The absolute scam that is USAID

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, Feb 4, 2025.

  1. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    I'm just not sure you guys are safe alone with notagain.
     
    #671     Feb 26, 2025
  2. Tuxan

    Tuxan

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    Well my drywall stuff is arriving soon. Time to put a couple of partitions in the studio apartment I built over my forge. I'm a builder too I guess.

    I don't have much experience with it as I didn't grow up poor but Youtube videos make it look easy enough, and I'm able to plaster brick. Now remember @Tsing Tao, bullets go through drywall like it's not even there.
     
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    #672     Feb 26, 2025
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I love it! Stewart nails it.

     
    #673     Feb 26, 2025
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  4. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Fine, I'll stay since you ask so nicely.

     
    #674     Feb 26, 2025
  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    As I figured, all talk.
     
    #675     Feb 26, 2025
  6. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    All talk, on a forum board? Never, chatty Cathy.

    I'd miss you...well it more morbid curiosity as I think with a bit of peer pressure you could get smarter but... Some of the others..
     
    #676     Feb 26, 2025
  7. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Smarter but probably not more morally guided. Let's be real.
     
    #677     Feb 26, 2025
  8. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I love how you have to come back and make a second post to the one reply of mine. I can just see you in my mind's eye sitting there wondering what other smarmy comment you might be able to think up, running out of time to edit the original post and coming back to post the new one. I'm not sure what the timer is to edit an original post, but between that point and the new post is the time I'm living rent free in your head - minimum.

    Not to mention all the posts you "@Tsing Tao" in the middle of the night, weekends and the like. You're quite the obsessive compulsive, in addition to all your other (extensive) psychological baggage.

    Post more about me, Slartibartfest!
     
    #678     Feb 26, 2025
  9. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    I had plenty of time to edit the post. I'll take baggage over shallow. Speaking of tagging people, I just saw the perfect car for @ipatent. His Asian buddies would go wild for the lucky triple 8. Also good fuel economy.

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    #679     Feb 26, 2025
  10. ipatent

    ipatent

    Exclusive: USAID Blew Hundreds Of Thousands In Taxpayer Slush Funds On Ukrainian ‘Pickle Maker,’ Pet Accessories

    Among the grants Ernst’s staff discovered were hundreds of thousands of dollars devoted to literal pet projects including approximately $300,000 to a “pet tracking app,” approximately $300,000 to a “dog collar manufacturer,” and approximately another $109,000 to a “pet food packaging producer,” according to a findings breakdown Ernst’s office sent to The Federalist.

    Fashionistas also benefitted from the taxpayer-funded expenditures with a women’s clothing company, a fashion photographer, a “purveyor of contemporary knitwear,” a “luxury bridal brand,” a “marketplace for designer artisanal pieces,” and even a “trade mission for a fashion design house,” raking in approximately $733,000 combined.

    Designers including a “custom carpet manufacturer,” which received approximately $2,000,000, and two different furniture lines, which received $114,000 and $91,000 respectively, also joined in the funding frenzy.

    Even foodies received their fill of American cash. A “trade mission for a condiment manufacturer” cost taxpayers approximately $94,000, a “pickle maker” received around $148,0000, an organic coffee and tea producer was handed approximately $255,000, a vineyard pulled $89,000, and an “artisanal fruit tea company” collected $104,000.

    USAID also awarded a “specialty biscuit and confectionery company” around $678,000 — nearly the same number of taxpayer dollars as the aforementioned food grants combined — and a meatpacking plant approximately $319,000.
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    I'd be shocked if some of that money didn't find its way back to the Democratic party.
     
    #680     Feb 26, 2025
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