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If Trump succeeds in these agency purges, and gathers the money strings back under White House control, in one transparent database, then the deep state as we knew it is finished.
"You can go now with some benefits, or you can be fired later without. Your choice." The apparatchik apocalypse has arrived. Without rank and file, the real culprits have less cover to hide.
State transportation infrastructure projects (roads/bridges).
Late yesterday, Forbes ran a story headlined, “States And Nonprofits Suing Trump Over ‘Catastrophic’ Pause In Federal Funding: ‘Immediate Nationwide Harm’.” Yesterday played out just as I predicted, as progressives filed countless lawsuits in a vast, chaotic, terrified, deep-state reflex to the threat of even a temporary pause in their federal payments.
On top of the lawsuits —nobody knows yet how many, but it’s a lot— progressive activists took to social media to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The truth was the proposed freeze —now halted by a Delaware judge— would only affect non-profits and NGOs. Payment to individuals, such as Social Security or Medicare, were already exempt.
Among the frantic howls of protest, we have uncovered a universe of progressive NGOs and nonprofits who live off the federal government, and live very well, and nearly all of them are Democrat-aligned. It’s becoming clear why this ecosystem of federal finance is so opaque: to protect the extended part of the progressive deep state.
Project 2025 or whoever planned this assault on the Swamp must surely have anticipated these legal challenges. We must wait and see how they respond. But the Swamp-draining continued yesterday at a frantic pace, and a whole new front opened in Trump’s war with the deep state.
paying to defend Europe from Russia.
The Washington (former DC) Laundry and Virtue Signaling Grifts are closed until further notice. Governors who act contrary to the interests of the people can expect fatigues on their doorsteps. Thank you for disarming the dazed and confused LibbyFucks, only the patriots are armed now.
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Project 2025 or whoever planned this assault on the Swamp must surely have anticipated these legal challenges. We must wait and see how they respond. But the Swamp-draining continued yesterday at a frantic pace, and a whole new front opened in Trump’s war with the deep state.
It might have been a better idea not to sue, but now it’s too late. Cutting off their money was too provocative to resist, and several lawsuits are already underway, with at least one lower-court judge having ordered a temporary stay of the domestic funding freeze. It’s on.
The judge stayed the domestic spending freeze, but the State Department’s freeze on foreign aid remains in play. And magical, if not miraculous fruit is already growing on the tree of Secretary Rubio’s foreign funds freeze. The freeze is rooting out hidden truths. The howls of protest from funding recipients are giving away the never-before-known positions where the dark money had been flowing, and the emerging battlescape is even uglier than you would have thought.
Here’s one example. Bubbling up in protests from some smaller, less sophisticated Ukrainian media outlets was the astonishing fact that ninety percent of Ukrainian media is now U.S. funded. Or at least, it was till Trump stopped it. Wednesday’s headline (before it disappears) from Ukraine’s Institute for Mass Information:
OKSANA ROMANIUK: 90% OF UKRAINIAN MEDIA SURVIVED THANKS TO GRANTS
28.01.2025, 17:40
Nearly 90% of Ukrainian media survived thanks to grants. This is a consequence of the
advertising market in Ukraine dropping in the first year of Russia's full-scale invasion, by
92% in the online media sector in particular.
Oksana Romaniuk, director of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), said this on
Hromadske Radio while discussing the outcomes of the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) suspending funding for all programs and projects
for 90 days.
Hilariously, ironically, and completely unselfconsciously, Director Romaniuk complained that freezing U.S. funding of basically all Ukrainian media would undermine “democracy and democratic institutions in Ukraine.” It got even funnier. Romaniuk scolded readers, warning them that “someone may want to take advantage of the situation to seize the media space, start controlling it, and thus turn the media into a tool for some kind of influence.”
You mean, like the US just did?
Hahaha! Stop! The irony! It hurts to laugh this hard! First, on an informational aside, most Ukrainian NGOs, including its legacy media, have begun desperately seeking donations to stay afloat in the fallout from Secretary Rubio’s foreign funding freeze. Democrats now have the chance to step up, in this time of trial, and put their own money where their I stand with Ukraine mouths are.
But do you stand with Ukraine, though? Show us.
Consider the brilliance of Trump’s global foreign funding freeze. How else could we, the hapless, information-starved American people, have learned what Biden’s State Department was buying with billions of our tax dollars? Trump made the recipients reveal themselves. The truth was buried below layer upon layer of neocon lies and official obfuscation. But Trump’s fearless freeze on opaque federal funding ripped off the masks, and now we’re frantically glancing around the room in horror, wondering what the Dickens have we gotten ourselves into here? And how are we going to get out of this?
The smarter, more politically savvy recipients of USAID are, no doubt, keeping quiet in public, which is why the outcry has been so muted. That, and because our corporate media understands the game. But there are just too many recipients. The whole thing is too big, especially in Ukraine. Many of the smaller grifters simply don’t understand our politics and the bad optics, and so they are telling us where the money was going, despite Biden’s neocon’s relentless efforts to keep us in the dark.
In other words, as the swamp drains, it’s gradually revealing all the bodies hidden beneath the water. Meanwhile, the Democrats still lack a coherent strategy or even a clear leader. Since the deep state must hide itself in order to exist, and since it works through the Democrat party, the party’s disarray disadvantages the deep state.
In what way did “Joe Biden’s” Department of Homeland Security imagine that funneling known criminals, certified lunatics, and saboteurs across the border squared with their duty to protect and defend the country? And how did it happen that US taxpayers’ money got shelled out to fake “religious” NGOs in Mexico minting debit cards for border-jumpers, handing them wads of cash, cell phones, airplane tickets, fully-equipped backpacks, and apps for evading arrest? In effect these NGOs took over the exact job description of “coyote” formerly performed by the criminal cartels — leaving the cartels free for the more lucrative rackets of dealing fentanyl and trafficking women and children.
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