The deeper we dig, the worse the smell becomes

 

In the relatively short time that President Trump has been in office, investigations have uncovered misallocation of funds, corruption, bribery and malfeasance to an astonishing extent.  I'm willing to bet most go back to the Obama administration, when covert corruption of the system of government became entrenched.

Two articles caught my eye over the past couple of days.  The first refers to the Palisades fire in California last year.

Millions of dollars raised to help victims of the 2025 California wildfires have ended up in the coffers of unrelated nonprofits pushing a variety of progressive causes, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Some of the groups that have received funds explicitly exclude white people from their services, while others advertise programs for illegal aliens.

FireAid, a celebrity-studded fundraising organization that raked in about $100 million for wildfire relief efforts, has distributed money to more than 160 California nonprofits. Its flagship event on Jan. 30, produced by the Annenberg Foundation, featured performers like Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre, Stevie Wonder, and Sting, among others.

There's more at the link.

What appears conspicuous by its absence is the complete lack of support from FireAid to actual victims of the disaster.  As far as we know, left-wing progressive liberal organizations benefited, but not a single property owner was compensated for losses suffered in the fire.  I wonder if those who donated to FireAid knew that - and how they feel about it now?  If it were me, I'd be demanding a refund.

The second article is from Jeff Childers, who notes that President Trump appears to be uncovering all sorts of interesting links between the Soros Foundation and other major progressive donors, coupled to the massive spread of non-governmental organizations (NGO's) who receive such donations and use them without having to account for what they're doing with the money.

Let’s connect some dots! First, yesterday President Trump randomly and quite colorfully posted about how the Soros family should be investigated for mob-like racketeering. Fair enough. No arguments here. But … why now?

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The headlined but unnamed “firm” is mega-NGO Arabella Advisors, which the Times admitted “manages several ‘dark money’ funds that support Democrats and the progressive movement.” By “several dark money funds,” it meant hundreds.

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Now let’s add the USAID connection. Over the last decade, Arabella Advisors and its woketopus of blandly named subsidiaries minted a cottage industry for USAID careerists, hiring them in the septic-tanker loads. And Arabella’s biggest donors, including the aforementioned Gates Foundation, were also —not coincidentally— some of the nation’s largest USAID grant recipients.

Now we can see the entire, obscene length and girth of the woke gravy train. Our own money flowed from USAID to the Gates Foundation and other big platforms, then to Arabella, and then to leftwing NGOs, Democrat politicians, and progressive activist groups. It was a kind of perpetual-motion donor machine where accountability disappeared in a puff of sulphuric smoke at each handoff.

You must admit it was a devilishly brilliant scheme, tricking us into paying for our own destruction.

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Trump’s RICO drumbeat against Soros hints that this whole philanthropy-politics pipeline is about to be treated as what it is: a criminal enterprise. Trump’s post about Soros and RICO and the Gates–Arabella unraveling link up at the same networked-funding “philanthropic” ecosystem.

However it happens, if that USAID → Mega-platforms (like Gates) → Arabella → progressive activist pipeline is finally switched off, the political effect would be massive. Arabella’s fiscal-sponsor funds have quietly underwritten much of the left’s operational backbone: voter registration groups, climate activism, racial justice nonprofits, education campaigns, and ballot initiatives. Cutting the pipeline means many of those groups would lose dependable, pooled, and largely anonymous funding streams. They’ll struggle to sustain staff, payroll, and field operations at the current scale.

Again, more at the link.

Remember, an organized financial network of behind-the-scenes support for progressive left-wing politics doesn't get set up overnight.  This has been constructed over years, possibly even decades.  As I mentioned earlier, I suspect it swung into high gear when President Obama was elected.  Indeed, this left-wing political machine might have made it a priority to elect a president whom they could control, and who could be "managed" to enable such behind-the-scenes chicanery.

I have no objection at all to any shade of political opinion funding its operations in an open, transparent, honest way.  There should be accountability, of course, but openness is a great sanitizer.  It's when things are done in secret, with money shuffled from group to group and account to account so often that it becomes untraceable, that things get murky.  From what Mr. Childers has said, it looks as if the Soros-Arabella axis is as murky as they come.  One hopes we'll get to the bottom of it in due course.

I'm particularly going to watch for indications of how many US taxpayer dollars were diverted to progressive left-wing partisan politics via USAID and NGO's.  I won't be surprised to learn it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year.  If so, one hopes the perpetrators will be hunted down and prosecuted for their misdeeds - just as those raising funds under false pretenses, no matter how carefully worded in evasive, weaselly terms, should also be held accountable.

Peter