I would like to tell The Lancet to sound a bigger alarm and to ask people in Europe to stand up, open their wallets and contribute generously to fund the more than likely corruption schemes that keep happening in those areas facing future starvation.
msm media is chock full of self righteous “journalists” overflowing with fake indignation over those who do more and have more than they will ever have. I asked a “journalist” once if you so smart why aren’t YOU president….. morons.
Why do they think that the purpose of the US taxpayer is to solve all the world's problems?
Solving other people's problems is like colonialism, just a way to disrespect their autonomy. To undermine their independence. Converting the entire world into a welfare state.
Nah, they just know a lot of US taxpayers will fall for it so they can steal the money. No different than the panhandler's line about a meal, bus fare or whatever.
Charity isn't really a thing in Europe; the mindset is that taking care of unfortunates is the job of the "government".
Apart from that, consider the source: the Lancet at one point was a medical journal deserving of some respect, but it has for quite a while devolved into a far left propaganda rag.
I don't suppose the fact that DOGE showed the money wasn't going there anyway makes a difference to them?
Funny though, in spite of all the people that have been starving since I was a kid being told to finish my dinner (starving kids in Africa! - like they'd somehow get my leftovers?) you'd think the world population would have shrunk instead of grown. Call me skeptical.
"DearLancet:thank you for bringing this to my attention. I certainly admire your altruism. I anticipate standing in slack jawed awe once you take up the responsibility we have carried for 4 generations. Only the best, us"
Love that scene from "Speed". Shoot the hostage, take him out of the equation. (And left unsaid, thoroughly disrupt the bad guy's OODA loop by doing something COMPLETELY unexpected. Just look at his reaction -- totally flummoxed for several seconds, he couldn't believe that just happened.)
And yeah, America has long been criticized for acting as the World's Police -- well, we've kinda stopped doing that, and nobody said anything. But now that we no longer want to be the World's ATM, too, they start to gripe.
Pick one: America can be fully involved, or fully not involved. If we're paying the bills, we get a say in what gets paid and how, and we -- the tax-paying citizens of America -- don't appreciate our tax money going to fuel international/foreign corruption, personal grift, and sometimes even violent terrorism. I've lost track of how many "humanitarian causes" the media has told us about that are suffering because USAID got shut down, but when someone looked hard into them they universally turned out to be grifting schemes funneling most of their funds to their political benefactors and very little, if any, to the causes and people they were supposed to be helping. (The media stories then mysteriously disappear as if they had never been.)
Realize that when the lede of an article contains “may, might, could, should, ought”, or words of that nature, the article is a prognostication, not news. The authors are attempting to lead you down their agenda.
msm media is chock full of self righteous “journalists” overflowing with fake indignation over those who do more and have more than they will ever have. I asked a “journalist” once if you so smart why aren’t YOU president….. morons.
Why do they think that the purpose of the US taxpayer is to solve all the world's problems?
Solving other people's problems is like colonialism, just a way to disrespect their autonomy. To undermine their independence. Converting the entire world into a welfare state.
Nah, they just know a lot of US taxpayers will fall for it so they can steal the money. No different than the panhandler's line about a meal, bus fare or whatever.
Charity isn't really a thing in Europe; the mindset is that taking care of unfortunates is the job of the "government".
Apart from that, consider the source: the Lancet at one point was a medical journal deserving of some respect, but it has for quite a while devolved into a far left propaganda rag.
I don't suppose the fact that DOGE showed the money wasn't going there anyway makes a difference to them?
Funny though, in spite of all the people that have been starving since I was a kid being told to finish my dinner (starving kids in Africa! - like they'd somehow get my leftovers?) you'd think the world population would have shrunk instead of grown. Call me skeptical.
"DearLancet:thank you for bringing this to my attention. I certainly admire your altruism. I anticipate standing in slack jawed awe once you take up the responsibility we have carried for 4 generations. Only the best, us"
That trope has played for the last 40 years of my life. A whole generation would have passed by now.
"Could." Maybe. Possibly. Perhaps.
Love that scene from "Speed". Shoot the hostage, take him out of the equation. (And left unsaid, thoroughly disrupt the bad guy's OODA loop by doing something COMPLETELY unexpected. Just look at his reaction -- totally flummoxed for several seconds, he couldn't believe that just happened.)
And yeah, America has long been criticized for acting as the World's Police -- well, we've kinda stopped doing that, and nobody said anything. But now that we no longer want to be the World's ATM, too, they start to gripe.
Pick one: America can be fully involved, or fully not involved. If we're paying the bills, we get a say in what gets paid and how, and we -- the tax-paying citizens of America -- don't appreciate our tax money going to fuel international/foreign corruption, personal grift, and sometimes even violent terrorism. I've lost track of how many "humanitarian causes" the media has told us about that are suffering because USAID got shut down, but when someone looked hard into them they universally turned out to be grifting schemes funneling most of their funds to their political benefactors and very little, if any, to the causes and people they were supposed to be helping. (The media stories then mysteriously disappear as if they had never been.)
We're done with it.
Realize that when the lede of an article contains “may, might, could, should, ought”, or words of that nature, the article is a prognostication, not news. The authors are attempting to lead you down their agenda.