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Kunstler: How It Worked
Kunstler.com ^ | 7 Feb, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 02/07/2025 7:31:09 AM PST by MtnClimber

"They never prepared for algorithms that could map everything. For personnel pre-positioned everywhere. For a president who counts every week like it's his last." — VP JD Vance.

If you wondered since 2016 how come the blob and the Democratic Party were aligned so exquisitely in their operations to destroy populism (personified by Mr. Trump) and to permanently entrench single party power in America for all time to come, it’s because an endless font of taxpayer money was streamed into countless non-governmental orgs creating a shadow civil service of Democratic Party activists that melded seamlessly with the big policy-making agencies.

The money was laundered through manifold layers of these orgs and their sub-orgs to pay for an ongoing “color revolution” in the USA — lawfare, election fraud, propaganda, censorship, career cancellation, medical f***ery, open borders, and other totalitarian ploys — while enriching political players at all those manifold layers from multi-millionaire congressmen and senators to thousands of NGO officials making six-figure salaries to street hustlers like Patrisse Cullors of Black Lives Matter and “anti-racism” racist Ibram X. Kendi and his $50-million Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University (recently axed) — and, of course, ultimately the former Potemkin president “Joe Biden” and his family.

It was all this money that drove eight years of sponsored insanity. Mainly, it kept the hands of the Democratic Party firmly on the levers of power so that nothing could be done about the insults and injuries they were inflicting on our country. So, is it a mystery now that nobody was prosecuted for burning the cities in 2020, or for magically creating millions of extra “Joe Biden” votes out of nowhere that year, or setting up the kickback machine from Ukraine to Congress, or forcing millions to get a janky vaccine?

Pam Bondi is going to be a busy girl. The DOGE has uncovered a government racketeering operation of which the USAID scandal is but one cog in a colossal engine of grift. What the public, including you readers, may not appreciate is how much planning went on over the past year to mount the DOGE effort, and how comprehensively the work of its many hundreds of computer techies (not just six whiz-kids) has laid bare the money-trails out of previously impenetrable government computers. Their algorithms have pierced the firewalls, revealing decades of fraud and deceit.

Mr. Trump’s cabinet officers have started the job of dismantling the machine by getting rid of the employees who set it up and worked for it. By Thursday, Secretary of State Rubio fired all but 300 of the 10,000 people working for USAID. CIA Director Ratcliffe offered the agency’s entire workforce a “deferred resignation” option that will allow them to bail out and still collect their salaries until September. Look for straight-up firings to ensue. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the acting FBI director to terminate eight senior FBI officials and asked for a review of up to 5,000 involved in J-6 investigations (including, presumably, agents who engaged in abusive SWAT-team deployments).

Many lawsuits have been mounted by blob-adjacent attorneys to make all this stop. But one big problem for them is that their gigantic legal fees — hundreds of dollars an hour on the meter multiplied by x-hundreds of lawyers— were previously paid by exactly those NGOs that are getting shut down now. So, perhaps you see exactly how those levers of power worked. The money will have to come from somewhere else, and I doubt that Silicon Valley billionaire blob-supporter Reid Hoffman wants to piss away the rest of his fortune on this.

Some actual persons will have to be held accountable for all the mischief carried out in rogue agencies over many years. It has to start somewhere. I nominate Samantha Power as a first test case. She was in charge of USAID for nearly four years — until Jan 20, 2025 — including the duration of the Ukraine War. She was also personally very busy hands-on in arranging attempted color revolutions in Hungary (failed, against Viktor Orban), Georgia (failed), Mexico (failed), and Brazil (succeeded against Jair Bolsonaro). Ms. Power provided money from USAID-connected NGOs to foster instability in many more countries, including our country. It must have come as quite a shock to her that Kamala Harris did not win the 2024 election. USAID will not be paying for Ms.Power’s legal representation.

Much more will come to shock the blobsters and their legions — though just now, as the reformation of government begins, it’s comforting just to think of all those dedicated seditionists, Wokesters, Marxians, and Jacobins unable to make their rent payments or buy groceries all of a sudden. The paychecks have stopped coming for thousands who wanted to turn American life upside-down and inside-out. This happened most colorfully at the fake-news outfit called Politico this week. Turned out they were a subsidiary of the blob. Who knew? (Everyone who was paying attention to the jive they published.) Management had to send out a memo that reporters and editors would not get paid this week, or maybe ever again. Boo hoo.

It was also revealed this week that the Reuters News Agency, the Associated Press, The New York Times, the Wash-Po, and around 700-other news outfits altogether had been receiving financial support from USAID, the CIA, and other government entities. Now do you understand why the Democratic Party voters are so obdurately deluded and deranged?

Besides the perfunctory lawsuits filed against DOGE and the agency chiefs, the response to all this corrective action has been surprisingly feeble. You might conclude that they couldn’t marshal the rioters this time because the money for rioters has been cut off. Instead, you saw a motley pack of political creeps — Jamie Raskin, Ayanna Pressley, Liz Warren, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett , Ilhan Omar —crying crocodile tears outside USAID HQ at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. They looked like roaches after the exterminator’s visit.

The reform of our gone-rogue government is barely underway, notwithstanding these mighty initial actions. Yet to come, you have the whole filthy underbelly of the public health agencies who brought you Covid-19. The terrified Democrats are holding back confirmation of Patel, Gabbard, and RFKJr, but even if they fail to get confirmed, the new administration will put capable figures in those jobs at FBI, ODNI, and HHS. The party of Chaos must know that they cannot stop the dismantling of their evil machine.....SNIP


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: doge; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; jhk; misappropriation; racketeering
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1 posted on 02/07/2025 7:31:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Elon and his team are mapping financial data and moving on to the next target faster than the leftists can change their soiled undergarments.


2 posted on 02/07/2025 7:31:24 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Carriage Hill; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini

James Howard Kunstler ping


3 posted on 02/07/2025 7:34:38 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 02/07/2025 7:35:45 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

It really is breathtaking, isn’t it? Pres. Trump clearly learned some valuable if difficult lessons last time around, and he seems to be hell-bent on avoiding those earlier mistakes.


5 posted on 02/07/2025 7:37:19 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Blurb2350
Pres. Trump clearly learned some valuable if difficult lessons last time around, and he seems to be hell-bent on avoiding those earlier mistakes.

A wise man never makes the same mistake twice.

6 posted on 02/07/2025 7:38:35 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

The scope of this corruption is staggering. And to realize that thousands of people were complicit in this effort.

Considered in that light, it makes one wonder if this is a society even worth saving?


7 posted on 02/07/2025 7:39:50 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: MtnClimber

The next time you see a Democrat candidate in a school board race with a million dollar war chest now you know why!


8 posted on 02/07/2025 7:40:16 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: MtnClimber

When and how are they going to hit back?


9 posted on 02/07/2025 7:45:03 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: MtnClimber
Right now, DOGE is only looking at easily accessed government records

If you think things are interesting now - just wait until DOGE hooks up with the Pam Bondi’s DOJ RICO, Public Corruption and White Collar Crime guys and Kash Patel's FBI and John Ratcliffe’s foreign intel investigators who have subpoena power, criminal investigation capabilities and whole lot more.

We are talking the Dream Team here.

10 posted on 02/07/2025 7:47:00 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

++++++!!


11 posted on 02/07/2025 7:53:01 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: KrisKrinkle
When and how are they going to hit back?

I hope the Trump administration has a replacement for Vance in case he has to step in if the Democrats assassinate President Trump.

12 posted on 02/07/2025 7:54:28 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MtnClimber

That picture is the face of New York City.

Thanks for posting. It reads like the US Federal Government should make do without taxing the American People for a period not less than 7 years.

The wealth and property of the Federal Legislature should be confiscated.


13 posted on 02/07/2025 7:54:49 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: Rich21IE

Thousands? It’s a whole lot bigger than that.


14 posted on 02/07/2025 7:55:48 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

The government is awash in tax money, drowning in tax money. We could get away with cutting taxes by a third and letting them figure it out.


15 posted on 02/07/2025 7:56:43 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

Imagine when they use this on voter rolls.


16 posted on 02/07/2025 8:01:07 AM PST by bleach (Donaldus Magnus 2024-2028 A.D.)
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To: MtnClimber

Mr Kunstler has totally redeemed his last name.


17 posted on 02/07/2025 8:08:39 AM PST by A strike ("We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files ..)
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To: KrisKrinkle

Doing so takes $$, and DJT45/47 has closed the $$ pipeline, reducing the possibilities. Brilliant.


18 posted on 02/07/2025 8:09:22 AM PST by pingman ("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
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To: MtnClimber

Excellent article—ties together many of the pieces we have been discussing.

Starve the left and it dies.


19 posted on 02/07/2025 8:11:46 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Instead, you saw a motley pack of political creeps — Jamie Raskin, Ayanna Pressley, Liz Warren, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett , Ilhan Omar —crying crocodile tears outside USAID HQ at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. They looked like roaches after the exterminator’s visit.”

Great imagery! 😊


20 posted on 02/07/2025 8:14:09 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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