Thank you!!!! Seeing the work first hand in Africa, it is SO IMPORTANT!!!!! Folks have to see the reasons why I SAID works. We will let people down by dismantling foreign assistance.
I went to YouTube and watched the halftime show. Samuel Jackson himself was Uncle Sam. For the first half of the show, all of the dancers were black men. Kendrick even mentioned 40 acres and a mule. I hope racist, fascist Trump and Leon were miserable.
I hate stuff appealing to our better angels. It’s more of that bringing a rule book to a slaughter. To your point, we need to bring it back to how it connects to people. Don’t “peace” me! Tell me I’m not gonna get a disease that hasn’t gotten here yet, tell me how I’ll benefit economically!
My thought too. Americans obviously don't care about helping other people. Only fear & hate activates these assholes. Tell them killing USAID means they will lose the farm...because it's true.
Eagles fan here, in Philly area. Watched every minute of game and commercials. This ad did not air, nor didn't any of the rumored Musk ads (at least not in the Philly viewership market).
True, turns out he didn’t run his antiUSAID ads after all. However, it seems a lot of people were educated about the value of USAID. Our American farmers will be hurt the most.
It pains me to no end that millions will go hungry throughout the world because of this.
I take great comfort in the fact that over $2 billion in contracts have been canceled for American farmers who voted for Trump to supply the food USAID is no longer shipping. Ha-fucking-ha you dumbasses!!
Musk and Trump have used a familiar tactic—manufacture a scandal, flood the space with selective outrage, and use it to justify dismantling an agency they already wanted gone.
Gauzy, feel-good ad, but maybe also should have highlighted the loss of U.S. agricultural products this cancellation of AID will bring on? Who does everyone think supplies the food aid that is distributed by AID? American farmers will lose out, and that's not fair.
Agreed. Not a bad ad in support of AID, produced in a rush. But hard economic rationale for preserving the existence of AID might have made a more lasting impression. A bit of a lost opportunity here.
After all these horrendous events we've been watching or hearing about, after all the despair and anger I've been feeling the last few weeks. This was when I wept.
Me too, just the voices of our previous presidents. Can you imagine aTrump ad… “they’re rapist and criminals, they’re eating the dogs and the cats. How low has a nation fallen to be where we are
This is a wonderful ad but it assumes the viewer recognizes the voices supporting USAid. I feel it should’ve shown the film clips of each President speaking and had 2 R’s with the 2 D’s.
It's not the conservatives who need to be swayed; anyone stup¡d enough to back DJT is a lost cause. No, we need to reach the voters who didn't bother to show up, or bought the hoax that a Democrat was simply the lesser evil instead of a true alternative.
You have more faith in those mitlaüfers than I do. They couldn't even be bothered to vote, I can't see them picking up a phone to call a representative, let alone actually resisting.
It's not faith: it's simple math. Republicans make up less than a third of registered voters, and Democrats are around the same; they've been passing members back and forth for years. The disenfranchised are the largest block of voters, so they are the group to motivate.
Oh I agree they're the group TO motivate, I just don't think they CAN be.
Hell, even among those that did vote for Harris, I know so many—too many—that now don't follow the news "because it's too depressing" and "don't wanna think about politics right now." They're burying their heads in the sand.
And as much as I understand their desire to protect their peace, they're doing it to their own (and everyone's) detriment. They all think this is just like last time, and if we just hunker down we'll make it through.
Maybe you can motivate them; I just get tuned out as a doom&gloomer.
This is so powerful and well done! Americans need to wake up to the felon/GOP/oligarchs’ destruction of America!m, weakening of America’s standing in the world!
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I take great comfort in the fact that over $2 billion in contracts have been canceled for American farmers who voted for Trump to supply the food USAID is no longer shipping. Ha-fucking-ha you dumbasses!!
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Beautiful ad!
Pity they couldn't find Reagan & Bush comments on USAID.
The USAID “Scandal” -
Musk and Trump have used a familiar tactic—manufacture a scandal, flood the space with selective outrage, and use it to justify dismantling an agency they already wanted gone.
When facts disappear, power takes their place.
Hell, even among those that did vote for Harris, I know so many—too many—that now don't follow the news "because it's too depressing" and "don't wanna think about politics right now." They're burying their heads in the sand.
Maybe you can motivate them; I just get tuned out as a doom&gloomer.
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