qqueenofhades:

The funny thing about the USAID thing is that it’s just. Such an own goal, and Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dumber just can’t possibly wrap their shriveled sociopathic brains around it. US international development aid is pretty much the only reason anyone in the developing world still likes us after all the, yknow, bombing, war crimes, coups, and government interference. You’d think that an actual America First policy (which these morons are not, but etc etc) would want to big up America as the Best Provider Of All Things, Love America, AMEERRICA.

But instead, because these withered braindead fascist toerags simply cannot tolerate the idea of less than 1% of the American federal budget being spent on (gasp) HELPING SCARY FOREIGNERS, they’ve chosen to ride in roughshod like the world’s worst destruct-o-clown show and make the entire country fucking FURIOUS at Musk and his band of juvenile delinquents because of it. (Also for stealing financial information belonging to the entire country, but yes. One thing at a time.)

Now, I don’t know what will happen, if they’re just trying to do their usual performative thing where they “shut” USAID down and then reconstitute it to fund money to their preferred terrible, terrible causes, but it makes total sense when you consider that Putin has wanted USAID killed for ages, precisely because it builds American soft power and creates pro-US goodwill in the exact areas that Russia also wants to influence/control. So all he had to do was order the Bloated Orange Bilge Monster and Felonious Muskrat to jump and/or chop it, and lo and behold, they have gotten themselves into a stupid, stupid mess about it. It would be much more amusing if they weren’t trying to destroy the country while they were at it, but y’know. Here we are.