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Rosemarie Downey-McCarthy, Ph.D.
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This is what I thought!!!
March 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Where are the tech specialists? This looks both terribly inhumane and also photoshopped/edited. Watch the man immediately to the left of Noem at the 18 second mark.
March 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Exactly.
March 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Exactly.
March 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The way she says “registered Democrat” as though it’s a crime.

What’s criminal is defending this astounding level of incompetence and recklessness among national security principals.
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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THIS IS ALSO A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE

Some of you may be thinking: This is very sad, but why is it our job to keep kids alive in poor countries?
Some of you may be thinking: This is very sad, but why is it our job to keep kids alive in poor countries? There are two answers to that. The first is that U.S.A.I.D. was established to advance our national interests as well as our values, and its demolition means that the United States loses soft power and China gains. Already, China has moved to replace the United States as the most visible supporter of Cambodia, and we’ll see the same elsewhere, particularly in Africa and the South Pacific. Antiterrorism programs in Syria and West Africa are faltering and may lead to new attacks on Americans. Surveillance for early detection of avian flu and Ebola are weakened, and an epidemic of either disease could reach America and cost billions of dollars. Trump’s defunding of the polio eradication effort may lead, by one U.S.A.I.D. official’s estimate, to 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year. The same official warned that the aid stoppage could lead to nearly a one-third increase in tuberculosis cases. Some of those will reach the United States and lead to enormous expense — a single case of extensively drug-resistant TB can cost $500,000 to manage. The second answer to that query reflects not a calculation of self-interest but the moral code we live by. In this century, we are all blessed with miraculous, almost biblical powers: We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively: America spends just 0.24 percent of gross national income on humanitarian aid. We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January.
March 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Exactly! We are in a social experiment! Right? Please let it end! I want to be debriefed, learn my lessons, and return to real life. 😫
March 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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What on earth is she even talking about?
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM