Without this US A.I.D. and other government sources of funds, the NYTs and Politico types will go under or cut back drastically. Democrats love their state run media! Which is counter — in case you weren’t aware — to our form of government.
Fox News host Jesse Watters discusses how Democrats are reacting after President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’
No wonder Bill Kristol just said this: “The deep state is far preferable to the Trump state.”
He was getting paid through US AID via “The Deep State.” Which is why POLITICO nixed article by their reporters critical of Obama and reporters that were pointing to his failing mind. Same gravy train – state media.
Lol.
But at the same time, [… dramatic pause…] not funny. More […head tiled up in a contemplative look…] Totalitarian. In the free market of ideas, they would lose. It takes state funding to keep the monster [pro “democracy”] alive.
It all makes sense now! PJ-MEDIA: (see Data Republican as well [MAIN X]):
“Can’t stop the signal,” the phrase popularized in the 2005 sci-fi flick “Serenity” has today been supplanted by “Can’t hide the data,” courtesy of Data Republican (small-r)’s ever-improving Federal government grant award search. For example, how does a private figure like William Kristol get taxpayer money to fund his political activities?
Answer: it’s complicated. But I can show you the way.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received nearly $38 million in grants last year, nearly evenly divided between USAID and the State Department. Because the Rockefellers don’t have enough of their own money, I suppose.
RPA gave significant sums (the Data Republican chart did not make clear how much, but I’m still digging and will update this column if I can find the number) to The Hopewell Fund. What does it do? According to its site, Hopewell has been around only since 2015 and “is a 501(c)(3) public charity that specializes in helping donors, social entrepreneurs, and other changemakers quickly launch new, innovative social change projects.”
That’s a whole lot of words saying not much. However, I did see that the organization’s Economic Security Project provides “management for nearly a dozen contracts and grants management for community-based organizations, think tanks, advocacy organizations, and NGOs in the United States.”
Slush, meet funds. Your taxpayer dollars became “private” funds via Rockefeller that then went into a whole host of progressive causes via groups like Hopewell. I’m using Hopewell as an example because one of its beneficiaries — to the tune of $2 million last year — is another organization called Defending Democracy Together.
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Defending Democracy’s president is Bill Kristol and its directors are Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, and Sarah Longwell. Judging by Kristol’s presence and its directors, Defending Democracy is essentially the nonprofit arm of Kristol’s post-Weekly Standard/anti-Trump project, The Bulwark.
Whatever it is that Defending Democracy Together does, it doesn’t seem to do much of it in public. The group’s website doesn’t appear to have been updated since 2021. Although the Donate button seems to work.
Honestly, Kristol is probably among the least of our problems. What, if any, influence he still has is bolstered by an amount of money that’s piddling by USAID/State/NGO standards. I use him as an example only because as someone who’s been around Washington and power his entire life, he’s a public figure I was sure you’d be familiar with.
Following the spaghetti-like trail of money from your taxes to USAID to private groups like Kristol’s was nearly impossible before Data Republican built her database. But we also have a man now on the inside, Elon Musk. ……