[I have to make this edit because I overestimated you tards. ENGLISH MOTHERLOVERS. Do you speak it? This post is not about foreign aid in general, whether USAID is corrupt (probably is 
), etc. It is about chuds' attitude to the specific institution USAID over time.]
Above is the google searches for "usaid" over the last 5 years, so it goes all the way back to Trump's first term.
Here's the last month. Notice it has nothing to do with Trump's inauguration. It just suddenly fires up one day when the NPCs got their firmware update.
I've seen chuds all over this place acting like they always knew USAID is corrupt and this has been common knowledge throughout society for a long time.
Here's a good example from @finbarfin: USAID, one of the more infamous money laundering arms of our sprawling government
Infamous? Like Charles Manson? Benedict Arnold? Idi Amin? That Borgia chick who poisoned people? I've never in my life heard someone describe a person as "infamous" because they just became hated by a fraction of the population in the last week.
But Redactor, we've always hated USAID! We've been railing against their corruption for so long.
This site's users are neurodivergent, highly political, mostly right-wing so surely it has come up. Well, let's look at the data. (I know that's what the DOGE boys would do.) It was mentioned in 58 posts, of which 7 are from more than a month ago. It was mentioned in 134 comments, 13 from more than a month ago. Most of these just mention it in passing. Quite a few are negative, but not in the way our current chud program says. Most of these are attacking the politicians who ordered USAID to do something, third world people for stealing, or pointing out the actually true fact that it's largely a corporate welfare program for farmers. I'm not finding anything about corruption in the agency itself.
Did anyone post any evidence that they actually gave a shit about the internal workings of USAID back then? There was one person. Just one person. Can you guess who it was? I'll give you some time to think this over.
It was me! Little old Redactor. Not only did I care, I cared enough to read the entire fricking section of Project 2025 about it.
And what was my opinion of it? It must be some woke soy libtard response. I probably cried on the shoulders of another guy in my polycule. You know me, the left-wing extremist.
I skimmed through Intelligence and USAID. It actually wasn't too scary. Most of it was just boilerplate "we should do things more efficiently" bullshit that could just as easily come from the Democrats. Their only new ideas were funneling aid money to missionaries in Africa and using aid to hurt Iran somehow.
Why did I choose those two sections? Why not health care, education, finance, other more important stuff? Because this was what I felt I was most qualified to evaluate.
I am the only one of you r-slurs who actually knew anything about your issue du jour before now. I even knew what was supposed to be Daddy's game plan for it. You can't deny it. I am the King of Chuds. It's time for you to crown me.
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I understand I'm part of this post because I said something sort of quotable, but I'm not going to claim I had a problem with USAID before or was ever thinking about them. I think, like a lot of other people who lean to the right lately, I generally feel like the government is wasting all the massive amounts of money I pay them and Trump's scapegoating of this particular agency spoke to a generic feeling I was having anyway.
I don't really care about this department. Nothing they were or weren't doing was relevant to me anyway. If Trump goes after the IRS it will materially benefit me and a lot of other people in a huge way. I don't give a frick what else he does but if he fricks over the IRS I will be very happy with his performance. USAID, to me, is just a distraction.
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This but unironically. I wasn't going after you, you were just the only one I could find in a reasonable amount of time because I replied to you.
An honest chud for once. My problem is I've had so many politicians who were way more credible than Trump promise they were going to attack corruption and waste. Nothing happens. The tax code is an obvious one where it could be made way simpler and save everyone a lot of work and stress, but the company that makes TurboTax has congress by the balls. I'd take DOGE more seriously if it was looking at really important problems that are easy to solve like that.
The whole war thing is apparently pretty unpleasant. Tossing a couple bags of rice to some starving brown people is a heck of a lot cheaper than war.
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