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The Crime Family - USAID Afghanistan payoff, you knew it was coming
2021-09-14
[Red State] The Biden administration has just announced they will be cutting a check for $64 million in "humanitarian aid" to Afghanistan through USAID and Samantha Power.

Supposedly, this aid will go through the UN and NGOs, not through the "government"/Taliban or whoever is currently in control. Here’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken talking about it during his hearing on Zoom with Congress today.

Sorry, but I don’t trust the UN, and who knows who is in charge of some of the NGOs, so even if the money went to those folks, that it wouldn’t end up in the pockets of the Taliban, by force or by design.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) questioned Blinken on this earlier today, making the point that they can’t guarantee where that money is going
...money being fungible...
— just like they gave aid to Pakistan while that country was helping the Taliban.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#13  #10 That's how it's interpreted by the relevant parties.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-09-14 19:22  

#12  Swamp creatures.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-09-14 15:53  

#11  I hope they televise Biden paying it while grovelling, bowing, and scraping in humiliation the way Jizya is supposed to be paid.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-09-14 12:54  

#10  Maybe we should call it what it is: jizya
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-14 12:52  

#9  Hell, if we're gonna pay foreign aid to Pakistain...
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-09-14 11:39  

#8  My better angels prevailed and I erased my comments about the photo.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-09-14 10:35  

#7  Meanwhile, many American taxpayers are still waiting on Biden's 'stimulus' checks from February.
Posted by: Raj   2021-09-14 09:34  

#6  how about Hunter in person.
Posted by: Chris   2021-09-14 09:15  

#5  and a couple Hunter Biden paintings for good measure?
Posted by: Frank G   2021-09-14 09:04  

#4  Didn't the $65-$85 billion in military stuff count as reparations?
Posted by: Bobby   2021-09-14 07:57  

#3  Ah, come on, its a tradition that the losing nations pay reparations. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-09-14 07:25  

#2  Just when I think they couldn't possibly get any dumber...Turns out I'm Wrong.
Posted by: Sonny Black   2021-09-14 07:16  

#1  One of the co-authors of previous gov't payoff's near the window in the graphic.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-14 06:18  

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