By Their Own Reckoning

For decades, Republicans have publicly assumed "the left" is (eg) all in favor of bad guys breaking into everybody's houses and molesting their wives and babies, just because we'd like to see a little sanity in the nation's gun laws.

So yeehaw and away we go.

Being adamantly against USAID, Republicans are obviously Pro International Terrorism now.

But here's the difference:

Sensible gun laws save us all time and effort and money, while not hindering my ability to defend my castle.

But killing off USAID does encourage terrorists to blow us up.

Because when we turn our back on hungry dying children, we leave the door wide open for dark-hearted thugs to radicalize those kids' parents and siblings and others - turning at least some of them into suicide bombers.

And those terrorists will be going after American interests, which the corporations will cry about and insist we send in the US military to "protect" those precious capitalist endeavors - which will cost us a helluva lot more than the few billion that USAID is costing us now.

How the fuck does that make "good business sense"?