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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: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:14:45 -0500
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On 2/17/2025 12:17 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2025 at 8:18:23 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/16/2025 7:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   On Feb 16, 2025 at 2:26:53 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   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:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>       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.
>>>   
>>>   You're becoming FPP, who always claimed that if he didn't find a joke funny,
>>>   that made him unable to discern it as a joke at all.
>>>   
>>>   Most normal people can detect jokes even if they don't personally find them
>>>   funny.
>>
>> *This* joke suggests that USAID comprises ridiculous boondoggles.
> 
> (1) It apparently does.

So this "joke" claims, which is funny only if you "know" it's true.


> (2) Since when do jokes have to be strictly factual?

One that's not is propaganda.


>>    It's "evidence" to an audience who has no idea what USAID actually
>> comprises.
> 
> Oh, I see. You're just doing a public service, fact-checking jokes for the
> smooth brains in the RAT audience who otherwise would be taken in by my
> humorous "misinformation". I'm sure they're pleased to know to what esteem you
> hold their intelligence.
> 
> Much like the jokes from the Babylon Bee consistently get "fact-checked" by
> the mainstream media, who strangely don't feel the need to fact-check
> similarly satirical and exaggerated articles by the left-leaning Onion.

Is there a wide view that USAID promotes only bogus projects?  I'm aware 
of only the DEI Irish musical you've singled out as patently risible, 
and it doesn't fit the profile your joke targets.