{"id":58399,"date":"2025-02-13T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58399"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:33:19","slug":"pay-attention-to-who-is-screaming-the-loudest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58399","title":{"rendered":"Pay Attention To Who Is Screaming The Loudest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Elon Musk have certainly shaken things up in Washington. You would think everyone would get on board with cleaning up fraud and waste in the government and cutting spending. It kind of makes you wonder why anyone would oppose those things. Well, we are starting to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2025\/02\/12\/aba-blasts-funding-cuts-to-usaid-ada-gets-millions-of-dollars-from-usaid-n3799724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about one group who is opposed to all of the sunlight currently shining on government expenses. I know that this is an incredible coincidence, but one of the groups opposed to looking into and cutting the spending has received a lot of money from the government agency doing the spending.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It might be easier to keep a list of who in the Establishment DOESN&#8217;T get USAID funding than those who do.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As everybody in the Elite screams from the top of their lungs about the injustice of it all, it turns out that cuts to USAID are so offensive to them because USAID is nothing but a piggy bank for every damn one of them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation-500x285.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That might explain the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation2.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/BarAssociation2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"thm-piano-mop\">The article notes:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>From what I can gather, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/content\/dam\/aba\/administrative\/aba\/aba_financials\/fy2024-aba-audited-financial-statements.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half of the ABA&#8217;s revenue comes from government grants, including grants from USAID<\/a>. I had no idea.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Senator Kennedy, who can always be counted on for interesting comments, is quoted on X:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenatorKennedy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenatorKennedy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenatorKennedy.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenatorKennedy-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The article concludes:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I want to see where every dollar goes. Every self-righteous organization, by complaining, is outing itself as yet another grifter that subsists off the hard work of the people they are working to suppress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This is a war between the Establishment and the people. Nothing less.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned and get out the popcorn!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Elon Musk have certainly shaken things up in Washington. You would think everyone would get on board with cleaning up fraud and waste in the government and cutting spending. It kind of makes you wonder why anyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17710,17390,11848,1583,10589,17703,14292],"class_list":["post-58399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-bar-association","tag-department-of-government-efficiency-doge","tag-elon-musk","tag-hot-air","tag-president-trump","tag-senator-kennedy-of-louisiana","tag-u-s-agency-for-international-development-usaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58403,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58399\/revisions\/58403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}