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sifill.bsky.social • 98 days ago

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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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luckytheturtle.bsky.social•98 days ago

From Washington Week

Anne Applebaum: USAID is about 40 percent of all the humanitarian aid given in the world.

... removing USAID means probably the collapse of food aid programs across Africa ...

... so children who are dying of starvation ... If this is cut off, all of those children will die.

luckytheturtle.bsky.social•98 days ago

Bluesky doesn't allow a lot of character.

Here's the full transcript

https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2025/02/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-2725

laurelveg.bsky.social•97 days ago

Winning!

lavandra.bsky.social•98 days ago

GOPers will refund the farmers in the form of corporate welfare via the upcoming reconciliation bill, if it ever passes.

gretagroots.bsky.social•98 days ago

The illegal actions Musk and FOTUS are taking have a wide blast radius

maryannnm.bsky.social•98 days ago

Thank you. Shared.

wasdcwtodc.bsky.social•98 days ago

Thank you.
Shared.

shelloshot.bsky.social•98 days ago

That’s the plan. Bankrupt our farmers, allow corporations to swoop in and buy them up for pennies on the dollar - and have total control of the food supply, domestic and foreign.

politbogwitch.bsky.social•97 days ago

They should stop voting for hate.

egandale.bsky.social•97 days ago

Don’t pay taxes to Elon’s government like the billionaires.

lookingforlight.bsky.social•98 days ago

Such efficiency 😤

cmcurran75.bsky.social•98 days ago

@whitehouse.senate.gov you should bring some of these farmers from red states and have them talk about the impact of these lost sales

susandavid.bsky.social•98 days ago

They don't care. It owns the libs...#TrumpCrimeFamily

words-girl.bsky.social•97 days ago

It's up to "We the people" to save Demacracy.

File a lawsuit. Use your First Amendment right. Flood the Federal Courts

"We the people" can not, will not concede to tyranny

goodgreatokayish.bsky.social•98 days ago

📌

iconoplasty.bsky.social•98 days ago

Elon is succeeding wildly at recreating the conditions of 1932

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•98 days ago

Is this more compelling than children in a famine being starved?

Are the profits of big corporate farms who cash in on government subsidies more important?

azuragua.bsky.social•98 days ago

I'm a smart guy, the smartest really. Cue shit face smile. Why, Lord WHY.

elowreyd.bsky.social•98 days ago

📌🤦‍♀️

300ps.bsky.social•98 days ago

Send some of those NYT reporters on diner duty to the feed store to see what they're saying.

zombiemom007.bsky.social•97 days ago

Musk is just preparing to replace them with the South African farmers. And I’m pretty sure they are going destroy forest and parklands to make room for them. The USA is going to become an elite Nazi homeland.

conscientiousice.bsky.social•98 days ago

thieler.bsky.social•97 days ago

They would rather farm welfare checks!!

angrybuckeye.bsky.social•97 days ago

He will crash our recovering economy

megidd.bsky.social•98 days ago

And the farmers may not get paid. Hey but they voted for convicted felon trump, now we all pay.

ginaburns.bsky.social•98 days ago

We will pay them - they will get paid by the taxpayers.

aezmodeus.bsky.social•98 days ago

It is a rare upside that Nazi farmers will lose their land. Horrific for the millions worldwide, but finally a consequence for Nazi support.

mugwump-jr-the-3rd.bsky.social•98 days ago

Well, that certainly solved a shitload of non-problems
And created a shit-ton more

THANKS, KETAMINE-FUELED LEADERSHIP!!

ginaburns.bsky.social•98 days ago

The taxpayers will foot the bill.

salamanderbee.bsky.social•98 days ago

In fairness to DOGE, it's not like they have any idea what USAID did.

luckytheturtle.bsky.social•98 days ago

You would think tech geniuses would be fans of rtfm.

salamanderbee.bsky.social•97 days ago

I mean. The man walked into Twitter and started unplugging machines and deleting code until something he cared about broke. He's never been one to audit the code thoughtfully.

luckytheturtle.bsky.social•97 days ago

Yes. This is true. Also, I'm a dinosaur, with my manuals and reading them.

Welcome to Government by Madman Muntz.

What could possibly go wrong?

ctc1978.bsky.social•97 days ago

He does. The IG there was investigating him.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365#comments

salamanderbee.bsky.social•97 days ago

I was being facetious. Whether or not he actually knows, he certainly had the opportunity to educate himself before burning it all down. He chose not to.