Among the flurry of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in the first days of his administration, perhaps the most consequential to date is one titled, “reevaluating and realigning US foreign aid.”

Under this order, a 90-day pause was instantly enforced on all US foreign development assistance across the globe – excepting, of course, the largest recipients of US aid in Israel and Egypt. For now, the order forbids the disbursement of federal funding for any “non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors” charged with delivering US “aid” programs overseas.

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    Wait until Trump finds out that “aid” from USA mostly means assassinations, coups, invasions, theft, etc.

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      It’s like the executive order meant to target transgenderism by assigning sex at conception; it legally made everyone female since that’s how we all start out in the womb.

      I’m loving how much conservative ignorance is on full display here. Lol

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        I thought it defined gender based on the reproductive cell one’s body produces, e.g. the producer of the larger cell is female, the smaller is male.

        Which introduces it’s own problem because a lot of people don’t generate reproductive cells. So we now have quite a lot of genderless persons around us everyday in Trump’s America.

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          I thought it defined gender based on the reproductive cell one’s body produces, e.g. the producer of the larger cell is female, the smaller is male.

          It specifies that, yes, but at conception. For the entire first trimester, everyone has ovaries.

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          i wouldn’t doubt that they’d issue a correction.