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What Trump's first 100 days has meant for these truck drivers and sex workers
NPR ^ | 04/29/2025 | Gabrielle Emanuel , Rebecca Davis , Photos by Ben de la Cruz

Posted on 04/29/2025 7:09:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 04/29/2025 7:09:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Can’t believe we spent American tax dollars on that in the first place!


2 posted on 04/29/2025 7:10:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Admin people said the program will be resumed. So what’s the problem?


3 posted on 04/29/2025 7:12:29 PM PDT by Fido969
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and 15 years in we are expected to continue to pay for this- they want the open wallet to never cease and they never want to be responsible for themselves.


4 posted on 04/29/2025 7:15:30 PM PDT by God luvs America
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So the USAID has been subsidizing and facilitating unprotected sex between HIV/ AIDS infected hookers and truck drivers in Africa as a USA national priority?

It’s not like we don’t have our own HIV infected hookers and John’s to worry about here in the USA


5 posted on 04/29/2025 7:17:01 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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Tell the government of Zambia to call the CDC. This country needs to manage it’s Zambian people with the country’s own money. They know the process, though it’s easier and cheaper if by pretending to be clueless. They know what to do to get that message out, that is, if the lives of their own citizens matters.


6 posted on 04/29/2025 7:17:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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Plenty of Americans are homeless and many Americans cannot afford their medicines. American tax dollars should support Americans, not foreigners half the world away.


7 posted on 04/29/2025 7:21:17 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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Aren’t these adults?
They make their beds, let them lie in them!

Y’all ever her of survival of the fittest?
Let nature take its course.


8 posted on 04/29/2025 7:26:05 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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Aren’t these adults?
They make their beds, let them lie in them!

Y’all ever her of survival of the fittest?
Let nature take its course.


9 posted on 04/29/2025 7:26:57 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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Twilight Zone radio…
10 posted on 04/29/2025 7:31:45 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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One of the greatest missions of woke-marxists globalists seems to be HIV medication

They need to keep the LGBTQ lobby strong and unafraid of consequences in the West and a large pool of future migrants alive in Africa.


11 posted on 04/29/2025 7:37:58 PM PDT by PGR88
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At first I thought this was about US based truckers and hookers but suddenly it’s about Zambian ones. Not exactly something on my radar....like for my whole life.


12 posted on 04/29/2025 7:39:37 PM PDT by xp38
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My God, we were spending OUR TAX DOLLARS on getting truck drivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo laid at truck stops?

This should be a big, juicy Republican ad. If a hundred corrupt, wasteful topics like this were widely publicized, the R would win more seats in the House and Senate.

Expose this waste, fraud, abuse and corruption!!

Of course, between the Republican weenies and the Democrat-controlled MSM, this will never get any airplay. Just like the bastard MSM blurring the illegal criminal alien signs posted at the White House.


13 posted on 04/29/2025 7:42:07 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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AND THIS IS WHY NPR AND PBS SHOULD BE DEFUNDED COMPLETELY.
14 posted on 04/29/2025 7:43:17 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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“At first I thought this was about US based truckers and hookers but suddenly it’s about Zambian ones. Not exactly something on my radar....like for my whole life.”

Where do you think all your tax dollars go?
They go where some Democrat Zealot wants them to.


15 posted on 04/29/2025 7:45:57 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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A State Department spokesperson said in a statement to NPR this month that U.S. partners who are providing lifesaving HIV treatment have been "notified and urged to resume approved service delivery."

Can’t distribute the “life saving” drugs without spreading some money around. Free drugs aren’t enough. Gotta grease all the USAID palms.

16 posted on 04/29/2025 7:47:28 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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Enabling evil always fails. Always.


17 posted on 04/29/2025 7:48:10 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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We pay for hookers in Africa?


18 posted on 04/29/2025 7:49:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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By all means, let's contribute our tax dollars to keep those truckers on the road to spread contagion everywhere they travel.
And let's keep those hookers out there too, to infect everyone they do business with.

What, don't you have any sympathy at all?

19 posted on 04/29/2025 7:53:39 PM PDT by ZOOKER
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And why is this our problem exactly??

The fact that NPR is crying about this shows how out of touch they are.


20 posted on 04/29/2025 7:56:22 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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