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Over twenty years ago, when I was beginning to get my new political legs under me, one of the first blog sites I frequented that seemed to align with my burgeoning worldview was Flopping Aces. That and Townhall.com before it became Townhall (I can’t recall its previous name), a relatively new site called RedState, Patriot Post, and a few others. Commented a bit, posted a few things (On RedState, in particular), it was early days for the new media right, and discovering I belonged there was new to me.
I don’t visit Flopping Aces much these days, but they got national ink on Twitchy and now everywhere else thanks to an X thread unmasking Gavin Newsom’s FireAid concert fraud.
President Trump plays on, too, so hello Global click bonanza (227.8K Views) so far, and good on the guys at Flopping Aces. Not the first or last time, but it’s never a bad time for that, especially when it’s something like this.
[T]ens of millions of dollars [was] raised with the explicit promise that those monies would go directly to victims of the L.A. wildfires. Instead, the money went to Leftist nonprofit organizations, and not a dime went to people who lost everything.
Governor Nuisance even got in on the scam.
Wait for it…
Nothing to see here. Just move along.
We have to assume that the beneficiaries of the laundered money are being employed or deployed to ensure that people who lost their homes can’t rebuild and the plan is to erect socialist monuments in the from of “workforce” or “affordable” housing instead—subsidized or fully taxpayer funded domiciles for illegals and people made homeless by years of Democrat rule (including those who lost their homes to poor forest and fire management?).
This is why America benefits from the denaturing of USAID. Whatever its original intent, and many agree it is a laundromat for backdoor or black bag actions across the globe, it was running taxpayer cash for partisan purposes without transparency or accountability. In many cases, for things private interests could easily fund but won’t, which means neither should we. Suppose Peter Lewis (the wealthy Liberal founder of Progressive Insurance) can’t be bothered to drop a few million on Transgender tolerance training in some Muslim nation. In that case, it’s not worth doing.
We get more transparency and accountability, and maybe we slow or stop the federal debt that’s bleeding us and our posterity to death.
Watching fired employees leave to the applause of their former federal agency peers is a net plus for the American economy. We need more of it, a lot more. Neutering the unproductive aspects of systemically unproductive government agencies is essential to growth and economic recovery. The government’s nature is to take from the productive class to address some fundamental shared interests, not strangle it to launder money to special interests.
Decommissioning the DEI, CRT, and climate activist divisions of agencies is a healthy realignment of resources that many in the public sector quickly adopted the moment they realized they wouldn’t face legal action from the DOJ.
Progressive rule turns government into a money pit that sucks everything in with it, including far too many Republicans, growing in scope until the kind of graft exposed by DOGE becomes not just typical but expected.
Newsom’s blatant fraud could be either a shadow or the poster child for everything that drives the modern Democrat party. And what should gall everyone is that from the planning stages to execution, none of that money was ever meant to go to people who lost everything as a result of fires for which Newsom Bass, and their ideological predecessors, are to blame.
Note to Gavin Newsom. The rest of America isn’t politically captured like California, and your resume as Governor is your least best asset if you are serious about running for President. One point in your favor. The far left are so stupid they will vote for you anyway if you adequately describe the existential threat to their lives represented by bottom-up economic growth, a government that doesn’t spy on “them,” censor them, bully them, or steal from them every chance it gets.
This is the Administration of Barry Obama, whoever pulled Biden’s strings, and every other current or former Democrat administration everywhere.
The City of Nashua, New Hampshire, under too many years of Jim Donchess is on the same corrupt trajectory as Newsom’s California.
Pick a Democrat city or state, and underneath it is a USAID or something like it, and people like Newsom and Donchess. And like it or not, the only cure is to 1) elect Republicans and 2) hold them accountable to principles they actually espouse, because Democrats don’t have any, and the only accounting that works is removing them from elected office. Even if its just long enough to look for a better Republican than the one you can get elected now.
