Saturday, February 8, 2025

The Plundering of the American Taxpayer Is Over


Well, that didn’t take long. 

After losing to President Donald Trump in November, the Democrats in Washington, D.C., are having a full-blown meltdown as they attempt to “Resist!” his second term.

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, Democrats have been left stunned and rudderless. They are activists wandering in the wilderness with no map, compass, or safe place to go. And yet, most in the party haven’t changed one bit. 

This week, Elon Musk and his army of DOGE engineers started to scratch the surface of the left’s widespread corruption scheme, and they’re breaking down the federal government infrastructure that has kept them in power for decades. Taxpayer-funded USAID is the first of many targets. 

"Until Trump's funding freeze, USAID was actively paying for 'sex-change' procedures in Guatemala. USAID poured $2 million into Asociación Lambda, a Guatemalan LGBTQ+ activist organization, to 'strengthen trans-led' activism and provide 'gender-affirming health care,' grant records show. Launched in April 2024, the three-year program was slated to span through the spring of 2027," Townhall investigative reporter Mia Cathell found. "In March 2023, USAID set aside up to $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become 'climate leaders.' The grant notice solicited proposals for a 'Disability-Inclusive Climate Action' project in the Central Asian country that would ensure that disabled Tajikistanis are included 'in the development of climate change response and mitigation policies.'"

This exposure has sent Democrats into a deranged spiral, with attempts to storm the USAID building. When they showed up, the doors were locked and their demands to be let in were ignored. 

"A group of Senate and House Democrats were blocked from entering the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday," The Hill reports. "The Democratic lawmakers, who are opposed to President Trump’s efforts to shut down the agency, left without incident after a brief exchange with security officials. The group, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), were told the front office of the administrator of USAID was not available to meet." 

Over at the Department of Education, which is set to be abolished by the Trump administration, a lone security guard stood his ground as Congresswoman Maxine Waters demanded to be let into the building in the name of resistance and saving the bloated bureaucracy. 

It's delightful to watch. 

The left is melting down because their corrupt abuse is being exposed and the American people can see all of it. For the first in decades, they’re being told, “No," as a complete sentence. 

What we're seeing is a massive correction. For decades the federal government has been hijacked by leftist activists who launder the hard-earned tax dollars of Americans to fund their woke, anti-America projects. No more. And yes, Republicans are also guilty of enabling this thievery. 

"Last Congress, I introduced an amendment to reduce funding for USAID by 50%. 114 Republicans and every House Democrat rejected this sensible measure," Freedom Caucus Member and Congressman Eli Crane posted on X. "Funny how many are singing a different tune following @elonmusk's deep dive into their corruption."

"We are going line by line to the Federal Government's books. If something is not a good use of taxpayer money, it will be cut," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emphasized. 

The plundering of the American taxpayer is over. The grift is coming to an end. It’s long past time.



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Our Self-Important, Self-Deluding, Self-Unaware ‘Elites’


Our self-appointed “ruling class” is insufferable.  Two-plus weeks into the restored Trump administration, and the Democrat/media outrage template has become utterly banal:

(1) Trump delivers on a campaign promise.

(2) Democrats collapse onto fainting couches and wail, “He can’t do that!,” and then

(3) those same sobbing sad sacks get back up, clutch their pearls, and collapse in anguish yet again.

It would be amusing if their funerary pantomime were not so exhausting.  

Unindicted “Russia collusion” co-conspirator and former acting director of the FBI Andrew McCabe ran to the Communist News Network to complain that all his old friends at the Bureau are terrified of being fired.  He reported to fellow Democrat traveler Anderson Cooper that FBI officials are worried about how they’re going to pay their bills and take care of their families.  “If you get fired,” McCabe explained energetically, like one toddler telling another toddler about the world, “you’re done.  That’s the end of your reputation, your ability to get any job.  You lose your pay, you lose your chance at a pension, you lose your health insurance.”  Baby Cooper agreed with Baby McCabe that those consequences sound scary.  

Yet neither had the requisite self-awareness to ponder, “Is this what J6 protesters felt like when the Gestapo FBI hunted down alleged trespassers as if they were America’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals?”  Watching the two Democrat babies cry about FBI agents losing their jobs and reputations after we have seen the Bureau do the exact same thing to law-abiding Americans for years is absolutely surreal!  

Did Cooper and McCabe ever shed a tear for military veterans who were treated like domestic terrorists for merely showing up in D.C. on January 6, 2021?  Did they call out the federal government’s atrocious actions when patriotic Americans with no prior criminal records were forced to choose between egregious plea “deals” and spending years in pre-trial confinement away from their families?  Did they ever stop to wonder how ordinary citizens who don’t have the “elite” privilege of avoiding prosecution (as McCabe did) or the luxury of a side hustle on CNN (because the “most trusted name in news” regards liars and lawbreakers as “reliable sources”) were ever going to pay their bills or provide for their families?  

Of course not.  As the tired but true saying goes, if it weren’t for double-standards, Democrats would have no standards at all!  Well, here’s some valuable advice for all the propagandists posing as journalists at CNN and all the unethical, just-following-orders agents posing as law enforcement professionals at the FBI: learn to code.  I hear Elon Musk is hiring.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is chutzpah, and then there is twenty-first-century “ruling class” chutzpah.  If we really are stuck in some kind of twisted computer simulation right now (as so many atheistic tech bros desperate for personal meaning would have us believe), would the A.I. moderators for this timeline please dispatch posthaste all the self-important, self-deluding, self-unaware, overpaid, useless “elites”?  Nobody believes the programming language coming out of their mouths anymore.  As Jack Nicholson advises in As Good As It Gets, “Sell crazy someplace else.  We’re all stocked up here.”

Speaking of losers, Senator (up)Chuck Schumer ran to the Senate floor to complain about President Trump’s decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (which has always been a CIA front for fomenting revolutions and may have funded gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in Wuhan, China), the Department of Education, and other nefarious limbs of the Executive Branch that essentially launder taxpayer dollars into the bank accounts of bad people.  Ol’ (up)Chuck fumed, “This is just the beginning. ...Who knows?  Next might be the IRS.”  And the people of America rejoiced!  

It was obvious even before Democrats started openly grooming children with “drag queen” story hours and encouraging them to have sex “change” operations in the fourth grade that the Jackass Party is totally delusional.  But consider just how incurably delusional the Dim Dems must really be for their highest-ranking leaders in government to run to the cameras and cry about the possible elimination of the dreaded, politicized, corrupt, and well armed IRS.  

I think the Senate’s in-house physician should find Schumer, gently knock on his head, and inquire, “Hello?  Hello?  Anybody home?”  There’s cuckoo; there’s Democrat rank-and-file cuckoo; and then there’s (up)Chuck Schumer chivalrously-defending-the-sacred-honor-of-the-IRS, bat-crazy kind of cuckoo.  If the IRS disappears tomorrow, Americans all over the country will dance in the streets!

From time to time, a Republican politician suggests that we add President Trump’s visage to Mount Rushmore — the “Shrine of Democracy” that towers over the Black Hills in South Dakota.  Democrats expectedly freak out at the thought, and apoplectic group therapy sessions eat up hours of commentary on cable news.  Nothing gets Democrats’ communal goat faster than the suggestion that not only is President Trump winning, but also his winning is becoming so legendary as to deserve chiseled commemoration on sacred rocks once belonging to tribes of Native Americans (who, we are told, were peaceful environmentalists of the highest Greta Thunberg order).  

If Donald J. Trump accomplished nothing else during his presidency other than eliminating the federal income tax that immorally deprives Americans of the fruits of their own labor, he would be hailed as one of the greatest presidents in American history.  Common Americans would gladly dedicate their time, labor, and tax-free savings to add Trump’s face alongside Mount Rushmore’s other greats.  Making Mount Rushmore even greater would be a fitting tribute for the man who finally ends Uncle Sam’s century-long crime spree of stealing hard earned money from Americans’ back pockets.  And hyper-delusional Democrats such as (up)Chuck Schumer would no doubt cry about the death of the IRS and blame its “murder” on poor Americans unwilling to pay their “fair share.”  If legalized theft disappears, how will the federal government finance its other criminal operations?  Some crooks in the Deep State Blob might actually have to get legitimate jobs and earn an honest living.  Boo-freak’n-hoo.  

Taxing Americans for their labor means that Americans work for the government.  If government administrators siphon somewhere between one third to one half of their incomes, that means the government owns them for four to six months each year.  Income taxes are nothing more than politically correct permutations of financial servitude.  Just because Americans submit to this organized theft doesn’t make it any less dehumanizing.  It lacks the violent oppression synonymous with the worst forms of human bondage, but it is nonetheless a peculiar institution.

If the U.S. Agency for International Development loses the privilege to fill its slush funds with Americans’ taxes, that’s a good start.  USAID has always been a CIA front used to bribe foreign officials, instigate civil wars, and push destructive propaganda.  USAID helped to incite the Ukraine Civil War back when Barack Obama was president and has orchestrated similar color revolutions in GeorgiaHungaryRomaniaPoland, and elsewhere.  This has never been much of a secret, and thanks to salt-dog patriots such as Sundance over at The Conservative Treehouse, many Americans now recognize an uncomfortable truth: America, the country that preaches “democracy” to the world, loves to overturn democratic elections and install puppet presidents inside vassal regimes. 

Still, Ivy League magazines regularly feature glowing stories about USAID’s “humanitarian” missions, effectively feeding disinformation to the next generation’s self-styled “elites.”  That’s just one way our execrable “ruling class” deludes itself.  Defund them all.



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Culture Wars – President Trump Removes Head of Kennedy Center, Appoints Himself and Vows “a Golden Age in Arts and Culture”


Switching attack vectors, President Trump moves to the culture war.  In a post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump announces a shakeup of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees and appoints himself “Amazing Chairman.” lol

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If Elon’s DOGE Is To Successfully Cut Government Waste, There Can Be No ‘But’ About It



As Democrats and the media continue to grip their groins in agony over Elon Musk and his DOGE team’s audit of the federal government, it’s fun to hear them all periodically pause to offer some variation of, “Everyone wants to end wasteful spending, but…”

That’s the surest indicator that a person has absolutely no interest in cutting a single dollar from our nearly $7 trillion budget.

There are of course places we can trim, but…

There are ways to increase efficiency, but…

Nobody likes seeing fraud and waste, but…

What follows the “but” is invariably some excuse for why a proposed cut isn’t practical; a claim that the cut will result in “literally millions of deaths;” or, my personal favorite, an assertion that the target of the cut is “only” some infinitesimally small fraction of the budget (in which case I say it should automatically get cut).

CNN’s Dana Bash did one of these on Friday regarding Musk’s recent aims to dramatically slash the Democrats’ favorite slush fund widely known as “USAID.”

“I don’t think even the biggest supporters of USAID would argue that it’s not worth looking into,” she said, “and making sure that if there is money that is being misspent or on fraudulent programs, that is worth looking into and doing away with, but…”

The Washington Post had a particularly humorous version of this pattern on Thursday with its editorial board declaring, “Of course, a compelling case can be made for significant changes to the federal government.” The paper did not specify any cuts in federal spending but did essentially recommend accelerating the hiring process for yet more government workers.

I’m not joking. A major problem right now with government efficiency, according to the Post, is that “the hiring process is arcane and inefficient.” I get the impression that maybe the editors aren’t entirely sure what the purpose of DOGE is.

All of this is to say, I don’t know to what extent Musk and DOGE will be successful in reducing even just one penny from the federal budget, but their approach so far — auditing the Treasury payment systems and aggressively pushing to eliminate mass numbers of government workers — is the only serious way to try.

Democrats and their media friends are pretending the process has been in breach of various laws and violated privacy rights and a court has intervened, supposedly to determine whether all of this is proper. (Why wouldn’t the president of the United States be allowed to deputize anyone he wants to have full access to agencies that fall under the executive branch?) But whatever the case, when this all shakes out, cutting the hundreds and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget is only possible by doing exactly what Musk is doing.

Everyone in Washington, even Republicans, says they’re dead-set on reducing the bloat. Then, perhaps after a performative government “shutdown,” during which government workers get a paid vacation, a budget is passed that either sustains or, more likely, increases the previous one. This week, though, the public is getting a fresh, in-depth look at the obscene and despicable expenditures our elected leaders are allowing — billions of dollars toward DEI initiatives abroad and funding useless projects here.

Democrats and the media naturally reacted with a mix of horror at being exposed and insistence that eliminating even the entirety of it would have a negligible effect on the budget, so DOGE should just look elsewhere.

Nah, we’ve gotta start somewhere, and there’s no better place.



.@ElonMusk – the National Science Foundation funds research on trans genitalia surgery



Matt Lamb - Associate Editor •     The college fix

OPINION: National Science Foundation has made a mockery of science – it deserves a house cleaning

Elon Musk should turn his cost cutting eyes toward the National Science Foundation next.

Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency have already upended the United States Agency for International Development. Their cuts have put at risk the funding of DEI in Serbia, a “transgender opera in Colombia,” and a “transgender comic book in Peru,” according to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

But charity starts at home, which is why the National Science Foundation and its silliness need to be punished. For example, taxpayers are currently funding a Virginia Tech professor’s research on transgender genitalia surgery. This could be why NSF employees are reportedly worried about Musk and his team of Gen Z’ers ripping through their archives.

Professor Raffaella De Vita is the principal investigator on “Tissue Research Advances for New Surgeries-Facilitating Organ Reconstruction with Mechanics.”

The study, which has received more than $600,000 in taxpayer dollars from the NSF so far, will help De Vita “gain new expertise in advanced numerical techniques for reducing the computational complexity of numerical simulations for gender confirmation surgeries.”

It is not possible for someone to change their gender, however, and “gender confirmation” is a lie, because these surgeries do the opposite of confirming someone’s true sex.

According to the NSF:

Efficient and robust computational tools will lead to the development of novel engineered tissues and guidelines for gender confirmation surgeries, addressing the extant healthcare challenges of transgender people. The outcome of this project will thus promote gender diversity and equality in medical research while also changing the assumption of binary genders in the research community.

To put it simply, the federal government is subsidizing an engineering professor’s research to make it easier for boys with gender confusion to make themselves permanently infertile all to further the lie that they can change their sex.

Gender confusion abounds at the National Science Foundation. The government agency, which we are going to be soon told produces vital research for our country, is also corrupting basic biology in the classroom.

At least three grants have gone to studying “sex/gender narratives in undergraduate biology.” The researchers are looking at the narratives and “their impacts on transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming students.”

The professors plan to create a “more accurate” curriculum that looks at the “diversity of sexes across species.” The abstract says “biology courses often inaccurately categorize sex and gender as binary.”

Ending with one final falsehood, the abstract states the project fits under NSF’s goal to advance “intellectual merit.”

When the journalists, Democrats, and political activists start chirping about cuts to “the science,” remember this is considered “science.”

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DOGE Now Reviewing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Elizabeth Warren Shakedown Racket


If you thought the USAID revelations were alarming sunlight, just wait until you see the apoplectic fits of rage about to come out from the Democrats, the DNC affiliated community activist groups, and the professional leftists who all rely upon the financial mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

According to a Politico article (also funded by USAID money), written with stunning amount of anger and apoplexy itself, Elon Musk’s DOGE team has just entered the CFPB to do a review and audit.  This one is going to be beyond bananas.

Jumpin’ ju-ju bones, tell Ma, to fire up the coffee pot, we are in for a delicious treat.  There’s no way for the DC outrage machine to handle this dose of Trumpian nitrous oxide directly into the intake manifold.  The machine will explode.

BACKGROUND FIRST – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) was originally created by congress (Elizabeth Warren lead) as a quasi-constitutional watchdog agency to reach into the banking and financial system, under the guise of oversight, and extract money by fining entities for CFPB defined regulatory and/or compliance violations

Essentially, the CFPB is a congressionally authorized far-left extortion scheme in the banking sector.  The CFPB levies fines; the fines generate income; however, unlike traditional fines that go to the U.S. treasury, the CFBP fines are then redistributed to left-wing organizations to help fund their political activism.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was the brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren as an outcome of the Dodd-Frank legislation. Within the CFPB Warren tried to set up the head of the agency, the Director, in a manner that that he/she would operate without oversight. Unfortunately, her dictatorial-fiat-design collapsed when challenged in court.  Backstory #1 – Backstory #2

A federal court found the CFPB Director position held too much power and deemed it unconstitutional. The court decision noted that giving the President power to fire the Director would fix the constitutional problem.  This issue was argued extensively after President Trump appointed Mick Mulvaney as interim Director.  Elizabeth Warren declaring the CFPB Director could not be fired by the executive.  The legal battle worked its way to the Supreme Court.

In June 2020, the Supreme Court ruled (full pdf here) the structure of the CFPB Director position is unconstitutional and the President can fire the head of the agency.  However, SCOTUS kept the CFPB agency in place by severing the part of the law that created the agency head from the rest of the law.

The CFPB remains as a quasi-constitutional agency; the CFPB remains an extortion racket to target any organization within the banking and finance sector; however, the president can fire and appoint the Director of the CFPB.

That’s the background.  Now, DOGE is looking at the books, and the DC system is going bananas.

WASHINGTON DC – Elon Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that the billionaire Trump adviser has personally targeted, according to three people familiar with their actions.

Three Musk allies, some of whom are tied to his Department of Government Efficiency, have also embedded with the consumer bureau, according to the CFPB’s employees union, NTEU 335, in a sign that cuts could be coming to the agency, which Republicans have long opposed.

Chris Young, Nikhil Rajpal and Gavin Kliger’s names were added to the agency’s internal staff directory on Thursday night, the union said. They are listed as “senior advisers,” according to a person in the bureau who asked not to be named.

“CFPB Union members welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators,” the union said in a scathing statement on Friday.

“While Acting Director [Scott] Bessent allows Musk’s operatives to bypass cybersecurity policies and wreak havoc with their amateur code skills inside CFPB’s once-secure systems, CFPB Union members fight to protect our jobs so we can continue protecting Americans from scammers with conflicts of interest like Musk,” the union said.

The CFPB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for DOGE also did not immediately respond. (read more)

The CFPB racket is also how the DNC and Clyburn network get paid.

This is the core funding for the activist groups who the Democrats rely upon to manipulate election outcomes.  If they get cut off from both USAID funds and CFPB funds, they lose about 75% of all their election engineering funding.

The Act Blue money laundering operation took the hundreds of millions in funds from sketchy network sources attached to the CFPB/USAID, then assigned those funds to random names in the donor files of the Act Blue system; essentially washing away the fingerprints so the FEC could not identify the larger funding mechanism behind the fraudulently assigned individual donors.  This is the trail that James O’Keefe was following.

Liawatha is going to be Big Mad.