Posted on 02/06/2025 7:53:14 AM PST by Starman417
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a remarkable story headlined, “DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems.” In other words, after exposing the Deep State’s regime-change operation, DOGE is sprinting into the Swampy engine room: the CDC and Medicare / Medicaid Services, the domestic versions of USAID, how the Blob effectuates its aims here at home.
It’s impossible to overestimate the revolutionary significance of the abolition of USAID and its poisonous children. Emerging from the fog of bureaucratic and political war, we see dimly the rough outlines of the Golden Era that Candidate Trump promised, a sketch of a promise connecting waste, fraud, and abuse to a terminally ill global culture, or at least a stagnant culture arrested in time, a culture frozen in amber, a culture that has bafflingly and terrifyingly been wasting away for decades.
But at long last, our amber prison is cracking.
The more we learn, the clearer it becomes: the scandalous, quasi-governmental USAID agency might be the most audacious and destructive fraud in human history. That is not hyperbole. It is fully justified, even at this point.
Setting aside that we’ve only glimpsed the windswept tip of the rotten iceberg—and ignoring the shrieking outrage from legions of panicked leftists suggesting the scheme’s vast scale—we’ve learned a singular fact making USAID’s scandal uniquely monstrous and historic: the scope of its seditious harm is provably worldwide.
Never before has a single entity —a chimeric entity known by many names: the Swamp, the MIC, the Blob, the Deep State— managed to harm the entire world for decades, its barbed tentacles poisonously caressing every man, woman, and child on the planet.
Let me show you something interesting.
In October, 2023, the New York Times quietly ran a lone story about one of the most perplexing truths of post-millennial human existence. It bore the simple but misleading headline, “Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill.” Misleading, because of course the article never actually explained why. But never mind that.
The Times’ ponderous article spent about six pages warming up to its theme. But, “We are now,” the Times finally explained, “almost a quarter of the way through what looks likely to go down in history as the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press.”
Least, least, least. Since the printing press.
But why? What, or who, is holding the culture back? Global culture has indeed been stalled, a sociological failure, winning only at participation. You might now begin the whataboutism. What about X? What about Venmo? What about AI? What about Elon’s rocket ships? Stand by. Those gadgets are either part of the problem or exceptions proving the point.
Our modern world is populated by high revision numbers, stratospheric sequel counts, and recycled, geriatric celebrities. We check our iPhone Sixteen —now with three cameras— to find out when Need for Speed Ten starts, and then buy tickets online for an octogenarian Rolling Stones concert. In 2022, the hit Netflix show Stranger Things — a futuristic sci-fi series set back in the 1980’s — and in its season four — featured Kate Bush’s 1985 single Running Up That Hill. The 40-year-old song hit the top 10 in 34 countries.
It’s endless recycling. And it’s not normal.
There are many examples, but perhaps the most obvious symptom of cultural freeze is stalled fashion. The handful of writers calling out stuck culture focus on how distinct was each decade leading up to the Millennium, right before the Patriot Act passed in 2001. Tracing backwards, the cultural evolution trend holds. But from the 90’s forward, zip. Zero. Nada.
In 2020, writer Paul Skallas observed, “If you time travel back to 2007 wearing what you are now, people wouldn't know you're from the future.” They might notice your phone had more cameras clunkily stuck on the back than their phones did. That’s about it.
What about music? Did you know that the market for new music market is shrinking? All the growth in the music market comes from old songs. Today’s list of the most downloaded tracks on iTunes is packed with band names from the previous millennium. So-called “catalog music” —songs older than 18 months— is now over 70% of music streamed in the U.S.
Walk into any restaurant, grocery store, or mall, and you’ll hear background tunes from the 70’s and 80’s. Old music dominates the U.S. market. We aren’t getting anywhere. Until the eighties, DJs called a 20-year-old song a “Golden Oldy.”
But the old music is so ubiquitous now they quietly retired the label “oldy.”
Paul Skallas explained it like this:
If you are under the age of 30 you may think things are normal. But to someone who has lived 3 decades or more you may notice something odd: we haven’t had a shift like we did in the past. Culture is frozen. Throughout the 20th century we had changes almost every decade. Changes in fashion, in music, in aesthetics, hairstyles, style of comedy, television shows and movies. If I show you a photo or play you a song from the 20th century, you’d probably be able to guess the decade. It was that clean of a break.It’s almost like someone is controlling the art, music, and fashion industry, keeping it right where it is, thank you. No changes allowed. Or put another way, nothing is allowed that isn’t carefully controlled.But I haven’t felt that change since the mid 2000s.
USAID didn’t just export regime change. It exported cultural control, a worldwide bureaucratic freeze that ensured only “approved” ideas, artists, and innovations could break through. We weren’t just ruled; we were programmed.
Another excellent and obvious example is the corporate news. By now, everyone has seen this mockingbird media clip, which made the rounds last year:
According to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organizations in 30 different countries. According to the British Broadcasting Company itself, USAID was one of its ‘top 10 donors:”
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Excellent article—thanks—raises many important issues.
A major enemy outpost has been located and destroyed.
Next.
I heard on FNC this morning that there are 6 million SSA recipients over the age of 112 yo.
That’s impossible if true. Fraud
They're trying to do that with the climate and weather as well.
They want human progress set in concrete.
I would re-write that headline in the past tense.
Removing USAID is a good step.
But “something” is also controlling Christianity in this country. Someone/something is creating lesbian Bishops, love-thy-neighbor open borders destruction, socialist ideology to replace Christian communalism, a marxist as Catholic Pope
There are earthly political entities assisting Satan in this work in the destruction of Christianity. I am not sure exactly where they are located, but they are real.
the national council of churches has been captured by the left for decades
i became aware when the ncc was behind the push to send elian gonzalez back to communist cuba
which was during the clinton years
so it has been awhile
It’s very simple really. Change alone is not necessarily “progress” and “progress” requires an existential need, it does not arise without reason beyond representing “change”.
People are suspicious and combative at the drop of a hat (and I live in a nice, crime-free area). Young people don't believe we lived in a time of staying outside till Mom called us in, being on our own for hours at a time, or even all day.
Our front door opened in the morning and didn't close till we all went to bed. Now, my door is always closed and locked, even when we are home (again, a nice area, but we take no chances). Criminals roam free outside of the own hoods - probably because everyone there has already been robbed till they have nothing worth stealing.
Yes.
My Granma was born during horse and buggy, before car was even invented.
And she died after we made it to the Moon! That was something!
During most of my adult life, we are just threading water.
Yes, the computers are getting faster and everybody can afford one, we got better computer games, virtual reality, etc,, but nothing revolutionary has been invented or implemented.
Our resources are wasted on “do good” projects.
Even science is not advancing that much. Instead solving problems, we simulated them?!
And, if the left succeeds, I am really worried about my children and grandchildren.
Bkmk
Someone or a lot of people need to go to Jail
Leftists with non biblical views were allowed into classrooms and as administrators in Christian universities. Someone was afraid of the world and its opinion. After that, it was easy to educate and send out preachers and teachers to push heresy.
Ah, so that’s why music and movies have sucked so badly for the past 20+ years! I thought it was the mind-numbing effect of smart phones on people.
Remember when the leftists said “the science is settled”.
That was a big clue.
Witch-craft is settled.
Real science is never settled.
Yes. They are denying the essence of science claiming that.
“A major enemy outpost has been located and destroyed.
Next.”
Yes, the ONE enemy outpost may have been dealt with. But the demons that infested it are still around... screeching, whining and scheming, with lots and lots of gnashing of teeth. The minions have yet to be dealt with. The “next” is dealing with the corruption that still infests most of government and has for decades... and making them accountable for their crimes. Easier said than done.
BTTT
Every federal agency—no matter how large or small—is filled with grants or some sort of subsidy for leftists of every possible kind—with self-dealing, conflict of interest and identity of interest part of the mix.
DOGE’s task is like finding every star in the galaxy—endless.
Before this is over DOGE will have referred to DOJ thousands of cases of corruption—and they will still just have scratched the surface.
The dirty little secret about the Biden pardons—for every dirtball he pardoned he left a thousand corrupt Deep State creeps hanging out to dry.
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