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Fact. You have both an opinion and an a-hole. Hopefully, on both counts, I'm not wrong.
Bhahahahahahahaha
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 5:29 pm
By: Big Bob
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As usual, Bolshevik Bob, you are ALL left wing opinion, but NO fact.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 3:10 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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That's why opinions are like a-holes. Everyone's got one.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 2:37 pm
By: Big Bob
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Steve: Regardless of how President Obama is represented by the Democratic Socialist Propagandistic Media, he will always represent the second most corrupt administration, but the first Non Patriot Presidency in modern times.
The most corrupt presidency of modern times, of course, will always be Idiot President Biden. I cannot imagine that Non Patriot President Biden will ever lose his lofty position as America's greatest traitor as president.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 10:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Before it became "woke" in the second Obama administration, USAID did not get into all of these leftist political agenda operations. That is my assessment from actually knowing quite a few people who ran those programs on the ground in eastern Europe. It was early in the second Obama administration that the wokeness started arriving in USAID. Keyboard warrior Bob has never had any contact on the ground with people who actually ran these programs, so all he has to go on is what his talking points tell him to say.
I am not surprised at the new reports of USAID funding of both promoting left oriented media here in the US and suppression by censorhip of right oriented media. It had emerged much earlier that they were funding a major pro-censorhship organization based in the UK that targeted conservatives. It is sad to see what has become of USAID under Obama and Biden. It once was an agency that accomplished a lot of good.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 10:20 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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USAID was interfering in domestic American politics, not only by funding the leftwing "Politico" but also funding US-based censorship groups that were targeting conservative news outlets. Not only does USAID need to be shut down but those who ran it need to be ptrsecuted for their diversion of taxpayer funds to domestic political purposes. They need to be in prison. www.thegatewaypundit.com
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 8:32 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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The wokesters put in place by two woke presidents, one white and one black are actually who corrupted USAID. It is beyond saving.
Commented: Thursday, February 6th, 2025 @ 8:19 am
By: Conservative Voter
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The black guy did it again.....did not see that coming!
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Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 7:58 pm
By: Big Bob
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The recipients of USAID money are not just foreign wokesters. The leftist Democrat propagnada sheet "The Politico" published in Washington, DC. received $81 million from USAID. How is THAT "foreign aid"???
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Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 8:02 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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It looks like USAID functioned the way it was supposed to as set up by JFK until the second term of Lbama, when it was injected with the woke mind-virus. Then under Biden, it got an even bigger nose of the woke mind virus. The patient, USAID, was then in such dire shape that all that could be done was to put it out of its misery. The good Doctor Musk diagnosed the problem and eliminated the cancer it has caused.
As to "keyboard warriors", I think that would be Bozo Bob who only repeats the far left talking points he is given. Has he ever talked to anyone who has run a USAID program abroad. Heck, has Bobbie even ever traveled a hundred miles from his house? No, I didn't think so.
Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 7:43 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Ah, the simplistic world of the keyboard warrior.
Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 9:12 am
By: Big Bob
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Bob describes what USAID was in the PAST. Obama and Biden have subverted it to serve their woke ideology. When I woeked in eastern Europe, I knew quite a few people in the expat community who ran USAID funded programs. They were not all American. Some were Swedish, British, and Latvian, but the money for their programs was provided by USAID, and they were engaged in traditional foreign aid projects. The items listed in that Daily Mail article above are NOT such programs. There has been a radical change in what USAID does with our tax dollars under Obama and Biden and it makes a mockery of what USAID was originally founded to do.
One thing about USAID spending under Biden I found was particularly mindboggling. Afghanistan under the Taliban was one of the largest USAID recipients, getting over a billion dollars in 2023. This is an outright hostile government. Why are our tax dollars propping them up?
Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 8:54 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Foreign aid is one thing and used properly can be positive, but when an organization goes woke like USAID has, it starts spewign far left ideological crap. That is when it needs to be reined in, and President Trump is doing that. None of the expenditures listed in that British newspaper are legitimate foreign aid expenses. Heck, USAID even sent millions to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do gain of function research on coronavirs which created Covid.
Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 5:14 am
By: John Steed
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USAID represents less than 1% of the US budget.
The program was started in the 1960s to help the US leverage its interests against the Russians. A subtlety the orange idiot cant comprehend. Much easier to get help form someone who likes you as apposed to someone who hates and fears you.
Commented: Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 @ 9:58 pm
By: Big Bob
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This distortion of the mission of USAID happened during the second term of Obama. The five years I worked in eastern Europe spanned the second Bush term and the first Obama term. I knew many expats who ran USAID funded programs, and at that time those programs were what one would expect of foreign aid; technical assistance to farmers, technical assistance to the banking sector, technical assistance to media, and the like and wokeness was not part of the routine. A year or so later, during a week's visit, I had lunch with some of those expats and they were talking about how USAID was going crazy. Woke type programs were rumored to be coming, but what they were already seeing was woke demands on their own programs that they had not experienced before.
One demand was that reports on their own programming contain the number of homosexuals, the number of lesbians, the number of bisexuals, the number of transexuals, etc. by each category who participated. Previously USAID had only asked for numbers of women and youth. What was nuts was that this was a country in which sexual deviancy was extremely frowned upon and if anyone was a member of any of those categories they would never admit it. If leaders of groups they worked with were asked if they had any of those categories present, they would emphatically deny they had any of them in their organizations. Yet USAID was insistant that they serve these "underserved sexual minorities", so they just made up numbers to pretend that they were. Obama tried to look moderate in his first term but went hard left in his second. That is when the distortion of prioties happened in USAID. When I was overseas, I never heard of USAID getting into this woke agenda, but that was prior to Obama's second term.
Commented: Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 @ 7:20 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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That is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There is just a lot of waste and misspending of money by government.
Commented: Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 @ 9:35 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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