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How do you think DOGE knew to target USAID?

Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:30 pm
Posted by Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:30 pm
I’m sure someone has mentioned it, but it’s a thought that just came to me after so much money has been discovered being dumped into the laps of all these media companies.

My working theory is that when Elon took over Twitter and his engineers & lawyers did a deep dive on the financials, they discovered the tangled web of fraudulent government funding - and the rabbit hole opened wide.

Thoughts?

Posted by roadGator
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:31 pm to
Scanned gov emails for the most complaints about DOGE is my guess
Posted by Decatur
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:32 pm to
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Thoughts?


Musk listened to some schmuck on Rogan complaining about USAID and here we are now.
Posted by BuzzSaw 12
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:33 pm to
I think Trump and his closest confidants already knew where the bodies were buried due to his first term in power. Now he's doing something about it after 4 years of planning.
Posted by BuckyCheese
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:33 pm to
Musk said that they looked at who was violating Trump's halt to payments the most iirc.

They have the receipts that USAID kept right on sending funds like nothing had changed.
Posted by TrueTiger
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:34 pm to
I think Trump and his team used the 4 years of Biden to carefully study the opposition's system and how it is fed.
Posted by RaginCajunz
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:34 pm to
I had that thought myself. I bet the Twitter books were full of USAID funding links before he took over. The twitter books and twitter files gave him the roadmap
Posted by roadGator
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:35 pm to
Look at the guy mad about the grift being exposed.

Poor little feller.
Posted by cornerstore
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:35 pm to
That’s the type of shite that everyone probably knows about but wouldn’t talk about. This is exactly why they hate Trump so much.
Posted by Crow Pie
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:36 pm to
Musk said they just looked to see who were not following Trumps new EO's and it took them straight to USAid. One quick glance and it was off to the races.

I am not sure they knew it would be the honey hole it turned out to be but USAid scandal has legitimized the need to look everywhere for waste, if not outright theft/crime.
Posted by AlwysATgr
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:37 pm to
IDK. At this point I'd just reward Elon and give him NASA.

Call it MASA - Musk Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Posted by BuzzSaw 12
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:37 pm to
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:38 pm to
Because they were investigating Starlink

LINK

Elon is as crooked as any of them.
This post was edited on 2/7/25 at 3:40 pm
Posted by HagaDaga
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:39 pm to
Probably not the most best hidden secret, but important enough for all to keep it on the downlow. Probably came to light in the first term, and Trump kept it in his back pocket. Like he is known to be good at doing.

They came after him hard, and now he's going for the jugular. I'm sure the full extent of a lot of things werent truly known known, but digging just uncovered things.

Though lots of this was already known. Spoken about for years. Just swept under the rug as being crazy CTs. Just took someone willing to lift up the rug to clean under it for once. that's where we are now.
This post was edited on 2/7/25 at 3:42 pm
Posted by dstone12
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:40 pm to
Maybe he was tipped off. Maybe they all know it is a horrible secret.



Now the horrible secret is the one that musk doesn’t know about. He will find it though.
Posted by oldskule
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:41 pm to
Why in the world would you NOT support what Elon is doing?

He is helping EVERYBODY!
Posted by HagaDaga
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:44 pm to
quote:

Musk listened to some schmuck on Rogan complaining about USAID and here we are now.

Kettle, black and all that. Was the guy wrong??
Posted by lsuconnman
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:45 pm to
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This post was edited on 3/1/25 at 1:57 pm
Posted by Captain Rumbeard
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:46 pm to
Mike Benz
Posted by BigBro
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 3:48 pm to
quote:

I had that thought myself. I bet the Twitter books were full of USAID funding links before he took over. The twitter books and twitter files gave him the roadmap




Per USASpending.Gov (Twitter payments)

Interesting that they ended in 2021..
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