USAID Funds Ended up at BLM (and You Might Not Believe Where Else)

One concept of cash is that wealth is fungible. Another rule of money — and this one is Washington’s preferred — is that mutability is the reverse of transparency. If you have$ 100 and I give you$ 20 and you spend$ 20 on candy, did I give you$ 20 for candy? Well, no. No immediately. But you started with$ 100, you still have$ 100, and you have$ 20 worth of candy.

If anyone asks, I can tell with a straight face that I did not spend$ 20 on delicious Twix. You’re going to discuss one of those, correctly?

Let’s start today’s stories with the Tides Foundation, a San Francisco-based volunteer and a main victim of George Soros’s largess via his Open Society Foundation. ” Open” in the case of OSF follows the “fungibility is the opposite of transparency” rule. But, not very available at all. Both Tides and OSF are paid by USAID. According to Kelly Becker, USAID has given OSF between$ 24 and$ 27 million in recent years.

I set ChatGPT to work on the issue, hoping it would be able to combine more options than I was, but I was even prepared for its left-leaning partiality to shine through. Due to the complex nature of grant distributions and the absence of publicly available records, it said,” The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) has provided to the Tides Foundation a challenging decision to make.” The Tides Foundation usually acts as an entity, redistributing money to different activities and companies, which may obscure the classic sources of funding”.

Substitutability is the opposite of accountability, and kindly pass the Twix. &nbsp,

When I learned immediately that Tides and BLM are involved in a funding dispute, I thought, “gotta head pop some more maize.” In its lawsuit against Tides, BLM claims that” those who served as its fiscal partner, Tides “refused to honor its claims and continues to capture BLM GNF’s payment” rather than delivering on the foundation’s expectations that Tides would direct funds based on BLM GNF’s calls. ” &nbsp,

BLM wanted$ 33 million. Apparently, they only got around$ 12 million. So we have that going for us, which is good. What’s not so great is that George Soros, one of the richest men in the world, uses every single tax money to finance his political schemes. &nbsp,

In 2022 alone, Tides took in more than$ 1.6 billion and distributed about$ 1.3 billion. But, a few million dollars to BLM are essentially pocket change. However, it’s safe to say that BLM enjoyed more than a few Twix at tax price thanks to the obfuscatory charm of mutability. &nbsp,

Democrats are continuing to spew yet more absurd nonsense than usual thanks to the DOGE kids. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California, SSR ) made the admission on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Thursday that he is “probably” likely to find abominable examples of wasteful spending and that he is confident that the government can legitimately provide transparency and sunlight to the American people.

” Really come to Congress, present us what you’re finding, and then push up or down vote,” Khanna suggested”. And if Ro Khanna also votes for those]sic ] useless saving, I’ll have to answer back house.”

The fumbling started right away after Khanna’s modified limited rendezvous.

” Part of the issue Khanna has with Musk’s approach is that he appears to be making choices without the words of Congress,” IJR reported”, with Khanna stating that Musk doesn’t only’ stop the payments or make these decisions formally.’ “

Did you catch that? Doing so would be against the law for DOGE to stop Treasury payments that were never approved by Congress.

The flop sweat is glossy and rank and glorious.

And Another Thing: I was kidding in the headline where it says”, You Might Not Believe Where Else. ” Because, let’s face it, after maybe two weeks of DOGE going through USAID’s books, you’d do little more than yawn if they revealed that USAID had been paying for Mexican cat juggling.

Here’s where we stand in our disagreement with the Left about using taxpayer money to fund private groups that are only marginally non-partisan ( if that’s what they’re supposed to be ).

Taxpayer: I would never have given my money to a group like]BLANK] that espouses things I don’t believe in.

Lefty: That’s why they need money from the government.

Taxpayer: But Congress didn’t even approve it. How can you do that?

Lefty :]sounding very earnest ] Democracy.

It’s madness. It needs to end, and are you going to eat all those Twix?

Recommended: &nbsp, The USAID Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Minute

I already posted the clip, but I can’t mention Mexican cat juggling without doing so.

Still less absurd than USAID.

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