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 Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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By Rich Kozlovich

 

 

There are approximately 2.2 million federal civilian employees.  The average cost of a federal employee, including salary and benefits, is around $143,643.  How much money is that in salaries and benefits every year? $316,014,600,000.    

 

Recently it was reported Trump said 1 million federal workers ‘could be fired.’  That's a minimum savings of $172, 371,600,000.  That doesn't count all the other expenses involving employees, such as buildings and the cost of maintaining them.  That's a lot of money, but when you compare saving a hundred and seventy five billion and more dollars to the nation's debt of almost 37 trillion dollars, that's chump change.  But if that's the pattern that plays out in everything they do, then we're talking real money.   I'm convinced by the end of Trump's first year in office, his DOGE team and the generals he's appointed to be heads of these government bureaucracies, are capable of eliminating a trillion dollars in spending. 

I've told this story before, but I think it's  worth repeating.  Some years ago my friend Jay Lehr, who attended Princeton and met Einstein, said when Einstein first came to Princeton he gave seven lectures.  He said the first few were so packed you couldn't beg, steal, borrow, or buy a seat.  By the end of the series there were a lot of empty seats.  I was surprised and I asked him why.  He said Einstein was lecturing some of the smartest people in the world, and they didn't have a clue what he was talking about.  You can only image how that effected their egos.  They didn't dare suggest Einstein didn't know what he was talking about since he was considered the most brilliant man alive.  

Well, I will be the first to acknowledge I'm far more clueless about physics than those sitting in that lecture hall.  But by just watching from the back row there's one thing I've gleaned.  Much about physics is based on a lot of "maybes".  Maybes that can't be proven via the scientific method of observation, experimentation, and analysis.   They can observe, and they can analyze, but how do they experiment?  Take black holes for example, how do you experiment with a black hole?  Now, all of a sudden everything they "knew" about black hole astronomy might be wrong.  As I see it, it's all guess work, and they don't have a clue either, yet they're absolutely positive ..... again.  

Truth be told I find it all interesting and fascinating, and I always have, but in the final analysis, I really don't care.  I consider this to be academic welfare, like so much of what academia does, much of which should not be funded by the government since there's not one iota of practical value in so much of what they do.  If that makes me a neanderthal, I can live with it. 

Fani Willis, of Georgia prosecutor who played the bully role in her attempt to "get Trump" is now crying that Jim Jordan is bullying her.  Imagine that, and doing so in violation of his oath of office.  What? Investigating a known corrupt prosecutor is a violation of his oath?  Really? Why?  Because it's black history month, and he should be celebrating that instead of "bullying" her!  It seems her deck of race cards has no limit.  

The FBI is heading into a maelstrom from which many will not return.  If this true, and I'm betting it is, the "new" FBI has launched an investigation into James Comey, and it's being reported the FBI is destroying evidence including the files on the JFK assassination.

This is the crack national law enforcement agency that raided the home of a mom of four children,  who protested at a school board meeting resulting in an invasion of her home by a FBI SWAT team, knocking down her door, bursting into the house with guns and handcuffing her while she was homeschooling her children.  

The FBI is broken, and it's not just a matter of bad leadership; it's the system itself.  And guess what?  A lot of these miscreants are worried they're going to be thrown in jail, and they have good reason to be worried.  Remember.... no one is above the law.  Their only recourse?  Destroy the evidence! 

I really like being right, and this is one time I wished I wasn't.  The covid shots were not vaccines, not only did they not prevent infections, they weren't designed to do so, and that was right from the mouth of Deborah Birx, who designed their vaccination policy.  A person who needs to be charged with crimes against humanity, or at the very least depraved indifference, right along with Fauci.  Only Fauci has been given a pardon, Brix hasn't.  Fauci isn't immune to  non-federal criminal charges, or civil actions against him. 

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We're seeing a lot of kickback from Democrats over DOGE and all they're exposing, and there's a reason why.   Here's one example,  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Backed Legislation That Funneled Millions to His Wife’s Nonprofit.  They're in on the take, and feeding at the government's trough is addictive.  And ya just gotta love pencil neck Schiff.  He knows there are millions of Americans who are downright ashamed of Trump.   And he's right, they're called nitwits, halfwits, dipsticks, and misfits, all of which are Democrats and RINO's.   And we should care why?

Think about this.  Someone recently pointed out: "There are 18 intelligence agencies, and somehow they had no idea that Hamas was going to attack Israel or that Syria was going to collapse. What were they doing? I would say that is a lot of duplicative waste."  Well, it appears we now know a lot about what some of them were doing.  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fires 100 perverts spewing out their drooling on government computers and time. 

And this is at the nation's most top secret agency, the NSA, involving the CIA and others.  The questions that now need answering is how did this happen, who in leadership knew about this, when did they know it and is it likely to happen again? Since all these people are being fired, I think I can say, not in the near future, and now, not in the military.  

As for how this happened, and it happened like a things from the left, "a slow march through the institutions", as this article There’s a Trans Cult Inside the NSA, by Christopher F. Rufo explains:

An insider tells the story of the intel agency’s ideological capture..........But according to our whistleblower, these sex chats were just the tip of the iceberg. This longtime NSA insider tells me that the ideological capture of the NSA began a decade ago. Trans activists have entrenched themselves in positions of power, pressured employees to undergo reeducation trainings, and compromised national security in the name of ideology........

It's clear this is deeply entrenched, and it's also clear that many of those who will be thrown out of these top secret agencies may well decide to commit treason in order to get back at those who fire them.  It truly is an "iceberg" problem.

Trump has made it clear any state that doesn't end transgenderism in sports will have their funds cut off, and Maine has made it clear, they don't' care.  They're even going to punish a   GOP Congressman for opposing transgenderism, and they've even attacked a female state Senator for challenging Maine's actions claiming she's done "irreparably breaking the public trust."  The left's capability to use more words in more twisted ways is mind boggling.

As a side bar...did you get a look at their governor?   How does someone that dumb, that strange, and that ugly get elected? There's just gotta be something in the water in Maine. 

 

Another favorite of mine is that great intellectual and moral giant,Michael Moore, with his latest rant filled with logical fallacies claiming one of these deported illegal migrant children might have cured cancer, or stopped an asteroid from hitting the planet.  But then again, maybe they wouldn't.   But if he can show us which ones would be able to do that, we'll keep them.  

In the meanwhile they're criminals because they're here illegally, eating up American's tax money, overwhelming our public services, committing a lot of crimes, forming criminal organizations, and even creating groups to overthrow the United States, much of which Joe Biden can take "credit".  Other than Michael Moore and his ilk, all suffering from mental delusions, the rest of this call this blame, not credit. 

Finally, I was a surprised that all of a sudden DOGE, and the President, want Fort Knox audited.  I thought... really... what's that all about?   There were two show audits in 1953 and 1974, but there's never been a real audit of the gold supply...ever.  And there's some kickback over this, why?  

What really triggered this?  I'm guessing of course, but I'm kinda getting the feeling something unexpected has turned up in one of the DOGE investigations, and I think there's something going on in the background they're not divulging, and it shook them.  But, we'll see.   

This week I've posted eight commentaries of my own, and twenty one by others.  I hope you find them worthy of your time.

Best wishes, 

Rich 

My Commentaries

1. Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part VII, Fake News
2. Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part VI
3. Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part V
4. We Do Need to Return to the Past
5. Are We Entering a Golden Age?
6. Judicial Boundaries Need to be Imposed
7. It's Time For a Constitutional Confrontation With the Federal Judiciary
8. Often Wrong, Never in Doubt

Commentaries

1. Extra! Extra! Changes Coming to The Washington Post Opinion Page By Leesa K. Donner
2. DOGE Is Very Popular With Americans, New Poll Finds By Leesa K. Donner
3. Wishful Thinking: Leftists Say Trump ‘Coup’ Has Failed By Tim Donner
4. Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!  By Paul Driessen
5. AI: How to Teach Critical Thinking By John Droz, Jr.
6. The President, the Special Counsel and his Lawyers By Daniel Greenfield
7. Searching for Condemnations in the Muslim World  By Daniel Greenfield
8. Is There a Constitutional Right to Castrate Children?  By Daniel Greenfield
9. Washington DC: The March of Folly By Robin Itzler
10. Black History Month: 2020 BLM George Floyd riots By Robin Itzler
11. Birthright citizenship and Democrat hypocrisy By Robin Itzler
12. Maybe We Need a Government Shutdown By Robin Itzler
13. HHS Job Cuts: Pork or Purge? By John Klar
14. The Case Against Socialism, Part IV By Dan Mitchell
15. What Country Has the Best System of Health Care? By Dan Mitchell
16. The Process Of Rescinding The Endangerment Finding Has Begun By Francis Menton
17. Amicus Brief Filed In Glen Oaks Village Owners v. City Of New York By Francis Menton
18. Karma for Comey: Is the FBI Investigating Its Former Director? By Graham J. Noble
19. Operation Whirlwind Targets Democrats’ Incendiary Rhetoric By Graham J. Noble
20. The Wall Street Journal Completes Its ‘Woke’ Transition By Joe Schaeffer
21. Ethel Rosenberg and the Model UN By Michael D. Shaw

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor

 No matter what anyone says, you can’t marginalize the truth!  You can suppress it, you can ignore it, you can avoid it, you can attempt to undermine it, you can attempt to subvert it, you can attempt to organize against it, you can even laugh at it, but if we have the courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time, because truth and time are on the same side.

Constant as the North Star

DOGE, Trump, and the Destruction of the Pillars of Civilization, Part II

“There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen,” Vladimir Lenin

 By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Part I

   

Now that's what I call pest control!

Well, Donald Trump is President of the United States and the Deep State is in trouble, and the Democrat party is now facing a far more formidable foe than they've ever faced in their history since Abraham Lincoln.  He's determined to crush the Deep State and after crushing USAID, he's going after the Department of Education, and with Pam Bondi confirmed as Attorney General, Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, along with Kash Patel sure to be confirmed as Director of the FBI, and Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence life in Washington DC is going to become frightening for the Deep State.   Entertaining for the rest of us though as this will be a schadenfreude moment in time. 

 

I think we can reasonably conclude it's perp walk time in America.  The Democrats and their myrmidons in the Pravda media loved their corrupt perp walk reality shows in the past.  I'm betting they won't like them in the future, and I'm betting a lot of higher echelon leftists are sweating now. 

Before he was elected the question was asked, Who Can Donald Trump Count On?, as we know he was stabbed in the back by everyone, including the Republican party, the CIA, the Secret Service, the FBI, the DOJ, all myrmidons of the Democrat party, but that's about to change.   

 

The fact is the Deep State is at war with ‘America and the American People’.  General Michael Flynn who was a target of the Deep State in his documentary film Flynn: Deliver the Truth. Whatever the Cost, says:

“In order to get Trump they had to get Flynn, and we now have all this incredible levels of evidence that has been exposed principally through my case. So my case fighting back, doing the things we do despite all the crazy people out there that, you know, that name-call you, and other media outlets that still do that to this day. Everybody knows the truth. And what I know is, I know a little bit more of the truth, and what I’m going to do with this film, flynnmovie.com, is I’m going to expose some of that truth,”.......

What we've found out now is the Deep State is deeper than we thought, and is filed with enemies of the American Constitution. 

The uniparty and the Deep State conspired to destroy Trump, and has been doing so for over eight years, and he's survived.  The "Get Trump" playbook involved the media, RINO'S,  Hollywood, CIA, FBI, DOJ, National Security Council, the Mueller "Inquisition", the corruption of the rule of law and corrupt prosecutions by corrupt prosecutors and judges.  Not to mention the corrupt media and their charges of racism, fascism, and misogyny, so now we're seeing successes from Trump as no one has ever seen before.  

This time he's not walking in without a support team that's totally on his side, and will do everything they can do destroy the corruption that permeates the federal government, and at all levels.  He's shining a massive spotlight on that corruption and America is outraged.  It wasn't "conspiracy theories" after all, it was reality!

The history of the democratic doctrine furnishes a striking example of an intellectual system blown about by the social wind. Conceived as the foundation of liberty, it paves the way for tyranny. Born for the purpose of standing as a bulwark against Power, it ends by providing Power with the finest soil it has ever had in which to spread itself over the social field. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

The Wokey World of Politics, Enemy, and Power - Isn’t it special how Harvard has been negotiating with the peaceful protestors camping in Harvard Yard and has agreed to look into a Center for Palestine Studies at Harvard?  Let us imagine, for a moment, anti-abortion activists standing silently outside one of the leading abortion clinics protesting about the lack of babies born to Ivy League women university presidents? I wonder how many pregnancy termination reductions the folks at Planned Parenthood would negotiate............If the United States can indict the former President of the United States for a ham sandwich… Well, you get the picture.  Can you spell I-N-J-U-S-T-I-C-E?

 Progressives’ Cunning Blueprint to Possess the Levers of State Power  - Illinois public-sector unions are perfecting and promulgating a model for subjugating Americans to union interests. Their model has three steps: control the kids, control politicians and control the law. It’s highly effective, and toxic to the future of any state that embraces it.  Kids are at the heart of Illinois unions’ domination strategy. After all, in Animal Farm, Napoleon the pig (representing Josef Stalin) says, “education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up.”...........

Liberals Back Proposed Rule to Fortify Career Bureaucrats Against a Change in the White House - Liberal advocacy organizations are throwing support behind a proposed federal rule that would make firing bureaucrats more difficult amid polling suggesting that former President Donald Trump may win November’s presidential election.  The proposed Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rule would make it more difficult for civil servants to be reclassified as Schedule F employees, who can be fired at will by the president, according to the federal register. Liberal organizations like Democracy Forward and Protect Democracy, which are involved in efforts to obstruct a potential second Trump term, have voiced support for the rule....

Democrats: Trashing the past, ruining the present, stealing our future - It is all working out as planned for the progressives. They divide us, break us up, atomize us, make us hate each other, drive us all crazy. And then the shootings occur. And then they have us scared. And then they can control us, disarm us, and lock us down ”for our own good.”  Meaning, their ever-growing, eternal power...... because they know they can use them to their advantage -- in both the short and the long term. That is the true nature of the evil we are facing. And it is an evil that cannot be defeated unless we are willing to make it so, no matter the cost. The cost of not doing so is unimaginable......

Victor Davis Hanson in his Nov 24, 2021 article, Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization, states:

Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America. Yet American conservatives still adamantly supported the nation's traditional investigatory, intelligence, and military agencies - especially when they came under budgetary or cultural attacks.  Not so much anymore. For the first time in memory, conservatives now connect the FBI hierarchy with bureaucratic bloat, political bias, and even illegality........Never has the proper advisory role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff been so brazenly usurped and contorted..........Few reporters have yet offered apologies for helping hatch and spread the Russian collusion hoax that paralyzed the country for three years.......

Few reporters suggested that federal health agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases might be disseminating contradictory or even inaccurate information about the pandemic. To believe this was happening instead earned condemnation in the media as if one were some conspiracy theorist or nut............District attorneys in several major cities - Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and St. Louis - have often predicated prosecuting crimes on the basis of ideology, race, and careerism.

I think a valid argument can be made that the regulatory code is unconstitutional, all 200,000 pages of it.  Since the SCOTUS Loper Bright decision overturning the Chevron Doctrine finally put to rest the idea a self directed bureaucracy has no Constitutional basis, making it clear the Constitution invests the legislative functions of the United States solely in the hands of Congress, and not unelected tyrannical bureaucrats.

As for the bureaucracy; that can be dealt with as a budgetary issue. Since Chevron was overturned, it's going to be difficult to justify having all these mini dictators on the payroll, starting with the EPA.

Then simply ignore their schemes and hire and fire as necessary and let them sue. Just like Obama and Biden have done when federal law stands in opposition to their ideological schemes, immigration being the best example of that.

One more thing. Conservatives need to make overturning Sullivan a top priority. Once these lying media trash start getting sued for libel, things will start to go much smoother.

Imagine What It Means to be American - If we were to catalog the attributes of our Founders vital to the creation of our nation, love of liberty and courage would likely top that list. Close behind would be a more subtle quality empowered by liberty, that of imagination. It is imagination and its implicit sense of wonder that drives our quest for knowledge and ultimately human progress. Our Founding Fathers had no template for creating our government; they had to imagine it based on the imperfect experiences of prior republics. Imagination is the seed of discovery, the spark that ignites our hunger for the knowledge that was once a common American cause.

 

How did we get where we are now? Because we no longer truthfully teach who we were, we don't know who we are, and haven't a clue who we should be. But that was the goal of the left in public education since the late 19th century. As I read this I thought of this article, "A Stranger in Town", 1943, explaining who we need to be!

Both self confident people and arrogant people want to be right. The difference is self confident people are willing to accept correction in order to be right. Arrogant people will accept no correction, and all of these leftist halfwits are arrogant.   Compile arrogance with ignorance, and you get Woke, and the sooner they get crushed the better.