Is it idiocracy, or just plan fascism now?
Elon Musk dismantles USAID
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Both?
There is one thing we must say about Elon. He is straightforward. He's telling us X will censor anything against Trump, sending us away. So it's clear now X is strickly a gop platform. Earlier he made it clear he was going full nazi style and simply won't back down.
How can anyone justify these types of expenses. This does not represent the people. It’s a f’ed up agenda that America is trying to spread around the world.
What's Happening Is Breathtaking...
peakprosperity.com
TUESDAY, FEB 04, 2025 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,
These are extraordinary times, and I mean that in every literal and historical sense I can muster.
Trump has started a revolution, it’s underway, and I am 100% here for it.
The short story is this is seismic. None of us have lived through what’s unfolding. Trump’s team is operating as if they are battling an internal foe that has taken over America and which seeks its destruction. If this is the case, then my view is they have correctly diagnosed the disease.
Things are breaking very quickly, but fortunately drinking from a firehose is my specialty. As I did during Covid, I will do my best to both catalog and explain the enormous impacts of what we’re currently experiencing.
Consider the issues we faced that nobody seemed to know what to do about, or how to even begin fixing.
This is what the last election was actually about. A majority of people said, “Enough!” and voted for real change. Along the way the people who like the system exactly the way it is got nervous about Trump’s chances and tried to kill him in Butler PA on July 13th, 2024.
They missed.
And now the wrecking crew has arrived and is dismantling that sordid, pathetic, anti-American deep state apparatus. That’s what’s actually happening right now. You are living through an extraordinary time.
It’s going to be quite chaotic, possibly very expensive, and may well be have to go through an extensive period of dismantling before we can even begin to rebuild and repair all that has to be torn down.
Let’s consider the case of just the USAID entity. Started by Executive Order by John F. Kennedy, the idea was to dedicate some US funds to helping other countries get ahead. As with all things run by the US government, this noble beginning quickly morphed into a murky amalgam of CIA-run color revolutions, extensive funding of shadowy NGOs with bland names but dark objectives, and the usual fare of DC insider kickbacks and grifts.’
I’m sure it managed to do some helpful things too, but it mainly operated in stick vs carrot mode as it enforced US interests abroad.
A simple idea became a 10,000-person organization with a $40 billion budget.
Enter Trump and Elon Musk. This is the most astonishing of all possible headlines and stories to wake up to:
If you are worried that there’s fraud in an accounting department, you have security march in, and tell everyone to stand up and leave the room because you don’t want to give the fraudsters the chance to clean the files. This is Trump & Elon’s way of saying that they think there’s some real dirt here which they want exposed.
Okay, that means it’s Game On!
The Deep State has been identified and USAID was like the left ventricle of that beating rotten heart.
Continuing with the WSJ article above, nobody was willing to go on record so the WSJ fell back on the old “unnamed officials” mode of weak-assed journalism that we’ve all grown to hate:
So, yes, there’s been a coup, but it’s not the one the “unnamed official” is complaining about.
As a reminder, the government is supposed to serve THE PUBLIC and be both responsible and accountable to the public. The USAID folks are aghast that suddenly the public might take a peek at what they’ve actually been up to.
The early results are not pretty.
USAID gave money lavishly to support violent mobs all over the globe, in this case Mike Benz revealing that Africa was a routine target:
If you’re wondering what that must have been like for those poor African nations suddenly beset with mob violence, look no further than various US cities during the 2020 BLM astroturf riots:
I will bet a large pile of money that we’re going to discover that somehow USAID money flowed into these riots. That’s a pretty safe bet given all the other things we’ve already learned including the fact that a FOIA document dump in August of 2024 revealed that USAID has been a hot bed of funding child sex trafficking, labor abuse, and social media threats:
(Source)
Full stop; this is morally repugnant.
(Source)
From the same WSJ article already linked above, we have this totally appropriate quote by Elon Musk:
In the real world, sometimes it’s just way faster and cheaper to start over. You don’t try and make something that is beyond repair better by pouring more into it. You have to burn it down and start over.
So if I were a USAID staffer, I’d be spiffing up my C.V. while thinking of Elon’s first arrival in the Twitter lobby after purchasing it:
Do we really doubt that the man who wrestled Twitter back from being an overt tool of Deep State censorship and ended up firing 80% of the existing staff while keeping the whole thing running smoothly is going to be any different while tearing apart USAID?
This is exactly what a majority of people voted for in 2024.
But Elizabeth Warren sure hasn’t managed to figure that out:
Yes, Liz, we did elect Elon too. That was part of the deal. We knew exactly who and what we were voting for.
If you are suddenly worried about unelected people doing things that might cause harm to people, then why were you (and continue to be) completely silent about the fact that USAID funneled tens of millions of dollars of direct monetary support to a Chinese research scientist working on coronaviruses who ended up being Patient Zero?
(Source)
Kind of weird, right? You’d think something that was blamed for killing 1,000,000 Americans would somehow make your radar screen, but not old Liz Warren! No sir!
She’s worried that Elon might poke around in the USAID pile and discover that some of her pet disbursement schemes come under public scrutiny.
There’s a LOT more to unpack here, but the point is this. There’s a revolution underway and Trump is running it, and various odious DC swamp creatures are now scurrying like cockroaches after the kitchen light has been flicked on.
The Covid debacle ties back to 2014 which, coincidentally, is the year to which Team Biden backdated Fauci and Hunter’s pardons. That’s the same year, again coincidentally, that USAID began funneling money to Wuhan and Ukraine’s biolabs opened up.
It’s a ball of worms, and it’s about to have an entire box of salt dumped on it.
All of which is to ask, have you planted a garden? By which I mean are you ready? Because this is going to get really bumpy. The economy and financial systems may well crash or seize up.
And that’s if things go well. If the neocon/Deep State raccoons feel like they need to detonate something to survive, trust me, they will. That’s the wild card in all this, and why I continually beg, plead, and cajole people to consider taking steps to build their personal resilience.
What’s Happening Is Breathtaking |
These are extraordinary times, and I mean that in every literal and historical sense I can muster. Trump has started a revolution, it’s underway, and I am 100% here for it. The short story is this is seismic. None of us have lived through what’s unfolding. Trump’s team is operating as if they...
peakprosperity.com
TUESDAY, FEB 04, 2025 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,
These are extraordinary times, and I mean that in every literal and historical sense I can muster.
Trump has started a revolution, it’s underway, and I am 100% here for it.
The short story is this is seismic. None of us have lived through what’s unfolding. Trump’s team is operating as if they are battling an internal foe that has taken over America and which seeks its destruction. If this is the case, then my view is they have correctly diagnosed the disease.
Things are breaking very quickly, but fortunately drinking from a firehose is my specialty. As I did during Covid, I will do my best to both catalog and explain the enormous impacts of what we’re currently experiencing.
Consider the issues we faced that nobody seemed to know what to do about, or how to even begin fixing.
- The US has the least healthy, shortest-lived population out of every developed country.
- The US spends the most, by roughly a factor of 2x more than all other developed countries on its health care, more accurately called sickcare.
- US public high school students test out extremely poorly compared to other developed countries in math and reading.
- The US government taxes heavily yet still slips $2 trillion deeper in the hole every year, and is more than $36 trillion debt.
- Every year on an accrual basis the Social Security and Medicare/caid liabilities expand by many trillions and now total somewhere north of $200 trillion.
This is what the last election was actually about. A majority of people said, “Enough!” and voted for real change. Along the way the people who like the system exactly the way it is got nervous about Trump’s chances and tried to kill him in Butler PA on July 13th, 2024.
They missed.
And now the wrecking crew has arrived and is dismantling that sordid, pathetic, anti-American deep state apparatus. That’s what’s actually happening right now. You are living through an extraordinary time.
It’s going to be quite chaotic, possibly very expensive, and may well be have to go through an extensive period of dismantling before we can even begin to rebuild and repair all that has to be torn down.
Let’s consider the case of just the USAID entity. Started by Executive Order by John F. Kennedy, the idea was to dedicate some US funds to helping other countries get ahead. As with all things run by the US government, this noble beginning quickly morphed into a murky amalgam of CIA-run color revolutions, extensive funding of shadowy NGOs with bland names but dark objectives, and the usual fare of DC insider kickbacks and grifts.’
I’m sure it managed to do some helpful things too, but it mainly operated in stick vs carrot mode as it enforced US interests abroad.
A simple idea became a 10,000-person organization with a $40 billion budget.
Enter Trump and Elon Musk. This is the most astonishing of all possible headlines and stories to wake up to:
Boom!
If you are worried that there’s fraud in an accounting department, you have security march in, and tell everyone to stand up and leave the room because you don’t want to give the fraudsters the chance to clean the files. This is Trump & Elon’s way of saying that they think there’s some real dirt here which they want exposed.
Okay, that means it’s Game On!
The Deep State has been identified and USAID was like the left ventricle of that beating rotten heart.
Continuing with the WSJ article above, nobody was willing to go on record so the WSJ fell back on the old “unnamed officials” mode of weak-assed journalism that we’ve all grown to hate:
From my perspective, the coup happened when JFK was shot and nobody was held to account, and ever since it’s been one long unbroken string of DC swamp creatures doing unspeakable things for fun and profit.
So, yes, there’s been a coup, but it’s not the one the “unnamed official” is complaining about.
As a reminder, the government is supposed to serve THE PUBLIC and be both responsible and accountable to the public. The USAID folks are aghast that suddenly the public might take a peek at what they’ve actually been up to.
The early results are not pretty.
USAID gave money lavishly to support violent mobs all over the globe, in this case Mike Benz revealing that Africa was a routine target:
If you’re wondering what that must have been like for those poor African nations suddenly beset with mob violence, look no further than various US cities during the 2020 BLM astroturf riots:
I will bet a large pile of money that we’re going to discover that somehow USAID money flowed into these riots. That’s a pretty safe bet given all the other things we’ve already learned including the fact that a FOIA document dump in August of 2024 revealed that USAID has been a hot bed of funding child sex trafficking, labor abuse, and social media threats:
(Source)
Full stop; this is morally repugnant.
(Source)
From the same WSJ article already linked above, we have this totally appropriate quote by Elon Musk:
There is no apple. There is only a ball of worms.
In the real world, sometimes it’s just way faster and cheaper to start over. You don’t try and make something that is beyond repair better by pouring more into it. You have to burn it down and start over.
So if I were a USAID staffer, I’d be spiffing up my C.V. while thinking of Elon’s first arrival in the Twitter lobby after purchasing it:
Do we really doubt that the man who wrestled Twitter back from being an overt tool of Deep State censorship and ended up firing 80% of the existing staff while keeping the whole thing running smoothly is going to be any different while tearing apart USAID?
This is exactly what a majority of people voted for in 2024.
But Elizabeth Warren sure hasn’t managed to figure that out:
Yes, Liz, we did elect Elon too. That was part of the deal. We knew exactly who and what we were voting for.
If you are suddenly worried about unelected people doing things that might cause harm to people, then why were you (and continue to be) completely silent about the fact that USAID funneled tens of millions of dollars of direct monetary support to a Chinese research scientist working on coronaviruses who ended up being Patient Zero?
(Source)
Kind of weird, right? You’d think something that was blamed for killing 1,000,000 Americans would somehow make your radar screen, but not old Liz Warren! No sir!
She’s worried that Elon might poke around in the USAID pile and discover that some of her pet disbursement schemes come under public scrutiny.
There’s a LOT more to unpack here, but the point is this. There’s a revolution underway and Trump is running it, and various odious DC swamp creatures are now scurrying like cockroaches after the kitchen light has been flicked on.
The Covid debacle ties back to 2014 which, coincidentally, is the year to which Team Biden backdated Fauci and Hunter’s pardons. That’s the same year, again coincidentally, that USAID began funneling money to Wuhan and Ukraine’s biolabs opened up.
It’s a ball of worms, and it’s about to have an entire box of salt dumped on it.
All of which is to ask, have you planted a garden? By which I mean are you ready? Because this is going to get really bumpy. The economy and financial systems may well crash or seize up.
And that’s if things go well. If the neocon/Deep State raccoons feel like they need to detonate something to survive, trust me, they will. That’s the wild card in all this, and why I continually beg, plead, and cajole people to consider taking steps to build their personal resilience.
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Trump’s attack on the Deep State is spectacular and almost certainly legal
In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the General Services Administration (GSA) tech division, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the...
Trump's Attack On The Deep State Is Spectacular And Almost Certainly Legal
In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the General Services Administration (GSA) tech division, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Treasury, and fired corrupt people in the FBI - and that’s just the short list.
With the war on USAID, GSA, OPM, and the Treasury alone, DOGE is saving taxpayers at a rate of one billion per day. All of this has driven the Democrats into a frenzy as they insist that an elected president managing the government is a coup. Unfortunately for them (but not for us), they don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
President Kennedy founded USAID via Executive Order 10973 in November 1961: “Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related Functions.” It was meant to be a permanent clearing house that would work with the State Department to distribute money intended to help advance technology and financial competence in low-income countries. It reflected the fact that, in 1961, the U.S. was still the last country standing after WWII. The vision was to benefit America by fortifying poor countries against Soviet depredation.
USAID has strayed far from that mandate. The Daily Mail assembled a helpful list of examples of USAID’s hard-left blank check policy. This list includes:
- $30 million to study HIV in Africa among sex workers and so-called “transgender” people.
- $38 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other Chinese research labs.
- $1.5 million to an LGBTQ+ group in Serbia.
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam, with only one battery station built.
- Money for a “trans” care clinic in Vietnam.
- $25,000 for a “trans” opera in Colombia
- $32,000 for “trans” comic books in Peru.
- $500,000 to expand atheism in Nepal.
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The Clinton Foundation was also a huge USAID winner:
None of this advanced US interests. All this money—your money—was for leftist social engineering and, seemingly, political money laundering. Elon Musk is right that it needs to go.
Things weren’t any better with money going to GSA, where its technology arm, in Luke Rosiak’s words, was “a far-left agency that viciously subverted Trump during his first term.” The GSA had a government-wide computer office—“@18F”—that still has a “trans flag” as its logo. It aggressively enforced extreme DEI policies, including illegally excluding people from activities by race or sex. (Read Roziak’s thread for more examples of GSA tech’s leftist depredations.)
Elon Musk revealed that the Treasury Department was cutting checks to terrorist organizations and known fraudsters:
You can read the rest of articles here
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Musk says naming 6 young men working for DOGE is a crime. 'Wired' journalist responds
Unmasked: Musk’s Secret DOGE Goon Squad—Who Are All Under 26
Elon Musk’s team of young DOGE disruptors have been unmasked, much to the ire of the billionaire and other MAGA figures. One is a 19-year-old college freshman and heir to a popcorn fortune. Another was hosting Model UN sessions in 2019 and a third was given money by his parents to invest in...
You couldn't make this up.
Hmm.
LoL.
With USAID's funding stream drying up, Democrats now face a new challenge: finding new sources to finance professional protesters/rioters. Paging Alex Soros.
PS. Please note, in the upper left quadrant a D.O.G.E. Clockhas been added.
Hover over any clock for the definition.
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
God Bless Everyone!
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Same age as the founding fathers of the United States. These kids are genius level. How would it be any different if it was 40 or 50 year old. Older people are better at keeping secrets?These engineers and in one case a kid still in school with no public experience now have access to the treasury departments payment system.Unmasked: Musk’s Secret DOGE Goon Squad—Who Are All Under 26
Elon Musk’s team of young DOGE disruptors have been unmasked, much to the ire of the billionaire and other MAGA figures. One is a 19-year-old college freshman and heir to a popcorn fortune. Another was hosting Model UN sessions in 2019 and a third was given money by his parents to invest in...www.yahoo.com
You couldn't make this up.
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Experience > IQ.
They are drones executing the Nazi's orders.
You want to compare them to the founding fathers?
That is one way to trash your own country. lol.
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You have no idea who these young men are. I’m not trashing anyone by comparing these geniuses to those geniuses. Chelsea Manning was 22, Edward Snowden 29. Age really doesn’t have much to do with being an obedient drone.
What experience do you want? Some old guy who has spent his career in govt going through stacks of papers one by one? These people are highly educated software engineers and top of their class. They are exactly the type of people I’d hire to develop algorithms to snake through these shady systems of the US government.
No I wouldn't want anyone.
I would want the unelected Nazi, to get the f out of the government.
He and DOGE should not even exist.
Elon Musk Is "Special Government Employee", White House Confirms
Elon Musk Is ‘Special Government Employee,’ White House Confirms
Musk ‘can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval, and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate,’ Trump said.
www.theepochtimes.com
The White House on Monday confirmed that Space X and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is considered a “special government employee” under the Trump administration amid questions about his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Speaking to reporters at the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Musk’s federal status and added, “I can also confirm that he has abided by all applicable federal laws.”
Leavitt was also asked about Musk’s security clearance. She said she didn’t know but would check on it.
The designation allows Musk, the world’s richest person, to work for the federal government and potentially avoid disclosure rules regarding possible conflicts of interest and finances that generally apply to other government staff. Special government employees are appointed for no more than 130 days.
President Donald Trump said that Musk “can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval, and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate; where not appropriate, we won’t.”
The Republican president also downplayed complaints about Musk’s alleged conflict of interests, saying, “Where we think there’s a conflict or there’s a problem, we won’t let him go near it, but he has some very good ideas.”
One of the most significant steps was DOGE gaining access to the U.S. Treasury payment system, which is responsible for 1 billion payments per year totaling $5 trillion. It includes sensitive information involving bank accounts and Social Security payments.
It’s unclear what Musk wants to do with the payment system. He has said that he could trim $1 trillion from the federal deficit “just by addressing waste, fraud and abuse.”
Democratic lawmakers have decried what they characterize as an unelected billionaire amassing too much power over the federal government.
“That’s the biggest data hack ever in the world,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) told reporters in Madison, Wisconsin.
“I am outraged about it,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Capitol Hill, adding that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must revoke Musk’s access to the payment system.
“We must halt this unlawful and dangerous power grab.”
In a post on the Musk-owned social media platform X, Schumer saidthat DOGE isn’t “a real government agency” and lacks authority to make spending decisions or to shut down programs.
In response, Musk wrote on X on Tuesday morning that Schumer’s reaction is “hysterical” and that DOGE “is doing work that really matters.”
He framed DOGE’s mission in existential terms.
Meanwhile, a group representing retirees and union workers suedBessent and the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday in a bid to get them to stop sharing personal and financial information with DOGE.
“The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented,” the groups wrote in their complaint, filed in the District of Columbia federal court.
Aside from the Treasury Department, Musk and Trump have set their sights on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with both saying that the organization has been led by radicals and needs to be dissolved.
On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he is now the acting director of USAID. He said the agency lacked accountability and that its staff did not follow orders.
Right after White House announced this, Elon tweets that “he takes the short bus to work”. Lol I love this guys trolling sense of humor.Elon Musk Is "Special Government Employee", White House Confirms
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,
The White House on Monday confirmed that Space X and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is considered a “special government employee” under the Trump administration amid questions about his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Speaking to reporters at the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Musk’s federal status and added, “I can also confirm that he has abided by all applicable federal laws.”
Leavitt was also asked about Musk’s security clearance. She said she didn’t know but would check on it.
The designation allows Musk, the world’s richest person, to work for the federal government and potentially avoid disclosure rules regarding possible conflicts of interest and finances that generally apply to other government staff. Special government employees are appointed for no more than 130 days.
President Donald Trump said that Musk “can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval, and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate; where not appropriate, we won’t.”
The Republican president also downplayed complaints about Musk’s alleged conflict of interests, saying, “Where we think there’s a conflict or there’s a problem, we won’t let him go near it, but he has some very good ideas.”
One of the most significant steps was DOGE gaining access to the U.S. Treasury payment system, which is responsible for 1 billion payments per year totaling $5 trillion. It includes sensitive information involving bank accounts and Social Security payments.
It’s unclear what Musk wants to do with the payment system. He has said that he could trim $1 trillion from the federal deficit “just by addressing waste, fraud and abuse.”
Democratic lawmakers have decried what they characterize as an unelected billionaire amassing too much power over the federal government.
“That’s the biggest data hack ever in the world,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) told reporters in Madison, Wisconsin.
“I am outraged about it,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Capitol Hill, adding that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must revoke Musk’s access to the payment system.
“We must halt this unlawful and dangerous power grab.”
In a post on the Musk-owned social media platform X, Schumer saidthat DOGE isn’t “a real government agency” and lacks authority to make spending decisions or to shut down programs.
In response, Musk wrote on X on Tuesday morning that Schumer’s reaction is “hysterical” and that DOGE “is doing work that really matters.”
He framed DOGE’s mission in existential terms.
Meanwhile, a group representing retirees and union workers suedBessent and the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday in a bid to get them to stop sharing personal and financial information with DOGE.
“The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented,” the groups wrote in their complaint, filed in the District of Columbia federal court.
Aside from the Treasury Department, Musk and Trump have set their sights on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with both saying that the organization has been led by radicals and needs to be dissolved.
On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that he is now the acting director of USAID. He said the agency lacked accountability and that its staff did not follow orders.
Whar a special guy.
The Leftist frenzy over Musk is now on par with Trump. What a badge of honor, for Musk. His “it’s rotten, close it” approach is the only way.
We have to expand the mental disorder to
Trump Musk Derangement Syndrome.
I love this......
More popcorn, please
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God Bless Elon Musk ( DOGE) & President Trump!!
"Rank Insubordination": Rubio Says USAID Full Of Rogue Employees
TUESDAY, FEB 04, 2025 - 11:40 AM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for what he called "rank insubordination," and is full of rogue employees who do whatever the hell they want.
"Well, that was always the goal was to reform it, but now we have rank insubordination," Rubio told Fox News, in comments just one day after President Trump announced that Rubio would serve as the acting head of USAID - which itself came after Elon Musk's DOGE team descended upon the agency and revealed that "USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That's why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."
According to Rubio, "Now we have basically an active effort — their basic attitude is, ‘We don’t work for anyone, we work for ourselves, no agency of government can tell us what to do."
"So the president made me the acting administrator," he added. "I’ve delegated that power to someone who is there full-time, and we’re going to go through the same process at USAID as we’re going through now at the State Department."
According to Rubio, USAID has lost its focus and abandoned the "national interest" - telling Fox: "They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they’re not even a U.S. government agency, that they are out — they’re a global charity, that they take the taxpayer money, and they spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest."
"One of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is USAID is not only not cooperative — they undermine the work that we’re doing in that country, they are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we’re trying to work with on a broader scale, and so forth," Rubio added.
On Monday, deep state crusaders Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) staged a dramatic protest outside the USAID headquarters, with Omar suggesting that Trump's move to fold the agency into the State Department was "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like!" - and Raskin suggesting that Elon Musk had "illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United States Department of Treasury," adding "Elon Musk, you didn’t create USAID," and that Musk "doesn’t have the power to destroy it."
TUESDAY, FEB 04, 2025 - 11:40 AM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for what he called "rank insubordination," and is full of rogue employees who do whatever the hell they want.
"Well, that was always the goal was to reform it, but now we have rank insubordination," Rubio told Fox News, in comments just one day after President Trump announced that Rubio would serve as the acting head of USAID - which itself came after Elon Musk's DOGE team descended upon the agency and revealed that "USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That's why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."
According to Rubio, "Now we have basically an active effort — their basic attitude is, ‘We don’t work for anyone, we work for ourselves, no agency of government can tell us what to do."
"So the president made me the acting administrator," he added. "I’ve delegated that power to someone who is there full-time, and we’re going to go through the same process at USAID as we’re going through now at the State Department."
According to Rubio, USAID has lost its focus and abandoned the "national interest" - telling Fox: "They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they’re not even a U.S. government agency, that they are out — they’re a global charity, that they take the taxpayer money, and they spend it as a global charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not in the national interest."
"One of the most common complaints you will get if you go to embassies around the world from State Department officials and ambassadors and the like is USAID is not only not cooperative — they undermine the work that we’re doing in that country, they are supporting programs that upset the host government for whom we’re trying to work with on a broader scale, and so forth," Rubio added.
On Monday, deep state crusaders Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) staged a dramatic protest outside the USAID headquarters, with Omar suggesting that Trump's move to fold the agency into the State Department was "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like!" - and Raskin suggesting that Elon Musk had "illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United States Department of Treasury," adding "Elon Musk, you didn’t create USAID," and that Musk "doesn’t have the power to destroy it."
DOGE and the budget audit of doom
the commanding heights of the unravelling to come
i told you you were not ready.
well, here it is:
and i quote:
DC is going to feel like it’s being invaded by an entire bestiary of mythical monsters with magical powers who can see through walls and huck immovable objects over the horizon.
they will come from every side at once. they will replace thousands of federal employees right from the start, you’ll be fighting against the outside and the inside. they’re going to transfer and move those permanent staters they cannot fire. have fun in topeka or guam. they’re lovely this time of year.
they are not going to play nice or play fair.
they are going to get things done.
meet the new boss, nothing whatsoever like the old boss.
not this time. maybe never again.
DC lacks even a model to guess at how effective people like this can be even when fighting from the outside. with the keys to the kingdom, it’s something else entirely. the sheer energy and activity of DOGE is staggering the swamp dwellers.
being crawled over by AI and insight and energy of this magnitue is a new new thing.
welcome to “dismantle leviathan” the fun new game that all the cool kids are playing.
i warned you about how these people were not going to act like the gormless opposition party of old. they will understand the system better than you do. and they’re going to tear it down.
DC is finally starting to see how much trouble it is in and people are freaking out. the moves are coming too fast for the news cycle to even keep up with. and DC has mostly already lost. all the high ground has been taken and now it’s just going to be about squeezing.
DOGE grabbed the OMB and the treasury payments system.
that’s it. lights out, game over.
the simple fact is this: half the permanent state is a massive grifter-plex of special interests running amok and waging war on we the people for their own benefit. it’s 1000’s of unelected anointed running groups like this:
they got $769 million back in 2022. their sole aim is to encourage illegal immigration and to make expelling such illegal aliens more difficult. it’s taxpayer money spent to create outcomes that most taxpayers would happily pay to avoid. it’s a jobs program for cronies and extra-governmental activism to subvert the basic sovereignty of the state and it’s ability to serve the demos.
there are innumerable groups like this. back in SF we called it “the homeless industrial complex.” they got huge budgets based on how many homeless people they “served.” but if they ever actually got them off the streets, they got less money. it was literally capitated. so they fed them, gave them money for drugs, and made it impossible to arrest them no matter what they did. they donated to politicians who favored that. the incentive were entirely perverse.
the circle of malfunction is like a plasmid for anti-social outcomes. it takes taxpayer money and uses it to fund agencies that create outcomes (like homelessness or illegal immigration) which taxpayers hate. these agencies then donate some of that taxpayer money to politicians who then force taxpayers to pay more money to solve the now larger problem.
lather. rinse. repeat.
and this is not even the awful part.
from ukraine to climate science to NIH to 100 different agencies like USAID, money is being funneled everywhere and stolen in wholesale quantities.
USAID and who knows who else were all out meddling for decades in foreign elections. they have probably been meddling in ours.
suddenly, these agencies are losing their minds about “declassification efforts.”
it certainly does make on wonder: why were they classifying anything at all? wasn’t this supposed to be aid?
and DC is finally realizing how much trouble they are in and leviathan is shrilling in terror and rage, but it’s already way too late.
threads are exposed, they will be pulled, and this is going to, for the first time in generations, tear the covers off these boxes and let us see what’s inside. and it’s not gonna be pretty friends. i’m telling you point blank: however bad you fear this was - it’s worse.
the middle of the american overton is about to see that government is 80% money laundering and unaccountable tyranny and theft by weight.
the DC denizens so far behind the game that even the tepid resistance looks hilariously slow, tepid, and lame.
imagine thinking this was going to score points in the current zeitgeist.
WIRED STORIES are trying to call this tyranny by the inexperienced.
it’s not.
AOC and “the squad” are out howling about how this
is dictatorship and a grab of unaccountable power.
it’s not.
this is the end of those things and the rage at the dying of the lechery is so deliciously insincere that it’s hard not to smile.
they are in absolute trauma that DOGE has access to the treasury payment systems.
i told you they’d find just the right place to put the lever and pry.
that’s it. OMB and payments. it’s the whole game, the commanding heights.
let me esplain, because what’s going on is brilliant:
OMB is the government’s HR department. the payments system is how the treasury actually sends out money, the pipes of payola.
these two systems touch everything in government. everyhting. all the jobs, all the money. every program and person passes through this at some point.
it’s the universal chokepoint.
so, everyone has to come into work now. let’s get your faces seen and learn what you do here. all the people who have had no-show sinecures for decades are going to get bounced out.
hey, where does the money go?
time to find out.
there is no way, even with AI to ferret out all these groups, their cutouts, their subterfuge and skullduggery. it’s too deep, too vast, too well hidden and camouflaged.
you cannot find them.
so you make them find you.
you shut the money off and see who squawks.
it turns out that whole cadres of federal payment officers were told “just pay whatever comes in.” do not say no. ever.
it also turns out that all you had to do was shut off the flow of free food and many the cockroaches would walk right out into the middle of the kitchen floor and announce themselves.
this will not be true for all. some programs are too secret and the folks running them too smart to step into the light. but this also means that they cannot get the money turned back on.
it’s no longer “everyone gets paid and the dirty slush flows” it’s “tell us who you are, what you’re doing, or enjoy a lifetime supply of being broke.”
no more aid agency cutout. no more fake programs to launder and shift money to unannounced and unaccountable purpose.
it became very vogue to bet against DOGE.
that bet is not faring well.
whole industries of zero skill government grubbers are suddenly going to be on the job market.
the size of the special interest slush fund funding who knows what for who knows what purposes and then driving circular donations back to the political grant giver class from the politician grant given class has been the dirty secret of the deep state for generations.
let’s unwind it and see if we miss any of it.
the money saved on them is the least of the benefit.
mitigating their mischief will go far further. it’s a truly awesome selector that has never been tried before.
drag it ALL out into the light and then decide.
no money without accountability.
no transparency, no money.
this is how you break the matrix.
“so you’re saying that after this, i’ll be able to dodge secret government agencies?”
“no neo, after this, i’m saying you won’t have to.”
the commanding heights of the unravelling to come
i told you you were not ready.
well, here it is:
and i quote:
DC is going to feel like it’s being invaded by an entire bestiary of mythical monsters with magical powers who can see through walls and huck immovable objects over the horizon.
they will come from every side at once. they will replace thousands of federal employees right from the start, you’ll be fighting against the outside and the inside. they’re going to transfer and move those permanent staters they cannot fire. have fun in topeka or guam. they’re lovely this time of year.
they are not going to play nice or play fair.
they are going to get things done.
meet the new boss, nothing whatsoever like the old boss.
not this time. maybe never again.
DC lacks even a model to guess at how effective people like this can be even when fighting from the outside. with the keys to the kingdom, it’s something else entirely. the sheer energy and activity of DOGE is staggering the swamp dwellers.
being crawled over by AI and insight and energy of this magnitue is a new new thing.
welcome to “dismantle leviathan” the fun new game that all the cool kids are playing.
i warned you about how these people were not going to act like the gormless opposition party of old. they will understand the system better than you do. and they’re going to tear it down.
DC is finally starting to see how much trouble it is in and people are freaking out. the moves are coming too fast for the news cycle to even keep up with. and DC has mostly already lost. all the high ground has been taken and now it’s just going to be about squeezing.
DOGE grabbed the OMB and the treasury payments system.
that’s it. lights out, game over.
the simple fact is this: half the permanent state is a massive grifter-plex of special interests running amok and waging war on we the people for their own benefit. it’s 1000’s of unelected anointed running groups like this:
they got $769 million back in 2022. their sole aim is to encourage illegal immigration and to make expelling such illegal aliens more difficult. it’s taxpayer money spent to create outcomes that most taxpayers would happily pay to avoid. it’s a jobs program for cronies and extra-governmental activism to subvert the basic sovereignty of the state and it’s ability to serve the demos.
there are innumerable groups like this. back in SF we called it “the homeless industrial complex.” they got huge budgets based on how many homeless people they “served.” but if they ever actually got them off the streets, they got less money. it was literally capitated. so they fed them, gave them money for drugs, and made it impossible to arrest them no matter what they did. they donated to politicians who favored that. the incentive were entirely perverse.
the circle of malfunction is like a plasmid for anti-social outcomes. it takes taxpayer money and uses it to fund agencies that create outcomes (like homelessness or illegal immigration) which taxpayers hate. these agencies then donate some of that taxpayer money to politicians who then force taxpayers to pay more money to solve the now larger problem.
lather. rinse. repeat.
and this is not even the awful part.
from ukraine to climate science to NIH to 100 different agencies like USAID, money is being funneled everywhere and stolen in wholesale quantities.
USAID and who knows who else were all out meddling for decades in foreign elections. they have probably been meddling in ours.
suddenly, these agencies are losing their minds about “declassification efforts.”
it certainly does make on wonder: why were they classifying anything at all? wasn’t this supposed to be aid?
and DC is finally realizing how much trouble they are in and leviathan is shrilling in terror and rage, but it’s already way too late.
threads are exposed, they will be pulled, and this is going to, for the first time in generations, tear the covers off these boxes and let us see what’s inside. and it’s not gonna be pretty friends. i’m telling you point blank: however bad you fear this was - it’s worse.
the middle of the american overton is about to see that government is 80% money laundering and unaccountable tyranny and theft by weight.
the DC denizens so far behind the game that even the tepid resistance looks hilariously slow, tepid, and lame.
imagine thinking this was going to score points in the current zeitgeist.
WIRED STORIES are trying to call this tyranny by the inexperienced.
it’s not.
AOC and “the squad” are out howling about how this
it’s not.
this is the end of those things and the rage at the dying of the lechery is so deliciously insincere that it’s hard not to smile.
they are in absolute trauma that DOGE has access to the treasury payment systems.
i told you they’d find just the right place to put the lever and pry.
that’s it. OMB and payments. it’s the whole game, the commanding heights.
let me esplain, because what’s going on is brilliant:
OMB is the government’s HR department. the payments system is how the treasury actually sends out money, the pipes of payola.
these two systems touch everything in government. everyhting. all the jobs, all the money. every program and person passes through this at some point.
it’s the universal chokepoint.
so, everyone has to come into work now. let’s get your faces seen and learn what you do here. all the people who have had no-show sinecures for decades are going to get bounced out.
hey, where does the money go?
time to find out.
there is no way, even with AI to ferret out all these groups, their cutouts, their subterfuge and skullduggery. it’s too deep, too vast, too well hidden and camouflaged.
you cannot find them.
so you make them find you.
you shut the money off and see who squawks.
it turns out that whole cadres of federal payment officers were told “just pay whatever comes in.” do not say no. ever.
it also turns out that all you had to do was shut off the flow of free food and many the cockroaches would walk right out into the middle of the kitchen floor and announce themselves.
this will not be true for all. some programs are too secret and the folks running them too smart to step into the light. but this also means that they cannot get the money turned back on.
it’s no longer “everyone gets paid and the dirty slush flows” it’s “tell us who you are, what you’re doing, or enjoy a lifetime supply of being broke.”
no more aid agency cutout. no more fake programs to launder and shift money to unannounced and unaccountable purpose.
it became very vogue to bet against DOGE.
that bet is not faring well.
whole industries of zero skill government grubbers are suddenly going to be on the job market.
the size of the special interest slush fund funding who knows what for who knows what purposes and then driving circular donations back to the political grant giver class from the politician grant given class has been the dirty secret of the deep state for generations.
let’s unwind it and see if we miss any of it.
the money saved on them is the least of the benefit.
mitigating their mischief will go far further. it’s a truly awesome selector that has never been tried before.
drag it ALL out into the light and then decide.
no money without accountability.
no transparency, no money.
this is how you break the matrix.
“so you’re saying that after this, i’ll be able to dodge secret government agencies?”
“no neo, after this, i’m saying you won’t have to.”
