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happney65:
Noo,Dems didnt run on invading government offices and looking for wetin no loss. They didnt run on it so it isnt their wahala.

Na moderm day Hitler always rants and shouts that there is corruption in all agencies of the US government who are after him and wants him to die off.

All agencies of government are his problem. From Education,to social security to everyone but not the PENTAGON. Yes the Pentagon that has all the money. No US agency has the type of Budget that the Pentagon has if I am right.

He cannot audit the others and leave one. The Almighty Pentagon. He must be fair and just and Audit all of them..

So why is he leaving the Pentagon? Abi corruption no dey there too? Or like the brain of a Trump supporter reasons like an ant,is it that yoi cant reason that well to know your guy is just using your brains?

Ohh I'm sorry. He once said it that he loves the poorly Educated..

basilico:
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.

happney65:
Abeg,I don't know why DOGE or wetin them call am isn't interested in auditing the Pentagon.

Abi the Pentagon is a no goal area ni?

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.

PDPGuy:
I’m not against cutting out government waste and fraud. For eg, I’m angry that the Pentagon has reportedly been spending $600 million/year on sushi, whilst the IRS spends over $1,200/month for refreshments per employee!

raumdeuter:
Democrats just spent 12 of the last 16yrs in power, they didnt do it, but you are crying about why an agency that is 3 weeks old hasnt done what Democrats didnt do in 12yrs?
When Dems get into power next they can focus on Pentagon, right now DOGE is busy with others

happney65:
Abeg,I don't know why DOGE or wetin them call am isn't interested in auditing the Pentagon.

Abi the Pentagon is a no goal area ni?

basilico:
What nit being said USAID was a front fir 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 hom. 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 . And they was pursuing a global order and lbgtq pet habits. 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

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.

ObaIgwe1:
Dayo everything is not about Democrats vs Republicans. I might disagree with the method and what I suspect to be the motive, but I support Trump's agenda in cutting waste in government and prioritizing Government spending on essentials... as long as the benefits is not going to the 0.001% of the wealthiest people. Let him expose both the Democrats and Republicans that have been corrupting the system. But let him not ignore Pentagon also. All those Arms and mission expenses should be investigated. Or are you a contractor with Pentagon supplying original Naija ganja to the military guys?

raumdeuter:
Anyone who kept quiet in all the decades before has lost all right to point to one dept

Why didn't anyone Dem Republicans open case file for Pentagon when they were in power?

It's like a child has headache, stomach ache, rashes and the guardian ignored.

Another guardian took over and caring for the rashes and the initial person is pointing that why are you not looking at the headache? The sick child was with you for weeks you didn't touch any of the ailment

Anyone who was there for decades watching the mismanagement and didn't say anything has lost the moral right to point fingers to say why are you not checking this or that

So wait first let the audit be done on wherever and we wait to see

So which one benefits the American taxpayers more? Going to the 0.01% American billionaire like Bezos who can likely create more jobs for Americans or going to Sesame street in Iraq, Trans in Colombia and DEI in Serbia

"Like all the members on this Committee, I too support our troops and believe we have a solemn duty to ensure our nation is protected from increasing threats at home and abroad, but there has to be accountability to the American people. And as it stands, correct me if I'm wrong, no one really knows how much waste, fraud, and abuse is at issue and whether this money could be spent on other crucial programs, critical outreach efforts, and critical communities all across the country," said Ranking Member Kweisi Mfume in his opening statement.

Ibime:
Shey I will move to America to become an auditor there

Na the new goldrush be that

Bear in mind that he who pays the piper dictates the tune

I can audit Uncle Scrooge accounts and make him look like Mobutu Sese Seko. I'm the man for the job.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s DOGE, was fired from his previous job at a cybersecurity company for leaking company secrets, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Coristine was an intern at Arizona-based Path Network in 2022 when he was fired for allegedly sharing information about the company with a competing company.

“Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors,” a message from June 2022 about the termination seen by Bloomberg News reads. “This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.”

Incredibly, Bloomberg reports that Coristine bragged on Discord about retaining his access to the company not long after being dismissed. The teenager reportedly said that he had “access to every single machine” at Path Network, but said, “I never exploited it because it’s just not me.”

Coristine has become the butt of constant jokes online for previously using the name Big Balls online, but the young man’s access to America’s most sensitive information is no joke. As Wired noted in an article earlier this week, Path Network is known for hiring reformed blackhat hackers. And Coristine is now reportedly rummaging around the networks of federal agencies.

The DOGE team was assembled by Musk to supposedly look for ways to battle waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, all with the blessing of President Donald Trump, but the reality is much darker. The DOGE soldiers have been ransacking every agency they touch, gaining access to private information and the kinds of things that a foreign adversary would love to get their hands on.

The goal, according to multiple reports, is to shut off funding for things that Musk and Trump don’t like. That’s why USAID is reportedly on the chopping block, with thousands of workers set to be laid off in a completely illegal move that would leave only about 300 staff left. The foreign aid agency has seen its website shut down and employees placed on administrative leave, with promises to obliterate the agency altogether.

But there’s been no accountability for members of DOGE, and the White House said on Wednesday that Musk will police his own conflicts of interest. CBS News reporter Kathryn Watson reported Friday on X that Musk’s financial disclosure forms will not be made public and even sitting senators won’t be able to access the information.

All of this comes as Musk has floated the idea of hiring back a 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez who was linked to an X account that posted extremely racist material. Elez resigned on Thursday but Musk and Vice President JD Vance suggested on social media Friday he should be brought back onto the team. This afternoon, Musk tweeted that “He will be brought back.”

Reuters published a new article about another DOGE staffer, Gavin Kliger, who was retweeting notorious holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and misogynist Andrew Tate. Both Tate and Fuentes have made Nazi salutes in online videos, something that Musk did twice the day Trump was inaugurated.

Perhaps most alarming in all of the digital incursions by DOGE, CNN has reported that 23-year-old Luke Farritor, a former SpaceX intern, was given access to the Department of Energy, an agency that holds highly sensitive information about the nation’s nuclear weapons. The agency’s general counsel and chief information offices objected but were reportedly overruled.

The new report from Bloomberg about Coristine’s history is alarming but not entirely surprising. Much like Trump, Musk only seems to care about one thing: Loyalty to the leader. If you’re racist, it seems like that’s just a bonus for the billionaire.

Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice

Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.

Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.

This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?

GloriousGbola:
https://gizmodo.com/doge-staffer-previously-fired-from-cybersecurity-company-for-leaking-secrets-2000561131



years ago, a friend who was a contractor for a us government company was considering offering me a job and told me quote clearly that there would be extensive background checks

but here we are with what are essentially kids with IT [industrial attachment] experience being put in charge of overseeing multiple government agencies they have no actual experience in. this is why musk was trying to hide their identities. a person who leaked his employers screts as an IT student is a red flag for any company.

these kids are hired solely for their loyalty or worship of musk and whatever megalomania he stands for

even if this nonsense is shut down, the damage is already done. a person so amoral that he stole and sold company secrets as a teenager and got a slap on the wrist will do far worse and far more with even more critial information.

bemeruca:
Oga carry your tiktok news go sit down for gutter. Now you leftists are against leaking 😂😂

Desperate as usual

GloriousGbola:
when are you getting your job in Doge?

you should write elon.

you can be their token nigger . the beta cuck they send to get coffee or post incoherent shit on boards like nairaland. it is not as if you have any real self value as is

i mean - with your 'CCNA' and your project management and your extensive experience in internet trolling you should be easily considered over 19 year old information thieves



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLOuiApOnbw&t=925s

the tiktok video was the skit from 15.57 to end.

it may be too much for a pretender without any actual working experience beyond internet trolling like a musk fanboy to understand, but
most people would not have watched the entire clip to get to the last four minutes of layered comedy gold

we know you are not good for anything other than pretending to be an imitation of an intern, so thats why you are unable to comprehend sources of information

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/musk-s-doge-teen-was-fired-by-cybersecurity-firm-for-leaking-company-secrets

this is the original source.

now stop disturbing the adults in the room and write a letter to elon.

you kind of fit the profile of his team

scam prone
amoral
troll
no real work experience
certified dick sucker of racist white men

and on the actual technical skills - not so much. your 'CCNA' will not cut it. neither will your 'mechanical engineering degree' from an african backwater .or your secondary school for refurbished and loyal houseboys

add your being black and from nigeria of all places - which means you are a third tier DEI hire. hopefully the fictitious company where you work in will soon get the memo and replace you with a competent white guy

raumdeuter:
EU to offer lower tariffs on US cars
Bloc hopes olive branch will help to shield Europe’s ailing car industry from Donald Trump’s trade measures

Financial Times

GloriousGbola:
this is the actual cover of time magazine

raumdeuter:
The European Union is scrambling to cut taxes on American cars in a bid to avert a trade war with Donald Trump.

Brussels is preparing to lower tariffs of 10pc on US cars shipped into the bloc in an effort to appease President Trump, a senior EU lawmaker said on Friday.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/07/interest-rates-house-prices-ftse-100-markets-latest-news-uk/

PDPGuy:
Good for them

GloriousGbola:
sit back and watch the efccization of the US DOJ. this is why they are now referring to it as trump's DOJ. because we are going to watch it be reduced to a body used to go after trumps perceived enemies while allowing his cronies and those who kiss the ring to do whatever they want

PDPGuy:
Nawa oh

Never knew that some women still marry guys old enough to be their daddy 🙆🏽‍♂️