(End of the American Dream)—Our founders intended for us to have a very small, very limited federal government. Instead, we have the largest and most bloated government in the entire history of the world. So we should all be glad that someone is finally attempting to get it under control. For far too long, ultra-powerful government agencies have been running around doing whatever they want and making our lives miserable in the process. Congress has been able to exercise very little control over these monstrosities, and their leaders had little fear of ever being held accountable for their actions. But thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, a day of reckoning has arrived.
I honestly did not think that Trump and Musk were going to be able to accomplish so much in such a short period of time.
Look at what they just did to USAID. It has been operating without any sort of real accountability for decades, but it took Musk just a single weekend to feed it “into the wood chipper”…
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.
Could gone to some great parties.
Did that instead.
USAID’s reign of terror is finally over.
What is left of it is going to be absorbed into the State Department under the firm hand of Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
“Well, that was always the goal was to reform it, but now we have rank insubordination,” Rubio told Fox News, in comments just one day after President Trump announced that Rubio would serve as the acting head of USAID – which itself came after Elon Musk’s DOGE team descended upon the agency and revealed that “USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That’s why it’s got to go. It’s beyond repair.”
According to Rubio, “Now we have basically an active effort — their basic attitude is, ‘We don’t work for anyone, we work for ourselves, no agency of government can tell us what to do.”
“So the president made me the acting administrator,” he added. “I’ve delegated that power to someone who is there full-time, and we’re going to go through the same process at USAID as we’re going through now at the State Department.”
It would be difficult for me to overstate how much of a disaster this is for the Democratic Party.
One source is calling it “worse than 9/11 for Democrats”…
Talked to a friend who has connections within the Democratic Party and he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down USAID is unlike anything he’s ever seen.
By following the money DOGE has struck a killing blow to the heart of the Democrat deep state machine.
Direct quote: “This is worse than 9/11 for Democrats. USAID is the primary vessel they use to achieve their political agenda. USAID is and always has been the primary source of funding for their influence peddling schemes and for their indirect sources of income”
This one federal agency was spending our tax dollars in some of the most bizarre ways imaginable.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a few examples of USAID waste with the press…
Reading from the sheet, Leavitt went through it line by line.
She said: ‘$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.’
Hammering home the point, Leavitt, 27, who has already become a star of Trump’s administration, said: ‘I don’t know about you, but as an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going toward this crap.
I’m sorry, but I do not want my tax dollars to be spent on comic books in Peru. I am sure that you feel the same way. We are 36 trillion dollars in debt. We can’t afford this nonsense.
Following his dismantling of USAID, Elon Musk set his sights on the FBI.
On Tuesday, we learned that the FBI has “complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with details of thousands of employees who worked on investigations” related to the mass arrests on January 6th, 2021…
FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with details of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation.
The demand has caused consternation among FBI employees who fear it is meant to amass a list of personnel for possible termination by the Trump administration.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, in a Friday memo with the subject line “Terminations,” had given FBI officials a noon deadline Tuesday to submit the details of thousands of agents and analysts. Bove previously ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, including those who oversaw cyber, national security and criminal investigations.
According to CNN, DOGE officials were seen entering FBI headquarters “to collect the information”…
Officials working for Musk at DOGE were spotted by CNN entering FBI headquarters on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to collect the information.
FBI agents filed a lawsuit Tuesday trying to block the release of their names or identifying details after Trump administration officials demanded documents about who worked on January 6-related cases.
The agents say their jobs could be terminated within days.
The FBI has never been hit with a crisis quite like this.
Some FBI officials have already left or have been fired, but others are pledging to dig in for a fight…
The top agent in the FBI’s New York field office, meanwhile, told his colleagues he’s digging a “foxhole” to protect them.
“Do NOT resign or offer to resign,” the FBI Agents Association told members in an email obtained by CNN. “While we would never advocate for physical non-compliance, you need to be clear your removal is not voluntary.”
Separately, lawyers for prosecutors and FBI agents called the possible dismissal of employees who worked on Trump-related investigations a “violation of the due process rights” and threatened legal action in a letter to senior DOJ officials Sunday night.
It shall be very interesting to see how this plays out.
After the FBI, Musk is hinting that the IRS could be his next target.
I would love to see Musk audit the Federal Reserve as well.
Hopefully he will add that to the list.
Amazingly, some of the key members of Musk’s DOGE team have not even reached the age of 25 yet…
At just 19, Edward Coristine is the youngest of the fresh-faced bunch taking on corporate America and longstanding government institutions.
According to WIRED, he’s been dubbed an ‘expert’ in his field, and specifics about his role aren’t yet clear.
Akash Bobba, 21, Ethan Shaotran, 22, and Luke Farritor, 23, along with Coristine, have reportedly been granted A-suite level clearance for their work, meaning they can work out of the agency’s top floor with access to all physical spaces and IT systems.
I love that! If you are a young person, let me offer a little piece of advice. If you want to do great things in life, start doing them early.
Sadly, if you wait too long to get started you may find that you simply do not have enough energy to do everything that you wanted to accomplish.
President Trump promised to “drain the swamp” during his first term, but now it is actually happening during his second term.
Most federal workers have been given a short window of opportunity to accept a “deferred resignation” which would result in them being placed on “administrative leave” beginning on March 1st…
The Trump administration has sent federal workers an updated sample contract with new terms for accepting a deferred resignation, the next move in an effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce by the end of the fiscal year in September.
Federal workers who accept the administration’s resignation offer ahead of a deadline this week would work through Feb. 28 and be placed on administrative leave starting March 1, according to a copy of a contract the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent to federal agencies Monday.
Workers taking the deferred resignation deal would receive pay and benefits through the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, according to a sample contract viewed by Newsweek.
So far, over 20,000 federal employees have accepted this deal, but that number is expected to grow substantially by the time we reach the deadline…
More than 20,000 employees — about 1% of the federal workforce — have signed up for an offer to quit their jobs in exchange for a deferred resignation deal that would have taxpayers continue to pay their salaries through the end of September.
But those numbers are increasing every day, according to an official familiar with the data, and the Trump administration expects a spike in resignations as employees near Thursday’s deadline to accept the offer.
Most of the people that are leaving are probably not in alignment with the new administration’s goals.
So this will be a good thing for Trump and his team.
It is being reported that if enough federal workers do not take the offer of “deferred resignation”, we could potentially see mass layoffs…
Layoffs of federal workers would be “likely” if too few employees quit under the White House’s deferred resignation program, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a memo from a General Services Administration official.
The White House last week offered 2 million civilian full-time federal workers to remain on the payroll through Sept. 30 but without having to work under the resignation offer, which is set to expire on Thursday.
Of course it isn’t just federal workers that are going to be hitting the bricks.
During the months ahead, we are going to be seeing mass layoffs all over the nation.
This period of transition is going to be tough for the entire country.
But at this moment, it is quite appropriate to be excited about the revolution that is occurring in Washington. I think that Chris Martenson summed things up quite well when he wrote this…
These are extraordinary times, and I mean that in every literal and historical sense I can muster.
Trump has started a revolution, it’s underway, and I am 100% here for it.
The short story is this is seismic. None of us have lived through what’s unfolding. Trump’s team is operating as if they are battling an internal foe that has taken over America and which seeks its destruction. If this is the case, then my view is they have correctly diagnosed the disease.
I very much agree.
But let me add a caveat.
No revolution will ultimately be successful unless America turns back to God.
We need to turn away from our evil ways and start doing what is right or else we will have no future.
So I greatly applaud efforts to make our federal government smaller and more efficient, but that is not enough.
There is only one way that we are truly going to turn things around, and we must not forget that.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
God gave us a four-year reprieve from the worst of evil in Trump’s first term, only to see it come back with a demonic vengeance during Biden’s tenure, the likes of which sent us reeling. The revelation of the extent of evil was not the usual frog-in-a-kettle slow destruction that kept America in a fog of inertia and delusion. We saw what hell looks like up close and personal. Many people began to seek God, and like in the book of Judges, God raised up a leader to deliver us from our enemies and the enemies of God Himself. God delivered both the four years of “revelation” and now we have four years of potential “restoration,” but it won’t be lasting without true, spiritual remorse, confession, and repentance. To repent means to turn..basically a U-Turn, leaving your misdirected oath and following God’s commandments. No repentance, no following God’s biblical mandates instead of self or culture…no lasting hope. Life is better with Jesus.
I agree
So you claim to speak for God. I’m pretty sure that’s a 1 way trip to hell for you.
Long overdue. Taxpayer money is used for nothing but a slush fund for a bunch of radical left wing pet projects.
Ya, keep some of USAID, maybe the CIA, and the FBI, etc… spread that cancer around… im sure it wont end up killing us down the road.
Mr Snyder THE LAND OF THE FREE
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ONE PEOPLE
Did turn to GOD
PROOF YOU NEED
PLEASE USE COMMON SENSE
And look again at the one simple easy to see an study
THE VOTE COUNT
Elected 45-47 AND HE HAS TAKEN
THE OATH OF OFFICE
That is as clear as YOU will ever get to SEE THE HAND OF GODS
WILL ON THIS ROCK
Mr Snyder Sir as a very GOOD Wordsmith
No need to be a doubting Thomas
GOD Built the land of the FREE
GOD BUILT
ONE PEOPLE Did turn
ONE PEOPLE ONLY FEAR GOD
Mr Snyder please sir read this
FEAR GOD AND TAKE YOUR OWN PART
Theodore Roosevelt wrote this BOOK
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1913
STUDY THE CHARACTER HE ARTICULATED FOR THE
COMMANDER AND CHIEF
BUT STUDY WHY HE USED THIS WORD
CHINAFY
1913 MR SNYDER HE CALLED OUR ENEMY WE FACE TODAY
CHINAFY
Built by stolen TAXS holds the butt party donkeys by their very NECKS
“I would love to see Musk audit the Federal Reserve as well.”
LMAO. You Jews sure don’t want to see the federal reserve abolished and congress to start issuing money backed by metal, do you?
AUDIT the fed. What a JEWISH CROCK.
END.
THE.
FED.
Anyone that says anything else is a hook nose beast.
Amen! Yes, we must all remember the greatest commandment. This includes Jesus’ words to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.