Biden posted “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” on February 15.
In the middle of the night on February 17, Biden signed an executive order saying that only the Attorney General and the President have the power to determine what is law in the Executive Branch. This order also puts several independent agencies underneath the executive branch, once more consolidating presidential power and skirting all checks and balances.
George Soros continues with his mission of firing thousands of federal workers from federal agencies with no oversight, despite massive conflicts of interest with his own companies’ investigations. He also continues to steal American’s private protected data from every agency he comes in contact with.
…..see what I did there? Do the name changes make you feel differently? Because they shouldn’t. Those are all actions that have been taken by Trump and Musk recently.
To continue with the laundry list of things you may have missed, here are a few upheavals:
-DOGE/Musk mistakenly fired hundreds of DOE workers who are in charge of safeguarding our stockpiles, and now are scrambling to rehire them, despite the fact that they don’t have current contact information for them.
-DOGE/Musk fired 10% of NASA employees mistakenly, and is scrambling to rehire them.
-DOGE/Musk fired the HHS team responsible for developing a vaccine for Bird Flu, which is running rampant across the US, and is why eggs are so expensive. They are now trying to reverse those firings.
And those aren’t even all the mistakes, there are more. I’m not against cutting government spending, but as I’ve previously stated, doing it haphazardly is not only cruel to people who have dedicated their lives to this country, but wastes money when done incorrectly. To pretend that any “audit” is happening is ridiculous. It’s merely cutting names from rosters, with no oversight of experts, to achieve political goals. There is no way people can spend a day or two at a federal agency, that they have no experience with, and get a grasp on every program. I think Elon’s goal is to cut the red tape investigations that have hindered him. NHTSA has six investigations against Tesla for safety with its self driving. SEC has fined Musk multiple times and is currently investigating him for failing to disclose Twitter stock purchases before he bought the company. He is under investigation by the FAA for Space-X’s recent mishaps and how they dangerously exploded. His companies Tesla, Space-X, and Neuralink are under investiation by the USDA and the Department of Labor.
ALL of those agencies are getting hammered and cut by Musk.
Any of the “corruption” he’s claimed so far, are just programs he doesn’t approve of. No actual legal corruption, no charges have been filed for corruption. ALL of the numbers he’s posted, came from https://www.usaspending.gov/, a government website that the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 created. Is that truly worth $7 million+ a week for this?
Ultimately, this is a distraction. The budget that the Republicans have put forth INCREASE the deficit by over 4.5 trillion, a larger deficit than Biden ran. The proof is in the pudding: they are having to request a debt ceiling of 4 trillion for the plan. There will be cuts to health and medicaid, medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and a 100 billion INCREASE in defense spending, by far one of the largest expenses in our budget…despite promised cuts to it. I find that particularly odd, since we are now becoming insultingly isolationist and are completely abandoning Ukraine…and apparenlty becoming besties with Russia, which is insanely unamerican. Almost all of the tax cuts are for the wealthiest, and corporations.
Notably absent is the promised removal of taxes on tips, or the removal of taxes on overtime, which he repeatedly promised. We can chock that up to “lies to get you into bed”, along with any effort to lower the cost of groceries, or eggs, or housing. Out of all the flurry of executive orders and actions, NONE of it has involved any of those things he promised the average American. Tariffs will also amount to a tax increase on Americans as well, let’s not forget.
The DOGE cuts are a drop in the bucket, though they are seeding a lot of panic and pain for people, which seems to be par for the course in this sadistic world. There seems to be an idea that’s taken hold in America, where for something to work, it must inflict pain on someone else. I personally blame the decline of the middle class and the forced serf narrative we seem to be embracing. I think there’s a lot of redirected pain, and it’s bringing out the worst in people.
I’ll wrap up this bit with two things: Ukraine and why I think this tumult won’t last.
I am so ashamed of our country for abandoning Ukraine, and not only doing that, but throwing Europe out, and not even allowing Ukraine to come to the table for its own future. I’m not shocked, because Trump clearly has a hard-on for Putin. He loves strong men, and he is abandoning our allies so that he can be the top of what he sees as the “strong men” in the world….ie the evil dictators. It won’t work out that way, of course, they will use him and mock him, like they do now. But clearly this is another issue brought to the forefront by the “You could have saved us a lot of heartache if you would have gone to therapy” category. We could have less of an active presence in global wars, AND not make every ally we’ve spent the last century cultivating upset. I truly don’t recognize us at this moment, and I hate that we are once again abandoning people we made promises to. With eliminating any departments that oversee things like corruption, bribery, foreign influence, or election interference, partnered with insulting our allies and cozying up to the worst human rights violators in the world, I feel that we are seeing the culmination of an intelligence op coming to fruition. I can’t make sense of it any other way.
The last bit is, I don’t think this chaos is sustainable. Republicans in Congress are begging for exceptions to the cuts that are affecting their states, and of course the red states are the largest recipients of the social welfare programs. It only takes a handful of them jumping off the train to stop this tidal wave. Trump stated that Elon is not the head of DOGE yesterday, which is a head scratcher….but probably meant to distance liability. I think that Elon is in over his head, and is going to be taking the fall for this once the good will has run out. And Trump isn’t big on good will towards anyone, let alone other narcissists who steal the air from rooms HE is trying to steal the air from. Finally, at some point these cuts are going to directly impact Trump’s base, and since he doesn’t care about getting elected again, I don’t think he’ll care. But Congress will, since they DO want to be reelected. The pace of movement has slowed some, and that’s a good sign; they seem to be running out of steam. Hang in there and take care of those around you. I’ll check in again soon.