Sunday, February 09, 2025

USAID Funding Misinformation Rampant

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 | 25 COMMENTS | permalink

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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

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"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

#1 | 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.



#2 | 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...

#3 | 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.

#4 | 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 !!

#5 | 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.

#6 | 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.

#7 | 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.

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

"USAID Funding Misinformation Rampant"

"Mission Accomplished!"

The Elon Musk Administration

#9 | 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

#10 | 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?

#11 | 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.

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

"other Agency's still wasted our money"

Please use proper English.

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-10 10:34 AM

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 | Reply | Flag:
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Either they don't pay or are part of the grift.

#14 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-10 12:22 PM

Just waiting on evidence. I assume Musk at least has a strategy here. I'm just waiting until he comes out with evidence to back everything they are saying. But that waiting only lasts so long. But also, they may have seen it but have not had time to sanitize it befofe going public, so amy judhe blocking bis efforts is only illustrating that there is something to hide. Someone just needs to get Musk to sign a culpability document should they allow his access and have serious reprecussions for him. Then see what he does. If it turns out he's telling the teuth then we expose a lot of waste. If he doesn't then we get rid of Musk. Win either way.

#15 | Posted by humtake at 2025-02-10 05:56 PM

@#17 ... Just waiting on evidence. I assume Musk at least has a strategy here. I'm just waiting until he comes out with evidence to back everything they are saying. ...

You mean like Pres Trump has been saying for years that he has ample evidence to prove the 2020 election was stolen, but that evidence still has not appeared?


Are you falling for that again?


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 06:03 PM

Just a random thought or two.

Words have meanings

Waste and Fraud have meanings.

They are being used here to obfuscate.

Like are they REALLY talking about waste and fraud?

If it is authorized by congress, how is it waste? Redundant spending? Ok, that should be addressed. Politically unpalatable spending? Well, the Executive branch does not and should not have the power to unilaterally declare that waste. It was approved by congress, thus NOT waste. If they have an issue with an expenditure, take it up with congress.

If it is not authorized by congress, it is fraud and already a crime.

There are and were overseers who looked to make sure there was no fraud, i.e. the money was going to where it was legally allowed to go to. We regularly hear stories about misappropriation of funds that are criminally pursued. Less so in the future where public corruption is less of a thing and the DoJ isn't pursuing white collar crime.

It strikes me that waste and fraud have zero to do with the goals of the DOGE bros. That literally makes no sense. And their actions are patently illegal

Truth Hurts Advice for the Day: "When people use undefined, malleable, nebulous words, do not trust them."

You have been informed and educated. Be better people.

Truth Hurts

#17 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-02-10 06:17 PM

You know I have to laugh. MAGA Trumpers actually believe that Trump gives a damn about governmental wasteful spending. That's got to take some monumental mental gymnastics. He doesn't give a damn about y. Or you obviously.

#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-10 06:23 PM

Trump just signed an executive order banning paper straws. That's sure to bring down egg prices.

#19 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-10 06:33 PM

Trump just signed an executive order banning paper straws.

Why ban them? Why not just not require them? Seems a waste for businesses/manufacturers to have to throw out stock they paid for already.

What's next? Require all straws to me made from depleted Uranium?

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-10 06:56 PM

Trump is a flatulent, incontinent, demented imbecile.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-10 11:28 PM

#17

---- you -------

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-10 11:29 PM

@#23 ... Trump is a flatulent, incontinent, demented imbecile. ...

Ya know ...

If you had posted that comment six months ago (and maybe you did), I would have objected to it.

But lately?

I have to ask, is the President of the United States being controlled by others?

The Project 2025 folk?

Pres Putin?

It does not seem to appear that Pres Trump is capable of rational thought processes.


I remain to be convinced otherwise.

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-10 11:45 PM

The butterfly logo is used by pedophile organizations all over the world.

#24 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-11 12:35 PM

Larry Tenney

OUT OF OFFiCE

Hunting butterflies ... pic.x.com/7JNxAVtY9q

#25 | Posted by bootyhunter at 2025-02-11 12:37 PM

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