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Cartoonish.
And it gets better/worse/icanteven:
Two weeks after the agency shuttered, The Atlantic reported that the Trump administration planned to burn 550 tons of emergency food intended to go to children in Pakistan and Afghanistan, enough to feed 1.5 million children for a week. USAID had purchased the aid toward the end of Biden’s presidency, according to The Atlantic.
So what did happen to the food? The fuck?
They let the nutrition biscuits expire rather than send them out.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
Oh. Yeah. Cool. Excellent move.
providing food risks benefiting terrorists.
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I strongly suspect this is being done at the behest of some Evangelical Christian groups that think sex for any reason other than reproduction is a sin, and who feel justified enforcing their ways of life on others (but they're also the most persecuted group in history, don't forget).
Can America burn Trump instead ... metaphorically speaking ofc?
At what point do they stop pretending they are all about reducing government waste?
“The supplies have shelf lives extending well into 2027–2031 — yet, despite being fit for use, nearly a decade ahead of expiration, they are being destroyed,”
That's a ways off, but who the fuck would call that nearly a decade?
Token: obviously they shouldn't be destroyed, but that word choice..
I suspect it’s a difference between the sell-by date (AKA shelf life) and the expiration date—most contraceptives would be expected to be good for at least a few years after purchase.
Yeah I imagine 30 years from now you can take one of those copper IUD's sterilize it in case the packaging was the issue and use it. I doubt the plastic/copper is going bad. It has to be the pills that may not be guaranteed for effectiveness after a certain date
An act of biological warfare