By going after USAID the very first week, the White House has done what they say to do in prison:

X.com ^ | 8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2025 | Mike Benz✓@MikeBenzCyber

[E. Pluribus Unum]

find the biggest, baddest meanest guy on your cell block, and sock him square in the jaw on Day 1.

[PGR88]

Well, lookie here.

Who was the 2nd largest donor to the UK state-run media's globalist "disinformation" unit?

the USA's USAID!!!

[CFW]

Great analogy. And the fact they were ready to do on day one shows that Trump and the DOGE team knew exactly what was going on with USAID. They hit the corrupt grifters right where they get their money to operate. Our tax dollars. Fantastic move!

[MNDude]

I love this analogy

[piasa]

Just wait until they get to the financier behind the eco and anti frakking groups...

[MinorityRepublican]

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[Wilderness Conservative]

Uhmmm...Dont do that. You’ll be killed or crippled. The idea is to go psycho on the first person to mess with you.

[rellic]

Y’all kind of have it wrong.
You attack the first guy that tries to
be your “Friend”. Attack them.
They are looking at “fresh” meat.
You will get your butt kicked,
but your butt won’t get screwed
by every horny guy in prison.

[vmpolesov]

Heno me understand something. congress controls budgets but president is the executive? He has the power to say “we are not going to spend that money?”

What happens if some judge issues an injunction

[SpaceBar]

Sounds like a saying made up by someone who never actually spent time in prison.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Not surprised.

[Billthedrill]

That's a good way to get killed in prison, but never mind. What is actually going on is more like this, from a famous political consultant and all-around bundle of chuckles:

Hence it should be noted that in taking hold of a state, he who seizes it should review all the offenses necessary for him to commit,and do them all at a stroke, so as not to have to renew them every day and, by not renewing them, to secure men and gain them to himself with benefits. Whoever does otherwise, either through timidity or through bad counsel, is always under necessity to hold a knife in his hand;nor can one ever found himself on his subjects if, because of fresh and continued injuries, they cannot be secure against him. For injuries must be done all together, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; and benefits by little so that they may be tasted better.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

[Sequoyah101]

I opined something similar to this to my cohorts today on the subject of Trump's pace.

Nothing new under the sun in politics and human nature is there? Machiavelli was genius.

[mabarker1]