Closing USAID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, so much waste in USAID.


Hundreds of millions on lbtgq, drag shows…….

Horrible.

Wtf are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

I find your long mansplain pretty condescending and the fact that you direct it " joe farmer" as if there are any small time family farms owned by individuals left in America. You should have written: dear Monsanto, do you not realize when you voted for Trump he was gonna can your subsidies ? Hmmmm maybe Monsanto doesn't vote....and farmers as a constituency were told to F off by Reagan in the 80's.

Lastly, since you seem to think the world can't survive without 50 Billion a year in welfare in form of USAID, how did " the world" manage for thousands of years before USAID was created in 1961 ? One wonders....

Maybe they weren't dependent on US aid, maybe their birth rates/ survival rates were lower and their countries less crowded and more sustainable .

Maybe the invention of artificial Nitrogen fertilizer wasn't such a good thing for the Earth or world stability ??? But you preach to us some more since, at age 28-35 ( my guess) you seem to know so much

So, you think it's a bad thing that more babies are living to adulthood and more women are now surviving childbirth because of improvements in medicine and nutrition? Interesting. I think it's good that, in part due to the work of the development sector, people are healthier and live longer lives.

[Anonymous]

All you liberals complaining are completely free to send your own money to your favorite international aid organization at anytime. Nothing is stopping you. In the meantime, USAID is just another govt organization that wastes taxpayer money on a grand scale. For every $1 spent on a worthy cause, $10 are wasted on BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

I find your long mansplain pretty condescending and the fact that you direct it " joe farmer" as if there are any small time family farms owned by individuals left in America. You should have written: dear Monsanto, do you not realize when you voted for Trump he was gonna can your subsidies ? Hmmmm maybe Monsanto doesn't vote....and farmers as a constituency were told to F off by Reagan in the 80's.

Lastly, since you seem to think the world can't survive without 50 Billion a year in welfare in form of USAID, how did " the world" manage for thousands of years before USAID was created in 1961 ? One wonders....

Maybe they weren't dependent on US aid, maybe their birth rates/ survival rates were lower and their countries less crowded and more sustainable .

Maybe the invention of artificial Nitrogen fertilizer wasn't such a good thing for the Earth or world stability ??? But you preach to us some more since, at age 28-35 ( my guess) you seem to know so much

So, you think it's a bad thing that more babies are living to adulthood and more women are now surviving childbirth because of improvements in medicine and nutrition? Interesting. I think it's good that, in part due to the work of the development sector, people are healthier and live longer lives.

Agree with you but you’ll never convince someone who’s drink the Koolaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you liberals complaining are completely free to send your own money to your favorite international aid organization at anytime. Nothing is stopping you. In the meantime, USAID is just another govt organization that wastes taxpayer money on a grand scale. For every $1 spent on a worthy cause, $10 are wasted on BS.

Studies to support that? I didn’t think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you liberals complaining are completely free to send your own money to your favorite international aid organization at anytime. Nothing is stopping you. In the meantime, USAID is just another govt organization that wastes taxpayer money on a grand scale. For every $1 spent on a worthy cause, $10 are wasted on BS.

Studies to support that? I didn’t think so.

I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the news.

[Anonymous]

Liberals, you lost. Get over it. Seek therapy for your TTTTT DDDDD SSSSS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Your glee at the unemployment of 13,706 people is nauseating. I am laying off all my staff because of the USAID shutdowns. The single moms, the dads with kids with cancer, the fresh-faced kids with their first apartment leases. And since my programs are shut down we aren’t stopping that Ebola outbreak in Uganda or preventing babies from getting Malaria in Nigeria. That’s what we all did all day. And we got paid the kind of salaries that people on this board scoff at, and we live in neighborhoods most of you won’t enter. Because we aren’t rolling in dough based on some big USAID fraud, right? We are nurses and social workers who use our skills in other countries.

What the F is WRONG with you?

Why was USAID operating in Hungary?

https://rumble.com/v29a3te-usaid-in-hungary.html

Samantha Power didn't seem to think her mission was helping starving people in Africa, but rather building media operations to take out political opponents.

Fascism has taken hold in Hungary. USAID projects provide soft diplomacy to promote democracy (in this case through a free press) as part of overall global stability efforts. There a reason authoritarian leaders or cheering on this effort to dismantle USAID.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/authoritarian-usaid-elon-musk

Please think through who is supporting the destruction if USAID and what they have to gain from it.

Now you are agreeing that USAID has a primary mission of political interference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Your glee at the unemployment of 13,706 people is nauseating. I am laying off all my staff because of the USAID shutdowns. The single moms, the dads with kids with cancer, the fresh-faced kids with their first apartment leases. And since my programs are shut down we aren’t stopping that Ebola outbreak in Uganda or preventing babies from getting Malaria in Nigeria. That’s what we all did all day. And we got paid the kind of salaries that people on this board scoff at, and we live in neighborhoods most of you won’t enter. Because we aren’t rolling in dough based on some big USAID fraud, right? We are nurses and social workers who use our skills in other countries.

What the F is WRONG with you?

Why was USAID operating in Hungary?

https://rumble.com/v29a3te-usaid-in-hungary.html

Samantha Power didn't seem to think her mission was helping starving people in Africa, but rather building media operations to take out political opponents.

Fascism has taken hold in Hungary. USAID projects provide soft diplomacy to promote democracy (in this case through a free press) as part of overall global stability efforts. There a reason authoritarian leaders or cheering on this effort to dismantle USAID.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/authoritarian-usaid-elon-musk

Please think through who is supporting the destruction if USAID and what they have to gain from it.

Now you are agreeing that USAID has a primary mission of political interference.

Sure - and that’s a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How sick and amoral is it that the world’s richest man is cutting food and medicine for the world’s poorest children, so that America’s wealthy can pay less taxes.

That is 100% what we are witnessing.

Honestly, I haven’t seen this Left this outraged since, well, yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it very odd and suspicious that USAID is suddenly in Elon’s crosshairs like this. Did Trump or GOP ever mention this agency during the last campaign or in recent Congressional hearings, budget negotiations?

It seems there must be some other underlying reason (for corrupt purposes and financial gain) that Elon is going after it so aggressively. I hope the media will start digging!

It is a slush fund for Democrats. Give money to NGOs who give to other funds, who can use the money to promote leftist causes.
Their big mistake was not giving enough money to Republicans so now no one is supporting them.

When the International Space Station was nearly defunded under Clinton, NASA went out and distributed the jobs around the country.

Yes,
USAID has been a SLUSH FUND for DEMOCRATS.

Why don’t you give some examples?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

Well, now that the US is going to be a sh^thole country, I guess they will go to Canada.

My family is originally French Canadian and about 150 years ago it was too rural for the young adults so they came to the Northeast US to live. But Canada is beautiful and so peaceful. There are only a few areas that are similar to the US, the rest of the country is much safer than the US, less pollution, less trash, less negativity. If it wasn’t for its freezing temperatures it would be the perfect country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Your glee at the unemployment of 13,706 people is nauseating. I am laying off all my staff because of the USAID shutdowns. The single moms, the dads with kids with cancer, the fresh-faced kids with their first apartment leases. And since my programs are shut down we aren’t stopping that Ebola outbreak in Uganda or preventing babies from getting Malaria in Nigeria. That’s what we all did all day. And we got paid the kind of salaries that people on this board scoff at, and we live in neighborhoods most of you won’t enter. Because we aren’t rolling in dough based on some big USAID fraud, right? We are nurses and social workers who use our skills in other countries.

What the F is WRONG with you?

Why was USAID operating in Hungary?

https://rumble.com/v29a3te-usaid-in-hungary.html

Samantha Power didn't seem to think her mission was helping starving people in Africa, but rather building media operations to take out political opponents.

INDEED:

- she funneled money to “approved journalists.” No one can fail to see how problematic that was. No one.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/usaid-was-spending-268-million-fund-6000-approved/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All you liberals complaining are completely free to send your own money to your favorite international aid organization at anytime. Nothing is stopping you. In the meantime, USAID is just another govt organization that wastes taxpayer money on a grand scale. For every $1 spent on a worthy cause, $10 are wasted on BS.

Studies to support that? I didn’t think so.

I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the news.

Haven’t you guys been telling us that the news media is fake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey, farmers who voted for and support convicted felon Donald Trump. On Monday, the guy you wanted as president and his “special government employee,” Elon Musk, illegally shuttered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered the immediate firing or furlough of everyone of its employees working here and anywhere else in the world. They also completely halted all programs the agency operates, from providing HIV treatment to stopping the spread of Ebola to stemming famine to promoting democracy and American economic interests in 120 countries.
You probably like that, right? Take care of America and forget those foreigners, am I right?
Well, guess what also stopped abruptly when Trump and Musk gutted USAID? More than two billion dollars per year in USAID purchases of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas for foreign aid stopped. Right now. Immediately.
And from whom do you suppose USAID buys the commodities it uses for humanitarian aid distribution? It’s from you, bub. It’s from American farmers. And your Dear Leader just snatched that two billion dollar market out from under you.
What else do you suppose is going to happen now that all of USAID’s missions have suddenly ended without notice, leaving millions of desperate people who depend on American aid searching for help? Guess who’s going to step into that sudden void because of the new opening handed to them on a silver platter by Trump and Musk? Oops and surprise, it’s going to be our economic and philosophical adversaries like China and Russia. They are now much freer to insert their own footprint into those countries and to greatly increase their own influence. That also means making it easier for China to take over the foreign markets which, until now, used to be yours, thanks in large part to soft power overseas work of USAID. Yeah, China and Russia absolutely love it, baby.
Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it? Keep your mouths shut and your eyes down? Keep voting for leaders who engage in such colossally stupid, poorly executed and illegal acts which cause real actual harm to you and your livelihoods? Are you going to cheer them on despite what they’re doing to you? Are you going to just shrug your shoulders as their actions literally kill people, including the most vulnerable children of the world because, y’know, MAGA?
Did you vote for that? Are you going to bend over and take it? I mean, seriously. In spite of warning bells going off so loudly that you could’ve even heard them over the chugging of the giant tractors for which you’re probably deeply in debt, you went ahead and invited these guys to f**k you over anyway. So, will you come to your senses and fight back or roll over and say, Thank you, sir,” and ask for more of it?

And don’t forget: since we no longer want to help improve living conditions in these countries, guess how much more they’ll want to leave? To go where, I wonder. The greatest country in the world!

Well, now that the US is going to be a sh^thole country, I guess they will go to Canada.

My family is originally French Canadian and about 150 years ago it was too rural for the young adults so they came to the Northeast US to live. But Canada is beautiful and so peaceful. There are only a few areas that are similar to the US, the rest of the country is much safer than the US, less pollution, less trash, less negativity. If it wasn’t for its freezing temperatures it would be the perfect country.

You obviously have not visited Toronto recently.