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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
ObaIgwe1:
If you believe all these payments are exactly for the payment description, then you are more naive than I thought.

1st thing you should ask yourself is how do many of these payments benefit the people where it was spent? Secondly who and who requested for all these payments? Many of these African countries are anti-LGBTQ, so you should wonder and ask why would USAID wanna waste money in these places on LGBTQ issues, when the laws in many of these places are against it, like in Uganda...for whose benefits then? Why is there a need for DEI in Serbia? Who is asking for Trans operation in Colombia at the expense of US? and for God sake what is the essence of Sesame street in Iraq that is anti-West?

I stated earlier that questions should be asked to know exactly what the money went for and why... I am very sure when answers are given, many will close their mouth and beg the press to die this USAID issue, though I would not bet on Trump to be quiet cos I doubt he understands the implication of anything beyond his personal benefits. Like nateevs wrote, what DOGE is doing now is only exposing the US to severe national security issues down the line. I expect that a number of governments in these places of USAID spending are already asking questions and their findings will only have negative implications for US and her officials.
What not being said USAID was a front for CIA. No way CIA will just open an office in a country but USAID has offices all over with CIA embeds.Add the marine corp volunteers who are most likely CIA operatives.
Regarding lbgtq. CIA would definitely want to know a president of a country is gay for instance and use that to blackmail him. Or a cocaine user, or a HIV carrier .So yes in a way a lot of those descriptions are just a cover.Sone of those monies were for black ops.
But we know CIA is infested with lefties . They was pursuing a global order and lbgtq pet topics. The CIA would overthrow govts that don't support Biden agenda of weakening Russia. They support oppression of conservatives around the world ,to a leader who will advance the Green New deal, censorship of hostile media etc.

These bodies have gone behind their original mandate and deserve a thorough shakedown
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:23pm On Feb 07, 2025
Medicare Fraud uncovered by DOGE


Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Elon Musk and DOGE are getting g ready to audit CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). They have read only access but will be able to identify fraud, waste and abuse.

CMS has 6,710 employees and dispersed 1.5 trillion dollars in 2024 (22% of the budget).

CMS made 100 BILlION dollars of improper payments in 2023 according to the GAO. That accounts for 43% of all improper payments.
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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:18pm On Feb 07, 2025
feedthenation:

---Which waste?---what about Ivanka's USAID---
How USAID spent it's money is the issue It's an Aid org. Go to USAID with a proposal and they will fund you
Every aid body does that, from oxfam, SIDA, Action Aid etc.
However some of their funds were furthering leftie causes and controlling the media narrative.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:18pm On Feb 07, 2025
Bureau of Labor Statistics lied for 4 years about Joe Biden economy in terms of jobs and other economic indicators.
They are suing to prevent DOGE data crunchers access their data.

A coalition of labor groups filed suit Wednesday seeking to stop DOGE from coming to the Labor Department and gaining access to some of the world's most vital macroeconomic data.....The Labor Department houses an enormous amount of confidential data, and includes the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces important economic data, including inflation readings and market-critical employment statistics

They argue
The union said that would potentially give Musk access to non-public information from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) probes into his SpaceX, Tesla, and his tunneling company, The Boring Company, as well as investigations into his competitors.
...If DOGE representatives gain access to OSHA's databases, they could potentially give Musk information about people who filed complaints against Tesla and its competitors that would not normally be available to the public, the AFL-CIO's lawsuit said.


When DOGE gets access everybody can see that they were sexing up figures to make Joe Bidenook good.

What a time to be alive.

Jusges appointed by Clinton,Obama and Biden are expected to block Trump's agenda.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:21am On Feb 07, 2025
IDuring her testimony before Congress on January 23, 2013, regarding the Benghazi attack, Hillary Clinton stated:
"There was a lot of conflicting information that we were trying to make sense of. The situation was very fluid. It was fast-moving."

It seems surreal.Right now so much is happening. The situation is very fluid .
AG Bond has banned federal funding for 220 sanctuary cities.

17 state AGs suing to find a way to charge Dr Death who was pardoned by the deep state of all his crimes.

Several States eg Montana debating about total ban of mRNA vaccines

Video redurfaces about Mitch McConnell wanting Trump convicted for J6.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:55am On Feb 07, 2025
Trump EO.
Capacity building promote freedom, strengthen structures, support hope , etc are NGO speak words used to obtain funds. Then they use 90% on administrative expenses

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:26am On Feb 07, 2025
Trump is a liar. All these tax cuts are for the billionaire class and the 1 percenters.
Middle class and below have been played.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:11am On Feb 07, 2025
There is a lot of probable truths in this substack piece , the details sound fictional.

https://eko.substack.com/p/override

Elon has plenty of AI engineers who know how to navigate very complex Large Language Models. It took them a few days to map out what Federal bureaucrats had hidden for decades.


New agency DOVE? Department of Voter Efficiency.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:03am On Feb 07, 2025
happney65:
My werey friend. The more you deny project 2025,the more the authors keep on showing in your government.
The more the project itself keeps on showing in your government too.. grin grin grin
I'm. Not denying project2025. Let me explain to you in simple language a toddler can understand.Check my posts here in the same.
When Trump was rigged out in 2020, he didn't take every employee of his to Mara Lago. They got jobs elsewhere . Some got a job at Heritage Foundation. Heritage foundation is a think tank that produced a policy paper on what they felt America needed. After Joe Biden disaster. Plenty of authors over 100 of them had their opinions collated into one big paper
Now that Trump is back some of his former employees have rejoined him.
Is that too hard or USAID sponsored journalists convinced you otherwise?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:50am On Feb 07, 2025
cococandy. Democrat state senator underwent sterilization because she doesn't want to get pregnant? No because Trump might make contraceptives inaccessible including abstaining from sex.

As Michigan Advance reported, 36-year-old Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) announced on Wednesday during a protest on the lawn of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing that she underwent surgery to sterilize herself.

She claimed she did so because she was scared President Trump might make contraception inaccessible.

“Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America,”
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:33am On Feb 07, 2025
Will only take a few minutes to find out who denied reports that Venezuela gang had taken over apartments in Colorado. Shame on them.

Whoa. Someone leaked to Tren de Aragua gang members that ICE was raiding Aurora, CO. When ICE showed up, the apartments were empty.

Protestors also had bullhorns to warn illegals about ICE coming.

Tom Homan now says he’s in touch with the DOJ about potential prosecutions. pic.twitter.com/sNibiEG8ls

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 6, 2025
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:59am On Feb 07, 2025
happney65:
Senate Republicans confirm Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought as White House budget director. News

There you go. grin grin grin
Stop being sly.
How many people were part of project2025? Those whose opinions were actually published. The final document was over 900 pages ,each author with his own opinion.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:53am On Feb 07, 2025
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:27am On Feb 07, 2025
feedthenation:
---What about when USAID paid Elon for Starlinks---even Felon 47's daughter Ivanka got aids from the same agency---
Does it mean USAID should not spend any money? Starlink is being used all over Africa and the world .
It's not the same as $50 million for condim bombs by Hamas.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:18am On Feb 07, 2025
SpaceX:
Hamas used condoms back in 2018 alongside with bombs. Mr fake news always get your facts right.
He is a terrorist sympathiser and an antisemite.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:14am On Feb 07, 2025
nateevs:
Absolutely. This is why I seriously detest religious fanatics of any kind. It's doctrine before reason. The sad truth about this nonsense is that a lot of women are going to die.

The reality is that some of those women would include the wives, sisters, cousins and daughters of these lunatics who never stop one moment to think.
You must detest Muslims then .They are the most religious group. The most rigid still stuck with 600 AD laws .
Mic drop.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:02am On Feb 07, 2025
cococandy:
Regardless of whatever this administration wants to do about trans people, after everything is said and done, the net benefit to American women remains the same. It was never out of concern to women. And I need us to understand that. Yes maybe a random trans person who’s popular in sports will step down. Or they’ll get their own trans category idk. At the end of the day, the effect on the average woman is net zero.

However we’re celebrating them while they are actively removing the words female and woman from research funding? Studies on the health of women on pause because this administration doesn’t want to fund dei studies and of course women are “inherently lesser” in nature thus we must be DEI.

There’s so much more important stuff at stake and things like trans people advertising pads is stuff you care about when your literal life is not at risk.
I've seen somewhere medical experiments were carried out on transgendering animals like rats and monkeys.What perverts do we have in the society. What prevents these scientists from moving the penis of a monkey to it's forehead to study whether it can mate at that position?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:58am On Feb 07, 2025
cococandy:
But if the republicans have their way and pass the bills they want. Anyone even a 13 year old who gets sexually assaulted will be put to death if she gets an abortion.

And before you say they can go to hospital and get care before it results in pregnancy, the republicans are also pushing for a ban on contraception. So women really have no defenses or ways of saying this is what they want for themselves or not.

Yay. Win for women.

We have bigger problems in America and men in women’s bathrooms or sports is the least of them.

Because the way you’re sounding, if you had the ability to vote, you would vote to have my right and my daughters’ rights to bodily autonomy taken away. All because you can’t see the forest for the trees.

A doctor just got criminally indicted for providing abortion to a teenager. We heard nothing about who’s responsible for the pregnancy but the focus is on the child and whoever helped her get her life back.

You might think feminists need to focus on trans people as a priority but that’s short sightedness. By the time we’re done dancing to the culture wars of trans people in public places. We won’t even have the right to vote.

Meanwhile your LGBTQ people in UK have more rights than the ones in America. You could focus that energy on them. Women in Afghanistan were free until fairly recently. And it all happened because people let extremists take over.
Obviously not the GOP party position. How you know this republican is not a democrat who runs in a red district, pretends to be a republican?
Lindsay Graham in sep 2022 authored a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks . Midterm elections were just 2 months away then. A lot of Karens and suburbans got fired up to vote for the party that supports baby murder. In short Lindsay Graham was sabotaging GOP to give Biden the trifecta.
Get the drift?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
IjeBos:
Yeah, seemed specious when I heard it a week ago.
So, did some digging and it was a lie.
It's been a week so surprised people are still spreading it.

From the 2023 Budget
-USAID didn't even spend that much on condoms in all it's programs. Only 7 million was spent in all of 2023.
-None of that money was used for condoms in GAZA or the Middle East
-And the insane part of people in this thread parroting that lie is that 89% of the money went to programs in Africa.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/28/donald-trump-executive-orders-transgender-troops-dei-covid-us-politics-live?page=with:block-679977268f086189f840e07b#block-679977268f086189f840e07b
You are very stupid..You think WH would lie on such a matter.
KJP could lie about the economy under Biden being the greatest ever because everyone knew she was a liar.
The condoms could have been in the grant purposes, maybe someone stole the money.

Why you jumping into conclusion. A lot of irresponsible expenditures are being exposed like these ones below

YOU PAID FOR IT... BUT NOT ANYMORE! Breaking This Morning, the White House releases more projects that you paid for with USAID, the wasteful unaccountable government agency that has been dismantled by DOGE and Elon Musk! Here is a look at where your tax dollars went (including terror groups!): I hope you're proud! ⤵️
— $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 terrorgroup
— $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
— $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”
— $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
— $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 s*x with men in South Africa
— $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”
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.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:01pm On Feb 06, 2025
IjeBos:
Lies and the Liars who tell them.
This is more or less like it from politico. Not $8 m but $34 million.
These are totala from federal or govt bodies.
Spin this .

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:56pm On Feb 06, 2025
basilico:
USAID funding BBC with $2.6 million.
Obviously to slant their global coverage of pet topics.

****2,600,000 is millions .
****Apologies
BBC media ction groups requires USAID donations to help local media all around the world. It's only 8% that they get from USAID.
No wonder they need money ,they had plans to charge Netflix.
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/tv/bbc-breaks-silence-over-plan-30888897

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:16pm On Feb 06, 2025
IjeBos:
Who else paid for Politico Pro?
None other than Lauren Boebert.
I guess she is part of the fraud and deep state as well.

We are living in the dumbest timeline.
Manufactured rage every day all the time.
You think America Inc CEO don't know what he's saying about billions of dollars wasted by USAID?

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:48pm On Feb 06, 2025
IjeBos:
This is another one of your lies.
You seem to be stupid to do your own research and instead parrot whatever conspiratorial bullshit you see online.
How you even put your pants on in the morning is beyond me.
It's not a lie per se The fact that USAID is paying for politico propaganda should worry you.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:13pm On Feb 06, 2025
happney65:
"Elon Musk and elected officials falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions."
How many accounts totalling $8 million.
$444K for these 37 users.. lifetime subscription?
Im sure you will explain FDA uses 37 accounts for it's 18,000 workforce to read propaganda like killing Hunter Biden laptop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3XiIKD910

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:38pm On Feb 06, 2025
budaatum:
Because..



And because they are not unthinking maga who insurrect because they lost an election.
Have you heard. A review of the cases Trump faced will be ordered by the AG.
Then you'll see I been right on point every waking moment.
Stop using insurrection, use fedsurrection. The guy who coined it., he is now an Undersecretary in the State Department.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Whether CIA or USAID should have classified budgets,
In 2023, acording to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organizations in 30 different countries budgeted at $268 million .

Example of an echo chamber.

List down 10 media that used gravitas on July 24,2024.

Forbes published an article titled "What Is Gravitas? And Why Does It Matter?" on July 24, 2024, exploring its significance in leadership.


Here are 10 media outlets that used the term "gravitas" on July 24, 2024:

Bloomberg Television - Discussed the market's gravitas during their closing segment.
Forbes - Featured an article titled "What Is Gravitas? And Why Does It Matter?".
The New York Times - Mentioned gravitas in an article about political leadership.
CNN - Used the term in a discussion about presidential speeches.
The Washington Post - Analyzed the gravitas of various political figures in their editorial.
NPR - Included gravitas in a segment about effective communication in politics.
Politico - Discussed the gravitas of candidates in the upcoming elections.
Harvard Business Review - Explored the importance of gravitas in executive presence.
The Guardian - Referenced gravitas in an article about international diplomacy.
Business Insider - Highlighted gravitas in the context of corporate leadership.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:24am On Feb 06, 2025
cococandy:
Most people in those rural Virginia areas overwhelmingly vote red.

They did this to their healthcare system because they thought they were voting against others. I hope their master Trump listens to the judge who blocked his executive order and gives them back access to healthcare.
There are always teething problems whenever change is happening.
It will be sorted out in due time.Funds will go to the needy . Funds won't be going to New York Times . Their grants over $40 million within the last 5 years. The spigot has been turned off

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:19am On Feb 06, 2025
cococandy:
50 protests in all 50 states and it hasn’t even been two.
Overwhelming support my ass.

When him and Elon fall out, the tea will be piping hot.
Why didn't they occur spontaneously on inaugration day.
Big donor has poured money to the resistance..
George Soros? I'm willing to bet on that.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:18am On Feb 06, 2025
Unlimited22:
Lol
And y'all keep expressing support for the candidate who all white supremacist groups support

People who think anyone in a position who isn't a straight white male is a DEI hire.


Oh no. Anyway.
So I should support Kamala? You are way over your head.
Blacks also hate other blacks. Arabs are even worse.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:05am On Feb 06, 2025
budaatum:
They are coming after you next.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1885715410898559262
That X thread . Whites don't like blacks at all. Many of those who promote black interests and people are just virtue signalling.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
Can't seem to get enough of lawfare getting the middle finger.
President expected to get personal belongings back from DOJ that were seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago – including birthday cards, golf shirts and a photo of Celine Dion

Pam Bondi is expected to issue a memo to authorize a scrutiny of Trump cases including the New York cases.

In the Mar a Lago case Kash Patel in an interview with Tucker Carlson had said the reason FBI raided Melania's closet was to look for documents that touched on their Spygate investigation. Documents that showed how FBI concieved and carried out the crooked Russia Spygate investigation.
Kash Patel , they are dragging their feet confirming him So the FBI grabbed documents compiled by Kash Patel because they were "classified".

I'm loving every minute of this. Many obviously want to know exactly who organized the efforts to break Trump and put him away for life.

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