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Another commenter gave the main point but there’s more: Treaties. There’s a lot of treaties that only work because nearly every county signed on to them and the reason why they signed on is because of promises of aid… USAID.

Things like the Berne Convention that guarantee that countries will enforce copyright law. It’s because of that treaty that it doesn’t really matter where you upload pirated content… It’ll still be taken down because all these countries (with Internet) signed on.

If there’s nothing like USAID to help these countries they will likely pull out of the Berne Convention and other treaties and start pirating (and selling) content from other countries like the US.

Free movies from wherever for all citizens! Pirate anything and everything! Use our country’s YouTube and TikTok equivalents and you’ll never have to worry about your content being taken down!

There’s other things like not developing weapons of mass destruction, not working with our enemies, providing for the safety of our citizens that visit, etc that will all likely go away along with USAID.

That’s a great question! Normally the Executive branch enforces such actions but that’s only a convenience. The judge in question can sanction the Trump administration in any number of other ways… Such as ordering courts to freeze (or seize!) their assets.

It would be an interesting situation if the judge froze or seized cabinet members or Trump’s personal assets though. It’s much more likely the Judicial branch would sort of seize (financial) control over these broken agencies by appointing special administrators. They would be well within their rights to do so!

Congress doesn’t like it? They need to pick a winner by impeaching one of them. Except there’s a big problem with impeaching a judge for such a ruling: The next judge that comes along might continue with the previous setup or rule exactly the same way.

Then what would Congress do? They could just keep impeaching judges but it’s unlikely they would be able to actually do that since they don’t have a supermajority in the Senate.

My prediction: That’s when the Trump administration actually starts to get the military involved and tries to sack the Senate or just attempts to assassinate a few prominent Democrats.

Except he doesn’t have the broad support from the people to actually be able to get away with something like that. It would be civil war. Or more like endless insurgency.

That sort of situation would result in all his billionaire friends losing nearly all of their wealth and drastically increases the likelihood of angry mob/guillotine situations.

Then again, I wouldn’t put it past them to not really think that far ahead 🤷

This actually doesn’t matter too much! Because the very second a Democrat gets into the White House all the bribes that occurred during the Trump administration will be prosecuted.

Oh right! They don’t plan on ever letting the voters decide Federal elections ever again!

Never mind.

This will require rounding up to the nearest nickel… Which costs $0.14 to make 🙄

I would’ve expected the Trump administration to take a bit longer to follow Hitler’s example… He too had problems finding enough room to jail his “undersirables”. So he built facilities to handle them all.

It started with normal prison-like work camps but eventually those facilities started including tools for mass murder like ovens. There were just too many people to get rid of!

How long before we start hearing about unexplained deaths in these facilities? How long before their jailers start executing people for minor offenses (real or perceived)? How long before we start hearing about detainees asking for money to pay off the guards (or their employers) to keep them alive?

Where will they go? Gaza was the concentration camp and Isreal’s bombs are the ovens.

International aid, Byanyima said, “helped an American company to innovate, to come up with something that will pay them millions and millions

That’s the problem: It wasn’t enough. Companies like Gilead are only interested in returns of billions and billions.

Getting even $100 million back (profit) after spending 10 years developing a drug would be considered a huge waste of time. They only get to keep the patent for ~20 years which means such a drug would only be returning ~5 million a year… A drop in the bucket

The US subsidizes the cost of developing life-saving drugs like this precisely because it isn’t economical to do so otherwise. USAID also guarantees minimum sale amounts of US-funded/developed drugs.

Without USAID a big part of the benefit to working with the US to develop new drugs/treatments is gone.