Too Funny to Check: USAID Checkbook Snaps Shut, Politico Paychecks Shut Down? UPDATE

For pure, unadulterated, old-fashioned entertainment, it is an indisputable truth that:

There ain’t nuthin’ like a DOGE!

NUTHIN’ in this world.

There is nuthin’ even close,

That is ANYTHING like a DOGE!

(Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein)

For flat-out comedy value, the meltdown DOGE is causing is a tantrum for the ages.

You have to listen to this Greek chorus of assembled Democratic carrion crows as they squawk.

Do you want to know why Democrats have been melting down over @elonmusk all day?

It’s because while President Trump was busy campaigning and TELLING us all how he’s going to LAUNCH DOGE and tap @elonmusk to run it, the entire Democratic Party decided to not listen and instead… pic.twitter.com/18NqxNvQWO

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) February 5, 2025

It’s amazing.

And then there are the constant revelations coming from the DOGE’s team of different experts, who haven’t even really begun to dog INTO things. This is all crap the fools who thought they’d be there forever by virtue of habit didn’t have time or cleverness to chew up and swallow.

Also, because there was simply too much of it to hide.

It has made so many people angry, particularly when something known as USAID was targeted by Elon’s crack team of young cyber forensic geniuses.

Gracious, didn’t the lid blow off?

To the point where professors were calling for bounties on the young sleuths’ heads and members of Congress are literally declaring they are ‘at war.’

What is wrong with you, @RepLaMonica? pic.twitter.com/Q8AM5i0Pae

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 5, 2025

Of course, the media is fanning all these flames of distrust and unrest, which seems sort of weird. Aren’t they supposed to be the big fans of transparency and rooting out waste?

Nevertheless, big-time media operators like Politico are going after the Trump administration and Elon’s team in particular, using not-so-subtle language in an attempt to paint the clean-up crew as foreign adversaries.

Elon Musk’s campaign to cut Washington’s bureaucracy is aiming at a very specific, very sensitive digital power center: the federal IT infrastructure.

Musk and his allies have gained access to the Treasury Department’s payments systems, and they’ve commandeered enough control at the Office of Personnel Management to send a mass email offering federal employees early buyouts. Unnamed federal officials told The Washington Post today that they’re now concerned about DOGE access to student loan data.

The overall effect has been to turn once banal-seeming federal IT systems into an ideologically driven bulldozer for removing programs deemed — by, apparently, Musk — as either unnecessary or excessively “woke.”

Musk’s approach is revealing just how much the day-to-day operation of government has come to depend on technological systems that can, in theory, be turned on and off with the flick of a switch. He’s also exploring the limits of how much power a lone official can wield if he has White House approval to take them over.

Okay. Perhaps I should rephrase – big-time media operator Politico WAS going after Elon and DOGE.

WAS

Pretty awkward what happened yesterday, and you can decide if it was coincidence or karma.

An email went around to every Politico employee that there’d been a glitch in the system – the payroll system to be exact.

None of them were getting paid.

Yikes, right?

Glitches happen, though, so no bigs?

How odd it happened right after all the USAID funds were frozen, though. Surely that had no bea…OH.

SAY WHUT?

We have really gone communist under Biden! This is really bad!

Tax payers have unknowingly given Politico $9.6 million since 2024.

This includes the office of the president too! To “communicate the President’s message.” pic.twitter.com/btDiVaUusw

— Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁💪🏻 (@pepesgrandma) February 5, 2025

The USA Spending link is right here for $8.1M last year alone.

There’s money – more taxpayer money – that has been flowing into Politico’s coffers than that.

Just to be clear, Politico was getting funds from all sorts of government agencies for extremely pricey Politico Pro subscriptions.

The State Department was the second largest purchaser pic.twitter.com/A6Q2Z0t2AY

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2025

Well, now, okay, wait a minute.

I want to be fair. So the subscriptions to Politico Pro were pricey – I know, I looked into one and about choked. Schmaybe State and those other government types needed access to info they felt we schlubs didn’t have? 

Schmabye…I don’t know. I’m sure it’s nothing like censoring Twitter or any of that. 

All above boa…OH

HOLY CRAP

I have used my uncanny calculator skills to determine that Politico was selling Pro Subscriptions for $11,999.94 each. https://t.co/c1Dh5gMAPn

— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) February 5, 2025

Now, hang on a goll darned second. I know Marc Caputo – he’s a standup guy in my book, flaming lib that he is – and I was shocked when this story broke a couple of weeks ago, but NOT surprised he’d be brave enough to speak up.

Well. The fact that they – Politico – were being paid by the Biden administration certainly puts a different spin on why they muzzled him and fellow reporter Tara Palmeri, doesn’t it?

JUST IN: Two former Politico reporters, Marc Caputo of Axios and Tara Palmeri of Puck, admit their ex-employer blocked negative stories about the BIG GUY and Hunter pic.twitter.com/zWynooSamU

— Wendell Husebø (@WendellHusebo) January 23, 2025

I asked earlier if it was ‘coincidence or karma’?

Politico not being able to make payroll because DOGE nuked USAID is probably the funniest thing have seen all week in a week of hilarious things.

— Dystopian Nonsense (@DystopianNon) February 5, 2025

Well…

🚨 This is the biggest scandal in news media history:

No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis.

Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was… pic.twitter.com/DwHqEp6gjp

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 5, 2025

…No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. 

First time ever the company missed a pay period. 

This is a crisis. Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was being massively funded by USAID. Trump & Elon deleted their funding. 

Now Politico will go out of business.  

The corruption is endless. 

Good riddance

It’s karma for the win, baby.

Beege UPDATE:  Hold onto your hats – I just found some updated figures about how many of YOUR TAX DOLLARS went to pay for ONE left-wing rag, and they will no doubt uncover more. And who else got checks?

The Politico scandal is worse than you think.

It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.

It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.

Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.

Follow along below. pic.twitter.com/OxF7Zrc4GP

— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025

OMG, no wonder they’re shrieking like the witch after the bucket of water hit them.

YOU CURSED BRATS! ALL MY BEAUTIFUL WICKEDNESS, MELTING, MELTING