Literally every single budget we look as it going to look like this, from covid to defense to San Francisco's city budget. The amount of waste and fraud will be legitimately shocking -- Americans should have been living much better than the government has reduced them to.
If there was no such thing as government corruption, nearly every working adult in the US would have a home and be able to support a family. They have robbed us blind through taxation and money printing.
It cost a lot of money to legally immigrate to the U.S….and when you pay all of their application fees($1000s)there is still no guarantee you will be “granted” citizenship…. And if denied, you don’t get any of the money back…. Throw in the fact this process can take a year or more and yes! You are pissed off you had to jump through all those hoops and shuck out all that $$$… all while watching millions of people enter illegally? get free flights to preferred cities… and a debit card with$700 on it and a cell phone? This is a TOTAL injustice to the people who entered legally.
It took my Canadian husband 2 years, about $1500 in fees, a trip to Montreal for two for 7 days, and 2 months of living alone as the kids and I still had to move ahead of him to meet requirements. It was only by God that his papers were approved in March 2020, days before they shut down processing.
I have an Australian husband. When I found out how difficult it was going to be to get him the first visa (residence) and then convert that to fiance visa -
Well, I moved to Australia. It was actually easier.
Right… I am curious if they would have denied an Australian white man entry at the border…. I see them waving everyone in until they see a white face in the crowd, then it’s “Hold up right there buddy”…… this is the evil of marxism…. and EVERY marxist must be purged from every American institution…
I think the Trump team is going after the illegal's. Sorta aggressively, at least for now.
But what happens when deportations start impacting Trump's/next gen America First pols, when deportations includes working illegals, those not accepting any assistance, but living with or sheltered by already naturalized citizens?
This is why illegal immigration and "birthright citizenship" needs to be stopped now because these people will be made voters and will owe allegiance to the party most responsible for getting them here and helping them stay. Why else do you think the floodgates were opened so wide?
They are still criminals!!! Break our laws, pay your dues.
Owain, do you harbor criminals in your home? Harboring fugitive should carry exact same penalty as the criminal. Don’t let the door hit your brains on the way out, preferably headfirst.
“What jackstraw condones breaking and entering??” A well armed one (with the ability to rely on both stand your ground and the castle doctrine)that has a severe distaste for violent criminals. There should be plenty out there…..
Most sovereign nations do not allow non-citizens to own real property. In Canada, for example, one can get a 99 year lease but not ownership unless one is a citizen. Interestingly this is also true of the tribal lands in the Pacific NW as well and perhaps elsewhere.
This should be rectified as foreign nationals, corporations, and even governments should not be allowed to "annex" parts of our nation.
That's how the one-way ratchet of government intrusion works.
The criminal retards winding the handle never believe that eventually the mechanism will explode, all that pent up energy breaking out of all restraint and wreaking destruction.
That's why the founders noted that if you don't let the tension loose a little now and then you eventually end up with a bloodbath. A French Revolution which wasn't any revolution just a revolt and transfer of headchopping power from one set of hands to another.
Just like the AMT. When enacted it targeted something like 20 ultra-high-income taxpayers, maybe 10. It now ensnares several MILLION taxpayers, and far from only UHI taxpayers.
Flat tax, as long as not a Value-added-Tax twin, or let tariffs pick up the burden, as the Founders envisioned. But tariffs may be more complicated today.
Instead of rebates, better to have one big deduction based on filing status and everything above that taxed at the flat rate. No deductions for anything else at all for federal tax. Never give back money.
No more need for 501c3. Any legitimate charity actually doing charitable work shouldn't have any excess income anyway - it should all go to expenses and (above a threshold) be subject to GAAP. No NGOs.
Next question: what sources of funds should be taxed for individuals? Income? Capital gains? Benefits?
It's not a REBATE, it's a PRE-BATE. In other words, at the start of each period, the government credits you with enough money to pay the taxes on purchases up to the poverty line.
There's no filing or tax rebates at the end of the year because there's no IRS or complicated tax system. You pay your taxes as you purchase new goods. (If you don't, no taxes!)
Rebates of any sort are a thin edge of the wedge. They will only increase over time.
Even at the start they represent an expensive and unnecessary complication to the system.
The less of them there are, the higher the cost per transaction of the mechanism to provide them.
Without the government/banking money cartel poverty is not an issue. America in particular is more than generous enough to care for the small minority who can't manage to get themselves above the poverty line, and it's far better for everyone that those people KNOW in their bones that they survive on charity and not some damnable claim to have rights to other people's earnings.
Apologies for re-using my answer, but I'm BC right now. (Before Coffee)
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It's not a REBATE, it's a PRE-BATE. In other words, at the start of each period, the government credits you with enough money to pay the taxes on purchases up to the poverty line.
There's no filing or tax rebates at the end of the year because there's no IRS or complicated tax system. You pay your taxes as you purchase new goods. (If you don't, no taxes!)
Everyone who files taxes gets it (so not illegals). I'd imagine there'd be some sort of 'Hey I'm 18/a taxpayer now' system, but this is a minor hurdle. The actual implementation of the system shouldn't be too difficult - we did this with covid 'checks'.
The downside is that prices immediately jump like 25%, and that's a pretty big sticker shock. But since people are no longer paying income tax and only pay tax on new purchases, it allows each person more control over what they pay.
Last time I checked, the FairTax claimed it would be revenue neutral (we'd 'make' the same as today), but it's been a year or so and I'm not exactly sure on today's math. (If it forced government to cut spending, even better, though.)
They are exposing the graft. The question I what becomes of it??? As of now, all they have done to my knowledge is shift the money to the state department for distribution. If the next spending bill pushed thru congress is still a trillion dollar payola scheme, than what??? Do we reassemble the continental army and storm the capitol???? Reconvene a constitutional convention???
Musk is perhaps the biggest grifter/showman in the country, he is not exposing anything that was not common knowledge for anyone with an iota of curiosity and an ability for critical thought ..the entire Trump & Musky show is a continuation of the Kabuki theatre that is politics.
Look at the buildings they work in, the cars they drive, the houses they live in… all on a Government pay rate? I read somewhere that over 40 millionaires work for the IRS..how is that fk’n possible…. What millionaires would take a 40 hour a week government job for $70-100k a year?..they think we are stupid.. I’d move EVERY federal agency into empty strip malls in Kentucky & West Virginia…then turn DC proper(right along with K street) into a National Park… and dedicate all of it as an example of corrupt runaway government for all future American Citizens to see, understand and DESPISE…
Everything was puzzle-snap satisfying about this substack piece.
Yes, yes, and yes.
It offers hope for this beleaguered Canuck.
Global Affairs Canada is your USAID. It replaced the CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) founded in 1968. CIDA was subsumed into Canada Foreign Affairs in 2013 after the Stephen Harper Conservative government reacted to the left-leaning NGOs in CIDA. It was eventually renamed Global Affairs Canada.
Yesterday, the Global Affairs Canada website went dark. Why? Well, on it were the over 1700 global projects allegedly for "sustainable development." Some folks were able to end-run and capture the website and then had to prop up their dropping jaws as they read the 1700+ entries. Cavalierly, $75M to this country; $45M to that country; $25M to another, all with lofty, important-sounding project descriptions. Of course, some projects would be effective usage of funds for noble sustainable development goals. But the majority of the descriptions were the usual-suspects of the global playlist: climate, gender, women. Rinse. Repeat.
We are light years behind you Amurcans. You have a big foot in the door. We have a few noble leaders: Danielle Smith. Leslyn Lewis, Raquel Dancho. There are a few more. Pierre Poilievre will likely be 25% better than Trudeau - if PP is elected - and that looks increasingly unlikely as he may face Mark Carnage [sic], the new Liberal Knight in Shining Banker. Should Pierre prevail, he's no DJT. There are no fiery Conservative visions dancing in his eyes. Will he be a placeholder until a true blue Conservo steps up to the plate? Tune in for the continuing story of Sighs of our Lives.
Four years to plan, four years to for people like Elon Musk to take the red pill. And still, the whole nation's fate hung by a whisker on July 13th of last year.
I am so very grateful for this glorious revolution, thrilled to scroll the news every day. It's like the opposite of doom scrolling. Joy scrolling?
Trump HAD to go through all that bullshit the last 4+years… it obviously has strengthened his resolve to drain the swamp… they needed to go through his wife’s panty drawer…fking criminals..now HE knows where all the bodies are buried… it’s a beautiful site to behold….. hopefully trials and convictions will be served up to a populous hungry for Justice very soon!!!
It seems to me somewhere a switch turned on for Trump, where he realized what he had to and could do whether he could see support or not. And a quiet resolution replaced the bombastic fighting.
He's clearly leading with a quiet resolve and a BIG stick. He knows what must be done, and is simply doing it without screaming it in advance. He knows he's backed by truth and he's willing to beat them at their own game.
The sufferers of TDS among my acquaintances are wailing about an "unelected" person making decisions and "bypassing congress." They still can't see that every agency and entity that is losing USAID funding is full of unelected people making decisions without congressional oversight. The difference is that those entities are drinking from the spigot, but Musk is turning the spigot off.
Congress unconstitutionally gave these entities our national no-limit credit card and allowed them to spend it whenever they wanted on whatever they wanted. Musk is canceling the credit card account.
the dems scream about Musk not being elected...ha...I am waiting for someone on our "side" to address the elephant in the room. for the last four years un-elected bureaucrats were running this country while Brandon was MIA.
they had no problem with the unelected Fauci controlling every aspect of their lives. i doubt that Musk will hang out on the tax payer's dime for 40 years. he has a day job
It’s a double whammy of un-electedness, as no way on God’s green earth did Joe actually win the 2020 election. He was installed via massive electoral fraud by TPTB.
I bet there are USAID receipts for all kinds of initiatives to protect election integrity or some such doublespeak label, which were actually about finding ways to rig the vote. Overseas action, too. I recall there was a lot of chatter on twitter at the time of shady things happening overseas in Italy and Germany, if memory serves.
To the tune of $2 TRILLION expenses vs revenues PER YEAR.
I repeat this as often as I can, those of you who are mathematically inclined can give us the correct result, but I will be in the zone: at $1 per second per hour per day per year, it would take approximately 37,000 YEARS to obtain just *one trillion dollars.*
Our national debt is growing at $2T per fiscal year (Oct-Sept).
Let that sink in.
And now we have a better understanding of why economic security is national security.
Yes! Terrific. $200 a second. I struggle to save $200 a year.
The principal will never be paid. The CCP owns a huge chunk of that debt. IMHO, this is the primary reason a hot war with that government is untenable. Makes me appreciate POTUS negotiating skills.
I copied that incriminating photo of the unelected Alex Soros with all those Democrats....and I will be sending it to anyone I know who complains about Musk!
Remind them Ed Snowden was a contractor for Booz Allen who run unconstitutional NSA mass surveillance, cost plus contract beyond oversight, Fed Records Act & FOIA while much of CIA is outsourced to cabals like Carlyle Group.. did that worry them too? It's been getting worse for decades is outsource government new reality for them?
Yep. But meanwhile during the FJB "presidency", unelected people ran our country the whole time. Everyone knows for sure it certainly wasnt FJB. He wasn't competent to run a shoebox much less an entire country.
Exactly! Their argument makes no sense. How many people in the entire executive branch ARE elected? Only two (and that’s if you count the VP who isn’t elected on his/her own but as part of the Presidential ticket). EVERYONE else in the executive branch of government is UNELECTED.
Keep it going, Yuri! Bohemian Grove indeed. Just a bunch of the richest and most powerful men in the world getting together for some hot man on man action with a side of satanic rites thrown in. Nothing to see here. Move along!
Well, at least one of the non participating junior reps got primaries by the turtle bc he exposed the sex partying. That was just before the gay sex pics from inside chambers showed up online. And then there's the rumors of sex rooms below the capital...
Sometimes your insights are so stark and powerful I want to vomit.
For decades I've watched the evil grow, trying to make others see.
For the first time it looks like there is hope. But if Trump and DOGE fail, It will be like Sauron covering the world in a second darkness.
Like at the end of the Lord of the Rings, the evil horde is still standing there defiant. They can't retreat, can't escape and of course there is no surrender.
It's like poison ivy. A fierce and relentless campaign can wipe out all that you can see, but tiny tendrils of root linger underground, just waiting for their chance to emerge once more.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do battle.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom!" - Some guy smarter than me.
An ordinary person, A.O.C. for example, goes from being a bartender to being a member of committees dealing with billions of dollars. In short, the billions are not real, they are just numbers on paper. She cannot even start to grasp what spending millions, billions or trillions is all about, just numbers.
They don't see or don't care that you and I will soon do our taxes only to find out we have to send the IRS just a little more.
They don't see any of this as problems. Why would they? They get incentivized to create problems.
It's the same type of disease that afflicts Lotto Jackpot winners. More than half go bankrupt within 5 years because they think that they could never spend all of the vast sum of money. Unfortunately, they can. A few million here, a few million there, and pretty soon your talking some real money. With the government, you just change it from millions to billions.
Exactly. People will spend days planning/analyzing how to build a deck because it's tangible and isn't a billion dollars.
But if the same people had to approve an airport, etc.etc, for example, they'd rubber stamp it because it's scope is completely beyond their capacity and the numbers are too big for them to comprehend.
I think the coup goes back to at least 2020 when some magical 15 MILLION evaporative votes appeared out of nowhere to elect the Potato-in-Chief. Then they somehow disappeared in 2024.
George Herbert Walker Bush was the beginning of the modern iteration. The Bush/Clinton/Bush administration pried open the gate for the ineligible Kenyan to be installed.
The Great Evil, Hillary, was supposed to start the mass murder.
I was there to see it. Not CIA, but he had a lot more impact than is generally known. Once it became obvious there was no way to reveal/resist, I dropped out and disappeared. I had my hopes raise a tiny bit when Perot showed up, but the Uniparty destroyed his candidacy.
I tried to tell folks that not only were Bush and Clinton the same team, they were the same family.
I think the evil ones were drifting in a fruitless malaise before Reagan appeared. Then the were shocked into action and installed G.H to undermine him. Then after they shot him, it began again in earnest.
But there has been a festering evil in the shadows for as long as we have existed.
My great fear is that the cockroaches chased out of go rr me t will seed themselves within the corporate power structure and use new levers to persecute their long lasting plans of subjugation, oppression, and debt slavery. Maybe we need to audit the Federal Reserve next?
And you should be afraid of this but you’re (the collective ‘you’re’) the ones up next in the queue to check these parasites. Pretend you’re part of this country’s immune system and play like you are an antibody who’s primary job is to identify these pathogens so that our social equivalents to killer t cells can remove them in various ways.
‘Tis the reason I like Kitty the Great. That and he’s the only one here (I know of so far) who uses the navy pinging reference other than me. I do that all the time here and elsewhere.
More to the point, recognise the owners of the Federal Reserve.
I was directed to a very nice study of this today: <neofeudalism.substack.com> from April 19 and 21, 2023. The essays are necessarily long and should be read right to their ends.
The essays give a background to El Gato's thesis today, a level behind his visible "aristocrats."
If only the media watching public and those pathetically consumed in their TDS prison (several in my family) could read bad cattitude and Childers Covid and Coffee…
I read you often El Gato Malo, but rarely comment, except I do forward especially to introduce your deep dives to others. And today is a shell shocker… thank you…
Isn't it amazing, the divide between the TDS sufferers and ourselves? I come here for sanity, surrounded by TDS - and it feels like we are simultaneously experiencing 2 separate realities while sharing the same space. I'm dumbstruck amongst them most of the time - "you think that's real?" "you really believe that?"
Every US citizen deserves to see who is on the "Pay to the order of" line on every discretionary (not SSI, Medicare, etc.) payment made by our government, with extremely limited security exceptions. We should have a downloaded "check register" e-mailed to us at least quarterly. It's our money.
Well what do you know....? Some other guy(s) already thought about this.... In Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution:
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
USAID was always a CIA front, as was the Ford Foundation. Obama's mother worked for both, his grandparents worked for the CIA, and so did Obama from January 1984 to January 1985 at Business International Corporation.
Literally every single budget we look as it going to look like this, from covid to defense to San Francisco's city budget. The amount of waste and fraud will be legitimately shocking -- Americans should have been living much better than the government has reduced them to.
If there was no such thing as government corruption, nearly every working adult in the US would have a home and be able to support a family. They have robbed us blind through taxation and money printing.
And it would be much cheaper to live there because there wouldn't be millions of illegals here driving up demand.
It cost a lot of money to legally immigrate to the U.S….and when you pay all of their application fees($1000s)there is still no guarantee you will be “granted” citizenship…. And if denied, you don’t get any of the money back…. Throw in the fact this process can take a year or more and yes! You are pissed off you had to jump through all those hoops and shuck out all that $$$… all while watching millions of people enter illegally? get free flights to preferred cities… and a debit card with$700 on it and a cell phone? This is a TOTAL injustice to the people who entered legally.
It took my Canadian husband 2 years, about $1500 in fees, a trip to Montreal for two for 7 days, and 2 months of living alone as the kids and I still had to move ahead of him to meet requirements. It was only by God that his papers were approved in March 2020, days before they shut down processing.
and he probably spoke english already!
700 ? Some get way more
“They” reload their debit cards with our money….
I have an Australian husband. When I found out how difficult it was going to be to get him the first visa (residence) and then convert that to fiance visa -
Well, I moved to Australia. It was actually easier.
Right… I am curious if they would have denied an Australian white man entry at the border…. I see them waving everyone in until they see a white face in the crowd, then it’s “Hold up right there buddy”…… this is the evil of marxism…. and EVERY marxist must be purged from every American institution…
This was 20 years ago - so slightly different vibe then. I could've gotten him in, it was just a steeper mountain than my emigrating to Australia.
The people you are speaking of are unlikely to try and do it properly, as we were.
I think the Trump team is going after the illegal's. Sorta aggressively, at least for now.
But what happens when deportations start impacting Trump's/next gen America First pols, when deportations includes working illegals, those not accepting any assistance, but living with or sheltered by already naturalized citizens?
I'm pretty sure that's what they signed up for, even here in Arizona.
Legal immigrants still don't like 'working' illegals.
This is why illegal immigration and "birthright citizenship" needs to be stopped now because these people will be made voters and will owe allegiance to the party most responsible for getting them here and helping them stay. Why else do you think the floodgates were opened so wide?
That's good to hear.
Not so sure up here in the northeast though
The illegals broke the law. If someone killed your spouse/child would you consider that breaking the law? Would you want justice to be done?
They are still criminals!!! Break our laws, pay your dues.
Owain, do you harbor criminals in your home? Harboring fugitive should carry exact same penalty as the criminal. Don’t let the door hit your brains on the way out, preferably headfirst.
What jackstraw condones breaking and entering??
“What jackstraw condones breaking and entering??” A well armed one (with the ability to rely on both stand your ground and the castle doctrine)that has a severe distaste for violent criminals. There should be plenty out there…..
????????
Did I mention that I LOVE Florida?
In portugal if I a foreigner want to buy any property in a given area any local has to be given the right to buy 1st .
Most sovereign nations do not allow non-citizens to own real property. In Canada, for example, one can get a 99 year lease but not ownership unless one is a citizen. Interestingly this is also true of the tribal lands in the Pacific NW as well and perhaps elsewhere.
This should be rectified as foreign nationals, corporations, and even governments should not be allowed to "annex" parts of our nation.
Right… but (marxist)democrats sell our FARMLAND to China & bill mf gates!?
You must mean “non-residents”. We were not canadian citizens, but residents with landed emigrant status and we owned land, quite a bit of it too.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1887331478385697155?s=19
I mean, but then where would we get funding for critical initiatives like this?!
This is real. I repeat this is not a joke.
I still can't believe it. ROTFLMAO.
I swear I was about to ask.
U.F.B.
$20 mil. Shiiiit. I could've made that for free from a laptop with the original internet Explorer
I think that's the point. All the sweet sweet graft that's left.
Well maybe not, but Rick Sorter who posted it was "LMAO".
So question is, was that a derisive laugh, or an "appreciating the joke" laugh?
At any rate it is preposterous that USAID was indeed funding SS(!) in Afghanistan.
🤯
*and require JUSTICE for doing so…
*slings another pouch of Orville Redenbacher's into the microwaver*
Maybe I should be investing in Orville Redenbacher.
Is it kettle corn, that's my fav.
Heck, with all the popcorn we'll be making, we can mix in all sorts of varieties.
If DOGE can and does in fact purge the waste and fraud from the budget, we could very well have a flat 17% tax and no IRS. Hell, maybe 7%.
zero is an underappreciated number
Right… congress created the income tax under the guise to support WW1….then never allowed its sunset… bastards
That's how the one-way ratchet of government intrusion works.
The criminal retards winding the handle never believe that eventually the mechanism will explode, all that pent up energy breaking out of all restraint and wreaking destruction.
That's why the founders noted that if you don't let the tension loose a little now and then you eventually end up with a bloodbath. A French Revolution which wasn't any revolution just a revolt and transfer of headchopping power from one set of hands to another.
the people who always scream that billionaires should be taxed more forget that taxes, once in place, will trickle down to everyone before long
Just like the AMT. When enacted it targeted something like 20 ultra-high-income taxpayers, maybe 10. It now ensnares several MILLION taxpayers, and far from only UHI taxpayers.
Indeed!
I'd be happy with the Flat Tax as suggested. Consumption-based with pre-bates up for spending up to the poverty line.
Flat tax, as long as not a Value-added-Tax twin, or let tariffs pick up the burden, as the Founders envisioned. But tariffs may be more complicated today.
Instead of rebates, better to have one big deduction based on filing status and everything above that taxed at the flat rate. No deductions for anything else at all for federal tax. Never give back money.
No more need for 501c3. Any legitimate charity actually doing charitable work shouldn't have any excess income anyway - it should all go to expenses and (above a threshold) be subject to GAAP. No NGOs.
Next question: what sources of funds should be taxed for individuals? Income? Capital gains? Benefits?
It's not a REBATE, it's a PRE-BATE. In other words, at the start of each period, the government credits you with enough money to pay the taxes on purchases up to the poverty line.
There's no filing or tax rebates at the end of the year because there's no IRS or complicated tax system. You pay your taxes as you purchase new goods. (If you don't, no taxes!)
Rebates of any sort are a thin edge of the wedge. They will only increase over time.
Even at the start they represent an expensive and unnecessary complication to the system.
The less of them there are, the higher the cost per transaction of the mechanism to provide them.
Without the government/banking money cartel poverty is not an issue. America in particular is more than generous enough to care for the small minority who can't manage to get themselves above the poverty line, and it's far better for everyone that those people KNOW in their bones that they survive on charity and not some damnable claim to have rights to other people's earnings.
Apologies for re-using my answer, but I'm BC right now. (Before Coffee)
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It's not a REBATE, it's a PRE-BATE. In other words, at the start of each period, the government credits you with enough money to pay the taxes on purchases up to the poverty line.
There's no filing or tax rebates at the end of the year because there's no IRS or complicated tax system. You pay your taxes as you purchase new goods. (If you don't, no taxes!)
How does the government know who gets the prebate? Last year's return? Or does everyone get it?
I'm curious how you see this working. If you had to steelman it, what would you put in the cost/disadvantage column for this concept?
(EDIT: No offence taken. No harm, no foul.)
Everyone who files taxes gets it (so not illegals). I'd imagine there'd be some sort of 'Hey I'm 18/a taxpayer now' system, but this is a minor hurdle. The actual implementation of the system shouldn't be too difficult - we did this with covid 'checks'.
The downside is that prices immediately jump like 25%, and that's a pretty big sticker shock. But since people are no longer paying income tax and only pay tax on new purchases, it allows each person more control over what they pay.
Last time I checked, the FairTax claimed it would be revenue neutral (we'd 'make' the same as today), but it's been a year or so and I'm not exactly sure on today's math. (If it forced government to cut spending, even better, though.)
Happy to chat more about this, I think it's a pretty brilliant system. More info here: https://fairtax.org/about/how-fairtax-works
They are exposing the graft. The question I what becomes of it??? As of now, all they have done to my knowledge is shift the money to the state department for distribution. If the next spending bill pushed thru congress is still a trillion dollar payola scheme, than what??? Do we reassemble the continental army and storm the capitol???? Reconvene a constitutional convention???
If thats what it takes.
Musk is perhaps the biggest grifter/showman in the country, he is not exposing anything that was not common knowledge for anyone with an iota of curiosity and an ability for critical thought ..the entire Trump & Musky show is a continuation of the Kabuki theatre that is politics.
Look at the buildings they work in, the cars they drive, the houses they live in… all on a Government pay rate? I read somewhere that over 40 millionaires work for the IRS..how is that fk’n possible…. What millionaires would take a 40 hour a week government job for $70-100k a year?..they think we are stupid.. I’d move EVERY federal agency into empty strip malls in Kentucky & West Virginia…then turn DC proper(right along with K street) into a National Park… and dedicate all of it as an example of corrupt runaway government for all future American Citizens to see, understand and DESPISE…
It’s almost all waste and fraud!
The best government $36 trillion in IOU's will get you.
"stopping the cashflow is a vast sonar ping into the depths of the deep state."
Your turn of phrase is delightful.
"...turn of phrase", as always. Not to mention, I have two new words to add to the vocab (after looking them up)
-- impecunious
-- pelf
"Pelf" caught me. I know this meaning as "pilfer".
Everything was puzzle-snap satisfying about this substack piece.
Yes, yes, and yes.
It offers hope for this beleaguered Canuck.
Global Affairs Canada is your USAID. It replaced the CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) founded in 1968. CIDA was subsumed into Canada Foreign Affairs in 2013 after the Stephen Harper Conservative government reacted to the left-leaning NGOs in CIDA. It was eventually renamed Global Affairs Canada.
Yesterday, the Global Affairs Canada website went dark. Why? Well, on it were the over 1700 global projects allegedly for "sustainable development." Some folks were able to end-run and capture the website and then had to prop up their dropping jaws as they read the 1700+ entries. Cavalierly, $75M to this country; $45M to that country; $25M to another, all with lofty, important-sounding project descriptions. Of course, some projects would be effective usage of funds for noble sustainable development goals. But the majority of the descriptions were the usual-suspects of the global playlist: climate, gender, women. Rinse. Repeat.
We are light years behind you Amurcans. You have a big foot in the door. We have a few noble leaders: Danielle Smith. Leslyn Lewis, Raquel Dancho. There are a few more. Pierre Poilievre will likely be 25% better than Trudeau - if PP is elected - and that looks increasingly unlikely as he may face Mark Carnage [sic], the new Liberal Knight in Shining Banker. Should Pierre prevail, he's no DJT. There are no fiery Conservative visions dancing in his eyes. Will he be a placeholder until a true blue Conservo steps up to the plate? Tune in for the continuing story of Sighs of our Lives.
Thank goodness Trump "lost" the 2020 election.
Four years to plan, four years to for people like Elon Musk to take the red pill. And still, the whole nation's fate hung by a whisker on July 13th of last year.
I am so very grateful for this glorious revolution, thrilled to scroll the news every day. It's like the opposite of doom scrolling. Joy scrolling?
I betcha the Ds are wishing right now they didn't steal the 20' election...
Whenever I'm sad, I think of this.
“these are a few of my favorite things” 🎶
*snicker*
“when the doge bites…” 😂
DOGE bites All the King's Men
😂
Funny. Yes, you're right. Bungling on.....
Trump HAD to go through all that bullshit the last 4+years… it obviously has strengthened his resolve to drain the swamp… they needed to go through his wife’s panty drawer…fking criminals..now HE knows where all the bodies are buried… it’s a beautiful site to behold….. hopefully trials and convictions will be served up to a populous hungry for Justice very soon!!!
It seems to me somewhere a switch turned on for Trump, where he realized what he had to and could do whether he could see support or not. And a quiet resolution replaced the bombastic fighting.
He's clearly leading with a quiet resolve and a BIG stick. He knows what must be done, and is simply doing it without screaming it in advance. He knows he's backed by truth and he's willing to beat them at their own game.
Trump is acting like a man who escaped death by a quarter of inch….and he knows who really pulled that trigger.
pam bondi's DOJ will be very busy
In God's time, not ours. Love, hugs, and PERSEVERE yall!
With little to no leaks from those around him.
The sufferers of TDS among my acquaintances are wailing about an "unelected" person making decisions and "bypassing congress." They still can't see that every agency and entity that is losing USAID funding is full of unelected people making decisions without congressional oversight. The difference is that those entities are drinking from the spigot, but Musk is turning the spigot off.
Congress unconstitutionally gave these entities our national no-limit credit card and allowed them to spend it whenever they wanted on whatever they wanted. Musk is canceling the credit card account.
ha. exactly.
the dems scream about Musk not being elected...ha...I am waiting for someone on our "side" to address the elephant in the room. for the last four years un-elected bureaucrats were running this country while Brandon was MIA.
Add in Fauci, Birx, unknown people in the DoD, Big Pharma, and USAID itself. And that’s just covid!
Like I've said; every day of our lives has been Aprils Fools Day....we just didn't know it until covid.
Now we have proof!
Birx was DoD.
Check out Debbie Lerman’s latest Substack called The Dossier: A Record of Military & Intelligence Coordination of the Global COVID Event”
they had no problem with the unelected Fauci controlling every aspect of their lives. i doubt that Musk will hang out on the tax payer's dime for 40 years. he has a day job
This is an extremely good point
It’s a double whammy of un-electedness, as no way on God’s green earth did Joe actually win the 2020 election. He was installed via massive electoral fraud by TPTB.
I bet there are USAID receipts for all kinds of initiatives to protect election integrity or some such doublespeak label, which were actually about finding ways to rig the vote. Overseas action, too. I recall there was a lot of chatter on twitter at the time of shady things happening overseas in Italy and Germany, if memory serves.
To the tune of $2 TRILLION expenses vs revenues PER YEAR.
I repeat this as often as I can, those of you who are mathematically inclined can give us the correct result, but I will be in the zone: at $1 per second per hour per day per year, it would take approximately 37,000 YEARS to obtain just *one trillion dollars.*
Our national debt is growing at $2T per fiscal year (Oct-Sept).
Let that sink in.
And now we have a better understanding of why economic security is national security.
Great way to describe the magnitude of the federal debt. In a similar vein:
If you had started saving $200 every second,
at the moment when they laid the first foundation block of the great pyramid in Giza,
and continued saving $200 every second,
through the entire reign of the Egyptian empire, the Greek and Roman empires,
the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution,
and the model era, up until today,
you still would not have enough to pay off our federal debt.
Yes! Terrific. $200 a second. I struggle to save $200 a year.
The principal will never be paid. The CCP owns a huge chunk of that debt. IMHO, this is the primary reason a hot war with that government is untenable. Makes me appreciate POTUS negotiating skills.
I copied that incriminating photo of the unelected Alex Soros with all those Democrats....and I will be sending it to anyone I know who complains about Musk!
Remind them Ed Snowden was a contractor for Booz Allen who run unconstitutional NSA mass surveillance, cost plus contract beyond oversight, Fed Records Act & FOIA while much of CIA is outsourced to cabals like Carlyle Group.. did that worry them too? It's been getting worse for decades is outsource government new reality for them?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140317094356/https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37936.htm
This is among the BEST posts of this evening!!
Yep. But meanwhile during the FJB "presidency", unelected people ran our country the whole time. Everyone knows for sure it certainly wasnt FJB. He wasn't competent to run a shoebox much less an entire country.
When was Bill Gates elected?
Exactly! Their argument makes no sense. How many people in the entire executive branch ARE elected? Only two (and that’s if you count the VP who isn’t elected on his/her own but as part of the Presidential ticket). EVERYONE else in the executive branch of government is UNELECTED.
The kakistocracy has built their web for decades. Spiders will begin to devour each other as we unravel it. Few have as much blood on their hands as Bill Kristol and the neocons: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/downfall-usaid-bill-kristol-neocon-ngo
The lights went out at Kristol's house when the plug was pulled at USAID.
Good one
Keep it going, Yuri! Bohemian Grove indeed. Just a bunch of the richest and most powerful men in the world getting together for some hot man on man action with a side of satanic rites thrown in. Nothing to see here. Move along!
Thank you Yuri, for “kakistocracy”. I’ve struggled for years to find a way to express what that one word means!
We need a Kekistocracy. Hail Kek.
It’s Kristol-Nacht!
It is time for Trump to “splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
Asunderdome!!!!
that would fulfill JFK's wish while RFKjr is in the government. kind of beautiful
*kompromat. deadly serious kompromat."
This is the main theme in the Tom Cruise movie, "The Firm."
From this I deduce that Pelosi and The Turtle know a lot of secrets about their, um, coworkers.
Well, at least one of the non participating junior reps got primaries by the turtle bc he exposed the sex partying. That was just before the gay sex pics from inside chambers showed up online. And then there's the rumors of sex rooms below the capital...
The Franklin story ring any old timer bells?
“the best way to see who is stealing your electricity is to disconnect your house from the power line and see what goes dark around the neighborhood.”
Excellent.
Sometimes your insights are so stark and powerful I want to vomit.
For decades I've watched the evil grow, trying to make others see.
For the first time it looks like there is hope. But if Trump and DOGE fail, It will be like Sauron covering the world in a second darkness.
Like at the end of the Lord of the Rings, the evil horde is still standing there defiant. They can't retreat, can't escape and of course there is no surrender.
We must pursue them to eradication.
I'm not sure Evil can be eradicated. Rather, I think it's out job to be vigilant and step in before it gets too big to easily dismantle.
It's like poison ivy. A fierce and relentless campaign can wipe out all that you can see, but tiny tendrils of root linger underground, just waiting for their chance to emerge once more.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do battle.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom!" - Some guy smarter than me.
Here is part of the problem with government.
An ordinary person, A.O.C. for example, goes from being a bartender to being a member of committees dealing with billions of dollars. In short, the billions are not real, they are just numbers on paper. She cannot even start to grasp what spending millions, billions or trillions is all about, just numbers.
They don't see or don't care that you and I will soon do our taxes only to find out we have to send the IRS just a little more.
They don't see any of this as problems. Why would they? They get incentivized to create problems.
It's the same type of disease that afflicts Lotto Jackpot winners. More than half go bankrupt within 5 years because they think that they could never spend all of the vast sum of money. Unfortunately, they can. A few million here, a few million there, and pretty soon your talking some real money. With the government, you just change it from millions to billions.
Exactly. People will spend days planning/analyzing how to build a deck because it's tangible and isn't a billion dollars.
But if the same people had to approve an airport, etc.etc, for example, they'd rubber stamp it because it's scope is completely beyond their capacity and the numbers are too big for them to comprehend.
And it only takes a couple of good tongue baths before they believe they are smart and know what they are doing, in a classic Dunning kruger way.
For the record, I have never given AOC a tongue bath. But if she played her cards just right...
I think the coup goes back to at least 2020 when some magical 15 MILLION evaporative votes appeared out of nowhere to elect the Potato-in-Chief. Then they somehow disappeared in 2024.
George Herbert Walker Bush was the beginning of the modern iteration. The Bush/Clinton/Bush administration pried open the gate for the ineligible Kenyan to be installed.
The Great Evil, Hillary, was supposed to start the mass murder.
I'm amazed that more people don't appear to remember that GHW Bush was CIA Director from January 1976 to January 1977. CIA Director!!
I was there to see it. Not CIA, but he had a lot more impact than is generally known. Once it became obvious there was no way to reveal/resist, I dropped out and disappeared. I had my hopes raise a tiny bit when Perot showed up, but the Uniparty destroyed his candidacy.
I tried to tell folks that not only were Bush and Clinton the same team, they were the same family.
And don't forget granddaddy Prescott, Hitler's banker!
Carter....
I think the evil ones were drifting in a fruitless malaise before Reagan appeared. Then the were shocked into action and installed G.H to undermine him. Then after they shot him, it began again in earnest.
But there has been a festering evil in the shadows for as long as we have existed.
Based on what the Old Testament says - Dan Carlin says it is at times the only available historical source - your last sentence is exactly right.
i think the coup goes back to 1963 when they "removed" a sitting president on national television
and the Greaaaaaaat American sheeple let them get away with it.
I'm still surprised our military didn't invade Diddy's house for all the "oil" he had been "whoarding".
Urk. Gotta laugh though.
You have to admit, Diddy did a lot of drilling - just ask Justin Beeber.
Great minds think alike!!
I told that joke to my brother in Sept, Oct?
Egads, man!
My great fear is that the cockroaches chased out of go rr me t will seed themselves within the corporate power structure and use new levers to persecute their long lasting plans of subjugation, oppression, and debt slavery. Maybe we need to audit the Federal Reserve next?
And you should be afraid of this but you’re (the collective ‘you’re’) the ones up next in the queue to check these parasites. Pretend you’re part of this country’s immune system and play like you are an antibody who’s primary job is to identify these pathogens so that our social equivalents to killer t cells can remove them in various ways.
"(the collective 'you're')... immune system... killer t cells"
Yup. I'm pretty sure that's what Señor Gato means in his valediction: "LFG"
(which, note, is capitized whilst not being part of some Jeffrey Tucker gig; so he really means that shit right there)
‘Tis the reason I like Kitty the Great. That and he’s the only one here (I know of so far) who uses the navy pinging reference other than me. I do that all the time here and elsewhere.
Ken, yours is an excellent reply! Thanks!!!
More to the point, recognise the owners of the Federal Reserve.
I was directed to a very nice study of this today: <neofeudalism.substack.com> from April 19 and 21, 2023. The essays are necessarily long and should be read right to their ends.
The essays give a background to El Gato's thesis today, a level behind his visible "aristocrats."
https://neofeudalism.substack.com/p/goals-motivations-and-strategies-1dc
There’s plenty of room in the bosom of Mother Earth for them to…
and change the name. the Federal part confuses people. call it what it is
As it was intended to do.
I think that only worked when the cronies they leave behind in government still have power.
Right now, that doesn't look like a safe bet.
Team BigGovLobbyistRevolvingDoor hit hardest.
Rescind “Citizens United” would be a great start…
this is where you need the old concept of banishment- you've done something so terrible that you are not fit to live among others
How far do you think the ACORN falls from the USAID Tree in ObamaNation?
Well, getting a community organizer elected from Illinois State Senate thru half a term in the US Senate to TheBigChz in a decade ain't cheap!
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Neither is $100 million laundered through NetFlix.
But at least now we know, GMO
🌽Pop is just not 🍿!
If only the media watching public and those pathetically consumed in their TDS prison (several in my family) could read bad cattitude and Childers Covid and Coffee…
I read you often El Gato Malo, but rarely comment, except I do forward especially to introduce your deep dives to others. And today is a shell shocker… thank you…
Isn't it amazing, the divide between the TDS sufferers and ourselves? I come here for sanity, surrounded by TDS - and it feels like we are simultaneously experiencing 2 separate realities while sharing the same space. I'm dumbstruck amongst them most of the time - "you think that's real?" "you really believe that?"
Every US citizen deserves to see who is on the "Pay to the order of" line on every discretionary (not SSI, Medicare, etc.) payment made by our government, with extremely limited security exceptions. We should have a downloaded "check register" e-mailed to us at least quarterly. It's our money.
Well what do you know....? Some other guy(s) already thought about this.... In Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution:
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
USAID was always a CIA front, as was the Ford Foundation. Obama's mother worked for both, his grandparents worked for the CIA, and so did Obama from January 1984 to January 1985 at Business International Corporation.