Just Like That: USAID Is (Mostly) Dead
Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/3/2025 11:47:51 AM
USAID is mostly dead. I say "mostly" dead because Miracle Max may still find a way to use a bellow to revive it, but as far as I remember, the process required true love, and the only true love USAID had was for cold hard cash. USAID has been one of the key centers of resistance, with deep ties to the Intelligence Community, NGOs, foreign governments, consulting firms, and, of course, the State Department. It disperses tens of billions of dollars, a tiny percentage of which gets to actual aid recipients, and believe it or not helped fund the Wuhan lab and, therefore, the creation of COVID.
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We already have a partial victory based solely on the fact that the Late Night elitist is putting the pieces in place to make it happen.
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