Andrew Tyler Merrell

We need to scrutinize U.S. government funding of “non-government organizations.” It’s an oxymoron that represents a waste of taxpayer dollars, but the real problem runs deeper: Americans deserve transparency on opaque foreign aid & nonprofit groups abetting our own border crisis.

Hits hard.

.@theallinpod discusses VP Kamala Harris's $42 billion broadband plan, which failed to connect a SINGLE person, home, or business to the internet in three years. President Biden put her in charge of the initiative, but after going after @elonmusk, they scrapped a $1,300-per-location deal with @Starlink. Now, they're wasting over $100K per location on inefficient government programs. @DavidSacks: "It's government waste, fraud, and abuse, where they've allocated $42 billion for rural internet, haven't hooked anyone up, and we could spend a fraction of that giving people Starlink... It's pure naked political retaliation. The Biden-Harris admin doesn't want to admit that Elon has the best solution for rural internet, just like they couldn't admit he makes the best electric cars. Remember when they did that EV summit, and they didn't even invite him?" @chamath: "Do we want to live in the kind of administrative state where they will pick people that they dislike based on total random criteria—a tweet, a meme, a post—and all of a sudden punish the rest of us because of that? They are punishing all of America because they collect our taxes to waste on it, and then they punish the people they say they will uplift by not delivering what they promise." @DavidSacks: "The objective of the party is to punish its political opponents, to engage in retaliation, and to basically loot the public coffers as much as possible on behalf of their donors. It's completely dysfunctional, and no one really cares because the media doesn't shine a light on it because they are completely tribalized."

Australia’s censorship industrial complex: “The problem that you’ve got here with this eSafety Commissioner, she’s an activist. She will continue to expand her role to police the internet, to censor debate in a way that’s consistent with her own ideological views. You have these unelected bureaucrats that have vague powers and they will fill it with their views and she has their track record of censorship and it only ever targets one side.”