Watching my President in LA, I realize that we, the rest of American citizens, can spend billions of our tax dollars to rebuild Los Angeles, but before we do that we must ask the question and get answers for “what are you, the government of California and LA, going to do to keep this from happening again?” Without an actionable answer followed by action, I am not in favor of spending a penny.
Ready to have your mind blown? Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered: - The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan - He found that we are giving money to Yemen - He found that we are giving money to Syria - He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion - He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our mone…
So I can’t keep from expressing my excitement every time I see the Trump Administration locking someone out of their computer, make them come into their office to actually do some work or just plain eliminated their jobs. I know these are people too and I would never have done things that way when I ran my business but then again my employees would never have acted the way the bureaucrats in DC have. Maybe the mess will get cleaned up?! Not this week, not next week but definitely solid steps forward! Anyone else feel this way too?
There are many metaphors for infiltration and destruction - Trojan horse, Manchurian candidate etc
But the one that works best for me is the metaphor of termites. Termites are blind except for the leaders/breeders and are programmed to do their jobs literally blindly.
Termites are insidious creatures that burrow into the edifice and consume and weaken from within until the building falls
They have done that in every institution from academia to the military and into the Republican Party and for de…