The Real timschochet

Welcome new poster, whoever you are. You have a lot of people here sympathetic to your point of view. I am not among them. I hope that your name doesn’t indicate you’re from Huntington Beach. We have more than enough of your kind in my fine beautiful city.

If it’s true I am not. Violence is always unacceptable.

Link to Travis Kelce being a Trump supporter?

I didn’t know Biden did it 4 years ago. IMO both actions were petty.

Damn beyond always being wrong you’re also so angry about it. Bad combination. I’m apparently reading different sources than you are- isn’t that always the case? According to MY source, the mainstream media, this agency has some waste, but most of the programs it does have saved lives and served us well. I especially like treating Africans for tuberculosis, AIDS and other diseases. Perhaps you don’t? I think it’s a worthwhile use of taxpayer dollars.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2023/11/30/asian-americans-and-discrimination-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Two members of Rush are still alive and I bet neither of them like what Trump is doing.

I love Oingo Boingo. I don’t want to uninstall them.

This program saved millions of lives. I don’t want to end it. I listened to a former director this morning, a conservative Republican, make a case for keeping it. I don’t want it to end.

Nope. I said it was racist if you used terms like “Kung Flu” or took it out on Asian people here.

So on Wednesday Caroline Leavitt and a bunch of other Republicans assure everyone “oh he doesn’t mean troops on the ground” and “oh he just wants to temporarily relocate the Palestinians while rebuilding is taking place” and “oh this is the first step in negotiations, it’s an out of the box way to move peace forward” etc. etc. And then on Wednesday Trump goes on Truth Social and reiterates everything he said Monday night: Palestinians will have to leave forever, we will put troops on the ground if we have to, we’re gonna turn it into the new Riveria. It’s just like the first term: Trump says crazy sh!t, his people try to soften it, explain what he really meant, or claim he never actually said it, Trump then repeats the same crazy sh!t again.

I enjoy the pause. I hope it lasts. This really is a good agency. If you’re going to drastically cut it that should be debated by Congress. I would be against that. But if you’re going to do it, it should be done carefully and with plenty of notice, why the rush? I really hate chaos. Not good for business.

1. If it was authorized by Congress he can’t lay off a number large enough to effectively terminate the program. 2. if the employees have contracts that allow for a whole termination process, he can’t lay them off without cause of wrongful behavior.

If you’re referring to me I absolutely did give a flying phuck since I knew a lot of those small businesses and did my best to help them out. And I honestly believed then, and still do, that everyone taking the Covid shot would lead to opening up those businesses sooner, and make us all safer. So yeah I was for them being mandatory and I don’t regret that a bit.

Since forever if it’s against the law?

That’s exactly what he ruled: it’s overstepping.

Federal judge shuts down what Trump and Musk are trying to do at USAID

I should add this is a clear case of federalism.

They will lose.

Federal judge pauses USAID terminations. excellent!

You have a bad habit of trying to ascribe your own presumed motives to the side you oppose, and you’re usually wrong. Liberals (and many conservatives and independents) are concerned about this because programs which really do a lot of good are being slashed, not just the wasteful elements. It also appears to be illegal in many cases.

I am glad to be compared to Peter Parker. Great hero of mine. “Shallow and superficial” correctly describes this entire enterprise. Which is a good thing.

https://www.wired.com/story/usaid-collapse-is-helping-criminal-scammers-enslave-people/ Those of you in favor of what is happening to USAID right now need to give up the pretense that you care about child trafficking.

I’ll do the best I can.

I don’t mind cutting corruption and waste. But this program has done a lot of good. 25 million lives saved in Africa alone. I can’t get past that no matter what arguments you make.