Arab Americans For Trump Folds, Disillusioned, WH Lies Stack Up Exponentially To Cover Musk Action
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If I would live to be 200, forget about 100, I’ll go for two, I will never understand why anybody would ever listen to anything Donald Trump says and vote for him. But there are groups of people who have done so. I guess it’s wishful thinking. Trump knows that if you tell people what they want to hear, they will believe you. So we got a ton of wish fulfillment rhetoric that resulted in a Republican victory — that is now going nowhere. As we said would be the case.
My favorite was always ending the war in Ukraine the first day with just a phone call. That I loved. But some people bought it. And there’s a group, there WAS a group, called Arab Americans For Trump — which struck me the same as Chickens For Colonel Sanders, when I heard it. Seems like they have woken up. Surprise, surprise.
Bishara Bahbah, chairman of the group formerly known as Arab Americans for Trump, said during a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that the group would now be called Arab Americans for Peace.
The name change came after Trump held a Tuesday press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
“The talk about what the president wants to do with Gaza, obviously we’re completely opposed to the idea of the transfer of Palestinians from anywhere in Historic Palestine,” Bahbah said. “And so we did not want to be behind the curve in terms of pushing for peace, because that has been our objective from the very beginning.”
Arab Americans for Trump helped lead voter outreach efforts for Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election in swing states such as Michigan and Arizona.
The only thing Trump has ever had going for him — and it has been enough — is his powerful media disinformation campaign. He’s got Fox News, Newsmax, RSBN, Twit/X, now Zuckerberg has folded and Facebook is in his pocket, TikTok is indebted to him — this is how he gets ahead.
Right now for example, today, the White House lied through its teeth about Politico being “funded” by USAID. That’s nonsense. And various outlets, including this one, have debunked this White House conspiracy theory, megaphoned by Fox News. But it’s not the only conspiracy theory.
Also today from the White House, Karoline Leavitt reeled off these budgeting “abuses” that President Musk has discovered.
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala.
- $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.
- Spent $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” — a new Sesame Street show in Iraq.
- Over $4.5 million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan.
- Up to $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to al Qaeda-linked terrorist group the Nusra Front.
- $500,000 to group that “empowers women” in an attempt to solve sectarian violence in Israel just 10 days before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks.
- Awarded nearly $25 million to Deloitte to promote green transportation in Georgia (the country).
- $4.67 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key nongovernmental organizations funding bat virus research at Wuhan Institute of Virology, in late 2021. Later refused to answer key questions about the funding.
- $20 million for the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting program which used the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project as its implementing partner. The OCCRP was cited four times in the whistleblower letter that led to the Russiagate impeachment.
- USAID’s 2022-2030 climate strategy outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-Agency approach” to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”
- $7.9 million to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language.”
- $1.1 million to an Armenian LGBT group.
- $1.2 million to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., to build “a state-of-the-art 440-seat auditorium.”
- $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers.
- $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica.
- $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem.
- $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities.”
- $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship … in developing Latin American countries.”
- $2.1 million so the BBC can strengthen the media ecosystem in Libya, “designed to value the diversity of Libyan society.”
- $2.3 million for “artisanal and small-scale gold mining” in the Amazon.
- $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam.
- $3.9 million to LGBT causes in the Western Balkans.
- $5.5 million to LGBT in Uganda.
- $6 million to advance LGBT in “priority countries around the world.”
- $6 million to “Transform Digital Spaces to Reflect Feminist Democratic Principles.”
- $6.3 million to men who have sex with men in South Africa.
- $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion.”
- Another $16.8 million to a separate group in Vietnam for “inclusion.”
Whether any of this is legit, who knows? Again, mainstream media needs to slug through this line by line and either confirm or debunk it. The $8.2 million in “funding” for Politico was easily debunked. The money represents nine years of specialized information newsletters going to many people in government. And the millions for “condom bombs” was easily debunked the other day. So it’s entirely possible that each of these 28 line items can be debunked as well.
But who is going to do it? I’m sure somebody will. I may personally slug through a few line items. But the point is, as always, a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to put its boots on. The White House presented a list of “wasteful” items — but how much of this is condom bombs-level nonsense?
And even if it all is, how long will it take for that truth to get out there and will it be put out there as forcefully? Many people have said, “there’s nothing wrong with an audit.” I quite agree. But there is something very much wrong with cherry picking items in an audit and mis-characterizing them to make them appear to be something other than what they in fact are. And that’s what President Musk and his incel tech bros are doing.
Donald Trump is the Father Of All Lies. And that’s how he’s gotten where he is. Because in terms of merit? The man is a stumbling, bumbling, absolute moron. He is the poster boy for the Dunning-Kruger syndrome. This is what the comic wit and actor John Cleese had to say about that.
“Just to remind all my followers of the main conclusion of the Dunning-Kruger effect: Very intelligent people assume that they are rather less intelligent than they actually are. Very stupid people believe that they are much more intelligent than they are, because they have absolutely no idea what it would feel like to be intelligent.” — John Cleese
