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Katie's avatar

Chilling but all-too-reasonable assessment of where the Trump administration is taking us. Trump is creating the "American carnage" he described in his first inaugural speech. Supposedly, then he was condemning what the Obama administration had wrought; little did we understand that, no, it was presaging what he would deliver given the chance.

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Kenneth Silber's avatar

I wrote about an egregious Trump science budget cut, one that shows the lack of knowledge and strategic thinking involved, here: https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/why-you-should-care-about-gravitational-waves

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Frau Katze's avatar

The gutting of USAID has already killed people. But the MAGA cultists don’t care:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/pepfar-evangelical/683418/

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Ben - MD, VA, NE Florida.'s avatar

Everything he touches, dies. Thanks, red hats.

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Judi Lakin's avatar

It actually seems that the collapse of the government is the goal, so that we will no longer have a democracy and the oligarchs will take over. We the citizens will have no way to exert any power. The military and police force will be privatized with no courts or maybe just courts like Russia has.

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Lynn W Gardner's avatar

Larry, it was about time that we, the American people, had a President that would defund and dismantle USAID and all the other “international aid agencies”. These organizations had grown into great septic tanks for flushing American tax dollars for the benefit of a few connected deep state actors. Just look at their guilded class headquarters builds and the level of compensation that their multilevel management received courtesy of the taxpayer. Good riddance that they have been disavowed by the current administration. And Larry you do not have to worry about aid to your Israel, Israel has never had a better friend in our White House. You should worry about all the left wing Jewish Americans that are so blinded by their hated of our President that can not see the reality of situation.

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MAP's avatar

Did you even read the piece? You and millions of other fools are destroying our nation. The center of the cesspool is now located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The corruption would be stunning if it weren’t so predictable.

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Lynn W Gardner's avatar

Hi MAP, just saw the link, so some IG put out some report and got fired, no big deal. I would venture to guess that the waste, fraud, and abuse was phenomenal at USAID so that is why those defending it are so excited and venomous. Really thought it is water under the bridge. The Congress is going to resend funding for the current fiscal year and zero out the budget next year.

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Harley "Griff" Lofton's avatar

There were legal (and Constitutional) ways to defund USAID and other agencies. Even if Trump and Musk had the right motive the means they used were corrupt. The ends do not justify the means.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/usaid-inspector-general-fired-trump

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