least one thing Bill Gates and President Trump agree on: The media don't always get things right.
For Gates, the problem is with the foreign aid coverage.
"The nature of news is mostly to cover big setbacks," Gates says. "So if a little bit of money was spent improperly, that's what gets the news coverage, even though 99 percent of it was spent well."
This focus on failure leads to false impressions about the effectiveness of foreign aid, says Gates."
More followed. Reading suggested.
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>AI Overview: TB Trends:
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, TB in the United States had been decreasing steadily since 1992.
During the pandemic, there was a sharp decline in TB cases, but cases began to rebound and have continued to increase since 2021.
In 2023, there was a 16% increase in TB cases across the 50 U.S. states and DC, compared to 2022.
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Breakthrough Energy
State of the Transition 2024
Climate Tech Has Arrived. Learn more about the companies, technologies, and policies shaping our clean energy future
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (NFX2v)
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All good points.
Add to this, a larger issue: "Public health" is a term worth unpacking. There's only really individual health, and the biggest thing the governments have done to improve that -- by far -- is providing clean water and sewerage treatment.
Under the rubric of 'public health,' the govt. numpties cram a WHOLE lot of controlling and managing and shackling the people. Very little of it helps individuals stay healthy.
Ergo, the Controlling and Managing are the real goal of 'public health.'
Add to this, a larger issue: "Public health" is a term worth unpacking. There's only really individual health, and the biggest thing the governments have done to improve that -- by far -- is providing clean water and sewerage treatment.
Under the rubric of 'public health,' the govt. numpties cram a WHOLE lot of controlling and managing and shackling the people. Very little of it helps individuals stay healthy.
Ergo, the Controlling and Managing are the real goal of 'public health.'
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 11:28 AM (Epeb0)
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He has also espoused efforts to use "vaccines" as a mechanism of birth control. Because we have to save the children in Africa or something.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
His momma was a big Planned Parenthood fan.
He has also espoused efforts to use "vaccines" as a mechanism of birth control. Because we have to save the children in Africa or something.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
His momma was a big Planned Parenthood fan.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2025 11:28 AM (SjKfn)
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Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Posted by: Archimedes
Gosh it's too bad that we don't screen foreigners for diseases at the borders anymore, and send them home if they're sick with something contagious.
Posted by: Archimedes
Gosh it's too bad that we don't screen foreigners for diseases at the borders anymore, and send them home if they're sick with something contagious.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 02, 2025 11:28 AM (hB7mE)
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I would have been first but my computer had to update in the middle of my comment.
The world would be a much better place had Gates never existed.
The world would be a much better place had Gates never existed.
Posted by: Reforger at April 02, 2025 11:28 AM (xcIvR)
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If ‘democracy’ means half or more of the electorate has no voice then it is no longer democracy and as as far as I am concerned it’s morally OK to start killing the Cole Stanglers of the world.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)
well, Democracy is the "tyranny of the majority" and apparently Macron and the Urocrates all feel that the franchise should be a bit more selective.
Seriously, though, if you have done a bit of reading on the Revolutions of 1848 then you would expect the EU elites to be losing their minds
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)
well, Democracy is the "tyranny of the majority" and apparently Macron and the Urocrates all feel that the franchise should be a bit more selective.
Seriously, though, if you have done a bit of reading on the Revolutions of 1848 then you would expect the EU elites to be losing their minds
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:28 AM (D7oie)
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"You want a warning, asshole [Gates]? Let's start by warning you could end up in front of a Nuremberg tribunal - and would be, if this were still a proper country."
AMEN! (or A-WOMEN! as that bozo would say)
AMEN! (or A-WOMEN! as that bozo would say)
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 11:29 AM (Epeb0)
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Bill Gates is worth $160B.
When he spends all of that on charity he can *start* to have a discussion about how normal people should have to give their money to the charities he deems worthy
When he spends all of that on charity he can *start* to have a discussion about how normal people should have to give their money to the charities he deems worthy
Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)
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It's like that Lutnick fella said to that weird nerd and his Tamil Tiger pal in the podcast from the sidebar.
Cut off the cash flow... Whoever screams the loudest are the thieves.
Cut off the cash flow... Whoever screams the loudest are the thieves.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2025 11:29 AM (BI5O2)
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Why, exactly, should the US fund any of this stuff? We have our own problems. Perhaps these other countries can fund their own heath care?
Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
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In theory, maybe. But consider malaria. It's easily treated with basic meds. Billions of dollars have been spent -- mostly by the USA -- treating malaria in shithole countries. The result? Malaria is still killing 600k+ people every year. Wtf are we spending this money for? Fuck these people. And no, malaria has not spread to be a problem in the USA.
Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
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In theory, maybe. But consider malaria. It's easily treated with basic meds. Billions of dollars have been spent -- mostly by the USA -- treating malaria in shithole countries. The result? Malaria is still killing 600k+ people every year. Wtf are we spending this money for? Fuck these people. And no, malaria has not spread to be a problem in the USA.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
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The problem with National Rally is it's leftist.
Is there a single European political party which is actually right of center on any issue other than unrestricted immigration?
Is there a single European political party which is actually right of center on any issue other than unrestricted immigration?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)
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Countries experiencing shutting of USAID programs:
Ukraine (all they can say is cash based), Somalia, Syria, Senegal, Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti.
No, thanks.
Ukraine (all they can say is cash based), Somalia, Syria, Senegal, Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti.
No, thanks.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (2NXcZ)
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Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
Posted by: Archimedes
Proper border and immigration controls would largely take care of that problem.
It would help, to be sure, but I don't really see a stable world coming out of a Fort Apache / I Am Legend mentality. We need a stable world to maintain our current standard of living.
Posted by: Archimedes
Proper border and immigration controls would largely take care of that problem.
It would help, to be sure, but I don't really see a stable world coming out of a Fort Apache / I Am Legend mentality. We need a stable world to maintain our current standard of living.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
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97 The problem with National Rally is it's leftist.
Is there a single European political party which is actually right of center on any issue other than unrestricted immigration?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)
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Free healthcare is a drug.
Is there a single European political party which is actually right of center on any issue other than unrestricted immigration?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)
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Free healthcare is a drug.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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Gates said something like "we can use India to test vaccines" . Implying that the Indian people are only worth experimenting on. Eff him in particular
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That was COVID-19s dirty little secret. Vaccine manufacturers have always tested on 3rd worlders, and kill off thousands or more at a time so that 1st worlders won't die.
Covid was the first major test on 1st worlders.
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That was COVID-19s dirty little secret. Vaccine manufacturers have always tested on 3rd worlders, and kill off thousands or more at a time so that 1st worlders won't die.
Covid was the first major test on 1st worlders.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (Hlmgc)
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Who was the guy who flew over Africa and said "well heck, there's way too many people down there"?
He must be happy, right?
He must be happy, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (KtIIi)
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Whatever these people are after, it isn't eradicating tuberculosis and it isn't "public health."
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I'll take "Entrenching the Third-World WEF-Soros-Gates GloboHomo Serfdom Agenda & Useful Idiots Permanently Throughout The West" for $64 trillion, Alex.
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I'll take "Entrenching the Third-World WEF-Soros-Gates GloboHomo Serfdom Agenda & Useful Idiots Permanently Throughout The West" for $64 trillion, Alex.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (il7BK)
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Now do the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Posted by: People who are not like you at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (Z/xt9)
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Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example
Those problems come here because we paid people from those countries to come here.
Enforce the border and their problems stay with them.
Those problems come here because we paid people from those countries to come here.
Enforce the border and their problems stay with them.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (L/fGl)
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I see Gates is the typical math challenged leftist. He believes 90% waste justifies 10% good.
Whereas I'm more than willing to sacrifice the 10% for the 90%.
Whereas I'm more than willing to sacrifice the 10% for the 90%.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:32 AM (tT6L1)
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How do you expect my non-profit corporation to make a profit without USAID money?
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (/iMjX)
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MAZE [or Doctors With Corridors] -- Muldoon's Angola to Zaire Endeavor.
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:13 AM (/iMjX)
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MAZE [or Doctors With Corridors] -- Muldoon's Angola to Zaire Endeavor.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:32 AM (/tzYP)
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We send t-shirts to African showing the Super Bowl losers as the winning team. That's enough.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2025 11:32 AM (Y1sOo)
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Because problems that don't get solved in poor countries often eventually make their way to richer ones. TB is one such example.
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Problems that are perpetuated in poor countries by actions of richer ones.
The problems solve themselves, except we won't let them. Which is good that we believe and act in pleasant ways, but still why they remain problems.
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Problems that are perpetuated in poor countries by actions of richer ones.
The problems solve themselves, except we won't let them. Which is good that we believe and act in pleasant ways, but still why they remain problems.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (Hlmgc)
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*Africa
Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (Y1sOo)
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RFK Jr's book on Fauci et al. is really worth a read (keep your blood pressure meds handy): "The Real Anthony Fauci:
Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health"
https://tinyurl.com/8u994r38
"In early 2000, Fauci shook hands with Bill Gates in the library of Gates’ $147 million Seattle mansion, cementing a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise with unlimited growth potential. Through funding leverage and carefully cultivated personal relationships with heads of state and leading media and social media institutions, the Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance exercises dominion over global health policy and our beautiful country."
Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health"
https://tinyurl.com/8u994r38
"In early 2000, Fauci shook hands with Bill Gates in the library of Gates’ $147 million Seattle mansion, cementing a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise with unlimited growth potential. Through funding leverage and carefully cultivated personal relationships with heads of state and leading media and social media institutions, the Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance exercises dominion over global health policy and our beautiful country."
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (Epeb0)
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There are actually newer strains that are antibiotic-resistant. This is going to become a big problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
Largely because we give antibiotics to people who won't take the full course.
Partially true, but pretty much any antibiotic begins losing effectiveness as soon as it's used. The bacteria mutate and eventually develop resistance. We have not been developing new ones for a long time because there's no money in it, but the current crop is losing effectiveness fast. We need to start developing the next generation immediately.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
Largely because we give antibiotics to people who won't take the full course.
Partially true, but pretty much any antibiotic begins losing effectiveness as soon as it's used. The bacteria mutate and eventually develop resistance. We have not been developing new ones for a long time because there's no money in it, but the current crop is losing effectiveness fast. We need to start developing the next generation immediately.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (xCA6C)
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100 97 The problem with National Rally is it's leftist.
Is there a single European political party which is actually right of center on any issue other than unrestricted immigration?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)
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Free healthcare is a drug.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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National Rally wants to undo the recent retirement age increase. They also love the Ukraine war.
Is there a single European political party which is actually right of center on any issue other than unrestricted immigration?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (ExV1e)
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Free healthcare is a drug.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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National Rally wants to undo the recent retirement age increase. They also love the Ukraine war.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (MMp6W)
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Free healthcare is a drug.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman
I want a new drug.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman
I want a new drug.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
116
Who was the guy who flew over Africa and said "well heck, there's way too many people down there"?
He must be happy, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (KtIIi)
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I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
He must be happy, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (KtIIi)
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I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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I don't really see a stable world coming out of a Fort Apache / I Am Legend mentality.
Do we have a stable world now? Do we have a stable country now?
Let's fix our own patch before we decide to go all-in on exporting globohomo to the world.
Do we have a stable world now? Do we have a stable country now?
Let's fix our own patch before we decide to go all-in on exporting globohomo to the world.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)
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Under the rubric of 'public health,' the govt. numpties cram a WHOLE lot of controlling and managing and shackling the people. Very little of it helps individuals stay healthy.
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Rubrics cubed.
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Rubrics cubed.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (/tzYP)
119
If it's 90% waste, it isn't "waste".
10% waste is happenstance.
20% waste is troubling.
90% waste is enemy action.
10% waste is happenstance.
20% waste is troubling.
90% waste is enemy action.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (KtIIi)
120
‘ they seem to be acting like they are forestalling a coup.’
A coup by whom?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
How many federal agencies have military arms, like the Dept of Education and the FBI? "Trump is abrogating the Constitution and our oaths are to support it against all enemies external and internal" is a real danger and there needs to be the understanding that this is all within the rules.
A coup by whom?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
How many federal agencies have military arms, like the Dept of Education and the FBI? "Trump is abrogating the Constitution and our oaths are to support it against all enemies external and internal" is a real danger and there needs to be the understanding that this is all within the rules.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (D7oie)
121
Gates is the ultimate hypocrite. He's supposedly "all in on green" but, for his AI investments, he's trying to get regulatory approval to use nuclear power to run an AI data center. Naturally, the excess power will be sold off to power companies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
122
Ancient Rome had a similar program for charitable causes, involving low interest government loans with the obligatory backhanders and grift for the politicians. Eventually they had to shut down the Coliseum because the loans were killing all the non-profits.
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (/iMjX)
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Just think of the money you could have made. You have a Congresscritter. Went to school with the guy. Shifty. He sneaks in some little pissant office with a paltry $40 million to keep it going. You get the band together, all the clowns that went to school with you and hizzonerable, and just sit around all day moving that $40 million around, mostly into your own pockets. It's for the chilluns. We need a refill.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (gm9Sb)
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I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
Did he yell "use your diaphragm more"?
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
Did he yell "use your diaphragm more"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (KtIIi)
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Claire McCaskill?
Oh, I see. The dug them up, stood them up, and got them out to appeal to the Tesla Protestors Generation: Corey, Claire, and the other standard party bearers are out to SAVE CHUCK SCHUMER.
Talk about distractions from a party with no plan but to piggyback on Trump - again.
Oh, I see. The dug them up, stood them up, and got them out to appeal to the Tesla Protestors Generation: Corey, Claire, and the other standard party bearers are out to SAVE CHUCK SCHUMER.
Talk about distractions from a party with no plan but to piggyback on Trump - again.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (NFX2v)
126
121 Gates is the ultimate hypocrite. He's supposedly "all in on green" but, for his AI investments, he's trying to get regulatory approval to use nuclear power to run an AI data center. Naturally, the excess power will be sold off to power companies.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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To be fair, nuclear power is some of the greenest power humanity has at its disposal right now.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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To be fair, nuclear power is some of the greenest power humanity has at its disposal right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
127
120. A coup by the US
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (2NXcZ)
128
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
129
Oddly, we haven't heard much, or anything really, from the countries that were going to slide in chaos and famine if USAID was withdrawn. Weird.
Posted by: Ripley at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (GUOwU)
130
128
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Might be.
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Might be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
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The Left will not accept any GMO food to distribute to third world countries and have brained washed those governments that it's poison so they won't accept it either. Better to starve people than feed them GMOs
on the other hand the Left would also like to force you to take a mRNA vaccination.
on the other hand the Left would also like to force you to take a mRNA vaccination.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (VofaG)
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I don't really see a stable world coming out of a Fort Apache / I Am Legend mentality.
Do we have a stable world now? Do we have a stable country now?
Let's fix our own patch before we decide to go all-in on exporting globohomo to the world.
It isn't an either/or situation. There are some areas where it really is cost effective to spend money on cures and treatments. The idea that things wouldn't get worse if the rest of the world was dying of epidemic diseases is naive.
Do we have a stable world now? Do we have a stable country now?
Let's fix our own patch before we decide to go all-in on exporting globohomo to the world.
It isn't an either/or situation. There are some areas where it really is cost effective to spend money on cures and treatments. The idea that things wouldn't get worse if the rest of the world was dying of epidemic diseases is naive.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
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There are actually newer strains that are antibiotic-resistant. This is going to become a big problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
Then YOU send them money.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:23 AM (xCA6C)
Then YOU send them money.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (g8Ew8)
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His momma was a big Planned Parenthood fan.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
He's here. She wasn't THAT big a fan.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
He's here. She wasn't THAT big a fan.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (BJy/u)
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To be fair, nuclear power is some of the greenest power humanity has at its disposal right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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You and I know that. But does the green movement admit it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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You and I know that. But does the green movement admit it?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (tT6L1)
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Why on earth are we funding Afghanistan and Somalia and Syria? And "cash based" assistance in UKraine? Cash for who?
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (2NXcZ)
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From the Art Thread: The Epic of Gilgamesh might be the oldest anything so far as literature, isn’t it?
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Ivermectin is considered a miracle drug for many, many reasons, one of them is that researchers have not discovered much if any parasite resistance, at least not to the extent antibiotics have.
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Ivermectin is considered a miracle drug for many, many reasons, one of them is that researchers have not discovered much if any parasite resistance, at least not to the extent antibiotics have.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (QuDWu)
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130 128
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Might be.
omg
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Might be.
omg
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (oY6Yp)
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Gates is the ultimate hypocrite. He's supposedly "all in on green" but, for his AI investments, he's trying to get regulatory approval to use nuclear power to run an AI data center. Naturally, the excess power will be sold off to power companies.
Some of the smarter greens are starting to acknowledge that if you aren't doing nukes, you aren't serious about global warming.
Some of the smarter greens are starting to acknowledge that if you aren't doing nukes, you aren't serious about global warming.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (xCA6C)
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How many divisions does that judge have?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
Doesn’t answer my question. Because as of now a judge doesn’t need divisions just a pen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 11:12 AM (A+/01)
Amazing how easily the richest man on the planet could, with a few of his engineers, make these judges lives so miserable. With a few clicks of a mouse. Bank accounts, past history.....oopsie! Their world could be turned upside down in this digital world.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:11 AM (BJy/u)
Doesn’t answer my question. Because as of now a judge doesn’t need divisions just a pen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 02, 2025 11:12 AM (A+/01)
Amazing how easily the richest man on the planet could, with a few of his engineers, make these judges lives so miserable. With a few clicks of a mouse. Bank accounts, past history.....oopsie! Their world could be turned upside down in this digital world.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (dgRL6)
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He must be happy, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (KtIIi)
I forget whether it was the cuck or the shovelface, but It was one of those inbred Saxe-Coburg porphyriacs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:31 AM (KtIIi)
I forget whether it was the cuck or the shovelface, but It was one of those inbred Saxe-Coburg porphyriacs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2025 11:38 AM (BI5O2)
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To be fair, nuclear power is some of the greenest power humanity has at its disposal right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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The environazis will never see it that way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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The environazis will never see it that way.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2025 11:38 AM (7fElN)
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It isn't an either/or situation. There are some areas where it really is cost effective to spend money on cures and treatments. The idea that things wouldn't get worse if the rest of the world was dying of epidemic diseases is naive.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
It's why we have borders, Pancho.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
It's why we have borders, Pancho.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2025 11:38 AM (g8Ew8)
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Free healthcare is a drug.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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Thesis: Mass migration into Western countries from the third world is primarily owing to the former's welfare states.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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Thesis: Mass migration into Western countries from the third world is primarily owing to the former's welfare states.
Discuss.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:38 AM (il7BK)
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“If you have any interest in doing a deep dive into the more than 100-year history of what led up to the COVID-19 pandemic, then The Real Anthony Fauci is an absolute must-read. In addition to exposing Fauci, the book reveals the complex web of connections between Gates and Big Pharma and many of the most important players that were responsible for seeking to implement global tyranny and profit enormously from the propaganda behind the COVID injections, masks, and lockdowns.”
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 11:38 AM (Epeb0)
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137 From the Art Thread: The Epic of Gilgamesh might be the oldest anything so far as literature, isn’t it?
well, there *is* that complaint about delivery of the wrong grade of copper...
well, there *is* that complaint about delivery of the wrong grade of copper...
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 11:38 AM (oY6Yp)
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135 You and I know that. But does the green movement admit it?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (tT6L1)
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I think the environmentalist movement has moved beyond being knee-jerk anti-nuclear.
That's more of a 70s attitude, and it stopped being an overriding factor sometime in the 90s, put on the backburner without attention.
By now? It's something like a base assumption without any emotion behind it except by the older people who formed their believes under the nuclear energy is all bad all the time media umbrella. So, it's easily changed for most people, especially since, "We have to do anything to stop global warming," is been the default top line of environmentalism for 20 years.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (tT6L1)
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I think the environmentalist movement has moved beyond being knee-jerk anti-nuclear.
That's more of a 70s attitude, and it stopped being an overriding factor sometime in the 90s, put on the backburner without attention.
By now? It's something like a base assumption without any emotion behind it except by the older people who formed their believes under the nuclear energy is all bad all the time media umbrella. So, it's easily changed for most people, especially since, "We have to do anything to stop global warming," is been the default top line of environmentalism for 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
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t isn't an either/or situation. There are some areas where it really is cost effective to spend money on cures and treatments. The idea that things wouldn't get worse if the rest of the world was dying of epidemic diseases is naive.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
You're working backwards though which is why we are in this situation.
Again the solution is to cut everything to zero and then add back in if necessary. And 'necessary' has specific requirements.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
You're working backwards though which is why we are in this situation.
Again the solution is to cut everything to zero and then add back in if necessary. And 'necessary' has specific requirements.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (VofaG)
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We have not been developing new ones for a long time because there's no money in it, but the current crop is losing effectiveness fast. We need to start developing the next generation immediately.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (xCA6C)
Which is a good argument for using a fraction of the money saved by defunding USAID for funding basic research at home. Actual honest medical research.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:33 AM (xCA6C)
Which is a good argument for using a fraction of the money saved by defunding USAID for funding basic research at home. Actual honest medical research.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (8zz6B)
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@98 the only on of those countries that is moderately stable is Senegal. It's mostly Muslim. Let the Saudis help them.
The rest are advertisements against helping them, as it appears to have only hurt them
The rest are advertisements against helping them, as it appears to have only hurt them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (2ZThz)
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129 Oddly, we haven't heard much, or anything really, from the countries that were going to slide in chaos and famine if USAID was withdrawn. Weird.
Posted by: Ripley at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (GUOwU)
AP posted an article yesterday. Most of these recipients were hostile countries. Only the Philippines was ok, and maybe if we didn't keep draining off their health professionals they'd be better off.
Posted by: Ripley at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (GUOwU)
AP posted an article yesterday. Most of these recipients were hostile countries. Only the Philippines was ok, and maybe if we didn't keep draining off their health professionals they'd be better off.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (2NXcZ)
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126 To be fair, nuclear power is some of the greenest power humanity has at its disposal right now.
only until i paint it orange.
only until i paint it orange.
Posted by: ted danson, noted cellphone shill at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (oY6Yp)
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You're working backwards though which is why we are in this situation.
Again the solution is to cut everything to zero and then add back in if necessary. And 'necessary' has specific requirements.
I actually agree with you to a large extent, although probably not to zero. I know that will shock some of the more...reflexive types here.
Again the solution is to cut everything to zero and then add back in if necessary. And 'necessary' has specific requirements.
I actually agree with you to a large extent, although probably not to zero. I know that will shock some of the more...reflexive types here.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (xCA6C)
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FITCH WIRE
DOGE, Federal Reforms and Funding Cuts Could Affect Some US Corporations, Fri. 21 Mar 2025
Industrials, Healthcare, Real Estate, Telcom, Technology
"About 10 - 20% of Fitch-rated corporation issuers significantly rely on federal funding the operations. The healthcare and aerospace and defense sectors would be most affected if major changes occur."
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Pay them to screw us?
DOGE, Federal Reforms and Funding Cuts Could Affect Some US Corporations, Fri. 21 Mar 2025
Industrials, Healthcare, Real Estate, Telcom, Technology
"About 10 - 20% of Fitch-rated corporation issuers significantly rely on federal funding the operations. The healthcare and aerospace and defense sectors would be most affected if major changes occur."
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Pay them to screw us?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (NFX2v)
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By now? It's something like a base assumption without any emotion behind it except by the older people who formed their believes under the nuclear energy is all bad all the time media umbrella. So, it's easily changed for most people, especially since, "We have to do anything to stop global warming," is been the default top line of environmentalism for 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
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The green movement may be a victim of their own rhetoric? That amuses me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
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The green movement may be a victim of their own rhetoric? That amuses me.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (tT6L1)
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Which is a good argument for using a fraction of the money saved by defunding USAID for funding basic research at home. Actual honest medical research.
I couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (xCA6C)
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Sierra Club was famously pro-nuclear in the 1960s when dams were being built for hydroelectric projects. (They lobbied against illegal migration too, for obvious environmental reasons as well)
But big donors call the tune. Sierra Club doesn’t talk about nuclear power or the impact of millions and millions more humans on our environment in the U.S.A.
But big donors call the tune. Sierra Club doesn’t talk about nuclear power or the impact of millions and millions more humans on our environment in the U.S.A.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (QuDWu)
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It isn't an either/or situation. There are some areas where it really is cost effective to spend money on cures and treatments. The idea that things wouldn't get worse if the rest of the world was dying of epidemic diseases is naive.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
That would be better served by a contract of some kind, with a private hospital network or group of networks getting a grant to do a very specific project with very specific deliverables, and severe penalties for neglecting the project or hinky accounting.
The use of public money as such, and the incredible disappearing act said money inevitably does under the flag of USAID or anything similar, are really two separate issues.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (xCA6C)
That would be better served by a contract of some kind, with a private hospital network or group of networks getting a grant to do a very specific project with very specific deliverables, and severe penalties for neglecting the project or hinky accounting.
The use of public money as such, and the incredible disappearing act said money inevitably does under the flag of USAID or anything similar, are really two separate issues.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (KtIIi)
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The next target for Trump after Greenland and Canada should be the West Cape.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (MMp6W)
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120
‘ How many federal agencies have military arms, like the Dept of Education and the FBI? "Trump is abrogating the Constitution’
This was the answer I thought. I hope Trump has armed support if/when these democrats try to seize power under color of law.
‘ How many federal agencies have military arms, like the Dept of Education and the FBI? "Trump is abrogating the Constitution’
This was the answer I thought. I hope Trump has armed support if/when these democrats try to seize power under color of law.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)
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150 @98 the only on of those countries that is moderately stable is Senegal. It's mostly Muslim. Let the Saudis help them.
The rest are advertisements against helping them, as it appears to have only hurt them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (2ZThz)
Exactly. I don't understand how the Afghanis and Zelensky sold so many of our weapons, yet can't fund healthcare?
The rest are advertisements against helping them, as it appears to have only hurt them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 11:39 AM (2ZThz)
Exactly. I don't understand how the Afghanis and Zelensky sold so many of our weapons, yet can't fund healthcare?
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (2NXcZ)
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157 Sierra Club was famously pro-nuclear in the 1960s when dams were being built for hydroelectric projects. (They lobbied against illegal migration too, for obvious environmental reasons as well)
But big donors call the tune. Sierra Club doesn’t talk about nuclear power or the impact of millions and millions more humans on our environment in the U.S.A.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (QuDWu)
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I thought it was well established that the Soviets got control of the Sierra Club at some point.
But big donors call the tune. Sierra Club doesn’t talk about nuclear power or the impact of millions and millions more humans on our environment in the U.S.A.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (QuDWu)
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I thought it was well established that the Soviets got control of the Sierra Club at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
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The use of public money as such, and the incredible disappearing act said money inevitably does under the flag of USAID or anything similar, are really two separate issues.
They're tied, in that money that was supposed to go for real, actual research was instead diverted to lefty NGOs.
They're tied, in that money that was supposed to go for real, actual research was instead diverted to lefty NGOs.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:42 AM (xCA6C)
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Even non-profits that do actually work for their cause do very well these days. That was something Barky made happen, it may have already been started before but it was one of Barky's goals. There is an 'animal sanctuary' charity near me. They started out by taking in wolves and wolf hybrids that idiots had tried to have as pets, then morphed into taking in bears, and big cats from roadside private zoos. Now they ARE a private zoo, they charge up the wazoo to come and look at their critters and they own all kinds of land, have a super fancy air conditioned trailer to go fetch critters when zoo or circus is forced to stop displaying tigers or lions etc. They do have very nice, roomy enclosures for their critters and they have birth control so none of their critters is breeding. But so do some of the zoo's that the 'sanctuary' criticizes.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 02, 2025 11:42 AM (CKOCg)
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I actually agree with you to a large extent, although probably not to zero. I know that will shock some of the more...reflexive types here.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (xCA6C)
Fair enough
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (xCA6C)
Fair enough
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 02, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)
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You and I know that. But does the green movement admit it?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (tT6L1)
The non-insane environmentalists, like Patrick Moore, admit it, but the insane crew won't have it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (tT6L1)
The non-insane environmentalists, like Patrick Moore, admit it, but the insane crew won't have it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (8zz6B)
167
HOW DARE YOU?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!!
Posted by: Greta, the future Mrs. Hogg-Thunberg at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (a3Q+t)
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Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
169
Ivermectin is considered a miracle drug for many, many reasons, one of them is that researchers have not discovered much if any parasite resistance, at least not to the extent antibiotics have.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (QuDWu)
Instead of poisoning the bugs, it bollixes up the absorbtion of glucose in most of them, which is a fundamental metabolic pathway, and the parasites starve to death. Apparently there is no alternative to that. Parasites are stripped down, evolutionariliy, so they don't have a lot of flexibility on metabolism
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:37 AM (QuDWu)
Instead of poisoning the bugs, it bollixes up the absorbtion of glucose in most of them, which is a fundamental metabolic pathway, and the parasites starve to death. Apparently there is no alternative to that. Parasites are stripped down, evolutionariliy, so they don't have a lot of flexibility on metabolism
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (D7oie)
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I actually agree with you to a large extent, although probably not to zero. I know that will shock some of the more...reflexive types here.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (xCA6C)
If you don't support returning the federal government budget to that of fiscal 1858, then you are a crypto-communist and need to be sent to a reeducation camp.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2025 11:40 AM (xCA6C)
If you don't support returning the federal government budget to that of fiscal 1858, then you are a crypto-communist and need to be sent to a reeducation camp.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Captain; AoSHQ Purity Brigade at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (L5An7)
171
Let me simplify this:
Conservatives care more about their own people than anything else. That starts small and gets bigger. Family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, et al.
Leftists care more about literally everything else more than their own people.
This chart is undefeated.
https://x.com/Big_Picture_89/status/1899433143850950920
Conservatives care more about their own people than anything else. That starts small and gets bigger. Family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, et al.
Leftists care more about literally everything else more than their own people.
This chart is undefeated.
https://x.com/Big_Picture_89/status/1899433143850950920
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 02, 2025 11:44 AM (OuB2L)
172
Nuclear isn't green.
It's yellow and magenta.
It's yellow and magenta.
Posted by: For a reason at April 02, 2025 11:44 AM (Z/xt9)
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If you don't support returning the federal government budget to that of fiscal 1858, then you are a crypto-communist and need to be sent to a reeducation camp.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Captain; AoSHQ Purity Brigade at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (L5An7)
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Newsletter?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Captain; AoSHQ Purity Brigade at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (L5An7)
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Newsletter?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:44 AM (tT6L1)
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172 Nuclear isn't green.
It's yellow and magenta.
Posted by: For a reason at April 02, 2025 11:44 AM (Z/xt9)
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Great for personal transportation through time, though.
It's yellow and magenta.
Posted by: For a reason at April 02, 2025 11:44 AM (Z/xt9)
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Great for personal transportation through time, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
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Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a day.
Deport a man and you never have to feed him again.
Deport a man and you never have to feed him again.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (BJy/u)
176
Just about everything the Left does, or doesn’t do, can best be viewed through an anti-humanist lens. Everything. Destructive ideologies, physically and spiritually.
It wasn’t always this way. I’ve wondered in recent years when the shift occurred. Norman Borlaug invented hybrid varieties of corn iirc, and received a real Nobel Prize for his efforts.
I’m not so sure that kind of thing is very well received any longer.
It wasn’t always this way. I’ve wondered in recent years when the shift occurred. Norman Borlaug invented hybrid varieties of corn iirc, and received a real Nobel Prize for his efforts.
I’m not so sure that kind of thing is very well received any longer.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (QuDWu)
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159 2nd Bn, 5th Marines storm ashore in Martha's Vineyard, reclaiming said land to the US.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2025 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)
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Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a day.
Deport a man and you never have to feed him again.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (BJy/u)
Lol
Deport a man and you never have to feed him again.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (BJy/u)
Lol
Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2025 11:47 AM (lCppi)
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BUT THE CHILDREN! WHY WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
That's rich. Left wing idiots who embrace abortion as a constitutional right dare ask that question. Keep up your stupid. The left are insane assholes.
That's rich. Left wing idiots who embrace abortion as a constitutional right dare ask that question. Keep up your stupid. The left are insane assholes.
Posted by: Case at April 02, 2025 11:47 AM (OrSPY)
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144
‘ Thesis: Mass migration into Western countries from the third world is primarily owing to the former's welfare states.’
That’s so obviously the reason it is both a thesis and a conclusion.
‘ Thesis: Mass migration into Western countries from the third world is primarily owing to the former's welfare states.’
That’s so obviously the reason it is both a thesis and a conclusion.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 11:47 AM (jbnUc)
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Excellent rant.
Posted by: Kilgore Trout at April 02, 2025 11:47 AM (fJwxk)
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*returning the federal government budget to that of fiscal 1858*
Make the Whig Party Great Again!
Make the Whig Party Great Again!
Posted by: Bull Moose at April 02, 2025 11:47 AM (Z/xt9)
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I thought it was well established that the Soviets got control of the Sierra Club at some point.
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The point still stands, oddly enough
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The point still stands, oddly enough
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:48 AM (QuDWu)
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>>The next target for Trump after Greenland and Canada should be the West Cape.
I'll raise you. Diego Garcia and Masirah Island.
I'll raise you. Diego Garcia and Masirah Island.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2025 11:48 AM (Y1sOo)
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It’s interesting that USAID was developed by the CIA for use as a slush fund to support Anti-Communist activities during the Cold War. Now, as the Agency shifted from anti-Communist to far Left, it’s working to destroy the country as founded, using techniques we developed to destabilize third world nations
Posted by: Timur Lenk at April 02, 2025 11:48 AM (LIzyL)
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It wasn’t always this way. I’ve wondered in recent years when the shift occurred. Norman Borlaug invented hybrid varieties of corn iirc, and received a real Nobel Prize for his efforts.
I’m not so sure that kind of thing is very well received any longer.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (QuDWu)
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Not only that, Norman has a very nice bronze statue at the IA state capitol.
I’m not so sure that kind of thing is very well received any longer.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 11:45 AM (QuDWu)
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Not only that, Norman has a very nice bronze statue at the IA state capitol.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:48 AM (tT6L1)
187
Aren't we already giving piles of aid money to these countries we supposedly need to give more money for TB treatments? I'll bet we are.
This is part of the scam: give Shithole X general aid money. Then give it money for TB. Then AIDS. Then goat condoms.
But we know where 99% of this money goes. Suffice to say it ain't going to where it's supposed to. So while I agree in theory there may be some benefit to the USA in treating dangerous diseases overseas, I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
This is part of the scam: give Shithole X general aid money. Then give it money for TB. Then AIDS. Then goat condoms.
But we know where 99% of this money goes. Suffice to say it ain't going to where it's supposed to. So while I agree in theory there may be some benefit to the USA in treating dangerous diseases overseas, I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: God at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (Z/xt9)
189
Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
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Epic poem, dude!
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
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Epic poem, dude!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:50 AM (/tzYP)
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I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
I've got no problem with paying extra taxes on gasoline and shelling out a couple bucks for a registration, until I get on 78 and blow my shocks out.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
I've got no problem with paying extra taxes on gasoline and shelling out a couple bucks for a registration, until I get on 78 and blow my shocks out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2025 11:50 AM (KtIIi)
191
Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
"If your surgeons used Gilgamesh for your hernia repair, you may be entitled to monetary compensation. Call Dewey, Wearsnekrs, and Howe right away!"
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
"If your surgeons used Gilgamesh for your hernia repair, you may be entitled to monetary compensation. Call Dewey, Wearsnekrs, and Howe right away!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 11:50 AM (8zz6B)
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Tale that's old now.
Private endowments have an incentive to solve the problem.
No such incentive for public funds. Add big Pharma into the equation and there's an incentive to AVOID solutions so as to guarantee an income stream.
Gates didn't get where he is/was by spending his own money.
Private endowments have an incentive to solve the problem.
No such incentive for public funds. Add big Pharma into the equation and there's an incentive to AVOID solutions so as to guarantee an income stream.
Gates didn't get where he is/was by spending his own money.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (ky8PV)
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"The United States has spent 37 trillion dollars that WE DO NOT HAVE, largely to solve the problems of the world. Problems which, apparently, no one else can be bothered about. Problems which, despite all the money spent, have not been solved. We must, then, conclude that these problems are not solvable and withdraw our patronage."
Worth repeating.
Worth repeating.
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (Epeb0)
194
I wonder how much USAID money was given o the Bill and Melissa Foundation? After all, WEF and Soros got some, and AP...who was begging for donations for its "news"
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (2NXcZ)
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184 >>The next target for Trump after Greenland and Canada should be the West Cape.
I'll raise you. Diego Garcia and Masirah Island.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2025 11:48 AM (Y1sOo)
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Wouldn't the winds carry the odor of the Arabs?
I'll raise you. Diego Garcia and Masirah Island.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2025 11:48 AM (Y1sOo)
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Wouldn't the winds carry the odor of the Arabs?
Posted by: Oglebay at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (MMp6W)
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But we know where 99% of this money goes. Suffice to say it ain't going to where it's supposed to. So while I agree in theory there may be some benefit to the USA in treating dangerous diseases overseas,
I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
Posted by: Elric Blade
Now do food since we feed the world.
I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
Posted by: Elric Blade
Now do food since we feed the world.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (BJy/u)
197
Joe Mannix - Great post, Thnx.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2025 11:52 AM (XeU6L)
198
We have 80 years of experience with nuclear power. It is a very viable way to generate power. And clean. But the Greens are both leftist and stupid, so they have a narrative to push. They are the Borg.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 02, 2025 11:52 AM (pohLc)
199
This Trump guy is really building back better.
Posted by: Casual observer at April 02, 2025 11:52 AM (Z/xt9)
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Why is Joe Sixpack from the middle of America, who is struggling to feed his own family expected to pay any money to eradicate TB in the third world?
If Bill Gates feels so strongly about it, he is one of the richest men in the world. He can spend his own fucking money.
If Bill Gates feels so strongly about it, he is one of the richest men in the world. He can spend his own fucking money.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 11:52 AM (uCjyK)
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"The United States has spent 37 trillion dollars that WE DO NOT HAVE, largely to solve the problems of the world. Problems which, apparently, no one else can be bothered about. Problems which, despite all the money spent, have not been solved. We must, then, conclude that these problems are not solvable and withdraw our patronage."
Worth repeating.
Posted by: Beverly
Needs to go up above under the masthead.
Permanently.
Worth repeating.
Posted by: Beverly
Needs to go up above under the masthead.
Permanently.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (BJy/u)
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Why is it my responsibility, as an American taxpayer, to fund other countries’ governments, healthcare, energy production or feed their people?
Why? Make the case for our Veterans living in squalor, hungry, cold and poor while we give aid to people who openly hate us.
Why? Make the case for our Veterans living in squalor, hungry, cold and poor while we give aid to people who openly hate us.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (wDLi3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)
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This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Rich men north of Richmond at April 02, 2025 11:54 AM (Z/xt9)
205
What nurse said with a damned right to go with it.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2025 11:54 AM (wO8PJ)
206
Now do food since we feed the world.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (BJy/u)
Food is a bit more tricky, since our government policy since the Dust Bowl has been to subsidize farms to overproduce so that we as a country don't all starve to death if there is a bad crop year.
Then we have too much food, so we dump it on the third world as "charity" in order to keep prices from from dropping from oversupply of food at home.
Of course, that charity means that local farmers in the third world can't compete with free food, and it keeps them in a cycle of dependency. Which is an added benefit for our deep state.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (BJy/u)
Food is a bit more tricky, since our government policy since the Dust Bowl has been to subsidize farms to overproduce so that we as a country don't all starve to death if there is a bad crop year.
Then we have too much food, so we dump it on the third world as "charity" in order to keep prices from from dropping from oversupply of food at home.
Of course, that charity means that local farmers in the third world can't compete with free food, and it keeps them in a cycle of dependency. Which is an added benefit for our deep state.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (uCjyK)
207
This is the endless UNICEF Ponzi scheme. Fuck making kids beg for nickels and dimes instead of candy. Go get your own vig.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (Hpgos)
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130 128
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Might be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
Must be.
I heard he dropped a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane.
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:34 AM (il7BK)
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That seems crazy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 11:35 AM (tT6L1)
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Might be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
Must be.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (/rmtj)
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188 Ahem.
I invented them.
Norman just discovered them.
Posted by: God
are you trying to say norman coordinated?
I invented them.
Norman just discovered them.
Posted by: God
are you trying to say norman coordinated?
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (oY6Yp)
210
The rhino is the self-appointed fire prevention officer...
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (/iMjX)
211
203. Liked that!
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:56 AM (2NXcZ)
212
Sierra Club was famously pro-nuclear in the 1960s when dams were being built for hydroelectric projects. (They lobbied against illegal migration too, for obvious environmental reasons as well)
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Ah. And bags. "Use plastic, save a tree!"
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Ah. And bags. "Use plastic, save a tree!"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (XeU6L)
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But we know where 99% of this money goes. Suffice to say it ain't going to where it's supposed to. So while I agree in theory there may be some benefit to the USA in treating dangerous diseases overseas, I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
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In his autobiography discussing his Messiah Complex -- yes, he actually admits to it -- Bono (nee Paul David Hewson) additionally admits to how naive he was raising lots of money for Africa (including lobbying US CongressCritters for "aid") only to have almost all of it stolen and skimmed.
Unexpectedly.
Ah, the unearned liberal guilt of the white man ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
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In his autobiography discussing his Messiah Complex -- yes, he actually admits to it -- Bono (nee Paul David Hewson) additionally admits to how naive he was raising lots of money for Africa (including lobbying US CongressCritters for "aid") only to have almost all of it stolen and skimmed.
Unexpectedly.
Ah, the unearned liberal guilt of the white man ...
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (8Ak0o)
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194 I wonder how much USAID money was given o the Bill and Melissa Foundation? After all, WEF and Soros got some, and AP...who was begging for donations for its "news"
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (2NXcZ)
I think we'll find that all of our prominent / famous billionaires are up to their eyeballs in CIA / USAID shenanigans.
Look at how much CIA / USAID money went to the Soros NGO network. Obviously he's working with (or for) the Deep State.
Makes sense to use someone like Soros as an unofficial arm of the Deep State, since there is plausible deniability about the funding coming from the US treasury.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:51 AM (2NXcZ)
I think we'll find that all of our prominent / famous billionaires are up to their eyeballs in CIA / USAID shenanigans.
Look at how much CIA / USAID money went to the Soros NGO network. Obviously he's working with (or for) the Deep State.
Makes sense to use someone like Soros as an unofficial arm of the Deep State, since there is plausible deniability about the funding coming from the US treasury.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (uCjyK)
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Why is it my responsibility, as an American taxpayer, to fund other countries’ governments, healthcare, energy production or feed their people?
Why? Make the case for our Veterans living in squalor, hungry, cold and poor while we give aid to people who openly hate us.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (wDLi3)
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I think there was some benefit to the USA paying money to make foreign countries more livable, when the filthy motherfuckers we were paying to live better stayed in their filthy shithole countries. In other words, I'd pay to keep these undesirables out of the USA. But now, we're not only paying to make foreign shitholes less shittier, but the filthy motherfuckers living there are invading the USA. We get fucked in both holes.
Why? Make the case for our Veterans living in squalor, hungry, cold and poor while we give aid to people who openly hate us.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (wDLi3)
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I think there was some benefit to the USA paying money to make foreign countries more livable, when the filthy motherfuckers we were paying to live better stayed in their filthy shithole countries. In other words, I'd pay to keep these undesirables out of the USA. But now, we're not only paying to make foreign shitholes less shittier, but the filthy motherfuckers living there are invading the USA. We get fucked in both holes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:58 AM (iFTx/)
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Hey, asshats, when I can buy a Nutrageous candy bar for $2 each I may entertain your beggary and buggery. But you fucked that up for me - so eat shit and die.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 02, 2025 11:58 AM (Hpgos)
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172 Nuclear isn't green.
It's yellow and magenta.
nonsense. it glows, therefore additive, therefore red, green, and blue.
It's yellow and magenta.
nonsense. it glows, therefore additive, therefore red, green, and blue.
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 11:58 AM (oY6Yp)
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Makes sense to use someone like Soros as an unofficial arm of the Deep State, since there is plausible deniability about the funding coming from the US treasury.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (uCjyK)
So the oligarchy can do things it would be illegal for the government to do, like create antifa.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (uCjyK)
So the oligarchy can do things it would be illegal for the government to do, like create antifa.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:59 AM (2NXcZ)
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Speaking of the cold, hungry, living in squalor vets, I recently had an interaction with one. He attacked me with a club without provocation. A couple of solid rights to his head took the sting out of his attack. Most of those guys belong in an institution, not on the street. They are mentally ill, and some are quite dangerous.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 02, 2025 11:59 AM (pohLc)
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But we know where 99% of this money goes. Suffice to say it ain't going to where it's supposed to. So while I agree in theory there may be some benefit to the USA in treating dangerous diseases overseas, I think in reality it's no benefit at all because the money is being stolen.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
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In his autobiography discussing his Messiah Complex -- yes, he actually admits to it -- Bono (nee Paul David Hewson) additionally admits to how naive he was raising lots of money for Africa (including lobbying US CongressCritters for "aid") only to have almost all of it stolen and skimmed.
Unexpectedly.
Ah, the unearned liberal guilt of the white man ...
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (8Ak0o)
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FEED THE WORLD! We did. A lot. 40 years later, they're still starving. Unexpectedly!
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
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In his autobiography discussing his Messiah Complex -- yes, he actually admits to it -- Bono (nee Paul David Hewson) additionally admits to how naive he was raising lots of money for Africa (including lobbying US CongressCritters for "aid") only to have almost all of it stolen and skimmed.
Unexpectedly.
Ah, the unearned liberal guilt of the white man ...
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 11:57 AM (8Ak0o)
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FEED THE WORLD! We did. A lot. 40 years later, they're still starving. Unexpectedly!
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)
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210 The rhino is the self-appointed fire prevention officer...
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (/iMjX)
I liked the thornbush-underwear scene and the guy who let the antichrist Landrover winch itself up the tree.
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2025 11:55 AM (/iMjX)
I liked the thornbush-underwear scene and the guy who let the antichrist Landrover winch itself up the tree.
Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2025 12:00 PM (p4vtc)
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194 I wonder how much USAID money was given o the Bill and Melissa Foundation?
given? i'll have you know that usaid had to *buy* those windows licenses and subscriptions to office 365!!!
given? i'll have you know that usaid had to *buy* those windows licenses and subscriptions to office 365!!!
Posted by: bill gates at April 02, 2025 12:00 PM (oY6Yp)
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I think there was some benefit to the USA paying money to make foreign countries more livable, when the filthy motherfuckers we were paying to live better stayed in their filthy shithole countries. In other words, I'd pay to keep these undesirables out of the USA. But now, we're not only paying to make foreign shitholes less shittier, but the filthy motherfuckers living there are invading the USA. We get fucked in both holes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:58 AM (iFTx/)
If you read about the setting up of USAID under Kennedy, the arguments all make perfect sense on paper. Basically, they said what you're saying. "We spent a million dollars to project soft power to keep despots in charge of their countries, and their people there. This is much cheaper and safer than using covert ops to accomplish the same goal."
The problem is -- we can't trust anyone in our government to run any of these programs honestly. They simply don't do it. Maybe in other countries, it's possible, but it's not here.
USAID exploded from a small soft power CIA / State Department (which at the time was basically controlled by the CIA) slush fund to ... what it is today in about 3 years.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 11:58 AM (iFTx/)
If you read about the setting up of USAID under Kennedy, the arguments all make perfect sense on paper. Basically, they said what you're saying. "We spent a million dollars to project soft power to keep despots in charge of their countries, and their people there. This is much cheaper and safer than using covert ops to accomplish the same goal."
The problem is -- we can't trust anyone in our government to run any of these programs honestly. They simply don't do it. Maybe in other countries, it's possible, but it's not here.
USAID exploded from a small soft power CIA / State Department (which at the time was basically controlled by the CIA) slush fund to ... what it is today in about 3 years.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:00 PM (uCjyK)
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My sympathies for the health of people overseas has diminished almost totally because we've let that take priority over the health of people in this country. The main culprit of all of it is socialized medicine. Get rid of that and I might soften my stance.
BUT, Gates is an avowed communist so......
BUT, Gates is an avowed communist so......
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (g8Ew8)
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Why? Make the case for our Veterans living in squalor, hungry, cold and poor while we give aid to people who openly hate us.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (wDLi3)
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Hey now, we're not just shoveling money out the door and ignoring our vets. We're also importing 20K people and dropping them into cities, driving rents sky high so veterans can no longer afford rent.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (wDLi3)
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Hey now, we're not just shoveling money out the door and ignoring our vets. We're also importing 20K people and dropping them into cities, driving rents sky high so veterans can no longer afford rent.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (tT6L1)
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Posted by: Rich men north of Richmond at April 02, 2025 11:54 AM
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Nice carpetbag! Paisley is so wonderful.
That Jacquard fellow sure knew what he was doing.
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Nice carpetbag! Paisley is so wonderful.
That Jacquard fellow sure knew what he was doing.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (/tzYP)
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220 FEED THE WORLD! We did. A lot. 40 years later, they're still starving. Unexpectedly!
the problem with feeding the world is that, the next time, there are a bunch more of them.
the problem with feeding the world is that, the next time, there are a bunch more of them.
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (oY6Yp)
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The female lead in The Gods Must Be Crazy was hot.
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (fmh7M)
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220 FEED THE WORLD! We did. A lot. 40 years later, they're still starving. Unexpectedly!
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Weird...
Same thing happened when we waged war on poverty in America.
And on the uninsured rate in America.
Probably just a coincidence. Don't tear anything down. Just reform around the edges just in case one person will suffer otherwise.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 02, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Weird...
Same thing happened when we waged war on poverty in America.
And on the uninsured rate in America.
Probably just a coincidence. Don't tear anything down. Just reform around the edges just in case one person will suffer otherwise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Val Kilmer passed away from pneumonia. How about we worry about curing home grown diseases instead of worrying about the rest of the world?
About 50,000 people in the US die annually from pneumonia.
About 50,000 people in the US die annually from pneumonia.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (BJy/u)
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It’s interesting that USAID was developed by the CIA for use as a slush fund to support Anti-Communist activities during the Cold War. Now, as the Agency shifted
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See the F.B.I. post Church Committee. Leftists used to hate the F.B.I.
My thesis on the CIA and their L.S.D. experiments in the early 1950s, was they deployed it first on the scientists and psychologists, then on federal prisoners, military, and unsuspecting college folks. By the early 1960s they were deploying it on California. It tends to break down people’s beliefs, and also highly suggestible, and more easily hypnotized, among other things. Couple with a huge dose of propaganda, it was an effective weapon against the very large demographic that was the “baby boom”.
Make the world safe for one world government, you see. Whatever the claimed impetus for MkUltra, they flipped the script and used their research against Americans.
———
See the F.B.I. post Church Committee. Leftists used to hate the F.B.I.
My thesis on the CIA and their L.S.D. experiments in the early 1950s, was they deployed it first on the scientists and psychologists, then on federal prisoners, military, and unsuspecting college folks. By the early 1960s they were deploying it on California. It tends to break down people’s beliefs, and also highly suggestible, and more easily hypnotized, among other things. Couple with a huge dose of propaganda, it was an effective weapon against the very large demographic that was the “baby boom”.
Make the world safe for one world government, you see. Whatever the claimed impetus for MkUltra, they flipped the script and used their research against Americans.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (hwcGa)
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So the oligarchy can do things it would be illegal for the government to do, like create antifa.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:59 AM (2NXcZ)
Exactly. Well, the term "plausible deniability" is in the CIA founding documents. That's their goal. Not so much legal or illegal, but can they plausibly (or even semi-plausibly) point the finger at someone else.
"We're not funding domestic terrorism in the US -- it's that evil billionaire George Soros. Oh, and if you mention his name, you're an antisemite. Check mate, rubes."
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 11:59 AM (2NXcZ)
Exactly. Well, the term "plausible deniability" is in the CIA founding documents. That's their goal. Not so much legal or illegal, but can they plausibly (or even semi-plausibly) point the finger at someone else.
"We're not funding domestic terrorism in the US -- it's that evil billionaire George Soros. Oh, and if you mention his name, you're an antisemite. Check mate, rubes."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (uCjyK)
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230 Val Kilmer passed away from pneumonia. How about we worry about curing home grown diseases instead of worrying about the rest of the world?
About 50,000 people in the US die annually from pneumonia.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (BJy/u)
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He was also dealing with fallout from throat cancer issues. He was a weak and dying man looking for something to push him over the edge.
About 50,000 people in the US die annually from pneumonia.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (BJy/u)
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He was also dealing with fallout from throat cancer issues. He was a weak and dying man looking for something to push him over the edge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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the problem with feeding the world is that, the next time, there are a bunch more of them.
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (oY6Yp)
And that they and illegals have "unborn babies" while the West has disposable "fetuses".
Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2025 12:01 PM (oY6Yp)
And that they and illegals have "unborn babies" while the West has disposable "fetuses".
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 12:03 PM (2NXcZ)
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221
‘ I liked the thornbush-underwear scene and the guy who let the antichrist Landrover winch itself up the tree.’
I liked when the little bushman guy couldn’t figure out how to shift the jeep out of reverse so he climbed on the hood and steered the jeep facing the other way.
‘ I liked the thornbush-underwear scene and the guy who let the antichrist Landrover winch itself up the tree.’
I liked when the little bushman guy couldn’t figure out how to shift the jeep out of reverse so he climbed on the hood and steered the jeep facing the other way.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2025 12:03 PM (jbnUc)
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Speaking of the cold, hungry, living in squalor vets, I recently had an interaction with one. He attacked me with a club without provocation. A couple of solid rights to his head took the sting out of his attack. Most of those guys belong in an institution, not on the street. They are mentally ill, and some are quite dangerous.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 02, 2025 11:59 AM (pohLc)
There are a lot of bums who pretend to be vets, who are not. It's a scam to tug on your heartstrings.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 02, 2025 11:59 AM (pohLc)
There are a lot of bums who pretend to be vets, who are not. It's a scam to tug on your heartstrings.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 12:04 PM (8zz6B)
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All I know is that I had to eat my peas because there were children starving in Korea 60 years ago. I haven't forgiven them.
Posted by: Elephant's Memory at April 02, 2025 12:04 PM (G5+As)
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I wonder how much USAID money was given o the Bill and Melissa Foundation?
given? i'll have you know that usaid had to *buy* those windows licenses and subscriptions tooffice 365 out of date Win3
Posted by: bill gates
Fixed for accuracy.
given? i'll have you know that usaid had to *buy* those windows licenses and subscriptions to
Posted by: bill gates
Fixed for accuracy.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 12:04 PM (BJy/u)
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Some leaders in Africa are good beith losing the aid. They're saying they have to stand on their own
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 12:05 PM (2ZThz)
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Make the world safe for one world government, you see. Whatever the claimed impetus for MkUltra, they flipped the script and used their research against Americans.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (hwcGa)
The origin story of MKUltra makes no sense. They claimed that the Koreans had mind controlled American POW's to make anti-American videos. And to keep up with the North Korean mind control program, we need to develop our own.
Of course, I doubt anyone actually thought North Korea had perfected some crazy mind control experiment. As became clear as soon as those soldiers came home, Norks used techniques as old as time to get American soldiers to film those videos -- sleep deprivation, light torture, threats, promises, etc.
And yet MKUltra marched on.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (hwcGa)
The origin story of MKUltra makes no sense. They claimed that the Koreans had mind controlled American POW's to make anti-American videos. And to keep up with the North Korean mind control program, we need to develop our own.
Of course, I doubt anyone actually thought North Korea had perfected some crazy mind control experiment. As became clear as soon as those soldiers came home, Norks used techniques as old as time to get American soldiers to film those videos -- sleep deprivation, light torture, threats, promises, etc.
And yet MKUltra marched on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:05 PM (uCjyK)
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"We're not funding domestic terrorism in the US -- it's that evil billionaire George Soros. Oh, and if you mention his name, you're an antisemite. Check mate, rubes."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (uCjyK)
Val Kilmer dead, but Soros lives. Unfair.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:02 PM (uCjyK)
Val Kilmer dead, but Soros lives. Unfair.
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 12:05 PM (2NXcZ)
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Needs to go up above under the masthead.
Permanently.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (BJy/u)
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Agreed.
Now which do we do first: slit throats or slit spending?
NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE! [AKA "Embrace the Power of *AND*!]
Permanently.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2025 11:53 AM (BJy/u)
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Agreed.
Now which do we do first: slit throats or slit spending?
NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE! [AKA "Embrace the Power of *AND*!]
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 12:06 PM (8Ak0o)
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There are a lot of bums who pretend to be vets, who are not. It's a scam to tug on your heartstrings.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 12:04 PM (8zz6B)
Vets or not, they have higher priority on the list of problems to fix than TB tests in Sierra Leone or whatever it is we're supposedly funding in the third world.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2025 12:04 PM (8zz6B)
Vets or not, they have higher priority on the list of problems to fix than TB tests in Sierra Leone or whatever it is we're supposedly funding in the third world.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)
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Apparently George is suffering from dementia. Little Alex and the other spawn are running the show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (2ZThz)
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245 Apparently George is suffering from dementia. Little Alex and the other spawn are running the show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (2ZThz)
Is little Alex still engaged to Huma?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (2ZThz)
Is little Alex still engaged to Huma?
Posted by: Night lifted.... at April 02, 2025 12:08 PM (2NXcZ)
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nood
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:09 PM (uCjyK)
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Of course, I doubt anyone actually thought North Korea had perfected some crazy mind control experiment. As became clear as soon as those soldiers came home, Norks used techniques as old as time to get American soldiers to film those videos -- sleep deprivation, light torture, threats, promises, etc.
And yet MKUltra marched on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:05 PM (uCjyK)
Idk, they also put resources into astral projection. I could see them believing in brainwashing secrets of the Orient.
And yet MKUltra marched on.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 02, 2025 12:05 PM (uCjyK)
Idk, they also put resources into astral projection. I could see them believing in brainwashing secrets of the Orient.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy's phone at April 02, 2025 12:10 PM (q53Yl)
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245 Apparently George is suffering from dementia.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (2ZThz)
I hope it hurts like hell.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2025 12:07 PM (2ZThz)
I hope it hurts like hell.
Posted by: Reforger at April 02, 2025 12:11 PM (xcIvR)
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239 Some leaders in Africa are good with losing the aid. They're saying they have to stand on their own
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Eritrea.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1998 net official foreign aid to Eritrea was US$135.8 million; in 2002 it reached US$217.6 million. In 2005 the country stopped accepting foreign aid.[1][2] The government of Eritrea prefers private-sector investment to official aid programs, and its relations with aid-dispensing nations and international institutions have often been difficult.[2]
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Eritrea.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1998 net official foreign aid to Eritrea was US$135.8 million; in 2002 it reached US$217.6 million. In 2005 the country stopped accepting foreign aid.[1][2] The government of Eritrea prefers private-sector investment to official aid programs, and its relations with aid-dispensing nations and international institutions have often been difficult.[2]
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 12:11 PM (/tzYP)
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Chemical Warfare is illegal, but that is basically the 1960s in a nutshell.
(We lost, if you hadn’t noticed)
(We lost, if you hadn’t noticed)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2025 12:12 PM (gGTff)
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He was also dealing with fallout from throat cancer issues. He was a weak and dying man looking for something to push him over the edge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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If only he'd worn a mask ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 02, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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If only he'd worn a mask ...
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 12:13 PM (8Ak0o)
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I've got some ideas about feeding the world.
Posted by: Sally Struthers at April 02, 2025 12:17 PM (Z/xt9)
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Idk, they also put resources into astral projection. I could see them believing in brainwashing secrets of the Orient.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy's phone at April 02, 2025 12:10 PM (q53Yl)
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Remote Viewing FTW!
Where have you gone Major Edward Dames?
A nation turns its ESP to you ... woo hoo hoo
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy's phone at April 02, 2025 12:10 PM (q53Yl)
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Remote Viewing FTW!
Where have you gone Major Edward Dames?
A nation turns its ESP to you ... woo hoo hoo
Posted by: ShainS -- If Elon Bought Planned Parenthood, The Left Would Hate Abortion at April 02, 2025 12:19 PM (8Ak0o)
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The Microsoft cofounder turned billionaire philanthropist is petitioning the Trump administration to continue funding worldwide health programs,
So yet another "philanthropist" who gave relatively minimal amounts and relied on USAID to add the real money while they take credit.
Pretty much the entire lefty industrial complex has been revealed to be that. Soros wasn't even funding half the stuff he says he is.
So yet another "philanthropist" who gave relatively minimal amounts and relied on USAID to add the real money while they take credit.
Pretty much the entire lefty industrial complex has been revealed to be that. Soros wasn't even funding half the stuff he says he is.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2025 12:21 PM (2ocoG)
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Claire McCaskill is breathing. Therefore she lies. In order to stop lying, she'd need to stop breathing. I could be amenable to this.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at April 02, 2025 12:23 PM (hKoQL)
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Do we need to make the case against a program in order to stop funding it. The debt is $36.2 trillion. We can't afford to fund the good programs, let alone the evil ones.
Like we used to say about union negotiations: Listen to them scream and shout, then turn our pockets inside out.
Just so.
Like we used to say about union negotiations: Listen to them scream and shout, then turn our pockets inside out.
Just so.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 02, 2025 12:27 PM (jc0TO)
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I've got some ideas about feeding the world.
Posted by: Sally Struthers at April 02, 2025 12:17 PM
Me too.
Posted by: Sally Struthers at April 02, 2025 12:17 PM
Me too.
Posted by: Jonathan Swift at April 02, 2025 12:28 PM (jc0TO)
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Footnote: While it's true that a stable world is more conducive to prosperity, we (a) can't Afford to stabilize the world, and (b) even if we could, the masses of money and power that would be required would always lead to massive corruption and self-dealing, never to stabilization.
As we have seen. Thank you, DOGE guys.
As we have seen. Thank you, DOGE guys.
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 12:44 PM (Epeb0)
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Another footnote: a Kenyan economist just a few years ago exclaimed, 'Please STOP TRYING TO HELP US!'
He explained that the monies pouring into sub-Saharan Africa were all going into the pockets of the kleptocrats, which they use to increase and consolidate their personal power. NOT to the people.
He further explained that dumping loads of free stuff on Africa kills local enterprises: no one, even at those wage levels, can compete with 'Free Stuff.'
He explained that the monies pouring into sub-Saharan Africa were all going into the pockets of the kleptocrats, which they use to increase and consolidate their personal power. NOT to the people.
He further explained that dumping loads of free stuff on Africa kills local enterprises: no one, even at those wage levels, can compete with 'Free Stuff.'
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 12:48 PM (Epeb0)
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"Oddly, we haven't heard much, or anything really, from the countries that were going to slide in chaos and famine if USAID was withdrawn. Weird. "
Yup. Tres weird.
Yup. Tres weird.
Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2025 12:51 PM (Epeb0)
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Great post, Joe.
$hit - Where do you think Soros gets his money without providing a product or service?!?!?!?!?!
USAID
$hit - Where do you think Soros gets his money without providing a product or service?!?!?!?!?!
USAID
Posted by: Danimal28 at April 02, 2025 01:16 PM (1E4GV)
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From Trump's Chief of Staff:
Hey Bill! Welcome to the People's White House.
You know that great Bill and Melinda's Foundation you use as a grift?
It would be a shame if you lose that tax exemption.
Then we will all sit back and watch what you do with its capitalization.
Hey Bill! Welcome to the People's White House.
You know that great Bill and Melinda's Foundation you use as a grift?
It would be a shame if you lose that tax exemption.
Then we will all sit back and watch what you do with its capitalization.
Posted by: john at April 02, 2025 02:25 PM (nEWxZ)
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I'll let you fund AIDS work. If it's entirely about not sticking your d*** in some guy's or goat's rear-end, and about total monogamy if you have a wife. Otherwise, too bad, so sad.
Posted by: GWB at April 02, 2025 05:53 PM (XR+2F)
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If they really cared about TB, they would not be allowing all sorts of illegal aliens filled with nasty virii to storm into our country and infect us, Americans.
Posted by: Eric2 at April 02, 2025 06:48 PM (q7Vou)
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