USAID Funding Misinformation Rampant

Sunday, February 09, 2025

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, false and misleading information is being pushed on social media to support the change, much of it spread by the administration and Elon Musk.

Posted by Angrydad at 02:31 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink

If you're one of the Americans who believes we spend 40% of the federal budget on foreign aid, YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO! USAID represents less than 1% of the federal budget Shuttering USAID is a threat to public health & opens the door for Russia, China, et al with developing nations

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-- Larry Tenney (@larrytenney.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Comments

They're morons.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-08 11:39 AM

People who are emotionally invested in believing lies are the stupidest people of all.

How ya doing, SHRIMP?

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-08 12:00 PM

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Joseph Goebbels

#3 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-08 12:20 PM

... false and misleading information is being pushed on social media to support the change, much of it spread by the administration and Elon Musk. ...

It seems so typical for MAGA --- using lies to justify their actions and goals, because the truth runs counter to their efforts.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-08 12:36 PM

#3 | Posted by SomebodyElse

And Gobbels never had something like FAUX "news" at his disposal...

#5 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-02-08 01:27 PM

I've seen some of these on my Facebook friends' pages. I would call them out, except I don't think they even care if they're spreading misinformation. It's the idea and 'feeling' of it that counts. Meanwhile, I have other friends and relatives doing the same thing, mindlessly reposting anti-Trump stuff without any critical thought. It seems critical thinking is dead, or least hibernating, across the board these days.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-08 06:50 PM

well of course they're lies....anything that exposed goddamn trash like every democrat has to be a lie.

and how does it feel to be so pathetic.. that you're angry that someone is showing how

the govt is fk'g YOU on taxes and you don't give a ------- that it's happening...

..........BUt I do have to give dems an edge in lying....NO ONE LIES more and "better" than democrat motha loving prix......

--remember those 'good old days" when you punx swore that biden was mentally capable of

being potus ?.....

------------------------well enough of the cess pool.....MUST FIND THE WINNER FOR TODAY !!

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-02-09 02:01 PM

the govt is fk'g YOU on taxes and you don't give a ------- that it's happening...

7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at

Donald Trump steals from you.

You seem perfectly OK with that.

Useful idiot.

For a few evil people.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 02:05 PM

Putin's portly orange bitch is wasting $20 million today on security while he stinks up the Super Bowl.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 02:45 PM

while he stinks up the Super Bowl.

It's been renamed the Lewzer Bowl. FOX is broadcasting so they might not even mention the actual game with all the MAGA fawning.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-09 02:57 PM

"USAID Funding Misinformation Rampant"

"Mission Accomplished!"

The Elon Musk Administration

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-09 03:09 PM

read the article; money may not have come directly from USAID but we found out about these wastes through USAID. other Agency's still wasted our money

It amazes me that you Libs don't care about Gov waste of the Tax Payers MONEY, you must love paying taxes or don't pay any at all. I'm betting you don't pay so you don't care

#12 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-02-09 04:03 PM

I'm betting you don't pay (taxes) so you don't care

#12 | Posted by Maverick

Is it really that easy to confuse people with Trump?

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 05:12 PM

#12 | Posted by Maverick

"Conservatives" began proving in 2018 that they don't mind MAGA elites stealing from you.

Yes, it's a sort of tax. But they don't call it that so you keep on bleeding for them.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 05:14 PM

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