I definitely agree with you that many of our international aid programs need a drastic overhaul (and I have a whole folder of bookmarks dedicated to aid fuck-ups—Tom’s is another good example of good intentions and terrible results), but this does seem a little reductive. I work in HIV—full disclosure, I’m with a…

That sweet, sweet rape money, you mean?

Me too! I was so jealous when she told me the story.

This isn’t my story, but a friend’s. Still, it’s a comforting ghost story, and I always appreciate seeing one or two of those in a thread like this.

I’d go for the Public Warning Engineer approach, personally:

A friend of a friend works for his campaign and is apparently unbearable now. I think the word my friend used was “brainwashed.” Trump’s running on a platform of opportunistic racism and cognitive dissonance, as far as I can tell.