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And again, thank you so much for your support. Sorry,
I was just checking to see why won't this subscription
work for Politico. I feel like if my tax dollars
are being used for the pro premium subscription, I don't know.
I feel like I should be able to see their stuff.
Now that's weird. Oh and the New York Times and
who else the Associated Press I think is in here. Yeah,
that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I've been paying for subscriptions to The New York Times
for a long time, but for some reason, and I
keep getting paywalled. I don't understand why they keep blocking
all of my stories. I go, this is your one
free article of the month, and then Politico magazine They've
got a bunch of money from me, and I still
can't access their site. I'm not have to probably write
tech support over the issue. But no, seriously, well, apparently
we have been spending you me, all taxpayers have been
paying for subscriptions for government personnel.
Speaker 1: To have.
Speaker 2: At various news organizations somewhere in the neighborhood of like
eight million dollars for Politico, New York Times. I saw
the Associated Press was in there. So a whole bunch
of these media companies that have been getting millions of
dollars in taxpayer funds for subscriptions past the paywall, and
we've been paying for it. And I don't know if
you're aware of this, So just I'll give you a
little bit of a peek behind the curtain here. I
rely on getting information from lots of news sources to
do my job. It's true, No I do for real,
Like contrary to what some leftists accuse us, there is
not a talking point memo that goes out every single
morning and telling me what I have to talk about
and what I should avoid talking about or whatever. I
don't get that, so I have to read a lot
of news publications. In fact, it's why I don't read
a lot of books anymore. And I love reading books,
I'm just read out by the time I get home.
That's not true because then I start. When I get home,
I continue prepping. So okay, that's not even true. But
like you know, if you oh, I'm going to curl
up with a good book before I go to bed,
I am so tired of all of the reading that
I don't want to curl up with a good book,
even though it's a good book and I know I
would enjoy reading it. And that's part of the problem
I have. Like I probably have about thirty books on
my shelf right now that I have to read, and
I just don't read them all because I read a
lot of news. But I've never had my subscriptions paid for,
Like I have never gotten well, I take it back.
One subscription and it was like a it was like
a company wide, station wide thing. That's it. That's the
only and it was one new local news outlet. I
have paid for every subscription to every news organization that
I have ever purchased.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: I've always paid out of my own pocket for that.
And I'm in the business, right I Like, I rely
on this stuff in order to help build my show content.
Why on earth are we funding subscriptions for government employees.
I don't get it. They should be paying for that themselves.
Let them all go in together. Let people go in
together and share subscription, right, just do what everybody else
does and just go incognito, man, clear out your cash.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 2: There are ways around this people. Okay, I've already said
too much. I think there's also a website it's called
like twelve foot Ladder or something like that, that you
can use to get around their like archive pages and stuff.
So there are ways to beat the paywalls, depending on
what browser you're using. I am not here to help
you do that. There's also the reader version on the
Brave browser. But I'm just saying there are ways around
the paywalls. So yeah, no, I'm not I'm not a
fan of this. But here's the thing that chaps me
the most, which is these are government entities that are
paying for the subscriptions. Right. So even if you can
make the argum that well, Pete, you know, we work
in the US Department of DEI Expansion, and so we
need to know what's happening in the culture. We need
to know if you know Politico is you know mispronouning,
misgendering people. We need to know this stuff, right, and
so therefore we need to have as part of our
business operation, we need to have a subscription to Politico
or The New York Times. Okay, I can understand that argument.
But here's the thing. When the government is cutting the
check to Politico or to the New York Times, those
entities should be disclosing that they are getting money from
government agencies. That's disclosure, right, That is to alleviate the
perception of influence or bias in your news product, right,
Because certainly, if you're making tens of thousands of dollars
off of a government agency renewed every year, and you know,
basically a guaranteed source of income to basically fund a reporter,
and all funds are fungible, meaning it's the same pair
of pants, just different pockets, but it's all still yours,
you know, because you're wearing the pants that kind of thing.
It doesn't matter what pocket you move it around to.
So these news organizations are in fact getting money from
these agencies, and if they are reporting, I'm just kidding,
they rarely. I Look, I am super shocked that all
of a sudden media people and Democrats. But I repeat myself,
have wake have awoken. They have woken up to this
fact that government agencies exist and that they do stuff,
and that there's all this personnel and there's a bunch
of grant money flowing through stuff. It's all of a sudden,
this new hyper focus on on the work that government
agencies do. And if we get nothing out of the
Doge experiment, we will have gotten that, and so I
will take that as a win. There are a couple
of I saw Brian Stelter, who's a potato and I
saw him tweet out that there are some publications that
that do focus. They're very niche, right. I don't think
they get subscriptions from the government though, But they cover
these agencies. They cover like real, like like wonky kind
of stuff going on inside the federal government. You know,
different agencies and bureaucracies and stuff. And they're now getting
tons of new traffic as people try to figure out
what the heck is going on? Is this stuff really real?
And by the way, yes, the stuff is real. And
the poster child for the waste fraud, abuse, and I
would say corruption and scandal, the poster child is us
AID or US aid. This is the one that you're
hearing the most about because it's really the first one
that Elon Musk and his band of you know what,
nineteen to twenty three year old tech bros that he
brought with him, and everybody's outraged by the way. Why
is there so much outrage over a nineteen year old
whiz kid going in there and doing all of this
data mining and stuff and trying to figure out where
all the money's flowing to try to find waste, fraud
and abuse. Like he's only ninety, he's just out of
high school and all this other stuff. But like, but
you're saying he's so he's not competent enough to run
the computer coding and all of that stuff for this
kind of an operation, but he is competent enough to
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let me start here. Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary,
she came out yesterday and held up a piece of
paper with some of the items that were being funded
under the us AID program. This is the Agency for
International Development, and this is this is just a tenC
ween see little bit of.
Speaker 3: It through USAID over the past several years. These are
some of the insane priorities that that organization has been
spending money on. One point five million dollars to advance
DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for a production of
a Dei musical in Ireland, forty and for a transgender
opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand for a transgender comic
book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as
an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards
this crap, and I know the American people don't either.
And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by
President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste, and
abuse out of our federal government.
Speaker 2: All right, Bud, Wait, there's more. There is so much more.
This is from the Rapid Response Team of the White
House because as Musk and his merry band of reformers
have gotten into the books over there. And by the way,
there are all sorts of freelancers that are also running
searches and queries through government databases and pulling tons of
these grants that the USAID has been funding with your
tax dollar. Right, this is foreign quote aid, and the
this just keeps getting longer and more and more outrageous.
So here's the list that the Rapid Response. Forty seven
is the Twitter handle of the White House's Rapid Response team.
And rapid Response is just a media deal. It's like,
you know, they're the ones that like deploy immediately when
something's going on and you have to, you know, get
in front of something from a pr perspective, you employ
a Rapid Response team to do that. So that's who
these people are. So let's see what else. Seven point
nine million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid
binary gendered language, twenty million for a new sesame street
show in Iraq. Four point five million to combat disinformation
in Kazakhstan. I wouldn't even know what disinformation and Kazakhstan
looks like one point five million for art for inclusion
of people with disabilities, two million for sex changes and
LGBT activism in Guatemala, So Guatemalan sex changes. Six million
to quote transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles.
Two point one million to help the BBC, which is
literally state run media, to help the BBC quote value
the diversity of Libyan society. Ten million dollars worth of
USAID funded meals which went to an al Qaeda linked
terrorist group. Well, you got to keep the al Qaeda
jihattists fed. They get very angry, they get hangry. See
it's soft diplomacy here people. Twenty five million dollars for Deloitte,
which is a massive corporation, and they used it to
promote green transportation in the country of Georgia. I don't
know if like didn't Georgia get taken over by Russia
or just part of Georgia maybe I don't remember. Six
million dollars for tourism in Egypt. Two point five million
to promote inclusion in Vietnam. Sixteen point eight million for
a separate inclusion group in Vietnam. Oh, and then there
was like ev vehicles in in Vietnam too. Five million
to Eco Health Alliance, remember them, Yeah, one of the
key NGOs or non government organizations funding the bat virus
research at the Wuhan Lab. Twenty million for a group
related to a key player in the Russia Gate impeachment hoax.
I don't know what that's about. One point one million
to an Armenian LGBT group. One point two million to
help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Develop Agency
in Washington, d C. Build a state of the art
four hundred and forty seat auditorium. One point so no
concerns there about church and state separation, I'm guessing from
the Democrats, okay. Two million to promote LGBT equality through
entrepreneurship in Latin America. One point five million to rebuild
the Cuban media ecosystem. One point five million to promote
LGBT advocacy in Jamaica. One point three million to Arab
and Jewish photographers. Half a million to solve sectarian violence
in Israel just ten days before the October seventh attack.
By the way, two point three million for artisanal oh
God and small scale gold mining in the Amazon. Artisanal
gold mining I have heard it all, man, I have
heard it all. There's more, there's more.
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from Melissa who says the government doesn't need subscriptions to
all of these media publications and websites. The government has
been feeding the media information and talking points for decades
like that, It's true, like why well, you just want
to see your name in print sometimes, or like I
lead that story and there it is on the web.
Oh my gosh, I kind of kid. But like up
in DC and in Raleigh, you know, in politics, people
get off on that stuff. They really did it. There
are people they just love to be the source. It
gives them, like you know, some feeling of access and
import you know. Gary says people need to learn there
are repercussions to telling an autistic billionaire that he can't
do something. That's and then he asks Pete, are you
tired of all the winning?
Speaker 1: I am not.
Speaker 2: No, I am not at all. This is honestly, this
is this is one of the most transformational things I
have seen in regard to the or with regard to
the executive branch. Now he's he's he's using all sorts
of executive power, which, by the way, was appropriated into
the White House by Democrats and Republicans, but really Democrats.
This has been their project for a very long time,
moving more and more power into the executive branch. Right,
And before you leftist start talking to me about, oh,
Donald Trump can't do this because you know executive overreach
and all of that, I have two examples in my retort,
which would be Obama and Dhaka and Biden with DEI okay,
those guys used executive orders to massively overreach and implement
all sorts of policies and changes inside of the executive branch,
reinterpreting things as they saw fit, right, rewriting law, getting
their bureau bureaucrats to reinterpret things with which they disagreed,
rather than going through a legislative process. So I don't
even want to hear it. I really, I don't even
want to hear these arguments from you. I do not
have a soft shoulder for you to cry on. That's
mainly because I lost a bunch of weight. Now it's
kind of bony up there. But anyway, what else did
the US AID fund? Well, let's keep going. We have
three point nine million dollars for LGBT causes in the
Western Balkans. By the way, have you noticed how often
the DEI and LGBT stuff is showing up in these grants?
Have you noticed that like there like their redding this stuff,
like that's what we're exporting we as America, Like that's
what we've been exporting to other countries. Five point five
million for LGBT activism in Uganda. Six million for advancing
LGBT issues in quote priority countries around the world. I
don't know what those priority countries are. Six point three
million for men who have sex with men in South Africa.
I don't know why it's called that. I guess you're
not allowed to say those words are something in South Africa.
I don't know. Or maybe it's not for the lesbians
or the trans it's just for the men. It's just
for gay men. That's it. Eight point three million for
us AID Education, equity and Inclusion. USAID's Climate strategy outlined
a one hundred and fifty billion dollar hole of agency
approach to building quote an equitable world with net Z
zero greenhouse gas emissions. What else? Fifty six million dollars
to boost tourism in Egypt and Tunisia. Forty million to
build schools in Jordan. Eleven million to tell Vietnam to
stop burning trash. My gosh, Vietnam has made a ton
of money off of us. I've lost track of how
many millions of dollars. They're probably close to, like thirty
million right now. Twenty seven million dollars for reintegration gift bags.
What is a reintegration gift bag? Good question, glad you asked.
A reintegration gift bag is given to all of the
people that we deport back to Central America. Twenty seven
million dollars worth of gift bag schwag, which is amazing
to me because I thought we weren't deporting any of you. Like,
that's the I don't know who you give it a
lot of this stuff. Here's the thing. Well, okay, let
me just read a couple more and then I'll say
here's the thing. Two point five million to promote Dei
in Serbia, seventy grand for a Dei musical in Ireland,
forty seven thousand for a transgender opera in Colombia, and
thirty two thousand dollars for a transgender comic book in Peru,
because we all need some Peruvian trans comics. In our life. Look,
here's the deal. Do I think that all of these
funds actually went to all of these crazy things? I
do not. I believe some of this stuff is simply
a mask for what they really want to spend the
money on, which is either like color revolutions to overthrow governments,
destabilize countries and such CIA covert operations, yes, but also
payroll payroll for the shadow government. Right. This is where
people like Samantha Powers have been installed, and so she
can bounce back and forth from you know, a USAID
supported instant or NGO, and then you just pick them
up and plug and play, put them right into your government,
because they're basically running these government things, you know. And
some of these are like classified. Oh and USAID has
refused to cooperate with Congressional oversight committees. And now we
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There is a fellow who posts I forget his real name.
He's a federal prosecutor. He goes by the Twitter handle
shipwrecked crew shipwrecked crew and twenty two year federal prosecutor.
He defended j six cases and was ninety one and zero,
so I kind of feel like he knows what he's
talking about. And he says it'll take a while, but
you're going to find out that many family members of
folks elected to Congress, as well as family members of
folks who have populated senior positions in both Democrat and
GOP administrations, have lucrative places within the industries funded by USAID.
This is a forty billion dollar annual operation. By the way,
this has long been the main source of nepo corruption nepotism.
It is much easier to enrich the families of politicians
via public funds sent in their direction than it is
to enrich the politicians themselves. There are many ways to
do the latter, but simply creating government funded organizations for
one obscure purpose or another, which are then headed by
members of the extended families of politicians with great benefits
and perks is time tested and bipartisan. The pushback is
going to be the same, and it's going to be nuts.
That's why we saw. Look, Democrats never came to western
North Carolina, but they made a freaking b line down
to the USAID Office and the Treasury Department, which was
weird because they were chanting in front of the Treasury
Department to take over the Senate. I'm like this is
the Treasury Department. I don't know what you guys think
you're doing this. If you're going to take over the Senate,
it's like it's up there. It's a couple of blocks
that way. But Ralph, welcome to the program. Hello Ralph.
Speaker 1: Heye? Hey? Was there a lot item on there for
five hundred and fifty million dollars to Afghanistan for like
diesel power generation. I mean, you're probably big units that
would power up a lot of homes and stuff like that.
But uh, but then after they got the money and
the and the and the diesel generators, the diesel fuel
was too much and so they quit uning them. So
I wonder if any of the Biden crime family or
the DNC got any of that money. That's that's a
big junk of change.
Speaker 2: I don't know that. I mean, that could very well
just be chalked up to typical military uh, military poor purchasing.
You know, they kind of have a history of that too.
Wait till he wait till Elon Musk gets into the
defense budget, it's going to be amazing, I'm sure. But
I did hear that story. It had something and a
lot of the generators ended up like they just like
they got siphoned, all siphoned, but they got diverted, and
like the bad guys got ahold of them. And when
they ended up in the places they were supposed to be,
the people couldn't use them because it took too long
to get diesel fuel to get into the generators, and
so then they just sold it back to the Taliban
and stuff. Yeah, it's just there's it's just it's just rampant.
It's just rampant and like and this is what you
are hearing in this stuff. And and I don't know
where the money where the generators came from. I don't
know if that was usai D or if it was DoD,
I don't know, but you're hearing a lot of like, well,
the usai D, they're just doing humanitarian aid, right, that's
what they're all about. It's just about food and people
are going to starve to death and not get their
HIV meds and stuff. That is Mott and Bailey. That's
a Mott and Bailey tactic. So, Ralph, I appreciate the
call Mott and Bailey. That is the It is a
tactic where you take a controversial position and when challenged,
you retreat back to an easily defensible one. Okay, it's
a It is prevalent in philosophical, religious, political debates and
such where people will make a controversial claim, or they'll
do something controversial and act a controversial policy, they'll they'll
they'll push the envelope and then when challenged, they fall
back to a more easily defensible position. And it has
to It's named after the layout of medieval you know,
castles in the villages around them, the bailey being the
wide open area around the castle. That is it's harder
to defend, right, but it's it's farther away, so you're
you're pushing the envelope out right, so you're going out there,
and then when you get attacked on the bailey, you
then retreat to the mott, which is the it's sort
of the stronghold, right, and you go back to the
easily defensible positions. And you see this all the time
in political arguments. You see where it was really pronounced
was in dei and transgender debates, right like oh, you
have to like we we should be transing four year
olds controversial that's the bailey when when attacked and and
people say you shouldn't do that. That's crazy. They then
retreat back to, well, you want kids to die. Well, no,
it's a more easily defensible position that you don't want
kids to die. You don't want them to commit suicide, right,
And it's stuff like that, and that's what this is.
The Bailey is Peruvian trans comic books. And the mot
that they retreat back to is wheat and rice for
starving people. Okay, so just be aware that tactic is
being employed in this debate, and it is a form,
if I might say so, of gasline. All right, that'll
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