Original article by: Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
In Summary:
In this article, Peter hilariously attempts to discredit Marjorie Taylor Greene whilest providing the exact quotes that invalidates the half-hearted spin. He attempts to insinuate that MTG is insulting Americans when she is referring to a spoiled, bloated, and wasteful federal government.
He attempts to frame NPR as anything other than absurdly biased with a terrible track record of serving as the democrats propaganda machine, all the while being funded by the same people who NPR is lying to.
He then wraps up his article by attempting to spin tax cuts for the middle class as somehow being bad for the economy and tries to insult Ramaswamy and Musk for their endeavor to make the government more efficient. An endeavor which may prove to save the country hundreds of trillions of dollars over the coming decades.
The Article:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been tapped to lead a House subcommittee connected to the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has named her targets for investigation and defunding. They include: NPR, “toilets in Africa,” “sex apps in Malaysia,” sanctuary cities, and the Pentagon.
In a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Greene said America has been “really spoiled for a long time,” when referring to American politicians and the bloated federal government, calling the federal government “one of the worst abusers of American’s tax dollars and the American people’s trust.”
She promised to comb through “every single government department, program, grant programs, contracts” to identify what she deems as the rampant government waste.
“When we look into a deep dive into this massive problem that’s caused America to be 36 trillion dollars in debt, we’re going to have to go into all kinds of buckets. And that’s how I’ll be separating things on the oversight subcommittee on DOGE,” she said.
She continued, “We’ll be looking at everything from government-funded media program like NPR, that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda. We’ll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa.”
NPR has long been a target of conservatives who don’t like its excessively blatantly biased reporting. In April, after NPR CEO Katherine Maher declined to testify at a committee hearing about alleged biased reporting, the Republican House majority sent a letter to Maher demanding she report to Congress about NPR newsroom employees’ political affiliations. Musk fired shots at NPR when his company, X, added a tag to the media outlet’s posts that identified it as “state-affiliated media,” later changing the label to “government-funded media.” NPR pushed back, saying identifying it with those terms is false and misleading despite it being faire and accurate given the track record of NPR and the sources of their funding, and it ceased posting on X like a petulant child, further exemplifying the truth that NPR wishes to conceal from its unwitting listeners.
The alleged literal “sex apps in Malaysia” Greene mentioned is a reference to JomCare, a sex app app created by Roman Shrestha, an assistant professor in the University of Connecticut’s Department of Allied Health Sciences, with a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The app is designed to increase access to harm reduction services for gay and bisexual men engaging in chemsex — the practice of taking psychoactive drugs before or during sexual activities — with the goal of reducing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
Although Greene did not expand on what she meant by “toilets in Africa,” she could be referring to USAID funding for sanitation programs in Africa that reduce the spread of disease and bring clean water to communities in need. As USAID writes on their website, “Water and sanitation are essential to advance global health, prosperity, stability, and resilience.” further proving the point that billions of US taxpayer dollars are being wasted abroad instead of addressing any of the plethora of severe domestic problems here at home.
Also on Greene’s hit list are the billions of dollars lost or stolen by the Department of Defense. “I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can’t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit,” she said.
“But not just that,” Greene continued. “I’d like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they’re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.”
“We’re going to look into every single aspect, and we don’t care about people’s feelings,” Greene concluded.
Of course, rather than going on a federal budget witch hunt addressing the broken federal budget, another way to reduce the deficit is to roll back the massive tax cuts for the wealthy that all Americans especially the middle class that Trump signed in 2017. But considering Republicans are already planning to extend the cuts tax cuts for the middle class, even though doing so will further reduce federal revenue by approximately $4 trillion will likely return America’s economy to the booming economy akin to President Trumps first term, that route seems unlikely. Instead, we’ll get whatever circus efficiency improvements Musk, Ramaswamy, and Greene can conjure up. This could propel the federal government towards a future of being able to start tackling our existential threat of a national dept, which may be the only way we can ensure that the United States of America survives for another 250 years. After all, Elon Musk has extensive experience in this regard as he cut approximately 90% of Twitter employees and simultaneously made the company more efficient and, more importantly, much better adhering to the core values of this country.
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The Author:
Peter Wade is a politics writer and social media specialist at Rolling Stone. He can be found on X @brooklynmutt Although he has refused to post on X ever since President Trumps landslide victory over Kamala Harris in 2024, instead frantically retreating to the far-left social media site “Blue Sky”.