TEMPESTS IN THE ACADEMIC TEAPOT

        So, with much fanfare from the Controlled Opposition last Friday, President Trump's handlers had him sign another Executive Order 'dismantling' the US Department of Education. Given the disastrous state of American Education, this is probably not going to make much difference: the Department has been captured by various interest-groups ever since it was spun off from the now-defunct Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the late 1970s. 

      As someone who has been active (although admittedly not recently) in school-choice and academic reform movements, one thing that has become clear is that the problem with our schools at all levels has little to do with Government. In other civilized nations which have functional school systems, education is seen as an investment in the national future. Typically, students are educated in the basics through Middle School, then they're given aptitude tests. Those who finish at the top go on to University prep, the middle group qualify for vocational school, and the lower group typically go to the labor force, often as an apprentice in a unionized job. Most therefore are prepared for life as a contributing member to a self-governing society.

     In the US, the situation is much different. What most American parents actually want is place to dump their kids all day before sending them off to a diploma-mill---the purpose of which is to train them in the arts of gaming the system, going-along-to-get-along, and making influential connections that will give them a place in the system. The 'future' for most of these people is next Saturday, so naturally they resent paying for any community investment in such things. 

    Thus, it's fitting that a 75-year old Hollywood entertainment promoter heads the US Department of Education, and will oversee this move that supposedly will 'empower parents' which, of course, is boilerplate rhetoric because most Americans don't care one way or the other about our schools and, in actual fact, holds professional educators in utter contempt. 

       Academic activism isn't going away, of course. The Department of Education will still be around to enforce the New Right's versions of Political Correctness: clamping down things like protests or educators too critical of the New World Order. The Student Loan/Pell Grant scams will continue, although the intention is to move those functions to the Small Business Administration. That agency is currently headed by former Senator Kelly Loeffler, whose domestic partner is the CEO of the New York Stock Exchange: so no doubt student debt will be enforced rigidly and the big banks will get returns on their investments even if society doesn't. 

      The White House spokesxhes assure us that educational policy should be left 'up to the states;' which will work out just as well as turning other social issues to the States has. Surely, we can trust Governors like Bob Ferguson, Gretchen Whitmer, Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom, etc. will run their schools much better now. Lest any True Believers want to roll their eyes and say that they don't care about 'Blue States' consider some of the morons running schools in Neocon-dominated States.

     The move likewise will empower NGOs to spread their tentacles even deeper into the educational system than they already do. It will be a huge windfall for them, they can launder corporate profits through taxpayer-subsidized or tax-exempt 'nonprofits' which is really the purpose of all of this show-boating. Will the changes at the Department of Education make a bad situation worse? Probably. Will Americans care? Probably not. Schools have been in decline for decades and nobody has cared yet. 

     The problem is not political, it is cultural. As long as Americans keep ignoring the problem and looking towards top-down solutions and political strongmen to take over their responsibilities, the situation will continue to deteriorate much to the delight and profit of the Financial Elite. 

 

    

    

     

CONSERVATIVES SILENT AS SOROS HENCHMAN RUNS AMOK

       Following yesterday's flurry of Judicial rulings against Musk and his bandits attempting to turn the Federal Government over to Wall Street, the reaction from the True Believers has been predictable: calling for the impeachment of judges, stacking the Courts, ignoring the Rule of Law, etc. True to form, they somehow want to believe that opposing the will of the Neocon Administration is tantamount to treason, all of which is bringing back bad memories of the slavish Bush-worship that we saw 20 years ago.

      One of the strangest forms of Cognitive Dissonance, however, comes from the Musk toadies who seriously imagine that globalist plutocrats who were supporting Democrats until only a few months ago are working in the best interests of the American people. Even stranger is this belief that the so-called 'Private Sector' is less intrusive, less authoritarian, and more respective of popular rights than the Public Sector. How anybody who's had much experience with middle mangers, customer-service departments, HR departments, or even typical landlords can still believe that is truly mind-boggling. These people work for Upper-Level Management who see employees and customers as livestock; and their courtiers treat us accordingly. 

    Take for example, the former COO of George Soros' hedgefunds, Scott Bessent. 

        Bessent, the highest-ranking openly gay official to hold US public office was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by what the Churchian media lickspittles refer to as the most pro-life and pro-family Administration in history. Bessent served his master Soros admirably during the 30+ years that he was connected with him (until last November, in fact). He continues to do so to this very day: pulling off some spectacular financial crimes rivalling even his globalist crony, Musk.

      In the less than two months that Bessent has headed the Treasury Department, he's managed to purge the Federal Consumer Financial Bureau and open access to Treasury Department records to be data-mined and downloaded by Big Tech into the Stargate Project. He likewise succeeded in persuading our figurehead president into signing an Executive Order no longer enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Bessent, likewise, to the applause of his WEF bosses, is pushing a nominally 'privatized' system of Central Bank Digital Currency.

    To crown all of his crimes, this week Bessent announced that the US Treasury Department will no longer enforce laws prohibiting High Finance to set up shell companies as money-laundering operations. Soros in particular has found this law a constant thorn in his side; 'philanthropist' Oligarchs set up NGOs for this very purpose. The FDIC, which insures deposits against bank failures, is also on Bessent's bucket-list of regulators to scrap, though it's probably not off the table that the banks will get bailed out, even if depositors don't. 

    Lest any of the True Believers still want to argue that "Oh well, I got mine. At least taxes will be lower," rest assured that none of this deregulation is going to benefit you. While IRS enforcers are still going to be wringing every last dime from us of the Common Herd, Bessent also announced this week that Taxpayer Advocate Services and other agencies to appeal the IRS decisions would be among those most severely curtailed.

     Is everybody tired of winning yet? It doesn't look like George Soros or the rest of the Globalist Banking Establishment is. Just go on believing though that we shouldn't ask questions and that we simply need to trust the plan. Convince yourselves that this is all 3-D chess level strategy moves. Better still, just write it off as fake news and go back to laughing at Liberals online. Bessent and his cronies are laughing too: all the way to the bank.

THE DOGE SCAM FINALLY IS QUESTIONED

       Today, US District Court Judge Theodore Chuang effectively eviscerated WEF Young Global Leader Elon Musk's unilateral purges of the US Federal Government. The case reinstated USAID, a program signed into law by President Kennedy in 1961. Judge Chuang's Order requires the Administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those put on administrative leave. Musk's actions "likely harmed the public interest by depriving elected lawmakers of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when and how to close down an agency created by Congress,” he stated. “If a president could escape Appointments Clause scrutiny by having advisors go beyond the traditional role of White House advisers who communicate the president’s priorities to agency heads and instead exercise significant authority throughout the federal government so as to bypass duly appointed officers, the Appointments Clause would be reduced to nothing more than a technical formality,” the judge wrote.

     Tuesday’s injunction only concerns USAID. But the judge took note of Musk’s similar efforts across the federal bureaucracy. “This record must be considered alongside the fact that Musk appears to have been involved in the shutdown of CFPB headquarters as well, and the evidence that shows or strongly suggests that Musk and DOGE, despite their allegedly advisory roles, have taken other unilateral actions without any apparent authorization from agency officials,” Chuang said. 

     It's about time that somebody started questioning Musk's activities. In USAID's case, for example, we could ask why Musk went out of his way to target an agency that was investigating grants that he himself had received from them; or several of the other fired officials examining Musk's shady activities. It also is a valid question of how Musk amassed so much evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse in the entire Federal Government in just under sixty days, when previous independent audits of single agencies typically take months. Which, in its turn, brings up the larger question of who really is in charge of this Administration. 

      While we're all well aware that significant waste and corruption exists in the Federal Government, how do we know that Musk's claims are actually true? We don't really have any more than his word for it. Unlike previous auditors, Musk hasn't gone before Congress and presented this evidence that he supposedly has. 

     Likewise, we know very little about who any of the people working for DOGE actually are. Have they passed background checks? Do they have security clearances? Do they have any experience auditing anybody? Musk has been suspiciously quiet about telling us any of this: in fact, he's threatened media outlets that have looked into it.

     On that same subject, what accounting and auditing methods is Musk employing? "Government auditing is conducted under strict legal frameworks to ensure impartiality and accountability. The individuals carrying them out must be certified, bound by ethical codes, and accountable to the public—swearing an oath, passing exams," one report noted. We have no evidence that DOGE's methods are in accordance with any of this. 

     Conservatism is supposed to be about upholding the Constitutional Rule of Law: turning the Federal Government over to the arbitrary will of a single unaccountable despot is what the Founders of our Republic rebelled against. President Trump has (so far) abided by or legally appealled adverse rulings, but the authoritarians surrounding him don't seem capable of exercising the same degree of restraint. Following Monday's ruling against the illegal deportation of immigrants, fanatics in Congress immediately sought impeachment hearings against the federal judge. Neo-Nazi White House Deputy Chief-of-Staff Stephen Miller roared, "A district court judge has no authority to direct the national security operations of the executive branch!" Peter Thiel's henchman, JD Vance has long been an outspoken critic of the Judicial Branch exercising even minimal controls over the Presidency.

    It is evident from such statements that, despite its pretensions, the Republican Party no longer is at its core a Conservative party. We must face it for what it is: the reactionary version of the postmodern Left; in other words, Neoconservatism. They are leading us to the same disasters that previous Bush-Era Neocons did, and are governed by the same philosophy of an Imperial Executive working in the interests of the Globalist Corporate Elite.

     

WOKE CANCEL CULTURE, NEOCON STYLE

      So, let us all imagine what the reaction of the so-called American Right would have been had Kamala Harris been elected and one of her first orders of business was installing a Hollywood billionaire media mogul at the Department of Education who, in turn, made it her first order of business to enforce rigid Cancel Culture, purge anyone who opposed the Democratic Party, and crushed protests in the interest of identity politics. Good thing that we got rid of the Democrats so that didn't happen right?

     We're speaking of course of the case of Mohammed Khalil, a naturalized US citizen, who was seized by ICE stormtroopers in New York this week and whisked away incommunicado to a Concentration Camp in Louisiana to face banishment from the country which once gave him asylum. Khalil had been targeted by Neo-Nazis like Tom Homan who heads ICE, and who vowed that this injustice "would be the first of many," citing Khalil as an undesirable alien. In case anyone is interested, our friends at Kiwi Farms posted a comprehensive breakdown of the sorts of swine that the New Right considers desirable immigrants, which speaks volumes about its character.

       Of course, many of the True Believers aren't going to be bothered much by this, even though Khalil was a legal immigrant; nor are they going to think too much about the fact that the Administration's efforts to end Birthright Citizenship would mean that any of us could be declared an alien and stripped of what few Rights we still have left. They can always rationalize things (as they typically do) by convincing themselves that only a few Commie Libtards would be effected. 

    Well, unfortunately for their fantasies, this very week at least three Conservative Republican officials found themselves on the receiving end of excommunication for their lack of ideological purity and submission to Dear Leader. First on the list was long-time Republican Congressman---and one of the few principled Conservatives left in the Legislative Branch---Thomas Massie of Kentucky. 

     Massie, who has been one of the few to stand up to expanding the Surveillance State, and who famously exposed the massive foreign lobbying going on among his colleagues in the past, has become too much trouble for the Uniparty and its plans to create a Golden Age of Technocratic Corporatism. If anyone is shocked by this, it is not the first time that Conservatives have been targeted and threatened by the Party Bosses for insufficient loyalty. 

     Meanwhile, WEF Young Global Leader Tulsi Gabbard---who was a Democrat until just last September---engaged in some Cancel Culture of her own, swatting down the appointment of Daniel Davis for Deputy Director of National Intelligence. Davis---who probably is far more qualified than Tulsi is to head US Intel---criticized Zionist actions in Palestine. This is intolerable for a group which plans to build a billionaire-playground over the mass-graves of the Palestinians.

       Adam Boehler, the US negotiator for the Gaza Cease-fire was purged as well, after suggesting even tepidly that Hamas should be part of the negotiations. This goes decidedly against the grain of an Administration bent on proving its Alpha Superiority and which sees actual diplomacy and compromise as signs of weakness. This isn't surprising, considering that the organization which instigated Khalil's arrest is an advocate of Zionist Genocide, including the murder of children.

     Not surprisingly, Betar was formerly headed by a character jailed for revenge porn and other unscrupulous activities; but he is of the personality type which seems to fit in well with the current administration's leadership. It wouldn't surprise anybody if he's pardoned. 

     When one thinks about it, it's small wonder that we've so little resistance from the Democratic Party, and why so many of their ranks have switched sides. They're getting everything they wanted at no political risk (for now). The real enemies within are actual Conservatives who object to things like foreign influence peddling, depriving people of their Rights without due process, top-down authoritarian government, etc.

     

      

FAKE CATHOLICS TURN TO LAWFARE AGAINST CATHOLIC BISHOPS

       Still smarting under Pope Francis' recent appeal to the US Council of Catholic Bishops to press for humane treatment of immigrants, a group calling itself Concerned Catholics appeared on Neo-Nazi Steve Bannon's podcast to demand a RICO investigation into the USCCB and demanding that Catholic Charities be defunded. Lawfare, of course, is only bad when Democrats do it; and the when the Biden/Harris Junta threatened to defund Catholic Charities over their refusal to bow to the Rainbow Agenda, then it was religious persecution; but when Catholic leadership objects to the MAGA Agenda, then even the Pope and Council of Catholic Bishops are treated as the enemy within. 

      Too many actual Catholics have questions and objections to the New Right's anti-immigration policies, so Concerned Catholics have tried to veil their objectives (rather thinly) under the tried-and-true formula of framing the issue as a sex scandal---something that Americans will always buy into unquestioningly. LifeSite News, which up until last January was fairly objective politically but since has turned into a nominally-Catholic version of Breitbart, is even supporting a petition to Vice-President JD Vance to push for the Lawfare and enforce ideological purity among the Neocon wing of the American Church.

   This wing of American Catholics seem to have adopted Vance as their spiritual guru, because (likely largely for political reasons) Vance 'converted' to Catholicism a few years ago. The fact that Vance cites people like Curtis Yarvin, podcaster Bronze Age Pervert, Andrew Tate, and of course homo transhumanist Peter Thiel as his main influences makes no difference to these people. 

      The political messianism surrounding this Administration ought to be more concerning to people than it is. Sites like LSN can't seem to flatter and fawn over the New Right effusively enough despite its overtly anti-Catholic stances like courting the Gay Mafia, appointing Prosperity Gospel cultists to oversee religious affairs, supporting anti-Christian regimes like the Zionists, and terminating federal oversight over Abortion Mills, techno-fascism, etc. 

     Instead, despite statements from WH officials to the effect that Trump is God's Anointed, and the aforementioned Steve Bannon asserting that Trump is an instrument of Divine Providence whose enemies are demonic, a genuine cult-following has emerged within American Catholicism that supersedes the authority of the Church itself. More alarming is that this isn't limited to Catholics; polls show nationwide that fully 1 in 5 American Churchians actually believe this schmaltz. It's not as though authoritarians haven't cultivated this kind of thing before.

   Too, the New Right's cultists are very selective about overlooking other peccadilloes surrounding Vance and the ideology he supports: things like blasphemous statues displayed at Mar-a-Lago, videos released with golden statues of God's Anointed in the Holy Land, portrayals of Trump as a Divine Royal Majesty or a New Caesar. Vox Day and other Red Pills who make up the base of the New Right shamelessly refer to Trump as the God Emperor of the United States, and none of this seems concerning to anybody.

        When we first started this blog in 2016, we made the point that the two greatest threats to Civilization were Western Neoliberalism and the rise of dangerous religious cults. The current administration promotes both. It's past time that those concerned about the future of faith and freedom started calling it out for what it is. 

    

ON GOVERNMENT WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE

       Despite what Inquisitor-General Elon Musk seems to believe, the existence of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government is not something that he just now discovered or that the American Public didn't know about. It's been an issue in the US since the 1970s, and there were moves to correct such problems going all the way back to the 19th Century. 

      In order for a Government to function, it has to reply upon Public Trust. Even the Chinese Communist Party figured out this basic fact: which is why China today makes a point of exposing corruption within its ranks unlike the Maoist Era when such things were swept under the rug. Unlike China, however, public apathy and the glorification of selfishness and opportunism here has allowed the problem to fester and grow into a Way of Life.

     The problem is not that these agencies exist. The problem in the US is---and has been throughout recent history---Regulatory Capture.

     Regulatory Capture occurs when there are few to no limitations between Big Government and Big Business, either through weak laws or lack of enforcing existing laws. Typically, government and corporate bureaucrats slide back and forth between Government agencies and Lobbying Firms depending on which wing of the Uniparty is in power. Thus the interests controlling the agencies are in charge of regulating or awarding contracts to the very people they are supposed to be exercising oversight upon. Ignoring this issue is one of the main problems with DOGE's approach. 

    What DOGE is doing essentially is removing the middle-man in the whole cycle of systemic corruption. Yes, DOGE is eliminating governmental waste, fraud, and abuse: but at the same time, it is removing any and all barriers to corporate waste, fraud, and abuse. 1930s Japan and Italy were historical examples of how well societies based on that model succeeded. 

    The Soviet Union and Maoist China operated on a similar principle, except that in their case, monopolies were run by academic 'efficiency experts' as opposed to CEOs. What it illustrates is that the Neocons' worship of Capitalist economic Social Darwinism is really not radically different from the Marxist Historical Determinism that they claim to oppose. 

   If the basic needs of the American citizenry are under the control of an unaccountable Government bureaucracy or a handful of unaccountable Corporate Boards of Directors, the end result is the same. Freedom means nothing without economic freedom. A Corporate Oligarchy is just as much a tyranny as a Political Oligarchy; one is not a solution to the other.

   America was at its most prosperous times when wealth was most evenly distributed. This was not accomplished by Government fiat: it was accomplished by sensible moderation between the Government and the Corporate sector insuring that we had a reasonably level playing field of economic competition. All societies have a segment that is very rich and another that is very poor: such things have always happened and always will. However, a strong and largely independent Middle/Working Class is the backbone of a Constitutional Republic. A people with a measure of economic independence rarely will surrender that independence to power-hungry demagogues. 

     There have been a number of alarming surveys recently showing that in America---especially among the younger people---that Democracy has failed. The reason for this is because the Corporate/Government symbiosis has limited opportunities, especially for young people. Since the National Government and their Corporate Overlords have routinely flouted any pretense that the US is any longer "a government of, by, and for the people" and people under 30 or so have grown up in such a milieu, they mistakenly conflate the ideal of self-government with the abuses of power that they see and experience on a regular basis.

    Giving more authoritarian control to this group or that group will not solve the problem. The proper approach is restricting unaccountable power and returning more of it to the people. That means breaking up monopolies, restoring unions, cracking down on revolving-door lobbyists, smashing criminal NGOs: in short, enforcing the laws. 

   DOGE, however, is taking an approach that will make the problem worse. That, of course, is the plan however much they try to portray it as a populist mandate. Musk and his gangsters are followers of a philosophy which is anti-democratic and regards repressive Technocratic Regimes like Singapore and the United Arab Emirates as models for the United States. 

       Democracy hasn't failed the American People: the American People have failed Democracy. Self-Government without Self-Discipline simply will not work well. As long as we continue as a population to feed on greed, envy, fear, and opportunism, there will be no shortage of demagogues lining up to gratify those selfish desires in exchange for more power and control. 

     The problem that America is facing is not a political one; it is a spiritual one. We've abandoned the ideal that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights to one where the ends justify the means; the ends in this case premised on a win-at-all-costs mentality where personal power and status are the highest goals of human endeavor. That is what we must work on changing if we hope to continue as a Free Society.

    

     

THE STATE OF THE UNION, SUCH AS IT IS

      Following last week's debacle at the Ukraine Peace Talks, the Executive Branch decided to pretend that Congress was still relevant to the functioning of the US Government. President Musk and Vice-President Thiel sent their spokesmen to make the speech, although after the 'Peace Deal' fell through, Musk was personally in attendance to keep an eye on things. Just as Zelensky was removed forcibly from the White House, a Democrat Congressman was removed from the Chamber, adding to the drama and theatrics. Former CIA operative and current US Senator Elissa Slotkin gave the Democrats' scripted rebuttal---mostly complaining that the Great Reset was being imposed too suddenly for the sheep-like populace to adjust to it all. Senator Slotkin, however, missed the point: today, all across the Media Spectrum Liberals will be melting down and their heads will be exploding, which is the desired effect. As far as the American People are concerned, the important thing for the Ruling Class is controlling the Narrative while the Oligarchs do as they please behind the scenes.

       Amidst all of the Controversy and New Normals discussed by the deep-thinking general public this last week, few noticed some of the actual activities going on during the wholesale reorganization of the American Republic. Tariffs---a massive wealth-transfer from small businesses to the Corporate Cartels---were illegally imposed on American consumers. The equally illegal Department of Government Efficiency also addressed our collapsing infrastructure by gifting Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and BlackRock with a virtual elimination of funding for passenger rail services; and, of course, since our remaining Railway Cartels are about half Canadian-owned, the tariffs will ensure even more concentration of the industry in Wall Street/WEF hands. 

      Speaking of distribution control, the Controlled Opposition has been celebrating Trump's tough Alpha approach relating to the Panama Canal. Bush Machine operative Marco Rubio successfully pressured the Panamanian Government to terminate its partnership with China's Belt-and-Road Initiative; and news broke this weekend that the Hong Kong-based firm operating Chinese ports in Panama will be sold to a US company. The Controlled Opposition leaves out the minor detail that the US company concerned is BlackRock, but that will make little difference to the American Right as long as we own the Libtards and get those evil Yellow Devils. 

      Likewise, despite earlier Republican promises that Social Security wouldn't be effected by proposed wealth-transfers and Party Purges, the SSA announced on Friday that “The agency plans to reduce the size of its bloated workforce and organizational structure, with a significant focus on functions and employees who do not directly provide mission critical services...the cuts will require reduction-in-force actions that could include abolishment of organizations and positions The agency will close six of its 10 regional offices. SSA has operated with a regional structure consisting of 10 offices, which is no longer sustainable.”

    SSA Director Michelle King was purged last week after refusing to allow Musk's brownshirts access to the SSA database. The White House elevated a low-level staffer named Michael Dudek to Acting Director, after he posted an article praising DOGE on social media. Dudek is holding the position until Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano is rubber-stamped by the Senate as Director. Fiserv holds a near-monopoly on financial data-processing, and its top shareholders are Global Banking Cartels (including BlackRock) which combined own about 30% of the company. Bisignano himself is former Chief Operating Officer of WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner JP Morgan and raised about $1 million for Republican causes in 2024. Like Musk, Bisignano is one of the highest-paid CEOs in the US and is notorious for padding his salary with deep cuts to employees and services.He's also closely associated with WEF linchpin Jamie Dimon, a character much like Musk in his temperament. 

     Musk has been repeating a narrative that 20 million of America's 72 million Social Security recipients are deceased: a story about as believable as the tall-tales of Haitian immigrants terrorizing small towns or Chinese spy-balloons. Nonetheless, nobody's going to question it; because the American New Right has convinced itself that WEF-connected Plutocrats never lie and are only working for the good of red-blooded, true-blue Americans who only need to work harder and do as they're told so that they too can be Manly Alpha Leaders.

       What we're actually witnessing with all of these disgusting spectacles and wholly illegal power-grabs is the end result of a culture which has been wholly degraded by a social climate which constantly plays to its lowest elements and actively discourages appeals to our better nature in favor of promoting envy, greed, and Paranoia. Both sides of the Uniparty and their Corporate Overlords have intentionally cultivated cultural degradation because, as we've seen throughout history, a population with no sense of its own worth makes more obedient subjects for Governments and better slaves and serfs for the economic Ruling Class. The Great Reset and its Neocon concomitant, the Dark Enlightenment, have the goal of returning Western Civilization to that state of near-Barbarism. The so-called American Right---despite what it, in its self-righteousness, believes about itself---is subject to the same failings of Human Nature as its counter-weights among the so-called Left. Both sides are being played for fools by vested interests and neither side wants to admit that fact. That the Ruling Class doesn't even bother disguising its intentions any longer is evidence of how secure a hold they think that they have on Public Opinion. 

     This is the true State of the Union: and it's reflected by the people chosen to represent it. It's time that we started asking ourselves if we really want to live in an Elon Musk or Andrew Tate kind of world. This is what we're going to keep getting as long as we look to self-appointed Alpha Supermen to save us from ourselves and outsource our thinking to Trash-Culture celebrities.