Doge assistants to elon: none have govt experience!!

@Metal-Brain said
You just undercut your own position. With those 2 agencies you named why a need for USAID? You have proven nothing.

You are also spreading misinformation. The USAID was never abolished and is run by Rubio as you well know and since you know it you are now spreading disinformation so stop lying.

You're full of crap. Trump imposed a foreign aid freeze and US Aid has been essentially shut down with plans to fire almost 95% of their workforce. There were supposed to be exemptions for esp. critical humanitarian programs but these are proving to be almost impossible to obtain because of either gross incompetence and/or deliberate obstruction from Rubio and his flunkies. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-aid-freeze-keeps-life-saving-programs-shut-sparks-mayhem-2025-02-08/

The State Department bureaus are for cultural exchanges that promote goodwill; US Aid is for direct spending of foreign aid that benefits persons in need worldwide.

@Metal-Brain said
MSN? You must be joking. Bill Gates is the head of the oligarchy and you trust microsoft propaganda?

Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vi ...[text shortened]... g for decades.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/

Idiot, the article is from the Associated Press, so your lunatic conspiracy theory doesn't apply.

Try reading my post next time before responding to it.

@no1marauder said
You're full of crap. Trump imposed a foreign aid freeze and US Aid has been essentially shut down with plans to fire almost 95% of their workforce. There were supposed to be exemptions for esp. critical humanitarian programs but these are proving to be almost impossible to obtain because of either gross incompetence and/or deliberate obstruction from Rubio and his flunkie ...[text shortened]... mote goodwill; US Aid is for direct spending of foreign aid that benefits persons in need worldwide.

That leaves 5% which proves you are full of crap.
Do you support funding transgender comic books in Peru? Yes or no?

You evaded the fact the 2 agencies you brought up can do the charity work without USAID. Your position is weak. Pick a debate you can win. Trump sanctioned the ICC. Hammer on that nail if you are smart. I will not defend him for that.

@no1marauder said
Idiot, the article is from the Associated Press, so your lunatic conspiracy theory doesn't apply.

Try reading my post next time before responding to it.

LOL!
You are the idiot.
AP was funded by USAID much like Politico was. Of course they deny it. Both do. If Infowars was funded in the same way by Russia and Alex Jones denied it would you absolve all allegations like you are the AP and Politico? Of souse not. You would scream conspiracy and call Alex Jones a Putin puppet.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/news-outlets-reject-trump-accusations-usaid-media-payoff-2025-02-07/

@Metal-Brain said
That leaves 5% which proves you are full of crap.
Do you support funding transgender comic books in Peru? Yes or no?

You evaded the fact the 2 agencies you brought up can do the charity work without USAID. Your position is weak. Pick a debate you can win. Trump sanctioned the ICC. Hammer on that nail if you are smart. I will not defend him for that.

Marauder's personality has changed over the last month. Sonhouse personality is exactly the same.

@Metal-Brain said
That leaves 5% which proves you are full of crap.
Do you support funding transgender comic books in Peru? Yes or no?

You evaded the fact the 2 agencies you brought up can do the charity work without USAID. Your position is weak. Pick a debate you can win. Trump sanctioned the ICC. Hammer on that nail if you are smart. I will not defend him for that.

No, bureaus designated for cultural exchanges can't do the work US Aid does in fighting disease and rendering Aid to those in crisis areas.

@Metal-Brain said
LOL!
You are the idiot.
AP was funded by USAID much like Politico was. Of course they deny it. Both do. If Infowars was funded in the same way by Russia and Alex Jones denied it would you absolve all allegations like you are the AP and Politico? Of souse not. You would scream conspiracy and call Alex Jones a Putin puppet.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/news-outlets-reject-trump-accusations-usaid-media-payoff-2025-02-07/

Another BS conspiracy theory.

Further moronic posts from you will be ignored.

@AverageJoe1 said
Marauder's personality has changed over the last month. Sonhouse personality is exactly the same.

Yeah, sonhouse has always been a highly partisan raving lunatic with a weakness for propaganda. No change.

Notice how none of them will defend the funding of transgender comic books in Peru. They do not support that either. They just support the democrat party despite knowing fully well they wasted money in pathetic ways.

The transgender funding is to prep for regime change though. It really doesn't have anything to do with ideology. It has to do with creating political instability.

@no1marauder said
Another BS conspiracy theory.

Further moronic posts from you will be ignored.

Stop lying!

AP was funded by USAID much like Politico was.
Read the fargin Reuters article moron!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/news-outlets-reject-trump-accusations-usaid-media-payoff-2025-02-07/

@no1marauder said
No, bureaus designated for cultural exchanges can't do the work US Aid does in fighting disease and rendering Aid to those in crisis areas.

Really? Then explain why!

@Metal-Brain said
Yeah, sonhouse has always been a highly partisan raving lunatic with a weakness for propaganda. No change.

Notice how none of them will defend the funding of transgender comic books in Peru. They do not support that either. They just support the democrat party despite knowing fully well they wasted money in pathetic ways.

The transgender funding is to prep for regim ...[text shortened]... really doesn't have anything to do with ideology. It has to do with creating political instability.

What part of this didn't you understand, idiot:

"Both esp. the first promote cooperation and understanding between the US and other countries by funding numerous cultural and entertainment events. And since, amazingly enough, there are actually gay and trans people in the world some of those events are run by and directed toward those groups.

This is the molehill of a "scandal" that right wingers are now bitching about and using as an excuse to illegally abolish a completely different agency, US Aid, which provides health and aid to millions of sick and destitute persons throughout the world."

@Metal-Brain said
Really? Then explain why!

Figure it out, moron.

Does the type of person who has expertise in cultural exchanges have the same expertise as someone who coordinates food and medicine delivery programs?

@no1marauder said
No, bureaus designated for cultural exchanges can't do the work US Aid does in fighting disease and rendering Aid to those in crisis areas.

""...Aid does in fighting disease and rendering Aid to those in crisis areas.""

If they are so great and above-board, then why is the media.....oh, never mind

@Metal-Brain said
Stop lying!

AP was funded by USAID much like Politico was.
Read the fargin Reuters article moron!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/news-outlets-reject-trump-accusations-usaid-media-payoff-2025-02-07/

Maybe you should read it:

"A spokesperson for the Associated Press, which also faced accusations from pro-Trump online accounts that it was funded by the aid agency, said it had not received any money from USAID.
“Our business is providing factual, nonpartisan news and information to customers worldwide,” the spokesperson said.
“The U.S. government has long been an AP customer – through both Democratic and Republican administrations."

Heck, why use Reuters? It's faced the same lunatic accusations:

"Reuters, which also faced online accusations it was funded by government agencies, said it didn’t have a contractual relationship with USAID. “As with all news agency customers, governments pay a fee for Reuters news services. No payments from any client, including any government entity, influence our news coverage, which is governed by the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles ensuring independence, accuracy and freedom from bias in all we do,” a spokesperson said.
The spokesperson added that Thomson Reuters Special Services, a separate legal entity operating independently from Reuters News, has provided software and information services to government agencies “across successive administrations for decades.“

As I already explained to you, governments pay, like everybody else, for access to various media outlets.

@no1marauder said
What part of this didn't you understand, idiot:

"Both esp. the first promote cooperation and understanding between the US and other countries by funding numerous cultural and entertainment events. And since, amazingly enough, there are actually gay and trans people in the world some of those events are run by and directed toward those groups.

This is the mole ...[text shortened]... Aid, which provides health and aid to millions of sick and destitute persons throughout the world."

Understanding it and agreeing with it are 2 very different things. You are wrong. It has nothing to do with ideology. It has to do with creating political instability to prep for regime change. Republicans funded ‘transgender dance’ in Bangladesh.

"According to documents obtained by The Grayzone, the US-funded International Republican Institute sees gay and transgender people as uniquely disruptive actors who can be deployed to manipulate political realities overseas, stating, “LGBTI people tend to participate in social change activities to eventually bring changes to politics.”
Read part one of The Grayzone’s investigation into International Republican Institute’s activities in Bangladesh"

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/07/republicans-transgender-dance-bangladesh/

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/09/30/us-plot-destabilize-bangladesh/

Conspiracy fact. The transgender funding is for regime change. That is why republicans are doing it too.