Didn’t say we should feel better about it – I did refer to it as a “boondoggle,” after all – but it is ironic to me that the very people who complain about “giving away money to foreigners” are in the party that loves to support the military-industrial complex. (Not the military – at least, not the actual solders.)
Most Americans don’t realize that the supposed boondoggle of “foreign aid” is actually mostly a boondoggle for American business. By law, 80% must be spent on American goods and services.
Gotta say that while there are some extremists on both sides, the evidence suggests that it is the GOP that is:
- Banning books that say anything “woke” (which means anything they don’t like, notably things about racism, gay people, climate science, and evolution) and bragging about it (e.g., Florida and deSantis)
- Rewriting history to remove things like slavery (e.g., Texas)
- Blocking protesters and encouraging people to hit them with their cars (Florida and Oklahoma tried to remove vehicle driver liability for hitting protestors, starting years ago.)
- (Special item for #45): Threatening and doxxing people who might testify as to the truth.
He did the same to the Constitution his entire time in office, and to the American people then and since. And who knows? Putin may have high-resolution video of doing it, too…
Ironically, I would bet he was just about due to divorce Melania and get a new, younger wife when he got elected president, if you look at his past patterns of wife-recruiting – they get to a certain age, and he dumps them, usually for someone else he is already sleeping with, of a certain younger age. Melania was just about at that age.
But to his surprise, and Melania’s, he got elected, and now they were kind of stuck with each other…
Didn’t say we should feel better about it – I did refer to it as a “boondoggle,” after all – but it is ironic to me that the very people who complain about “giving away money to foreigners” are in the party that loves to support the military-industrial complex. (Not the military – at least, not the actual solders.)