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Oh please. If USAID is corrupt (of course we know it is), it is not just the left but both if not all Republicans and Democrats who funded, approved and perpetrated the corruption. So the left is hypocritical sure, but the “right” includes hypocrites like mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, John Behnor, Lindsey Graham, Dick Cheney and his Dickhead daughter, oh and don’t forget Bush... the list of lying hypocrites is overwhelming. Should we add the new hero of the “right” to the list? Is America great again, or are we just supposed to believe that?

There IS a far left voting base, it's how they took over these institutions in the first place. However, it's smaller than advertised, but did attract the Managerial/Consulting class which saw a profit opportunity via USAID, DEI programs, etc. to expand their job & credentialist base.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/waterloo-monday-february-17-2025

The Swamp is going to need a bigger unemployment database. CNBC ran a story yesterday headlined, “Unemployment spikes in Washington, D.C., as Trump and Musk begin efforts to shrink the government.” The sub-headline added, “Jobless filings in Washington, D.C., surged to 1,780 for the week ending Feb. 8, a +36% increase from the prior week.” Pro tip: get out of Washington.

During the disastrous Obama-era economy, as jobs for people outside government crashed and burned, Nancy Pelosi infamously coined the term “funemployment.” The fossilized Speaker urged people collecting generous government unemployment benefits to spend time traveling, writing poetry, painting landscapes, and starting up NGO’s to teach transgender basket-weaving techniques to Namibian kindergartners.

It’s fun!

During the first two years of the pandemic, as ordinary Americans lost our jobs and small businesses by the millions, we were constantly assured by our federal betters that we were sacrificing for the common good. Meanwhile, the federal workforce metastasized, swelling like a taxpayer-funded tumor. Government workers got paid to ‘work from home’—which meant collecting full salaries, grant payments, and dead grandmothers’ Social Security checks between Netflix binges.

Maybe now it’s federal workers’ turn to sacrifice something for the common good.

Prepare for corporate media to circulate their perennial “hardest hit” sob stories, interviewing scores of bizarrely named ex-federal workers on food stamps who used to work on critically important projects like measuring the immeasurable land speed of treadmilled tortoises, mapping the astonishing diversity of prairie dog dialects, or making sure dead people kept getting their Social Security checks.

But remember: Trump gave them a chance. He offered eight month’s severance to any federal worker that wanted to take the deal. They didn’t take the deal.

There’s an old saying about making your own bed. It goes something like, if you make your own bed, you have to clean out the cheeto crumbs by yourself. Or words to that effect. They made their own beds. Don’t fall for media guilt manipulation.

Trump promised to drain the Swamp, and he meant it, this time. I’d only ask that he turn the draining machine up to 11.

Patrick says

"Trump promised to drain the Swamp, and he meant it, this time. I’d only
ask that he turn the draining machine up to 11."

It is like the Herculean fifth labor - the cleaning of the Augean Stables.- an unpleasant, and
difficult task. And so far, it is exceeding expectations!

All they had to do in 2016 was let the man be President, and come in and fire a couple of Obama holdovers and give George Soros some comeuppance, perhaps give Hillary a slap on the ass, and everyone would have honestly believed that the swamp was drained.

They had a bigger hand in draining the swamp than Trump did. The Swamp was just an opaque concept obfuscated in departments and procedures.
The only faces we had are the names listed above. The swamp rats themselves were gracious enough to expose their own existence. From the Muller investigations, to the impeachments, to the COVID scam to the DOJ post presidency persecution. And J6 trials. None of that was on any of our radars before Trump came along talking about draining the swamp.

It was like going deer hunting, and all of the biggest bucks meets you out in the parking lot.

Trump II presidential philosophy:

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Cry Havoc! And release the dogs of war!

Tenpoundbass says

All they had to do in 2016 was let the man be President, and let come come in and fire a couple of Obama holdovers and give George Soros some comeuppance, perhaps give Hillary a slap on the ass, and everyone would have honestly believed that the swamp was drained.

They had a bigger hand in draining the swamp than Trump did. The Swamp was just opaque concept obfuscated in departments and procedures.
The only faces we had are the names listed above. The swamp rats themselves were gracious enough to expose their own existence. From the Muller investigations, to the impeachments, to the COVID scam to the DOJ post presidency persecution. And J6 trials. None of that was on any of our radars before Trump came along talking about draining the swamp.

It was like going deer hunting, and all of the biggest bucks meets you out in the parking lot.

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1893285046913564973

https://x.com/Ikennect/status/1893692576659566765

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