As an outsider (I live in Belgium) it feels very weird and dystopian to see everything happening in American politics with Trump and Musk.
On one side, it’s very interesting and almost entertaining; on the other side, it’s scary. I can’t imagine what it must be like to live in the USA.
Americans, how do you cope? What’s your take on the situation?
Well a lot of it is just rage bait. Our journalists aren’t very honest.
For example, USAID was giving money to ridiculous things, like a musical in Ireland. There’s no reason for it. You start digging into it, we were paying billions of dollars to even more nonsense.
Yet people are defending it because some people are now getting fired over it.
It’s simply just stupid tribal fighting
USAID is a know corruption hot spot.
It was jobs for people of certain backgrpund, contracts awarded to certain companies, then there is classic over charging…
To be fiat this normal in all government contracting but US AID is specifically bad at it.
Most of the money is so that some people can have good jobs and live their best lives.