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Last year, we worked together with Senator Joni Ernst’s office to quantify the federal bureaucracy. We asked questions like: How many are there? What are they earning compared to the private sector? Where are they located? How do they perform? And how much vacation do they enjoy on taxpayers’ dime?

Many of the answers were pretty damning.

Our findings were documented here on Substack and at Newsweek in our joint oped, “Where’s Waldo at Club Fed?”

We found that after just three years of federal employment, workers enjoyed 44 days of paid time off. Nine weeks of vacation must be nice!

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average real wage for a private worker (FY21) was $54,339 – but at 109 of 125 federal agencies in DC, the average salary was over $100K.

When questioned by Congress in 2023 about how many employees had returned to the office after Covid, Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja had no idea. ...

A new report this month from Senator Ernst, aptly titled “Out of Office,” dives even deeper. Those vacation days are just philosophical at this point, as the Covid lockdown has given way to an endless era of work-from-home and telework policies. They’re “phoning it in” – literally!

Among federal buildings in DC, just TWELVE PERCENT of office space is occupied.

Never forget that the deep state and its revolutionary toolbox are amoral, in the same way that sharks and coral snakes are amoral. It’s a kind of amorality that always produces evil. The government justifies these tactics by claiming color revolution is cheaper and less destructive than waging kinetic war using missiles, tanks, bombs, and space lasers. But they know what they’re doing is wrong, which is why it is always kept secret.

They don’t care about anything except power. They don’t care about you, me, life, death, or even their precious jabs. Remember this summer, when we learned the Pentagon got caught pushing anti-vaccine propaganda in the Phillippines while it was mandating the shots at home?

The quantum of official evil is nearly indescribable. If the Pentagon truly believed the vaccines saved lives, then they intentionally doomed countless Filipinos who believed the Pentagon’s anti-vax propaganda (not to mention others outside Phillippines to whom the Pentagon’s propaganda leaked). On the other hand, if the Pentagon knew the vaccines did not work, then knowing that they still forced our U.S. service members to take the shots anyway, along with the unnecessary risks.

It’s calculated hypocrisy. This is how the deep state operates—playing both sides of every conflict, every crisis, every debate, as long as it serves the ultimate goal of consolidating power. They don’t just manipulate narratives; they manufacture them. When caught, they simply pivot, bury the truth under layers of mind-numbing obfuscation, or dismiss critics as conspiracy theorists. It’s a game of plausible deniability, where the human cost is nothing more than a line item on the geopolitical spreadsheet.

In the Philippines, the propaganda wasn’t just a one-off mistake—it was a deliberate operation, coldly calculated to overthrow a government that was becoming too friendly to the Chinese. And it worked. The new regime is enthusiastically pro-American and anti-Chinese, and it already allowing us to build more military bases there.

Well, what's the rest of the story?

Well, what's the rest of the story?

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