(Alt-Market)—The reasons why conservatives fight so adamantly for smaller government have never been more obvious than they are today. Even before the DOGE audits, the galactic cost of federal debt spending was clearly crushing our economy. The interest payments alone are costing the American taxpayer around $1 trillion annually. If nothing changes for the better the national debt will hit $54 trillion by 2034.
Of course, this is unsustainable. The system will completely collapse well before another decade ends; under the weight of rising interest rates or under the weight of exponential inflation. We are already seeing the results of the spending bonanza through ongoing stagflation. Prices on most goods are 30% higher (or more) in the past 5 years. Home prices and rent costs are up at least 50% on average. Americans are being financially suffocated.
The US public wants a reckoning for this theft – And yes, it is theft. Our government, like an MC Escher drawing, is an endless maze of dead ends and black holes. It’s a vampiric organism that siphons money from taxpayer pockets, infinitely churning and embezzling and feeding until there is nothing left. It will not stop, until we make it stop.
Part of this parasite’s defense is to pretend like it doesn’t exist. We know it exists because we can see our blood being drained; we can see the results. But proving that it exists is another matter and it was nearly impossible because the only entity that has been allowed to audit the government is the Government Accountability Office (GAO). In other words, the government audits itself.
Most of our government apparatus is NOT elected. The vast majority of it is created from thin air through bureaucracy. Each new tentacle, once created, grows without regulation and forms new tentacles until there is no way to tell what connects to what and where all the money is going.
The original source of this bureaucracy is a cabal ultra rich elites backing unaccountable NGOs. They helped to create the system over decades so that they could move back and forth from government to NGOs to corporations without being noticed. The revolving door became standard and the same wealthy moguls and social engineers heading up think tanks and non-profits and international conglomerates were now able to cycle into various government agencies and change policy to benefit them.
Without the bureaucracy the power of the elites is greatly diminished. That is to say, bureaucratic agencies ARE the true power in government – Not presidents, not congressmen, not senators, and certainly not the American people. Political parties can change, presidents can change, the US can go from red to blue and back again, and the system remains mostly the same.
Until the Trump Administration and DOGE, no one has even tried to audit the government and figure out what the majority of these agencies are doing. The same goes for the Federal Reserve Bank, which facilitates fiat cash beyond the limits of taxpayer funds. They make deficit spending possible and allow the bureaucracy to grow without restriction. The Fed has never faced a full audit either, and good luck trying to get Congress to institute one.
The bottom line is this: The government has been deliberately engineered in such a way that nothing can ever be fixed or reformed. The existence of “the bureaucracy” as we know it today was never intended by the Founding Fathers and it should not exist. It is the “Shadow Government”, or at least, it is the primary mechanism by which the Shadow Government rules over the US. Get rid of the bureaucracy and the elites lose everything.
This is why the global geopolitical reaction to DOGE has been so insane and violent; the parasites are seeking to protect themselves and keep their blood supply flowing.
Why does the average American citizen need an agency like USAID? We don’t need it and never will. It only exists as an embezzlement scheme for bureaucrats and NGOs. It serves no other purpose. So, we just get rid of it, right? Except it’s not that easy…
For now it appears that the bureaucracy is using the judicial apparatus in a bid to prevent DOGE and Trump from making necessary cuts. Trump is being told that as President, he’s not allowed to fire anyone in the Federal Government. Think about how insane that sounds.
The jurisdictional overreach and clear political bias is astonishing, but it makes sense. The US President is not supposed to have any real power, he’s only meant to act as a figurehead to make us peasants feel like our votes matter. He’s not supposed to actually follow through on his campaign promises and affect legitimate reform according to the will of the people. That’s crazy talk…
The bureaucrats are so used to running the country and controlling the cash behind the scenes that they are utterly shell-shocked by the notion of being independently audited. They think they are above scrutiny or accountability.
Democrats in particular are absolutely enraged, taking to social media and ranting about how “democracy is under threat” because employees within these agencies are being asked to justify their jobs. The reaction to DOGE is so unhinged I don’t think the public is processing it yet.
Again, the Shadow Government (the bureaucracy) is the real government. When leftists claim audits and cuts are a “danger to democracy” what they mean to say is, THEIR POWER is being threatened. The majority of American voters elected Donald Trump and by extension his administrative team based on his campaign platform of smaller government and balanced budgets. Democrats argue that the will of the voters is anti-democratic.
So what is the solution to this blatant obstruction of voter choice and government accountability?
I believe the situation may end up calling for public intervention by conservative citizens. Leftist activists are being organized by NGOs to thwart DOGE, but where are the conservative activists to help DOGE? Maybe unnecessary agencies need to be shut down by public mandate regardless of what woke Obama appointed judges say?
A mass of conservatives surrounding an agency building would shut operations down by default and send a message, wouldn’t it? Leftists had no problem picketing outside the houses of Supreme Court Judges when they overturned Roe V Wade; conservatives could do the same thing with leftist judges blocking deportations of illegal migrants. If leftists want to use political intimidation by setting fire to Tesla dealerships, conservatives could organize groups to watch over these businesses.
This is not necessarily an effort to protect some electric cars from being vandalized. The point is to send a message that conservatives are not going to sit at home doing nothing while leftists run rampant doing whatever they please. The political left has had a near monopoly on public action for far too long.
I get it – A lot of these people are being paid by NGOs to do what they’re doing and the rest of us have real jobs and real lives to keep us busy. But frankly, this should galvanize people more. If so many of these activist groups are astroturf then there needs to be a grassroots response to confront them. If they need to be paid and we don’t, then we hold a more legitimate and powerful position in the long run.
In terms of judicial obstruction I see very little recourse other than citizen intervention.
The other option is for the Trump Administration to ignore the judges and continue forward, but even this strategy would require very public mass support from Americans. To be clear, I understand that this creates a slippery slope for presidential power. However, did any of us in the Liberty Movement really believe that the government would shrink itself or that the elites would release their hold over the system because of an election?
Did anyone really think that a reckoning would happen with the endorsement of the courts? The courts have never been the true counterbalance to tyranny, the American people are the counterbalance.
Make no mistake, this is a life or death struggle playing out in front of our eyes. If we continue down the current path of unrestricted government our economy will implode and the establishment elites are positioned to take full advantage of such a crisis. There will be nothing left of America when they are finished; our nation will be a dried up husk.
Now is the time to remove them and their institutions from our society. If we don’t accomplish this task soon our children and their children will live in a world controlled by a faceless bureaucratic mafia immune to all accountability; driving each new generation into perpetual poverty and oppression.
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People on the right aren’t that stupid; we don’t need another Waco. The new admin barely has control over their new departments, all rife with corruption and hostile players. Don’t put it on the public . . . these people are criminals, still unchecked, but the streets are wide open if you want to peacefully protest.
No problem Richard, The 4th seal Re 6:8 war is 9 months pregnant. 2 billion die very soon. Russia and China attack America. Out of our ashes rises a CBDC, mark of the beast, and the near pass-by of Planet X and fire from heaven set the world up for the New World Order announced at the first trumpet.
The world has always been ending . . . I’m far beyond care. The DOJ, so far, has been pretty quiet and I’ve heard NO explicit mention of George Soros funding virtually all domestic terrorism. So are they building a case, or just sweating over the Epstein files and how to spin them? Too little, too late for me, but what I won’t do is live in fear now or do something new and blatantly stupid for the cause after decades of crime, incompetence, non-stop gaslighting, doublespeak, and prosecutorial misconduct in America. Should the tables turn in the midterms, or the next election, do you remember what happened to grandmas silently praying, or people brutally imprisoned over J6? The only thing Patel can do is close the doors of the FBI forever, while dismissing the worst players who live beyond prosecution. It all makes me sick. Meanwhile, Waltz gets to keep his job despite of him within two feet of Goldberg for a very happy picture at Goldberg’s own function . . . so yeah, I guess they talked, and knew each other, and that was no accident, and he’s a RINO turncoat, and still nothing happens. Probably Trump protecting Hegseth, for hiring Waltz, which was probably an honest enough accident. STILL, nothing really happens once the treachery is known; no one wants the heat, but I will not be a street thug or outspoken voice in the streets while the enemy dumps pallets of bricks for war all over blue cities, at will. Left or right, all part of the Uniparty, all knowledgeable of Epstein and his island and other ‘pizza party’ nightmares . . . for DECADES. It will be fun to watch the general carnage, nevertheless, but I am not feeling anything like victory or even the chance of it, it’s just we’re a little better off than the Canadians and Europeans, for now.
Yes, the people need to make their voice heard but taking it to the streets is unnecessary. It is disappointing that the author failed to bring up the constitutional process of an Article V states convention. Groups have been working for over a decade to educate us on this, but we’ve ignored it. Take the money away from Washington, and a lot of good happens for America as an example. It is time for Americans to demand our representatives get behind this. Get the convention, propose amendment(s), get them ratified by the states. Even ‘liberal’ Massachusetts has officially recommended this in their 2019 Citizens Commission report.
Bad idea. The first and second Amendments would be gone first…just to get started.
So you think the states would commission their reps to vote for off-topic purposes? The initial rules commitee would allow off-topic proposals? The convention would propose such amendments (all the convention does is proprose)? And then 38 states would ratify such an amendment? Not sure where you’re getting such notions, but history, practice and the constitution counter your idea.
Past time for GOP Senate to focus on reducing Fedl Dist Judgeships and installing true conservatives on the bench. Full attention to the midterms and enhancing GOP #s in House and Senate. Wake up Americans. Progressives are moving quickly out of states they’ve already destroyed like WA, OR, Calif, NY, NJ, ME, MA, CT, MN, IL and WI. Hell they’ve even manuevered a takeover of AZ because retirees there have given up. Better get your s__t together and get back in the game. Full speed ahead on the MAGA agenda. Beat the drums incessantly so that our GOP Congress gets the message loudly and daily and regains their spines. Eliminate RINOs and RINOettes. Save America. FIGHT.
Even with Trump in office, the horrible abuses of Conservative protestors vs Dems in DC make MAGA folks think twice about DC protests. But we need to be more creative:
1. Rather than protest in DC, have a coordinated street lockdown with truckers and cars. JUST GO DRIVE AROUND THE CAPITOL and clog the streets to a standstill. No sign-ups, no signs…no way to identify who are conservatives…fake your tags so you can’t be found by them. Grind commerce to a halt by clogging access routes until SCOTUS does its job.
2. Protest in our own state capitol Supreme Courts and demand that state governors, AGs, and judges get involved in dealing with rogue federal judges.
3. Fight fire with fire…sue, Sue, SUE every Democrat and RINO and bureaucrat in office. There is plenty cause. Use the same lawfare being used to stop Trump’s agenda. Bog down the courts.
4. Establish a GoFundMe account to hire a private investigator to find the goods on several high-profile judges. Start with Judge Roberts and find out what he is being blackmailed with and expose it…then demand the DOJ initiate a federal investigation and if he is guilty of a crime, put him in prison.
5. Fund a trucker strike…supplement trucker salaries for a 1-day strike, where nothing moves but medical supplies, fuel, and food. If cars see a truck on the road, surround it and force it to stop. If the politicians don’t respond, the next week will be a two-day strike….then a three-day strike.
6. Demand an end to “investigate, investigate, investigate” then when guilt is discovered, doing “nothing, nothing, nothing”…like Comer did with the Biden family. Like Hillary for her treasonous crimes. CONGRESS! DID! ABSOLUTELY! NOTHING!!!
Add your own…think of creative ways we can make their lives a living hell…without harming a hair on their heads or destroying so much as a single fire hydrant. Dems are thugs…we’re better than that.
President Trump will not be able to turn this around in just four years. As far as the violence goes it will be the liberal communist leftist (democrats)that will get this ball rolling.
“We the people” will have to be ready, willing, and able to smash , burn and bury these people. It is the only way forward and the only way to save our nation.
Uh, it’s always been this way. The laziest way to enrich ourselves with the usual baggage. People up there like us. Please, don’t EVER get me involved with that.
Politics sucks. Washington sucks. The government bureaucracy is a malignant mass that will continue to grow in the belly of the country, until systems start failing which will be the end.
negative, these fkg ******* understand only one thing. mostly peaceful leaving?
fkemall, are they faster than Pb?