The first seven weeks of February 2025, according to scholars, will serve as the year Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and a number of panic-stricken Democrats have unquestionably exposed the most unpleasant, inevitable, and irredeemable problem in the world.
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It is necessary to comprehend the incredible preparedness demonstrated by the lightning-sharp insertion of the Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) cyber-assault teams into an initial few key agencies in order to understand how this could occur.
The insertions began with the U. S. Office of Personnel Management ( OPM), which oversees the biggest single workforce in America, the 2.3 million federal career civil servants, otherwise known as The Bureaucracy.
The Bureaucracy, its worker unions, professional associations, and scientific and media allies had a quick conversation connection with the Trump group because OPM made it possible to create a communication link with all of the bureaucrats.
So the Bureaucracy and its allies were immediately off balance when they made the offer to the Deferred Resignation Program ( DRP ), the incredibly generous retirement/buyout offer. They expected ham-handed Reductions-in-Force ( RIF), which they, quite reasonably, assumed they could defeat, or wait so long that Trump would eventually give up.
Instead, federal workers, with some major exclusions, were offered the possibility of leaving voluntarily. How many people may accept the offer in the end? Formally, it seems like up to 80 000 people will do this as of this writing. Despite how many it actually turns out to be, the present succeeded in achieving its main goal, which was to balance out the opposition.
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Therefore, as the DRP bomb effect spread, another DOGE cyber-assault teams were inside Treasury and USAID. Here’s how one profile describes the field at Treasury:
” In Treasury’s floor, fluorescent lighting hummed above four younger professionals. Their displays cast orange light across government-issue desks, illuminating power beverage cans and company badges. As their techniques crawled through years of settlement data, one quantity kept growing:$ 17 billion in useless programs. And counting.
” ‘ We’re in,’ Akash Bobba messaged the crew.’ All of it.’
“Edward Coristine’s script had previously mapped three components. Luke Farritor’s systems were tracing transaction flows across companies. Ethan Shaotran’s research revealed designs that job officials didn’t even know existed. By dawn, they may know more about Treasury’s businesses than people who had worked it for years.
” This wasn’t a steal. This wasn’t a violation. This was authorized disturbance.”
The Bureaucracy and the Deep State had the impossible task before them. The deepest secrets of cashflow streams, management end-runs, fake corporations, deal amendments, false operational guidance, and a number of other methods used to suppress the operation of the national Leviathan were instantly exposed, or were in imminent danger of being washed in the disinfectant of sunlight.
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At the same time, the USAID cyber-assault group exposed a second series of violent revelations designed both to put the opposition further off balance and into a panic, and to put apparent muscle on the Trump narrative of a dishonest, useless, fraud-ridden national establishment.
The Trump White House Press Office presented the USAID discoveries in this brutally specific manner:
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The checklist actually goes on and on, and it has all been occurring for decades.
That last series set the tale, at least for the immediate near-future. Readers are advised to delve a little deeper into the traditional context of this narrative to understand how much the rot has been ingrained in national funding and how some heroes from the first traditional creation took steps to combat stifling opposition, setting the stage for what we now see happening today.
The left has responded as the Trump team had anticipated by screams of incoherent protest, ridiculously empty threats of “resistance,” and the revealing spectacle of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif. ) and a brigade of her similarly insane colleagues threatening a lone heroic career bureaucrat who blocked their way.
What’s next? In a listing that briefly summarizes the transformation, the report above about the Treasury cyber-assault states:
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Real-time tracking replaced quarterly reports.
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Review boards were replaced by algorithmic oversight.
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Local solutions replaced federal mandates.
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Results replaced process.
And this:
” The permanent bureaucracy had long operated on a simple assumption: presidents come and go, but they remain. That assumption now lay shattered, replaced by a new reality: when preparation meets presidential determination, nothing is permanent.
” ‘ They thought we’d slow down,’ ]Vice-President JD] Vance said, studying real-time data flows across agencies.’ They thought we’d get bogged down in process. They thought we’d play by their rules.’
” He smiled. ” Instead, we’re just getting started.'”
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I must admit that I was thrilled by these developments, even as a veteran of the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s. The GOP’s lingering inability to counteract the left’s dominant narrative and the frustrating decades of Republican failure to consolidate hard-fought victories have been painful.
Maybe, just maybe, now things will be different, and our grandchildren will enjoy much the same individual liberty as we have. As Reagan said, we all have a “rendezvous with destiny”.
