So it turns out Politico, the BBC and others were being paid by the Biden admin to spread fear and propaganda about conservation

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, West said:

Lol.. wait until they investigate ActBlue, son

You must be joking, OR DUPED AGAIN.

ActBlue is nothing but a payment processing website for campaign contributions. Duh

2 hours ago, West said:

Wrong again

Leftist media was propped up by the American taxpayers to propagandize  the masses. 

The implications are a bigger story than you think 

 

Oh no! Another BULLSHIT tweet.  LMAO

[gatomontes99]

 

 

[robosmith]

3 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Well this is certainly interesting. Good to hear that sort of social engineering is being cut off. 

Thanks for demonstrating your complete faith in FOS LIES cause you STILL have not learned that they LIE.

So how do you feel about Musk mucking around with the US Treasury computers?

He is flirting with the destruction of US financial controls. 🤮

[Nationalist]

39 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Thanks for demonstrating your complete faith in FOS LIES cause you STILL have not learned that they LIE.

So how do you feel about Musk mucking around with the US Treasury computers?

He is flirting with the destruction of US financial controls. 🤮

Lol...I here political can't meet it's payroll today. 

[Hodad]

2 hours ago, Matthew said:

This does sound like a minor example of wastefulness rather than the obnoxious brand of corruption that West etc are presuming. But there are 10,000 people who work for USAID and $8 mil in Pro subscriptions ($3295 each) or whatever else they are subscribing to suggests that there is probably a lot administrative overhead happening beyond what would be acceptable for in any decent private sector global aid organization.

That's all government over many years. This story is, unsurprisingly, just fiction.

 

"Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. 

According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID.

In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000. According to E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.

Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform, Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE).

In July 2020, for example, HSS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly purchased a subscription to E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."

[robosmith]

53 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Lol...I here political can't meet it's payroll today. 

I "here" you're drunk already tonight.

Maybe in the morning you can explain why you believe our financial controls being destroyed is funny.

Cause right now it seems you're celebrating the disruption of the US government. 🤮

[robosmith]

34 minutes ago, Hodad said:

That's all government over many years. This story is, unsurprisingly, just fiction.

 

"Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. 

According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID.

In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000. According to E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.

Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform, Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE).

In July 2020, for example, HSS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly purchased a subscription to E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."

Thanks for proving that like I said, West has been DUPED by Becker's tweet. 👏

[West]

1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

Lol...I here political can't meet it's payroll today. 

Yes!!!! Sweet sweet revenge 😆 

Edited February 6 by West

[robosmith]

12 minutes ago, West said:

Yes!!!! Sweet sweet revenge 😆 

You have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Sharing PRIVATE government data with the "special employee" is clearly, and will be found to be, ILLEGAL.

[Nationalist]

7 hours ago, robosmith said:

I "here" you're drunk already tonight.

Maybe in the morning you can explain why you believe our financial controls being destroyed is funny.

Cause right now it seems you're celebrating the disruption of the US government. 🤮

Your financial controls?

I'm celebrating the return of common sense Pookie.

[gatomontes99]

10 hours ago, Hodad said:

That's all government over many years. This story is, unsurprisingly, just fiction.

 

"Becker and Johnson’s claims are false. The only payments received by Politico LLC from USAID were for two subscriptions to E&E—an energy and environment publication it produces—totaling $44,000 over two years. 

According to USAspending.gov, an official source for U.S. government expenditure data—and the resource used by Becker in his post—Politico received $8.2 million in total payments from government departments and agencies between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025. However, only $44,000 of this total came from USAID.

In September 2023, a staff assistant for the Center for Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure—part of USAID’s Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation—purchased a subscription to E&E for $20,000. According to E&E, prices for its professional subscription packages typically start in the upper four-figure range and vary based on how many users have access to a subscription. Another subscription to E&E was purchased in September 2024 for $24,000 by the Center for Climate Positive Development—an office within USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.

Funds received by Politico LLC from other government agencies also came mostly from subscriptions to E&E, or for the company’s policy intelligence platform, Politico Pro. The largest spenders have been the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Interior (DOI), and Department of Energy (DOE).

In July 2020, for example, HSS paid $73,857 for a Politico Pro subscription licensed for 37 users. The department exercised options to extend the contract in 2021 and 2022, and eventually increased its subscription to 49 users in 2023 for $130,185. The DOI similarly purchased a subscription to E&E in September 2021 for $200,000, which it has been extending since. The DOE has also been extending a Politico Pro contract since June 2020 for a four-year total of more than $400,000."

Actually, it started in 2020, during the election and ramped up while Joe's handlers were in office. While a good portion was in subscriptions, that is what we call money laundering. The handlers can tell politico "Hey, we will boost your revenue if you attack Trump." They then attack Trump while the handlers start buying subscriptions through democrat staffers.

[Hodad]

27 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Actually, it started in 2020, during the election and ramped up while Joe's handlers were in office. While a good portion was in subscriptions, that is what we call money laundering. The handlers can tell politico "Hey, we will boost your revenue if you attack Trump." They then attack Trump while the handlers start buying subscriptions through democrat staffers.

🤣 Sure. Let's assume that all government expenditures are "money laundering."

Once again, random-ass bullshit from Twitter MUST be spammed here, and now you folks have to waste even more time pretending that it wasn't bullshit.

And, as the article states, the gov began buying from Politico in 2016. 

Edited February 6 by Hodad

[West]

13 hours ago, robosmith said:

You must be joking, OR DUPED AGAIN.

ActBlue is nothing but a payment processing website for campaign contributions. Duh

Oh no! Another BULLSHIT tweet.  LMAO

So now nazi bullshit propaganda funded by the government is "no big deal"?

11 minutes ago, Hodad said:

🤣 Sure. Let's assume that all government expenditures are "money laundering."

Once again, random-ass bullshit from Twitter MUST be spammed here, and now you folks have to waste even more time pretending that it wasn't bullshit.

And, as the article states, the gov began buying from Politico in 2016. 

Well when their narratives are doing the bidding of one political party over another off the backs of taxpayers that's probably at bare minimum a pretty clear FCC violation

[gatomontes99]

12 minutes ago, Hodad said:

🤣 Sure. Let's assume that all government expenditures are "money laundering."

Once again, random-ass bullshit from Twitter MUST be spammed here, and now you folks have to waste even more time pretending that it wasn't bullshit.

And, as the article states, the gov began buying from Politico in 2016. 

Yeah, but the big stuff really started in 2020. Although, it isn't insignificant that they started buying subscriptions in 2016.

[Michael Hardner]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/05/republican-ire-usaid-finds-an-unusual-target-politico/

 

Some counter points including a correction to the $8 million figure.

[Hodad]

2 minutes ago, West said:

So now nazi bullshit propaganda funded by the government is "no big deal"?

Well when their narratives are doing the bidding of one political party over another off the backs of taxpayers that's probably at bare minimum a pretty clear FCC violation

It's not an FCC violation. Jeebus. You literally have no idea what the subscriptions are for or how they are used. You know absolutely nothing except that some asshat on Twitter said outrageous shit to get a lot of views from hapless goons. 

[Deluge]

23 hours ago, Black Dog said:

Wait until you hear about the nazi websites that the Presidents own.

Still waiting...

[Aristides]

11 hours ago, robosmith said:

Thanks for proving that like I said, West has been DUPED by Becker's tweet. 👏

What do you expect from a guy who's only source of information is X and doesn't fact check anything.

[Deluge]

21 hours ago, robosmith said:

WTH is Kyle Becker and why are ^you so easily duped by his tweet? LMAO

Kyle Becker - The Politics Brief

LinkedIn · Kyle Becker

2.6K+ followers

 

 

 

 

Plano, Texas, United States · The Politics Brief

Independent Journalist. Former Writer & Associate Producer at Fox News for #1 top-rated. Experience: The Politics Brief

Nevermind, I see now that you'll believe ANYTHING from FOS LIES et al.

 

 

 

robowoke is STILL trying to figure out how he can donate to the DEI slush fund aka USAID. 

[Hodad]

24 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Yeah, but the big stuff really started in 2020. Although, it isn't insignificant that they started buying subscriptions in 2016.

This is just a service in which people in policy find value. It's not a partisan conspiracy.

Last year, Republicans and committee offices paid for Politico’s products including $9,060 from the Office of the Speaker of the House, $84,000 from the House Committee on Agriculture, and $58,000 from the House Committee on Energy, according to government records.

In total, 38 Republicans in the House spent over $300,000 on Politico subscriptions in the first nine months of 2024, and committees led by Republicans expensed almost $500,000 of Politico subscriptions in the same time period, a Washington Post analysis shows.

[gatomontes99]

13 minutes ago, Hodad said:

This is just a service in which people in policy find value. It's not a partisan conspiracy.

Last year, Republicans and committee offices paid for Politico’s products including $9,060 from the Office of the Speaker of the House, $84,000 from the House Committee on Agriculture, and $58,000 from the House Committee on Energy, according to government records.

In total, 38 Republicans in the House spent over $300,000 on Politico subscriptions in the first nine months of 2024, and committees led by Republicans expensed almost $500,000 of Politico subscriptions in the same time period, a Washington Post analysis shows.

Tell me again what percentage of $8.4 m is 300,000?

[Michael Hardner]

This counterpoint proves the need for cross analysis of these pieces.

[Hodad]

1 minute ago, gatomontes99 said:

Tell me again what percentage of $8.4 m is 300,000?

Tell me again that you can't use a calendar? 

8.4 is the total spending since 2016. Republicans in the House are reported to have spent nearly a million just last year. How do you think that percentage will help you?

[gatomontes99]

1 minute ago, Hodad said:

Tell me again that you can't use a calendar? 

8.4 is the total spending since 2016. Republicans in the House are reported to have spent nearly a million just last year. How do you think that percentage will help you?

8.4 is last year.

As per the data on usaspending.gov, nearly $8.4 million in taxpayer funds was paid to Politico in a span of 12 months.

[Black Dog]

If anyone would know about massive drops in revenue it's Elon Musk.

15 hours ago, West said:

Do you think we find out Epstein was sort of the Quarterback between NGOs and USAID? 

If I were a betting man, I would say that there's some sort of flow of tax payers cash to fund vile shit and he's involved in some way 

Trump's close personal friend Jeffery Epstein?