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She described the U.S. Institute of Peace as "a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace."
"Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named
Wow there's actually a sliver of truth in there. She's calling it a bloated, useless entity that wastes money and states that the addition of Trump's name to the organization is very apt.
She described the U.S. Institute of Peace as “a bloated, useless entity that blew $50 million per year while delivering no peace.”
So, here's the thing about Trumpworld. The critiques themselves often aren't wrong.
The problem with Trumpworld is that you've got meatheads like Hegseth and Noem whining about how America's Gone Woke with mushy liberal institutions, when what they're complaining about is someone painting a rainbow flag on the side of a cruise missile.
The USIoP is practically sprouting from the hip of the IMF and World Bank, institutions notorious for their roles in global privatization of public commons, international arms dealing to US allies, and libertarian market-based propagandizing. They're outgrowths of American finance capital and heavily geared towards commoditizing foreign markets and prying them open for US banks and businesses to lay claim to the interior at deeply discounted rates.
The USIoP operates as a diplomatic core that can try and rationalize and institutionalize foreign occupation after the US has entered a region. And there's no better example of this than their role in authoring policy to pacify Iraqi resistance movements at the end of the Bush tenure.
A more objective observer might ask why we need Congress to continue to intercede in Iraqi politics five long years after we'd announced "Mission Accomplished" from the deck of a nearby aircraft carrier. But neoconservatives would sneeringly refute that Iraqis simply aren't ready to govern themselves and still need Americans to guide them towards a liberal democracy.
Obviously, Trumpworld disagrees. They think the solution to every foreign policy dispute is to murder dissidents en mass. And that's what we're seeing in Venezuela.
But USIoP hasn't done anything to keep us out of Venezuela. Or to expedite our exit from Iraq or Afghanistan. Or to prevent us from bombing Yemen or Iran. Or to avoid overthrowing the governments in Libya and Syria. Or to diffuse the conflict in Ukraine. Or to end the blockade and Israeli-induced famine in Gaza. So what role are they fulfilling?
So what role are they fulfilling?
Well, right now, the role of fluffing up Donald Trump's ego with big silver letters at taxpayer expense.
I feel this a lot in this administration. The government actually is too big and it actually does need to be reigned in and seeing some (not all) of these institutions destroyed or crippled is actually gratifying for exactly the reasons you mention. I just wish it wasn't accompanied with a side of "here's some piss on your head, it must be raining." These idiot cosplaying shitheads are not the right tools for the job.
Silver? SILVER??? if it's not the tackiest gold he'll be insulted.
No, they’re actually silver. The fact that they didn’t have the finest 1k gold coating was the only thing about all this that surprised me.
S.S. Institute of Racist Pedophiles just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Your prez is insane.
I mean if you haven't noticed.
We have. Every day. Whether we want to or not.
It feels like that fucking asshole has been raping our minds for years.
we know
Criminally so. Yeah, a few billion people have noticed.
No matter what he does, it's never going to replace that emptiness of not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and I am here for it.
Can he just die already? Of natural causes I mean.
The world will, without a doubt, be a better place when he is no longer present. Though I hope his dementia holds on to him for a long while.
Lets not be picky.
I'm just covering my bases so I don't get banned (Reddit habit)
I'd natural causes him for you if I could get away with it. I should have natural causesed his whole inauguration.
I don't wish him death, but I also don't wish him a calm and peaceful one.
I don't wish him death but I will read his obituary with great satisfaction.
I do wish him death.
Hey hey now. Speaking openly may get you banned and I don't want that. Lol
Iron and carbon occur naturally
8 wars? Outrageously lying to show overt loyalty.
It's gonna be 9 by next week.
I thought it was already 9. Didn’t he stop the war between Antarctica and Canada or something?
What a desperate loser this guy is
The only way he could effectively run it into the ground was to attach his name on it.
Donald Trump is an even stupider man that I thought if he thinks history will remember him kindly. All he can do with the small remainder of his natural lifespan is pave the way for the next narcissistic authoritarian dictator to come to power, and that person won't want Trump's name all over shit.
Whether Trump succeeds in killing American democracy, or whether American democracy somehow survives, Trump's legacy will be cast as dog shit. The next dictator would want to blame Trump for everything wrong, while a resurgence of democracy would simply be able to tell the truth.
Literally the only way Trump has any chance of looking good is if one of his children succeeds him. I don't think that is very likely, but I've been wrong before.
He then directed his staff to bomb several boats of migrants and shoot some more church pastors in the face with tear gas canisters.
"Now, the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, which is both beautifully and aptly named after a president who ended eight wars in less than a year, will stand as a powerful reminder of what strong leadership can accomplish for global stability," she said.
? What 8 wars does he think the ended? Are there even 8 he got involved in at all?
Dear leader hit 23 holes-in-one on his first round of golf.
And not a single one was legal age
Have they ever actually NAMED the supposed "eight wars" that Trump us supposed to have "ended"?
I remember the two that he made up because his mind is addled:
- "Aberbaijan" and Albania
- Cambodia and Armenia
Cambodia and Armenia being at war without major alliance stuff would be fucking nuts.
My family in Thailand were paranoid about Cambodia having secret capabilities if they were bold enough to engage in armed conflict with two countries simultaneously.
He solved ALL the wars. Bigly!
This is WELL Earned! And anyone who DOESNT think Starting a War with Venezuela or Kidnapping American Children is Peaceful then you're a TERRORIST!
That fat cunt is fucking useless. I would very much like him to see the inside of prison but now, please, just fucking die. Obese kiddie fiddling rapist.
You think that republicans will try to make it a taboo to talk about any conflict between entities Trump "brokered a peace with" as a war, as to keep up the myth of Trump actually ending those conflicts? ^And^ ^do^ ^you^ ^think^ ^Democrats^ ^will^ ^be^ ^so^ ^weak^ ^that^ ^they'll^ ^just^ ^let^ ^the^ ^Republicans^ ^do^ ^that?^
I think he will be tortured or murdered after his presidency for sure. What kind of stupid trying to annoying anyone on earth?