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blackhawks

07/16/25 4:24 PM

#534330 RE: livefree_ordie #534328

Under the 'Access Hollywood' bus would be appropriate.

This should have sunk his amoral ass. 'You can do anything' was prophetic.

On October 7, 2016, one month before the United States presidential election that year, The Washington Post published a video and article about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and television host Billy Bush having a lewd conversation about women in September 2005. Trump and Bush were on a bus on their way to film an episode of Access Hollywood, a show owned by NBCUniversal.

In the video, Trump described his attempt to seduce a married woman and indicated he might start kissing a woman that he and Bush were about to meet. He added, "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."[1] Many commentators and lawyers described such an action as sexual assault.[2] Others argued that the remarks were an assertion that sexual consent is easier to obtain for the famous and wealthy.[3]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_tape
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arizona1

07/16/25 7:44 PM

#534349 RE: livefree_ordie #534328

B-b-b-but what do you MAGAts think about this?

Trump Admin will be setting fire to enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week (500 TONS)
Why the Trump Administration Is About to Set Fire to 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Enough food to feed about 1.5 million children for a week expires today
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-administration-destroy-500-tons-emergency-food-1235386525/

Toward the end of the Biden administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent about $800,000 on high-energy biscuits used to help people impacted by natural disasters or fleeing war, according to a report by The Atlantic. Following Donald Trump‘s return to the White House, the food meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan reportedly languished in a Dubai warehouse as Trump and former DOGE chief Elon Musk dismantled much of the federal government, including the government’s foreign aid department.

The publication said that previously, career staff could have handed off the biscuits to the World Food Programme to distribute them, but employees said that since Musk’s so-called DOGE devastated USAID — firing and placing thousands of workers on leave — aid items cannot move without the new political leaders of the agency. And while the responsibility originally was given to Trump appointee Pete Marocco, it passed to Jeremy Lewin, who became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what’s left of USAID. (Rolling Stone previously reported on Lewin’s alleged history of violence and racist remarks.) Staffers who sent the memos requesting approval to move the emergency food said they never got a response, however, and its unclear if either Marocco or Lewin ever received the memos.

Now, enough food to feed about 1.5 million children for a week — equal to nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food — is set to expire today, The Atlantic reports. Despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio ensuring representatives on the House Appropriations Committee in May that food aid would reach its intended recipients, the Trump administration reportedly plans to spend $130,000 to burn the biscuits instead of sending them to children in need.

While improper food storage, a flood, or a terrorist group may lead to a few dozen tons of food aid being lost a year, a USAID staffer said that he has never witnessed this many biscuits wasted over his decades with the agency.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220488303