What in the??
A company received money and has a person on the board whose spouse works for another company who employees a person who is friends with a guy who was involved in a show that mocked republicans.
I have no doubt there is money going out that shouldn’t. But like… what?
The democrats and liberal elites are so interconnected with the recipients of their USAID funds that the first few I randomly checked on were sure enough connected right with the liberal elites
Its not like I sift through names and find a bunch of apolitical career oriented businessmen. Its a who's who list of activists, propagandists, pundits, etc.
I found an endless stream of USC / Berkeley / Georgetown / etc professors getting massive grants for absolute boondoggles like their 'mobile video games in kenya centered on gender equality', millions of taxpayer bucks going to a game developer who happens to be the daughter of a well connected Fidelity VP. The ol nepo baby tax siphon. $2 mllion to a trans group in guatemala, how does that connect? Its Lambda Legal's local branding, run by LGBT activists in New York, their board director is Marco Chan, describing his work in his own words as;
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On the morning of November 6, I opened my phone to the election results. After checking in with a few friends, I switched to my work laptop. Paradoxically, I felt a surge of power and purpose. I jumped into work with my Lambda Legal colleagues remembering a few things. First, we had planned for this moment over months. Second, we had fought Trump's anti-equality attacks before -- and won. We blocked his ban on trans servicemembers. His attacks on our asylum system. Finally, I remembered what our Chief Legal Officer, Jenny, said a few weeks prior: "Our opponents fight to take our rights away. But we fight for our very lives. Our resolve wins in the end."
As the day went on, I reflected on colleagues' stories during my first work project to combat HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. In the depth of the epidemic, colleagues saw pages upon pages of names in the local obituary. Names of friends. Of those abandoned by their bioligical families in their last hours. Of those refused the final dignity of burial. I felt strength, remembering how we rose even from such dark nadirs. As LGBTQ+ people, we come from a long line of courageous, resourceful people who accomplished a lot with much less. We are a people who fight for our lives -- and win.
The new administration is already filling their ranks with those who see a hierarchy of Americans, with LGBTQ+ folks among the bottom. Some are already baselessly scapegoating LGBTQ+ folks for the loss of these elections. But together, we've got this. We have a plan. We have more allies than ever. We have each other.
Its a slush fund. These guys were getting taxpayer bucks to carry out liberal crusades. At best they are activists working at the direction of democrats and on taxpayer dime, at worse they are just family members getting kickbacks
Should the Heritage Foundation be getting billions of dollars per year in taxpayer dollars to thinktank the next iteration of conservative constitutionalism and vet the Republicans judicial picks?
This post was edited by Goomshill on Feb 6 2025 09:39am