The USAID scandal has had a surprisingly long life given how many stories have been dropping since President Trump returned to office. Amazingly, new stories on this topic keep breaking. The American Thinker’s Clarice Feldman embedded this gem in a post on how this scandal woke up so many Americans (emphasis mine):
Trump decided to pause Foreign Aid for 90 days — reasonable enough. A couple days later the White House said this USAID leadership was trying to circumvent this Executive Order. That alerted the DOGE team and Elon confirmed this on X. He said all DOGE did was check to see which Federal Agency was violating Trump’s orders the most and that turned out to be USAID, so that became our focus.
Whoah! I was wondering why USAID got the distinction of being first, and this makes perfect sense. Bruce Bawer at Frontpage gave a good rundown of everything rotten about the USAID scandal. It opens with a summary of the crazy spending, typical Democrat hysterics, and concludes with a good few paragraphs as to how USAID corrupted over the years:
The EU, my friend says, did a better job at this stuff, as did individual European countries, notably the Netherlands. And “it slowly but surely dawned on many that USAID had nothing that illuminating to bring to the table”; indeed, as Czechia and then Poland and Hungary prospered, they grew embarrassed to be receiving aid from a program “typically associated with third world countries and problems.” It didn’t help that many USAID officials were not only condescending but also, in many cases, ideologically blinded to the failings of socialism, with some of them actually believing the leftist hype about these countries’ broken-down health-care systems.
Read the whole thing. So at his point, we have a scandal on wasteful government spending – no surprise, just the scale and scope. We’ve learned how USAID came under fire, apparently they became arrogant and thought they could get away with anything. We learned that USAID has become a true corruptacracy over the years, and we’ve had expected Leftist rage. No, wait, not that last part.
Sure, the crazed Democrats in office and the media have been on an unsurprising rage campaign, but the execution is all wrong. We’ve seen the likes of The Lizard King Schumer, Mad Maxine Waters, Fauxcahontis, and Gulag Barbie among others, including an obscure Rep from Oregon who wants our President to make sweet love to her. Bawer’s Frontpage piece also included some “journalists” (possibly funded by USAID grants) writing in defense of USAID, but only in general terms (think about the children!), naming projects nobody has ever heard of, as opposed to some specific personal story they could use to personalize the story. Is anyone else seeing what’s noticeably absent from the defense of USAID?
The Radical Left is not bringing their A Game to defending USAID. Sure, we’re seeing what are now the prominent Democrats doing the appropriate caterwauling, but the biggest names have been silent. Look at their living President/VP office holders and candidates. OK, their latest standard bearers of Sundown Joe*, Coupmala, and Tampon Timmy aren’t exactly the best to put up as spokesmodels. What about Barry O and Big Mike? Haven’t heard from them. And what about Juanita Broadrick’s rapist, or the human-like creature he married who spent decades as a Champion of Women while being the top enabler for the world’s most famous sexual predator? OK, one of the staffers running Hillary’s Twitter account tried firing a shot at DOGE, and it did not end well for her. Even Samantha Power, the longtime head of this beast, has offered little more than some generic defense of her former agency. Sure, we’re seeing the predictable array of Hawaiian Judges across the country pretending that they were elected President, but these amount to token resistance.
Next up we should be seeing the media blitz where The Radical Left brings some personal stories and they amplify it as heartless to oppose them. Roll out the late night talk show hosts to parrot the Operation Mockingbird talking points – Jimmy Kimmel will cry during his monologue, Jimmy Fallon will laugh at his own jokes, and Colbert will roll out a bunch of gay men dancing in ridiculous costumes to somehow make it cool to pay to keep foreign criminals in the US (Rape-istas?). And while the Dinosaur Media has trotted out the talking points, both CNN and Jimmy Kimmel are publicly admitting that they are screwed.
Don’t get me started on wondering why they are not finding some reason to roll out their BLAMTIFA Brown Shirts to terrorize the streets of our cities.
And while the rot runs deep, it’s not hard to find positive stories about USAID’s work. Oddly enough, I have several friends who have worked for or currently work at USAID. I know for a fact that USAID has done some excellent work. I say this not in defense of the agency, just out of surprise that none of these stories are being highlighted and used to put up as a defense of the agency. Which brings us to the burning question: Why aren’t the Dems mounting a serious defense of such a a massive and valuable piece of their massive blob of corruption?
This is the part where I have some theory or make my usual Dick Morris level of accuracy prediction as to where this is leading. And honestly, I have no idea. It surprises me that Democrats would just give up on this Deep State Goliath that they’ve spent decades building. Maybe they see the writing on the wall and realize it’s a losing battle. Sorry to break this to you Lefties, but to the majority of normal Americans, Elon Musk comes off as a lot more likable than a howling Maxine Waters or Chuck Schumer. Maybe the top Democrat Brass sees this too and don’t want to tarnish their own names on a fight they won’t win. Or more disturbing, maybe The Radical Left is keeping its powder dry in preparation for a much bigger fight. And I have absolutely no idea what it may be.
All I can leave you with is that the Democrats’ current actions just don’t make sense. However malevolent they may be, it’s always been fairly easy to guess their motives. Not this time, and I’d love to hear any ideas you might have in the comments.
Does it occur to government workers protesting DOGE by marching in the streets during working hours are making @elonmusk’s case?
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5 minutes of research and I found out the NGO that couldn’t afford oxygen without USAID has a $98 million stock portfolio and a CEO making $1.2 million a year.
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There have been no “bleeding heart” stories to tug heartstrings of even hardened fiscal conservatives.
That’s for a great reason: there are no individuals who have been pulled from filth and/or hunger that these USAID programs could put in front of cameras.
It’s ALL been skimmed away.
Chelsea’s $83 million was supposed to feed poor people in disaster-struck Haiti.
But she took it all in salary, travel and “conferences.”
Etc, rinse and repeat for every judge’s wife’s USAID program, every congresscritter’s family members, like Maxine Watters’ daughter.
The religious “NGO’s” have been busily bringing illegals here, not helping them at home.
Even Antifa is too poor (all of a sudden) to afford to pull together a big demonstration.
I guess that all of the Illegal Aliens storming the highways are just hard workers doing tthe jobs that lazy BLAMTIFAns won’t do.
For years I hear of Doctors and Nurses, fresh out of University and College, donating their services overseas for what seems to be subsistence pay and a cot in a hut. My eyes are now seeing what is hailed as “helping the poor in Africa”, may be enriching young Doctors, by supplying them with the $$$$$’s to build a practice in the Home Country, with a polished badge of honor.
Maybe it isn’t a sacrifice after all, maybe it is being recruited to join in the wallow of Dollars from USAID?
It’s sad about how in the last few years how cynical I’ve become towards any charities / nonprofits. I assume that there’s always been some level of grift but wonder if it’s always been this bad.
Democrats followed their usual process when an issue just won’t go away. First, Trump didn’t have the authority to police his own departments. When that fell flat, it was unvetted youngsters stealing our Social Security numbers (I haven’t been notified yet that Musk opened a Visa account in my name and bought a 70″ Sony flat screen). Then, people are suddenly dropping dead because the money they weren’t due to have yet isn’t there. But, this issue just won’t die, so lastly they just say Musk is lying. None of this is happening. All the spending is on the up and up.