Why is the government helping us overthrow the government? And why doesn't it do that more often?

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February 5, 2025

□ [“Attorney General Pam Bondi Orders Pause in DOJ Funding of Sanctuary Cities"]

Well that sure looks like a big win of the day.  This is probably why there were protests scheduled for every state capitol today at noon.  There were at my state capitol, over a hundred people.  Not sure how much support they had, but it's fr*king cold out, so there's that.

But this has the potential to a lot bigger than USAID, even that's just because most of us probably have a better understanding of how federal funding works and the scale they operate on.  The cities expect it as part of their budgets, they rely on it.  Now all of a sudden a large chunk of money has disappeared and they'll have to scramble to make up for it all over the place.  Even the bluest cities have a lot of people asking why they're spending so much on illegal immigrants.  Even if everybody doesn't feel the impact, they'll see it on others.

I wonder how that will affect the states.  They get federal funding too and divide it among their respective counties and cities.  This might suddenly hit Illinois or California just as Chicago and Los Angeles feel the sting.  Maybe it won't, perhaps the money goes to the state as a whole and the regulation says they can spend it wherever they want, but I'm sure the federal government could at least look at what they're doing with it.  They could also see if the state laws are being ignored, in addition to the federal laws.  Pretty sure every official, elected or not, signs documents promising to enforce the laws. If they didn't already have an excuse to be fired, here's another one.

This also demonstrates the difference between the two sides of the political conflict.  To the left, anything the government does is permanent, even if it changes what they did yesterday.  The right knows that anything the government gives, the government can take away, and it's in the government's interest to keep people as dependent on it as possible.  The less these sanctuary cities depend on the federal government, the better shape they'll be in now.  So would the illegal immigrants they brought in and promised to provide for.

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□ [“Politico Received Taxpayer Money From USAID — Awarded $8 Million in Hundreds of Grants"]

Politico is a leftist news site.  I assume I've linked to it before but it wasn't something I paid attention to, but it was a big deal to the left.  They were paid by the government to make various announcements, like when it was revealed that the Supreme Court was getting ready to cancel Roe v. Wade.  They're not the only media site either, the New York Times, the Associated Press and the BBC also received money from USAID.  The official sources are paid by the government, funny how that works.

There's also RINO sites, such as Bill Kristol, the founder of the Weekly Standard, a noted conservative magazine that always hated Trump and was proud to vote Democrat.  Politico is getting all the attention, maybe as a distraction or maybe because it immediately went broke and can't pay its employees the day after it happens.  Maybe it was for government bureaucrats, but regardless, there's a lot more of these out there.  Both the outlets for government propaganda and the institutions giving government funding grants.

People are working out diagrams (I think 'matrixes' is the term they use) to show the connections between these organizations.  It's not just 'big guy' giving money to 'little guys,' they're moving it around piece by piece, back and forth through multiple levels of shell companies.  I'm sure there are multiple motivations, but hiding the fraud is the only one coming to mind.  It's not just media and it's not just contained to the US, this is a global network funded by the US taxpayer and aimed at ruling the world.

There's even the possibility that the left is much less in number than portrayed by the media.  There are those who are paid to be there.  Maybe there are also mindless shills who are being told what to say.  No way to know who they are or how many, but to a large extent they'd be irrelevant.  I try not to think in such terms but it's possible.  Who knows, maybe they're even a majority, installed into authority to keep the rest of us in line, or to produce propaganda with the same effect.

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February 5, 2025

□ [“Al Green (D-TX) Announces Articles of Impeachment Against Trump for 'Dastardly Deeds'"]

This is a bit suspicious.  Christmas was over a month ago and it's still awhile before my next birthday, so what gives?  He can't just be giving me a present like this out of the goodness of his heart.  Gotta admit I'm skeptical.

But he calls it "dastardly"!!!  So is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, but that doesn't seem to have crossed his mind.  This probably won't make it out of committee or wherever impeachments get started, so it probably won't waste Trump's time, but at least Green gets a chance to show that he's more than just a few 1970s pop song hits.  The Al Green I know was all about love, not dastardity!

Without USAID, it's not clear how he's going to fund the media to promote this.  Unless he's surrounded by bodyguards, at some point someone will ask him how reducing government authority and expense makes one a dictator.  His answer will go viral and humiliate him.  Not even to make him lose an election but that's the party line.  This just comes like a parody of themselves but they expect to be taken seriously.

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February 5, 2025

□ [“Mitch McConnell Falls Down Again, This Time Down Senate Stairs"]

He's 82 years old, the third-oldest member of the Senate, the tenth-oldest member of Congress.  14 Senators and 40 Representatives have passed their 75th birthday, over 10% of them.  This is just stupid, holding power so long no matter how decrepit they get.  McConnell isn't the only one who's taken an old-timer fall recently.

McConnell recently passed his 40th anniversary in the Senate, longer than he's been married to his current wife.  [Elain Chao, best known as Secretary of Transportation under GWB and Trump.]  There was a time when old men were expected to show their wisdom and experience in public service while young men did the actual work, but there's a limit to that.

I'm sure there are mumbles, but I doubt any of the Republicans in office are talking seriously about telling him to retire.  Even if they were, he's probably surrounded by his staff who just tell McConnell how young and healthy he is.  They must be much younger and more experienced in what's going on outside Congress, so they can manipulate him anyway.  They get paid for that and probably more thanks to McConnell's official votes.

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