Speaking of Musk, here's a headline from Newsweek yesterday: Alleged USAID Probe Into Starlink Raises Elon Musk Conflict Concerns.
So, maybe it wasn't about Sesame Street.
OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU'RE GINNED UP TO BE MAD ABOUT. All so billionaires can steal your country and many of the things that already made it great.
"Under the Biden administration, USAID awarded $20 million to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop..."
Soft power. An educated, inclusive cohort of children might grow up to overthrow the imams. VOA is another agency that on the surface does nothing but has been instrumental in creating a very positive view of the US in the world. It wasn't just Reagan's manliness that contributed to the end of the Soviet Union.
Is there waste in government? You bet. But you're likely to find much more in contracts to BlackRock and other corporations that aren't being investigated.
Government organizations whose work can be distilled down to some easily digested ridiculousness by people as stupid as Glen Beck are much softer targets than billionaires like Elon Musk on the government dole.
I’m all for cutting government waste but this isn’t about that.
This is all a distraction to rile up the base while Musk and his band of misfits raid the US coffers.
BTW, did you know that the US military spends $84mm per year on viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs? I don’t hear anyone calling for the military to be defunded.
It is easy to cherry pick a few obvious excesses but shutting down the agency cutting off all US aid to other countries isn’t the “efficient” solution.
Musk isn’t an efficiency expert, he is drumpf’s wrecking ball and he doesn’t work for free. He paid $275mm to get drumpf elected and he is now looking for ways to cash in.
~Scamp
Even the twat that ran FB for the CIA is like 35X richer than ol George.
Just for shits and giggles... I looked up ol Soros on the list of billionaires. He's staggering low the list. Like... way way down the list...
The alt right paint him as an evil emperor palpatine. He's closer to the smartest minion on despicable me.
He's a rotten to the core cock sucking piece of Nazi era shit.... but not the bond villain hes been portrayed as.
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros, through his network of organizations, received a staggering $260 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
USAID has been accused of funneling funds to entities connected with Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which are known for advocating for radical and regime changes globally.
The nothing that USAID was contributing to American life was a lot of something, but you'll never know because Glen Beck is a fucking moron and you believed what he said without question.
And apparently you doubt what he said without question.
Ya it sure was a lot. A pile of cash went to Iraq to develop a sesame street for Iraqi children. YEP!!! It was a lot of something alright.
Under the Biden administration, USAID awarded $20 million to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop to produce a show called "Ahlan Simsim Iraq" in an effort to "promote inclusion, mutual respect, and understanding across ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups."
Oh here's a good one.
In another example, Ernst said USAID spent $2 million to fund "Moroccan pottery classes and promotion." Morocco has for thousands of years created pottery, dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Lol... Here's another that went just perfectly.
USAID, as well as the U.S. military, paid farmers to build or rehab miles of irrigation canals in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, during the Obama administration in an effort to persuade the farmers to grow fruits and other plants, The Washington Post reported in 2019. The farmers, however, used the canals to grow poppies.
The list goes on and on... If some of you like it and want to see it continue. Then promote the idea of a voluntary donation with your taxes. I sure as hell don't want my tax dollars spent on Moroccan pottery classes.
Well DOGE just never ends . Y’all remember the Bishop that spoke at President Trumps inauguration . Yea , the one that went off on a rant ……Well DOGE found she was given 50 million ….Listen Liberals TAXPAYER DOLLARS .
"Listened to the Glen Beck show while having lunch. He rattled off quite a list of bullshit we hand money out for across the globe. The partial list he mentioned was likely over 200 million total.
Not a single item would do anything for America."
If I was going to let someone else chew my food for me, it would be fucking Glen Beck. Jesus.
I've decided that the thing that holds the most dedicated Republican voters together is that they'll believe anything. Quite literally anything. And they don't fucking research anything, even though they start from a place of boundless ignorance.
Want to know what's always under fire from self-proclaimed conservatives? Anything meant to widen the viewpoints and horizons of Americans. School vouchers for Christian schools, even though it violates the separation of church and state and shouldn't be promoted by anyone that takes an oath to defend the Constitution? Totally okay.
Giving miniscule support to NPR? THE HORRORS OF GOVERNMENT WASTE AND FRAUD.
The nothing that USAID was contributing to American life was a lot of something, but you'll never know because Glen Beck is a fucking moron and you believed what he said without question.
Actually... you don't have a clue what my profession is. I police part time as a side gig to fight off boredom.
My 9-5 is a bit more white collar.
Thanks for your concern Marion. I assure you that my hearing is just fine.
What's important to one person to remember isn't necessarily as important to another person to remember. I haven't forgotten that you try to agitate people, with the tone of your posts, name calling and insults. It's common for people of your profession.
I find it amusing.
@good: was making sure you heard it. Seems like your age is showing. Since you are forgetting important stuff.
As fucking bad as I hate it, Mickey was right about the funding of the lab.
I have to admit watching Lab Rats on cocaine might be fun .
USAID is an easy target for Trump to feed his sheep the blood they so badly need. It’s a great tool to extract from. Why? It’s funding does not directly effect any US citizens. It’s not like cutting off Social Security or Medicaid. It’s doesn’t affect schools children. It won’t get the push back. And if it does? There is the 2Out people. “Fuck them foreign people. It’s not in the US? I don’t care “
It really is a lot like his EO yesterday about trans women and sports. Who is really effecting? An extremely small number of women. Using round numbers these are 230k female athletes in the NCAA. He just effected a swimmer and a volley ball player with his EO. BFD. But the blood thirsty sheep love it.
There are plenty of other things he can be doing to Make America Great Again. Those are too much work and not as rewarding from the view point of the sheep.
Is that the Glenn Beck that was fired from Fox "News" because he was too crazy even for them?
Listened to the Glen Beck show while having lunch. He rattled off quite a list of bullshit we hand money out for across the globe. The partial list he mentioned was likely over 200 million total.
Not a single item would do anything for America.
I'm still dumbfounded why any American would be against stopping it and yet there are.
Can you just imagine being in the Sudan where you are begging for food or water . Then the most powerful nation in the world who has always stepped arrives with a giant airplane …C-130 . Yes the Americans have come , everything will be fine now . The plane taxis down the runway , my brothers and sisters we are thankful . We will now have seeds to plant , parts for our pumps so we can now have some water . Some medicine for the older ones who are sick and frail . Then that big beautiful airplane stops we love that Red White And Blue flag on the side of the airplane . The door opens up and we see the pallets oh my this is so good food , water . We have been waiting for this . They wheel the pallets off but as we open them we find WHAT !!!!!! Comic books ( How to Understand DEI ) What is this , has god punished us . This is a sad joke . Then there is another airplane ahhh this must be the products we want …No it is a very quick shove off , open up the pallets they are full of weapons and ammunition . This might help us start a Revolution . Those rich people they have food , water. They have it all…
Why are you yelling?
@good: JW what administration & DR BLATANTLY DENIED ANY FUNDING TO WUHAN FOR GAIN OF FUNCTION TESTING MULTIPLE TIMES ACROSS MULTIPLE YEARS?
The same ones who were just pre-pardoned.
"money given to a lab in Wuhan for "gain of function" testing in 2019..."
JW who was POTUS in 2019 when that occurred?
Although I'm in favor of gain of function testing, I believe the funding indicated above was stopped sometime between 2021 and 2023.
9 million to Thomas Reuters Special Services LLC for “Active Social Engineering” and “Large scale social engineering “
Sounds like a brainwashing gig to me .
This is nonsense.
Musk doesn't investigate anything. He just breaks stuff...
X is worth 80% less than when Musk bought it.
I hate to say this these liberals are a cult . It’s like a person you know robs your house , you have a camera and see it on video . When confronted the person walks away …doesn’t deny it . I see Schumer and the democrats protesting And you blame the camera manufacturer …in this case they blame DOGE . Someone on here made fun of Elons workers . My goodness it has happened admit it , let’s clear it up NOW……….And put President Trump and Elon on Mount Rushmore.
“International Development“
Is that another word for “Regime change” ?
No paychecks to Politico employees this week .
