{"id":2404434,"date":"2025-02-19T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-people-started-googling-really-disturbing-words-the-day-usaid-fell-to-doge\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T01:02:23","slug":"dc-people-started-googling-really-disturbing-words-the-day-usaid-fell-to-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-people-started-googling-really-disturbing-words-the-day-usaid-fell-to-doge\/","title":{"rendered":"DC People Started Googling Really Disturbing Words the Day USAID Fell to DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-people-started-googling-really-disturbing-words-the-day-usaid-fell-to-doge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2404434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a surge in alarming internet searches in the Washington D.C. area around February 5, coinciding with the Trump governance&#8217;s controversial actions against the U.S. Agency\u2062 for International Development (USAID), led by \u2064Elon Musk.\u2063 Following\u2062 the freezing of USAID&#8217;s budget and \u2064its headquarters&#8217; closure, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">citizens expressed heightened interest<\/a> in terms such as &#8220;anger,&#8221; &#8220;rage,&#8221; and\u2064 notably &#8220;suicide,&#8221; with the last reaching its peak popularity in the area by February 10. The article references data from Google Trends, emphasizing that these searches began on February\u200b 5, suggesting a rising panic among residents and \u2064potential implications\u2062 of the government&#8217;s actions. It \u2062also mentions the growing interest\u2063 in terms related to firearms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">criminal defense<\/a>, and treason, alluding to broader anxieties within the establishment that reflect on their past knowledge of \u2063the agency&#8217;s controversial role. The Secretary of Health and Human\u200b Services, Robert \u2064F. Kennedy Jr., \u200ccriticized USAID as a tool of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-hoft-from-tgp-presents-at-transform-washington-on-january-6-web-conference-video\/\" title=\"Joe Hoft from TGP Presents at \u201cTransform ... on January 6\u201d Web conference (VIDEO)\">military-industrial complex<\/a>, reinforcing the narrative that the agency \u200dwas politically linked to troubling practices, thereby suggesting that the outrage following \u2063its shuttering reveals deeper issues \u2064near the heart of \u200cWashington&#8217;s bureaucracy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>While no one should confuse Internet search data with mind reading, that data can yield interesting and even unsettling insights.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, how might one reconstruct the thoughts of a blindsided and panicked Washington, D.C.-area bureaucrat?<\/p>\n<p>According to the data aggregator Google Trends, Internet searches for a wide array of alarming words and topics surged in the D.C. area beginning around Feb. 5, the date by which, as events showed, President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, had driven a proverbial stake through the heart of the deeply sinister United States Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of evaluating those searches and their potential meanings, the timeline of events makes a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 3, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/amid-dem-outrage-usaid-ernst-sets-record-straight-potentially-shuttered-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump administration<\/a> froze USAID&rsquo;s budget and closed its headquarters. Congressional Democrats responded with fits of apoplexy. They even tried in vain to enter USAID headquarters.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>By the next morning, the establishment&rsquo;s outrage over USAID had only intensified. Billionaire software monopolist and phony would-be scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-rocks-bill-gates-usaid-shakeup-squeezes-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Gates<\/a> appeared on ABC&rsquo;s &ldquo;The View&rdquo; to complain to that table full of cackling hens that the closing of USAID could imperil some of his totally selfless and humanitarian work related to vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, by Feb. 5 the loud objections from Democrats and other establishment voices had proven definitively futile.<\/p>\n<p>On that date, the volume of Internet searches for &ldquo;anger,&rdquo; &ldquo;rage,&rdquo; &ldquo;dread,&rdquo; &ldquo;revenge,&rdquo; and &ldquo;suicide&rdquo; skyrocketed in the D.C. area, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=today%201-m&amp;geo=US-DC&amp;q=anger,rage,dread,revenge,suicide&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, to understand the meaning of that data, one must understand how the Google Trends aggregator works.<\/p>\n<p>On Google Trends, one may gauge the relative level of interest in specific search terms across a set period of time in a particular metropolitan area.<\/p>\n<p>The aggregator does not show the absolute number of relevant searches. Instead, it draws samples, creates a scale, and allows for comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The resulting numbers are then scaled on a range of 0 to 100 based on a topic&rsquo;s proportion to all searches on all topics,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/trends\/answer\/4365533?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a value of 100 represents peak popularity. That should alarm us, for the term &ldquo;suicide&rdquo; reached a value of 100 in the D.C. area on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, none of those five search words, including &ldquo;suicide,&rdquo; even registered on the Google Trends scale before Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if &ldquo;anger,&rdquo; &ldquo;rage,&rdquo; and &ldquo;dread&rdquo; strike the reader as overly generic terms, do not worry. We can get more specific.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, pollster Mark Mitchell of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rasmussen-poll-numbers-kamalas-bounce-didnt-faze-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a> has posted similar D.C.-area Google Trends data on X.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell&rsquo;s posts have shown that on or around Feb. 5, D.C.-area residents took a sudden interest in words such as &ldquo;firearm&rdquo; and &ldquo;defect.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HEY DC:<br \/> Why did you frantically start searching &ldquo;firearm&rdquo; last week? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NKEdr06w1a\">pic.twitter.com\/NKEdr06w1a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mark_R_Mitchell\/status\/1892056162016649601?\">February 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now ain&rsquo;t THAT something: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nRv4TNfOdE\">pic.twitter.com\/nRv4TNfOdE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mark_R_Mitchell\/status\/1892057253194219794?\">February 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Mitchell noted a &ldquo;sudden spike in DC searches for criminal defense lawyers, extradition, treason, death penalty, listing houses, and even immunity,&rdquo; all of which he attributed to the swearing-in of Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-gov-kathy-hochul-issues-defiant-response-pam-bondis-charges-might-end-regretting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pam Bondi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In case you were wondering, the sudden spike in DC searches for criminal defense lawyers, extradition, treason, death penalty, listing houses, and even immunity&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>aligns with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PamBondi?\">@PamBondi<\/a> &lsquo;s swearing in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VYL0m3fXMX\">https:\/\/t.co\/VYL0m3fXMX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mark_R_Mitchell\/status\/1891738006450536537?\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All of this apparent panic reflects one of the most important and least appreciated facts in recent American history.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/healthiest-communities\/slideshows\/richest-counties-in-america?slide=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a>, D.C.-area suburbs account for four of America&rsquo;s six wealthiest counties by median household income.<\/p>\n<p>What do the people of that area do to generate wealth? Do they create anything that has value? How do they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doge-investigate-bureaucrats-become-wealthy-positions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grow so rich<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>One possible answer lies in the nefarious activities of USAID.<\/p>\n<p>Some have described that agency, which has funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-karoline-leavitt-pulls-insane-list-usaid-expenditures-reporter-frets-humanitarian-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jaw-droppingly indefensible<\/a> projects overseas, as a giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fact-check-usaid-leftist-money-laundering-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">money-laundering operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech in the Oval Office following his Senate confirmation Thursday, Secretary of Health and Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rfk-jr-reveals-miracle-god-spent-20-years-knees-praying-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> thanked Trump for destroying USAID.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It has been captured by the military-industrial complex,&rdquo; the secretary said of USAID, an agency created by his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, in 1961, and long since diverted from its original humanitarian mission. &ldquo;It has become a sinister propagator of totalitarianism across &mdash; and war &mdash; across the globe. And very few people understand how sinister this agency really is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, judging by Google searches in the D.C. area, RFK Jr. told the truth about USAID.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, those scurrying establishment rats have panicked in their quest to escape the sinking ship, which suggests that many of them knew what they were doing all along.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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For example, how might one interpret the thoughts of a startled and anxious bureaucrat in the Washington, D.C. area? Data from Google Trends indicates that searches for various alarming terms spiked in this region starting around February 5, coinciding with significant actions taken by President Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, which effectively dismantled the controversial United States Agency for International Development (USAID). <\/p>\n<p>The timeline is crucial: on February 3, the Trump administration froze USAID&#8217;s budget and shut down its headquarters, prompting outrage from Congressional Democrats who even attempted to access USAID&#8217;s offices. By the following morning, this outrage had intensified; billionaire Bill Gates expressed concerns on ABC\u2019s &#8220;The View&#8221; about how closing USAID could jeopardize his humanitarian vaccine efforts. By February 5, despite vocal objections from Democrats and other establishment figures proving ineffective, internet searches for terms like \u201canger,\u201d \u201crage,\u201d \u201cdread,\u201d \u201crevenge,\u201d and \u201csuicide\u201d surged dramatically in D.C., as reported by Google Trends.<\/p>\n<p>To understand these trends better requires knowledge of how Google Trends operates\u2014it measures relative interest in specific search terms over time within a particular area rather than providing absolute search numbers. The results are scaled from 0 to 100 based on their proportion to all searches across topics; a score of 100 indicates peak interest. Alarmingly, &#8220;suicide&#8221; reached this peak value in D.C. on February 10\u2014none of these five terms had registered before February 5.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, if &#8220;anger,&#8221; &#8220;rage,&#8221; and &#8220;dread&#8221; seem too vague as indicators of concern or panic among residents in D.C., recent posts by pollster Mark Mitchell have highlighted more specific interests that emerged around February 5\u2014terms like \u201cfirearm\u201d and \u201cdefect.\u201d He also noted spikes in searches related to criminal defense lawyers and legal concepts following Attorney General Pam Bondi&#8217;s swearing-in.<\/p>\n<p>This apparent panic reflects an important yet often overlooked aspect of recent American history: according to U.S. News &amp; World Report, suburbs surrounding D.C. comprise four out of six wealthiest counties based on median household income\u2014raising questions about how residents generate such wealth without creating tangible value themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Some critics have labeled USAID as a massive money-laundering operation due to its funding practices overseas that many find indefensible. In remarks after his Senate confirmation speech at the Oval Office Thursday, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2014the nephew of President John F. 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