Politics turned Parody from within a Conservative Bastion inside the People's Republic of Maryland

Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Romania... "Muh Democracy!"
Far-right populist Calin Georgescu, who won the first round of the annulled presidential elections in Romania last year, is accused, among other things, of promoting antisemitism and spreading false information.
Romanian prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened a criminal investigation into Calin Georgescu, the far-right front-runner in last year's annulled presidential election. Georgescu was taken in for questioning by prosecutors earlier in the day.
After questioning the politician for several hours, prosecutors said they were formally investigating him on charges of forming an antisemitic organization, promoting war criminals and fascist organizations, illegal possession of weapons, and spreading false information regarding the sources of financing of an electoral campaign.
Prosecutors also said Wednesday that they had raided 47 addresses of people and associations linked to Georgescu and that a large cache of weapons and hidden cash was found during the raid.
Among those searched was Horatiu Potra, a former member of the French Foreign Legion and military contractor in the Democratic Republic of Congo whose security firm provides bodyguards for Georgescu.
What was Georgescu's reaction?
Georgescu has denied any wrongdoing. He also accused the authorities of behavior reminiscent of Romania's communist past.
"The communist Bolshevik system is continuing its heinous abuse," Georgescu said on Facebook. "They are looking to invent evidence to justify stealing the election and to do anything in their efforts to block a new candidacy from me."
About 100 Georgescu supporters gathered in protest outside the prosecutor's headquarters in the capital, Bucharest, waving the Romanian flag and chanting: "Free Georgescu!" and "President Georgescu!"
Meanwhile, Romania's Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on X, "The judiciary is independent & the law must be applied regardless of persons."
Controversy over Romania's presidential election
Romania's Constitutional Court took the unprecedented step of nullifying the election two days before the December 8 runoff following Georgescu's surprise first-round victory. Allegations of Russian interference and election fraud quickly surfaced.
Members of US President Donald Trump's administration have sharply criticized Romania for nullifying the election.
Georgescu has sparked controversy in the past for describing Romanian fascist leaders of the 1930s and 1940s as national heroes. Under current Romanian law, promoting fascist leaders and Nazi, racist, or xenophobic symbols is prohibited and punishable by imprisonment.
He has also been criticized for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past as "a man who loves his country" and for calling Ukraine "an invented state."
Meanwhile, Georgescu remains the top choice of voters in opinion polls ahead of a repeat presidential election in May, although it remains unclear whether he will be allowed to run.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
A Prayer for Ukraine and Russia...
To be able to narrate, or remember, one must be able to forget or leave out a great deal. So, as a personal example, when I was in high school everybody was obsessed with the show 24. It branded itself as a realtime narrative. Each season was 24 episodes. Each episode a full hour of continuous time, with the whole season covering a single day. A "record" you could say. There was this lame joke you'd always hear where people would say, "Well, if it's really a full day, why doesn't anyone ever use the bathroom?" Silly I know, but it nevertheless points to the fact that even stories that market themselves as seamless records of reality still, by virtue of being stories, have gaps. Because it's through editing reality that we create narrative.
Still 2 Germany's: Ignoring the Former East & Addicted to USAID
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
A German Guilt-Pride Moment!
Einstein, "If you can confirm with certainty, it's an element of (quantum) reality". [ie- EPR Experiments]
Mike Benz Reacts to the NY Times Attack on Elon (and himself)
Monday, February 24, 2025
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Why Co-Pilot Will Never Make Dervy Any Smarter...
"Oh No, Krasnov is Dismantling the DC Bureaucracy..."
Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov", claims a former Soviet intelligence officer.
The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, in a Facebook post, reports the Mirror. The 71-year-old, who previously headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, said he had served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for counter-intelligence support within the economy.
One of the directorate’s primary objectives, he claimed, was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.” According to Mussayev, Trump, then a 40-year-old New York real estate developer, was one of those recruits. "In 1987, our directorate recruited Donald Trump under the pseudonym Krasnov,” he wrote.
Mussayev’s post did not include evidence to support his claim, but in a further comment he made another shocking allegation. “Today, the personal file of resident ‘Krasnov’ has been removed from the FSB. It is being privately managed by one of Putin’s close associates,” he alleged. His allegations come amid years of speculation over Trump’s ties to Russia, dating back to his first visit to Moscow in 1987.
At the time, Trump, then a rising star in the New York property market, travelled to the Soviet Union to explore the possibility of building a hotel in the capital. Soviet officials reportedly facilitated the trip, raising questions among intelligence analysts about whether it was a routine business opportunity or something more scandalous.
Several years ago a report highlighted how, in 1985, the KGB had updated a secret personality questionnaire distributed among its officers, detailing how to identify and recruit Western figures. The document, according to intelligence sources, instructed agents to target “prominent figures in the West” with the aim of “drawing them into some form of collaboration with us… as an agent, or confidential or special or unofficial contact.”
Mussayev’s claim appears to suggest that Trump may have been one such target. Despite years of scrutiny, Trump has vehemently denied having any improper ties to Russia or colluding with President Vladimir Putin.
However, some US officials have repeatedly raised concerns about his close relationship with the Kremlin leader, particularly during his first term in office. Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, added to the intrigue during a recent episode of The Rest Is Politics: US podcast.
He suggested that Trump’s deference to Putin has puzzled many of his former senior officials. “I think there is a mysterious ‘hold’ on the president,” he said. Scaramucci did not elaborate on what that ‘hold’ might be but suggested that several former Trump administration officials, including H.R. McMaster, James Mattis, and John Kelly— had also struggled to understand Trump’s affinity for Putin. “I don’t know why it’s like this,” he said. “McMaster couldn’t figure it out, Mattis couldn’t figure it out, Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
Time to Drive a Stake through the Heart of this Olde Vampyre for Good!
"We Totally believe Everything we see posted on Facebook. It's 100% Reliable! As Reporters for "The Mirror", we don't need to confirm or double source ANYTHING we see posted there..."
- Christopher Bucktin & Billy Gaddi
Friday, February 21, 2025
Stephen Miller Explains the Concept of the Unitary Executive to the Left-Lame Stream Media...
USAID - Weaponized Khalyava
In Russian culture, khalyava / by khalyava (Russian: халява, на халяву) is an untranslatable concept, similar to the concepts of "freebie" and "getting something for nothing", however with a different semantic field.[1]
Khalyava is a possibility to get something without particular effort.[1] A distinction is that khalyava is something free one is not normally entitled to. It may be a result of luck. For comparison, if your friend gives you a ticket inviting you to go to the movies, it is not khalyava, if it is part of your normal relations, but if he gives you a ticket because his wife cannot go, then it is khalyava.[2] Another possibility is that one gets something free in a way of dubious morality or legality, but not outright criminal.[3]
The "something" you get is not necessarily something tangible; it may be a possibility to get something, e.g., to buy a rare book by a lucky occasion, i.e., "by khalyava".[2]
A slightly different meaning for "khalyava" is an easy, low-effort job.[1]
Both meanings are given in the Sergey Ozhegov's lexicographic dictionary, but absent in Vladimir Dahl's.[4]
A person who is good at getting a khalyava is called khalyavnik or khalyavshchik, which may simply mean "a lucky man". However khalyava may come at the expense of others. In the first case it may be eating at restaurants at other's expense; in the second meaning this involves a skill to dump the hard part of the job on others. In this case "khalyavshchik" becomes pejorative and reasonably corresponds to "freeloader" or "free rider".[1]
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The Ordo Amoris & Tactical Wokeness
And thus beauty, which is indeed God’s handiwork, but only a temporal, carnal, and lower kind of good, is not fitly loved in preference to God, the eternal, spiritual, and unchangeable good. . . . For though it be good, it may be loved with an evil as well as with a good love: it is loved rightly when it is loved ordinately; evilly, when inordinately. . . . But if the Creator is truly loved, that is, if He Himself is loved and not another thing in His stead, He cannot be evilly loved; for love itself is to be ordinately loved, because we do well to love that which, when we love it, makes us live well and virtuously. So that it seems to me that it is a brief but true definition of virtue to say, it is the order of love.-Augustine, "City of God" (XV.22)
Bernie Sells Out - Goes Full Warhawk for Ukraine
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
America Meet XAI, Your New Civil Servant Work Force Tutoring Team!
Europe is on the Dinner Menu...
“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals."
Monday, February 17, 2025
Lindsey Fund Raises in Europe off JD's Speech...
The DiEM25 Left goes ALL IN for WWIII
Is Maryland Only Taxing the Rich? Not Exactly...
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Trump Tries to Reset Economic Clocks Back to 1991... and Free Speech Back to Pre-WWII
Once Again John Brennan Conflates Globalist Elite Interests with that of Average Europeans
Former CIA Director John Brennan said Friday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump foreign policy was creating “animosity” towards the United States.
Brennan said, “The Trump administration is going to use whatever tool it can to intimidate, to threaten others. The administration is coming across as very arrogant, self-centered and is going to push for its interests, irrespective of the interests of our partners and allies. And that’s why I think there’s just, you know, real question marks about what. is it that is going to come out of this if we’re going to be shaking down the Ukrainian government?”
He continued, “I was in Europe earlier this week, and I must tell you that the frustration and anger with the United States has never been more palpable. It’s off the scale because they really just see that there’s been such a reverse, a 180 reverse of what the United States has stood for, especially in terms of European security, that this Trump administration has a much different attitude and approach that really is quite off putting to them.”
He added, “Basically we’re telling 2 million Palestinians we’re not only going to ignore your right to self-determination, we’re going to kick you out of your homeland that you’ve been in for many, many generations and so, therefore, I think it really is quite dangerous.”
Brennan concluded, “I think it is very dangerous because it is engendering now a real feeling of animosity among a lot of individuals who are there toward the United States. That is not going to go away.”
Trump has cut the Gordian Knots of Several Long Standing International Conflicts, and Brennan want to go back and tie all the threads back together again. This imbecilic man was actually once in charge of US Intelligence?
Friday, February 14, 2025
German SPD Defense Minister Declares Right to Be Antifa Dupe and Organize Non-Cooperation Agreements Against the AfD for the Sake of "Democracy"
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Crazy Stops Now!
A little detail from behind the wire. I was asked very recently for my thoughts on why President Trump is a giant of influence in world leadership, my response was simple: President Trump’s power is bottom up, historic global power structures are top down.
President Trump doesn’t just represent an office or title, nor does he simply represent the majority of the American people; President Trump’s voice is the voice of every ordinary person, what the non-English speaking world defines as “simple people,” and he channels a global message from the majority to the top of the highest power structures.
Smart leaders like Vladimir Putin recognize this power source, and they don’t challenge it – they align with it. Stupid leaders, those who do not recognize their national nakedness like Emmanuel Macron, attempt to avoid & manipulate it. The Make America Great Again doctrine is a borderless goal, empowering people to make their own lives great.(VIA ABC) – […] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he stands by his comments from Brussels earlier this week on it being unrealistic for Ukraine to be offered NATO membership as part of a settlement, for it to regain its pre-2014 territory, or for U.S. troops to enter the country to keep the peace.♦ A conversation behind the wire – Within Eastern Europe there are very smart and pragmatic people, the kind of political research people who have clear eyes on the specific influences within the body politic. To a person each of them holds the opinion that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is directly connected to the narcotics trade in Europe.
“My job today, and in Brussels, was to introduce realism to the conversation – the reality that returning to 2014 borders as part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely; the reality of U.S. troops in Ukraine is unlikely; the reality of Ukraine membership in NATO as a part of a negotiated settlement unlikely. And I stand by the comments that I made on that first day in the Ukraine Contact Group,” Hegseth said at a press conference in Poland Friday. (source)
Vice President […] Vance engaged in a bilateral meeting with the NATO Secretary General at the Munich Security Conference, noting the “president’s desire to see NATO spend a little bit more resources on defense,” a point also being echoed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth while he continues to meet with his counterparts in Poland.
Vance also wants to ensure “NATO is built for future,” and said he wished that “NATO does a little bit more burden sharing in Europe, so the United States can focus on some of our challenges in these stages.”
If the U.S. intelligence apparatus maintains parts of their deepest black book operations through international drug sales, then it doesn’t take a leap to discover how the CIA influence in the background of Zelenskyy may be structured. Food for thought.
The End of Geriatric Government?
The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.
After a presidential election that saw an 82-year-old commander in chief unable to complete sentences in a debate or instill confidence in the public that he could carry out his duties, elected leaders in Congress are faring no better.
In the past two months alone, 82-year-old Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) was discovered to be living in an assisted-living facility with a dementia ward in her final months in office; 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) won a high-profile leadership position on the House Oversight Committee after revealing he is battling highly terminal esophageal cancer; 82-year-old Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fell twice on Capitol Hill just months after blacking out during a press conference; 84-year-old former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fell and broke her hip in Luxembourg; and 76-year-old Rep. John Larson (D-CT) appeared to suffer a stroke on the House floor. (Larson’s staff has said it was a bad reaction to a new medication.)
What has eluded attention is the highly secretive hospital, housed on Capitol Hill and funded by taxpayers, that provides both emergency and primary care to an aging political class, which some have come to describe as a gerontocracy. It also runs classified programs known only to some members of Congress.
In 2023, Congress designated $4.2 million to the Office of the Attending Physician (OAP), a Navy-staffed hospital with multiple branches spread across Capitol Hill. The current attending physician, Dr. Brian Monahan, who serves as a rear admiral in the Navy, oversees a staff of dozens of Navy doctors, nurses, and technicians whose primary responsibility is providing care to members of Congress and the Supreme Court.
And while the office has long justified its existence by providing emergency care for an increasingly brittle class of politicians, it also quietly serves as a dirt-cheap clinic for elected officials, some of whom have voted to slash Medicare and Medicaid and abolish the Affordable Care Act, potentially taking coverage away from tens of millions of Americans.
Meanwhile, the OAP is more responsive than any treatment available to normal people. When McConnell fell recently, he emerged within hours in a wheelchair. It’s unknown precisely whether it came from the Office of the Attending Physician, but it’s a safe bet, because it takes the average Medicare patient a face-to-face examination and a written prescription from the provider, plus a Medicare Part B application from your local Social Security office, access to an approved durable medical equipment supply store, in some cases a home evaluation, and a co-pay of 20 percent of the cost to secure such equipment.
McConnell’s office did not respond to a request for comment about whether he pays into the OAP program, or whether his wheelchair came from the OAP.
According to a Congressional Research Service report from last year, it costs a member of Congress just $650 a year for nearly unlimited medical care. That includes not only access to on-site X-rays, lab work, and physical therapy, but also free referrals to Washington-area military hospitals, which provide the best care in the country free to members, also on the taxpayer’s dime.
This subsidized concierge service is separate from a congressperson’s insurance coverage. But at $54 a month for top-class care with no other co-pays or deductibles, it’s a pretty good deal for the men and women who dictate what kind of options the rest of us have.
In an attempt to understand more details about the functioning of the OAP, the Prospect requested comment from every member of the House Committee on Administration, which oversees the program.
Every committee member—Republican Reps. Bryan Steil (R-WI), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Dr. Greg Murphy (R-NC), Stephanie Bice (R-OK), Mike Carey (R-OH), Laurel Lee (R-FL), and Mary Miller (R-IL), and Democratic Reps. Joe Morelle (D-NY), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Norma Torres (D-CA), and Julie Johnson (D-TX)—did not respond to a request for comment on the full list of members who paid for OAP services, and the 2024 and 2025 cost of those services.
Perhaps part of the committee’s hesitation is due to the fact that over the past ten years, local Washington pharmacists have said they fill prescriptions for things like Alzheimer’s drugs written by staff in the Office of the Attending Physician. In addition, three current and former Hill staffers confirmed to the Prospect that there are multiple sitting members struggling with symptoms of dementia and taking medication to combat its effects.
ASIDE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN, members of Congress have access to Obamacare health plans. In 2017, Jeffrey Frank detailed the multi-decade fight that led to Congress losing access to the cushy Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), a similar but better health care marketplace that Obamacare was based on. Despite a Democratic-led push to extend the federal marketplace to all citizens in the 1990s, the silver-tongued whisperings of Newt Gingrich and industry lobbyists convinced President Clinton to abandon his health care reform efforts. After the midterm wash in 1994, Gingrich and the GOP managed to deprive tens of millions of Americans of health care for another decade-plus.
As Frank writes, after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, “the comfortable choices that were available for more than fifty years were suddenly transferred to the slightly murky passageways of Obamacare. And it follows that, if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, members of Congress would be able to return to the federal plan that they, like millions of federal employees, were so fond of. Twenty million other Americans won’t.”
Whispers that the GOP’s war on Obamacare is secretly being motivated by their desire to return to the FEHBP lose some of their strength when one considers the fact that for much less per month than the average cellphone bill, they can receive free health care from the best doctors in the world.
As ABC reported in 2009:Rep. Steve Kagen of Wisconsin—one of 15 medical doctors in Congress—is the only member of either the House or Senate who has no health insurance coverage. Kagen, a Democrat and advocate for health care reform, said he turned down the plan he was offered through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.As Elon Musk gears up to make good on the long-held Republican promise of wresting not only Obamacare, but also Medicare and Medicaid, from millions, he should also pay attention to the OAP, and consider giving members of Congress a taste of their own medicine.
“I said, ‘I’ll tell you what. I respectfully decline. Until you can make the same offer to everyone that I have the honor of representing, I just don’t think it’s fair,’” Kagen said he told the congressional staffer who reviewed the plan with him in 2006.
But while Kagen has touted in campaign advertisements and news interviews that he has no health insurance coverage, he has openly admitted he used OAP services. In January, for example, he paid more than $4,000 out of pocket for outpatient arthroscopic knee surgery. After the procedure, he said, he used the attending physician’s office and staff to assist him with physical therapy.
Those who have worked at the OAP, however, said the services are far more advanced than what is available at most companies. One former staff member, who asked not to be named, described the OAP as “the best health care on the planet.”
Throwing "Gold Bars Off the Titanic"
BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic”
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) December 3, 2024
“It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.”
“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump… pic.twitter.com/eaAihuNvAh
How the Left PMC and Neoliberals Sold Out the Working Class for a Surplus Salary Paying Cushy Job
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
AI Will Replace the Deep State with the Technofeudal Government State
CNN (2/10/25) - In a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk is leading a group of investors who have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.
Romania - Colouring My Revolution...
WHY IS THE SOCIETY YOUR TEACHER WHEN THE BIBLE CAN BE YOUR MOTHER WHY DO YOU LET BAD MOUTHS TO GIVE YOU DREAMS MERITS ARE JUST CURSES ON ME, YOU AND WHO YOU HAVE TAKE OFF THE UNIFORM NOT TO WEAR THE FORM CODE JUSTICE, WE WANT JUSTICE, WE WANT FREEDOM TO BE OVER DREAMS EVERYWHERE NO, WE DON'T WEAR WE WEAR THE DESIGN OF THE MIND CLOSED, CAUGHT WAKE UP ROMANIAN STAY IN YOUR COUNTRY AT THE CHEST OF YOUR HOLY MOTHER BY ME BY YOU BY EVERYONE TO TAKE OFF THE UNIFORM AND NOT TO WEAR IT FORM CODE JUSTICE, WE WANT JUSTICE, WE WANT FREEDOM TO BE OVER DREAMS EVERYWHERE "WAKE UP ROMANIA, FROM THE SLEEP OF DEATH ................... LIFE IN LIBERTY OR DEATH EVERYONE SHOUTS ..................... PRIESTS WITH THE CROSS ON THE FOREHEAD, BECAUSE THE ARMY IS CHRISTIAN GIVE HIM FREEDOM, AND ITS HOLY PURPOSE. WE DIE BETTER IN FIGHT WITH FULL GLORY, THAN TO BE SLAVES IN OUR OLD EARTH. "
Look Who's Hiring...
NEW: Joe Rogan rips into the Democratic Party and legacy media, warning they will keep losing supporters as they double down on ‘stupid sh*t’ and refuse to 'course correct.'
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025
"We were right about the general election. That red wave happened. The Democratic Party is going to keep… pic.twitter.com/9zaJ7GTKq2
Tulsi Vote Tomorrow will be Test of Senate's Integrity
Monday, February 10, 2025
Protecting the DC Bureaucracy from the People...
Whose idea was it to have Chuck Schumer lead a protest outside the Treasury?
You couldn’t invent a scene that better explains our current politics than the one last week outside the Treasury in Washington. Some genius in the Democratic Party evidently thought it a good idea to put some of the party’s most prominent faces, most notably Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in front of the cameras to protest Elon Musk’s efforts to get inside the books of the federal government in his presidentially mandated campaign to root out inefficiency.
Picture it: The Democrats, onetime tribunes of the people, fiercely defending government employees from the taxpayers; the party of the oppressed putting it all on the line to protect federal bureaucrats from the people they’re supposed to serve.
It was a tableau for the ages, one example of the many strange battle lines the Democratic Party has chosen to defend these past few years: illegal migrants over citizens, teachers unions over parents and children, criminals over victims, men-turned-women over girls. Good luck with that, Democrats. You might want to fire your pollsters.
Choosing to die on the hill of the right of permanent government officials to spend money without hindrance from the president’s delegates is an especially odd decision. I’m trying to picture the voter who is currently sitting at home rooting for the employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the Internal Revenue Service.
Expecting to make the government efficient is a tall order for anyone, even an abrasive tech billionaire, but like all the best entrepreneurial activities, it may be outcomes other than the principal objective that end up the best justification for Mr. Musk’s endeavors.
So far at least, the Department of Government Efficiency looks like something of a misnomer. It’s early days but it seems less DOGE and more DOGA, a Department of Government Accountability. Since that acronym doesn’t really work, perhaps it could be called Making American Government Accountable—and you could even save a few hundred thousand dollars by repurposing some red hats.
The savings we were promised don’t add up to much so far. It’s all very satisfying denying government employees the insight to be had from a Politico Pro subscription, or depriving the people of Colombia the opportunity to have their awareness of transgender representation raised through opera, but in a total federal budget of $6.75 trillion, these add up to small ball.
Even some of the apparently big-money scandals haven’t turned out to be all that scandalous. Be honest, who among us didn’t get a little shiver of excitement up the leg when we learned that the DOGEniks had identified and then snipped off the supply of $50 million worth of taxpayer-financed condoms to Gaza, adding to the inconveniences the Hamasniks have had to endure these past 16 months. But it turned out that no such funding had been approved and that the prophylactics might actually have been for another Gaza, a province in Mozambique that benefits from U.S. support for AIDS prevention.
It’s early, and it’s still possible that Mr. Musk and his band of teenage budget-slashers will hit paydirt somewhere in the $800 billion defense or $1.8 trillion health and human services budget. But even if they ultimately fall a few trillion short in the pursuit of savings that will eliminate our vast budget deficit, the work they are doing represents a vital contribution to the reform of government.
(A word about those teenagers: Funny how the left is so outraged about kids barely out of college marching into buildings along Constitution Avenue to investigate the misuse of government budgets. They cheered as hordes of little Maoists straight out of Ivy League schools took over tech companies, media organizations and the entire marketing departments of corporate America in the past decade to subject the rest of us to the iron rule of woke ideology.)
Whether or not it succeeds in dramatically reducing the size of government, the paramount virtue of this exercise is the exposure of the hegemony in our system of a political class that sees itself as immune from popular accountability. Government is supposed to exist for the people, but the DOGE process has laid bare what we have long suspected—that at scale, it exists first and foremost to further the interests of the permanent bureaucracy and their like-minded friends who dominate almost all our major institutions. That’s why Democrats are so upset about the exercise: It is the most serious challenge to the control their people have long exercised, irrespective of election results and the popular will.
Whether in the ideologically driven distribution of foreign aid or the convergence of education policies with the interests of public-sector unions, too much of government has been unresponsive either to actual results or the public will.
The accountability DOGE can bring needs to be emulated in other areas of public life where these interests have long dominated, immune from responsibility: radicalized higher education, failing city governments, intellectually corrupt media and entertainment companies.
Even Elon Musk can’t do all that. But the rest of us can start.