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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Even I Will Admit Trump and DOGE May Have Overstepped Here
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:26:53 -0500
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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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Some things are too important to play politics with.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1890543137531072512/vid/avc1/576x1024/y7AqEwpmzSPibyMY.mp4?tag=16
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     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!
>>
>> 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.

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