Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.
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Please don’t give musk or his lackies any credibility by using the word employees. They are not. It’s a pretend agency illegally accessing private and/or classified info not related to the stated purpose of the claim.
It's my understanding that more than 57k lost their jobs that work with USAID, here in the US and US citizens have been stranded since it was deleted in foreign countries.
To the USAID staff and other federal career civil servants: your work matters and you are appreciated. You don’t deserve any of this. The country stands with you.
Feeling sad about USAID on the other side of the world too. I’ve met many of their people doing good work in Asia. It’s a terrible loss and damaging to USA’s reputation.
Does their country stand with them though? Or is the trump base now the Republican party? And looks to be happy to have musk in and causing mayhem. Massive electoral reform is needed if Democrats are serious about preventing this sort of thing in the future. But they're not.
The Republican Party has been touting everything that they are now doing since before 2000. They had always fallen short on their plans for "smaller government, lower taxes for the 1%, education reform, voting rights, repealing government oversight of corporations, environment, human rights," and
So much more. Even trump's first term was a failure for their agenda. So, they are taking no chances this time. The first term weakened the courts, consolidated their legislative base, and garnered enough support to take all three branches of our government. They are organized and solidly
entrenched. Now, they will implement their entire agenda by force and without legal constraints while they set their carefully crafted plan in motion.The longer they are allowed to do this, the deeper the entrenchment. Our resistance needs leadership and commitment NOW! Without it,
The Republican party is long corrupt. They've made deals w/ Russia & various other anti-American entities in their quest to achieve white "Christian" male supremacy...
They aren't the majority.
We have a lot of lazy or indifferent ppl who don't vote but who are waking up to the cost of that.
new Attorney General is corrupt & she has made "election integrity" one of her priorities. She is also relaxing prosecutions of Russian/Chinese & other foreign interference... so we are in a battle here w/ many disadvantages.
If we make it through, this will not be the same country, and we will
Also an outside looking in … but Americans should know that the consultant is yapping on X about 🇺🇸 armament levels and citing that 🇺🇸 would loose any war they would enter!
I read today American farmers will lose 2 billion dollars in contracts. The aid recipients aren't the only ones losing here. It will take some time, but all the repercussions of this atrocity will become evident eventually.
Legacy Media won't say it unless Democrats absolutely light a fire and make them say it. But Democrats can't even keep it in the headline the Trump is a rapist and convicted felon who said you'll never have to vote again and Elon Musk fix the voting machines.
Democrats? Or the current leadership of the Democratic Party? The Dems who marched in the cold this week? Or the ones who won’t include the young fierce Dems in leadership? AOC, Crockett, & Frost or the Dems announcing how concerned they are? All are Dems.
Dems are a ginormous coalition of many different types of people. Maga wants us to think they are all the same because it makes their propaganda easier. And we all fall for some propaganda, because it works on the emotions we all have.
BTW- I’m not a member of the Democratic Party.
Go for it!
It’s not my party, so I don’t have a vote. I’ve been screaming at my TV at the old Dems for years to go sit down, & to realize if what they were doing still wasn’t working, then do something different. As if they were indispensable, instead of passive af.
I hope you can shake them up.
1/ I forgot you are another INFJ. ✊🏼Have a theory to run by you, based on assuming the Dems in power now are Boomers, were around during the protests, marches, & riots of the 1960’s. They came of age during extreme activism. So how did they grow so complacent and passive during the past 15 years?
Disobedience. There is such damn thing, disobedience to unlawful orders. When some unelected prick comes and commands you some stupid shit, you do not obey. You say "who tha fuck are you again? Fuck off before I split your face open".
You do not obey to some "bigballs" dweeb from fuckin twitter.
One of my good friends worked at a school in Bangladesh. She taught 300 women from Afghanistan. I say worked because the entire school shut down because of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
What kind of dumb ass country allows a fictitious name like DOGE walk in and take everyone’s personal data ?? It’s fake you dumb shits. Holly fuck, your done U.S.
I think news editors think, polls say people don’t care about foreign aid, so this isn’t newsworthy. This is absolutely backwards. They forget that some of the biggest recipients of USAID funds are religious charities.
They won't understand it unless:
1. It affects them personally.
2. It is connected to emotional narratives instead of wonky phrases like "constitutional crisis."
3. It is repeated endlessly in spaces they're in.
Experts could do a lot more too. Listened to a whole panel last night at the Harvard Kennedy School in which only one participant really brought up the illegal nature of actions, halfway through. Those of us who understand these institutions and the stakes have a deep responsibility right now.
I wonder if this could help. in addition to media flooding their zone what mean if every dem legislator emailed and texted and called every member that they think it's gone and voteded against all of them to call their union or local labor group to provide more data.
Where is Congress. It is their job to make sure Admin and SCOTUS obeys the laws and the Constitution. The military is supposed to protect us from foreign and domestic harm.
If USAID is really saving lives, why haven’t we seen impassioned speeches this week from 40-50 Prime Ministers & Presidents around the world that tens of thousands of their citizens are going to die? Why are they all so silent — and why do many seem relieved?
The USAID 90 day halt is not just mean spirited, cruel & short sighted. It means malnutrition, sickness, suffering & deaths in countries with people dependent on its provision of water, food & medical services.
Your political system has no safeguards to prevent this abuse of power, and no means of rectifying it promptly. That's hilarious and sad at the same time.
It's worrisome that news agencies, government employees, judges, as well as house & Senate Democrats, and the Supreme Court have not weighed into what is obviously against the Constitution. What has been occurring since trump 'won' is not 'od', or 'being forceful' it is impeachable.
Not even a real consultant because there is no contract. And, the EO establishing DOGE only covers improvements to government IT systems. Read it. EO14158
Agree with the sentiment, but “delete” in reference to a federal agency is like nails on a chalkboard for me. You delete old emails or unwanted photos or files containing Perfect Strangers fan fiction. USAID was illegally disbanded.
Don't people realize how many Americans depend on USAID for their business and living? These people need these contracts, they benefit, where the US exports are sent benefits, there's more stability when there's less desperation, and they can develop the skills to be more resilient.
Trump’s followers see USAID as a democratic front for pushing “DEI” items, I.e. transgender comic books in Peru, Sesame Street in Iran … they keep referring to Musk as an auditor. They keep saying “money laundering” but I don’t think they know what that means.
What’s worse is a lot of normies are now being fed lies about how USAID is radical, wasteful, fraudulent so it’s a good thing trump has cut it down. They’re manufacturing consent for their actions in real-time it’s terrifying!
What say you, @nytimes.com @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @washingtonpost.com? We need huge headlines. There’s a five alarm fire that y’all are treating far too passively.
The constitution was deleted from white house website.
Neither trump nor musk care about it at all.
Dems need to stop following the rules and "taking the high road". Thats not going to work.
Musk and trump are the personification of an average internet comment section.
When I checked in with several friends in the states, I came away feeling very confused/shocked. Neither were concerned... both said everything was normal.
Overheard 2 nurses talking at my appointment today. 1 said she is afraid to fly now. The other asked why. She knew nothing of the recent crashes and failures. She said she doesn’t watch the news.
She has no idea our public health services have been decapitated.
If people cared about the constitution, Trump would not have been re-elected. Instead of talking about how Musk broke the rules, talk about the programs he cut and their value. If people consider USAID valuable, THEN they will assume Musk doesn’t have the authority to cut it.
Government computer systems are only as good as the people who oversee and enforce them. The technology will only do (& not do) what people tell it to. If someone breaks in on purpose-there are few practical or technical guardrails to prevent it.
Not to be a downer here, but legacy media will not be saying this clearly nor loudly. You are not represented in the newsroom, your government is. This is simply not in the script for America 2025.
Until Musk and his cronies are tried for treason we will not move forward. The smackdown on a billionaire illegally infiltrating the government must be absolute.
Trumps greatest gift to China. While Trusk is cancelling aid worldwide, China is happy to step into the gap. Trumps wants other countries to spend more on war toys, China wants other countries to buy more of their products. Guess who will win?
I can't wait to see the moment that the fools in Congress (every fucking one of them) and the Supreme Leader figure out they've been had. The Musky one is going to gain access to all the money and systems and then lock everyone out...and guess who'll really be in control?
Also limited in power, which seems not to be the case here. I am also pretty sure that Musk was not allowed to hire more SGE's but would have to have them appointed by DT, which i bet he never did.
I love the way the standard American response to every problem is legal action, a process too slow and cumbersome to solve genuine emergencies and constitutional crises.
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It's a classic example of how to win friends and influence people.
The US? We ditched them and kicked them in the teeth. I feel so ashamed.
They and many who did not vote have been manipulated by a media and social media alliance feeding them misinformation by design.
Nobody thinks they voted for a massive death toll of starving children.
They aren't the majority.
We have a lot of lazy or indifferent ppl who don't vote but who are waking up to the cost of that.
The
If we make it through, this will not be the same country, and we will
this is fucking insane but I grew up around DC w/ Kavanaugh & his gross cronies & so decades ago I saw what could be.
Or that Elon has been hiring Neo-Nazi groypers to rummage through our most sensitive data.
Elon Musk is governing our foreign policy now.
Oh, the general public would love this out of ignorance.
I'm afraid it will take Elon Musk being blamed for something which hurts them.
Democrats are f****** useless
BTW- I’m not a member of the Democratic Party.
They've had months to prepare for project 2025 and still they got caught flat-footed.
The whole party needs a shake up big time
It’s not my party, so I don’t have a vote. I’ve been screaming at my TV at the old Dems for years to go sit down, & to realize if what they were doing still wasn’t working, then do something different. As if they were indispensable, instead of passive af.
I hope you can shake them up.
The Dems have had SO much time to minimise the effect of P2025
They’ve fucked it up badly
You do not obey to some "bigballs" dweeb from fuckin twitter.
IF - if normie media ever says it.
1. It affects them personally.
2. It is connected to emotional narratives instead of wonky phrases like "constitutional crisis."
3. It is repeated endlessly in spaces they're in.
I know we are all saying that merely saying “it’s illegal” won’t stop Musk, but essential to keep saying it is not only illegal but unconstitutional
The USA today.
14A3 absolutely forbids it.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
And repeatedly.
And repeatedly.
Hillary's email server? Earth-shattering security risk.
Complete abdication of US's soft power and reputation, and thousands of lives lost? Yawn.
Neither trump nor musk care about it at all.
Dems need to stop following the rules and "taking the high road". Thats not going to work.
Musk and trump are the personification of an average internet comment section.
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She has no idea our public health services have been decapitated.
I marvel at the legal community who apparently believe the litigation process will hold the line, when the line has already been irreparably breached.
They seem insufficiently sensitive to the people already harmed.
Government computer systems are only as good as the people who oversee and enforce them. The technology will only do (& not do) what people tell it to. If someone breaks in on purpose-there are few practical or technical guardrails to prevent it.
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THIS IS WAR!!
Think on that, pro-lifers
No, you say.
Meh.