Posts Tagged ‘foreign aid’

Elon Musk Talks DOGE With Joe Rogan

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Joe Rogan interviewed Elon Musk again, talking a lot about AI and his DOGE work. I haven’t remoptely seen all of it yet, but a lot of the DOGE stuff is interesting.

  • Joe Rogan: “Everybody should be celebrating that we’ve found a way to cut out fraud and waste. If you pay taxes, and you don’t like that you have to pay so much in taxes, and then you find out that there’s significant fraud, and waste that’s been exposed you should be celebrating. It shouldn’t be ‘oh no, the wrong people found this fact and now it’s a bad thing.'”
  • Elon Musk: “Mutilating animals in demented studies, that are like the worst thing you could possibly imagine from a horror show.”
  • JR: “The beagle puppy one, where they they covered their head in a basket and put fleas on their head so they eat them alive.” Your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen.
  • EM: “The real threat here is to the bureaucracy…[they say] ‘Trump as a threat to our democracy’…but if you if you just replace ‘threat to democracy’ with ‘threat to bureaucracy,’ it makes total sense.”
  • EM: “DOGE is a threat to the bureaucracy.”
  • EM: “Normally the bureaucracy eats revolutions for breakfast. This is the first time that they’re not, that the revolution might actually succeed, that we could restore power to the people instead of power to the bureaucracy.”
  • EM: “We saw one person was getting $1.9 billion sent to their NGO which basically got formed about a year ago.”
  • EM: “The whole NGO thing is a nightmare, and it’s a misnomer. Because if you have a government-funded non-governmental organization, you’re simply a government-funded organization. It’s an oxymoron.”
  • EM: “Government-funded NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it’s sent to a so-called nonprofit.”
  • EM: “People cash out these nonprofits. They become very wealthy through nonprofits. They pay themselves enormous sums through these nonprofits.”
  • EM: “It’s a gigantic scam. Like, one of the biggest, maybe the biggest, scam ever.”
  • EM: “I think there a total number of NGOs, probably millions. But in terms of large NGOs, tens of thousands. It’s actually kind of a hack to the system, where you know someone can get an NGO stood up for for a fairly small amount of money, like George Soros.”
  • EM: “[Soros] is really good at this. George is like a system hacker. Like he figured out how to hack the system. He’s a genius at arbitrage…he figured out that you could leverage a small amount of money to create a nonprofit, then lobby the politicians to send a ton of money to that nonprofit. So you can take what might be a $10 million donation to a nonprofit and leverage that into a billion dollar non-NGO.” So Soros isn’t destroying America with his money, he’s destroying America with our money.
  • EM: “And then [the] government continues to fund that every year, and it’ll have a nice sounding name like The Institute For Peace, or something like that.”
  • EM: “It’s a giant graft machine.”
  • JR: “It’s a giant propaganda machine, a giant regime change machine.”
  • EM: “Yes.”
  • EM: “We have continued fund things that appear to be legitimate.” And here’s where I part ways with Elon. “Doing good works in foreign countries” is not a constitutionally enumerated power or responsibility of the federal government, and thus should not be undertaken by the federal government.
  • Musk notes that we don’t want to donate to a lab that says they’re fighting Ebola only to find out they’re creating mutant strains of Ebola.
  • EM: “Interest payments on the national debt exceeds the defense department budget, which is truly astounding, which means so we’re paying over a trillion dollars of interest on the national debt.”
  • EM: “As bad as Twitter was, the federal government is much worse.”
  • EM: “The federal government is not break. It’s literally losing $2 trillion a year and it fails its own audits.”

    • Watch the whole thing.

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    Speaker Mike Johnson: No Foreign Aid Until You Address The Border

    Wednesday, February 14th, 2024

    Looks like Republican Speaker Mike Johnson will not allow consideration of the foreign aid bill until border security is addressed.

    On Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the $95 billion foreign aid package recently passed by the Senate.

    Johnson remained steadfast in his, and most of his party’s, belief that no bill that doesn’t include funding to solve the crisis at the southern border should be considered by the House.

    “The Republican-led House will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most Republican senators and does nothing to secure our own border,” he said. “It’s time for Washington to start showing some love for Americans.”

    “On Valentine’s Day, it’s a good day to point this out,” he continued. “We need to listen to the American people and their needs and take action, and that’s why House leadership will continue to govern with Americans’ interests at heart.”

    Democrats had been trying to gin up support for a discharge petition, which would have allowed them to bypass Johnson and force a vote, however progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, said they would not sign on, citing the bill’s funding for Israel.

    The foreign aid package, which dedicates funding to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, passed with a 70-29 vote as 22 Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues to side in favor of the bill.

    Johnson made it clear even before the votes had been tallied that he had no intention of letting the bill enter his chamber.

    While I’m not opposed to Ukraine aid in general, clearly the border is a far more pressing concern, but the Biden Administrations seems to want to throw open the borders at all costs. They need to pay the price for that decision, including no foreign aid being passed. Indeed, there’s a strong case to be made that with the towering Biden deficits and giant mountain of national debt, no foreign aid should be authorized until the budget is balanced. We also seem to get a very poor return for our foreign aid dollar. The Marshall Plan was over three-quarters of a century ago, and the Cold War ended over three decades ago.

    Moreover, Speaker Johnson’s position (controlling borders is far more important than shipping billions in foreign aid abroad) is one that’s extraordinarily popular with American voters from all walks of life. Make the globalist foreign policy establishment suffer for the Biden Administration’s illegal refusal to enforce border control laws, no matter how hard the lefty MSM rages.

    Foreign aid is a luxury. Protecting the border is an enumerated responsibility of the federal government.

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    Posted in Budget, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Military, Republicans | 15 Comments »

    LinkSwarm for August 23, 2013

    Friday, August 23rd, 2013

    Another Friday LinkSwarm on Friday, to make your Friday seem more like Friday:

  • Why work when welfare pays better?
  • Europe’s Jews fear that their days are numbered.
  • Ted Cruz: traitor to his class. From the number of MSM attacks on Cruz, they obviously see him as the biggest threat to derail Hillary’s coronation in 2016.
  • And since there was a little mini-boomlet of “Ha, conservatives must hate that Cruz’s given name is Rafael!” stupidity from the leftosphere, here’s a video that reminds you that Ted Cruz’s father Rafeal is all kinds of awesome as well:

  • Surprise, surprise, surprise! Greece will need another bailout.
  • Hospital called LICH just can’t seem to die. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
  • Well, this is lovely: The Department of Homeland Security employees a black supremacist preparing for a race war against white people and gays.
  • Forced sterilization of “mental defectives” returns to the UK.
  • Dear Jeff Bezos: Maybe the Washington Post could make more money if they didn’t alienate half their potential audience by hyping anti-Republican witch hunts.
  • Fail to wear a veil when you leave the house? That’s a dismembering.
  • “Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman. Pronouns and delusions do not trump biology.”
  • Foreign aid is destructive.

    To improve the socio-economic development of Africa, the continent desperately needs private innovations, empowered by rule of law and an ambience of free enterprise, free of restrictive government regulations.Economic growth and development is indeed a vital ingredient towards achieving prosperity and a free society. However, it takes a spontaneous market driven approach without state interventionist barriers to achieve the noble aim, not foreign aid.

  • Remember folks: Partisan redistricting is perfectly constitutional. And Texas Democrats of it were masters of it for decades.
  • Sears posts $194 million loss. In other news, Sears is still in business.
  • Basketball statistician kills himself, and leaves behind meticulous suicide website explaining why he did it. One reason (among many others): “Economic collapse is inevitable (see U.S Financial to the left). The United States’ annual debt and cumulative deficit is way beyond the “out of control” label usually associated with it. It’s spiraling into oblivion and it will take society with it. Today the deficit is $16.9 trillion dollars with another $125 trillion of unfunded liabilities such as social security, medicare, prescription drug and federal pensions. It’s hopeless.”
  • What happens when rats have all their food needs met and are allowed to breed without restrictions? Social death followed by physical death. Though usually interpreted as an indictment of overpopulation, it could just as easily be about the the pitfalls of a purposeless life…
  • State Rep. (and Appropriations Committee chair) Jim Pitts will not seek reelection. Pitts, one of Speaker Joe Straus’ allies, recently was accused of seeking preferential treatment of his son at UT law school. Pitts was also one of the legislators pushing for…
  • The Impeachment of UT regent Wallace Hall for the crime of actually investigating wrong-doing, such as the law school slush fund.

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