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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on February 22, 2025, 04:38:05 AM
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“The revelations that are coming for America possess the potential to reshape our entire notion of the relationship between citizen and state.” — El Gato Malo on Substack
James Kunstler / 21 Feb 25
You’ve got to wonder how the Party of Chaos thought they would get away with the Stacey Abrams grift-of-grifts. In case you forgot, Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia twice, lost, and claimed she was “real governor” for years after. In the meantime, she parlayed her celebrity persona to a $3.17-million net worth by 2022, doing nothing but running for office. She claimed it derived from giving speeches, publishing romance novels, and “wise investments.”
That was then, and this is now. Stacey popped up again this week in what looks like a textbook case of political scamming, uncovered by The DOGE team of forensic financial investigators. As “Joe Biden” racked up Democratic presidential primary wins in 2024, the shadowy claque behind him allocated $27-billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from the huge Inflation Reduction Act, ostensibly for “climate change action.” The money was stashed at Citibank, where it became a hidden slush-fund to keep payoffs flowing to party favorites no matter who won the 2024 election. An EPA “special advisor on climate action,” one Brent Efron, told a Project Veritas investigative reporter that “President Biden” was “throwing gold bars off the Titanic”.
The key to understanding how the Democratic Party works is how it uses federal grants to redistribute taxpayer money into jobs programs for its rank-and-file. As seen in the recent USAID scandal, the action revolves around the creation of countless NGOs (non-governmental orgs). They are easily created, poorly supervised, and assembled into large networks of self-serving, inter-dependent organisms whose main mission is paying staffers — and secondarily pretending to do good works, as suggested by a given group’s name is. These staffers make up the matrix of Democratic Party activists, well-paid foot-soldiers in do-nothing jobs who can be called upon to cheer-lead for the party, organize street protests and, most critically, harvest ballots when the time comes.
Stacey Abrams became a kind of field marshal for setting up NGOs around her campaigns for office and then later turned them into money laundromats for the trillions of dollars fire-hosed out of the US Treasury during the Covid-19-darkened “Biden” years. Here are some of Stacy’s NGOs:
· The New Georgia Project and its affiliated NGP Action Fund — set up for her 2018 run for governor. It was eventually fined $300,000 for failing to disclose millions in contributions, failing to register properly, and sixteen violations of campaign laws. Its main purpose was providing jobs for an army of activists. One question that might have been asked: how many of Stacey Abrams’ books were purchased by The New Georgia Project, juicing her royalties?
· The Southern Economic Advancement Project, founded in 2019 to “promote equity” in twelve southern states, paid Stacey a $700,000 annual salary.
· The Fair Fight Action group raised nearly $62 million in dark pool donations by 2022, with 96-percent from 252 large, unidentified donors.
· The Fair Count Project was created to lobby for counting illegal aliens in the 2020 US Census, in order to pad state congressional districts.
· The Third Sector Development group, created as an “incubator” for other groups (including the New Georgia Project).
· The Fair Fight 2020 group, created to “train voter protection teams” in twenty “battleground states.” That is, ballot harvesting.
Out of the $27-billion from “Joe Biden’s” Inflation Reduction Act sent to EPA in 2024, $2-billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) ended up in the Stacey-associated Rewiring America org and its offshoot the Power Forward Communities org. Stacey was listed as “senior counsel” to Rewiring America, which also happened to “partner” with her prior NGOs Fair Count and Southern Economic Advancement Project.
What you might surmise from all this is that “Joe Biden’s” green energy agenda was used as a green smokescreen for a giant patronage racketeering operation. The billions allocated would go ostensibly to innumerable corporations set up to carry-out “green” good deeds, most of which would never actually happen, but would, along the way, pad thousands upon thousands of bank accounts for favored contractors.
Stacey’s Power Forward Communities NGO was incorporated in the state of Delaware where loose corporate governance requires such orgs to pay out only five percent of the org’s funds to its stated mission recipients each year. The rest of the $2-billion not allocated to staff salaries can be socked away in safe investments garnering, say, $50-million-a-year in returns, which can be rolled back into the org and used for spinning out new NGOs with more paid staff positions. . .grift upon grift. . . .
That is what patronage is, and that, by the way, is how it became such an urgent national issue over a hundred years ago when it was openly known as the “spoils system” in electoral politics — to the victor go the spoils— which was resolved by the 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Alas, in our time patronage (that is, corruption) has reinvented itself as the blob, the runaway system that almost sank the country.
Do you see how all this works now? The ever-expanding matrix of NGOs creates an army of useful idiots working hand-in-hand with an ever-expanding rogue bureaucracy that has become effectively a fourth branch of government accountable to nobody. This is how your tax dollars disappear down a rat-hole and why the US government is insolvent.
The difference now is that the Democratic Party no longer has its hands on the levers of power. Different managers are in place at the critical agencies, most particularly Pam Bondi at DOJ, Kash Patel at the FBI, Russell Vought at OMB, Lee Zeldin at EPA, and Elon Musk in the DOGE. In the past, nothing was done about these shenanigans. This time is different. The Democratic Party will lose its principal means for staying alive. That’s why senators like Chuck Schumer, Chris Coons, and Adam Schiff are out mewling and hollering in the streets. Meanwhile, the blob is getting methodically disassembled, one bureaucratic office at a time. Before much longer we are going to be a different country, and most probably a better one.
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I hope she does hard time, and for many years. No cushy country club prison.
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The government has no business funding NGOs. It’s right there in the name: NON- government organizations. Why are my federal tax dollars funding something not the government? Private organizations can be funded by voluntary donations. If they can’t convince people to do that then they have no mandate the people want. Fuck them.
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The real question is, can it truly be stopped?
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The real question is, can it truly be stopped?
It can, until the next time democrats take over or we get an establishment asshole back in office.
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It can, until the next time democrats take over or we get an establishment asshole back in office.
This. We cannot be complacent. Trump’s reset will eventually end, as the trend for all governments toward tyranny is perennial and people have short memories. The best we can hope for is many years of a better U.S., hopefully at least until I’m dead.
But for that to happen we’re going to have to deal with several generations of youth steeped in the left leaning educational system from pre-K through post graduate universities. It’s all been taken over by the America hating woke commies.
The good news is the internet and the rise of alternative media. These same youth are able to access other points of view and the latest voting generation (those who voted for the first time in 2024) took a move toward the right. But we must be absolutely vigilant about defending free speech and not let censorship start creeping back into media. In the meantime maybe we can do something about getting back to just the 3 Rs in primary school and a balance of Democrat and Republican professors in the universities.
I’m not quite as optimistic about the economy as Trump is. It will take time to reverse Biden’s damage and the ongoing inflation is of course being blamed on Trump. People are generally deeply stupid about how the economy works.
But beyond that, the economic growth that occurred post WW2 in the boomer generation, due to massive capital investment by boomers, global population growth, the development of container shipping on a mega-scale, which led to ocean transport costs approaching zero, and opening foreign trade, resulting in the current entanglement between all aspects of a globally interconnected economy, is the foundation upon which rested our peak economic prosperity toward the end of the last century.
But that is due to change for reasons outside Trump’s control. We don’t have an upcoming boom generation. Quite the opposite. And the boomers are withdrawing their assets now, rather than investing earnings. How do you “grow” the economy under those contracting conditions? Much ado is made of needing immigrants to replace our lack of citizens’ baby-making, but it’s an imperfect solution, especially if you don’t control for culture and value systems of the incoming. New arrivals must buy into the free market constitutional system of America for them to be viable replacements to make a prosperous economy. Otherwise they’ll eventually vote an end to it.
Trump (and even Biden) talked about bringing manufacturing back home and they are not wrong. (Biden of course failed to do anything about it.) Better to be pro-active than have it forced on us if global shipping begins to collapse for whatever reasons. But it’s easier said than done. Bringing manufacturing home these days, actually means only bringing final assembly home. We will still be dependent on parts and raw materials from all over the world. It will be much harder to get back to sourcing and crafting only from our homeland every step in manufacturing a particular widget.
But Trump and Elon cutting the hell out of federal spending is an excellent start. Eventually (the theory goes) that will go back into the pockets of the taxpayers which will boost the economy. Government bureaucracy is a completely non-productive endeavor. Just a bunch of untalented people circle jerking. You never produce a baby that way and likewise government bureaucracy doesn’t produce a damn thing.
Doing it at a deficit is even worse. So to the extent Trump can dial that back, the economy will improve, but not immediately and maybe not by as much as we would like. We mustn’t hold it against Trump if we aren’t an economic utopia by the end of his term.
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Clearly, we need a third Trump term.
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Clearly, we need a third Trump term.
The more I see him, the more I'm impressed with Vance. He may be better than Trump when he's elected in 2028 and 2032. Twelve years of peace and prosperity! And the fossils of the democrat left and RINOs will be long dead.
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Clearly, we need a third Trump term.
Vance for two terms.