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Miles Archer

(19,873 posts)
Sun May 25, 2025, 09:39 AM May 25

Jamie Raskin: "60,000 metric tons of food that were bound to serve the poorest kids on earth"

Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
Because of Trump's dismantling of USAID, 60,000 metric tons of food that were bound to serve the poorest kids on earth are now on the brink of rotting in America. Our anti-hunger groups are ready to spring into action.

What say you, Mr. President?


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Jamie Raskin: "60,000 metric tons of food that were bound to serve the poorest kids on earth" (Original Post) Miles Archer May 25 OP
WTHF? Joinfortmill May 25 #1
Trump, Musk and their fellow billionaires are sociopaths. CousinIT May 25 #2
The ones who are NOT tend to stay away from the media Miles Archer May 25 #3
I have read that most of Congress dislikes him. CousinIT May 25 #5
Remember when he was ridiculed for paying $44 billion for Twitter? Miles Archer May 25 #7
And doing his criminal acts in broad daylight and never getting punished Justice matters. May 25 #11
Food for millions! yardwork May 25 #4
Trump says whatever the eugenics-loving billionaires who constantly GoCubsGo May 25 #6
Whatever is in America, should at least go immediately to hunger programs IN America RandomNumbers May 25 #8
And yet Trump gets away with it Grim Chieftain May 25 #9
Expensive military parade fit for a dictator, but no food for hungry kids. Emile May 25 #10
"Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Shelter the homeless." - Jesus Christ BoRaGard May 25 #12
We have enough surplus food that we can afford some degree of generosity to those who have so little. MLWR May 25 #13
The atheists and agnostics I know in the small Unitarian Universalist congregation... 3catwoman3 May 25 #15
"What say you, Mr. President?" Ray Bruns May 25 #14
Funny how this story is pretty much nowhere in the M$M Blue Owl May 25 #16
But I DID see the story of one of Trump's golf buddies getting bitten in the crotch by a swan at Bedminster Miles Archer May 25 #18
"Let them eat cake." -Dump, probably sakabatou May 25 #17
They don't want to pay for it... dchill May 25 #19

CousinIT

(11,629 posts)
2. Trump, Musk and their fellow billionaires are sociopaths.
Sun May 25, 2025, 09:55 AM
May 25

All billionaires are not. But many of them are. This is concrete evidence of it.

Miles Archer

(19,873 posts)
3. The ones who are NOT tend to stay away from the media
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:08 AM
May 25

It's EASY to see that Musk:

1). WANTED what Trump had in terms of "celebrity," power, and "media presence."

2). If you watch Musk's "antics" from January 20th onward, he was clearly going for some kind of drugged court jester role in Trump's MAGAt kingdom.

3). Trump "insiders" who "spoke on the condition of anonymity" said that when Musk would go into his CosPlay comedy routine and no one would laugh or respond, he'd "pout."

He tried and failed. People don't like him. His fanboys do, but that's it.

CousinIT

(11,629 posts)
5. I have read that most of Congress dislikes him.
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:14 AM
May 25

It seems most of the world dislikes him.

He should take his damn money and go play elsewhere, stop cramming it into the gears of OUR government to gum it up so it doesn't work anymore (except for HIM).

Miles Archer

(19,873 posts)
7. Remember when he was ridiculed for paying $44 billion for Twitter?
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:34 AM
May 25

In terms of "making Twitter better," that was never his intention. He wanted a pre-made audience that he could manipulate, and he got it. He wanted to spend millions to purchase and influence an election, and he got it.

Because Trump is a consummate troll (as is Musk) and you can never take 100% of what he says seriously, we'll never know exactly what Trump meant the day after the election when he "thanked" Musk for being "so good with election system computers." It might have simply been Trump's "payback" for his "big lie"...sort of "YOU stole 2020 from ME, so I stole 2024 from YOU," because he ALWAYS lusts for payback, even when the thing that pissed him off was 100% legitimate.

His old man drilled that thing into him about failure NEVER being ACCEPTABLE, and it became a cornerstone of Trump's pathology.

Justice matters.

(8,636 posts)
11. And doing his criminal acts in broad daylight and never getting punished
Sun May 25, 2025, 11:21 AM
May 25

is his braggart's way of saying "catch me if you can" (before he'll die).

GoCubsGo

(34,060 posts)
6. Trump says whatever the eugenics-loving billionaires who constantly
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:14 AM
May 25

whisper into his ears tell him to say. And, they want those poor kids to die in the name of "thinning the herd." They don't care that all that food will rot, because they're sociopaths. May they all get what they deserve.

RandomNumbers

(18,777 posts)
8. Whatever is in America, should at least go immediately to hunger programs IN America
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:43 AM
May 25

I sure as hell don't agree with dismantling USAID, and the food should have gone to wherever it was supposed to go.

But that said, this has been known for awhile. Any food that is sitting somewhere and still edible, should simply be made available to the most local food bank right there where it is sitting.

That would be the minimally decent thing to do. But we cannot expect this evil administration to even do that.

BoRaGard

(6,265 posts)
12. "Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Shelter the homeless." - Jesus Christ
Sun May 25, 2025, 11:23 AM
May 25

Someone should introduce the republicons to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

They have a lot to learn.

MLWR

(402 posts)
13. We have enough surplus food that we can afford some degree of generosity to those who have so little.
Sun May 25, 2025, 11:30 AM
May 25

That is not the problem. The problem is that we have a bunch of selfish, self-absorbed, avaricious creatures running the country who have not ounce of compassion and yet claim to be "very good christians."

3catwoman3

(27,140 posts)
15. The atheists and agnostics I know in the small Unitarian Universalist congregation...
Sun May 25, 2025, 12:38 PM
May 25

...I attend are better "Christians" than a lot of those who so loudly and self-righteously claim that title. A pox on them all.

Ray Bruns

(5,387 posts)
14. "What say you, Mr. President?"
Sun May 25, 2025, 11:58 AM
May 25

Trump, “Screw the little moochers . What’s in it for me?”

Miles Archer

(19,873 posts)
18. But I DID see the story of one of Trump's golf buddies getting bitten in the crotch by a swan at Bedminster
Sun May 25, 2025, 04:02 PM
May 25

They have to cover the critical breaking news first, and if there's time left, they might get to the starving kids.

dchill

(42,660 posts)
19. They don't want to pay for it...
Sun May 25, 2025, 08:21 PM
May 25

...because they don't want them to have it. They want them to starve. They want us all to starve, get sick and die.

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