However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber.
This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency
Your political alternative folks.
A president with a 40% approval rating who just started a massively unpopular war of choice wants to increase our trillion dollar military budget by up to 700 billion dollars?
Democrats: He better have good ways to spend it!
This is pretty incredible. Cultural Revolution-type world in which zealous young bros without any real knowledge of anything were destroying the lives and careers of scientists and researchers based on their childish interpretation of what they thought their dear leader wanted.
I simply can’t take another 700 Barak Ravid fake US-Israel tension stories. We did this for 15 months with Biden, Ravid published 30+ of these and no policy ever changed. They’re curated by WH officials/Ravid to create artificial distance between the president and unpopular wars.
Zero mainstream media coverage of a Biden-Harris national security official publicly admitting that they violated the law in order to keep sending Netanyahu more money and weapons
So we're giving up our only point of leverage in exchange for 6 weeks of completely unrestrained terror in the streets, so that maybe Dems can negotiate some unenforceable reforms that ICE will abide by as much as they've abided by every other law they're currently breaking?
its bleakly funny to me how this whole period of the west having rediscovered the moral high ground thanks to Ukraine in 2022 lasted literally until the second Israel did anything