Trump team set to destroy $12m worth of HIV drugs and contraceptives bought by USAID
The life-saving drugs and contraceptives have been sitting in warehouses since January
Roughly $12 million worth of HIV-prevention drugs and contraceptives purchased by the U.S. Agency for International Development will likely be destroyed after President Donald Trump dismantled the organization, according to a report.
These drugs have been sitting in distribution centers in Belgium and the UAE since January, when Trump ended the agency’s spending, The Washington Post reported. Now, negotiators have been instructed to sell the drugs or else they’ll be thrown out, according to the outlet.
“The mandate that [the USAID negotiator] has been given is ‘get us money for it, and if you can’t do that, we’re just going to trash it,’” someone with knowledge of the situation told the Post.
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Just speedrunning The Handmaid’s Tale with the full consent of the US populace, NBD
We may elect him a third time, but if he screws up then... Oh boy, he's probably not gonna see a 4th term
Devils advocate: If we can say ACAB because even the "good" ones are complicit via not stepping in to stop the bad ones and letting the bad situations happen, why is this equivalent situation different?
You choose to be a cop, I didn't choose to be born here
Coward.
What a shit comment. Blaming a rape victim shifts guilt onto someone with zero control over the crime. Examining how a privileged poplulation enables fascism is about collective choices and the failure of those who have held power for decades- not shifting the blame to the powerless. Conflating the two is lazy and self-serving.
Gotta love keyboard warriors calling everyone else cowards for not doing enough violence. No real theory of change, just "hurt them until they're scared of you" like conservatives don't already believe that we're killing them for dumb, made-up reasons.
It doesn't matter what they believe.
No, of course you fall back from your claimed reason, you just want more bloodshed. And I doubt you particularly care whose it is.
I’ve gotten chased out of my profession and have no social life because I’m a queer man surrounded by MAGA. There are certain parts of my state that I can’t travel to any more, because if the wrong cop pulled me over I’d be another dead removed in a ditch.
I’m sorry I’m not fighting hard enough for you.
Your country, not mine. You’re not fighting hard enough for you.
You know, I am fighting pretty fucking hard, but I’m not inclined to brag about it online. I’m sorry as a little tranny in Oklahoma that I can’t end fascism.
You think calling out people suffering this first hand makes you brave? Grow the hell up. The fact you can sit on your cushy chair and lecture persecuted people for "not doing enough" is the ultimate statement of arrogant privilege. Do you want to do something meaningful about this situation? Stop beating down the people just trying to survive another day. Get a clue. What have YOU done for the cause besides bitch and moan? Your literally aiding Fascism by beating down the ones trying to organize and fight it.
Fox News has already spent decades convincing MAGA that we're out for their blood, and made them terrified of everything outside their home. What were you hoping to do that wouldn't lead conservative media coverage as examples of what they've been telling their audience to be scared of?
Yeah, I already got that you really want people to hurt people with the goal of causing fear, and aren't concerned with with the fallout. How are you planning on dealing with the massive industry set up to cultivate and direct fear towards the ends of conservatives? Or is having a theory of change libshit?
You don’t need to silence them. Some of them since Day 1 of Donald’s first day wanted to change their vote.
They’re doing it by themselves, moron.
wow. Given what I hear about the US I expected 12 million $ worth of medecine to be like, five or six pills. That's going to cause a lot of avoidable suffering
Gotta burn those Steinbeck oranges.
"We're going to FORCE god's blessing on you uppity wimminz!"