American Politics from 2019 on

[pErvinalia]

All gang members.

[L'Emmerdeur]

In the Trump regime, 'human rights' funding is reserved for right wing ideologues.

'Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe'

For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and persecuted minorities in poor and authoritarian countries.

To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.

This year, Trump administration officials presented State Department workers with their own list of organizations that should be funded. To the shock of many staffers and lawmakers, they proposed at least a dozen grants that would bypass the normal open bidding process. They also sought to give taxpayer dollars to groups aligned with conservative and anti-immigration movements in Europe as well as advocates for white South Africans, according to interviews and documents reviewed by ProPublica.

Among the organizations appointees have considered funding in recent months are a British free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group run by a controversial figure who has called for self-governance of the white ethnic minority within South Africa.

This type of giving would mark a stark departure from the traditional aid that helped torture victims and documented rapes, political violence and other abuses in some of the most oppressive countries in the world, according to more than a dozen former State Department employees. One new program with $4.9 million of competitive funding available to groups to develop “civilizational self-confidence in Europe” is slated for “research, conferences, cultural engagements, and support for civil society” in wealthy democracies. The call for proposals says recipients should “not attempt to reform the legislative processes,” but experts and lawmakers have expressed concern that the U.S. is seeking to influence politics in allied countries.

That emphasis on Western nations was evident in a grant the State Department has been working on for months to a fledgling British American think tank dedicated to “renewing our Judeo-Christian culture and civilisational mission.” After pushback from Congress, the State Department abandoned those plans in recent days.

“I’ve never before seen U.S. government funding for such groups,” said William Allchorn, a senior research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University and an expert on radical-right extremism in the United Kingdom. “It’s crossing the Rubicon, isn’t it?”

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[Tero]

Healthcare going to patients who are Democrats now defined as fraud:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ota-paused

[Sean Hayden]

“AI” said there’s potential fraud —Are they fucking crazy?
I’m not answering to anything ai told anybody, they’ll have to talk to my ai lawyer.

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What else is ai doing?

[Tero]

Even with Trump disaster, voters will be hard to connevt to.
Google AI:
Partisan Disillusionment: A record-high 28% of Americans have unfavorable views of both major political parties. Nearly 45% of US adults now identify as political independents, showing a clear shift away from traditional party loyalty.

Institutional Distrust: Only 22% of US adults trust the federal government to do the right thing, and a broad 69% are dissatisfied with how democracy operates in the country.The "Tuned-Out" Middle: The Pew Research Center has identified a large segment of the population they refer to as the "tuned-out middle," who intentionally tune out political news and are not deeply engaged.

Voter Turnout Dips: While recent presidential elections saw high participation, midterms and local elections routinely see less than half the eligible voting population cast a ballot. This drop-off is especially notable among younger adults and individuals without a college degree.