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February 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM

Has Elon Musk Opened Pandora’s Box?

Susan Quinn
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The Democrats are losing their collective mind over the actions and discoveries of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have tried in every way possible to discredit these activities to cover up the disastrous revelations :

A fiery group of about a dozen congressional Democrats blasted Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon outside of USAID’s headquarters amid their attempts to shut down the overseas funding agency, claiming the rapidly unfolding events are causing chaos and harming national security. The Democrats called the actions against USAID ‘illegal’ and a ‘constitutional crisis’ while vowing to take their defense of the agency to the courts. ‘What Trump and Musk have done is not only wrong, it's illegal,’ said Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia during a news conference outside USAID headquarters. ‘USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress. Stopping this will require action by the courts and for Republicans to show up and show courage and stand up for our country.’

This hysterical group realizes that Musk has only just opened Pandora’s Box, and that the evils of the Progressive world are about to descend on their illicit actions.

But, you might say, what do the Democrats have to worry about? The facts seem to confirm that USAID didn’t report to Congress, and was just another Progressive organization, paying money to terrorists, providing transgender education and materials to foreign countries and hundreds of millions of dollars to fund "irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan," benefiting the Taliban.

You might ask, weren’t they ever audited? Indeed, they were. This letter was sent just four years ago:

GKA has issued an unmodified opinion on USAID’s principal financial statements for fiscal years 2021 and 2020. With respect to internal controls, during our audit we did not identify any deficiencies in internal controls that we consider to be material weaknesses. However, material weaknesses may exist that have not been identified. The results of our tests of compliance disclosed no instances of noncompliance with laws and regulations that are required to be reported under Government Auditing Standards or OMB Bulletin No. 21-04. We identified no instances of substantial noncompliance with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA), Public Law 104-208.

Even the Office of the Inspector General gave its blessing to the report.

I suspect that when Musk digs deep enough, he will discover that USAID acted independently of the U.S. government. They sent money wherever they wished; they sent funds to whatever parties they deemed qualified for grants. Their global clients fit perfectly with the Progressive global agenda. And the Democrats are wringing their hands because needy people may not get the humanitarian assistance they’ve come to expect.

That’s the fire alarm the Democrats are ringing to stop this dastardly attack by Elon Musk. People may starve. Terrorists may be disarmed. Clinics will be closed.

It’s fascinating that the Democrats are trying to ignore this abuse of USAID power, and are focusing on humanitarian issues. Do you think the Democrats might have been complicit?

Or were they just as irresponsible as the Republicans, not providing oversight?

What will escape next from Pandora’s Box?

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    tigerlily@tigerlily·1y

    The latest revelation is that USAID gave $8 million to "independent" and "unbiased" news organization Politico. No wonder the Legacy Media and the Dems are so hysterical about DOGE and USAID.

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    Sisyphus@Sisyphus·1y
    Susan Quinn (View Post):

    That’s the fire alarm the Democrats are ringing to stop this dastardly attack by Elon Musk. People may starve. Terrorists may be disarmed. Clinics will be closed.

    Propaganda may be silenced. Human trafficking obstructed. Addictive substances undistributed. "Journalists" may need to seek a living.

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    Susan Quinn@SusanQuinn·1y
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    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    Susan Quinn (View Post):

    That’s the fire alarm the Democrats are ringing to stop this dastardly attack by Elon Musk. People may starve. Terrorists may be disarmed. Clinics will be closed.

    Propaganda may be silenced. Human trafficking obstructed. Addictive substances undistributed. “Journalists” may need to seek a living.

    Well done! I love it!

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    Old Bathos@OldBathos·1y

    Not so much Pandora as the Mafia or the Cali cartel. We are just finding out that for years it did not matter if the GOP won an election because incredibly elaborate funding streams for the leftosphere remained untouched. The drug cartels money launderers must look like amateurs compared to the creators of those spaghetti graphs of USAID funding channels.

    The Democrats should howl because (a) it is embarrassing (b) the people who were getting rich were reliable campaign donors (c) these resources served the issue agenda and prepared the messaging battlespaces for elections and (d) provided jobs and sinecures for staffers and campaign workers.

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    Ole Summers@OleSummers·1y
    With all of the mashing teeth, etc. we are being subjected to, it is worth remembering only the "small stuff" is beginning addressed so far. I am sure there is an earthquake coming when they work their way on to the middle-size stuff. And if they ever do make to even get close to anything bigger, the earth will split in half fly off into space in different directions
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