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Anonymous wrote:Wait until OP hears about the Navy. Can't wait for the calls to dissolve the Navy.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/retired-navy-admiral-and-business-executives-arrested-bribery-scheme

I mean, we know that there is massive fraud and waste in the military yet somehow the current administration is expanding their budget. More $100M jets to fall off of ships is fine, I guess?

Biden leaving BILLIONS to the Taliban is OK, I guess.

You sure know that maga has nothing when they start manufacturing irrelevant Biden drama.

Dance, maga puppet, dance! Daddy needs you!

Staggering Costs – U.S. Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/23/staggering-costs--us-military-equipment-left-behind-in-afghanistan/

The Democrat Party of Death and Destruction tried everything to dismantle America.

#1. Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of U.S. provided military gear in Afghanistan: reposted report (dead link: report).

#2. Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) audit of $174 million in lost ScanEagle drones (July 2020): reposted report.

So these audits were done during the first Trump presidency, a'la 2016-2020? What did his administration do with these smoking guns?

Anonymous wrote:And now the gravy train is over! Thank you Sen Rubio.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-officially-kills-usaid-reveals-future-foreign-assistance-programs

The I SAID rescission package has not come up for a vote yet. Rubio jumped the gun. And may have gotten himself into hot water.

Anonymous wrote:And now the gravy train is over! Thank you Sen Rubio.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-officially-kills-usaid-reveals-future-foreign-assistance-programs

Unlawful.

And reversible.

And now the gravy train is over! Thank you Sen Rubio.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-officially-kills-usaid-reveals-future-foreign-assistance-programs

USAID was a front for US intelligence.

Anonymous wrote:As only one small example, it was recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive, long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013. Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official.


There was massive fraud occurring throughout USAID.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-trump-admin-takes-action-after-massive-fraud-uncovered-agency-dems-tried-protect-from-doge

Not to downplay this because Watson and the others need to go to jail and made that agency look shitt but let's take a look at the absolutely hyperbolic language in context. And the companies and recipients of the money need to make significant restitution to the taxpayers and also go to jail.

BUT...

We're talking about 14 contracts out of around 2700 contracts during that span of time.

We're talking about 500 million out of $150 billion in contracts during that time.

It was ONE very corrupt guy and possibly one or two more within the agency who were also either corrupt or incompetent.

Yet here's FOX News pushing a narrative trying to suggest the entire agency is nothing but corruption, fraud, waste and abuse.

I bet you that if you dug into a Fortune 500 doing that kind of volume of business over 10 years you will ALSO easily find at least 14 questionable deals and hundreds of millions in waste, fraud and abuse, if not more. I bet if you dug into FOX News's finances you'd find plenty of fraud, waste and abuse.

Again, corruption, fraud, waste and abuse is wrong and this Watson character and all of the others need to be held accountable and pay restitution but the hyperbole coming from FOX News and the rest is totally over the top and is spreading a false narrative.

Anonymous wrote:As only one small example, it was recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive, long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013. Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official.


There was massive fraud occurring throughout USAID.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-trump-admin-takes-action-after-massive-fraud-uncovered-agency-dems-tried-protect-from-doge

The current admin is throwing out the baby with bathwater (which is not even that dirty) …

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/thinking-through-waste-fraud-and-corruption-us-foreign-assistance

Thinking Through Waste, Fraud and Corruption in US Foreign Assistance
by Charles Kenny
MARCH 21, 2025

“And that brings us to another way we know waste or corruption aren’t rampant in the aid system. We know a lot of aid is being delivered as intended because we can see it in the results. Again that’s clearest for health programs where repeated estimates of PEPFAR’s impact suggesting millions of lives saved over the program, for example. If the program wasn’t working as intended, there would be somewhere between 1.6 to 2.9 million more deaths to report each year. Put all US lifesaving programs together and you get somewhere in the region of 2.3 to 5.6 million or more.

US foreign assistance could work far better: too many parts of the government provide overlapping assistance, there are unwarranted regulations and Congressional mandates with the overheads and reliance on contractors that result, excessive limits on providing assistance where it could work best and too few on spending it where it is an irrelevance. But it still works—sometimes in miraculous ways, saving lives at the cost of a few dollars. There’s simply no evidence of massive waste nor significant fraud or abuse. That means cutting assistance will lead to lives lost and livelihoods ruined. The US administration and Congress should confront that reality, not hide behind the pretense that setting out to destroy America’s foreign assistance institutions has no real cost.”

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Anonymous wrote:It’s also extremely interesting that DNC fundraising has dropped precipitously since the elimination of the US AID.

Guys, honestly this does look really suspicious, you have to admit.

Ha- I’m not giving the DNC anything anymore. And I am a 10$ donation kind of person. Everyone is mad it has come to this. I will continue to vote for the lesser of 2 evils and I’m clear that is the Dems, but we dont’ have much money to donate right now.

The DNC has to earn our donations, which it's not doing right now. The progressive wing of the party isn't doing it either in fighting oligarchy. The lawfare was over played, resulting in an even worse situation than before with Supreme Court rulings now in place.

Do I have a perfect strategy to win? Nope, but I do know that resistance is futile and just pissed off voters (especially when it fails).

DP. As an independent-former-Republican, this bleating about lawfare is nonsense. Trump is crooked and the insurrection was a terrible thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not going to say there wasn’t fraud, but the worse evil is having medicine sit around and go bad while people NEED it so you can catch the fraudsters.
If the system was broken in places, fix it, but don’t tear everything down and say you have done good. You committed a greater evil because you had the power to help people, had the medicine in hand and pulled it away from them at the last moment. THAT is evil at work.

What's evil is four people scamming for $550 million. Stop changing the subject. It's tacit rationalization.

It’s only ok to scam people if it’s bitcoin.

Anonymous wrote:As only one small example, it was recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive, long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013. Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official.


There was massive fraud occurring throughout USAID.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-trump-admin-takes-action-after-massive-fraud-uncovered-agency-dems-tried-protect-from-doge

Massive fraud at USAID that in four years as President, Trump did nothing about?

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Anonymous wrote:How do you get from 1 small example to massive?

That's how homeopathy works. Maybe OP is just using that logic.

That is an AWESOME response.

Anonymous wrote:Wait until OP hears about the Navy. Can't wait for the calls to dissolve the Navy.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/retired-navy-admiral-and-business-executives-arrested-bribery-scheme

Absolutely, and who could forget the DON’s Fat Leonard scandal involving bribery, prostitution, et al. And nope, DON is still around and floating their tankers and subs, despite the fraudulent multi million dollar scandals and misappropriation of funds.

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Anonymous wrote:As only one small example, it was recently discovered that an influential contracting officer at USAID named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive, long-term bribery scheme dating all the way back to 2013. Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official.


There was massive fraud occurring throughout USAID.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-trump-admin-takes-action-after-massive-fraud-uncovered-agency-dems-tried-protect-from-doge

lol Fox News? Fox News is controlled by republicans. It is a propaganda machine for Trump and the Republicans. They spin up lies and disinformation nothing more. They do not even have reporters.

Which Republican do you believe controls fox? (Rupert Murdoch is out, and his boys HATE maga.)

Nope the don running Fox is MAGA. Lachlan Murdoch is a mini Rupert. His brother and sisters sued him and Rupert over Rupert trying to break a trust so that he could leave Fix Corporation entirely to Lachlan.

Anonymous wrote:Wait until OP hears about the Navy. Can't wait for the calls to dissolve the Navy.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/retired-navy-admiral-and-business-executives-arrested-bribery-scheme

I mean, we know that there is massive fraud and waste in the military yet somehow the current administration is expanding their budget. More $100M jets to fall off of ships is fine, I guess?

Anonymous wrote:It was investigated in 2022. Under BIDEN. The OIG did its job, dipshit.

That’s what I came here to say. This was investigated, under Biden, way before Trump/DOGE got involved. The plea deals are in place and they are going to be sentenced.