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I think this captures it well. What's happening in America
is roughly equivalent to the yearbook committee and theater kid
types getting rocked by a football team chess club alliance,
I would say. I would say, maybe not the chess club,
but the math club maybe, or the computer club something
like that. Do they still do computer club? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Not.
Speaker 1: All schools probably have computer clubs or chess clubs for
that matter, I guess. But yeah, so us AI D.
There is a reason that's perfectly explain There's a completely
rational explanation, logical explanation here for why democrats and media
are squealing like stuck pigs over the release and well,
the takeover of the usai D and now the release
of all of this information. Yeah, it's because they've been
using it as their personal piggybag's that's the obvious explanation here, people.
That's it. And Chuck Schumer, you know, leading the charge
as he does when there's nobody else to do it.
It's pretty it's pretty sad. I'll play you that in
a minute. If I heard it, you have to also, Okay,
that's the rule. All right. Let me go over here
and talk to Jeff. Hello, Jeff, Welcome to the program, Pete.
Speaker 2: Thanks for taking my call, sir, and thanks for gaing
some time to this. And I have to say that
I'm shocked, shocked. I tell you that religious organizations seem
to be on the list for receiving us aid A money.
Speaker 1: Well, I would point out that those are simply religious fronts.
They're not really religious. They use the religion as a
front to do the work of neo Marxists.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, looking over the list, unfortunately, yeah, I found
my church organization on there. Which one was that they're
not a front.
Speaker 1: Pardon which one was.
Speaker 2: That well, I just won't say, but but they're on it.
Speaker 1: And the Catholic charities. No, oh, okay, because I think
they were on it too.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, no, no, it's so totally different from the
Catholic Church. But yeah, I always saw that for the
demon Rats, that was a total nono. You know, you
had to have separation of church and state.
Speaker 1: M right, well and right. So the thing about Marxists,
they lie, So they're not they're not for a separation
of church and state like they claimed to be. When
conservatives you know, express religious views or something, it's that's
just a it's a it's a rhetorical weapon. We know this,
and we've known it for decades because they constantly use
the pulpit uh to whip votes for themselves in particularly
black churches. This happens all the time, right candidates. I
mean remember Hillary Clinton, I at always no ways tired
or whatever it was that she did, you know, uh,
with the black dialect adopted. They've been doing this for
a long time. So it's this is not a principled stand.
It's something that they just say in order to get
you to stop doing the thing that may limit their
ability to gain more power or control.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, you know, I hope this leads the
taxpayers to look at the list and find out if
their organizations are on there. If they are, then they
need to be pinging the leadership of these organizations, which
I plan to do. I'm going to start asking some
questions about the leaders in my organization and find out,
you know, just what's going on here and who said
you could do this? What? So?
Speaker 1: All right, so your organization your church or an affiliated organization.
I don't know, is it, well, I'll ask is it
the church or is it like an organization that's affiliated
with the church.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure about the nomenclature that's on the list, okay,
but the way it looks, it looks like it has
come out of the church hierarchy, either at the state
level or at the federal level, that at the national level.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, and it's a it's a grant or it's
funding coming from U. S. A, I. D to the
church itself. And does it say what the money is
supposed to be used for?
Speaker 2: Well, some of it, well some of them was definitely
uh immigration location services. Uh. Some of it was billed
as health services. So there's a whole lot there to
look at. And you know, the list is so long.
I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to parse this
all out, but uh, the taxpayers, like I say, they
need to be looking at this and say who who's
on the list, and if you're part of that, then
you need to be asked asking some questions. Yeah, well,
why why have you been tagging money from the federal
gun well from the taxpayers.
Speaker 1: Right from the taxpayers in order to do certain work
that maybe you're congregation might not be cool with. You know,
this has been a problem for I mentioned Catholic Charities.
There are a lot of Catholics that are not cool
with what the Catholic Charities organization has been doing. They're
essentially participating in a human trafficking operation and bye by
you know, by quote, helping illegal aliens come across the
border and they're and they're they're with them from the
beginning of the journey all the way through and then
putting them into housing, giving the money and stuff and
like that is so in my view, that is a front,
that is a it's a front by Marxists to use
the religious organization in order to say we are a nonprofit,
we're a charity, we're a church charity. So Therefore, we're
a non government organization and NNGO, and this is what
we're doing as part of our humanitarian outreach or something
our charitable works. And what you're doing is actually destabilizing
the country and you're helping people violate law. And that's again,
that's not something that a lot of Catholics are happy with.
And Catholic charity has made a bunch of money off
of this program at a USA.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that part of this money is probably
going to fund the salaries and the costs for running
these offices absolutely that are supposedly providing this. So you know,
I don't know what kind of transparency there's going to
be in my organization, but I'm will find out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck with that. And this is one of
the problems. Yeah, it's one of the problems USAID has
been has had for a while and has been called
out for a while for years, and that they are
not transparent. And that's why we're getting now a look
at all of this stuff because now we're seeing what
they've been doing and they have refused congressional oversight for years.
And I suspect this is why Jeff I appreciate the
calls sir, good luck to you on your investigation. Elon
Musk tweeted out that a fraud in the federal government,
he says, is probably closer to ten percent of disbursements,
so that would put it at something like seven hundred
billion dollars per year. Outright waste, he says, is like
another fifteen percent, so we're looking at like a trillion
dollars annually. Anybody who works in government knows this, he said.
He also posted a video which was an old video
from back in October, and I actually played this video
on or the audio from it on the program at
the time, and he reposted it again today.
Speaker 3: There's certainly a lot of work for a Department of
Governor efficiency, and there will be im mets opposition obviously
to making government efficient from entrenched interests that currently benefit
from sucking away vast amounts of taxpayer money. They will
not like the fact that I'm not getting it anymore.
They will fight tooth and nail. So but it's got
to be done. And like I said, we're going to
aim to reduce goverment spending, get coming out of people's
lives as much as possible, and restore freedom and liberty.
Speaker 1: That's the mission. That's the mission. And here's the thing.
The kicker on all of this is that and this
has always been the case, and there's a psychology behind it.
I've covered it years ago. The people that advocate for
the creation of new government programs and services to quote
unquote help people, you would think they would they would
be the biggest hawks watching over the expenditures. You would
think that they would care the most about rooting out waste, fraud,
and abuse, because if you are truly motivated to quote
help people with these government programs and services, any wasted dollar,
any stolen dollar, is a dollar that's not helping the
people that you claim motivated you to do the thing
you did by implementing the policy. But it always seems
like once you get the policy in place or the
agency in place, and the spigot turned on, then it's like,
don't you dare assail them? Don't you look at their stuff?
Why is that? There's a psychology? As I said, it's
because they actually get the endorphin hit. They get off
on the knowledge that people see them taking a position
of helping others. That's what they're that's the juice they're
trying to get from the squeeze. That's what they like.
It's a psychological thing. They like the fact that people
look at them and say, oh, look at that they
did this really good thing, and that makes them feel good,
and it doesn't matter if the thing actually works. All right,
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there about you know, religious organizations that have been getting
government funds through these grants. Think of the difference in
the way democrats and media, but I repeat myself, have
attacked school vouchers that go to religious schools, right, and
they constantly complained about separation of church and state tax
dollars for church organizations and all that. This is an
outrage that we are all supposed to care about when
it comes to the school vouchers. But when it comes
to shepherding people hundreds or thousands of miles across our
border and then setting them up when they get into America,
that's okay. We can give yeah, take tax dollars and
give that to church organizations. That's okay. Right, there is
not a consistent standard. That's the point here, Doc. Welcome
to the program.
Speaker 4: Hello, Doc, Yeah, I appreciate you taking my call. I
have two I have two comments for you that I'd
like to address. One is the fact that it seemed
like every time the United States goes to war with somebody,
we always go back and rebuild their countries better than
it was before. In regardless to Gaza, they want to
kill the Jews and the Americans. I think Trump should
leave that place alone, leave it desolated as it is,
and let it be a memorial to all other people
that want to attack Israel or the United States. Hey,
this is what's going to happen to you. We have
no business over there. Leave the thing alone.
Speaker 1: So you're not interested in seeing a You're not interested
in seeing a Gaza lago built along the along the coastline, No.
Speaker 4: Sir, I think the whole place should be left alone.
Leave it desolate, desialated, and we don't made to rebuild
my s if they if they want seduce some rebuilding,
Let's rebuild these homes in North Carolina and highways and
the houses out in California that will burnt. Use our
money for our people. If you look at the Book
of Timothy, it says as an individual that does not
take care of his own is no better than an infantel.
So let's take care of the American people. My second
issue is schools.
Speaker 1: If our school yeah, I'm almost out of time, Doc,
so make it. Yeah, make the point quickly.
Speaker 4: If our school system is so bad, why are we
teaching other countries, these kids coming over here and influencing
ours and colleges. I know it's the money saint from
the colleges. Thank you for your man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Doc, I appreciate that. It's a good question because
yesterday we covered the Heleen recovery efforts and the budget
proposal right for that recovery, and what's the what's the
total PEG? Det It's like sixty billion dollars to rebuild
western North Carolina, sixty billion. You know what. USAID gets
forty billion dollars every single year. So to Doc's point,
seems like there's some money there. All right, If you're
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outrage shall ensue over that. By the way, part of
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sort of splinter the opposition that doesn't know where to
direct their fire, you know, and target something with, you know,
and focus all their energy on this one thing, it
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they don't have time to respond before the next thing
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calcified in a timely fashion. I don't know if that's
by design, but it is definitely one of the uh
one of the results. Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst told
Newsmax that members of the US AID Agency for International
Development have obstructed and even threatened her efforts to oversee
how it distributes money. Funds, she said, often do not
go toward their initially intended purposes. This alleged redirection of
funds prompted Ernest to question USAID about its operational practices,
a move she said was met with resistance and even threats.
She said her concerns escalated to the point where she,
alongside Republican Texas Representative Mike McCall, initiated a formal investigation
into USAID's activities. Quote, we know in the example of Ukraine,
and this is why I was very focused on, is
the humanitarian aid wasn't getting distributed to humanitarian aid contractors instead. Oh,
by the way, did you see the Ukrainian guy Zelensky?
He did some interview I forget with whom, and he said,
how like they haven't seen like seventy five percent of
the stuff that they were promised. So all those aid
packages that Biden pushed out the door like we have,
He's like, we haven't seen the vast majority of that.
So where is that gone? Good question? Instead, she says,
the money was being sent to the United Nations, where
we have absolutely no idea where that money is going
from that point forward. So we tried to call the
question on USAID, and again they threatened us, They stonewalled
us until I was able to join forces with Mike
McCall and denounce a formal investigation of the agency, and
then even they slow walked providing any data to US.
So once again, like the Mott and Bailey tactic is
being employed. Mott and Bailey tactic, or the fallacy as
it's referred to, although the guy who created it named
it that. He says it's not a fallacy, but it
equates a controversial claim with an easily the defensible one.
So the Mott, the easily defensible one is we give
humanitarian aid. We give wheat and peanut paste and stuff
to starving children. Right. Oh, well, that's a good thing.
Everybody supports that. That's not bad, easily defendable position. The Bailey,
which is the controversial one, is the Peruvian transgender comic books, right,
or the transgender operas in Guatemala, right, Like, that's more controversial.
You're pushing this stuff through the USAID, You're using taxpayer
dollars to fund this stuff. And those are just the
ones that we're aware of. By the way, before I
forget again, Data Republican, if you are on Twitter formerly
known as x you want to follow or at least
look at the the tweets by this account data Republican,
Data Republican, And she's got a website. So she has
gone through and created a search engine to help you
track nonprofit leadership and then follow the us AID grants
that flow through the agency. She's been building this for
like the last week or so, and like I've been
following her and she's talked about how like she's run
into some problems, but what anyway, So like she was
showing us like early development, and now it's done. And
so you can search by principal officers, right, so you
can find nonprofits that are connected to maybe somebody's specific name.
You can look up the ei in, you know, the
tax number or the yeah, the identifiable number, right, their
tax number, the nonprofit name, you can look that up.
And then once you find that with the ei in
or the nonprofit name, you can find all of the officers.
So you can follow the the money trail and trace
how the money gets sent from the USAID grant process
and how it flows into the NGOs like the National
Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, Global Communities, Internews Network. Oh yeah,
USAID was involved in this combating disinformation garbage. The Consortium
for Elections Packed Incorporated, Institute of International Education, East West
Management Institute, Church World Service Incorporated. Right, so you can
find through this website. Through this search tool you can
find the organizations again. It's data. Republican dot Com is
her website. The data all comes from IRS form nine
nineties and it'll show you gross receipts, contributions, taxpayer funds, etc.
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in Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte. Well that's interesting. Got
all that money. So, President Donald Trump and the Department
of Government Efficiency, The DOGE chair Elon Musk, initiated the
dismantling of us AID with plans to merge its functions
into the State Department. Musk said in an early Monday teleconference,
if you will on X they call it spaces. It's
basically a it's like a conference call. He said that
Trump had decided to close USAID. The Trump administration directed
the agency staff to telecommute, with Secretary of State Marco
Rubio stepping in as the acting director and criticizing the
agency's operations as akin to a global charity. Trump This is,
by the way, from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Trump
during a news conference on Monday, the Oval Office said
USAID merger with the State Department should have been done
a long time ago. He said, quote, they went crazy
during the Biden administration. They went totally crazy with what
they were doing and the money they were giving to
people that shouldn't be getting it. The Trump administration put
on leave on administrative leave, almost all USAID employees starting
on Friday, as it evaluates the agency's role and how
it distributes taxpayer dollars. By the way, for the lefties
that are saying he can't do this, he is the
leader of the executive branch. If the executive branch top
administrator cannot put people on leave to assess whether or
not these things are being the programs and services are
being administered as per the law, then who's in charge? Like,
you don't get to have a standalone agency that you
run that is taxpayer funded with no oversight or accountability.
That's not the way the system works. And you guys
on the left have made it your mission to accumulate
power in the executive branch. I've been yelling and screaming
against this, and I got to say, Donald Trump has
pleasantly surprised me with this effort because this has been
It's why I was a ran Paul supporter back in
twenty sixteen, because ran Paul was the only one talking
about trying to rip apart some of the consolidation of
power inside the executive branch. And I understand Trump is
using that power now, he is wielding it, but he
is doing so in order to what to strip away
the quote unquote deep state, the administrative state, the managerial class,
the amount of people Liz Cheney came out of usaid.
If that tells you anything, it is essentially a money
laundering operation for a particular kind of person, family, right,
the connected, NEPO babies and such. It is a shadow
government all indications. And it's not just that, by the way,
it is also the cover for CIA operations overseas. Stuff
the CIA used to do on its own all got offloaded,
not all, but a lot of it got offloaded. And
there are examples that we know of. Okay, remember this
twenty eleven, remember this story that we were using vaccination
efforts in Pakistan, sorry Pakistan, that we were using vaccination
efforts in poor Pakistani villages and stuff as a way
to get their biometrics. Remember that. Yeah, we were. We
were going through and administering vaccines and stuff while at
the same time collecting DNA basically in order to try
to what to find Osama bin laden and create databases
and stuff. That was usaid, but it was CIA, right,
So like it's they they foment color revolutions in other countries, right,
They look for coalitions that they can build to then
weaponize against sitting governments, democratically elected governments for whatever reason
they choose. And I'm sorry, but like that is. And
there's a guy named Mike Ben's I was watching some
of his stuff yesterday and this morning, former State Department guy.
He's like, this creates massive diplomatic problems for the State Department.
They'll never trust us again. We say, we're going to
go in and we're gonna help them do something. We're
gonna help you fight this, or we're gonna help you
get healthy or combat some fluid or something. And meanwhile
they know these stories and they're like, well, what else
are you doing while you're here? Now they view us
with suspicion. Now they think all of the humanitarian efforts
are actually subterfuge, that they're just cover operations for something
the CIA is trying to do that may not be
to the benefit of the people that you're supposedly helping.
So if the purpose of USAID is soft power diplomacy,
you are undermining the very purpose of the institution itself,
of the agency itself. The thing that you say you're
doing is undermined by what you are doing. It's just stupid.
But that's what happens when these agencies, right, collect a
whole bunch of money, you could say, ostensibly created for
good purposes way back in the sixties. And no, this
was to combat the Soviet aggression, and we know now
it's to combat Chinese and Russian aggression. Okay, if that's
the point, But forty billion dollar budget that does not
go unnoticed by people who are looking to grift. And
that's both parties, by the way, both parties. All right,
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