[Source: theweek.com]
Immediate impeachment is the only option, but we must bring criminal charges against all the collaborating politicians, Democratic and Republican alike
It breaks the heart to see so many lost souls congratulating themselves on the impending approval of Gabbard and Kennedy by the Senate, two corrupt and gutless politicians who have not said a word in opposition to the takeover of the federal government by the vicious gangs that prop up the Trump and Musk puppets.
These same fools are delighted that Trump had somehow shut down the “deep state” by closing USAID without any explanation or transparency.
The Trump regime is engaging in an unprecedented takeover of the federal government by intimidation, bribes, and force, and it is covertly merging the United States Northern Command, the FBI, ICE, and intelligence agencies into one massive instrument of oppression that serves not the senile Donald Trump, nor the narcissistic figurehead Elon Musk, but a dark cabinet of billionaires who intend to weaponize the entire United States government against its own citizens and the world, to dismantle all parts of government that serve the needs of citizens, and to sell off everything held in common to the highest bidder, or the best-connected financier.
Some are staging a few protests. The Democratic Party is so supine and inert as to not warrant comment. What we need to do is to declare that this entire administration, and most of the Congress enabling it, are in clear violation of federal law, the Constitution, and of the most basic mores that separate civilization from barbarism.
Trump and company have dipped into barbarism and they must all step down, every one of them. If they will not, then the citizens, as they are entitled to do by the Constitution, should take action—and must do so without involving the puppet Democratic Party that exists only to try to bait citizens into useless conflicts that distract from the predations of the billionaire parasite class.
Elon Musk is using the bogus “Department of Government Efficiency” to run the entire federal government much as he ran Twitter when he took it over, ordering mass firings, giving ultimatums to administrators, and using the threat of force to make the entire civil service his own playpen.
For all the corruption in the FBI and the Department of Justice, it is clear that the Trump administration is not trying to restore transparency, but rather to use the decay of the institutions as an excuse to further reshape all of government into a weapon—using threats against government officials as a means of forcing through change.
There is no indication that Trump intends to end the interference abroad in other nations by the U.S. government, or to end the spying on, and oppression of, citizens at home. Trump has never made such a statement, and most of his words imply the complete opposite.
This militarization of the government itself is unprecedented in American history.
When Musk seized control of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and fired hundreds of employees on the spot, and then ordered all of the agency’s nearly 10,000 employees to stay home, the enthusiasts of the Trump revolution were ecstatic. Here, they claimed, was proof that a real war with the “deep state” was beginning. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
USAID is deeply corrupt and has used its services to further the interests of multinational corporations and served as cover for intelligence agencies pushing for imperialist expansion. It is a fiction that USAID made no contributions at all, however. Moreover, USAID is not being shut down—despite the headlines, but rather being made a part of the even more imperialist State Department of Marco Rubio. The same campaigns carried out under USAID will be carried out under new names.
If a legitimate administration had wanted to reform, or to end, USAID, it would have released all documentation concerning its previous illegal activities and brought charges against its administrators based on federal and international law. A series of hearings would have been held and, without any doubt, the criminality in USAID would be revealed to not be in USAID at all, but in the intelligence agencies that use it, and in the multinational banks that manipulate those intelligence agencies. Blaming USAID is like blaming the butcher for the killing of chickens or the assassin for the murder of foreign leaders.
None of the criminal corporations and intelligence operators behind USAID were exposed in the last week. No classified documents indicating criminal action were released.
USAID was shut down so as to frighten other more essential government agencies so that they fear the new powers of the Trump regime.
When Musk stated “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” he was making a direct threat to civil servants throughout the federal government.
When he stated that “USAID was a viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America,” he was not talking about reality, about how USAID was abused by the rich to undermine national sovereignty of nations around the world. He was falsely attributing the totalitarian nature of government under corporate control to Marxism and Socialism in an attempt to mislead the public.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal agency set up after the 2008 Wall Street crash, was also shut down by the self-appointed Musk so as to assure there will be no part of government overseeing the destruction of the entire financial system. Trump named Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the hedge-fund billionaire, as administrator to oversee its demise.
The president is not empowered by law or the Constitution to shut down USAID or CFPB. The Congress must act to do so. To take such action without congressional approval is itself grounds for immediate impeachment. The complicity or corruption of Democrats is irrelevant. We are talking about the rule of law.
And that was not all. The Trump regime froze all federal grants and payments in an order issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Although a federal judge temporarily blocked the order, a shutdown of federal payments to state, local and non-governmental agencies, including for Medicaid, has started, and the Trump regime intends to try again to shut down the government entirely by ending the system for payment. The chaos imposed by previous American regimes abroad in Syria or Iraq, in Nicaragua or El Salvador, has at last come home to roost.
This war on the economy also is being waged through a bid to take over the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve by a tiny handful of operatives reporting to the billionaires. Musk’s DOGE was given access to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), the Treasury system that handles 90% of the payments made by the U.S. government, including Social Security checks, income tax refunds, and federal paychecks. That is to say that DOGE, now but an extension of Musk’s opaque “X” (SpaceX, X, Tesla and other scams), now controls all payments for the entire federal government and can stop them, or misdirect them, at any time.
The Treasury’s top career civil servant at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, David Lebryk, was immediately removed from office when he objected to the intervention by private company into what should be a technical system for making payments.
As is so often the case in dying empires, career civil servants are the first to go. Most likely, money itself will be destroyed next and citizens forced to turn to the crypto currencies offered up by billionaires as the United States faces something like the German inflation of 1923.
Already plans are in place to eliminate the Department of Education and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and to privatize, or eliminate, much of the Department of Health and Human Services using the pretext that Kennedy is somehow fighting vaccines—when he is doing nothing of the sort.
The Department of Defense is also being rendered as a totalitarian force that can seize anyone and lock them up in in the torture chambers of El Salvador, or at Guantánamo Bay, if the White House gives the word.
Immediate impeachment is the only option, but it must be accompanied by criminal charges against all the collaborating politicians, Democratic and Republican alike.
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