Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities.
He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous.
@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-percent-aid-not-skimmed-reaching-target-communities
He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous.
@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-percent-aid-not-skimmed-reaching-target-communities
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Yes SCOTUS is in Trumps pocket, but this is a constitutional crisis, like Watergate and the secession of the south.
But also: all this aid is NOT charity.
It does untold amounts of good.
But the lived saved, the children fed, the disease outbreaks prevented, the simmering wars tamped down… all of this is a direct benefit to the US.
It can be both.
Don't believe me, ask Hannibal, the shark or the battery.
Don't repeat their lies, call the lies to their face.
Time for fantasy island BS to stop, call them out.
He will never forgive them for doing good and stopping Evil.
That's the real reason for all of this.
And ironically, privatization like that is what these people want more of.
He’s a either a shitbag liar or an idiot but probably both
I don't know why Putin is considered dangerous, I think Trump has overtaken him on the completely lunatic, megalomaniac leader.
Nothing he says is worth repeating
USAID is essential to our strength and security. Disbanding it weakens the US and strengthens our adversaries.
USAID is a winning deal when properly explained, but it rarely seems to be.
Do a review. Cut what you want.
This is a global rug-pull on people who will now know the US does not give a FUCK.
He checked in a minute.
Please, file charges in Den Haag.
If Netanyahu got charged, he can be charged, too.
It's PROPAGANDA to sell his highly illegal criminal acts
GET REAL.
It's propaganda pure & simple
Even worse in someone that appears to think he's an expert in everything.