USAID: The Truth & Lies (When Did Reality Stop Mattering?)

In this in-depth episode, we analyze a video of the 'Doge' meeting with the USAID team. The discussion tackles the misuse of funds, with millions allocated for controversial programs like promoting LGBT rights and atheism in countries with opposing cultures, and even alleged inefficiencies and cases of funds being diverted to terrorist organizations. The episode delves into the broader implications of USAID's spending, and examines arguments from both sides of the debate. We also explore the impact of these spending practices on U.S. relations with other countries, and the potential cultural and diplomatic fallout. Tune in for a thorough breakdown of how USAID's budget is being used, or misused, and what it could mean for the future of U.S. foreign aid.

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx): [00:00:00] We found a video of the Doge meeting with USAID's team.

Speaker: Give us a little more information surrounding the deficits that you're running this year.

Speaker 2: Ooh, gosh. We don't really like to talk about money. We find it a little gauche.

Speaker 3: This is a budget meeting.

Speaker 2: Well, most of our files are in these boxes if you really want to take a look at how much

Speaker: that we've spent.

Why don't we just dig in and see what we're up against?

Speaker 2: Yes, and thank you. We really appreciate your help.

Speaker: Are you tipping me?

Speaker 2: Is that a hundred? Euros?

Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I'm excited to be with you here today. We have talked about the USAID controversy, but I hadn't had a time to do the deep dive into both sides of the argument before this into the specifics because you see a lot of crazy numbers being thrown out there.

And honestly, if you've just been watching white wing media, some of these numbers have inaccuracies or misconceptions in the way they're presented. Others, when you dig into them, are even crazier than you [00:01:00] thought they were on a surface level.

Simone Collins: Okay, because, yeah, my default here as a listener is Okay, everything I'm hearing is a little exaggerated.

It's not exactly that bad, but it's bad. And you're saying that actually, some of it's even worse? Some of it's dramatically worse, some of it's

Malcolm Collins: dramatically less bad.

Okay.

And, and if I'm gonna start with just one that's dramatically less bad. Okay, yes. It's a story about the U. S. Government funding media organizations like the 4 million to the New York Times, the 8 million to Politico.

If you look at this there was a few sort of misconceptions that are bundled in the way this is presented. It's presented as if this is only coming from USAID, which actually isn't true. , the money that came from USAID, for example, last year for Politico was 25, 000. Now, when I hear 25, 000 and I hear this is for the special subscription.

Keep in mind, this isn't for like the public subscription, like premium business

Simone Collins: subscription with like

Malcolm Collins: analysts. Similar to what you would get was like God, what was that report that I used to read?

Simone Collins: They had like, I think many people who went [00:02:00] to

Malcolm Collins: business schools used to work for them.

I was thinking of the Stratford report, which costs like a thousand dollars a year depending on what subscription you're using.

But they're like

Simone Collins: anything I'm thinking about Bloomberg subscriptions and Bloomberg terminals at business schools that I went to, and those were like, really expensive.

It was such a big deal to have a Bloomberg. It's

Malcolm Collins: a waste of government money, but I do not think that they were explicitly paying for story. It was premium

Simone Collins: subscription. So they were supporting the organizations though.

Malcolm Collins: Yes. We weren't using the full. They could definitely go back and renegotiate, but also the, the, for example, the numbers cited like the 8 million were in the one year, right?

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-2: Another part of the story that I've seen reported in a few places that is just a complete fabrication based on a manipulated video Uh is that some celebrities were paid by USAID to go to the Ukraine To attempt to improve the US public's opinion of Zelensky That did not happen. Those celebrities went on their own money or were using UN money

Malcolm Collins: So this is me saying some of this stuff [00:03:00] is less bad than we thought it was. Others where they will say something like the 8, the well, we'll get to that later. Actually, I'm not going to get to any of that. The first thing I actually wanted to go into was, was two points in this one. I want to read an article about the way the left is framing this and the way the left is freaking out about this that I think was written about by the woman who did that freak out about us.

Just yesterday for salon she published to her like private blue sky in an unsearchable way. She does these like images. So they're really hard to find. Cause after I saw this the first time it took me forever to find it again. But the second, and I really, I want to get ahead of this is the argument.

for USAID. Because I think the argument for USAID, before we get into all the ridiculousness, just to steel man it, is on its face a really, really bad argument.

Simone Collins: Okay,

Malcolm Collins: why? So the pragmatic argument for USAID is that, look, you've got China doing soft power in places like Africa. Africa is where the majority of the USAID money was going.

Keep in mind this is [00:04:00] 50 billion a year that they're getting. And when people are like, Oh, Elon's like an unelected person. Well, these people are, I didn't vote for this stuff that USAID is doing. And we'll get to it. It's crazy. It's crazy. But they're like, this is building us good relations with Africa to help fight China.

Right. And I'm like. No, it's not. Are you out of your mind? China is going in getting influential government officials. You can interview people on the ground. We've been in secret meetings where we talk with government officials who have like gotten reports from what's happening in Africa. Africa does not trust the U.

S. They do not like when people just walk into the community or like I got the shots. Just take the shots. Stop asking questions. There is not a belief that these organizations are doing well by them. They're just attempting to force things on them. And you'll see with all this like LGBT stuff, all this promoting atheism.

Yes, they literally tried to promote atheism in a non atheist country. This is pissing off the local people. This is not endearing us to these local people. Maybe in [00:05:00] the past USAID had some things where they were like helping our relations with people, but not today.

Simone Collins: Yeah, it's funny how my impression overwhelmingly, especially of U.

S. based aid work in Africa, for example, is just blanket suspicion of it, conspiracy theories. You're trying to measure us. You're trying to sterilize us. You're trying to poison us. I, yeah, and that's the thing. It's like, I imagine that there is actually a lot of like measurement and research being done on populations in these areas.

So I mean, like, yeah, I've, I've never thought of it is, is getting us ahead. I always thought of it as making maybe some positive difference, but in a New York Times op ed that I just read of the former head of USAID under the Biden administration. She only described one program in it in the entire article that saved lives, and the rest of it was about this argument, this, this thesis that if you do nice things to other [00:06:00] countries, they're more likely to be compliant when you need to put peacekeepers on the ground or something similar.

This is like if

Malcolm Collins: you put wokeness in gamers video games, gamers are gonna like you more. No, they'll hate you. They will declare a fatwa on you and everything you have ever stood for. And then in the article, she complains, as you mentioned, and she's like, and a hundred people have died in the last few years, U.

S. aid workers. No,

Simone Collins: no, no, I think in total, but This should be a unanimously celebrated organization. If they're being killed, either there's very terrible mismanagement, or they're in areas where people are very hostile toward them. And if people who are receiving aid from you are so threatened by you that they will end up killing you, You're clearly not you doing your job like get out.

Yeah, this the mission is failing. This is not working. It's not They even even if they're trying to deliver life saving malaria treatment or HIV treatment [00:07:00] The people in the area think you're trying to poison them. You really just shouldn't be there like Your money is going is like point one percent effective when some other organization When China's out

Malcolm Collins: there building bridges for them, and building ports for them, and building something Well, and there are

Simone Collins: ways to deliver, like, HIV medication, but when, when you are a very mistrusted entity, you shouldn't be the one to deliver it, you know what I mean?

And what's

Malcolm Collins: worse about this is USAID worked separately and did not have ties to the State Department, so they would frequently do things specifically designed to undermine the State Department's agenda. If they felt that the State Department's agenda did not align with whatever they were attempting to push.

Simone Collins: Oh, wait. So not even like, like friendly fire ships crossing in the night, like not realizing that they were undermining their work, but actively undermining their work? Actively because they believe that their work was to

Malcolm Collins: push, well, a woke worldview, which we'll get into in just a second. Oh my gosh. But more than this, I want to start with the Democrat freak out [00:08:00] against this because I love this article because I think it helps get in their mind space.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So, so she goes must goal is to remake America in his own petty, selfish image. There are many reasons why musk is using us aid as a test case to see if he can appoint himself as dictator without pushback from Congress as an apple bomb says. Foreign aid isn't popular with voters, most of whom don't understand it, or maybe they do and they just don't like it, but okay, continue.

So it's low hanging fruit politically. If Musk and the MAGA forces get away with this, they'll rapidly expand, curtailing or shutting down more popular programs, such as funding for healthcare services or food assistance. Yay!

Speaker 24: Ding dong! It's America, motherfucker.

Malcolm Collins: Here I have the little flags in the background, but continue, continue. But I also think that there is a psychological angle to Musk's eagerness to demonize USAID.

He loathes a reminder that, contrary to his philosophy, good people do exist, and not [00:09:00] everyone acts solely out of self interest. Musk has long treated altruism as fiction. He seems to hold the view that people never do good things for good reasons, only because they wish to exploit others. I think often of how Musk, so blah, blah, blah, blah here, but what I love about this is a complete inability to understand that these people working at USAID who are using other people's money to promote their own agenda.

Are not philanthropists.

Simone Collins: Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: Like, that you, they have essentially stolen 50 billion a year. Not just because when you say U. S. taxpayer, it hides that this is coming from the U. S. government not helping people after floods. This is coming from the current situation we have in California right now. This is money that could have been spent on helping.

U. S. Citizens who do not have the cash right now in the programs that they need to save lives. And it's being spent [00:10:00] with literally no hope of advancing any American agenda. This is 100 percent like the idea that Musk is mad that these people are do gooders. These people are not do gooders. If I Go up and steal money from somebody because these are unelected officials, right?

Steal money from somebody use it where I take let's say 90 of it and I use it to promote my religion because that's what this is for a lot of These people most americans don't agree with this and then I pocket the other 10 I'm not a here. I just pocketed 10 of the money and then use the rest to promote my weird cult.

Simone Collins: Yeah, not good

Malcolm Collins: But people can say oh well this isn't this, this, this isn't about promoting my, my weird cult. So, oh, oh, by the way, a meme here that I need to share with the public that I love with Because they keep thinking I've been going on with these leftist sites. That the right is panicking about what Trump's doing now, that we don't love [00:11:00] this.

And the meme was, and this was posted on Our Idiocracy, so they thought that like, they had earned the right to

do this.

With the guy saying, Feeling buyer's remorse for MAGA? Don't blame us, MAGA. We tried to warn you, MAGA. Every MAGA now, and it's the guy from office the office saying, I really couldn't be happier.

And then under it somebody had reposted this quiz in the history of getting what I voted for. I have never gotten so much of exactly what I voted for. More than in the past. More than I've gotten in the past two weeks. Yes, I voted for all of this. Every tariff, every deportation, every crime bureaucrat, every grant cancelled, all of it.

And Asmogold did a great piece on this where he had that woman who was running all of this, right? And he was like, I am so glad that you are sad about this because she goes out there and she's like, Oh, people don't understand. They act like we're woke extremists. And it's so sad that people are losing their jobs because the general public just doesn't [00:12:00] understand what we did.

And so I want to go into what they did. And I also want to go into the counter arguments to some of these. But let's just broadly go over the stats that I was more able to verify. And we'll get to the ones where I think that there is some question in this, okay?

Okay.

The funds included 7. 9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid gender binary language.

7. 9 million. Now I will note here and we'll get into this program more because this is one where I had some questions. That was one thing that a program did that did a few things. Okay. Okay. So it wasn't exactly that, but we'll get into it. It is still pretty bad. 2 million for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala.

Back check. This couldn't find anything saying that this wasn't what they were doing. My guess is that some of it at least went to sex changes, but rest of it was probably to normalize stuff. 1. 1 million to an Armenian LGBT group, 1. 5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica. Now, by the way, do you think that Jamaica, if you know, like your average Jamaican, [00:13:00] that they like the U.

S. more because we are paying to support LGBT advocacy in their country? Do you think your average Armenian is more positively disposed to the United States because we're paying to promote this religion was in their country? No, this is not helping

Simone Collins: diplomacy wise. Yeah. This is like, wait, you are actively trying to manipulate and undermine my culture.

What are you doing?

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Why do they not trust you? When then you come with the shots for their kids and you say, trust me, this will help. I wouldn't trust you either. People. We don't trust you in the United States anymore. Okay. 2 million to promote LGBT equality through entrepreneurship in Latin America.

3. 9 million for LGBT causes in the Western Balkans. Again, not a place that's likely to be positively disposed to this. 3. 9 million. 5. 5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda. I guarantee you the people of Uganda are not happy about that. You did not make any friends by doing that. 6 million for advancing LGBT issues in [00:14:00] priority countries around the world with 6.

3 million for men who have sex with men in Africa. I'm assuming that that was probably an AIDS organization there.

Simone Collins: Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: Apart from this, 25 million to Deloitte. So just like Accountant advisor type people to promote green transportation in Georgia,

Simone Collins: in Georgia, okay,

Malcolm Collins: in Georgia, 6 million to transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles.

Simone Collins: Feminist democratic

Malcolm Collins: million dollars to transform public spaces, probably for art projects is my guess here in digital space. Sorry, digital spaces. So this is what we're going to like online. Feminist Frequency type stuff. Now Feminist Frequency, there's been a misleading picture going around. They didn't get money from the government, they got money from somebody else.

But yeah, terrible, terrible people, Feminist Frequency. 1. 3 million, this one I actually don't Oh, yeah, this is better. To Arab and Jewish photographers These are for like, don't hate the [00:15:00] Jews, don't hate the Arabs campaigns you know, those sorts of things. Or it's probably hate the Jews, the Arabs are awesome campaigns.

You know how this always goes with these people. And 8. 3 million from USAID Education, Equity, and Inclusion. They also funded a 4. 5 million comp to combat quote unquote disinformation in Kazakhstan. You know what that means? Fight conservative value systems. Hold on. That's not all. That's just what the Trump administration put out there.

And we're going to get into like counters to all of these 14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the Southern border through the state department. That's one. We're going to double.

Simone Collins: Oh, Yeah, we've heard a lot about those, like, leading up to the election. People were alarmed about these, like, debit cards being given to people.

Malcolm Collins: This is one of the ones that gets worse as you dig into it. Okay. 3. 2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia under deportation. Turns out they were being sold into slavery. So that was fun. You know, not awesome. 2. You can tell I've been watching too much Nuxenor today where I'm doing his voice accidentally.

He is my favorite spectral [00:16:00] Jew. Uh, He's got a little thing there. All right. So, 2. 5 million. to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam's largest cities. Now, this is not stuff that's endearing these people to us. This isn't building infrastructure that helps these countries. This is about promoting the woke religion, which sees like environmentalism and LGBT ism as like its core belief, even when it doesn't make sense or when it's not practical within a region or when there's no Cars there, for example, that run on these systems.

Around half a million dollars to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly.

Simone Collins: More gender friendly? Coffee companies?

Malcolm Collins: Yes, coffee companies in Indonesia.

Simone Collins: Okay, sorry, good. Yeah, there are too many questions. 3.

Malcolm Collins: 8 million to an organization called Being LGBTQ in the Caribbean.

1. 5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia. And keep in mind, this is money that could have been saving lives in the United States. You know, how many little kids [00:17:00] died? How many people are still homeless after floods or fires? Because we had unelected officials blowing this money, and now they're up in arms about, oh my god, I lost my job after this grift.

Simone Collins: One of the listeners of this podcast pointed out to me, This just welcome to the corporate world. People are fired in the corporate world at any point for any reason How could I

Malcolm Collins: be fired for doing something that angers more than half of the country?

Simone Collins: Yeah, whereas like you can you can make one person angry in the corporate world.

You can have one bad You know, mistake that you make, and you're gone, and these people are shocked, shocked. And undermining America's

Malcolm Collins: interests. Your job was to help America's interests, not undermine America's interests. If you are somebody in the department, and you're like, well, my side of the department wasn't doing this, well, surely you knew that stuff like this might be happening.

Why didn't you do an investigation? Why weren't you the whistleblower? Why did Musk have to come in and handle all of this? And the heroicism of Musk and his teams. [00:18:00] The Must Twins, they went to these offices, the guys at the front offices say we're gonna arrest you, we're not gonna let you in the buildings.

And they got like the little kids, the little kids! Must wasn't even there this day. They're 20 year olds, come on. They're not me in the building, you a holes. If you saw our video, these guys are like super geniuses you know, like deciphering scrolls using like AI that were like Burt and Pompeii.

Absolute super geniuses. I feel so bad for them. They're getting called murderers. See our other video on this. Yeah. One

Simone Collins: actually resigned after accusations of historical social media posts that were racist. And JD Vans is trying to say like, no, come back. Like, no, you shouldn't be forced to resign based on dumb stuff.

Yeah, I agree with this.

Malcolm Collins: People change, you know, if he's not actively a racist, whatever. Right. Like how do you convince anyone to ever not be a racist? If the moment they are at any point of racist for the next 50 years, like, like, like Nick Foster or whatever. Oh, and if you're trying to fire a 20

Simone Collins: year old for something they said as a teen online, that's like an

Malcolm Collins: early teen.

Yeah. I feel like [00:19:00] you'd say edgy things. There should be a social

Simone Collins: norm where anything you post before age 25. So these

Malcolm Collins: teens are trying to get in the building and they had to threaten. To bring in the marshals because the guards of the building wouldn't let them in. And then they get in the building, everyone's being hostile to them, basically spitting on them everywhere they go, basically bullying them.

They, they had to have guards go in and force some people to resign because they were being so mean to these little kids. The little super geniuses that you've seen from other videos but I want to keep going here 16. 5, 000 to foster a quote, united and equal queer feminist discourse in Albanian society.

Oh, I'm sure that earned us a lot of friends in Albanian society.

Simone Collins: Yeah.

Malcolm Collins: 8, 000 to promote DEI among LGBT groups in Cyprus. Around half a million to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal. That's one we're going to double click on, because that one was effing insane. Well, yeah, so this, this, this

Simone Collins: So many of these efforts Aren't just antagonistic to the countries being targeted, but [00:20:00] don't, they're not representative of the culture of a huge swath of Americans.

It's only representative of the culture of Islam. It's just really screwed up though. Like, it'd be one thing if we were like A woke caliphate, you know, we're like, we all agreed, like, this was all of us. But it's not even all

Malcolm Collins: we were a woke caliphate. They thought everyone who wasn't woke is, like, a deserving underclass.

They are the deplorables. They are the, the horrifying individuals. Like, the woman, when she wrote the piece on us yesterday, she's like, if you saw them, you know, they're skinny, they're attractive, they're educated. She That they're MAGA. And it's like, what do you mean you never guessed that they're MAGA?

You mean we look like normal people and we don't have horns growing out of our heads? Like, you clearly think of MAGA as like, inhuman in your mind. You are horrified that somebody who's educated ends up in prison. Hey. Let's get to Maga ing. But okay. So, 1 million to boost French speaking LGBT groups in West and Central Africa.

Again, that's going to make these places hate us. And that isn't what your average [00:21:00] American wants. Like you cannot argue this is this helped American interest at all. If you didn't want to spread the cult. Your money shouldn't have been going to this. This organization needs to be shut down. Asmat said, it's not an apple with a worm in it.

It's a ball of worms. Yeah. All right. Let's double click on some of these because I thought they were interesting here. Okay.

Simone Collins: Yes.

Malcolm Collins: So the 47, 000 for the transgender opera in Columbia, because this is one that's been going around a lot. Was it

Simone Collins: good?

Malcolm Collins: Or was it,

Simone Collins: wait, what was like the review in the IT crowd?

Like,

Malcolm Collins: so it was an opera about a trans person living in like rural New York's like life. It was done three times, was in an opera house. It's not like they built an opera house or anything, but not that you could for 47, 000. And it turns out that less than the money than we thought went to it, 25, 000 that went to it was from USAID, 22, 000 that went to it was not funded by the federal government.

But was funded by the nonpartisan, well, not nonpartisan, obviously Albertan Journalism Institute. And what it was, quote [00:22:00] unquote, really going to was funding the department that then ended up hosting this stuff. When they gave the money to the department, they said that they're giving the money to quote expand and strengthen the relationship between the people and the government of the United States and the citizens of the rest of the world.

So basically they just gave them a blank check to do whatever they want. They knew these people were woke. They did woke s**t. So, people are like, oh, this isn't as bad. Well, that's pretty bad because that's a blank check if I've ever heard of one. And they knew from the past behavior of this department what the department was going to do, which was host trans operas.

Simone Collins: Yeah, no, no one, no one goes to the opera anymore, either. Like, you're not going to change minds with the opera. I'm going to go, no. And now I'm just picturing the, Was it South Park? Where it was like, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS. Yeah. Everybody has AIDS. That's

Malcolm Collins: not South Park, you're thinking of Team America, world building.

Team

Simone Collins: America, that's it.

Speaker 7: So this is the end of our story. And everyone is dead from AIDS. It took from me my best friend. [00:23:00] My only true pal. My only bright star. He died of AIDS! Well, I'm gonna march on Washington! Lead the fight and charge the brigades There's a hero inside of all of us I'll make them see everyone has AIDS

Speaker 8: the pump has got it and so do you AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! And we call everybody we got quilting to do AIDS!

AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! We're gonna bring Barricades. Everyone has it.

Simone Collins: Oh, yes. They're basically

Malcolm Collins: hosting those all over. But they, they did do some yeah, here's some small money donations that got people freaked out. But I, I, I still think like, this could have gone to save lives. Like, why are you spending this in other countries to make people hate us?

Simone Collins: Yeah. I mean, anyone who is like remotely familiar with the EA community knows that a very small dollar amount can save a significant number of lives through like, anti malarial nets, things like that.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, so 32, 000, well, anti malarial nets all ended up clogging the streams because people didn't use them to fish and [00:24:00] they turned out to be mostly a net negative.

It looks like they were in the communities overall. A lot of people refused to believe this because they are still bought into the EA religion. But from my understanding that on the net now, malarial nets were a net negative in the communities that they were handed on it. Sorry didn't think this through.

But anyway. 32, 000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. A lot of people, that one, that one appears to be legit with a comic book promoting trans ideology. 20, 600 for a drag show in Ecuador. That seems about what a drag show would cost to put on. No, no, no, wait, just one? Just one? No, I think it was a series of drag shows in Ecuador.

Simone Collins: I don't know. I mean, like, I, I imagine that, like, the drag branches that we've gone to, I think they just run totally on tips.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, so, but I mean, this is different because in Ecuador, maybe they don't want them doing this as much. So we got 80, 000 for LGBT Community Center in Vlava, Slovakia. Oh, so they get a building out of this.

That's great. And now everyone's gonna know that that's not gonna earn [00:25:00] us friends. What are you doing people? You don't get to promote your religion as if it's the state religion. This is horrifying. It makes people hate us. Okay. Next. And here we've got the BBC media action thing. So this is what I want to talk about here, because I think that this one it's been both oversold and undersold in some way.

So a lot of people are acting like we gave money to the BBC. We didn't give money to the BBC. We gave money to a nonprofit that was started by the BBC. And we gave them so much money. It represented 8 percent of their budget. It's like the BBC's core nonprofit arm. So, what they do is they train journalists in other countries.

On how to, and, and the BBC like freaked out about this. They're like, oh my God, this temporary halt in our funding is catastrophic for us and free media. And I'm like, okay, first of all, not temporary, not, this is not going to be temporary. If, if, the, the dumbest thing the leftists could do right now is forcibly through the courts reinstate all of this.

America is [00:26:00] gonna freak out if you do that. But okay BBC, which by the way, someone like a Gestapo, they'll go to George, you have a Netflix subscription, then you've got to pay us. I was under the

Simone Collins: impression that they are already forcibly extracting funds from British citizens. I don't think they need

Malcolm Collins: to make Dr.

Who gayer. I don't have problems with like whatever gayness used to be like, I don't have problems with like normal gays when I say make Dr. Who gayer. I mean, like, whatever the hell this is

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Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-9: And I'm all for, like, gay and trans coded villains, whether we're talking about Ursula, or Jaffa, or anything else here. I just don't want the thing that's threatening about them to be the fact that they come off like they constantly want to grape a child.

,

Speaker 17: Well, like, the poverty in Agrabah is super bad. I run into starving children practically every day.

Kids are [00:27:00] getting their hands chopped off, women are bought and sold, Yeah,

Speaker 16: yeah, get rid of piracy and establish world peace and social equality, anything

Speaker 17: else? No, no, no, wait, wait, hold on, I'm just, uh, I'm just thinking out loud. I want you to disguise me as a prince so I can trick the princess into sucking my dick.

Speaker 16: Uh, well, I I've got some rules, I can't make people fall in love, uh No, no,

Speaker 17: no love. I just want to lie as much as possible to convince her to sleep with me. I think she's like crazy shallow and won't give a s**t unless I'm marching into the city surrounded by jewels and slaves.

Malcolm Collins: Like, the modern Doctor Doctor Who used to be awesome, I really like Doctor Who, like, how did you ruin it so entirely?

Yeah, I think we're extra

Simone Collins: angry about it because we liked it, and it was great. Well, yeah, if

Malcolm Collins: they come on, and it's like, somebody are like, oh, you know, we messed up their Star Wars, we messed up their Doctor Who, like, why are they so angry about that? It's because you guys didn't care about this stuff, you didn't like this stuff, it's like, you bought our childhood home, and then, like, wrote Like, we hate you and s**t all over it, like, obviously people are going to take that personally.

When you destroy the games that we like playing, when you destroy [00:28:00] the studios that made the games we like playing, when you destroy the properties that the nerds liked, because the nerds, it turns out were not as much on your side as you thought they were, when you write your name and s**t all over everything they care about.

Which, you know, what was Star Wars Acolyte, for example. But the point here being is this organization basically does, like, remember how I was talking about that, like, non binary outreach in, like, Sri Lanka and stuff like that? They run programs like that all over the world trying to woke ify journalists.

That's the gist of what they do, and they're acting like they support local journalists. No, no, no, they do a little of that. But the core idea is is to support woke journalism in the developing world and around the world. And it is not something that I think a lot of people are even actually watching. I mean, we'll get to how few people some of these like millions, millions programs actually reached, and it's like not a lot of people.

So, another one that I thought was really interesting. Talk about something we don't care about is. Menstrual hygiene. So, so teaching girls in India they [00:29:00] spent, I think 7 million on this about menstrual hygiene,

Simone Collins: which is like, why, why are you just like every woman they've been around just dealt with menstruation,

Malcolm Collins: their argument here to, to stay on them is that they, in India, there's a lot of stigma to like talking about this Which I'm like, okay, that means that their culture has a resistance to this.

If you're out denying or imposing, I mean, what this is, is cultural imperialism. This entire thing is just a program of systemic cultural imperialism. Denying their cultural preferences, of course you're going to anger them, right? You're like, oh, but it's for the good of the women. Do the women feel that way?

This, the studies that have gone to try to look at USAID, like, actually increases opinions within regions have not shown that they do in overwhelming numbers. It does not appear that they are, which of course they don't, they're just ignoring the culture. What is the stigma other than that, right? Now another one I thought was pretty interesting was nine [00:30:00] million dollars that went to terrorists.

An Al Qaeda organization, and I was like, wait, what?

Simone Collins: Wait, intentionally? Or by mistake? Not intentionally. But let's

Malcolm Collins: talk about this one.

Simone Collins: Okay. Is this like the condoms that were given to people in Gaza and then they were used for bombs? Something like that?

Malcolm Collins: So this case involves a Syrian national named Mahmoud El Hafein, Mahmoud, it doesn't appear Mahmoud, Mahmoud, I haven't seen this one here who was charged with diverting over 9 million in U.

S. funded humanitarian aid intended for Syrian civilians, El Hafein, who handed a non government organization NGO in Syria allegedly directed food kits valued at millions of dollars to commanders leading al nashra front a and f a designated foreign terrorist organization affiliated with al qaeda in iraq the food kits were meant for conflict affected syrian refugees but al hafeen Reportedly sold them on the black market to a and F Commanders for his personal benefit.

The case is considered one [00:31:00] of the most significant diversions of USA aid diverted humanitarian aid. But, but, ooh, how did this happen? Like, I think a lot of people, they're like, oh, they're Muslims. We don't need to oversight this. Like, th this should have been caught way earlier. This is horrifying that this went on for as long as it did because there just is not a lot of oversight in these departments.

And, and you see this with the hatred that these programs get in other countries, right? If you are a Chinese organization or something and you're implementing something like this, the first thing you would check is, do people hate us for doing this? Is this being sold on the black market? Is this, you know, and they have nobody coming in afterwards checking on this stuff.

It's basically just like the money like machine for them because to them, they are doing aid or good, even though it's somebody else's money. They have no concept of that as we saw in that initial piece.

Simone Collins: But I think it's viewed from a very academic standpoint. Like it doesn't really matter if it fails because they've learned something [00:32:00] and at least they tried and.

They're trying to do the right thing, and I don't think, I think there's a large disconnect.

Malcolm Collins: I think there's a total disconnect in, in what happened one of the Saudi leaders, cause you know Trump made all of these headways in creating peace in the Middle East with the last administration, I think he's gonna cinch the deal this time, I think we're already seeing great things, very looking forward to the Riviera Gaza, watch our episode on that, that's a joke by the way, I don't think he actually wants to do that, it's a negotiating tactic.

But anyway

Simone Collins: For what it's worth

Malcolm Collins: Saudi Arabia, one of the leaders there, this is after Trump was in power. So he's not like buttering up Trump. He's like, you know, the Trump team did two really interesting things in negotiations, which allowed us to make all the progress we made. This was like piece of the Middle East negotiations.

He's like, first, like Trump was actually involved. So like we knew that we were dealing with somebody who had decision making powers and when Trump went to them, the first thing he asked us. He said it was a question no one had ever asked us before. It was, what do you guys need to make this deal happen?

What do you care about? No one had ever asked us before. Because these, these, these government bureaucrats, they have no experience making deals or thinking about this from [00:33:00] the perspective of the average citizen. Apparently, he said what they had always done before is the academics would decide what should be the right solution.

They would then go to the Saudis and say, how much money do we need to give you to make this happen? And of course, nothing ever happened. This is why and when we talk about like peace not happening in the Middle East, we're talking about people dying, being great to death, horrifying, horrifying stuff.

There is a cost to the intelligence of these bureaucrats. People are dying because of their actions. As as many people as they're saving easily. Because they are not solving real problems where this should be handled by other departments. That's core goal is either building you know, I think U.

S. Positive relations in these regions or you know, advancing the U. S. Is interest in these regions. Or I mean, that's the reason why we're giving it to you. I'm not against when people are like, Oh, you're against like the AIDS medication for Africans. I'm not against that. I'm against money being stolen to pay for that.

If you want to pay for that, [00:34:00] donate to it yourself.

Speaker 4: What exactly did you teach my daughter?

Speaker 5: Oh, you must be Mrs. Burkus.

Speaker 4: Lauren was supposed to do a paper on why government matters. This is what she wrote.

Speaker 6: It doesn't. Well said.

Speaker 4: Is this a joke?

Speaker 6: No ma'am, I legitimately believe that.

Simone Collins: I'm against, especially if you're less effective at administering it. Then I'm also against it. Like, for some people, you know, you can buy something for 5 and get 4. 85 worth of value. The problem is that USAID was buying something for 5 and getting 0. 03 worth of value.

And that's where I really Yeah,

Malcolm Collins: this could have been handled better. By independent organizations and, and so for everyone who's like, complains, like, do you want these kids to die? It's like, are you donating to save these kids now? No? Then shut the f k up, to be honest. Because clearly you don't care enough to make the sacrifice yourself, you care enough to force other people to sacrifice for it.

But to keep going here, I want to talk about something that a [00:35:00] lot of people have mentioned, which is the five million that went to the Eco Alliance, an NGO linked to the bat virus research at the Wuhan lab. So this is one that turned out like it looked not bad and then it was worse than I thought it was.

Oh my gosh. So the U. S. Agency for International Development, USAID, awarded 5. 6 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance in 2021. This grant was for implementing the conservation works activity in southwestern Liberia, focused on improving farming practices and sustainable opportunities. So I'm like, okay, but why is this so bad?

However, the award has been controversial due to EcoHealth's previous work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and its leader, oh, who, who ran this? Peter.

So, people who forget who this is, he's the guy who it turned out was funding the Wuhan lab, and then was the guy who told everyone that the that this is a conspiracy that it came from a lab, and started all of the policies to crack down on anybody talking about it [00:36:00] being a conspiracy that it came from a lab, and what wasn't disclosed is that the core source, That the U.

S. Government was using for all of this was also the guy who had funded it all. So of course he did that. And so then he continued to use us taxpayer money to lie to the U. S. Taxpayers when he caused one of the world's greatest tragedy. Like this guy is like. personally responsible for Covid in a big way.

And then used U. S. Taxpayer money to try to hide that he should never be getting any money from the U. S. Government again. And yet here he is getting 4. 5 million after the fact. And we note here that 1. 1 million between 2009 and 2019 from USAID through the predict project did go to to the Wuhan lab and the work he was doing there.

Okay, so, bad. The guy who created COVID is living off of your tax dollars. Have fun, America. That's an incredibly bad look. Oh, wow. Millions of dollars of your tax dollars, by the way. The, and keep in mind, like, I'd actually [00:37:00] be okay if he's like, look, we messed up with this gain of function research. Like, I'd still be like, what you did was super bad, but at least when you recognized it came from the lab you were funding, you admitted it.

But no, you had people deplatformed, you had their careers destroyed for pointing out that you had done this. That is completely unforgivable once you recognize that it was your fault.

It is time for the Mad Scientist Society's Annual Most Evil Invention in the World Contest. Hear, hear,

ha ha ha! The most evil invention in the world is my shrink ray! My entry for world's most evil invention is the freeze ray. Okay. Who is next? Thank you.

Hi guys, uh, I'm um, my name is ,

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-3: Peter Daszak.

and uh, I um, and for the most evil invention in the [00:38:00] world contest, I invented a uh, a

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx): Deadly virus that you probably know is COVID.

I beg your pardon, what? Um, Oh, I'm sorry, I'll speak up. Uh,

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-4: So I directed taxpayer money To the Wuhan COVID gain of function lab where they make the COVID virus both more virulent and more deadly.

And then when people started to suspect that COVID may have come from a lab leak, I got anybody who claimed this, using taxpayer money, of course, fired and removed from their jobs and attempted to ruin their lives.

um. So, uh, do I win the contest? I win? Seems like I win. Oh my god! My most evil idea was a blizzard in July. Right. Well, I went in a slightly different direction with the assignment. You built

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-2: A deadly pandemic.

Yes, yes, yes. That's exactly right. This guy gets it. You get it.

Oh my god, no I don't! How, [00:39:00] how do you even build a

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-3: Deadlier more virulent virus.

Well, that's a, um, that's a great question. What you do is you start by building a regular

Microphone (Wireless Microphone Rx)-4: COVID virus and then you make small modifications to it.

That might make it more of your land or more deadly, and then you test it out on thousands upon thousands of animals until you find one that's just really good at killing things.

and hope that it continues, uh, the cycle. That's the most hideous thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

Oh, well, thank you very much. You see, the shrink guy, , is with me all the way. Stop saying that! Webster's Dictionary, defines evil as profoundly immoral. We know what evil means! Well, it doesn't seem like you do, because you built a, a freeze ray. I think someone should call the police. .

Malcolm Collins: 7. 9 million program to question in question is the media empowerment for this is a Sri Lanka one right where they're like, Oh, promoting like gender ideology in Sri Lanka.

So [00:40:00] what was actually going on with this one? So this had a gender and LGBTQ plus focus. Recently, MEND has released educational materials addressing gender and LGBT related topics, including a presentation on gender pronouns, encouraging journalists to avoid assumptions about gender identity and normalize sharing pronouns guidelines to using quote lgbtq plus sensitive language and reporting in quote advising against phrases like born a girl or born a boy materials on gender expressions and gender roles.

Simone Collins: What was this the piece? This really was just about indoctrination There's nothing here that's going to win you favors with the target

Malcolm Collins: No, no, it was about spreading a religion, like, it's insane, it is cultural imperialism nakedly and rawly, if you hated imperialism. But

Simone Collins: not even like the full U. S.

representative culture, like a very small cult subset of, of the American culture, that is so bad.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, but they're the good guys, and they're like, yeah, but we're good, and I'm like, [00:41:00] everybody thinks their religion is the good guys. But the rest of us have the common sense, I don't try to force my techno puritan beliefs on you, yet.

Because I don't have the power yet, I'm jok