Everything they told us was true.
Conspiracies can only exist when there is a lack of candor. When everything is on the table, who needs a conspiracy? For years, anything suggested by a right-leaning figure or news outlet was immediately shot down by mainstream media and its Siamese twin, the Democratic Party. Covid came out of a Chinese laboratory? Preposterous! The Covid vaccines are not fully effective and can cause serious illness. Nonsense! Money sent to Ukraine is disappearing. Fever-dream! Joe Biden got rich on his name and Nancy Pelosi became fabulously wealthy through insider trading? You’re jealous! And on and on. We were given the impression that everything was just fine in Washington. Until it wasn’t.
Donald Trump has not been in the White House long enough to remove all of the plastic covers from the furniture. Still, he has been there long enough for the American people to learn how terrible, awful, and disgusting the state of affairs there has been. The indispensable Libs of TikTok X account lists some of the ways that your tax dollars were treated like candy and sent all over the world:
$2 million for Moroccan pottery classes
$2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon
$20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq
Sending Ukranians to Paris Fashion Week
$1.5 million for DEl in Serbia
And this list is by no means even a scratch on the surface. We were told that the NIH “only” gave the Wuhan lab $600,000; new receipts show around $40 million in grants for research there. 5,000 FBI agents and employees worked on the unarmed J6 Capitol entrants. One can understand why Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi pushed Joe Biden out the door and were disappointed that Kamala Harris was his replacement. Their game required that Republicans never get access to the Executive arm to see what was really going on there. Now they have seen. And with DOGE going through everything, we are starting to be shown how every department in Washington simply wasted billions of our tax dollars on subjects far afield from their official foci.
The Founding Fathers, in their great wisdom, set up a system that when healthy should include solid checks and balances. But what happens when the Congress is in on the activities of the Executive branch? What happens when ostensible Republicans like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan find greater cause with Democrats than with other Republicans like Donald Trump and his voters, whom they consider to be unseemly? What happens when a bureaucrat writes in the New York Times that he and many others intentionally do not do what their boss, the president, has instructed them to do? What happens when the chief of staff feels more affinity to his Chinese counterpart than to his commander in chief? The result is what we are now seeing: rot. There is no budget discipline, as we can just print more money and the press is rooting for the waste instead of putting a spotlight on it. Nobody, including the brain-dead media, looks to see how money is spent and wasted. Pet projects are funded and run out of USAID or the State Department, and nobody outside of the beltway is the wiser. What we are now witnessing is two decades of out-of-control government with no brakes and nobody watching the store because the supposed gatekeepers are in on the program.
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I think that what people like Mike Benz are saying is that there was a time when USAID and other bodies worked openly or covertly to advance US interests. That is something that we want—new friends, new markets, new opportunities. But there came a time, maybe during the presidency of Barack Obama or with the rise of Donald Trump, when the goals changed from “What is good for America” to “How do we keep our liberal/lefty program going?” The tiny list above of wasted money does not serve American interests at all, but it does push the left’s prized concepts out onto the world. Thus, the U.S. could teach gender studies in Afghanistan or put up a mural of George Floyd in Kabul. There was no longer any interest in advancing U.S. interests like keeping Bagram Airbase or getting billions of dollars worth of military equipment safely out of the country before the Taliban had their reunion tour. The departments in the Executive branch existed to protect themselves and to advance causes that were good for a globalist program but not for the American people as expressed through their votes.
And thus the Deep State is quite real, and we are beginning to see its self-dealing and anti-American agenda. There is a Uniparty of elected officials who are more interested in advancing liberal ideology than working for American progress. They did their best to slow-walk Pam Bondi and Kash Patel because the release of the Epstein flight logs and other Department of Justice files will be an embarrassment, with possible legal jeopardy. Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the new cabinet members will have their work cut out for them not only in advancing the president’s goals but also in reforming their departments. Offering buyouts and firing employees is a good way to start. But how can we the American people be certain that going forward the government is efficiently using our tax dollars to advance U.S. interests?
That is a tough question to answer. Since Obama’s “pen and phone” moment, the government has been largely run by executive orders. President Trump signed many his first time around, and Joe Biden countermanded them on his first day in office. President Trump has spent the last two weeks signing dozens of new executive orders. If a Democrat were to return to the Oval Office in the future, he/she/it would simply cancel them and we’d go around and around. The first step to keeping the American government working properly is to get as many of the executive orders converted into laws as possible. President Trump should take his Republican colleagues for a retreat at one of his properties and find out which of his numerous executive orders can be converted into laws passed by Congress. A law is harder to get rid of than a mere presidential decree.
But we see that many executive departments either skirted or ignored existing laws. Tony Fauci exported his gain-of-function work outside of the U.S. when it became illegal at home. The State Department sent the Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars in spite of the Taylor Force Act. No, what the U.S. needs is a permanent, independent DOGE. Maybe in the past the Office of Management Budget was supposed to keep an eye on things, but we see that trillions of dollars have been wasted with no real oversight. Some form of DOGE needs to go over every line of the budget and every law to make sure that the interests of the American people are being served. This presidency could be a watershed in many ways. If it can get the government under control and once more serving the American people rather than serving its own interests, it will be a second American revolution.
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