Posted on 02/04/2025 7:05:27 AM PST by Starman417
Yesterday, eclipsed by other news, the USAID takedown receded from corporate media front-page headlines. But the burgeoning story continued to develop. The AP ran an article late yesterday headlined, “Trump and Musk move to dismantle USAID, igniting battle with Democratic lawmakers.”
Social media regulars are well aware the Democrats howled in protest yesterday over the closing of an “independent” agency that nobody outside government circles ever paid any attention to before now. USAID is an insider joke, a wink-wink, nudge-nudge, know-what-I-mean kind of thing. It’s a perq for progressives who tow the globalist line.
To the literati, if you could say “my non-profit just got authorized with USAID,” it meant welcome to the club and enjoy your ride on the gravy train. But it’s over. Regardless of what happens next, that particular perquisite for government insiders has been shattered forever.
You might even say the entire world is breathing a tremulous sigh of relief.
The USAID drama reached a shrill, feverish pitch yesterday. A coterie of Congressional Democrats led by party low-lights Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-Minn.), along with a few dozen hastily assembled “protestors,” showed up at USAID’s shuttered HQ, and filmed themselves indignantly demanding access.
What they planned to do if they actually got in is anybody’s guess. Probably insurrection.
Two bored security guards refused entry, so the furious progressives delivered speeches to each other on the sidewalk using USAID HQ as a prop. Trump is blowing his nose on the Constitution! It’s a coup! Nobody elected Elon! Et cetera and so forth.
More significantly, President Trump appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the new Acting Director of USAID. Secretary Rubio then assigned an unnamed manager, who Democrats darkly suspect to be a known USAID hawk. “USAID has a history of acting like it’s a global charity,” Rubio explained in an interview. “It ignores the national interest of the United States, but these aren’t donor dollars; they’re taxpayer dollars.”
The Democrats’ Dirty Tricks brigade showed up in force, too. It’s not clear yet where it started, possibly Wired magazine. But the hellish fever swamps of progressive mania discovered DOGE’s core team of ex-Musk employees. There are six, and they are all extraordinary young men between the ages of 19 and 25.
One, for example, once won an award for using AI to decipher a 2,000 papyrus scroll that experts couldn’t make any sense of. The names and addresses of the young men were instantly leaked to media and the Internet, and of course the death threats began immediately on BlueSky, which is the vaunted new home of the intellectual, peace-loving, and tolerant left.
Fortunately, interim District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Ed Martin quickly clamped down on the doxxing and threats. Rolling Stone ran a snide, resentful story last night headlined, “Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff.” The sub-headline groused, “The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen.”
As a lawyer, it seems likely to me that the six young men will soon have highly lucrative defamation cases against far-left news outlets with deep pockets. A key category of commercial defamation, considered so injurious it requires no proof of damages (which are presumed), is when the defamatory statement tends to injure the person in their chosen trade or profession.
Rolling Stone called them “babies” and strongly implied they were totally unqualified. Even worse for the media assassins, the DOGE men are not public figures, despite Rolling Stone’s efforts to make them famous. As private citizens, their defamation cases will be much easier to prove.
And lest we forget —but how could we?— in 2021, Democrats re-defined “insurrection” to mean non-violently interfering with government operations. So, I hope Rolling Stone’s insurrectionists are not trying to interfere with DOGE’s operations. We know what to do with insurrectionists.
You can read the hundreds or thousands of shrill missives decrying these courageous young men, and still have no clear idea of exactly what horrible crimes Democrats think they are committing. Don’t waste our time suggesting the crime is “accessing private data”; after all, Democrats were quiet as churchmice when Biden presided over the biggest leaks of American’s private information in history.
So … what are Democrats really so upset about?
Who knows. If anything, USAID’s long-overdue public exposure picked up steam yesterday. In one stellar example, Elon pointed out that USAID funded the Wuhan coronavirus experiments. In doing so, Elon accidentally (and correctly) called covid a bioweapon, which confirms that the space billionaire is really getting it.
We might finally be getting somewhere. One of the most mysterious and least understood facets of the pandemic was how, within a few short weeks, every single country in the world but one fell into line with US pandemic policy. They all adopted the same draconian solutions, the lockdowns and the mandates, without any democratic debate or even a single vote in any congress, parliament, or legislature anywhere.
I will not be surprised if we soon discover that USAID was the tool that was used to co-opt the world’s democracies during covid.
Somehow, despite moving at turbo speed, Trump has kept Congressional Republicans on board. The fact that the only folks complaining about the demolition of USAID are Democrats is very telling. If anything, the USAID battle seems to have loaded more lead into Republicans’ pencils. For example, yesterday Senator John Kennedy told reporters that anybody upset about USAID should “call somebody who cares” — and they should get ready for what’s coming next.
The Democrats may have just begun to fight their battles to save USAID, but Trump has already won the war. USAID has always been hard to kill. Republicans have been sounding the alarm about USAID for years. For example, back in 2017, Florida Representative Francis Rooney complained to reporters that USAID funds the World Economic Forum, even though “everybody arrives in a Gulfstream G5.”
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
The demon driven zlways gnash their teeth and seethe with rage when held to account and exposed.
WTF?
Video: This is USAID’s Senior LGBTQI+ Director (salary $125k)
In charge of ‘inclusive development policy”
https://rumble.com/v6gp7v1-this-is-usaids-senior-lgbtqi-director-salary-125k.html
HOORAY Elon Musk! HOORAY President Trump!
Their money laundry just got closed.
Well USAID is nothing but the democrat’s slush fund to spend were ever they want
I love how the left screams Musk is shadow government when we just had 4 years of it and they denied what we all knew.
If you ever wanted to go right to the source of a Democrat pork trough, utilized by the Democrats to advance Leftism, with what appears to be ZERO oversight, this is it. The scalded pig reaction by Leftists should tell you all you need to know. And they are pulling out all the stops. Doxxing the people looking into it, who are now getting death threats from Leftists. There are likely HUGE kickbacks to Democrats via this USAID channel.
For anyone interested, there is an excellent FR Thread started by Freeper SeekAndFind:
LINK TO FREE REPUBLIC THREAD: If Presidents Can’t Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake
It is a superb article, a lot of information. On my way into work this morning, I heard Trump refer to USAID as staffed by Left Wing Lunatics. That appears to be a spot on characterization as the Federalist article above also links to a thorough, informative, and all-around-excellent article from the Heritage Foundation (who delivered to us what now appears to be the Trump blueprint for reforming government; the excellent Project 2025!) which has a prescient article from 2022 titled:
It is an extremely detailed article that outlines exactly how this Department (USAID) has been totally hijacked by "Left Wing Lunatics", and this excerpt from that Heritage Foundation article linked above outlines and clearly confirms this:
"...A review of the first 50 USAID employees, chosen alphabetically, who made political contributions during the 2020 federal election cycle shows that 48 of them donated to Democratic candidates and causes, with just two giving to Republicans, a 12 to 1 ratio. Of the estimated $48,000 donated, only $600 went to Republicans, less than 2 percent of the total.80 Following the slaying of George Floyd in late May 2020, an election year, over 1,000 USAID staff demanded that the agency “make a public statement affirming that Black Lives Matter,” accused USAID “of structural racism,” and insisted USAID design a plan to address “systemic injustice, racism, colonialism, and police brutality,” echoing liberal and progressive talking points just months before national elections..."
Just wow. The first 50, chosen at random alphabetically...! When Trump referred to them as Lunatic Leftists, he wasn't exaggerating.
“when the machinery stops squeaking and starts screaming it’s time to replace parts” applies. and sometimes, as in this case, no upgrade or parts replacement necessary when it’s discovered that the particular machinery in question in no longer even needed. most times a squeaky wheel doesn’t need grease as much as replacement.
Nothing more than a money laundering operation.
Destroy records of their taxpayer money laundering?
Because so many American politicians have taken illegal kickbacks using USAID.
oh, i knew there’d be a problem. I never thought these people would go down easy.
Make a list of all the crap programs that have been funded with the taxpayers money and challenge members of Congress to publicly say they would support that expenditure. I would love to see these Congress Clowns try to defend these expenditures
They are afraid of the light that operate in the darkness.
All fine and dandy, but I want to ask the obvious.
What other “Agencies”, “Offices”, “Task Force”, “Bureaus”, etc. are doing the same? Perhaps on a smaller scale drawing less attention to themselves.
Not just Fed., States too.
following...
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/trumped-tuesday-february-4-2025-c
How do you sleep at night?
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