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  • Re: George W. Bush joins Obama in rebuke of Trump

    From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 30 18:25:27 2025
    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:55:29 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    it's hard to accept criticism from GWB

    First time, iirc, of him speaking out towards a POTUS.


    State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio

    A social climber without morals....

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 30 22:22:16 2025
    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:55:29 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Republican Bush decried the cuts to his signature HIV/AIDS relief
    program, asking, "Is it in our national interests that 25 million people
    who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you."

    Republican's "Pro Life" is pure BS...

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  • From Oregonian Haruspex@21:1/5 to Auric Hellman on Thu Jul 10 14:43:02 2025
    Auric Hellman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama publicly condemned the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID, joining singer Bono in an emotional farewell via videoconference to the shuttered aid agency.

    Obama, a Democrat, called the decision "a colossal mistake," while the Republican Bush decried the cuts to his signature HIV/AIDS relief
    program, asking, "Is it in our national interests that 25 million people
    who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you."

    Bono, appearing as a surprise guest, fought back tears as he honored the agency's workers, calling them "the best of us." The videoconference
    marked the end of USAID's 63-year run as an independent agency before
    its absorption into the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio.

    This is a breaking news story. Updates to follow.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/george-w-bush-joins-obama-in-rebuke-of-trump/ar-AA1HIsKp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=4a4b808fffde434e977317c428558b55&ei=13


    While I agree with both former Presidents, it's hard to accept criticism
    from GWB, positively the worst President in my life time.



    I love watching these two seethe. Both were CIA, you know. Trump isn’t.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 10 11:59:17 2025
    On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:43:02 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Both [Bush/Obama] were CIA, you know. Trump isn't.

    If AI's history is correct, his mother might have, but highly unlikely
    Barack did, as based upon his stateside locations.

    AI Overview

    Based on available information, there is no credible evidence that
    Barack Obama worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His
    early career includes time as a community organizer, a civil rights
    attorney, and a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He
    then entered politics, serving in the Illinois State Senate and the US
    Senate before being elected president.

    While his mother, Ann Dunham, worked for various US government
    agencies and affiliated NGOs like the Ford Foundation and USAID in
    Indonesia and other countries, some speculate that these organizations
    might have connections to the CIA. However, these are speculative
    claims and are not definitive proof that she was a CIA operative

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