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That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/6/2025 4:49:21 AM

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The BBC publicly lists U.S. taxpayers among their top "donors" (though we taxpayers were totally unaware)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/funding

Also from the BBC:

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Our statement on USAID funding

Published: 4 February 2025

STATEMENT

A free press is essential to freedom and democracy – and 75% of countries around the world do not have a free press. BBC Media Action supports local media around the world to deliver trusted information to people most in need.

Like many international development organisations, BBC Media Action has been affected by the temporary pause in US government funding, which amounts to about 8% of our income in 2023-24. We’re doing everything we can to minimise the impact on our partners and the people we serve.

As the BBC’s international charity, we are completely separate from BBC News, and wholly reliant on our donors and supporters to carry out our work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/press-release/4-feb-25

Do you get it?

Americans have unknowingly been funding censorship, regime change, and propaganda aimed at our own government literally everywhere on the planet for years and years and years. This is literally the fist time in generations that anyone has pried the books away from our ruling class oligarchs and had a look to see exactly WHY we are $37 trillion in debt

And trained Democrat cult members are barking in distress everywhere you turn, but not about the fraud and abuse - they're mad because people are finding out about it

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/6/2025 4:57:48 AM

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On any given day we can all plainly see the BBC attacking America's democratically elected leaders, along with everything American.

We have been funding this:

https://www.bbc.com/news

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/6/2025 12:30:35 PM

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Lol It always takes me a second on this site to remember that BBC is a media thing too.

I don't have an issue with the BBC. It has resources around the world that can be used as intelligence resources as needed.

Most of us equate the BBC with PBS and as such, we believe it to be an invaluable resource for worldwide news.

I don't consider BBC to be drastically leftist in any way, although Freedom of the Press is an important part of democracy and a thorn in the side of authoritarian figures.

I love this country, but I believe we can get better and that we have made mistakes in our history. I don't think everything we're doing now is completely above board either. I support journalism and don't see it as an enemy of the state.

I do believe the BBC reports on the world through a uniquely British perspective though and since the monarchy was made a ceremonial part of the government, the UK has been progressive. As has the US, of course. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were some of the most progressive documents the world had ever known at the time.

I believe that pausing funding to USAID is a huge mistake that will have global implications. All funding was appropriated by Congress and signed into law by President Biden. The next fiscal year should be when any cuts are made by this administration, after a careful review. It is completely irresponsible to halt the funding and uproot the programs already going this year.

There are too many programs that are absolutely vital to the security of this nation to just freeze worldwide funding. We risk allowing our enemies to fill the void and we allow thosenthat we're trying to help to have a reason to become disillusioned with us and become new enemies.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/6/2025 6:04:47 PM

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All funding was appropriated by Congress and signed into law by President Biden.

No, the "funding" is firehosed around the globe to addresses that are vacant lots, from massive slush funds that until now have never been meaningfully accounted for. Funding went to oligarchs and to literal terrorists and (again) to places like the BBC that propagandize against America and American leadership

But keep it up, keep dying on that hill. It's fine with me if Democrats riot in the streets in favor of pure madness- I LIKE Republi9cans having 100% control of everything. By all means, PLEASE keep it up

You know that our $37 trillion debt is an existential threat to every American, right? But you're a Democrat, so you're either ignorant about that looming catastrophe, or you don't care about it, or you want to see Americans suffer, or all of the above

Which explains your cult's 30% approval numbers with the American people

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/democrats-popularity-trump-poll-2024

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/6/2025 7:59:26 PM

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Congress didn't approve, and no president signed on to any of this.

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Records show US taxpayer money was funding the Wuhan Virology COVID research.

CDC Director Robert Redfield testified

"MONEY FROM MULTIPLE US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SUPPORTED HIGH RISK VIRUS RESEARCH IN WUHAN"

Funding came from NIH, State Department, USAID & DOD.

https://x.com/DGrayTexas45/status/1887711729489977741

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/6/2025 9:50:44 PM

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No clue what any of that has to do with BBC funding. Trump failed miserably at containing COVID and was president for 2 years or so when the pandemic began.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/7/2025 12:17:31 PM

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No clue what any of that has to do with BBC funding.

It is part of the USAID funding scandal - they were funding terrorism, creating Covid 19 & other scourges, helping anti-American communist rags like the BBC stay afloat...

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Trump failed miserably at containing COVID and was president for 2 years or so when the pandemic began.

Well then the whole fucking world did - and more people died under Biden from Covid than Trump.

Here's a reminder that Democrats were actively working to spread Covid while accusing President Trump of racism when he tried to shut down travel from China during the initial staged of Fauci's creation

https://x.com/memetheleft/status/1869567926262722816

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/8/2025 5:22:47 AM

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It's fun to watch swamp creatures cry like little babies as their swamp is being drained

I wish I could poke it with a stick

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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has been leading the charge to defend USAID. Here he is listed as the main “Hill Outreach” point of contact for a USAID-funded NED program to “destabilize Bangladesh’s politics” by funding transgender dance festivals and Bangladeshi rap groups.

https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1887939979113910457

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/8/2025 11:12:27 AM

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What the fuck nonsense are you slobbering on about now?

We pay for the BBC. Everyone in Scotland, Englandpishshire, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is called a TV License. Not all of us pay it, most of us do. Its per house hold too.

Musk funds it does he how much? Fuck all. Your link might be credible but that doesn't even get you $2 million.

Us scots and that english dirt also do a world service. The BBC also sells programs.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/8/2025 6:37:43 PM

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He's talking about American taxpayer money going to the BBC via USAID, which is true apparently. That's not really up for debate.

The topics that should be discussed are:
1) whether the American taxpayer gets a return on their investment or not
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2) whether or not currently allocated budget items should be stopped by the administration or not.

The argument could easily be made that the UK should be funding their own damn media. And wicked, you're saying they do. But they don't,so your post here is kinda dumb.

Bosco, comparing the number of COVID deaths under the first Trump administration to the Biden administration is about as dumb as comparing the number of crimes committed in the Nixon years to the Reagan years. It just isn't a comparable example and the argument can be made that Trump's actions set the Biden administration up to fail on that front anyway. Either way, that has absoruckinglytely nothing to do with BBC funding, which is what you made this thread to be about supposedly.

Congress has only authorized the federal budget until May, I think. So it would be hard to say that Elon saved much money at all compatibly. Certainly not the $2Trillion he promised. And the actions taken to do this now weaken the legislative Branch's authority under this administration and opens the executive branch to legal actions. I don't believe that Trump doing this now is a good use of political capitol. The GOP majority in the House is too narrow to rock the boat like this right now. There are 3 special elections coming up in the House, so the GOP majority could be at risk. It's just a dumb time to do this. The only point I see is a fealty test among Congress members. As if the nominees for Cabinet positions weren't enough.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/9/2025 7:38:14 AM

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

He's talking about American taxpayer money going to the BBC via USAID, which is true apparently. That's not really up for debate.

The topics that should be discussed are:
1) whether the American taxpayer gets a return on their investment or not
And
2) whether or not currently allocated budget items should be stopped by the administration or not.

The argument could easily be made that the UK should be funding their own damn media. And wicked, you're saying they do. But they don't,so your post here is kinda dumb.

Congress never authorized funding of the BBC, or a vast majority of myriad other insane deep state's firehosing of our tax dollars to ridiculous and outrageous recipients - including but not limited to literal terrorists and terrorist state leaders

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...(President) Trump's actions set the Biden administration up to fail on that front anyway.

Fauci illegally created the Fauci virus then lied about it thus setting the *planet* up to fail, and Biden's handlers gave Fauci a blanket pardon - WHY. Then, as the virus began to spread, the World Health Organization said there was no threat and praised China's handling of Fauci's creation, as China actively facilitated the spread of the virus to the world. Democrats howled that President Trump was a racist for trying to shut down travel from China and they literally encouraged everyone to mix and mingle in public

One example of many: https://x.com/search?q=democrats%20covid%20china%20town&src=typed_query

You really need to do some extreme naval gazing, because something ain't right with the propaganda you consume, and something ain't right with the Democrat Party

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Congress has only authorized the federal budget until May, I think. So it would be hard to say that Elon saved much money at all compatibly. Certainly not the $2Trillion he promised.

It's been three weeks. Your propaganda feeds tell you that DOGE hasn't performing Jesus-level miracles yet, so therefore it's a failure.

Fun times!

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And the actions taken to do this now weaken the legislative Branch's authority under this administration

WORST. DICTATORSHIP. EVER.

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and opens the executive branch to legal actions.

Hack activist far left extremist judges are going to be employed against our democratically elected leadership???

SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!

(It's only been happening for around nine years now).

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I don't believe that Trump doing this now is a good use of political capitol. The GOP majority in the House is too narrow to rock the boat like this right now. There are 3 special elections coming up in the House, so the GOP majority could be at risk. It's just a dumb time to do this. The only point I see is a fealty test among Congress members. As if the nominees for Cabinet positions weren't enough.

President Trump is doing all of the things he and Vance and Musk vociferously promised to do while on the campaign trail. You really think that saving taxpayers money by slashing RIDICULOUS and highly offensive waste is unpopular...

Here's a little secret between you and me - we voted on it, and you and your fabulously wealthy and powerful oligarch friends lost

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/10/2025 8:54:50 PM

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Our Constitution is written so that the judicial branch can interpret the laws written by the legislative branch and administered by the executive branch. You should read it sometime.

"Activist judges" is a dum term. It makes it sound like they're making laws up without any actual case before them that they have to decide. Every legal decision starts by an aggrieved party filing suit.

The judicial branch of the federal government is the least democratic branch of all. Voters have absolutely no direct decision on any federal judges. Each one is appointed by the president, which is elected, then confirmed by the Senate, which is also elected. So the judicial branch is our democratic Republic in action, just as the founding fathers wrote out and agreed to.
Congress may not have allocated find for specific projects. That would be a problem with Congress. Laws should be passed to prevent any agency from funding organizations and countries on a list of terrorists. Without such laws, the agencies themselves can be making terrible decisions with our money, going against our own best interests or wishes, but it would be perfectly legal. Congress has an Oversight Committee for such a thing and should use it accordingly. Congress should not be giving a rubber stamps to any agency at all, but doing it's due diligence on the budget. Of course, that's nearly impossible, with each member of Congress championing their own pet projects and trying to get funds for their district (which is kinda what they're elected to do). A prime example would be members or Congress voting against the Build Back Better law but then scrambling to get funding from it in their district. I did not say that every project from every agency was allocated specific funds by Congress in the budget, so I'm not sure why you're arguing that at all. I haven't read the actual budget to know, in just glad there is one. Well, not a budget precisely, but whatever it is.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that all members of Congress should be arrested for not making a real damn budget. Our government should never be shut down for any reason. That just shouldn't be allowed.

I wasn't in favor of Trump & CO on the campaign trail and I'm not now. It's not a matter of whether or not I agree with the action as much as whether or not the action is legal under our Constitution. That document enumerates precisely what authority each branch of government has, with everything not specifically mentioned left to the States or to the people, as the 10th Amendment says.

I don't think that DIGE should exist. I don't think it should have to. Trump is currently giving himself a line-itrm veto, which probably isn't legal.l anyways, but the timing of it is just dumb, considering a new budget resolution needs to be signed into law for May, otherwise the government shuts down again. Trump also wants to suspend the debt ceiling. That's a good indication that he plans to once again create larger deficits.

The Congressional Oversight Committee should have at least one member dedicated to looking over the budget of each agency, monitoring it so that a DIGE isn't necessary. Meaning Congress should actually do their fucking jobs.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/11/2025 3:47:19 AM

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Your cult world is a truly weird place. It screams that cops hunt black children, then yells that only cops should have guns. It claims that judges lock innocent black men away, so we have to burn the entire system down - but judges are always perfect if they rule the way your oligarch masters pay them to with USAID money

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/11/2025 6:45:19 PM

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Ad hominem much?

Didn't you just post on another thread about how silly that is? Yet you seem quick to use it when you can't respond to the actual facts as presented.

I have never said that only cops should have guns.

Innocent people are conveyed far too often. That does not have anything to do with whether the president is adhering to the limits of his authority by the Constitution.

But it sounds like you don't believe that the legal system could be used to target people. That doesn't seem to hold up with your posts regarding Trump's convictions.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/12/2025 3:03:53 AM

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Ad hominem much?

You don't know what an ad hominem fallacy is - I am accurately describing your cult.

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Innocent people are conveyed far too often. That does not have anything to do with whether the president is adhering to the limits of his authority by the Constitution.

Your cult lost power through the elections and is now using the judiciary to claw power back, to steal our democracy

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But it sounds like you don't believe that the legal system could be used to target people. That doesn't seem to hold up with your posts regarding Trump's convictions.

I didn't post anything like that. President Trump and everyone in his orbit have been and are targeted, both figuratively and literally by the FBI, CIA, foreign intel services, baseless partisan impeachments, as well as by rabidly partisan Obama judges and in every other way that can be imagined

Do Democrat cultists believe that the judiciary is impartial, or not? Because here's video of a top Democrat cult leader openly threatening the judiciary for failing to chant the cult chant as directed:

https://x.com/BasedSavannah/status/1889069304215118030

You can't have it both ways

Here's VIDEO of one of your cult's judges openly saying that he is a highly partisan hack - the same judge that is currently trying to usurp President Trump's authority, as granted to President Trump by the Democratic process:

https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1889510504789402095

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/12/2025 4:50:01 PM

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Sure I can. Two things can be true at once. Even if they seem completely in opposition of each other. I try to avoid using absolutes and assigning imaginary attributes to large groups of people.
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Let me remind you that AOC and Jasmine Crockett were elected democratically as well and will be expected to represent their districts throughout their terms. . Republicans may have a majority in Congress, but they don't have the whole thing. The GOP doesn't even have enough members in either chamber of Congress to override a veto, should they need or want to. So Democrats may not be in power now, but some of them are still in office and will be expected to serve the communities that elected them as best they can.

I " to Gitmo is as well, since it's only a civil violation to be undocumented and not criminal.

The Republican majority in Congress isn't going against Trump yet,so the power he is usurping from the legislative branch hasn't been questioned by the majority, so can't be officially addressed. I would expect that to change it the Dems take control again in the midterms.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/13/2025 4:41:42 AM

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Sure I can. Two things can be true at once. Even if they seem completely in opposition of each other. I try to avoid using absolutes and assigning imaginary attributes to large groups of people.

There is only one truth.

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Let me remind you that AOC and Jasmine Crockett were elected democratically as well and will be expected to represent their districts throughout their terms. .

Their voters are victims of government schools

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Republicans may have a majority in Congress, but they don't have the whole thing. The GOP doesn't even have enough members in either chamber of Congress to override a veto, should they need or want to. So Democrats may not be in power now, but some of them are still in office and will be expected to serve the communities that elected them as best they can.

Did you disagree with Obama when he said, "Elections have consequences."?

Remember when he said, ""I've got a pen and I've got a phone...and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions."

https://x.com/larryelder/status/996075993369477120

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I " to Gitmo is as well, since it's only a civil violation to be undocumented and not criminal.

Despite the propaganda you've been fed, only the worst of the worst are being sent to Guantanamo Bay - violent gang members, rapists, murderers and such. Terrorists.

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The Republican majority in Congress isn't going against Trump yet,so the power he is usurping from the legislative branch hasn't been questioned by the majority, so can't be officially addressed. I would expect that to change it the Dems take control again in the midterms.

It's propaganda, it's a lie, that he has usurped legislative authority. And his policies are wildly popular - they are policies that he campaigned on, including Musk and DOGE

Democrats rioting on behalf of issues opposed by 80% of voters is a bold strategy, let's see how well it works out for them

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/13/2025 6:38:45 AM

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Video -

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USAID: British politician complaining that his wife was supposed to get $1M in USAID grants before Trump cancelled the contract. Rory Stewart's wife runs Turquoise Mountain Foundation, which exposes modern art to puzzled Afghan women.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1889999406050730120

"Oh, the humanity!"

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/13/2025 7:37:52 PM

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Elections do have consequences. That's why I didn't vote for this fucker.

I kinda feel like the US posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a third to join us to make a new axis of evil.

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RE: That Mean Old Elon Musk "Paused" BBC Funding - 2/14/2025 6:23:20 AM

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Elections do have consequences. That's why I didn't vote for this fucker.

I kinda feel like the US posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a third to join us to make a new axis of evil.

You're taking this whole, 'paused BBC funding' thing, really hard.

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