This is why Donald Trump is unique among the bad presidents. Most of the bad presidents were bad because they mismanaged or exacerbated crises they inherited. Trump does terrible things completely unprompted and in response to nothing.
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The human cost of these budget cuts is staggering
It’s like dropping a nuclear bomb on a medium sized city every year
Where is China? I was told that we were losing our soft power.
Why isn't China providing free PrEP to the entire globe?
America has saved millions of lives this century and is by far the greatest country in the history of this planet. But we are $36 trillion in debt and our younger generations can’t afford to buy homes. Time for other people to step up and throw on a condom.
How much blame do you put on those who abused these programs to facilitate 6-figure administrative jobs?
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George Bush killed 300k people and yet he is less intentionally malicious as Donald Trump
Yup. Also Trump's political instincts are vastly overrated. Any mid-tier GOP pol would be at 50%+ right now. His poor approval ratings are entirely self-inflicted.
The prompt frequently seems to be "Oh, there is bipartisan agreement that [x] is a good thing? Well, I'll do the opposite, because it's fun to do bad things"
President Lamilton-ass governance philosophy
But the Republican Party is full of nazi eugenicists? Cutting PEPFAR is ideologically mandated.
"Were $36 trillion in debt and cant afford it!" screech the people who supported the BBB which added tremendously to our debt for no reason
And some of them get criticism, whereas with Trump, you will have the press, and dead end leftists/Republican enablers like Stoller, Ken K, the Greyzone crew, Dore, etc. gushing at length about how brave and bold this is.
I guarantee there are evangelicals who are happy about this because they think AIDS is a divine punishment.
I love how it’s a “crime” to stop subsidizing treatment for the most easily preventable disease in the world after 20 years
If it is such a great and noble thing, why isn't anyone else stepping in to fill the void?
Exactly why he may actually displace Johnson as the worst POTUS ever
Daily crimes, many of which benefit no one. Just revemge, power plays, meanness.
Why is it my responsibility to pay for AIDS treatments in Africa?
Don’t forget the intentional smear campaign against these organizations as well that say things like they poison kids
Just like Reagan was, actually. A waste of oxygen who we’ve just decided to allow make the world immeasurably worse for the rest of us.
The GOP is trying to destroy the US because they can’t win fairly. They hate democracy because they’re not popular so they have to undermine it, gerrymander it, have insurrections, turn to fascism, etc.
They’re trying to scuttle the ship.
Why does America have an obligation to spend its money of foreign nations?
Read a little about this program and where the money actually went. Then consider whether there are known ways to prevent the spread of AIDS...
Why can’t the UN, WHO or absolutely any other country or organization step up and take over? We have been paying for this since the 80’s and we cannot afford it another minute
Bush killed over a million people with a plan PNAC put forward years before 9/11 that specifically said they would have to have a Pearl Harbor-style event to mobilize public support for it. Obama took the first two wars to the planned 7.
No, we had our turn. Let the rest of the world have a turn at it.
Or maybe they can just stop spreading aids amongst themselves and problem solved. Or don't and the problem is still solved.
You leftists claim the world is overpopulated but then what the US to pay to keep HIV+ 3rd world freeloaders alive.
Trump just likes to feel the power of creating chaos and pretending he’s the Calvary coming in to save everyone. Then of course announce what a great job he did ‘trying’ to clean up his own huge lies. Trump is on a lopsided power trip that’s rolling downhill.
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There is no cure for AIDS.
The program here was encouraging people with AIDS to have casual sex.
We should be discouraging people with HIV and AIDS from having sex with people that don’t have HIV or aids.
Why is Africas HIV problem our responsibility? At some point they need to take care of themselves.
We dont owe strangers in Africa ANYTHING. Period. Thats the end of the discussion.
Since when did America become the world’s health care provider?
We are sick and tired of being taken advantage of.
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It’s not my responsibility to hand over money I earned to cure anything internationally.
Sorry I was told soft power
should logically lead to China paying for aids medicine.
The African continent has grown exponentially due to food and medical aid. The people still do not know how to provide for themselves so our aid has to grow exponentially as well. At what point do we say that we cannot take care of them anymore.
We are not responsible for providing aid to the world until the end of time.
Why is the responsibility of the American tax payers to make sure Africans don’t have butt sex
It is not White peoples responsibility to keep Africans from fucking other men to spread HIV.
Africans could simply stop fucking vaginas full of sand because it "feels better"
No we’ve been asking republicans to do this. My tax dollars don’t need to pay for the worlds aids medicine
Let them buy their own fucking medicine. Why aren't these people capable of taking care of themselves?
I mean, they could just stop having sex with sand for lube. That’s just me though.
Trump may be unique among bad presidents
But, he's still the best we've had this century
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The admin froze $9.4B in global health funds on Day One—including PEPFAR’s lifesaving HIV meds.
Now Trump wants to rebrand it as a disease-detection marketplace for U.S. pharma.
Prioritizing profits over 4.2 million preventable deaths isn’t governance—it’s mass manslaughter.
The whole Trump phenomenon is all about empowering everyone to be the worst versions of themselves they can be.
Bush Jr and Reagan did plenty worth criticizing but still tried to call on conservatives to heed the better angels of their nature in their own ways.
Not American Taxpayers problem or responsibility to treat the worlds preventable STD’s.
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Proponents of the West solving all of Africa's problems have a terrible baked in racism: By assuming Africans cannot solve their own problems they make sure they never even try.
Why do Americans need to pay to save niggas from aids when our own people don’t have healthcare?
Instead of talking about this garbage about a "treatment" why don't you talk about the Patent for the cure for AIDS/HIV and ask why that isn't being used?
Yeah, Joe Biden just "mismanaged or exacerbated" his way into a genocide.
W Bush just "mismanaged or exacerbated" his way into intentionally and fraudulently invading several countries.
Let's not pretend these assholes don't LOOK FOR crises to respond to in profoundly evil ways
We are broke dipshit.
$37 trillion dollars in debt. We can’t afford the interest payments, let alone pay it off.
Ending donations of AIDS medicine to one African today saves dozens of Africans from starvation in the near future.
Cutting spending is in response to inflation caused by excessive spending.
It was literally the biggest reason people voted for him.
next time you peices of shit wont talk crap about america. go get your money elsewhere bitch.
If you are upset donate to a charity that does that. Our taxes should not be spent on charity work globally. If men with weapons are taking a portion of my check it should go to my own country.