Posted on 02/18/2025 10:23:17 AM PST by DeweyCA
USAID is/was an octopus, with tentacles extending everywhere.
What did those tentacles do? First and foremost, they extended into the taxpayers' pockets to extract tens of billions of dollars a year, transferring those dollars to organizations and agencies favored by the transnational elite. The projects could be anything from overthrowing a government or two to putting some spending money into the pockets of the favored elites.
A grain or two of rice might be given to some starving people for appearance's sake, but that was hardly the point. The grift and the power were.
A perfect example is the case of Rory Stewart, a former Member of Parliament in the Conservative Party, a staunch "Remainer" with a rather plummy background that included everything from the Eton to Oxford to MI6ish stuff best not spoken of to politics to academia track. His father was literally a colonial official, and Stewart styles himself an adventurer akin to the Victorians. He has taught at Yale and Harvard and hosts the most popular political podcast in the UK. He almost replaced Theresa May after she was displaced.
Stewart is big mad because USAID funds were cut, and you will be delighted that he is after you watch this.
The HORROR! His wife's cushy nonprofit that, to be honest, pretty much exploits Indigenous artists around the world by purchasing their products for pennies and selling their wares online at outrageous prices, is losing its next installment of a million dollars because of mean old Donald Trump.
Where, oh where, will Rory get his spending money from, if not the American taxpayers? (Actually, Rory is pulling in around £70,000 a month from his podcast, so he is doing fine).
Stewart expects people to be appalled that the gravy train has been cut off, not realizing that almost nobody knew or cared about the money flowing into his pockets until he whined that it stopped.
Now that we know, we want the rest of it back. Teaching Afghan women about Dadaism is not how we expected our foreign aid money to be spent.
Sending money to Turquoise Mountain is hardly the worst thing USAID ever spent money on. I wish it were, because then I wouldn't have to worry about the hundreds of millions we sent to Hamas, or al Qaeda, or ISIS.
But it may be the most symbolic.
USAID was the mad money for the transnational elite. It was a giant pool of cash into which they could dip their hands and extract whatever amount was needed to slake their thirst.
Want to overthrow a government? USAID can help! Want to create a Narrative™? USAID has bought and paid for journalists and a censorship arm to help with that too!
Want to start an arts and crafts company? The US taxpayer will make it happen!
One has to wonder just how many bits of USAID money have flowed through Stewart's life? His globe-trotting, intelligence-adjacent history, political and academic career, and his foray into broadcasting all suggest that lots of opportunities were there for the taking.
I have neither the time nor the skills to dig through his income flow and history to see how many times his life has intersected with USAID generosity, but at least $10 million has flowed his direction just through Turquoise Mountain.
No wonder he is upset. Wouldn't you be if some Bad Orange Man and Crazy Rocket Man dammed up the flow of free money into your pockets?
The wonder of it all is that so many of his listeners are as horrified as he is at Trump for doing this.
They don’t consider it a waste because it fills up their bank accounts.
To them it’s “A Way of Life.”
Non-looting protesters will have more hand written signs, and will be fewer in numbers attending, because the lunch lady with their paychecks “aint coming”.
Mass criminal charges and prosecutions on the horizon. I see no other choice.
Those responsible for looting American citizens of trillions must pay!
Gosh.
Pronto.
And the fewer protesters the better.
That itself is probably a deep-state grift.
I'd like to see how many listeners a woke leftist/statist drone like this really has. Probably very few. His "earnings" are probably paid by some other USAID equivalent in Brussels.
It's like neocon Bill Kristol in the USA. No one buys his books, no one read his crappy magazine when it existed, no on pays to see him speak. How does he live? Where did his so-called "influence" come from?
Yet there is he is, every day, spouting off on the MSM, treated as some famous "expert."
“His wife’s cushy nonprofit that, to be honest, pretty much exploits Indigenous artists around the world by purchasing their products for pennies and selling their wares online at outrageous prices.”
That’s a tall accusation. Hope for his sake he can back it up.
I LOVE the accompanying photo in this HotAir article. It speaks volumes...
Heads need to roll, otherwise this will be reconstituted next time a leftist or RINO gets hold of the levers of power.
The grift and outright theft in things like this is one thing; but it also causes good hearted and generous people to become suspicious of all charity, ‘Fair Trade’ orgs., etc.
And FEMA had just $ 750 for each family who lost their houses, belongings, and who knows what else in western NC.
Perhaps make a list of all these “vital” projects and let Congress vote up or down on each one. I doubt all but the most loony leftists could not publicly vote to spend millions on gay puppet shows in some third world dung heap. Too long Congress has passed multi thousand page omnibus spending bills filled with crap and waste of the taxpayers money.
clawbacks first! then when the financial rapers of the American taxpayer are sufficiently indigent, prosecute them FAR past the limits of the law. remember friends...that is EXACTLY what they do.
“And FEMA had just $ 750 for each family . . “
And even then they were stingy and wouldn’t pay out even that small pittance amount to many folks still in dire need in NC.
I’m sure Chelsea Clinton needed it more.
That’s a “nutshell”? It’s a left-wing patronage system. There.
USAID code word for unlimited corruption for unlimited time.
DNC not answering the phone and the light are out.
“Knock knock.”
USAID: “Who is there?”
“DOGE.”
USAID: “Oh ****.”
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