Re: Even I Will Admit Trump and DOGE May Have Overstepped Here

On 2/16/2025 7:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:26:53 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 2/16/2025 4:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On Feb 16, 2025 at 12:08:53 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

  On 2/16/2025 1:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    On Feb 16, 2025 at 10:29:53 AM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
   

    On 2/16/2025 10:18 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

      On Feb 15, 2025 at 8:59:53 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
    wrote:
     

      BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
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      Some things are too important to play politics with.
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https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1890543137531072512/vid/avc1/576x1024/y7AqEwpmzSPibyMY.mp4?tag=16

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      Oh, man, he broke character.

          Found another one. How can Trump be doing this? Doesn't he know the harm
    he's doing to the nation?
            @philllyfanatic:
            "I was fired from my job at USAID today. I worked in the Tootsie Pop
      department. After 20 years of research and $28.3 million later, we were
    *this* close to finding out exactly how many licks it takes to get to the
  Tootsie
      Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Now we will probably never know."
     

    I think the guy is having you on.

        What? You mean the Tootsie Pop Department isn't a real thing?!?
        My world view is shattered!

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  A world view based on pseudo-examples was never whole.

    It was a joke. Sheesh. The stereotypes about leftists being dour,
  humor-impaired killjoys are alive and well.

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It's a joke that purports to characterize and justify destruction of
USAID.  An actual example should be even funnier.

 You're becoming FPP, who always claimed that if he didn't find a joke funny,
that made him unable to discern it as a joke at all.
 Most normal people can detect jokes even if they don't personally find them
funny.

*This* joke suggests that USAID comprises ridiculous boondoggles.  It's "evidence" to an audience who has no idea what USAID actually comprises.   (I'm guessing there's more to it than gay Irish musicals.)