Hopefully on their butts in the street.Quote:
Where do these folks land?
Trump Shutting Down USAID
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It's sad when a poor soul flaunts his ignorance for all to see. It shows they know nothing about Christian charity and what its purpose is. If they did, they would understand that governmental agency can never be charity regardless of the appearance of goodwill or benefit to the recipient. Never mind that the supposed "charity" usually comes with strings attached or an ulterior motive that certainly isn't "charitable".Mattressburn said:
Nothing is more Christian than shuttering the government agency that helps struggling countries with food, medicine, and clean water.
The best way to keep evil men from wielding great power is to not create great power in the first place.
Continuing to pray for everyone involved in this Administration! They are shaking the earth with all these decisions, and they need God's protection!!!
Gig'em, Ole Army Class of '70
I think it would take a $2 trillion cut to balance the budget - that would require cutting into SS, Medicare and/or defense. Probably not going to happen.Dirt 05 said:
They have to cut a trillion before the budget is balanced. Until that point the only thing Americans will receive is loosening of chains of debt on themselves, their children, and future unborn progeny.
Going to have to grow the economy to create more revenue in addition to $1 trillion in cuts to get to a balanced budget.
Exactly. I rely on TA for twitter responses etc and it seems there actually haven't been too many Dems (or Republicans!, which would really be tricky for them) squealing yet.
I can confidently assume a bunch of them are a bit nervous right now, fearing their ties to all this $$$ are about to be exposed.
ETA: Bill Kristol should be finished now. POS.
I can confidently assume a bunch of them are a bit nervous right now, fearing their ties to all this $$$ are about to be exposed.
ETA: Bill Kristol should be finished now. POS.
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I enjoy coming to F16 in the morning, reading something new that helps make America get better because of Trump's policy action, and thinking wow I can't believe i had to argue with conservatives for over a year this would be a different Trump. Feels selfishly satisfying.
It is a routine. Teeth/Bathroom then fix up the Bialetti with the good stuff (look that up if you don't know.... life changing), flip open the machine to F16 and smile. I go back in thought somewhere around 2008 when politics started to matter to me and how much Andrew Wilkow influenced that time. "Free From Me, Free From You."
I never would have believed that this could ever happen.
Has anyone done the math if we reallocated these funds to pay down some of our debt obligations? I know we are spending 1.7 trillion or something on interest alone and 40b is probably a drop in the bucket, but you have to make some incremental progress, no?
Let me take a few seconds for a commercial break.
Comical note: 14 of the top 15 POTD are from this thread. Thought that was interesting.
You may now continue with the reminder of your life.
Comical note: 14 of the top 15 POTD are from this thread. Thought that was interesting.
You may now continue with the reminder of your life.
Need to screenshot that and post it on this thread.
The other post is Women's Basketball????
The other post is Women's Basketball????
"And liberals, being liberals, will double down on failure." - dedgod
Pretty hilarious, really.
Thanks.
Where is the button to add a picture? Not showing up when I go to edit a post.
Where is the button to add a picture? Not showing up when I go to edit a post.
It's between the link and the 'bullet point' buttons. There are some file format limits I think.
jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
USAID is 100% unelected bureaucrats. So sure, one unelected person firing another unelected person is fine. It's the unelected people creating more unelected people that creat more unelected people who again hire more unelected people that I have a problem with.
nortex97 said:
Pretty hilarious, really.
Liucci's not going to like this… Need those stars in the Premium Boards.
(Only kidding, Looch).
jacketman03 said:ts5641 said:You understand Trump's the one in charge right? All these things are being done at his direction.jacketman03 said:
Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?
Nice principles you got there.
And yes, I'm totally fine with Musk doing as much as possible as long as it begins to eliminate government spending and waste.
So it's okay for unelected bureaucrats to run things so long as they align with your interests?
Like I said, nice principles you've got there.
DOGE is not taking control of the government. Its sole purpose is to shrink the federal bureaucracy and it even has its own expiration date that will make it last shorter than a single term of any elected official on Capitol Hill. So hell yeah, I'm good with it. If the Democrats had done this I would have been skeptical but would have cautiously supported it. (Thing is, the Dems would never do this across the board.)
C'mon guys! We need to star this post so it shows up on POTD!
"And liberals, being liberals, will double down on failure." - dedgod
Hubert J. Farnsworth said:Kashchei said:
He needs to go after the UN next
Looks like the Department of Education may be next up on the list.BREAKING: Elon Musk is planning to gut the Department of Education next, per MSNBC.
— Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) February 2, 2025
Is Elon being portrayed as the fall guy for all this? The Dept of Education has been on Trump's wish list to cut for a while
No, I don't care what CNN or MSNBC said this time
Ad Lunam
Ad Lunam
I can't overstate how strategically smart it was to take on USAID first. They are the ones who fund hit piece journalists and rent-a-riots to shut down any reforms.
It'll be interesting how the deet state fights back with their credit card cutoff.
Farmer_J said:
I can't overstate how strategically smart it was to take on USAID first. They are the ones who fund hit piece journalists and rent-a-riots to shut down any reforms.
It'll be interesting how the deet state fights back with their credit card cutoff.
I think Trump and Musk probably need to have their security quadrupled…
To paraphrase the late Senator from Illinois, Everett Dirksen:Kenneth_2003 said:Wiki...Swan Song said:
If the department was created by a President, a President should be able to shut it down, no?
I like how that NBC article call a $40B budget just a "fraction" of the overall budget. 40 Billion Dollars!
US 2023 budge was $6,100,000,000,000 in total outlays, but $3.8 was mandatory spending and $0.7 Net interest (I'm assuming some other interest is buried in the mandatory...)
$1,700,000,000,000 Discretionary
$40,000,000,000 is 2.35% of discretionary
$40,000,000,000 is 0.656% of total
Yeah, it's a fraction. Everything is a "fraction" when you express the math correctly.
"40 Billion here and 40 Billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money".
Swan Song said:
If the department was created by a President, a President should be able to shut it down, no?
I like how that NBC article call a $40B budget just a "fraction" of the overall budget. 40 Billion Dollars!
Just like only a "handful" of apartment complexes were being commandeered by Venezualan gang members. The leftist media has quite the tolerance for evil and/or waste!
TexasAggie_02 said:
Damn, TAMUs Borlaug Institute is going to have a bad day today.
Yep, big bucks come to agriculture projects through usaid
USAID also funded videogames to highlight gender issues. pic.twitter.com/2klCWeDGZa
— Grummz (@Grummz) February 3, 2025
Christian values amirite!
titan said:
True. Also, like other outlays, it makes sense to stop it outright first, then renew as find are valid or can flush out just where it was going.
I agree.
Stop it completely. 100%.
Then open up as needed under new laws and protections.
The ONLY downside to this, is I worry that someone will PAY. No doubt, many powerful people would love to see Trump and/or Elon dead, now more than ever.
This is the biggest government shakeup we have evee seen in our lifetimes. Whether it works or not, it's a genuine aggressive attempt at a reversal of the existing power structures and status quo. It's f-ing happening.
This is the biggest government shakeup we have evee seen in our lifetimes. Whether it works or not, it's a genuine aggressive attempt at a reversal of the existing power structures and status quo. It's f-ing happening.
Case in point: AOC, promoting USAID all over X today, actually came from a USAID program in college to jumpstart her miracle political career. https://t.co/imxyVTt3H3 pic.twitter.com/EnzReCYHM8
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 3, 2025
As expected lmao.
El Gallo Blanco said:
The ONLY downside to this, is I worry that someone will PAY. No doubt, many powerful people would love to see Trump and/or Elon dead, now more than ever.
This is the biggest government shakeup we have evee seen in our lifetimes. Whether it works or not, it's a genuine aggressive attempt at a reversal of the existing power structures and status quo. It's f-ing happening.
Yes... I fear for his life.
When someone does something like this, it cuts off the money supply of some people and they might take action.
This makes Watergate look like stealing a pen and some paperclips from the office supply closet. Lifelong Dems aren't going to like that either. Watergate was sooooo terrible.El Gallo Blanco said:
The ONLY downside to this, is I worry that someone will PAY. No doubt, many powerful people would love to see Trump and/or Elon dead, now more than ever.
This is the biggest government shakeup we have evee seen in our lifetimes. Whether it works or not, it's a genuine aggressive attempt at a reversal of the existing power structures and status quo. It's f-ing happening.
Tom Fox said:In an ideal and just world, hopefully tax cuts to those already paying for almost everything.No Spin Ag said:Dirt 05 said:
They have to cut a trillion before the budget is balanced. Until that point the only thing Americans will receive is loosening of chains of debt on themselves, their children, and future unborn progeny.
Any of that loosening of chains of debt turn into real money going into those people's wallets, and if so, how will we get that money in our wallets?
Well, as long as those tax cuts also come to us, the non wealthy, then that'll be just.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
FireAg said:Farmer_J said:
I can't overstate how strategically smart it was to take on USAID first. They are the ones who fund hit piece journalists and rent-a-riots to shut down any reforms.
It'll be interesting how the deet state fights back with their credit card cutoff.
I think Trump and Musk probably need to have their security quadrupled…
Or they could choose to work from home.
RFK Jr. revealed that USAID was actually a CIA front, secretly funneling $5 billion in 2014 to ignite riots in Ukraine.
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 2, 2025
According to him, these CIA-backed riots triggered a coup d'état that toppled Ukraine's neutral, democratically elected government.
Just one month before the… pic.twitter.com/alcyCYdwaf
Do you mean "arousing" a la Chuck Schumer? What a dork.texagbeliever said:
I enjoy coming to F16 in the morning, reading something new that helps make America get better because of Trump's policy action, and thinking wow I can't believe i had to argue with conservatives for over a year this would be a different Trump. Feels selfishly satisfying.
100 percent true. And Georgia/Romania/Slovakia (among others) still today.
"I didn't vote for Elon Musk, he's an unelected bureaucrat."
I didn't vote for the FBI, USAID, NED, CFPB, OSHA, DOE, ATF, CIA, PBS, CPB-NPR/PBS, FDA, WHO, UN, IRS, Federal Reserve, EPA , Fauci, or CDC.
"I didn't vote for Elon Musk, he's an unelected bureaucrat."
I didn't vote for the FBI, USAID, NED, CFPB, OSHA, DOE, ATF, CIA, PBS, CPB-NPR/PBS, FDA, WHO, UN, IRS, Federal Reserve, EPA , Fauci, or CDC.
The level of corruption in these agencies is directly proportional to the Establishment's weeping and gnashing of teeth over the corruption being exposed.
— Ultra Maga Corgi King (@Corgi_King0421) February 3, 2025
Mind-blowing 🤯 https://t.co/Vv7PnkaFYz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2025
All of this and it's just the tip.
Gotta elect JD Vance in 2028Gilligan said:
Ecstatic that this is all being exposed. It's sickening and I believe only the surface is being scratched.
It's 2025. What happens in the future?
How do we stop this from happening again?
What safeguards will be put in place?
Who will go to jail and made examples of and deterrence for others?
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