Watched a bit and he's just talking in platitudes. Once he gets into examples we actually have something to talk about. So which of the examples given were so egregious that we had to axe everything that USAID does? Was it trying to produce Sesame Street for Iraq? Or maybe the thing about Sri Lankan journalist education for avoiding gendered language (I'll just take the Senator's word on this one). Because just listing them and then not getting into what you disagree with is a lazy man's argument so let's get into it. 

You keep saying "noone wants to talk about the actual findings" so fucking do it. Don't give me 30 minutes of youtube homework you tell me with your words what they found that you disagree with and let me know why it means all of USAID has to stop. 

Watched a bit and he's just talking in platitudes. Once he gets into examples we actually have something to talk about. So which of the examples given were so egregious that we had to axe everything that USAID does? Was it trying to produce Sesame Street for Iraq? Or maybe the thing about Sri Lankan journalist education for avoiding gendered language (I'll just take the Senator's word on this one). Because just listing them and then not getting into what you disagree with is a lazy man's argument so let's get into it. 

You keep saying "noone wants to talk about the actual findings" so fucking do it. Don't give me 30 minutes of youtube homework you tell me with your words what they found that you disagree with and let me know why it means all of USAID has to stop. 

Well you did not see it to the end then, where Kennedy does say the opposite of "axe everything USAID does". So that is a false premise.

The main message is offcourse that he as a senate member who's job it is to oversee the spending of Government departments did not know about many of the findings. Clearly the departments where not transparent or forthcoming enough for him or others in the senate/house to do so.

This is also my message in my comment. Transparency! And I believe every American should be happy with it. It's not my place to agree or disagree with how American taxpayer's money is spend nor did I opinionated that USAID has to stop. So why should I argue with you that it should? You are reading things, that I did not write. And Mind reading does not exist my friend.

I pointed out how funny it is, the energy put into fine combing some kids social media posts. Clearly the age old trick is used to find something to demonize the messenger so to undermine the message. It's a trick as old as politics itself.

Call me crazy but I don't believe a Nazi, eugenicist and racist should be anywhere near government and making decisions which affect millions of people. I also don't believe that fresh out of college edge lords have any idea on how government works and the consequences of their actions. Oh and government officials should actually be able to see what unelected people are doing to government institutions.

I also don't believe the man whose companies also rely on government subsidies is in any position to decide on these things, it is firstly a massive conflict of interest and secondly hypocritical. I would also point to his one company that doesn't rely on government handouts (Twitter) is crashing and burning in revenue and profit even after he laid of 80% of its workforce.

Governments should not be ran like a business either where everything has a P/L system, that isn't to say they can throw away infinite amounts of cash with nothing in return but it is to say that there are certain things which are forgivable to put money into without a "profit" as it provides major benefits elsewhere, that can be foreign aid to boost diplomatic relations, prevent the spread of deadly diseases, increase economic ties or things that benefit a countries population as a whole, like healthcare, which in turn leads to a stronger workforce and healthier nation.

Musk and his cronies are simply burning through absolutely everything, with no thought at all behind the consequences of their actions, the negative impacts in the future, all on the vague bullshit of "cutting costs" but shockingly, none of these "savings" will impact the average citizen, instead the rich will continue to get richer as local and foreign support systems are gutted. Lets take the USAID which has provided American farmers billions in the past, now gone. Or the thousands of now jobless people in America.

Here's another random attack: Musk’s Team Takes Control of Key Systems at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Which funnily has bipartisan support but it won't stop Musk in his insane crusade.

Kennedy doesn't matter, what did happen is that they tried to shut down USAID entirely because of these things they "found". I did watch that part of what Kennedy said I just don't care because what did happen is the administration said "too much woke stuff shut the whole thing down". 

And if what happened was Elon did his idiotic little audit and then the congress went on to vote on how USAID funding should be used that would be fine. Instead we have a "contractor" according to you who is not only auditing these places but shutting them down without the authorization of the legislature. It's not how this shit is supposed to work but when the people who are supposed to execute the laws don't follow them themselves there's not a lot to do other than protest. 

Transparency isn't listing things on Twitter you don't like that USAID does. When Elon publishes it all I'll give him some credit until then he's just trolling a giant list of grants and finding things he doesn't like to try and get the government shut down. It's a republican tactic as old as libertarians. If you don't want to argue about what they're actually doing then I guess we don't have to talk and I'll just assume you have no clue what you're talking about. Already said you don't live in the US and this is just funny to you so I should've taken that as a clue. 

I actually found that exchange with the 25 year old's posts very telling. It showed that this administration doesn't mind if you're a racist. Very telling and illustrative. 

You think Americans would be better of without an audit? An unconventional one this one is for sure, but that it is happening should be good no?

That it is an unconventional one should not come as a surprise with America choosing an unconventional President. I believe Trump was very clear about it during his campaign and seemingly most Americans agreed enough to vote him in.

Can't vote for illegal things even if you want them. 

Or to be more accurate, you can vote for them but the people you vote in can't do them. 

Also, just to keep adding things to this post: audits are not by definition good, they can be bad if done illegally or dishonestly (like this one)