"At the end of the day, the goal is to help our fellow Americans and humans around the world." - This is not DT's goal; rather it is to aggrandize himself and blame someone/something else for anything that goes wrong. There's no leverage on the orange maggot (unless - maybe - you're a billionaire willing to give him money or more power).
yeah it feels that way. Or just that they're aggrieved. But it's sad. I'm trying to stay focused on any areas of progress we can identify. We'll see...
Thanks for sharing this perspective, particularly that the US budget line for WHO is actually pretty small (although true it is the largest donor). One correction to drive this point home - the figure quoted on ~$1.3 billion is actually for the biennium including both 2022 and 2023, so the annual funding amount from US gov to WHO is actually more like 500-800 million per year.
People in our country and around the world are feeling very concerned and worried about his horrible decisions impacting the health of everyone. He’s literally given me hives for 4 days.
In the 2 days since The Felon has become the Felon-in-Chief he has pardoned the 1600 seditious thugs who assaulted cops and killed a cop, and he has weaponized every Federal department. And he owns the fealty of SCOTUS. What in The Felon’s history leads you to believe he gives a shit about anything other than power and wealth? His own.
Not very much. But I do think bandwidth is limited and eventually these folks rely on the advice of those around them. This is why operation warp speed happened, for example. So...I am actively looking for ways to see that the least harm is done, and look for windows to make a positive difference.
I get your position. I don’t disagree. Trump is a different animal than the warp speed Trump. He is different. Much. He just now pardoned 1600 heinous seditious thugs who murdered and assaulted cops. And he wants them to run for political office.
For the record, IMO it’s a mistake to leave the WHO. 47 “negotiates” through threats and we recognize that WHO bends to political pressure. Maybe this will work its way into a net positive by next year. I’m skeptical it will.
I understand that view and hope you are correct that it's a tactic But it is destabilizing and sends the world a message that we are bunch of whiners and that we are unreliable.
"At the end of the day, the goal is to help our fellow Americans and humans around the world." - This is not DT's goal; rather it is to aggrandize himself and blame someone/something else for anything that goes wrong. There's no leverage on the orange maggot (unless - maybe - you're a billionaire willing to give him money or more power).
yeah it feels that way. Or just that they're aggrieved. But it's sad. I'm trying to stay focused on any areas of progress we can identify. We'll see...
Thanks for sharing this perspective, particularly that the US budget line for WHO is actually pretty small (although true it is the largest donor). One correction to drive this point home - the figure quoted on ~$1.3 billion is actually for the biennium including both 2022 and 2023, so the annual funding amount from US gov to WHO is actually more like 500-800 million per year.
Yes I believe you're correct. Either way, it's not much for us
I am humbly asking for a teaching moment. In what way do we need to improve the WHO “to our benefit”?
People in our country and around the world are feeling very concerned and worried about his horrible decisions impacting the health of everyone. He’s literally given me hives for 4 days.
In the 2 days since The Felon has become the Felon-in-Chief he has pardoned the 1600 seditious thugs who assaulted cops and killed a cop, and he has weaponized every Federal department. And he owns the fealty of SCOTUS. What in The Felon’s history leads you to believe he gives a shit about anything other than power and wealth? His own.
Not very much. But I do think bandwidth is limited and eventually these folks rely on the advice of those around them. This is why operation warp speed happened, for example. So...I am actively looking for ways to see that the least harm is done, and look for windows to make a positive difference.
I get your position. I don’t disagree. Trump is a different animal than the warp speed Trump. He is different. Much. He just now pardoned 1600 heinous seditious thugs who murdered and assaulted cops. And he wants them to run for political office.
For the record, IMO it’s a mistake to leave the WHO. 47 “negotiates” through threats and we recognize that WHO bends to political pressure. Maybe this will work its way into a net positive by next year. I’m skeptical it will.
I understand that view and hope you are correct that it's a tactic But it is destabilizing and sends the world a message that we are bunch of whiners and that we are unreliable.