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As catastrophic floods devastate Nepal, the contrast is stark. Obama America once mobilized more than 130 disaster responders and roughly $130 million after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. Trump America, after dismantling USAID’s disaster-response capacity, is offering $500,000 and one adviser. America once played the world’s fireman. iPINIONS laments that it’s now standing by as Nepal drowns.… Read more.
MAGA warns Europe about immigration as if it threatens civilization. But immigration made America great. iPINIONS thinks MAGA’s real fear is that it also made America less White. And that’s the unforgivable sin. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/why-is-maga-warning-europe-about Read more.
In both images, a local hand is doing the pointing. But iPINIONS contends that US policy loaded the moment. In Vietnam, Washington intervened where it had no business intervening, and helped spread the very communism it claimed to contain. In Congo and Uganda, Washington gutted USAID, leaving local health workers to police Ebola with broken… Read more.
Trump tapped Elon Musk to reform the federal government. Predictably, Musk got high on ketamine, fired essential workers, gutted lifesaving aid programs, and quit — leaving the public sector in flames. His farewell on Friday coincided with a damning exposé about his drug-fueled dysfunction, and with new reports that his “reform” may have killed more… Read more.
Bill Gates made headlines this week with a pledge to give away his entire $200 billion fortune before he dies. That’s not just philanthropy. It’s a moral counterpunch to Elon Musk — who’s been cutting the very aid programs Gates is now scrambling to rescue. Gates is giving to save lives. Elon is hoarding power… Read more.
A secretary of state in name only I said from the start that Marco Rubio’s nomination as Secretary of State was about tokenism, not diplomacy. Trump proved me right by stacking his administration with White, DEI (“didn’t earn it”) special envoys, making Rubio irrelevant. Case in point: Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy of special envoys, was… Read more.
Indeed, no good deed goes unpunished. This familiar expression aptly describes the unwarranted criticisms of Oprah Winfrey’s school for African girls. Criticisms of Oprah’s school for African girls For years, the media hailed Oprah as a saint. Now they seem hell-bent on reminding her that she’s all too human. Except that they are using a school she built to tear her… Read more.
