Wednesday, February 5, 2025

USAID reality

 "I didn’t vote for Joe Biden’s non-binary Deep State theater kids to get a blank check to give my tax dollars to fringe left-wing NGO slush funds for four years, but that’s exactly what happened."

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This is a must-listen. Learn how our government funds social disruptions abroad in order to change regimes. Then ask yourself how many of these tools are being used against Trump right now. Same players. Same plays.
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Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
"I think you have tactical wokeness in service of statecraft." This is an important exchange I had with @ggreenwald tonight on USAID. I went over Wokeness vs Blobness, and why **the Republican** wing of NED funds transgender dance festivals, ethnic identity events and rap groups


It is shocking but perhaps not surprising that the Biden/Harris administration used USAID, the agency whose purpose is to administer the funding of international aid, to fund a left wing media organization (Politico) that attacked the administration’s opponents. If this is not prima facie corruption, what is it? What other media organizations does USAID fund? How about Wikipedia?


Politico pocketed $8.1M in taxpayer cash from USAID, HHS, and DOE while attacking Trump and Musk for exposing the agency’s corruption. This isn’t journalism—it’s a PR slush fund for globalist elites. Every dollar wasted on leftist media is stolen from American families and real priorities like border security. D.C. bureaucrats fund their propaganda machine while pretending to care about accountability. Time to defund the grift and put America first.


BREAKING: Trump just called for investigations to find out who's getting kickbacks from all the ludicrous money spent at USAID. Now you know why Democrats are sweating. They know the Hammer of Justice is coming.


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It is shocking but perhaps not surprising that the Biden/Harris administration used USAID, the agency whose purpose is to administer the funding of international aid, to fund a left wing media organization that attacked the administration’s opponents. If this is not prima facie
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Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
Fun Fact: @Politico received USAID funds. Everything makes sense now.
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USAID has been completely unaccountable for decades, run by bureaucrats with agendas who believed they answered to nobody. Here are a few more of the ridiculous projects on which they spent YOUR money:

$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language.” $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq. $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan. $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities.” $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala. $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles.” $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society.” $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group. $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia. $6 million for tourism in Egypt. $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam. $16.8 million for a separate “inclusion” group in Vietnam. ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab. $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax. $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group.” $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440-seat auditorium.” $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers. $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica. $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem. $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America. $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel—just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack. $2.3 million for “artisanal and small-scale gold mining” in the Amazon. $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans. $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda. $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world.” $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa. $8.3 million for USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion. USAID’s “climate strategy” outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-agency” approach to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.” For decades, USAID bureaucrats believed they were accountable to no one—but that era is over. President Trump is STOPPING the waste, fraud, and abuse.


He’s mad that is dismantling the radical-left shadow government in full view of the public. This is our ONE CHANCE to return POWER to the PEOPLE from an unelected BUREAUcracy back to DEMOcracy!! Only with the support of YOU can this succeed. Thank you, unknown soldiers.
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Unlimited L's
@unlimited_ls
🚨Chuck Schumer on DOGE: "The American people will not stand for an un-elected secret group to run rampant through the executive branch. Being innovative is good, but Mr. Musk, this isn't a tech startup. These are public institutions."


When a rogue cell at the CIA wants to do something dirty, but they don’t think the US President will approve, they can just walk right over to their friends at USAID, who can then run the op without a presidential finding required for the CIA.

BREAKING: USAID Was Secretly Funding The BBC To Run Anti-Trump/Musk Reporting Similar To The $300 Million Given By The Biden Administration To Reuters To Target Musk!

https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1886873635102589062

BLM Antifa Charlottesville Patriot Front J6 “insurrection” The members of those groups were mostly real citizens, but the money and organization behind them were obvious Deep State ops to destabilize MAGA. By the time Biden used the Fine People Hoax to run in 2020, and the fake news refused to debunk that hoax, it was a coup. All the “Trump is Hitler” and Musk’s “salute” narrative are part of the ongoing op. It’s exactly the same play those same players use to run coups in other countries. They always start by ramping up racial division. That’s the classic first move. And the fake news? They are obviously captured by the same players. You need them to amplify the “Hitler” op. All the dirtiest players are prairie dogging now to save USAID. Remember them. Those are the gang members. I couldn’t connect those dots until DOGE penetrated USAID and explained how the hidden world works.




Stephen Miller just delivered the single most powerful EVISCERATION of USAID you will hear 🔥🔥 "There is probably no entity in the government that is more of an entrenched power center of unelected bureaucrats with less accountability, less oversight than USAID. They funnel money to their cronies all over the world through a swampy network of NGOs and cutouts, including potentially some very troubling elements of focusing on things like regime change and destabilizing foreign countries. This is not about America's interests." Donald Trump isn't "destroying Democracy" like the hyperventilating left claims. He's restoring it.

Democrats who insist Trump cannot fire civil servants are opposing democracy itself. It's the elected President vs the unelected bureaucracy.

The USAID money-laundering concept reminds me of terrorists hiding missile launchers inside schools -- the Democrats have hidden their shady funding tools inside other seemingly benevolent programs to keep them from being gutted or even scrutinized.

Good god. It was fully weaponized.
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End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors. 39% of the entire bureau, for this:


Let's see: Gulf of America Kick China out of Panama Canada/Mexico on board Dept of Jus. firings Greenland Gaza Dept of Ed USAID FBI purge Gov emp back to work Expunged DEI Reinstate un vaxx military 2 Weeks in...2 WEEKS!


https://www.wsj.com/opinion/usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk-marco-rubio-state-department-foreign-aid-8d2a1920?mod=opinion_trendingnow_article_pos1

Hurricane Musk and the USAID Panic

Elon gets a flavor of the pushback his DOGE project will get.

Hurricane Elon is blowing through Washington, creating panic and pushback wherever he and his government-efficiency minions appear. Mr. Musk sometimes blows hot air, and he needs to be watched to stay within legal guardrails. But he’s also hitting targets that have long deserved scrutiny and reform, which helps explain the wailing over the U.S. Agency for International Development.

USAID—not a household acronym—provides money to various countries and non-governmental organizations. The agency sends money to around 130 countries, including Ukraine, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Syria, according to the Congressional Research Service. In 2023 the agency managed more than $40 billion and no fewer than 10,000 employees. The ostensible goal is to make friends and influence countries in the American interest.

No doubt spending $40 billion is bound to do some good somewhere. One oft-cited example is the Pepfar program that has funded anti-AIDS efforts in Africa in particular. But USAID, like most foreign aid, has become something of a plaster saint in Washington even if it does far less good than advertised.

Thus Mr. Musk brought down the wrath of the Beltway by targeting AID as part of his Department of Government Efficiency. His method taken from the private sector is to move fast even if he breaks things—and fix them later. When USAID officials leaked their dismay to the press, Mr. Musk tweeted that the place is a “viper’s nest” and the solution is “to basically get rid of the whole thing.”

President Trump piled on with his typically restrained observation that “I love the concept but they turned out to be radical left lunatics.” Cue the political panic.

USAID is hardly full of Mother Teresas who only want to do good without a political agenda. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast cites examples of USAID’s progressive agenda at work.

The agency in the Biden years supported electric vehicles in Vietnam and a “transgender clinic” in India. A Serbian LGBTQ group called ‘Grupa Izadji,’ received $1.5 million to ‘advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities.” There are many other examples.

These grants are dumb and wasteful, but some USAID spending may undermine U.S. interests. An analysis by the Middle East Forum says $164 million of USAID money has supported radical organizations around the world, and $122 million of that aid was going to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations.

According to the report, USAID has given millions of dollars to “organizations directly in Gaza controlled by Hamas” and that recipients of the money have “called for their lands to be ‘cleansed’ from the ‘impurity of the Jews.’” The Middle East Forum notes that money also often flows to anti-American groups through intermediary recipients that fail to vet local partners.

This sounds like an agency that needs a house-cleaning and maybe a reduction in what it does so it can focus on the most important. That’s what Secretary of State Marco Rubio now says he plans to do, rather than shutting the agency down as Mr. Musk claimed he wants to do. Mr. Musk can’t shut it down in any case. Congress established it as an independent agency in 1998, under the supervision of State, and so it would require an act of Congress to close it down. That isn’t about to get 60 votes in the Senate.

The USAID uproar is a taste of the pushback that Messrs. Musk and Trump are going to face as they work to shrink and reform the executive branch. What Ronald Reagan called the “iron triangle” of interest groups, Congress and the news media isn’t going to give up power or money without a fight. You can add career regulators to that triangle.

That’s all the more reason for the DOGErs to have a plan that works within the law and builds political support. The lawsuits are already flying, and courts will derail Mr. Musk’s project before it even gets off the ground if he isn’t careful.

More oversight and transparency for a leaner USAID makes sense, and we wouldn’t mind if it vanished. But that takes more sustained political effort than a howling wind of tweets in the middle of the night.


“I didn’t vote for Elon Musk and his autistic tech bros to get a line-item veto on federal spending!” Yeah well I didn’t vote for Joe Biden’s non-binary Deep State theater kids to get a blank check to give my tax dollars to fringe left-wing NGO slush funds for four years, but that’s exactly what happened. Elections have consequences, one of which being the president of the United States—the CEO of the executive branch—gets to make personnel appointments across the administrative state. Don’t like it? You’ve got two options: 1. Reduce the size, scope, and power of the administrative state. I promise, you’d garner bipartisan support and find willing allies across the political spectrum here. (For some reason, though, Democrats don’t seem to like this idea. Curious. 🤔) 2. Don’t lose the election. Don’t spend four years mismanaging the country and lying to the American people about the president’s health, only to swap him out in the election for a weak, untested, unlikeable candidate who wastes billions of dollars on the poorest-run campaign in modern history. Either way, stop complaining about Elon. We DID vote for this. We returned Trump to office with a strong mandate specifically to end this bullshit. If you don’t like the means—or the personnel choices—by which he’s doing so, that’s on you, not us.

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