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Now it is starting to make sense. Unbeknownst to the vast majority of Americans, Politico was receiving huge amounts of taxpayer money from USAID. As Donald Trump and Elon Musk seek to gut the corrupt agency and stop the disbursement of billions of dollars around the world, many people have pointed out some of the most ludicrous “grants” handed out by USAID. Among the lucky recipients is Politico, a prominent digital news company covering U.S. and global politics. Politico is a for-profit venture. In 2021, it was bought by Axel Springer for a staggering $1 billion. Nevertheless, the company has...

This is an excellent discussion with Mike Benz who discusses the criminality of USAID.

USAID has been completely unaccountable for decades, run by bureaucrats with agendas who believed they answered to nobody. Here are a few more of the ridiculous projects on which they spent YOUR money: — $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” —...

What we’re finding out in real time is the entire modern left is just smoke and mirrors. There is no left wing voter base, all the elections are rigged and fake, all the liberal media outlets have no audience and are kept alive by USAID funding. All their politicians and political pundits are paid by USAID to say what the government wants. The whole thing was a house of cards.