Will we find out that a few celebrities like, oh I don't know, Lizzo, are actually not celebrities? Or in other words their media buzz and popularity was just an astroturfing like the American news media?

And just FYI

I started to post a pic then realized nobody needs to see that.

Watching a 300lb morbidly obese woman dance around in lingerie because "girl boss" or whatever is one of the many problems with our society today

I think shutting down USAID put an end to the ANTIFA riots that the left has been planning for this year.

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Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?

Nice principles you got there.

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Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?

Nice principles you got there.

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Thread title says "Trump shuts down USAID", but the story is all about Musk saying he's going to do it. So I guess now we're cool with unelected bureaucrats taking control of government?

Nice principles you got there.

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That's a beat to red pill someone. You were fine with unelected bureaucrats making laws though right?

Blathering CNN host is funny when she laments finally that DOGE is just moving too fast and scaring people, slips into lies about farmers not being able to grow wheat thanks to USAID cuts.

BREAKING: @timburchett just joined with Trump in calling for USAID to be completely ABOLISHED!

"The USAID has been a complete ripoff of the American taxpayer. Shut it down"

"Regroup the the system so that if the farmers are doing legitimate work, then they should get… pic.twitter.com/0i7ky48QtC

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 8, 2025

Infuriating illegalities because as with USAID, FEMA administrators consider themselves above the POTUS.

The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.

Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.

That money is meant for American disaster relief…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 10, 2025

The real world primary benefit of closing USAID is more freedom globally. Case in point:

2 days after USAID goes down Brazil finally ends its months-long censorship ban on Rumble.

Hmmm… it’s almost like everything I said about Brazil’s censorship apparatus being juiced by USAID cash and killing their USAID funding & network partnerships would lessen their grip… https://t.co/cFV8pljGBy

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 9, 2025

Mike has talked many times about how Nato held journalist training conferences for propaganda purposes, but USAID's internews was really a whole other scale of information warfare (long thread);

1/ Internews, heavily funded by USAID ($470M), spent decades building media networks, training journalists, and promoting “free speech” in former Soviet states.

But their mission wasn’t neutral. It was about shaping narratives to support NATO expansion.pic.twitter.com/mDx6h2kJs2

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

Mike goes back to Russiagate as the predicate for the now-globalist based censorship industry as a policy matter here;

Here's the first 20 mins of the kickoff Benzotation Research Stream for subscribers. I annotated a NATO Psyops Panel w/ CIA Renee + UK Intel on censorship planning

Posted the full 2 hours in my subs tab! Thank you all for a magical kickoff to this new weekly tradition! 🎤🎵🎷🧑‍🏫 pic.twitter.com/p0LDfDu1bm

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 8, 2024

Censorship training around NATO by a 2020 election censorship expert paid by USAID:

At a NATO social media censorship planning summit to stop "disinformation" in 2019, a rep from Graphika (a Pentagon psychological operations firm DHS tapped to censor 2020 election) pitched NATO on how best to run information operations on US civilians, despite ethical concerns https://t.co/BYIordpx18 pic.twitter.com/T9V1KAcGrc

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 9, 2024

(Sorry for long post, just trying to tie this stuff together as to why they are so apoplectic about Internews-USAID etc)

Check this out!

2/14

Approaching the gate manned by Egyptian guards, we bluffed our way in and drove through the su*cide b*m8er barriers. This was aided, no doubt, by the fact that we were in a Mercedes (the diplomatic car of choice) and I look unmistakably American. pic.twitter.com/mQy9BcgnLK

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) February 9, 2025

14/14

…employee working here told us that he doesn’t really know what they do in there beyond doling out US money to various parties and initiatives.

We were supposed to get new laptops, but that was canceled when Trump was inaugurated,” he whined.

THE END (for now) pic.twitter.com/AwiRQLPIqq

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) February 9, 2025

USAID funded the invasion of America, ⁦@elonmusk⁩, via the UN organization IOM.

Trust me. I was there.

I took these pics on the same beaches where cartels were loading migrants on zodiacs bound for the Darién Gap.

The biggest **human trafficking** op in modern history. pic.twitter.com/QKsFxCngfl

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) February 8, 2025

…in Colombia, Darién, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, etc.

The largest **human trafficking op** in modern history has suffered a setback, but it still rolls on and must be destroyed as the transatlantic slave trade was once destroyed.

USAID is part of it, but not all. I’m… pic.twitter.com/UAokb3rUWh

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) February 7, 2025

He runs the WTF! Podcast I think, seems like a solid follow.

Some posters here use to be paid to post...use to, not now, not anymore. They just rage posting now for free. tee hee hee

Hate the thought that just occurred to me - despite all our posturing and empty rhetoric, are we (USA) in fact the world's biggest financial sponsor of terrorism through programs like USAID?

We were sending Hamas money to build concrete, buying it from them, and sending well north of $40 million a week to the Taliban. To say nothing of aid to HTS (Al Qaeda) in Syria (along with 20 or so other groups there), and groups elsewhere such as Africa and Pakistan.

I don't think Iran's terror budget is even 10 percent of what our federal government, net (direct and obfuscated/hidden), spent on funding terrorists over the past 20 years.

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Hate the thought that just occurred to me - despite all our posturing and empty rhetoric, are we (USA) in fact the world's biggest financial sponsor of terrorism through programs like USAID?

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Not to mention human and sex trafficking.

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Michael Dell weighing in.

Awesome 😎 pic.twitter.com/DkoZXRROuq

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025

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Dell has been surprisingly based through all of this, even though he sucks.

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I think guys like Musk and Dell are geniuses and borderline autistic. They understand their own businesses and have little tolerance for inefficiency. The federal government is the opposite of efficient.

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That's not the correct nomenclature.

Elon is on the Autism spectrum, although he is on the very far end of functional.

For him, it's not really a disability. It is a super power.

It is absolutely NOT a coincidence that after Trump dismantled USAID and froze foreign funding, Hamas stopped their terrorist payment system

Your tax dollars were indirectly funding terrorism

And look who is upset that money laundering was stopped:

Democrats https://t.co/Aaj0qbq51Q pic.twitter.com/r2Vj9gX4G9

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 10, 2025

Wait, we're the baddies?

Let's hope this is right:

Going back to those who criticized Judge Nichols last week -- and even as early as today -- when you read the brief the Govt has just filed, you can see why it is the PROCESS works as it does.

Judge Nichols knew the USAID workers claims were on thin ice. He fleshed out just how…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) February 10, 2025

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Judge Nichols knew the USAID workers claims were on thin ice. He fleshed out just how thin that ice was at the hearing last Friday. He granted a very brief period of pause to what the Trump Admin was doing, but in doing so he laid the foundation for what has happened today.

The Govt brief in opposition is 40 pages long and inflicts about a dozen fatal wounds to the claims by USAID that the Court and/should come to their rescue.

The Govt has now done what Nichols expected -- it has challenged standing, it has challenged the Court's jurisdiction, it has challenged whether available administrative remedies have been exhausted, etc.

All those arguments will justify not only denying the injunction but laying the groundwork for a motion to dismiss to get rid of the case altogether.

And the attorneys for the USAID employees have 24 hours to try to undo the damage now done.

So, for you armchair QBs without any legal background (Dan and Julie), maybe hold off with the hot takes next time since you don't know the rules of how these games are played.

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By DEFINITION, media can't be a true unbiased media if it's being funded by government. Trump/Leavitt should be hammering this to the press/world every day, every hour, every time they speak, lead off with this. Doesn't matter why they are talking to the press. Could be a briefing on Hamas. Lead with that. Ask the press if they agree that government should be funding the press.