Torillian said:
Watched a bit and he's just talking in platitudes. Once he gets into examples we actually have something to talk about. So which of the examples given were so egregious that we had to axe everything that USAID does? Was it trying to produce Sesame Street for Iraq? Or maybe the thing about Sri Lankan journalist education for avoiding gendered language (I'll just take the Senator's word on this one). Because just listing them and then not getting into what you disagree with is a lazy man's argument so let's get into it. You keep saying "noone wants to talk about the actual findings" so fucking do it. Don't give me 30 minutes of youtube homework you tell me with your words what they found that you disagree with and let me know why it means all of USAID has to stop. |
Well you did not see it to the end then, where Kennedy does say the opposite of "axe everything USAID does". So that is a false premise.
The main message is offcourse that he as a senate member who's job it is to oversee the spending of Government departments did not know about many of the findings. Clearly the departments where not transparent or forthcoming enough for him or others in the senate/house to do so.
This is also my message in my comment. Transparency! And I believe every American should be happy with it. It's not my place to agree or disagree with how American taxpayer's money is spend nor did I opinionated that USAID has to stop. So why should I argue with you that it should? You are reading things, that I did not write. And Mind reading does not exist my friend.
I pointed out how funny it is, the energy put into fine combing some kids social media posts. Clearly the age old trick is used to find something to demonize the messenger so to undermine the message. It's a trick as old as politics itself.
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