1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpetclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,079 your support. A post here by Indian Bronson on Twitter. 10 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:36,119 I think this captures it well. What's happening in America 11 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:40,600 is roughly equivalent to the yearbook committee and theater kid 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,079 types getting rocked by a football team chess club alliance, 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,920 I would say. I would say, maybe not the chess club, 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,560 but the math club maybe, or the computer club something 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,799 like that. Do they still do computer club? I don't know. 16 00:00:58,799 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: Not. 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,719 Speaker 1: All schools probably have computer clubs or chess clubs for 18 00:01:01,759 --> 00:01:07,359 that matter, I guess. But yeah, so us AI D. 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,680 There is a reason that's perfectly explain There's a completely 20 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:19,159 rational explanation, logical explanation here for why democrats and media 21 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:24,719 are squealing like stuck pigs over the release and well, 22 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:27,319 the takeover of the usai D and now the release 23 00:01:27,359 --> 00:01:32,439 of all of this information. Yeah, it's because they've been 24 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:36,719 using it as their personal piggybag's that's the obvious explanation here, people. 25 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,439 That's it. And Chuck Schumer, you know, leading the charge 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,200 as he does when there's nobody else to do it. 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,640 It's pretty it's pretty sad. I'll play you that in 28 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,480 a minute. If I heard it, you have to also, Okay, 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:52,359 that's the rule. All right. Let me go over here 30 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:55,959 and talk to Jeff. Hello, Jeff, Welcome to the program, Pete. 31 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,159 Speaker 2: Thanks for taking my call, sir, and thanks for gaing 32 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,400 some time to this. And I have to say that 33 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:09,120 I'm shocked, shocked. I tell you that religious organizations seem 34 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:13,400 to be on the list for receiving us aid A money. 35 00:02:13,719 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: Well, I would point out that those are simply religious fronts. 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,360 They're not really religious. They use the religion as a 37 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:28,240 front to do the work of neo Marxists. 38 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: Okay, well, looking over the list, unfortunately, yeah, I found 39 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:39,840 my church organization on there. Which one was that they're 40 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:40,439 not a front. 41 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Pardon which one was. 42 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 2: That well, I just won't say, but but they're on it. 43 00:02:48,479 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: And the Catholic charities. No, oh, okay, because I think 44 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:54,080 they were on it too. 45 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,599 Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, it's so totally different from the 46 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:02,199 Catholic Church. But yeah, I always saw that for the 47 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,919 demon Rats, that was a total nono. You know, you 48 00:03:05,039 --> 00:03:07,280 had to have separation of church and state. 49 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: M right, well and right. So the thing about Marxists, 50 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:17,000 they lie, So they're not they're not for a separation 51 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,280 of church and state like they claimed to be. When 52 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:25,120 conservatives you know, express religious views or something, it's that's 53 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,800 just a it's a it's a rhetorical weapon. We know this, 54 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,319 and we've known it for decades because they constantly use 55 00:03:33,159 --> 00:03:37,680 the pulpit uh to whip votes for themselves in particularly 56 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:41,159 black churches. This happens all the time, right candidates. I 57 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:44,159 mean remember Hillary Clinton, I at always no ways tired 58 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,159 or whatever it was that she did, you know, uh, 59 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,560 with the black dialect adopted. They've been doing this for 60 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:54,599 a long time. So it's this is not a principled stand. 61 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,439 It's something that they just say in order to get 62 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:00,599 you to stop doing the thing that may limit their 63 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:03,439 ability to gain more power or control. 64 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 2: Right right, Well, you know, I hope this leads the 65 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,919 taxpayers to look at the list and find out if 66 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,199 their organizations are on there. If they are, then they 67 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,439 need to be pinging the leadership of these organizations, which 68 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,079 I plan to do. I'm going to start asking some 69 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,040 questions about the leaders in my organization and find out, 70 00:04:25,519 --> 00:04:27,959 you know, just what's going on here and who said 71 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,439 you could do this? What? So? 72 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: All right, so your organization your church or an affiliated organization. 73 00:04:33,639 --> 00:04:35,399 I don't know, is it, well, I'll ask is it 74 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,639 the church or is it like an organization that's affiliated 75 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:41,279 with the church. 76 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,879 Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure about the nomenclature that's on the list, okay, 77 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,480 but the way it looks, it looks like it has 78 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,800 come out of the church hierarchy, either at the state 79 00:04:56,879 --> 00:05:02,000 level or at the federal level, that at the national level. 80 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: Okay. So, and it's a it's a grant or it's 81 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,279 funding coming from U. S. A, I. D to the 82 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,199 church itself. And does it say what the money is 83 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:11,319 supposed to be used for? 84 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 2: Well, some of it, well some of them was definitely 85 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:25,519 uh immigration location services. Uh. Some of it was billed 86 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,839 as health services. So there's a whole lot there to 87 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,720 look at. And you know, the list is so long. 88 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,040 I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to parse this 89 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,959 all out, but uh, the taxpayers, like I say, they 90 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 need to be looking at this and say who who's 91 00:05:44,079 --> 00:05:46,879 on the list, and if you're part of that, then 92 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:50,160 you need to be asked asking some questions. Yeah, well, 93 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,839 why why have you been tagging money from the federal 94 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,360 gun well from the taxpayers. 95 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: Right from the taxpayers in order to do certain work 96 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:02,199 that maybe you're congregation might not be cool with. You know, 97 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,920 this has been a problem for I mentioned Catholic Charities. 98 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:07,680 There are a lot of Catholics that are not cool 99 00:06:08,199 --> 00:06:12,839 with what the Catholic Charities organization has been doing. They're 100 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,199 essentially participating in a human trafficking operation and bye by 101 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,360 you know, by quote, helping illegal aliens come across the 102 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,839 border and they're and they're they're with them from the 103 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,839 beginning of the journey all the way through and then 104 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:29,759 putting them into housing, giving the money and stuff and 105 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:33,720 like that is so in my view, that is a front, 106 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,959 that is a it's a front by Marxists to use 107 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:43,160 the religious organization in order to say we are a nonprofit, 108 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,959 we're a charity, we're a church charity. So Therefore, we're 109 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:50,639 a non government organization and NNGO, and this is what 110 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,360 we're doing as part of our humanitarian outreach or something 111 00:06:54,399 --> 00:06:59,199 our charitable works. And what you're doing is actually destabilizing 112 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:04,879 the country and you're helping people violate law. And that's again, 113 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:07,279 that's not something that a lot of Catholics are happy with. 114 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,199 And Catholic charity has made a bunch of money off 115 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:13,279 of this program at a USA. 116 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 2: And I'm sure that part of this money is probably 117 00:07:16,399 --> 00:07:19,800 going to fund the salaries and the costs for running 118 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:24,519 these offices absolutely that are supposedly providing this. So you know, 119 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,279 I don't know what kind of transparency there's going to 120 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:29,959 be in my organization, but I'm will find out. 121 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck with that. And this is one of 122 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,439 the problems. Yeah, it's one of the problems USAID has 123 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,519 been has had for a while and has been called 124 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,600 out for a while for years, and that they are 125 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:45,079 not transparent. And that's why we're getting now a look 126 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:47,279 at all of this stuff because now we're seeing what 127 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:51,000 they've been doing and they have refused congressional oversight for years. 128 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,040 And I suspect this is why Jeff I appreciate the 129 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:58,399 calls sir, good luck to you on your investigation. Elon 130 00:07:58,519 --> 00:08:01,519 Musk tweeted out that a fraud in the federal government, 131 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,000 he says, is probably closer to ten percent of disbursements, 132 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,560 so that would put it at something like seven hundred 133 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:13,120 billion dollars per year. Outright waste, he says, is like 134 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,800 another fifteen percent, so we're looking at like a trillion 135 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:20,600 dollars annually. Anybody who works in government knows this, he said. 136 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:24,879 He also posted a video which was an old video 137 00:08:25,439 --> 00:08:28,600 from back in October, and I actually played this video 138 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,600 on or the audio from it on the program at 139 00:08:31,639 --> 00:08:34,720 the time, and he reposted it again today. 140 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 3: There's certainly a lot of work for a Department of 141 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,840 Governor efficiency, and there will be im mets opposition obviously 142 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,519 to making government efficient from entrenched interests that currently benefit 143 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:52,320 from sucking away vast amounts of taxpayer money. They will 144 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,559 not like the fact that I'm not getting it anymore. 145 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,519 They will fight tooth and nail. So but it's got 146 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,440 to be done. And like I said, we're going to 147 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,519 aim to reduce goverment spending, get coming out of people's 148 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:09,519 lives as much as possible, and restore freedom and liberty. 149 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,639 Speaker 1: That's the mission. That's the mission. And here's the thing. 150 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:19,120 The kicker on all of this is that and this 151 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,639 has always been the case, and there's a psychology behind it. 152 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:30,399 I've covered it years ago. The people that advocate for 153 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,960 the creation of new government programs and services to quote 154 00:09:34,039 --> 00:09:37,600 unquote help people, you would think they would they would 155 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:44,200 be the biggest hawks watching over the expenditures. You would 156 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:49,960 think that they would care the most about rooting out waste, fraud, 157 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:56,679 and abuse, because if you are truly motivated to quote 158 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,840 help people with these government programs and services, any wasted dollar, 159 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,440 any stolen dollar, is a dollar that's not helping the 160 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,799 people that you claim motivated you to do the thing 161 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,159 you did by implementing the policy. But it always seems 162 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,240 like once you get the policy in place or the 163 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:17,320 agency in place, and the spigot turned on, then it's like, 164 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:19,919 don't you dare assail them? Don't you look at their stuff? 165 00:10:21,039 --> 00:10:24,440 Why is that? There's a psychology? 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Think of the difference regarding Jeff's call 195 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:08,639 there about you know, religious organizations that have been getting 196 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:14,759 government funds through these grants. Think of the difference in 197 00:12:14,799 --> 00:12:17,440 the way democrats and media, but I repeat myself, have 198 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:25,720 attacked school vouchers that go to religious schools, right, and 199 00:12:25,759 --> 00:12:29,240 they constantly complained about separation of church and state tax 200 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,320 dollars for church organizations and all that. This is an 201 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:35,600 outrage that we are all supposed to care about when 202 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,360 it comes to the school vouchers. But when it comes 203 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:44,600 to shepherding people hundreds or thousands of miles across our 204 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:47,840 border and then setting them up when they get into America, 205 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,240 that's okay. We can give yeah, take tax dollars and 206 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:56,879 give that to church organizations. That's okay. Right, there is 207 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,440 not a consistent standard. That's the point here, Doc. Welcome 208 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:03,000 to the program. 209 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:07,159 Speaker 4: Hello, Doc, Yeah, I appreciate you taking my call. I 210 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,080 have two I have two comments for you that I'd 211 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,799 like to address. One is the fact that it seemed 212 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,919 like every time the United States goes to war with somebody, 213 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,360 we always go back and rebuild their countries better than 214 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,600 it was before. In regardless to Gaza, they want to 215 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:30,279 kill the Jews and the Americans. I think Trump should 216 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,320 leave that place alone, leave it desolated as it is, 217 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,360 and let it be a memorial to all other people 218 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:40,960 that want to attack Israel or the United States. Hey, 219 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,639 this is what's going to happen to you. We have 220 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,840 no business over there. Leave the thing alone. 221 00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:49,879 Speaker 1: So you're not interested in seeing a You're not interested 222 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:56,960 in seeing a Gaza lago built along the along the coastline, No. 223 00:13:57,039 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 4: Sir, I think the whole place should be left alone. 224 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:05,159 Leave it desolate, desialated, and we don't made to rebuild 225 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,840 my s if they if they want seduce some rebuilding, 226 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,759 Let's rebuild these homes in North Carolina and highways and 227 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:15,799 the houses out in California that will burnt. Use our 228 00:14:15,919 --> 00:14:18,600 money for our people. If you look at the Book 229 00:14:18,639 --> 00:14:21,639 of Timothy, it says as an individual that does not 230 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:25,360 take care of his own is no better than an infantel. 231 00:14:25,759 --> 00:14:28,679 So let's take care of the American people. My second 232 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:30,399 issue is schools. 233 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: If our school yeah, I'm almost out of time, Doc, 234 00:14:34,399 --> 00:14:36,519 so make it. Yeah, make the point quickly. 235 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,399 Speaker 4: If our school system is so bad, why are we 236 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,240 teaching other countries, these kids coming over here and influencing 237 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,960 ours and colleges. I know it's the money saint from 238 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,960 the colleges. Thank you for your man. 239 00:14:47,919 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, Doc, I appreciate that. It's a good question because 240 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:54,840 yesterday we covered the Heleen recovery efforts and the budget 241 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,600 proposal right for that recovery, and what's the what's the 242 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:02,559 total PEG? Det It's like sixty billion dollars to rebuild 243 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:07,960 western North Carolina, sixty billion. You know what. USAID gets 244 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:12,720 forty billion dollars every single year. So to Doc's point, 245 00:15:13,399 --> 00:15:15,960 seems like there's some money there. All right, If you're 246 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,759 listening to this show, you know I try to keep 247 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,519 up with all sorts of current events, and I know 248 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,000 you do too, And you've probably heard me say get 249 00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:26,000 your news from multiple sources. 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Eric Dougherty reports he's 267 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:27,799 assistant news director for Florida Voice News, and he reports 268 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,559 that Attorney General Pam Bondie orders the DOJ to pause 269 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:37,559 all federal funding for sanctuary cities and orders prosecution of 270 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:45,159 any jurisdiction impeding immigration enforcement. So there is that I 271 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,799 outrage shall ensue over that. By the way, part of 272 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:51,840 the shock and Awe strategy that we are seeing here 273 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:56,759 from the White House is that not only does it 274 00:16:56,799 --> 00:17:02,320 sort of splinter the opposition that doesn't know where to 275 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:05,640 direct their fire, you know, and target something with, you know, 276 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,240 and focus all their energy on this one thing, it 277 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:13,880 is also a dismantling of the power of the narrative 278 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,279 crafters in the legacy media, because for much in the 279 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:23,240 same way, you know, the the main legacy outlets New 280 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,880 York Times, Washington Post, right the major network CNN, they 281 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,440 would take a story and that would drive all the 282 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:32,640 coverage on a particular day. But when there is so 283 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:36,680 many different things, it's now splintering it all apart, and 284 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:40,640 they don't have time to respond before the next thing 285 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,880 comes out, so they don't get their narratives crafted and 286 00:17:44,039 --> 00:17:47,519 calcified in a timely fashion. I don't know if that's 287 00:17:47,519 --> 00:17:49,799 by design, but it is definitely one of the uh 288 00:17:50,519 --> 00:17:57,160 one of the results. Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst told 289 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:02,720 Newsmax that members of the US AID Agency for International 290 00:18:02,759 --> 00:18:07,920 Development have obstructed and even threatened her efforts to oversee 291 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,200 how it distributes money. Funds, she said, often do not 292 00:18:12,319 --> 00:18:16,920 go toward their initially intended purposes. This alleged redirection of 293 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,200 funds prompted Ernest to question USAID about its operational practices, 294 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:26,799 a move she said was met with resistance and even threats. 295 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,599 She said her concerns escalated to the point where she, 296 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:35,480 alongside Republican Texas Representative Mike McCall, initiated a formal investigation 297 00:18:35,599 --> 00:18:40,799 into USAID's activities. Quote, we know in the example of Ukraine, 298 00:18:40,839 --> 00:18:42,960 and this is why I was very focused on, is 299 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:49,400 the humanitarian aid wasn't getting distributed to humanitarian aid contractors instead. Oh, 300 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:53,240 by the way, did you see the Ukrainian guy Zelensky? 301 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:57,599 He did some interview I forget with whom, and he said, 302 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:02,440 how like they haven't seen like seventy five percent of 303 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,279 the stuff that they were promised. So all those aid 304 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,680 packages that Biden pushed out the door like we have, 305 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,319 He's like, we haven't seen the vast majority of that. 306 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,640 So where is that gone? Good question? Instead, she says, 307 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,319 the money was being sent to the United Nations, where 308 00:19:20,319 --> 00:19:23,000 we have absolutely no idea where that money is going 309 00:19:23,319 --> 00:19:26,160 from that point forward. So we tried to call the 310 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,160 question on USAID, and again they threatened us, They stonewalled 311 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,599 us until I was able to join forces with Mike 312 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,480 McCall and denounce a formal investigation of the agency, and 313 00:19:36,559 --> 00:19:41,839 then even they slow walked providing any data to US. 314 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:47,079 So once again, like the Mott and Bailey tactic is 315 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,920 being employed. Mott and Bailey tactic, or the fallacy as 316 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,400 it's referred to, although the guy who created it named 317 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,880 it that. He says it's not a fallacy, but it 318 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,200 equates a controversial claim with an easily the defensible one. 319 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:06,200 So the Mott, the easily defensible one is we give 320 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:11,759 humanitarian aid. We give wheat and peanut paste and stuff 321 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:15,559 to starving children. Right. Oh, well, that's a good thing. 322 00:20:15,599 --> 00:20:20,599 Everybody supports that. That's not bad, easily defendable position. The Bailey, 323 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:26,480 which is the controversial one, is the Peruvian transgender comic books, right, 324 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:33,480 or the transgender operas in Guatemala, right, Like, that's more controversial. 325 00:20:34,039 --> 00:20:37,480 You're pushing this stuff through the USAID, You're using taxpayer 326 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:39,839 dollars to fund this stuff. And those are just the 327 00:20:39,839 --> 00:20:41,640 ones that we're aware of. By the way, before I 328 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:47,240 forget again, Data Republican, if you are on Twitter formerly 329 00:20:47,279 --> 00:20:50,480 known as x you want to follow or at least 330 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:57,599 look at the the tweets by this account data Republican, 331 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,839 Data Republican, And she's got a website. So she has 332 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:09,279 gone through and created a search engine to help you 333 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,519 track nonprofit leadership and then follow the us AID grants 334 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:21,000 that flow through the agency. She's been building this for 335 00:21:21,079 --> 00:21:23,599 like the last week or so, and like I've been 336 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,119 following her and she's talked about how like she's run 337 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,079 into some problems, but what anyway, So like she was 338 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,119 showing us like early development, and now it's done. And 339 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,160 so you can search by principal officers, right, so you 340 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,680 can find nonprofits that are connected to maybe somebody's specific name. 341 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,160 You can look up the ei in, you know, the 342 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,000 tax number or the yeah, the identifiable number, right, their 343 00:21:48,279 --> 00:21:51,359 tax number, the nonprofit name, you can look that up. 344 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,240 And then once you find that with the ei in 345 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,880 or the nonprofit name, you can find all of the officers. 346 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,079 So you can follow the the money trail and trace 347 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:08,039 how the money gets sent from the USAID grant process 348 00:22:08,839 --> 00:22:13,359 and how it flows into the NGOs like the National 349 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:19,319 Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, Global Communities, Internews Network. Oh yeah, 350 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:26,559 USAID was involved in this combating disinformation garbage. The Consortium 351 00:22:26,599 --> 00:22:32,000 for Elections Packed Incorporated, Institute of International Education, East West 352 00:22:32,079 --> 00:22:37,160 Management Institute, Church World Service Incorporated. Right, so you can 353 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,480 find through this website. Through this search tool you can 354 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:46,559 find the organizations again. It's data. Republican dot Com is 355 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:49,799 her website. The data all comes from IRS form nine 356 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:57,240 nineties and it'll show you gross receipts, contributions, taxpayer funds, etc. 357 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,279 Et cetera. Have fun. Here's a great idea. How about 358 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:05,559 making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway 359 00:23:05,559 --> 00:23:08,000 in western North Carolina. 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I've just been plugging 380 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:21,039 in Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte. Well that's interesting. Got 381 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:25,960 all that money. So, President Donald Trump and the Department 382 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:31,440 of Government Efficiency, The DOGE chair Elon Musk, initiated the 383 00:24:31,519 --> 00:24:36,119 dismantling of us AID with plans to merge its functions 384 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:42,160 into the State Department. Musk said in an early Monday teleconference, 385 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,680 if you will on X they call it spaces. It's 386 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:51,559 basically a it's like a conference call. He said that 387 00:24:51,559 --> 00:24:56,559 Trump had decided to close USAID. The Trump administration directed 388 00:24:56,599 --> 00:24:59,519 the agency staff to telecommute, with Secretary of State Marco 389 00:24:59,599 --> 00:25:02,799 Rubio stepping in as the acting director and criticizing the 390 00:25:02,799 --> 00:25:07,119 agency's operations as akin to a global charity. Trump This is, 391 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,960 by the way, from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Trump 392 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,559 during a news conference on Monday, the Oval Office said 393 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,039 USAID merger with the State Department should have been done 394 00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:17,480 a long time ago. He said, quote, they went crazy 395 00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:20,920 during the Biden administration. They went totally crazy with what 396 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,839 they were doing and the money they were giving to 397 00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:28,240 people that shouldn't be getting it. The Trump administration put 398 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:37,720 on leave on administrative leave, almost all USAID employees starting 399 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,039 on Friday, as it evaluates the agency's role and how 400 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:44,440 it distributes taxpayer dollars. By the way, for the lefties 401 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,440 that are saying he can't do this, he is the 402 00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:52,200 leader of the executive branch. If the executive branch top 403 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,799 administrator cannot put people on leave to assess whether or 404 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,920 not these things are being the programs and services are 405 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,480 being administered as per the law, then who's in charge? Like, 406 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:08,440 you don't get to have a standalone agency that you 407 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,160 run that is taxpayer funded with no oversight or accountability. 408 00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:15,680 That's not the way the system works. And you guys 409 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:20,319 on the left have made it your mission to accumulate 410 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,599 power in the executive branch. I've been yelling and screaming 411 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:25,759 against this, and I got to say, Donald Trump has 412 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:30,839 pleasantly surprised me with this effort because this has been 413 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,279 It's why I was a ran Paul supporter back in 414 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:36,400 twenty sixteen, because ran Paul was the only one talking 415 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,359 about trying to rip apart some of the consolidation of 416 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,079 power inside the executive branch. And I understand Trump is 417 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,519 using that power now, he is wielding it, but he 418 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,200 is doing so in order to what to strip away 419 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,400 the quote unquote deep state, the administrative state, the managerial class, 420 00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:03,359 the amount of people Liz Cheney came out of usaid. 421 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:07,759 If that tells you anything, it is essentially a money 422 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:14,640 laundering operation for a particular kind of person, family, right, 423 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,279 the connected, NEPO babies and such. It is a shadow 424 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,599 government all indications. And it's not just that, by the way, 425 00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:29,240 it is also the cover for CIA operations overseas. Stuff 426 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:33,319 the CIA used to do on its own all got offloaded, 427 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,839 not all, but a lot of it got offloaded. And 428 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,640 there are examples that we know of. Okay, remember this 429 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:45,359 twenty eleven, remember this story that we were using vaccination 430 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:52,480 efforts in Pakistan, sorry Pakistan, that we were using vaccination 431 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:56,599 efforts in poor Pakistani villages and stuff as a way 432 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:03,720 to get their biometrics. Remember that. Yeah, we were. We 433 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,519 were going through and administering vaccines and stuff while at 434 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:10,680 the same time collecting DNA basically in order to try 435 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,359 to what to find Osama bin laden and create databases 436 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:20,799 and stuff. That was usaid, but it was CIA, right, 437 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:26,640 So like it's they they foment color revolutions in other countries, right, 438 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:29,799 They look for coalitions that they can build to then 439 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:36,079 weaponize against sitting governments, democratically elected governments for whatever reason 440 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,200 they choose. And I'm sorry, but like that is. And 441 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,119 there's a guy named Mike Ben's I was watching some 442 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,960 of his stuff yesterday and this morning, former State Department guy. 443 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,480 He's like, this creates massive diplomatic problems for the State Department. 444 00:28:51,359 --> 00:28:54,400 They'll never trust us again. We say, we're going to 445 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,119 go in and we're gonna help them do something. We're 446 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,920 gonna help you fight this, or we're gonna help you 447 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,279 get healthy or combat some fluid or something. And meanwhile 448 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,359 they know these stories and they're like, well, what else 449 00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:07,359 are you doing while you're here? Now they view us 450 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,000 with suspicion. Now they think all of the humanitarian efforts 451 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:16,279 are actually subterfuge, that they're just cover operations for something 452 00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:19,920 the CIA is trying to do that may not be 453 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,119 to the benefit of the people that you're supposedly helping. 454 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,680 So if the purpose of USAID is soft power diplomacy, 455 00:29:28,079 --> 00:29:32,400 you are undermining the very purpose of the institution itself, 456 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,599 of the agency itself. The thing that you say you're 457 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,839 doing is undermined by what you are doing. It's just stupid. 458 00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:46,039 But that's what happens when these agencies, right, collect a 459 00:29:46,039 --> 00:29:48,960 whole bunch of money, you could say, ostensibly created for 460 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,759 good purposes way back in the sixties. And no, this 461 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,640 was to combat the Soviet aggression, and we know now 462 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,720 it's to combat Chinese and Russian aggression. Okay, if that's 463 00:29:59,759 --> 00:30:03,440 the point, But forty billion dollar budget that does not 464 00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:08,960 go unnoticed by people who are looking to grift. And 465 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,799 that's both parties, by the way, both parties. All right, 466 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,200 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much. 467 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,279 For listening. 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