23 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Please Lord let USAID be the hill the left wants to die on, just until after the midterms. 

 

Salvation lies within!, and Cometh to 

the altar of DOGE!

Repent yee sinners!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/samantha-power-meet-biden-era-233826842.html

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Millions of SS# are already on the dark web currently thanks to  the Biden administration flunkies . August, 2024.

https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/billions-hacked-in-national-public-data-breach

 

What has the Biden administration to do with it! It's ridiculous! 😆

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Got any facts to dispute him? 

You should ask him about the facts supporting his claims! 🙂

1 hour ago, Screaming said:

'Wow': Elon Musk stunned at discovery of Chelsea Clinton allegedly receiving $84 million in taxpayer funding

 

https://www.wnd.com/2025/02/wow-elon-musk-stunned-at-discovery-of-chelsea-clinton-receiving-84-million-in-taxpayer-funding/

Wnd! Can't you find a more crappy source! 😆

9 minutes ago, candide said:

You should ask him about the facts supporting his claims! 🙂

Why? Im from the USA, read USA news, have family in the USA and therefore know he is correct.

5 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Why? Im from the USA, read USA news, have family in the USA and therefore know he is correct.

But you're a troll! 🙂

5 minutes ago, candide said:

But you're a troll! 🙂

Well, I guess in your world, the truth is trolling. I live in reality and am an American so enjoy your small little world

17 minutes ago, candide said:

But you're a troll! 🙂

Our posting records are there for all to see. Some, like Yagoda have been on the factual side of most issues thus have high credibility. Others, like our resident laptop deniers and those relying on personal attacks like calling others trolls as they know they have been wrong about everything have the opposite. 

3 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Our posting records are there for all to see. Some, like Yagoda have been on the factual side of most issues thus have high credibility. Others, like our resident laptop deniers and those relying on personal attacks like calling others trolls as they know they have been wrong about everything have the opposite. 

In the MAGA alternate reality, certainly! 🙂

Thank you President Trump & Elon Musk. 

 

Without having the 'books' opened up, and once again, 'free speech' allowed, the masses would still be in 'Ignorant Bliss', though surely half are still in denial, and don't believe any of it.

 

I'm only surprised about some of the info coming out.  Directly subsidizing news venues, and have to admit, didn't see that one coming ...   

 

Certain explains the BS and the intense investigative journalism during the biden years  ...

... "what kind of ice cream is that ? " 

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

Please Lord let USAID be the hill the left wants to die on, just until after the midterms. 

 

 

No, there are much bigger, uglier things coming up as this all comes to light. We don't want their dead carcasses strewn across a small garbage dump like this, when they should be floating in the cesspool of what is about to be exposed.

11 minutes ago, candide said:

In the MAGA alternate reality, certainly! 🙂

Show me some alternative reality that I believe in. I defy you.

21 minutes ago, candide said:

In the MAGA alternate reality, certainly! 🙂

No one is shutting the program down. Payments are being paused. All it would take to have a payment/program released would be for a couple of people in congress to stand up and go on the record as to why it should be funded.

 

Do you not think that the public should know what funds USAID distributes and to who? I think I should be able to the USAID website and see where every penny is going, don't you? 

 

The IRS wants to inspect every one of my Venmo transactions to make sure I've not missed anything they can tax.  

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

And then you turn around and condemn Trump for shutting down USAID. 

I didn’t condemn him for doing it

32 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

No one is shutting the program down. Payments are being paused. All it would take to have a payment/program released would be for a couple of people in congress to stand up and go on the record as to why it should be funded.

 

Do you not think that the public should know what funds USAID distributes and to who? I think I should be able to the USAID website and see where every penny is going, don't you? 

 

The IRS wants to inspect every one of my Venmo transactions to make sure I've not missed anything they can tax.  

It used to be accessible (probably not at a granular level), in USAID annual reports. However  since Musk took over, this information is censored.

 

A good way to make sure that Musk's tweets cannot be cross-checked! 

 

When one clicks on any annual report link showed by Google, that's what always comes up!

 

43 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Show me some alternative reality that I believe in. I defy you.

You defy me! 

 

BTW, I was not replying to you.

1 minute ago, candide said:

You defy me! 

Translation: I cant defend anything I ever say

2 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Translation: I cant defend anything I ever say

Translation, I'm not going to waste my time with you.

1 minute ago, candide said:

It used to be accessible (probably not at a granular level), in USAID annual reports. However  since Musk took over, this information is censored.

 

A good way to make sure that Musk's tweets cannot be cross-checked! 

 

When one clicks on every annual reports link showed by Google, that's what come up!

 

Sure, just like Boeing has an annual report that is made public each year. 

 

Again, do you not think that the public should know what funds USAID distributes and to who?

 

Bullet points in an annual report are useless. Why did the USAID leadership not open the books and cooperate? 

 

Again, I think any I should be able to the USAID website and see where every penny is going, don't you? 

 

So again, no one is shutting the program down. Payments are being paused. All it would take to have a payment/program released would be for a couple of people in congress to stand up and go on the record as to why it should be funded.

 

 

 Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of US Aid

Donald Trump’s shutdown of US Aid has already had disastrous effects on humanitarian aid and development programmes around the world, but it has also ceded ground to the US’s chief rival, China, analysts have said.

“[The US is handing] on a silver platter to China the perfect opportunity to expand its influence, at a time when China’s economy is not doing very well,” said professor Huang Yanzhong, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“What Trump is doing is basically providing China a perfect opportunity to rethink, to renew soft power projects, and get back on track to transglobal leadership.”

More than one analyst described the shuttering of US Aid as a “self-inflicted wound”.

Global dynamics have been dominated by the ongoing US-China competition and a key battlefront is in the development sector as Washington and its allies vie against Beijing for influence in the global south.

In 2018, the Chinese government created the standalone China International Development Cooperation Agency, or China Aid, to streamline China’s spending, including its foreign investment programme, the belt and road initiative (BRI). Beijing doesn’t disclose foreign aid budgets but a study by William & Mary’s Global Research Institute found China lent $1.34tn to developing nations between 2000 and 2021, mostly through the BRI. The new agency would “further the effectiveness of aid as a key foreign policy instrument”, according to a government press release at the time.

While China Aid operates differently to US Aid, by focusing more on loans and highly visible infrastructure projects rather than partnering with local organisations, both agencies have similar objectives – spreading their respective government’s soft power and influence.

It’s particularly focused on the Pacific, where the US, Australia and other allies have been trying to counter China’s efforts to make security deals with the small but strategically located countries.

China, like Russia, is trying to advance an authoritarian world. The total opposite of the interests  of the West.

There was now also likely to be greatly reduced bargaining power for recipient nations. With US Aid gone, programmes which previously reaped the benefits of two superpowers competing to fund their projects might just have to take what they can get.

They don’t have to significantly increase funding of the foreign aid levels in order to replace the US as leader in this field.

Conley Tyler said the impact of the US Aid suspension is far worse than what’s being reported because many programme workers are hoping if they keep quiet, funding might be restored at the end of the 90 days.

But even if it is, broadly, the trust is gone.

“Who is going to allow themselves to become dependent on US assistance if it’s fickle, if it doesn’t distinguish between allies and adversaries, if it could just be turned off on a political whim?” she said.

5 minutes ago, bannork said:

 Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of US Aid

Donald Trump’s shutdown of US Aid has already had disastrous effects on humanitarian aid and development programmes around the world, but it has also ceded ground to the US’s chief rival, China, analysts have said.

“[The US is handing] on a silver platter to China the perfect opportunity to expand its influence, at a time when China’s economy is not doing very well,” said professor Huang Yanzhong, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“What Trump is doing is basically providing China a perfect opportunity to rethink, to renew soft power projects, and get back on track to transglobal leadership.”

More than one analyst described the shuttering of US Aid as a “self-inflicted wound”.

Global dynamics have been dominated by the ongoing US-China competition and a key battlefront is in the development sector as Washington and its allies vie against Beijing for influence in the global south.

In 2018, the Chinese government created the standalone China International Development Cooperation Agency, or China Aid, to streamline China’s spending, including its foreign investment programme, the belt and road initiative (BRI). Beijing doesn’t disclose foreign aid budgets but a study by William & Mary’s Global Research Institute found China lent $1.34tn to developing nations between 2000 and 2021, mostly through the BRI. The new agency would “further the effectiveness of aid as a key foreign policy instrument”, according to a government press release at the time.

While China Aid operates differently to US Aid, by focusing more on loans and highly visible infrastructure projects rather than partnering with local organisations, both agencies have similar objectives – spreading their respective government’s soft power and influence.

It’s particularly focused on the Pacific, where the US, Australia and other allies have been trying to counter China’s efforts to make security deals with the small but strategically located countries.

China, like Russia, is trying to advance an authoritarian world. The total opposite of the interests  of the West.

There was now also likely to be greatly reduced bargaining power for recipient nations. With US Aid gone, programmes which previously reaped the benefits of two superpowers competing to fund their projects might just have to take what they can get.

They don’t have to significantly increase funding of the foreign aid levels in order to replace the US as leader in this field.

Conley Tyler said the impact of the US Aid suspension is far worse than what’s being reported because many programme workers are hoping if they keep quiet, funding might be restored at the end of the 90 days.

But even if it is, broadly, the trust is gone.

“Who is going to allow themselves to become dependent on US assistance if it’s fickle, if it doesn’t distinguish between allies and adversaries, if it could just be turned off on a political whim?” she said.

and where is that from?

21 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Sure, just like Boeing has an annual report that is made public each year. 

 

Again, do you not think that the public should know what funds USAID distributes and to who?

 

Bullet points in an annual report are useless. Why did the USAID leadership not open the books and cooperate? 

 

Again, I think any I should be able to the USAID website and see where every penny is going, don't you? 

 

So again, no one is shutting the program down. Payments are being paused. All it would take to have a payment/program released would be for a couple of people in congress to stand up and go on the record as to why it should be funded.

 

 

They used to publish annual reports every year. They included measuring performance on relevant indicators, and financial information. All audited by the OIG.

 

Musk has not blocked access to the archives yet, so the reports up to 2016 can still be downloaded.

https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/results-and-data/progress-data/agency-financial-report

 

Personally, I have nothing against publishing details, but not the current propaganda circus by SM posts.

I think it fair to say, that unlike the typical leftist, Authoritarian regimes around the world know that cheering things Trump does, only hurts Trump. 

1 hour ago, candide said:

Wnd! Can't you find a more crappy source! 

 

Are they wrong?

 

BTW, I can point to a dozen crappier sources without even breaking a sweat.

 

Just now, candide said:

They used to publish annual reports every year. They included measuring performance on relevant indicators, and financial information. All audited by the OIG.

 

Musk has not blocked access to the archives yet, so the reports up to 2016 can still be downloaded.

https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/results-and-data/progress-data/agency-financial-report

 

Personally, I have nothing against publishing details, but the current propaganda circus by SM posts.

Are you so blinded by your hate for Trump that you can't answer simple questions? 

 

 

Just now, Yellowtail said:

Are you so blinded by your hate for Trump that you can't answer simple questions? 

 

 

Are you so blinded by your love for Trump that you can't see I have already replied?

 

"Personally, I have nothing against publishing details"

8 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Are they wrong?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-net-daily-wnd/

3 hours ago, Screaming said:

'Wow': Elon Musk stunned at discovery of Chelsea Clinton allegedly receiving $84 million in taxpayer funding

 

https://www.wnd.com/2025/02/wow-elon-musk-stunned-at-discovery-of-chelsea-clinton-receiving-84-million-in-taxpayer-funding/

You're seriously posting a link to an article that says USAID and the Clintons were part of the Pizzagate child sex trafficking scheme? The same Pizzagate child sex trafficking scheme that is an absolute and total fantasy?

7 minutes ago, candide said:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-net-daily-wnd/

 

Before DOGE is through, mediabiasfactcheck.com will be one of their reveals.

 

Which is neither here, nor there.  Are they wrong?

 

7 minutes ago, candide said:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-net-daily-wnd/

Why dodge the question? If you don't know, just say you don't know.