Facts are facts, thats why dems lost the working class, basically if it hasn't been woke, dems act like a fish out of water...
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arizona1 made a valid point. It's been a torrent, for a time...
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B402, Sure. "facts are facts", yet Liz Peek said USAid gave "$15 million for condoms to the Taliban. " A claim quickly debunked.
... Elon Musk Is Faking It [...] Reporters were puzzled by the claim because there didn’t appear to be any evidence. You will be happy to know that the mystery has been solved. Some DOGE staffers noticed that USAID had disbursed grants to local groups trying to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Gaza. But they didn’t read far enough in to learn that the Gaza in question isn’t the war-ravaged strip; it’s a province .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/musk-walks-back-administrations-claim-about-50-million-condom-allotment-for-gaza/ .. in the African nation of Mozambique. Oh well, southern Africa, the Middle East, what’s the difference to the Muskenjugend?
Elon Musk actually admitted the mistake, albeit with minimal grace, during his extraordinary Oval Office press conference with President Trump on Tuesday. (Trump hasn’t acknowledged error.) That conference consisted mainly of Musk pacing around, declaiming, while Trump sat passively at his desk, occasionally expressing agreement. Musk behaved as if he were the actual president and Trump merely a heavily made-up prop.
Anyway, the incident demonstrated the level of care and understanding that DOGE is bringing to its alleged mission of identifying waste, fraud and abuse. [...] Now, we know that there’s huge waste in Medicare, in the form of overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans .. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/medicare-versus-the-insurance-industry . Through Medicare Advantage insurance companies have been gaming the system; the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission estimates the annual loss to taxpayers at more than $80 billion, that is, roughly twice USAID’s budget. Oddly, however, this clear example of gigantic fraud isn’t on Musk’s radar.
But back to that Oval Office scene. Musk also asserted that
there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is what happened at USAID
Is this true? What are these peoples’ stories, if they exist? Sorry, Elon, but why should we believe you when the obvious explanation is that you are taking us for fools?
Again to your your "facts are facts", Liz Peek's next :
"$3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean".
We all know your empathy level clunks on zero, i didn't know Liz Peek at all. One article makes it clear she shares a lack of empathy with you:
Two Worlds: LGBT Rights in the Caribbean Versus America Progress and Setbacks Neela Published in Modern Women· Jun 10, 2024 [...] A 2020 survey found 88% of Caribbean LGBTQ youth face bullying and harassment. Another study linked those colonial-era laws to shockingly high HIV rates thanks to driving high-risk behaviors into the shadows. P - But surely progressive societal forces like, oh, rational thinking or basic human empathy have made inroads? P - Not so fast. P - Religious fundamentalism casts a long, regressive shadow across the Caribbean. Numerous churches actively lobby to keep anti-LGBTQ laws on the books, preaching that being gay is a one-way ticket to shunning and hell. P - My own traditional Hindu household operated under a suffocating cloud of willful ignorance. https://medium.com/modern-women/two-worlds-lgbt-rights-in-the-caribbean-versus-america-1422cb601a6b
Sigh...than Peek's next:
"$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly"
Here’s one example: Congressman Mast likes to talk about a grant that helped Indonesian coffee companies become more “gender friendly.”
repsarajacobs 02/08/25 Here’s what really happened:USAID partnered with a U.S. company and U.S. NGO (hint: American jobs) to provide credit to Indonesian coffee farmers to empower women farmers who typically lack access to capital so that they could produce more coffee that gets consumed by the United States.
repsarajacobs 02/08/25 Still don’t like it? This money was approved by Congress on a BIPARTISAN basis, including by ?secrubio.
repsarajacobs 02/08/25 Eliminating USAID means no more food for millions of Sudanese refugees who’ve fled a civil war, no more medical care for displaced Palestinians, no more HIV treatment on the African continent, and more. People will starve, babies will die, and poverty will skyrocket.
repsarajacobs 02/08/25 So don’t let Republicans distract from what is going on: stomping over Congress’ authority, illegally shutting down a federal agency, destroying U.S. credibility, and allowing millions of people to fall into poverty or die around the world. This isn’t about reform or an audit, and it never was.
"...Through Medicare Advantage insurance companies have been gaming the system; the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission estimates the annual loss to taxpayers at more than $80 billion, that is, roughly twice USAID’s budget. Oddly, however, this clear example of gigantic fraud isn’t on Musk’s radar."
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