He added that the U.S. under Trump is “less interested in interfering with the affairs of other countries."
I haven't heard a US president openly muse about taking my country since we burnt the white house.
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if trump is "less interested in other countries" he should get the fuck out of Greenland and Gaza
And Canada. And Mexico.
And Panama.
And the United States
See, he doesn't want to just lightly meddle in other countries, he wants to subsume them. Totally internally consistent. /s
the U.S. under Trump is “less interested in interfering with the affairs of other countries.”
Canada, Panama, Greenland, Gaza and Denmark call bullshit.
Musk also announced plans for a “Dubai Loop” project in line with his work in the Boring Company — which is digging tunnels in Las Vegas to speed transit.
No corruption here.
Have they got the loop long enough you don't end up I. A traffic jam.
"it's like a portal" 🤣
That last sentence is brilliant.
Is there an idiom for a stopped clock being "half-right"?
Where they're right: USAID definitely has some creepy effects on foreign countries, enabling economic leverage, propaganda, intelligence gathering, and even covert operations.
Where they're wrong: But the programs are only welcome in their destinations because they actually do something valuable for their country, and they're only funded on our end because they yield a net benefit for us.
Like, a few million dollars to keep infectious diseases under control worldwide is a good deal compared to the cost of letting diseases propagate overseas, stalling out trade and eventually making it to us.
And they're right about: The US contributes far and away the most towards these programs, vs. other developed nations. On the surface, that seems unfair.
But it's more complicated cuz: This is kinda part of the gig when it comes to owning the global reserve currency. You're gonna suffer more of the damage from an unstable world, so you have an incentive to spend more to stabilize the world. And you want a big portion of every nation's economy to transact in dollars, so you need to make sure they have some dollars flowing into their economy.
Edit: It's worth asking whether the US really still benefits from being the reserve currency. But, by god, that would be a sensitive transition process that I would not want this admin to tackle.
America First, by Dr Seuss (1941)
Elon Musk called Thursday to “delete entire agencies” from the U.S. government
He can start by deleting DOGE and the president.
Racist immigrant says what?