I don't understand?SwigAg11 said:
If NOVA gets cleared out that may turn VA red!
These 2 things aired the same episode, because these 2 things are related. USAID has been funding all of Europe’s censorship organizations. pic.twitter.com/IuHPBOehne
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 17, 2025
The involvement of John Kerry and Chuck Hagel in the founding of the American Security Project (ASP) casts a shadow of intrigue over the organization, hinting at a potentially corrupt collaboration that goes beyond mere political camaraderie. Their esteemed positions in American…
— grlofmstry (@grlofmstry) February 16, 2025
To them, any threat to their power is a threat to the Western world itself.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 16, 2025
The moment Trump started talking about "draining the swamp"—even if it began as a mere slogan—he became a real threat. They moved swiftly to destroy him, and in the process, they exposed themselves.
And…
I’ll clarify this for you, @charliekirk11.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 16, 2025
Senator Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) serves as a Director at the International Republican Institute (IRI), one of eight core NGOs aligned with the political establishment. While IRI is closely tied to the Republican Party, its agenda and… https://t.co/gY6r846Pb3 pic.twitter.com/EJl7Q9KGIr
🚨🇺🇸MISLEADING MUCH, 60 MINUTES?
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 17, 2025
60 Minutes claimed Kristina Drye “was fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of USAID.”
What they didn’t tell you? Kristina wasn’t a USAID employee - she worked for XLA and Jefferson Partners, providing speechwriting services for USAID… pic.twitter.com/bzxawR4Rxm
USAID: Democrats argue the $38-40 billion USAID spends each year on anti-American media, democracy destabilizing efforts, and in some cases - life saving aid - is no big deal as it is only 1% of the federal budget.
— @amuse (@amuse) February 17, 2025
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60 Mins is just fully a scam https://t.co/WxfjsBPYz6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
60 Mins are such liars. As the Community Note states, all employees were offered 8 months of pay & benefits. pic.twitter.com/8djYsnWTJG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
60 Minutes aired an interview of 2 USAID Contractors last night—one was Kristina Drye—the same woman ABC interviewed who confessed to taking “incriminating books” with her after @DOGE entered the USAID building.
— Lindsay Penney (@TexasLindsay_) February 17, 2025
Strangely, Kristina Drye has deleted her X account. pic.twitter.com/rMBantPFMb
So.. should DOGE audit her? 👀
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) February 17, 2025
Chelsea Clinton receives annually-recurring funding from USAID, allocated by Obama for her Foundation, which provides afternoon meals to children in Africa, India, and Bangladesh.
However, as of today, the reported number of meals served stands at… pic.twitter.com/uge50MJjih
ProgN said:
Look at this:
https://datarepublican.com/nonprofit/assets/?other_expenses_show=0&assets_show=0&receipts_min=0&receipts_max=82040914822&govt_amt_min=19600000&govt_amt_max=11069708938&taxpayer_pct_min=0.6&taxpayer_pct_max=1&sort_field=travelExpensesPct&sort_dir=desc
Well… this takes strategy. Once you start coming after corrupt politicians and their children, congress will go ape **** and pass zero legislation. Go after (D)s and they'll rightfully call you partisan. Go after all swamp critters and they'll impeach + remove Trump. This is Pandora's box. Bondi needs to have a solid blitz lined up.Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Come on, Pam Bondi. Let's get after it.
Get Off My Lawn said:Well… this takes strategy. Once you start coming after corrupt politicians and their children, congress will go ape **** and pass zero legislation. Go after (D)s and they'll rightfully call you partisan. Go after all swamp critters and they'll impeach + remove Trump. This is Pandora's box. Bondi needs to have a solid blitz lined up.Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Come on, Pam Bondi. Let's get after it.
Tailgate88 said:
I really think they are keeping their powder dry until Kash is confirmed.
If Kash and Bondi went after criminal politicians first (which is arguably the most important target for a just Justice system) you'd see active indictments for over 2/3 of congress. Insider trading, rico, misuse of funds, security violations, bribery, etc. Congress wouldn't take that sitting down, and most of the uncharged critters would side with their pals because it's only a matter of time before they get caught as well. It'd be half the freedom caucus and a handful of freshmen against the entire swamp - and they'd be getting pressure from all angles (including donors) to side with their peers.91AggieLawyer said:Get Off My Lawn said:Well… this takes strategy. Once you start coming after corrupt politicians and their children, congress will go ape **** and pass zero legislation. Go after (D)s and they'll rightfully call you partisan. Go after all swamp critters and they'll impeach + remove Trump. This is Pandora's box. Bondi needs to have a solid blitz lined up.Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Come on, Pam Bondi. Let's get after it.
They're not going to be able to impeach Trump over this.
Agree. Besides being in the right and doing what he was elected to do, you can bet Trump, with help from Elon and his geniuses, now knows with certainty where all the skeletons are buried with proof to back it up.91AggieLawyer said:Get Off My Lawn said:Well… this takes strategy. Once you start coming after corrupt politicians and their children, congress will go ape **** and pass zero legislation. Go after (D)s and they'll rightfully call you partisan. Go after all swamp critters and they'll impeach + remove Trump. This is Pandora's box. Bondi needs to have a solid blitz lined up.Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Come on, Pam Bondi. Let's get after it.
They're not going to be able to impeach Trump over this.
Get Off My Lawn said:If Kash and Bondi went after criminal politicians first (which is arguably the most important target for a just Justice system) you'd see active indictments for over 2/3 of congress. Insider trading, rico, misuse of funds, security violations, bribery, etc. Congress wouldn't take that sitting down, and most of the uncharged critters would side with their pals because it's only a matter of time before they get caught as well. It'd be half the freedom caucus and a handful of freshmen against the entire swamp - and they'd be getting pressure from all angles (including donors) to side with their peers.91AggieLawyer said:Get Off My Lawn said:Well… this takes strategy. Once you start coming after corrupt politicians and their children, congress will go ape **** and pass zero legislation. Go after (D)s and they'll rightfully call you partisan. Go after all swamp critters and they'll impeach + remove Trump. This is Pandora's box. Bondi needs to have a solid blitz lined up.Red Fishing Ag93 said:
Come on, Pam Bondi. Let's get after it.
They're not going to be able to impeach Trump over this.
It's one thing to go after bureaucrats - another entirely to go after those who created them.
They used USAID to change the judiciary in Brazil, Romania, Ukraine, Israel and now they are working on doing it in the United States.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 17, 2025
NGOs, Internews global media cartel, the ABA, street protests… it is all intrinsically linked.
Norm Eisen literally wrote the book on this. pic.twitter.com/hGYiAwG9SG
Hello Mr. Eisen,
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 17, 2025
You have a long history with NGOs—Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, a tenure at the Anti-Defamation League, and most notably, founding the States United Democracy Center (EIN 861704152).
Your organization boasts an impressive roster:
🔵 Janet… pic.twitter.com/h6yU52AjLG
LOL @ smearing datarepublican as 'muh, she must be Russian.'Quote:
Your organization boasts an impressive roster:
Janet Napolitano (Director): Former Governor of Arizona
Tom Ridge (Director): First Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Christine Todd Whitman (Co-Chair): Former Republican Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush.
Michael Steele (Director): Former RNC chair
Michael Chertoff (Director): Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush
Joanna Lydgate (President): Former Chief Deputy Attorney General of Massachusetts under a Democratic administration.
Tom Coleman (Director): Former House Representative from Missouri
Donald Ayer (Director): Former Deputy Attorney General under President George H.W. Bush
However, its website states absolutely nothing of what they do except a bunch of vaguities about defending democracy and a few papers.
The paid officers are getting handsomely paid:
Joanna Lydgate (President) ($382,382)
Jenn Fogel-Bublick (Chief Operating Officer) ($282,532)
Christine Sun (Legal Director) ($246,932)
Thania Sanchez (Research Director) ($215,227)
Gillian Feiner (Senior Counsel) ($211,443)
Elizabeth Ulmer (Svp, Communications) ($224,448)
Dax Goldstein (Senior Counsel) ($213,245)
Almost all of the expenses go to salary, with the "Other" expenses going out to contractors.
However, its website states absolutely nothing of what they do except a bunch of vaguities about defending democracy.
So, I was wondering... what do you guys actually do?
Turns out ... you have a YouTube channel and last year, you produced a very expensive-looking Muppet show.
That's what you spend your 17 million dollars on. Muppets that have less than 200 views. That's your idea of election security. Creating animated puppet shows that nobody watches to lecture nonexistent viewers on election safety.
Oh, and they're definitely produced by you, because I went to one of the websites linked in the video and it says "State United Democracy Center" at the bottom.
Tell me, who the hell is donating you to do this? And why should we trust any of you neoconservatives with the responsibility of safeguarding "Democracy" and elections if your idea of doing so is producing puppet shows?
For those who claim I'm from Russia, I got receipts for that: https://t.co/EeDgKYkI8K
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 18, 2025
Hi @NormEisen , I have already doubled the views to your videos. Can I please have a six-figure position?
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 17, 2025
This will blow your mind https://t.co/EkwGOcaMwh
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2025
nortex97 said:
Teaching Afghani peasants about degenerative modern art on our dime. Turquoise Mountain Foundation.This will blow your mind https://t.co/EkwGOcaMwh
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2025
Just when you think you've heard it all.
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Oh no, how will the women of Afghanistan cope without lectures about Marcel Duchamp's urinal? They'll have to find a way. For it's been revealed that Turquoise Mountain, a batty British charity that has lectured Afghan women about the wonders of conceptual art, has had its USAID funding slashed. I hope you're happy now, Donald Trump and Elon Musk no more will the tyrannised women of Afghanistan enjoy the sweet relief of a plummy Brit telling them about the time Duchamp put a porcelain piss station in an art gallery.
This is the heartbreaking news that the NGO founded by King Charles and run by Rory Stewart's wife, Shoshana, has had its USAID handout of a million dollars slashed. It was Rory who broke the story. Looking even soppier than normal in his weekly conflab with Alastair Campbell on their surreally successful podcast, The Rest Is Politics, he said USAID funding for Turquoise Mountain 'just stopped'. It had a contract with USAID, and it 'had another million dollars to go', and yet mad, bad Trump pulled the plug, Rory almost sobbed.
And what urgent work does Turquoise Mountain do? It promotes craft-making in Afghanistan. You can buy its 'hand-knotted rugs' made by 'talented weavers' a must-have for every virtuous home in the West's turbo-smug boroughs. It does some good stuff, like restoring historic buildings, and it does some insane stuff, like the aforementioned Duchamp discourse. In a remarkable scene in Adam Curtis's 2015 documentary, Bitter Lake, a woman from Turquoise Mountain was shown extolling the virtues of Duchamp's inverted urinal to a roomful of incredulous Afghan women. It was super rad when Duchamp 'put this toilet in an art gallery', she said, as the women shook their veiled heads in disbelief.
End woke colonialism. About right.Quote:
The optics are awful. Stewart reportedly makes 70,000 a month from his podcast wanging on about Brexit and Trump and other things that give his class of wets and bores sleepless nights. We don't know how much his wife makes with Turquoise Mountain, but it won't be peanuts. And yet the taxed earnings of the workers of America part funded his wife's NGO antics. Make it make sense! No doubt, Stewart, Campbell and their listeners will fret that Trump is leaving poor Afghans in the lurch. So let's remind them that Campbell was Tony Blair's right-hand man when he laid waste to Afghanistan and then Iraq something Trump and Musk have never done. I bet there are Afghan women who'd far rather have back the sons killed in that infernal war than another ****ing powerpoint on Duchamp.
Shoshana Stewart is CEO of the Turquoise Foundation on £125,000 a year. She and 3 others have a spin off called Turquoise Mountain Trading Company which in the last two years has received over a£1 million in donations with only £52,000 given in grants. Nice work !!!!!! pic.twitter.com/vYhjEMZDd2
— Graham Monkhouse (@legcutter54) February 13, 2025
Thank you to everyone who has been buying #PoliticsOnTheEdge. Really proud to be on the UK best-seller list. 🙏🏻 (But intriguing that the Trump-time list is dominated by books called Anxious Generation, Courage to be Disliked, Surrounded by Idiots and The Psychology of Money..) pic.twitter.com/nIZUr5eN4e
— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) February 15, 2025
Trump vs. the Poor 🇺🇸@RoryStewartUK & @campbellclaret discuss how Trump’s USAID cuts are fuelling global chaos and weakening their soft power. pic.twitter.com/B9PODlYH1c
— The Rest Is Politics (@RestIsPolitics) February 13, 2025
Quote:In 2022, the DAB Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban-controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of "humanitarian aid" amounting to over $100 million.
- [T]he ultimate responsibility lay with USAID. The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN, which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan.
- Under the guise of humanitarian needs, $1.7 billion was provided to the UN, which used some of the money to buy dollars to fly into Afghanistan, to trade for Afghan currency, which the U.S. had also arranged to have printed on behalf of the Taliban.
- The cash is not provided to the Taliban or DAB by the UN, but by the groups funded by the UN.
- During the intermediate step, DAB held "auctions" of the dollars which elements linked to the Taliban, including the Haqqani network allied with Al Qaeda, reportedly "win." The auctions prop up the Afghan currency and keep the Taliban in power.
- Putting the money into UN pooled accounts allowed USAID to claim that they "do not provide assistance to or through the Taliban", they just put money into "pooled UN accounts..."
- The State Department responded to these revelations by falsely claiming that there are no sanctions on Afghanistan, that banks refuse to carry out wire transfers because of "the lack of profitability" and that "to the best of our knowledge, no electronic financial delivery systems are currently scalable to meet the liquidity needs of the UN" requiring it to instead convert billions of dollars into paper notes and ship them by plane. None of this is true or even a plausible lie.
- The Taliban money laundering scheme was not an exception. It was how USAID, the State Department and the UN have operated for too long, not only in Afghanistan, but in Syria, Yemen, Gaza and many other terrorist areas around the world, using plausible deniability and chains of organizations to avoid accountability and direct responsibility for aiding terrorists.
- Americans have become the financiers of their worst enemies. It's time for that to stop.
DAB, Afghanistan's central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a "specially designated terrorist" who had been named as the "financier of bomb-making", including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal.
Despite that, someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban's terror bank.
Curious. So, the guy who was online stalking me from Miami is dead. Let’s not pretend he was just an 'American businessman'—he was a Haqqani Network media official. https://t.co/VXnJNlHPvK
— Sarah Adams (@TPASarah) January 11, 2025
For those just learning that we are funding the Taliban—it gets much worse, third example continued👇
— Sarah Adams (@TPASarah) January 7, 2025
If you aren’t aware Abdul Aziz Haqqani is one of the terrorists who moved Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri to Kabul in May 2022 and he’s the one who transported ISKP Leader Sanaullah… https://t.co/ap3Pg8DjQf
Rory Stewart yet another elite sneering at the little people. pic.twitter.com/ZqkAu3xRiG
— BJBarnack (@barnack1) February 16, 2025
$10.6M is the entire lifetime tax contribution of 20 Americans - frittered away by USAID so that Rory Stewart's Wife can do basket weaving classes in Kabul
— Roko 🐉🤖😇 (@RokoMijic) February 14, 2025
Structurally, taxation by a central government into a giant money pool is a bad idea and really has to stop. https://t.co/d6FcaEc7GW pic.twitter.com/KUO4mXhDEW
