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Subject: Re: Even I Will Admit Trump and DOGE May Have Overstepped Here
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On Feb 17, 2025 at 12:14:45 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> 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.

LOL!

Wherein moviePig wins the Sandra Fluke Humor Police Award:

https://ibb.co/j9r6J4fH

>>>     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?

Not only but enough to be a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

> 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.

Well, you could just review the earlier posts in this thread for more examples
than the Irish musical.

I just learned of another one: Millions spent to produce an Afghan version of
SESAME STREET.