Today it’s called the Blob. Eight years ago it was the
Swamp. Before that it went by many names: The Deepstate, Oligarchy, Military
Industrial Complex, Captains of Industry (cough,) War Lords, the One Percent,
the 0.001%, though that one doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Robber Barons,
actual Barons, or just plain Robbers.
People love trading new names for old. Call it the Genie of
History. It makes us feel that we can escape the past while gleefully recreating
it with a new, shinier lamp in its place. But a lamp by any other name, you
know. Or so goes the aphorism.
President Trump’s first term in office was marked by
incompetence, bluster, and a hamstrung investigation by the Mueller Special
Counsel. That last bit of Potomac theatrics amounted to absolutely nothing
after three years of bloviating and mocking by the jackals and hyenas of late
night TV back alleys. People with names like Colbert, Kimmel, and Maddow.
The self-righteous façade of the genteel classes was
fracturing at their lack of control over the unwashed masses. How dare they
think for themselves? Don’t they know that they are subhuman? Deplorable? Best
to let the intelligentsia think for you. The Blob knows best. Now go get a six
pack of PBR and watch a 1950's B-movie. There’s a good redneck.
Instead of taking the 2016 defeat as a gentle nudge toward
self-examination and asking how we let down our fellow Americans and how,
maybe, we could learn from that experience, the belligerent Left in American society
took this as a challenge to multiply our bigotry against those ‘Deplorables’ on
the right.
If there ever was a plot for a Victor Hugo novel, this is
it. Or maybe a collaboration? Hugo and Dostoyevsky. They could call it, ‘Les
Peasants, les Rebels, et les Aristocracy… and Punishment.’
Now we have the Once and Future President. In 2016 he ran on
a platform to drain the swamp. Instead, he slipped on the slime slathered
shores of that fetid swamp and plunged head first into it. He had not realized
that there are creatures in that swamp, creatures that know no restraints or
morals and that are vicious when any light shines on them.
The Swamp Things struck back with a vengeance in the 2020
election where we got two pathetic insults to the offices of president and vice
president of this once great country. Again, we learned nothing. Where was the special
counsel investigating the 2020 election? Oh, yes… January 6… Right.
I don’t know what they were thinking. That the masses would
go back to being useful idiots? Scared bunnies who think a bunch of aging baby
boomers and millennials trespassing in the Capital rotunda and taking selfies with
the statues was an ‘insurrection?’ Seriously? But hundreds of people were held
as political prisoners by the Blob, without charge or access to legal counsel,
for ‘insurrection.’
Sorry. An insurrection is where snipers are on the rooftop
firing at random demonstrators and national guardsmen while paramilitary goons
rush the buildings heavily armed. That's what happened in Kiev in 2014. That's
an insurrection.
There was violence on January 6, it’s true. Ashley Babbit
was shot dead in the back of the neck, killed by a capital guard. He was
immediately arrested and tried for murder, or course.
Of course he wasn’t. As there were also no guards around the
government buildings, even though Trump had requested many be stationed there.
It’s almost as if the swamp things wanted an incident that they could seize
upon. And if they didn’t get one, they would make one.
But that would be a right wing conspiracy theory.
Though, ‘January 6: The Insurrection’ is not a left wing conspiracy
theory? Go figure.
And now he’s back, the Second Coming of Donald: This time
it’s personal.
Trump has gone after the jugular of the Deep State, the
cholesterol choked, purple vein exposed on the throat of a declining empire.
He cut off their allowance.
Having survived two assassinations attempts (it seems the Blob
forgot how to do assassinations-have they forgotten September 22, 1963?) Trump
has ascended to almost mythical status: The Apotheosis of Donald. The resurrection
even. Righteousness and Justice in a cloud of glory.
Careful. Godmen never end well.
In what is a questionably legal affront to the money-honey
of the Blob, USAID, Trump has begun his bloodless purge. Of course, the best
corruption is always ‘nice and legal.’ Everything is according to that stanchion
of Democracy: An Act of Congress.
‘Grants’ are proffered to institutions with names like, ‘Institute
for Democracy and Kittens,’ which in turn donate copious amounts of money to
Swamp Thing water carriers in Congress with names like Pelosi, McConnell, Sanders,
and Ocasio-Cortez, to expose a few. That cash is squeaky clean, having gone
through the best laundering machine Congress can buy.
Remember, money is ‘speech’ and ‘speech’ is free, right?
According to the first amendment, that is. And corporations are ‘persons’ that
have free ‘speech,’ which means they can slosh around as much ‘speech’ as they
have budgets for and express their ‘speech’ into as many Congresspersons’
pockets as will ‘hear’ that ‘speech.’
You see, the speech is free but the congresspersons aren’t.
See how this works? The first amendment has another clause added
to its list of rights. Along with the establishment of religion or exercise
thereof, freedom of speech, the press, to peaceably assemble, and the right to
petition the government for a redress of grievances, we can now add a sixth
right: The right to bribery. It’s the law.
Absurd projects with DEI overtones are pushed onto
unsuspecting nations around the world. Along with coup d'etats, propaganda,
wars, child trafficking, drug smuggling, and money laundering, all on the USAID’s
giga-dime. The Darien Gap funneling 'refugees' from Colombia to Panama and on
the our southern border gets more maintenance than the average US interstate
highway.
Chief terrorist and regime change waitress Victoria Newland
bragged about spending five billion dollars overthrowing the government of
Ukraine in 2014 and installing a new government scraped from the dregs of
Ukrainian society, the descendants of people who welcomed the Wehrmacht into
Ukraine 80 years earlier with bread and flowers led by a war criminal named
Stepan Bandera. Nice people.
I always wondered how Coup de’ Newland got her bloody hands
on that much cash? Does the State Department budget have a line item labeled, ‘Supporting
Neo-Nazi Uprisings?’
No. They just take a dip in the 50 billion dollar a year USAID
trough.
But that’s the thing, isn’t it? Donald Trump, with all his
DOGE and ‘Drain the Trough’ rhetoric is not actually eliminating USAID, is he?
He is just transferring jurisdiction from Neocon Samantha Powers to Trumpocon
Marco Rubio, not exactly someone adverse to Swampthink now, is he?
And with all the anecdotal corruption done by USAID, all the
trans operas and money funneling into the maw of Congress, cartels, and
carpetbaggers, there is scant, nay, there is no, mention of USAID’s real
finesse: Regime change, propaganda, and meddling in the politics of other
countries. Why is that? Why the misdirection?
I can only assume that Trump will use this particularly
refined talent of USAID for sabotaging other people’s lives in other people’s
lands. Consider his plans for Mar-a-Gaza for starters. Who do you think is
going to pay for that?
Will trump tame the three headed dog, whose heads are
Money-Laundering, Regime Change, and Propaganda? Or will he release its fury
against Mexico, Canada, and Denmark instead? Every Tsar needs his secret
police.
Elon Musk would have gone bankrupt were it not for billions
in US government contracts. That’s gotta count for something. And now he is looking
into government efficiency? Commissioner Fox, meet the hen house.
It would be a shame to let a good, corrupt organization go
to waste. Washington excels at recycling corruption. And as usual, we foot the
bill.
Meet the new Blob. Same as the old Blob.
On the other hand..., with the Senate confirmations of controversial
cabinet candidates Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard
(I would have enthusiastically voted for Tulsi for president in 2016, she being
the first presidential candidate I actually wanted to vote for in a long time,)
and Kash Patel (pending,) this time things might be different.
We can only hope.
Afterthought
Some might ask me, “Jon. What is your answer to all this?
You don’t seem to like anybody!”
True. The whole system is corrupt beyond repair. It has been
for most of my life. I sometimes wonder if it can be reformed. We seem to be at
that stage in the life of an empire of self destruction.
But the answer is always the same and it has been forever.
We can only trust ourselves. Each other. The average people, men and women,
families and communities. Churches, mosques, synagogues. Theater groups and
church socials wherever two or more are gathered together.
These are the building blocks of society, or a kingdom, or
an empire, none other. As long as we are divided we are ruled. The autocrats,
bureaucrats, and swamp things of every age fear this one thing only: That the
people will unite. This is why the number one priority of every dictatorship is
to divide and rule. To keep us hating each other. The last thing they want is
for us to realize that we’re not that different, after all. So they keep us at
odds with each other.
Don’t let them.
