Grifters Gonna Grift

When Looking for the Motivation Behind the Chaos Unfolding in D.C., Look for the Grift

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Where's my square deal?" / J.S. Pug, 1905 Puck Magazine PUBLIC DOMAIN WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Hello, Friend,

If you find yourself scratching your head at the depth, breadth, and speed of the destruction making its way through the US government, it’s difficult to fathom what could possibly be the motivation. Are they really this inept? What are they thinking? This doesn’t make sense! Any logical citizen, with even a modicum of love for this complicated republic, would assume that the people in charge would want things to continue to work. Even if we assume they’re lining their pockets, as politicians often do, wouldn’t they want to maintain some sort of economic and social status quo? What would be the point of tearing it all apart and leaving it in total disarray?

If you look at it from the angle of the grift, it starts to make a little more sense. Sure, there might be a long term gain in a slower dismantling, if one could maintain the illusion of order. What if that wasn’t the goal? When a car thief steals a car, they tear it apart and sell it for parts. Selling the individual parts is often worth more money than selling the intact vehicle. The quick return on a relatively low effort makes getting caught and facing the consequences less likely.

By rapidly taking control, ousting any opposition, dismantling the government, selling off anything of value, leaving the rest in disarray, removing the safety nets, destroying the economy, and crippling the judicial and legislative branches, the easy money flows to the few and away from the many. The potential consequences of these actions are minimized. It’s an added bonus that the people who are struggling with basic survival won’t have the means or the energy to fight back.

It’s not ineptitude, though they are clearly inept. It’s a plan. Everything’s a grift.

DOGE isn’t looking for inefficiency or fraud, they’re accessing the massive amounts of data held by our various government agencies. They’re purging any officials who might try to stop them. Our data was secure, private, and purposefully separated. By extracting the data, gathering it together into a digital dossier on every single citizen, and combining it with the data mined and gathered through social media, online activity, and public records, they have created the potential for an all powerful, all knowing, all seeing surveillance state. Consider how valuable that collated information would be to Big Tech and their Technocracy, the Oligarchs and their businesses, hostile foreign powers looking to fine tune propaganda or takeover our country, and an authoritarian regime seeking absolute power and control. Nothing would be more valuable, and it’s all been extracted. The cost of DOGE has been an increased 154 billion dollars out of our federal budget. If they were trying to save money, they’ve failed. However, if they were trying to mine previously inaccessible data troves, they’ve succeeded beyond imagination. If the system implodes, that’s irrelevant. It’s maybe even a value add. It’s a grift.

Crashing our fiat money based economy is a plan, not a mistake. By devaluing the dollar and declawing the Fed, the IRS, the FDIC, CFPB, and other financial oversight bureaus and defunding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, it will be easier to consolidate and control the flow of capital, hide corruption, limit the ownership of property, and implement a decentralized digital economy (owned and operated by the Tech Bros.) They’re coming for our money, our property, our debt, our future. They want it all. Every last penny. It’s a grift.

Destroying public education to privatize it is a plan. If only the elite have access to education, the masses will be ignorant and ill informed. Those sweatshop factory jobs about which they keep waxing poetically, they’re for us and our children. If there are no immigrants to do those dirty jobs, who do you think will do them? If they destroy all of the hard fought and won labor rights, they can make us work countless hours in dangerous conditions for a pittance. They’re attempting to control reproductive rights and incentivize birth rates, a short term investment with a long term goal of a cheap, illiterate, desperate workforce. It’s a grift.

Their deportation efforts have proven less effective than those of the previous administration, though border crossings are down. If the point was jailing and removing illegal ‘criminals’ and sending the rest of the people deemed ‘illegal’ back to their countries of origin, it’s a fail so far. What’s actually happening is our tax dollars are being used to kidnap people without providing due process and hold them hostage in gulags in other countries. Arrests of legal immigrants here on student visas have increased, and the reasons are dubious and concerning. Travel to this country is also down, which has a significant economic impact. They’re isolating us. Meanwhile, the industrial prison complex is proposing massive detention centers abroad and here in the US where it appears they may even be planning on holding US citizens for expressing their constitutionally granted right to dissent. ICE, other government agencies, and private military forces are being turned into a gestapo. It’s a grift.

If improving our health and access to more effective medical care was the goal, our health agencies would not be gutted, scientists and experts would not be fired, valuable research would not be defunded, and vaccines would not be under threat. RFK Jr. owns companies that profit from the proceeds of vaccine injury lawsuits. Dr. Oz sells snake oil supplements. Our private medical records have been accessed by DOGE. RFK Jr. has talked about creating camps for people with autism, ADHD, weight struggles, depression, and other conditions using prescribed drugs that he has deemed addictions. When he says camps, he doesn’t mean spas. He means farm work camps for harvesting crops and picking fruit. Is he creating a free labor source for factory farms? Why is he creating an autism database? Why are we abandoning our elderly? What value do they have in the factories or fields? It’s a grift.

Whatever it is, if it’s confusing and strange and defies logic, it’s a matter of reframing the logic. It’s all a grift being perpetrated by an administration filled with people who lack empathy, integrity, and conscience. They’re grifters, con artists, snake oil salesmen, psychopaths, and opportunists. They’re taking it apart, selling off the parts, and when they’re finished what will be left is a shell of what once was. We can’t get distracted by the carnival, we have to stay focused on the grift. The sponsorships, the crypto bribes, the giveaways, the contractors, the shifting alliances, the profiteers and bad actors, they’re keeping us distracted with the chaos while they clean the meat from the bones.

Greenland, Panama, Canada. The ever shifting tariffs, attacks on NASA, defense, intelligence, weather monitoring, scientific research, infrastructure investments, big tech sponsored Easter Egg Roll, tax payer funded weekend golf trips…all of it…grift. Deny, deflect, distract while they pilfer, privatize and profit. That’s the grift.

We have to keep fighting the good fight, do everything we can to take it back, and make sure these grifters never, ever get their hands on it again. The upside is, if we can manage to regain control, we have the unique opportunity to rebuild and re-envision everything from the ground up in order to finally create the more perfect union we deserve. We need to get started figuring out what that looks like, asap. Project 2029? Let’s do this!

Grifters gonna grift, but fighters gonna fight. My money’s on the fighters.

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