USAID in a Nutshell

USAID is/was an octopus, with tentacles extending everywhere. 

What did those tentacles do? First and foremost, they extended into the taxpayers’ pockets to extract tens of billions of dollars a year, transferring those dollars to organizations and agencies favored by the transnational elite. The projects could be anything from overthrowing a government or two to putting some spending money into the pockets of the favored elites. 

A grain or two of rice might be given to some starving people for appearance’s sake, but that was hardly the point. The grift and the power were. 

A perfect example is the case of Rory Stewart, a former Member of Parliament in the Conservative Party, a staunch “Remainer” with a rather plummy background that included everything from the Eton to Oxford to MI6ish stuff best not spoken of to politics to academia track. His father was literally a colonial official, and Stewart styles himself an adventurer akin to the Victorians. He has taught at Yale and Harvard and hosts the most popular political podcast in the UK. He almost replaced Theresa May after she was displaced. 

Stewart is big mad because USAID funds were cut, and you will be delighted that he is after you watch this. 

If this doesn’t make your blood boil, nothing will.
Thank God for Elon Musk and DOGE! pic.twitter.com/yGmiWwArL6

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 18, 2025

The HORROR! His wife’s cushy nonprofit that, to be honest, pretty much exploits Indigenous artists around the world by purchasing their products for pennies and selling their wares online at outrageous prices, is losing its next installment of a million dollars because of mean old Donald Trump. 

Where, oh where, will Rory get his spending money from, if not the American taxpayers? (Actually, Rory is pulling in around £70,000 a month from his podcast, so he is doing fine). 

Rory Stewart yet another elite sneering at the little people. pic.twitter.com/ZqkAu3xRiG

— BJBarnack (@barnack1) February 16, 2025

Stewart expects people to be appalled that the gravy train has been cut off, not realizing that almost nobody knew or cared about the money flowing into his pockets until he whined that it stopped. 

Now that we know, we want the rest of it back. Teaching Afghan women about Dadaism is not how we expected our foreign aid money to be spent. 

Sending money to Turquoise Mountain is hardly the worst thing USAID ever spent money on. I wish it were, because then I wouldn’t have to worry about the hundreds of millions we sent to Hamas, or al Qaeda, or ISIS. 

But it may be the most symbolic. 

Spot on: “The raid of USAID is liberating foreigners from America’s ideologies, and liberating America’s workers from having to fund the globalisation of their ruling class’s faddish beliefs.”https://t.co/KoYqnrxnuk

— Joanna Williams (@jowilliams293) February 13, 2025

USAID was the mad money for the transnational elite. It was a giant pool of cash into which they could dip their hands and extract whatever amount was needed to slake their thirst. 

$10.6M is the entire lifetime tax contribution of 20 Americans – frittered away by USAID so that Rory Stewart’s Wife can do basket weaving classes in Kabul

Structurally, taxation by a central government into a giant money pool is a bad idea and really has to stop. https://t.co/d6FcaEc7GW pic.twitter.com/KUO4mXhDEW

— Roko 🐉🤖😇 (@RokoMijic) February 14, 2025

Want to overthrow a government? USAID can help! Want to create a Narrative™? USAID has bought and paid for journalists and a censorship arm to help with that too!

Want to start an arts and crafts company? The US taxpayer will make it happen!

The absolutely crazy thing is that nobody knew about Rory Stewart’s wife’s extreme grifting until the midwit announced she was due to lose her next million – her next million! – on his high profile podcast. As well as being insufferably smug, he’s as bright as 3 in the morning.

— David Moore (@belfastDGM) February 18, 2025

One has to wonder just how many bits of USAID money have flowed through Stewart’s life? His globe-trotting, intelligence-adjacent history, political and academic career, and his foray into broadcasting all suggest that lots of opportunities were there for the taking. 

I have neither the time nor the skills to dig through his income flow and history to see how many times his life has intersected with USAID generosity, but at least $10 million has flowed his direction just through Turquoise Mountain. 

No wonder he is upset. Wouldn’t you be if some Bad Orange Man and Crazy Rocket Man dammed up the flow of free money into your pockets? 

The wonder of it all is that so many of his listeners are as horrified as he is at Trump for doing this.