USAID - Dems in full delusional mode as usual

[theblether]

What beats me is why the basement dwellers and hand-to-mouth retirees get their knickers in a twist about Musk's purchase of Twitter. The guy could afford it. 

 

Give it a couple of years and if turnover returns to $5 billion or so it will be worth far more than $44 billion. 

[riclag]

2 hours ago, riclag said:

I think the young Doge people are gonna find Open Society Organizations,reeking with Stench !

Open Society organizations got $260m

from Samantha Powers administrative efforts while heading up Usaid.

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/it-was-shuttered-usaid-routed-funds-soros-causes-terrorists-and

 

[candide]

11 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

Aye, very good - article from 2022. Here's the latest debt news - Morgan Stanley offloaded $5.5 billion at 97 cents, the offering was snatched up as investors know there's profit. Immediately started trading at 98/99 with a 6.5% return in 2029. 

 

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/morgan-stanley-led-banks-sell-5-5-billion-of-x-debt-on-demand-surge-125020601901_1.html

 

By the way, Musk is worth about $150 billion more than he was when he bought Twitter. Maybe just sit this one out. 

Thank you for linking this  this  interesting article.

 

How does it contradict the fact that Twitter/X has to pay an annual interest of around $1.2 billion?

[Hawaiian]

42 minutes ago, riclag said:

The left used their propaganda machine, activist pretending  to be journalists to spread leftest propaganda on our dime!

The constitution says Congress cant make laws in respect to the press!

SCOTUS has to visit this again!

 

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-9-1/ALDE_00000395/

Fake news paid for with real dollars is another way to put it.

[candide]

18 minutes ago, riclag said:

Open Society organizations got $260m

from Samantha Powers administrative efforts while heading up Usaid.

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/it-was-shuttered-usaid-routed-funds-soros-causes-terrorists-and

 

You are posting propaganda misinformation again. 

 

The East-West Management Institute cited in the article is not an Open Society organization and has been funded by plenty of other organisations. (And BTW, it's activity was quite legit).

https://ewmi.org/donors-and-partners

 

 

[impulse]

1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Clearly Politico, BBC etc are paid left wing propaganda and NOT credible sources after all. Who knew!?

 

But I'm sure that truemediabiasfactcheckerreallytrustus.com says they're neutral.

 

[bannork]

 Consequences over President Donald Trump’s plot to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development are emerging as the agency’s stop-work order has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and medical devices inside of their bodies – and nowhere to turn.

Dozens of unfinished clinical trials around the world that relied on USAID funds have suddenly shut down, leaving patients abandoned and in a state of limbo as their access to researchers is abruptly withdrawn by Trump’s executive order freezing foreign aid grants for three months.

 

[riclag]

40 minutes ago, bannork said:

 Consequences over President Donald Trump’s plot to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development are emerging as the agency’s stop-work order has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and medical devices inside of their bodies – and nowhere to turn.

Dozens of unfinished clinical trials around the world that relied on USAID funds have suddenly shut down, leaving patients abandoned and in a state of limbo as their access to researchers is abruptly withdrawn by Trump’s executive order freezing foreign aid grants for three months.

 

Play stupid games with taxpayers un authorized money while taking care of the world’s illnesses isn’t  my country priority anymore!

Let the rich globalist oligarchs who collected USA taxpayers revenue figure it out!Better yet tell the countries they live in to support it!USa is not a charity!

 

[theblether]

39 minutes ago, bannork said:

 Consequences over President Donald Trump’s plot to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development are emerging as the agency’s stop-work order has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and medical devices inside of their bodies – and nowhere to turn.

Dozens of unfinished clinical trials around the world that relied on USAID funds have suddenly shut down, leaving patients abandoned and in a state of limbo as their access to researchers is abruptly withdrawn by Trump’s executive order freezing foreign aid grants for three months.

 

 

Alternatively - "Democrats funded experimental drug and implant procedures on poverty stricken people of colour." 

 

That wasn't very nice of them. 

[theblether]

By the way, USAID is not getting shuttered ( yet more fake news ). It's getting put through the wringer and held accountable for the money it spent. Staff cuts on the way too. 

 

Congress had to shut down USAID, Thomas Massie has cosponsored a bill to do just that. 

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11 minutes ago, theblether said:

By the way, USAID is not getting shuttered ( yet more fake news ). It's getting put through the wringer and held accountable for the money it spent. Staff cuts on the way too. 

 

Congress had to shut down USAID, Thomas Massie has cosponsored a bill to do just that. 

Reportedly the staff is being cut from more than 13000 foreign service officers to 290. So that's about at least a 97.7% cut. That's pretty much a virtual shuttering. A question is whether or not it's constitutional to fire so much staff that they cannot faithfully fulfill carry out the fulfillment of laws passed by Congress. Also, of course the Constitutional question of whether the Trump Administration can change the status of an agency created by Congress.

https://www.gpb.org/news/2025/02/06/usaid-unions-sue-trump-administration-halt-unconstitutional-and-illegal-cuts

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26 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

Alternatively - "Democrats funded experimental drug and implant procedures on poverty stricken people of colour." 

 

That wasn't very nice of them. 

If they were coerced and the risks weren't explained. You got any evidence to support such a claim?

[rumak]

5 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Clearly Politico, BBC etc are paid left wing propaganda and NOT credible sources after all. Who knew!?

 

well,  for sure one big tall guy posting endlessly the same old stories did not know ! 

He was right on one thing :  "all PEER ( paid for)  reviewed "  

[illisdean]

The democrat party is crashing big time now. They brough it all on themselves, Trump and DOGE just put them into meltdown mode. They are finished and too stupid to know it.

 

[illisdean]

LOl...Kamala and the democrat brand and SOP "Fraud, Deceit, Lies, Coverup" Unreal. Why would anyone support the democratic party or this bumbling fraudster....a total fraud against America.

 

 

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Finally an issue everyone should be in agreement on. Government corruption on a nuclear scale and destruction of democracy by paying msm to trash one party(and themselves in the process now they got caught). Can we not all agree that is bad?

 Clearly Politico, BBC etc are paid left wing propaganda and NOT credible sources after all. Who knew!?

And Speaker Johnson and Rep Lauren Boebert should be banished from Congress for participating in this corruption. 

 

"The office of Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who accused Politico of "grift" on social media Wednesday, paid more than $7,000 to Politico LLC for "publications and reference material" according to the House Statement of Disbursement for the first quarter of 2024. 

The same records show the Office of the Speaker of the House paid over $9,000 and the Republican-led House Committee on Energy and Finance paid over $58,000 to Politico LLC that quarter."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-politico-payments-fact-check/

[illisdean]

The USAID grift and fraud is ending....as it should.

 

 

[illisdean]

This is going to push the democrat delusion levels into new highs....

 

 

[SunnyinBangrak]

27 minutes ago, placeholder said:

And Speaker Johnson and Rep Lauren Boebert should be banished from Congress for participating in this corruption. 

 

"The office of Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, who accused Politico of "grift" on social media Wednesday, paid more than $7,000 to Politico LLC for "publications and reference material" according to the House Statement of Disbursement for the first quarter of 2024. 

The same records show the Office of the Speaker of the House paid over $9,000 and the Republican-led House Committee on Energy and Finance paid over $58,000 to Politico LLC that quarter."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-politico-payments-fact-check/

CBS is almost certainly on the Pravda state propaganda list. This dishonesty reminds much of when the forum left tried claiming SBF donated equally to Republicans. Of course that was bs too.

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8 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

CBS is almost certainly on the Pravda state propaganda list. This dishonesty reminds much of when the forum left tried claiming SBF donated equally to Republicans. Of course that was bs too.

Comments like this are just so....I'll  be polite and not characterize it. But what sort of alternative universe do you hail from? Ya think if CBS made this claim and it wasn't true, that conservative news outlets wouldn't be all over it? Maybe they are. Maybe you should try to offer evidence that this is the case instead of the usual reflexive denialism.

[illisdean]

 

[novacova]

 

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Just now, novacova said:

 

It's a good thing that Trump isn't given to hyperbole or I might be tempted to doubt him. Still, ee could probably learn a lot by subscribing to the professional version of Politico. Of course, he would have to read it also which might be a bridge too far.