Pressing Matters

Thanks to the Great Disrupter, we now know that, while the Biden government was getting Google to censor my writing, which I know they did at more than one website, the government was financially goosing other publishers that were saying the things the Biden government wanted to have said (and maybe to bury the stories they didn’t want to have said).

Uncle Sam courts the Gray Lady

The New York Times, America’s so-called newspaper of record, received $50 million from the federal government since 2021. The biggest spender on The Times was, not too surprisingly, the Department of Health and Human Services. I wonder what message they wanted to get out so badly during the Covid years that ran from ’21-’24. Apparently, as the government was doing all it could to shut down my articles about COVID-19, it was funding publications that published the Biden party line.

Next in spending dates with the Gray Lady who commercialized herself was the National Science Foundation, which needed to tell us what the science was on Covid so we could “follow the science.” These two government groups each funneled more money individually to The Times than all other parts of government combined. So, I’m pretty sure they weren’t just buying subscriptions for their office staff. And, if the government was just trying to make sure it was aware of everything published in the NYT, why did it need tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of readers for just that one publication? What do they do? Have each reader read and report on just one paragraph per day. You’d think a dozen readers could log and analyze reports on all articles in The Times each day. Tens of thousands of readers for each of those two branches of government?

Oddly payments by the military where they might actually buy a lot of copies for officers and soldiers to stay abreast of what is happening back in the homeland suddenly leap-frogged upward right after Covid hit:
There you can see the trickle of money that might have been for normal subscriptions up to 2020 and then huge funding as soon as Biden was elected. Was it payment to run certain content? Did they even bother to disguise it as subscriptions, even though any sane person could see through that smokescreen? How hard would it be to say, “Here run these kinds of stories, and we’ll buy a million subscriptions in kind.”

None of that is itemized as to whether it was subscriptions or just outright bribes, though payment in subscriptions far beyond what you need in order to log stories and provide some office copies would amount to the same thing—payment in kind.

Militarized media

As for something that did get itemized, why did the Dept. of Defense spend $9,000,000+ just on Reuters, specifically for "active social engineering defense (ASED) large scale social deception (LSD)." That sounds pretty clearly like counter-intelligence, but against whom? Foreign parties or US citizens? Who was the military trying to feed lies to? They outright call it “large-scale social deception” so they don’t even bother with the usual euphemism of “disinformation.”
And why does a DoD record of payment to Reuters for spreading disinformation have the following words on it: “Includes Covid-19 Spending?” Why is the DoD spending money on COVID-19 disinformation?

According to Chuck Schumer, who was talking about Elon’s gang, “an unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.” Really? It kind of looks to me like a shadowy US government was conducting a hostile takeover of the minds of American citizens. Do I need to pay taxes to have the government try to manipulate my mind?

While Schumer and the Dems complain about unelected Elon running half the US government (not without reason for such concern), it kind of looks like all of them had their own buddy (Son of Soros) that they cozied up to, and we know Soros provided millions if not hundreds of millions to fund shadowy liberal causes through NGOs (non-government organizations):
I guess, with either party, he who owns rich purse strings controls the government.

USAID

And then we have that government agency used to do more harm in the world than most of the rest combined—USAID. They’re getting a lot of press in the last few days for their corrupt and twisted spending on things that I know I certainly don’t want the America I love pushing on other nations or on our own.

U.S.A.I.D., we’ve just learned, spent $70 BILLION funding abortions and gender ideology globally, as Hal Turner writes about in his article linked below. They even routed money, he says, to the "Church of Satan" in NYC. What happened to the separation of church and state that Democrats crow about so much? I guess that doesn’t matter so long as the church is doing bad things the Democrats call good, such as abortions and gender transformations, and if the money is being distributed through Satan’s church. I think if they sent $70 billion to Baptists to teach abstinence and fund gender-dysphoria counseling we’d hear total outrage.

While I do think Musk & Trump are acting like giant wrecking balls that are likely to do as much harm as good by their total takedowns of agencies and poorly vetted security clearances, I can see that, if they had gone more surgically through the process, it would have given time for all of this stuff to get shredded and hidden. So, maybe this was, as bad as it could turn out to be due to shutting down the good with the bad, the only way the evil could be exposed and expunged.

$70 billion just on pregnancy dead-enders and gender benders?

I guess this is what happens when you put DEI freaks with their own agenda in charge of entire departments of government. They use their offices to advance their own pet causes.

Is it really all just conspiracy theories?

DNYUZ, while it is considered a conservative-leaning publication, makes the claim that Trump is just launching conspiracy theories about all of this stuff:

President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage of Democrats.

How else do you explain such massive spending on reportedly “independent” news publications during the Biden administration, focused on disinformation and Covid-19? And now look at DNYUZ’s excuse:

The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing payments for something much more innocuous: subscriptions.

Hold it! It occurred to me that they would claim this money was for subscriptions right off the bat, but who needs millions of dollars worth of subscriptions? You can’t even start to call the USAID BILLIONS spent on abortions and gender ideology “subscriptions.”

As for the things that are being claimed by DNYUZ to be “subscriptions,” the situation is really more like “How many subscriptions would we have to buy to get you to publish everything we want you to?”

Apparently DNYUZ’s math abilities were gained under liberal education:

Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social site that “billions of dollars” from U.S.A.I.D. and other agencies had improperly gone to the “fake news media.” He spread a claim that Politico, a “left wing rag,” had received $8 million, and questioned if The New York Times and other outlets had also received payments.

The answer to that turned out to be “yes.”

Users on X this week tried to make a connection between a payroll issue reported at Politico and the administration’s dismantling of U.S.A.I.D., the foreign aid agency. Some users began sharing screenshots that appeared to show federal payments to Politico.

Records on USAspending.gov, a federal site that tracks government payments, show that federal agencies have paid Politico for subscriptions, including to its Politico Pro service. Politico Pro offers policy-related resources and tracks news and legislation, and has more than 30,000 subscribers, according to a Politico overview.

How do 30k subscribers, even if the federal government paid for every last one of them, add up to $8,000,000? $266 per subscriber? I guess if it was for 10-year subscriptions. Even then, the US government can’t be the only buyer of pro subscriptions. As a matter of fact, Politico even states,

“As a practical matter, the overwhelming majority of our professional subscriptions under Politico Pro are in the private sector,” the memo said.

In that case, with only 30k total Politico Pro subscribers in existence, how does the federal government end up paying them $8M for fewer than 15k “subscriptions?”

The White House also addressed the conspiracy on Wednesday, with its press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, saying that more than $8 million had gone to buying Politico subscriptions.

More than $8 million for fewer than 15,000 subscriptions (given that Politico says the majority are non-government) seems a tad much, and how do you trust the “independence” of the press if it is that dependent on the US government as its largest customer? Couldn’t the government have gotten a lot of their news off of Drudge for free? And why the huge leap upward during the Covid years, through which time the government was operating like the extreme socialist government in George Orwell’s 1984? At best, I would guess the Biden Admin. needed to do a lot of reading to find all the articles by people like me that they needed to shut down.

In his all-caps post on Thursday, Mr. Trump wrote: “This could be the biggest scandal of them all, perhaps the biggest in history!”

Well, we’ll see, but “subscriptions” sounds a lot like a flimsy “cover story” so far.