With the DOGE strike team marauding different U.S. Agencies, something amazing is going on.
Someone outside the swamp is actually reading and understanding how funding is really being used by the U.S. Government.
It was amazing and historic to see DOGE raid FBI headquarters instead of the Merrick Garland-directed terror raids conducted during the Biden Staffer tenure.
Democrats have gathered with Avocados and Dos Equis in hand to defend the gross fraud, waste, and abuse such as teaching Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gendered language”, funding Soros front groups like the East-West Management Institute, and the decisive exposure of truth, subsidizing Politico with lavish subscriptions amounting to $8.2 million a year.
Legacy media shrieked as shrilly as Democrat Leadership but to little avail. They’ve lost the narrative and even their own side is not buying into this.
“Rahm Emanuel — the former House leader, Chicago mayor and diplomat — told me much the same: ‘You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch.
And my view is — while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on,’ he said,” shared Rachael Bade in her February 4, 2025 piece in Politico.
I don’t have the exact minute-by-minute forensic timeline, but her article might have come out shortly before the USAID largesse for Politico was revealed.
Rahm and others like Comedian John Stewart have chastised the cringy responses led by Senator Schumer and his legislative rent-a-mob hastily formed to protest foreign aid freezes, but by the time they protested, DOGE had already delivered the incriminating financial forensics of the USAID criminal enterprise, which made Schumer and his “posse” look foolish.
USAID using CIA Tactic of hiding in plain sight to fund media
Much of the USAID information has been public facing for years, but it drew little attention. USAID learned from their partner agency, the CIA, that using camouflage and other sophisticated hiding techniques is often counter-productive. Years ago, the CIA developed the alternative philosophy of “Hiding in Plain Sight”. How is this known? It is right on their website where it says:
Misdirection
Both magicians and intelligence officers use the art of misdirection to hide objects in plain sight, conceal an action, or manipulate an object to make something appear, disappear, or transform into something else.
Think of the now infamous technique seen in most Hollywood spy movies, the “brush pass.” An asset and an intelligence officer casually walk past one another and hand off information or a package without anyone noticing. When done well, the brush pass is practically invisible. It originated in the magician’s community.
A key to the trick is misdirection. An obvious larger movement—like looking at one’s watch or moving a coat from one arm to the other—draws attention away from the other hand, which is slyly dropping a package into the grocery bag of the passerby.
The USAID Information was there for years, using nice-sounding names, but some titles were utterly clear.
Combined with stonewalling of Congressional requests for information, aggressive assertions of apolitical behavior by USAID employees to justify non-response to Congressional inquiries, and leveraging of voluminous noise from friendly media funded by USAID, they were able to get away with this for years until the DOGE boys showed up.
Axios quibbles that these are subscriptions not funding
To confirm the revelation of USAID funding media such as Politico, a definitive source of truth was needed, so Axios’ sagacious analysis was sought.
Of course, Axios was living in an alternate universe and conducting quibbling and parsing operations – a high art form used like a massive dump of chaff and flares to distract the audience once the hiding in plain sight strategy begins to crumble.
Axios clarified for the erudite and sophisticated elite:“How we got here: A fake theory about Politico being funded by the government is catching fire in right-wing circles.”
It’s a prime example of how false information sweeps through social media — and it could spell trouble for Politico and any other media organization that has contracts for subscriptions with the government.”
Axios arguing that “contracts for subscriptions” is somehow not the same as funding, is akin to Baghdad Bob saying there are no Americans in Baghdad as the 3rd Infantry Division rolls down the avenue to his press conference.
The Laobaixing get it, but apparently, the Elite do not; “funding” and “subscription” are the same thing – they are both government subsidies.
When in the Pentagon, one of the annoying things that occurred was a massive, daily dump of print periodicals such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and so on.
99% of these pallets of Legacy Media went straight into the trash or recycle – it really did not matter, both ended up in the same landfill. But the Elite laundered money to their allies which was the point – those days are over.
A De Facto Convention of States in progress with the daily DOGE Boys Thunder Runs
Steve Bannon referenced, “Every day of Trump’s term will be ‘day of thunder’.” What we are seeing is the Populist movement conducting a real-time Convention of States.
In the past, as the misdeeds of the Deep State blob were pointed out, the enemies of the Republic just used Misdirection, Hiding in Plain, and speed to get away with their malfeasance.
Some have tried valiantly to conduct a Convention of States to right the capsized American Republic but attempts to convene the event were constantly being foiled by the velocity of the Deep State cabal.
The Days of Thunder are here, it is a glorious thing and is clearly overwhelming the Elites and the Globalists. This is a good thing and means even more pressure on the gas pedal is needed to decisively defeat the Deep State Blob. Every Day of Thunder brings us closer to this goal of returning America to its Constitutional foundation.
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