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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: More on USAID Expenditures of Taxpayer Money
Date: 02/04/25 1:34 PM
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X (Twitter): Joni Ernst on X: "Despite the fact that Moroccans have been making pottery for thousands of years, USAID spent more than $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes

Despite the fact that Moroccans have been making pottery for thousands of years, USAID spent more than $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes and promotion.

The idea clearly wasn't fully formed, because the translator they hired didn't even speak English.

USAID spends money like it’s going out of fashion, literally.

Trade assistance to Ukraine paid for models and designers to take trips to New York City, London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, and South by Southwest in Austin.

Vacations were top of mind clearly for USAID.

The agency spent $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon, a nation the State Department warns against traveling to “due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, unexploded landmines, and the risk of armed conflict.”

If you think that is bad, it gets much worse.

USAID funneled nearly $1 million into batty research on coronaviruses at China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology, which the CIA admits was the likely source of COVID-19.

During the height of the war in Afghanistan, USAID spent millions of dollars to help Afghans grow crops instead of opium.

The results: opium poppy cultivation across the country nearly doubled, according to the UN.

USAID asked, “Can you tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street?” and ended up in Iraq.

USAID authorized a whopping $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq.

USAID has long been a reckless, out-of-control, unaccountable rogue agency.

More than $9 million of USAID’s “humanitarian aid” intended to feed civilians in Syria ended up in the hands of violent terrorists, including an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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