One for the "Understand what's going on" file:
The dismantling of the "Deep State" continues...
"Wailing and gnashing of teeth" pretty much describes the political Left's reaction to the Trump administration's first three weeks. The Z-Man explained what the "Blob" is last week (you did listen to that podcast, didn't you?). This week, The Z-Man and James Kunstler explain how the administration is mucking out this "Augean Stable". Like Eliot Nes' "untouchables",Trump's DOGE isn't going after the deep state's (obviously) criminal, seditious and treasonous activities. He's hitting them where it really hurts - their hip-pockets.
From the Z-Man: "The hammer blow delivered to USAID was aimed at shattering the financial structure of the Blob by removing the mechanism the Blob used to circulate money. If they are no longer underwriting the vast network of non-for-profits and regime media outlets, those entities will struggle to control the discourse. The DOGE boys examining every disbursements from Treasury is about starving the Blob of money. The restructuring of the agencies removes their power over the political class."
From JHK: "If you wondered since 2016 how come the blob and the Democratic Party were aligned so exquisitely in their operations to destroy populism (personified by Mr. Trump) and to permanently entrench single party power in America for all time to come, it’s because an endless font of taxpayer money was streamed into countless non-governmental orgs creating a shadow civil service of Democratic Party activists that melded seamlessly with the big policy-making agencies.
The money was laundered through manifold layers of these orgs and their sub-orgs to pay for an ongoing “color revolution” in the USA — lawfare, election fraud, propaganda, censorship, career cancellation, medical fuckery, open borders, and other totalitarian ploys — while enriching political players at all those manifold layers from multi-millionaire congressmen and senators to thousands of NGO officials making six-figure salaries to street hustlers like Patrisse Cullors of Black Lives Matter and “anti-racism” racist Ibram X. Kendi and his $50-million Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University (recently axed) — and, of course, ultimately the former Potemkin president “Joe Biden” and his family.
It was all this money that drove eight years of sponsored insanity. Mainly, it kept the hands of the Democratic Party firmly on the levers of power so that nothing could be done about the insults and injuries they were inflicting on our country. So, is it a mystery now that nobody was prosecuted for burning the cities in 2020, or for magically creating millions of extra “Joe Biden” votes out of nowhere that year, or setting up the kickback machine from Ukraine to Congress, or forcing millions to get a janky vaccine?"
It's a sterling effort, but I think it's too little, too late. The Global American Empire (GAE) is collapsing. All Trump will be able to do at this late juncture, is slow the decline and delay the end. The US Dollar is steadily but inexorably losing value; Gold just hit a new record - USD 2,900/Oz. It was at USD 2,800/Oz just a week ago! Don't confuse value with price. They're not equivalent. The value of Gold hasn't changed in two thousand years. The price of Gold reflects the value of the currency used to buy it. The higher the price the less valuable the currency.
Let's hope that the entities that have been looting the American economy for the last fifty years or so, receive the justice they deserve.
It'll be interesting to see which (mainstream) media outlets and "NGOs" suddenly find themselves bereft of funding, here in Australia
