Wow, I guess I better get used to a ton of USA events and news per day for the next years.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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It keeps burning the wick at this rate and you'll only have to deal with it for months
Probably not. Sooner rather than later most free press will be shut down by trump and the only news that anyone will get is whatever there government wants you to hear. Stories like this will disappear.
I think you vastly overestimate how organized the Trump admin is. I'm sure they will try, though.
It’ll only get more competent and organized as time goes on.
Nah the free press like the billionaires and everyone else who wants to stay in business will lick Trump's balls.
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What was USAid?
It's the organization that manages all of the official external humanitarian aid from the US government. It does everything from food distribution to micro loans in developing countries.
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It provided funding to Ukraine, Irsael, and Egypt among other things.
Now it provides funding to Israel and Egypt.
And soon to Russia.
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Fun fact, they're still providing USAID funding to Israel and Egypt but stopped providing funding to Ukraine.
Trump executive order requiring the state and all state-funded education institutes to not acknowledge Ukrainian as a language separate from Russian coming in 3...
It is far easier to knock something down than to bring something up.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant
Life is an anthology of destruction. Everything you build eventually breaks. Everyone you love will die. Any sense of order or stability inevitably crumbles. The entire universe follows a dismal trek toward a dull state of ultimate turmoil.
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Via NPR:
A question of legality
The question of the legality of any attempt to change the status of USAID is connected to its origins. The agency was created in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act, which mandated the creation of an independent agency to focus on development separate from politics and the military. The agency was formally established by Congress as an independent agency in 1998.
That means "it cannot just be undone, at this point, by an executive order," Konyndyk said. "To actually disestablish the agency and dissolve it into the State Department will take an act of Congress."
Source: Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear? : Goats and Soda
I’m doubtful relying on congress is any comfort either however.
🎶 Just want one thing, just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name 🎵
The perma stun proceeds
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