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re: In rare public remarks post presidency, George Bush condemns the closure of USAID
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Bono
A hilarious story about Bono was making the rounds a while back. Disclaimer: Don’t know if it’s true or not, but it’s always good for a chuckle.
U2 was performing at a soccer stadium in Glasgow, Scotland several years ago. After a song, Bono, in his usual pretentious manner, stepped up to the mike and started slowly clapping his hands…each clap about a second apart. He said to the near silent audience: “Every time I clap muh hands, a child in Africa dies.”
From the front of the audience, in a loud Scottish brogue, came the response: “Well then, stop fookin’ doin’ it, ya evil bahstahd.”
This post was edited on 7/3/25 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
This tells me its a great idea
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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George Bush condemns the closure of USAID
We're broke. George doesn't understand basic economics.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:40 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
USAID is an intelligence agency outside of any oversight and does not require an oath to the constitution (as is the case will all NGOs).
If they did not want the humanitarian part of it cut, they should not have loaded it up with spies and black ops.
frick USAID.
If they did not want the humanitarian part of it cut, they should not have loaded it up with spies and black ops.
frick USAID.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Well, I bet the Dixie Chicks like him now.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Imagine if we still lived in a country where ALL past presidents got along and worked together for common interests. The left started this with Reid's lies in the 2012 election. They drove a permanent wedge with their petty fits during the first Trump term. But the GOP should rise above it and move on.
To be clear, USAID is a wonderful idea and worthy cause... when we don't have more pressing needs for the money at home. Shame on Bush for allowing himself to be used by the "useful idiots" Barry & Bono. We need the money to fix what democrats broke, the border and the economy. We gain nothing from sending pallets full of condoms to Africa.
To be clear, USAID is a wonderful idea and worthy cause... when we don't have more pressing needs for the money at home. Shame on Bush for allowing himself to be used by the "useful idiots" Barry & Bono. We need the money to fix what democrats broke, the border and the economy. We gain nothing from sending pallets full of condoms to Africa.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Deep state laments the cutting off of deep state funding.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:52 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou
USAID is one of those things that was a great idea that was bastardized by political expediency and the desire to cloak covert operations on a global stage.
In essence, instead of making the intelligence community do their own dirty work, they co-opted USAID. Once other political operations realized that it was “allowed” the Nobel idea was lost and became a slush fund for pet projects. Its final form went so far as becoming a perpetual growth machine for the body politic itself, heavily skewed towards left leaning ideals.
Just another nobel ideal bastardized by the corruption of human nature and its unwillingness to really understand the nature of the slippery slope in things we bend for our own myopic desires….
In essence, instead of making the intelligence community do their own dirty work, they co-opted USAID. Once other political operations realized that it was “allowed” the Nobel idea was lost and became a slush fund for pet projects. Its final form went so far as becoming a perpetual growth machine for the body politic itself, heavily skewed towards left leaning ideals.
Just another nobel ideal bastardized by the corruption of human nature and its unwillingness to really understand the nature of the slippery slope in things we bend for our own myopic desires….
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The 1 million plus deaths due to Iraqi Freedom (thousand of US service members). The estimated 500,000 to 2 million deaths due to Enduring Freedom (Afghan) (thousands of US service members). GWB and Obama had their hands all over these two. A couple of real travesties and tragedies at the hands of these two pieces of shite.
According to the two of them, these programs going away are the real tragedies of our day. Ashamed I ever voted for GWB.
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$15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID.
$446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department.
$1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
$14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.
$20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.
$47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.
$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.
$55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the StateDepartment.
$3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.
$7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.
$80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.
$3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.
$16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.
$10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.
$8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.
$1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.
$70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.
$39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.
$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.
According to the two of them, these programs going away are the real tragedies of our day. Ashamed I ever voted for GWB.
This post was edited on 7/3/25 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:55 pm to SallysHuman
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I thought Bush's AIDS/HIV stuff was Africa related?
You expect W to know the difference between a nation and a continent?
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:57 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Bush, Obama, and Bono could be using this time to organize private donation drives to “make up” for any USAID cuts. Instead, they bitch.
That would require actual effort, rather than doing nothing and letting gov checks feed their bank accounts.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:58 pm to Wolfmanjack
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Exactly, bush and obama can donate all their own money for whatever charitable cause they want. It’s unconscionable to force the American public to fund said charities!
You can say that again!
Oh, you did. Good.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:58 pm to PsychTiger
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You expect W to know the difference between a nation and a continent?
Guess not, lol... Is our children learning? Hopefully better than this former president.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 12:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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In rare public remarks post presidency, George Bush condemns the closure of USAID
Well of course he does. Is there anyone alive that still doesn't know GWB was a major part of the Washington problem?
Posted on 7/3/25 at 1:00 pm to TrueTiger
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So the message is, we need to pay up or people will die.
That sounds like blackmail to me.
Between W and Barry it's more a quarter-blackmail.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 1:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 7/3/25 at 1:02 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The brakes on the gravy train squeal loudly.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 1:03 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sounds like this a-hole Bush was using it as a slush fund too. frick the Bushs. Get behind the Republican nominee or GTFO!
Posted on 7/3/25 at 1:03 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Barack Obama and U2 singer Bono
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