There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.
Blanket condemnations ignore those that are trying to make this issue salient. Call out names.
Not a Dem politician, but @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com did a piece on it last night:
First, most of us don't expect much from the democrats! Second, why aren't the other countries stepping up to make up the loss from the US, & maybe calling it "WORLD-AID" or something? Maybe cut some of the $5 Trillion dollars in corporate subsidies to the fossil fuel industry moguls to pay for it?
Probably one of the worst mass casualty events in recent memory. And done really for no reason other than deliberate cruelty. Sorry, but the Democratic party and the media have not given it the outrage it deserves. And spare me the brain-dead bullshit about criticizing the Dems - they work for us
they work for us within the limits of the law
you know what would be cool? if we made an aid organization that WASN'T a CIA front. like, we could still keep those people alive, but without the soft-power regime change bullshit.
the “USA” should instead be called the “United Empire of Genocide”, it’s nearly beyond comprehension how intense the horrors this country is carrying out across the world are. Evil to its very core
Sadly, there is little to gain politically with the cutting of USAID issue. Few voters are going to be swayed to turnout on that issue who were not going to vote against MAGAt candidates anyway.
Israel with the help of the US is machine-gunning to death 50-100 starving Palestinians every single day. This genocide, with devastating bombing rendering Gaza a gray moonscape, has been going on for 2 years. 2 million people trapped in an open air prison and intentionally starved.
Yeah. Uncommitted should be really proud. Enabled full on genocide. Brilliant.
Genocide Joe Biden with the help of most Democrats and Republicans did this for over a year before Trump was elected
You're too stupid to argue with. But you're getting the unfettered genocide you must want so there's always that. Biden was the only restraint on Israel's efforts.
Thanks Buddy, good luck voting for Genocidal Zionists every 2 years. I hope that makes you feel good 👍🏻
Bless your heart.
It's how we got here.. They never really cared but wanted to look as if they did.
Going to kill more a year than Bush did total it looks like. So much for using that as a defense for Bush being worse than Trump
Democrats just can’t do outrage, even when it’s absolutely justified. I think they are far more worried about being called strident by the NYT or WaPo than saving our democracy or the lives of millions of people.
You’re clearly not actually listening to any Democrat
You mean like the currently single most power Democrat in DC, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and his strongly worded letter?
Did you know in a legal process that sending a strongly worded letter is often the first thing you have to do in order to get the courts to respond and that’s the fucking point of sending one?
Did you know that when you’re trying to rally Americans to fight the fascist GOP takeover of their government, announcing you’re responding with a strongly worded letter makes you a fucking national laughingstock and only reinforces the message that the Democratic Party is not up for the fight.
Did you know you couch farts could've filled out paper ballots to oppose this shit and mailed them in?
yes. and i feel the same way about the assassination of the Hortmans in Minnesota.
I keep repeating this. Zero headlines in major newspapers, zero stories on television news, and little mention even at philanthropy and impact investing conferences. 3 million deaths a year. A Hitler or Stalin-level kill rate.
So that’s the dems fault huh? Not the newspapers and news organizations but the dems, who were kicked out of power in favor of this. Okay got it.
The Dems have no concept of what sells and what does not sell. They're old and still embrace the Bill Clinton administration. Coincidentally, the last time any of them could walk without pain and hear without assistance was during the Bill Clinton administration.
For not taking it seriously they sure do post a lot about it.
Another amazing Bluesky thread of criticism 100% aimed at Dems for something that was 100% done by the GOP. If you’re not all paid by the GOP you certainly should be.
When kids were dying in Uvalde & the cops had their thumbs in their asses, criticizing them didnt mean absolving the shooter or not criticizing him. This isnt only horrific, its unconstitutional for the executive to unilaterally shutter an agency. After the BBB, this should be the headline—not Diddy
In Uvalde the cops could have done something and chose not to. If that’s your perception of the Dems, the fault is on your media consumption/lack of civics knowledge, not the Dems. 🤷🏻♂️
Baraka. McIver. Padilla. Van Hollen. Green. Lander. Hell, even Newsom and Booker. They’ve been doing what they can, at times at personal cost & danger. It’s a high bar they’ve set, but one every Democrat should—and can—strive to meet. They’re limited as the federal minority, but not totally neutered
Conveniently leaving out that it doesn't say anywhere at all that DSA want to stop international aid. Just that they don't intend to do it in *the same way* ie using it to project power and spread capitalism. The Trump regime ripped out USAID and didn't replace it with anything.
You’re welcome to find that in their platform, I literally screen grabbed their platform.
Yeah dude let's push the GOP to be better ❤️
Oh my god they have totally cooked you
I blame the New York Times.
The Republicans killed USAID. No Dem supported that. You are being at best ridiculous and at worst supportive of the killing of USAID by blaming Democrats. You must know this.
The Democrats are asleep. The Pelosi wing is trying to figure how to make money from trump.
Charlie Brown had hoes
This is such a crap comment. They aren’t in power. The media doesn’t care. Because they think most of the country doesn’t care. There is NOTHING any Dem can do. And frankly, Courts is where you take this & aggressive Dem comments would actually hurt the legal against Trump’s actions.
Could this be considered Genocide in some form?
at a certain point, when this many people will die, do we care what we call it? should we ever have cared what it was called more than we cared about stopping it?
Aye you preaching to the choir here ma’am. Shits horrific its gotten this far.
Got it. Thank you.
that's like 1 every 44 seconds
What about the Republicans? Where is their support for aid? Why do we never call the Republicans out?
It's the same thing that happened during COVID, the Dems *cannot* adequately criticize the GOP for deaths caused by their failure to help, because as a capitalist party, they constantly fail to help the hungry, unhoused, untreated every day and normalize it.
NPR amplified the message on USAID cuts so much it seemed like the CIA really opposed USAID cuts.
And the press? And Democrat voters? And any American who purports to care about others / the Golden Rule, etc. Where's the outrage (besides from a handful of people like you).
This is wrong and misdirected.
That bastard Stalin was right - "one man's death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. "
The people in question are not 'Murican, and the Dem calculation is that the median voter can't be arsed to care that much about the lives of non-'Muricans. As awful a calculation as that is, it's hard to confidently say it's mistaken.
Hundreds of thousands of people have some association with the Democratic Party that go beyond registration. If you conceive of the party as a few hundred people inside the Beltway, you're actually part of the problem. A true statement is, "Dems who care about USAID lack sufficient voice."
Dem party leadership, who set the party agenda and have significant influence over messaging, is in fact a few dozen people inside the beltway.
Seems like you ought to talk to the people actually causing the death of the thing… you know, those maga people!?
What I'm hearing is, you don't agree that the opposition party should act like an opposition party.
Are you “that type of opposition party”? Is this behavior the only alternative? I don’t believe anyone expected an ‘American opposition party’ to lie, cheat and actually kill the opposition, except in Russia and places like that.
.... Wut.
It’s so nice to be lectured on all the things that were not caring about enough. It’s not the democratic leadership fault that the voters care more about the masked singer than USAID. The average US voter will not vote on it. Were the problem.
You always attack Democrats
It should get more attention and I get where you're coming from, but this is literally Andy Kim's pinned skeet
The regime is willfully committing homicide and infanticide through malicious negligence. This is one of many travesties committed by the rapist felon’s regime, but it is in many ways the worst. I am ashamed to be an American as we move towards the day of the birth of our nation. That sucks.
Trump has killed and will kill so many more
THEY ARE COMPLICIT. LET'S PROCEED FROM THERE.
Most Americans don’t have a passport and certainly do not understand how diplomacy, development and defense are the three critical pillars of a strong foreign policy. Sadly supporting USAID isn’t going to help anyone win an election, and I’m writing this as a now displaced aid worker.
I posted this elsewhere yesterday. If Dems were more strategic, an education campaign could have been launched. I would love to see a poll that shows how Americans understand “democracy”.
They know it VERY MUCH excites the cis white male NT able base. You can’t ask people with no empathy for empathy They know that those voters see 14 million mostly non white people dead and go “that’s horrible! It’s gotta be 50 million!”
That’s why you hear them say “I don’t like HIM, but I -love- what he’s doing” What he’s doing is a real life purge and they are SUPER DESPERATE for it You can’t talk about harm done to people who want the harm done and expect them to be sad or upset that harm is being done
Call it the holocaust that it is.
Dem leadership is too busy paying consultants to tell them to move right, telling each other how wonderful they are, and blaming VOTERS to work on... much of anything.
First off the OP is a lie, Dems are raising the alarm on USAID, they can’t make the Press give a shit. But move right you say? Let’s check the left on this topic. I’m getting some info that there might be a horseshoe…
Hey, guess what? On that issue, I don't happen to agree with 'em. But if you wanna pretend that there's nothing good in that platform, you're a fool. But we don't wanna find any common ground with *gasp* commies, do we. Also, if they can't make the press give a shit, why don't they do SOMETHING ELSE
For that matter, if you don't think the dems of today have moved right, I can't help you. On every issue, no. A general rightward trend, fucking absolutely.
Nothing good in that platform. Nothing at all.
Literally the opposite is true. Unrecognizable from and to the left of the Democratic Party Obama lead I. 2008.
I digress. The OP is a lie. That’s what matters
Can you show me some evidence of this in any recent Schumer or Jeffries statements? What have they been focusing on?
Also we live in a goddamn democracy. Do you know what that means? In fact, voters are how we fucking got here. Trump would have ZERO power without stupid pieces of shit voting for him. Schumer and Jeffries aren’t doing this but voters are in fact to blame
Yeah, Trump voters elected him, correct. So your opinion is that party leadership did nothing wrong, and it's voters fault they didn't win? That's certainly a take...
Correct. Voters are in charge in a fucking democracy. Thats how it works. Kamala laid out popular policies (if anyone would listen) and laid out EXACTLY what Trump would try to do, which he is now doing.
If a Hiring Manager hires Candidate A who shits all over his desk and starts stealing supplies, it’s not somehow the fault of Candidate B (who the Hiring Manaher told to eat shit) This is pretty basic stuff
Oh yes, the statements and strongly worded letters. Whew, I feel better.
you think based on their treatment of the gaza genocide they'd even blink about HIV related deaths?
Not a single person? It took under a minute to disprove this. abcnews.go.com/Politics/con...
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Beat Up Dems. Help elect Nazis. medium.com/extra-extra/...
Both American political parties are Warmongering killers owned by the Billionaire class. It is literally liberals and not socialists that enable fascism. www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/l...
Nothing like the far left helping elect Nazis..... So "progressive".
Biden dryhumping Nazi-Netanyahu helped elect Nazis. Most of the other AIPAC Democrats were celebrating Genocide, signing bombs, and beating college students since 2023. That also helped elect Nazis. Democrats and Republicans are both fascist.
Nope. Berniebros and Stein voters helped to elect Trump. And we lost THREE SCOTUS SEATS for the next 30 years.
"for the next 30 years" 😓 Looking at your country right now, do you honestly think SCOTUS lasts another 30 years? Honestly? You were okay with voting to massacre out-groups, why are you complaining? All that's changed is whose life the US regime considers worthless. bsky.app/profile/sitc...
www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...
Cool... pic? Iono what you're expecting here, I don't read state-run propaganda and I can tell from the snippet that, once again, you got what you voted for. You voted to murder people who belong to an out-group. You just thought the out-group would always be foreigners. Enjoy Trump From The World
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Nope. www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...
Cute propaganda. Too bad it's conservative nonsense. But just keep blaming "the groups" Im sure it will work out differently next time.
Maybe if they desperately need leftist support, they should try doing literally anything to appeal to the left instead of constantly moving right.
"Constantly" moving right? LOL. Berniebros and Stein voters were the ones that helped to elect Trump.
Good luck Comrade! www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...
You’re in this too, dipshit.
Nope. Democrats are not Communists. HISTORY. Just like Dachau. Good luck!
Celebrating concentration camps isn't very anti-fascist of you, bootlicking scum. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
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Bullshit. Berniebros and Stein voters helped to elect a Nazi. www.npr.org/2017/08/24/5...
Do you often gleefully celebrate people being thrown into concentration camps? What am I saying, you support genocide, of course you love concentration camps.
"Do you often gleefully" There's nothing gleeful about it, we warned you useless fucking pissflaps that this would happen and you accused us of wishing it on you. Enjoy that fuckin' stove.
Good luck Comrades. Maybe you need a history lesson or two. www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...
And what exactly do you expect them to do? The GOP owns the House, Senate, POTUS, SCOTUS and DOJ. Tell the Berniebros and Stein voters. They helped to elect Nazis. www.npr.org/2017/08/24/5...
Which do you find more likely? A: a bunch of lifelong Democrats got a taste of the Berninator. Then they got so mad that he lost that they voted Trump to spite Clinton B: Bernie (who reliably polls is one of the most popular figures in politics) attracted some swing voters into his coalition
C. A bunch of lifelong lib-haters raised by Republicans wanted to feel edgy so they voted for a guy who promised people treats while despising Hillary as much as they did, then predictably swung back to the Nazis or Jill Stein the Hibernating Locust of Election Fuckery when he couldn't hack it.
Less hating, more thinking, please. Bernie had an unorthodox agenda and was willing to criticize the Democratic Party. So he got crossover voting from people who might've already been predisposed to vote for Trump. The theory that he turned these voters to Trump is absurd.
Enough of you pricks' gaslighting, thank you very much. We didn't get stupid and just forget the message and vibe you all put out in 2016.
Congratulations, you found a couple of disgruntled Facebook posts that prove.... what, exactly?
Yes. And we lost THREE SCOTUS seats for the next 30 years because Bernie supporters helped to elect Trump in the electoral college. The Court today would be a 6-3 Dem majority except for that.
One seat. Not three. Kennedy would not have retired if Clinton had been picking his replacement. RBG died in Sept. 2020. McConnell had already held a seat open far longer. He would have waited for a GOP president to arrive in 2021.
THREE SCOTUS seats. Berniebros for Nazis did that.
Did you even read what you replied to? Clearly not.
Bryce, go away.
You're the one who came after me, remember?
You haven't shown evidence of Bernie trying to get anyone to vote for Trump. Such evidence doesn't exist, because Bernie strongly supported Clinton after the convention. Remember, ~80% of Bernie 2016 voters ended up voting for Clinton in November. So crapping on them is bad strategy.
It's incredible how you want nothing to change. People voted or not because they don't believe in your party, and it shows in everything they 'do,' yet you can't come to terms with reality. Go talk to people in person. They suffer regardless of these voting games you claim to care about.
It's incredible that Berniebros and Stein voters helped to elect a Nazi.
Yet here we are, faced with reality. Politicians weren't going to save you, sorry bsky.app/profile/mcka...
www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...
Here's the reality. Trump: "We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country," he told a New Hampshire crowd.
Oh, you talk like every Blue MAGA. Can't think for themselves, always pushing loyalist talking points (posting the same trite phrases over and over again). Function like bots. Your politicians don't serve you. There is only money. You've already set your future on fire. US has already fallen.
So who exactly eliminated USAID? Cause I think you’re pointing the finger at the party who IS NOT IN POWER and can’t stop this shit. But go ahead and divide the left / center left so the f’ers who did this will stay in power. Smart move. Unless you’re being played by them willingly?
they are too busy condemning our Muslim socialist mayoral candidate here in NYC. and hey, vote Mamdani.
Well, fighting for a democracy takes a lot out of a person.
All due respect but we’re going to spend 175 billion on concentration camps and secret police if this bill passes. It is highly likely the total is going to be higher than 14 million.
In their defense, they’re fucking useless and it’s by design.
Newsflash- A good portion of Americans don't even care about American lives. Why would they care about 14 million or even 100 million lives from other countries around the world?
On to the next click.
No one significant in the democratic party gives one single shit about any brown or black lives and no one can convince me otherwise. I've seen more than enough evidence.
Hey they really care, now please donate $5 to the DNC so they can get elected next mid terms with the same do nothing people
It’s a travesty, but there’s not one damn thing Ds can do about it. Screaming louder won’t help. And frankly cutting foreign aid has always resonated with a large swath of the population, so too much yelling could ultimately be counterproductive
Did the Republicans do a bad thing? Time to scream at Democrats. Sigh. How the hell does this help?
Dems are in on the scam
unfortunately humans have a lot of cognitive biases that treat what seems like inaction as less serious than action even if the inaction has really bad consequences
Makes me sick the way the Republicans delight in the murder of innocents.
Not true.
I will admit I have been in a depression lately because this administration is committing an atrocity on the order of the Holocaust and it feels like no one cares.
Me too man. Been down since January and its just getting worse every time I open the news. The atrocities are everywhere and quickly forgotten by the press while the good news is few and very far between
I read the headlines each morning! It’s all about Trump has done this snd Trump has gone that! But everything he has done has hurt the USA citizens! I don’t see any good news because there isn’t any! Well some good news on some elections which is great but not enough to counter the bad! 😩
I certainly don't
I care.
Nor the death of NIH and NSF
Don't you mean Republican Party? Without Republicans, the program would be expanding. It's always a big part of the Dem platform ffs.
Full agreement. Also, do you have a link for that article?
The death of diplomacy and aid as a force for good is horrifying. Can you imagine today’s America supporting a Marshall plan?
Interestingly enough the plan was very unpopular until the coup in Czechoslovakia gave it an anti-communist valence.
Was it.
It wasn't opposed that much by the general public, but business interests and right-wingers absolutely hated it
The next time there is a Marshall plan, it will come from China. Not kidding either. In the 2008 financial crisis, the world economy was saved mostly by China's massive fiscal and monetary policies.
I can imagine today's America supporting Marshal Stalin's plan.
We couldn’t ration on the home front enough to win the war
If Trump was president most likely the US would clandestinely assist Nazi Germany, if not joining the war outright on the fascist side.
The Plot Against America right down to the celebrity president with his fancy jet plane.
Can you imagine today’s America setting up local libraries if they didn’t already exist?
Or Lend-Lease
oh fuck you for trying to blame the dems for this. fucking piece of shit like you is the reason we are in this mess.
You seem to be a bit confused!
Add to that, the comments from Marco Rubio make me sick to my stomach. I have never been so disgusted with this jerk. It's like he literally lost his brain and most certainly his integrity.
No one should be surprised by that: bsky.app/profile/meta...
This issue not being politically salient is not the fault of Democrats but of American voters
Yes it is the fault of Democrats. It's their job to make issues politically salient. Republicans do this extremely effectively. Democrats don't.
Democrats understand perfectly well how to establish and maintain a media narrative when socialists win primaries.
If Democrats don’t care about an issue then it doesn’t matter how much American voters care about it.
Counterpoint: switching democrats and American voters in your sentence is also a valid argument
Except that misses the point. When Democrats and Republicans are aligned on policies the voters have no real option or voice. That’s the point. Voters don’t get a say in how our government works.
I think it is quite a stretch to say that because Dems haven’t been sufficiently vocal on the dismantling USAID that they are “aligned” with the GOP on this
It’s certainly fair to say that they’re not at all opposed to what the Republicans are doing.
I would disagree that it is fair to say that. They literally filed an amicus brief to the court case co-signed by nearly the entire house caucus. What would you suggest they do to more effectively oppose the GOP on this while out of power?
Oh wow an amicus brief. Sounds serious.
You say “do something!” and I am asking you what exactly you suggest they do
Gee what could people with open access to national media do to influence public opinion and knowledge of what’s happening… This is why nobody likes Democrats. They meekly go along with whatever Republicans want no matter who has power. If Dems were good Republicans would never win elections.
My suggestion is to be better at winning elections, which goes back to my original point bsky.app/profile/boge...
That isn’t a suggestion
so Elon and Trump are two of the biggest mass murdered in human history
Trump has the blood of 1.1 million Americans on his hands who died from Covid. I doubt he and his cult members care about a few million more lives who aren't in the U.S.
Sorry if someone has already asked, but can you link the source?
I mean, sure, 5 million dead kids isn’t great, but let’s get back to talking about what really matters… whether eggs are $3/dozen or $4/dozen
I think Jim McGovern did, tbh.
Fox News would pick the name of 1 child who died from this cruelty and ask on every show, "what about John Smith's family, what do you say to them?" all the RW internet would follow. It would be relentless that D kill babies until they magically don't care any more after they win the election.
I wonder what tge party in actual power is doing about it.
Well said. This is a catastrophe, by any measure.
Who endorsed LET AMERICA DIE? Bernie's DSA
Here's an idea. Maybe vote for Democrats if you want them to govern.
In the 1980's Reagan had two tax cuts for the prosperous. The Clintons via the DLC in 1985 surrendered the poor for identity politics in the suburbs. It was the worst possible political mistake, but it gave Bill the Presidency and Hillary credibility. They are still deified for their treachery.
Do these models assume no other country or countries on Earth step up with aid? I would like to see the source for this post, so I can read further.
Legitimately this is the kind of thing that warrants radical action and they can’t be assed to do anything. If killing 4.5 million children under the age of 5 doesn’t move the dial, what will?
There's nothing leading Democrats hate and fear as much as radical action.
Republicans turn saving 95 Million lives in 20 years to killing 14 Million in a couple years; and your response is to get angry at Democrats. Nevermind that many Leftists think that giving that aid was evil and imperialist.
They're the opposition, they should, I dunno, *take proportionate action* to oppose the Trump regime?
I guess they will just have their proportionate Supreme Court, Senate, House of Representatives and President do that. Ohh wait. They don’t have any of that.
Have you considered giving st least proportionate blame on the Republicans or trying to get them to do anything different? Nope, only the Democrats have agency or can ever do wrong
Hey that's a great point. Republicans are worse than Democrats. Thank you so much.
You guys confirmed you didn't care about your own children over twenty-five years ago. You confirmed that you didn't care about anyone else’s after Sandy Hook. You guys should definitely revolt though. Do something revolutionary for once.
Have you heard of a Gentleman named Luigi Mangiano?
Yeah, he's the victim of a frame-up
I hope they catch whoever committed the cool and sexy crime of assassinating a rich asshole.
I don't, but I do hope Luigi is acquitted and sues the NYPD and FBI for libel and is able to get enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his life and receive comprehensive and life-long treatment for his chronic pain
What radical action have you taken on this issue?
Reinstate USAID and all its funding.
Please explain how democrats, whom OP is blaming, is to accomplish that.
Lots of protests, ongoing research leading to news stories and videos. This should be one of the main issues democrats highlight during the next few years as the death start to mount. This will be a huge international story as it unfolds. The coverage will continue for years.
they're already doing all of that, so nothing new to add here. 👍
I barely hear a peep from all but a few democrats which is what the OP suggests. So yeah I agree with the OP and differ with you. They're talking about ICE, debts and lost health care benefits. Maybe you're more plugged in than me, but I see virtually no coverage of this from politicians.
Whether the democrats cover it or not, we're all going to learn about the ongoing deaths. Millions don't really start to die without folks noticing. They'll wonder why its happening, and the answer is ready made.
It's like Sandy Hook. Watching us go through the motions as usual after that made me realize nothing was changing. The public doesn't know and they don't want to know. Won't happen but US media needs to constantly show the uncensored suffering we're creating. People need to be forced to see it.
The US media is among those most guilty for school shootings, giving the shooters all kinds of coverage, inspiring more to want to become infamous.
Things did change after that tragedy though?? You lose credibility when you say such things.
Yes, but it’s 225,000 Sandy Hooks
But that's just a number. And, as we've already established, Americans don't do math.
Yes, and I'm saying if the American public is not forced to see the consequences, every day, they will not care.
Wasn’t disagreeing with you
Other people's children so they don't count /s
These people don't even care about *their own* children. Children are expendable to them, as are the lives of anyone they deem lesser.
FURRIN' children at that! Everybody knows that furriners are all terries and gangbangers, that's why: NO MONEY TO FURRIN TERRY BABIES! MORE MONEY FOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR TOWELHEADS AND WETBACKS! YEEHAW MURICA!
I forgot to add /s
What do you Character from a film Last line "What now?" Suggest we do?
Unfortunately the general public couldn’t care less. Clueless. There’s no political incentive to defend USAID.
It's almost like they know your statistics are nonsense.
The richest man in the world took the food out of the mouths of the poorest people in the world. He is single-handedly capable of donating to make up for it, if he believes in free-market values, and chooses to do nothing because it would counter his conspiracy mongering about USAID.
How many are we projected to kill by continuing for profit health insurance?
There is no messaging from Dems. We are 6 months into Trump 2.0 and Dems still have yet to define what they stand for and what they are willing to fight the GOP on. A stunning profile in cowardice.
It's all about the message & not about what we can do as a party for the American people. If I hear, "we need to get the message right," one more time, I'll check myself in to the nearest convent. It's not about the message, it's about telling people what you are ARE doing and what you WILL do.
I think we are all starting to see that EVERYTHING has to change. Beginning with the STUPID COMPLACENT DEMOCRATS who don’t know how to fight. Why isn’t there a Democrat giving a daily briefing on this insanity? WTF?
If you do something that is a) against the law and b) leads to the deaths of 14 million people, that is very close to morally indistinguishable from simply killing 14 million people, which puts this on par with the largest scale atrocities of Hitler or Stalin.
American Chattel Slavery, the American Genocidal Wars on Vietnam and Iraq are some homegrown historical atrocities
It’s probably morally different than say the Holocaust, but I struggle to see how it’s different than say the Holomodor as state-engineered privation and death.
Serious question. What would "doing more" look like here? USAID was dismantled illegally in the first place.
Boilerplate is all you get unless you pony up more money.
Because majority of elected Democrats prioritize their ambition over their humanity. Primary everyone.
I mean are they constitutionally capable of more?
they have to wait to see how it polls before they know how to feel about it. if steve in an ohio diner is cool with it, so are they. big tent and all.
surely sowing disappointment in Democrats will improve life, see: Trump, now
”Democratic”? Sue them for false advertising...
There are not enough Americans treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. This is not a democrat party issue. This is a humanity issue. Our humanity voted for Trump.
I agree. This regime has unleashed humanitarian crisis after humanitarian crisis. I wonder if it's the elephant rope effect for many older Dems who recall it being a device issue. Times change. The only grace I want to give is that there are about 20 simultaneous tragedies now.
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How could they have known that the guy giving Nazi salutes would try to double Hitler's numbers?
Not to mention those who will die in this country, all with the blessing of Republican leadership or lack thereof.
I bet a lot of people do care, but they aren’t in power and are overworked and exhausted. We have gone from a society where leisure was considered as important as working and joining civic groups was important (lodges, 4H, the Girl Scouts, etc still exist, but imho a shadow of what they were.)
Instead we have become a society focused on the hustle, individual advancement, with the only group being “the family” as defined by 50s ad copy and the Southern Baptists. We yell on our phones because if we go out there to try to do anything it gets smacked down by cops. Any politician with the
fire inside is either a fascist or they get threatened with deportation by those same fascists.
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That's because the average citizen has no idea what USAID is. I'm betting alot have no clue.
The thing is, extremely few people would agree that USAID is the most important issue of our time - especially when the US is in the grip of fascism, the regime is building concentration camps, and prominent Republicans are talking about murdering the 65 million latinos currently living in the US.
People in this country do not care. Especially the white Christian Republicans.
I guess you haven't seen RI's two members of Congress push this on the House floor day after day. (A RI company makes that life-saving peanut supplement.) I think the GA Senators have too. Which issue is #1 is a judgment call. Blocking fascism seems pretty important too.
