Showing posts with label Leviathan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leviathan. Show all posts
Thursday, July 3, 2025

You can't win: State and local government employment is up 175k since January, which more than offsets federal employment down 69k

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 The swamp is everywhere lol. down 69k up 119k up 56k
Saturday, May 31, 2025

One of Elon Musk's DOGE wizards got the boot for finding that the government works and is not as inefficient as he was expecting

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No good deed goes unpunished.   ... “I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” Lavingia told Fast...
Friday, May 2, 2025

Federal employment is 1.1% of civilian population in April 2025: This is the swamp billionaires want to drain

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 The worst it ever got was 2.4% in December 1952 while Truman was still president. The leisure class of state capitalism has to have somethi...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

As predicted, the hubris of Elon Musk's promises of $2 trillion in DOGE savings now crashes on the rocks of reality as he promises only $150 billion in savings in FY 2026

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   Have there been no savings from the Department of Defense, the costliest department in the federal government? No $1,000 toilet seats to ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Federal outlays in fiscal 2025 will be almost 200% higher than the 1982 outlays adjusted forward to today's dollars

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  I've heard the Drain the Swamp bullshit since Reagan's Grace Commission in 1982, when federal outlays were $745 billion. That...

J. D. Vance in September 2021, a year before becoming US Senator from Ohio, is the brains behind Trump seizing the administrative state and firing everybody, Elon Musk is just the henchman

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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Now the Trump administration is imitating the most odious revolutionary rhetoric of the Obama administration

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  WH's Karoline Leavitt: Trump "Is Fundamentally Transforming Our Country For The Better"   We are fundamentally transforming ...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Elon Musk and Donald Trump stop USAID payments authorized by Congress, some of which Marco Rubio used to be for before he became Secretary of Suck-Up and is now against

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I expect a federal judge to intervene on this one perty quick like. The sums involved are paltry, but Elon Musk amusingly makes a mountain o...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Trump's mission against the Swamp is far more grandiose than his mission to repeal Obamacare, but it will end up the same way

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   And Roger Kimball should know better. Kimball completely underestimates the role that will be played by the federal government employee u...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Donald Trump is already hard at work making long lists of all the things he's not going to accomplish as president, which he'll foolishly fritter away his time on

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  Ten points about The Swamp. Seven points about The War on the Drug Cartels. Trump's saying all this stuff and we don't even know...
Friday, June 28, 2024

The left is having an apoplectic fit over the dagger the Supremes just put into the unaccountable administrative state, aka The Swamp: A massive blow

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 What about our careers?!  
Monday, April 22, 2024

ADL names most anti-semitic colleges: Harvard, MIT, MSU, Princeton, SUNY, Stanford, Swarthmore, Tufts, Universities of Chicago, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia

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  Just two of 85 institutions met the minimum standard, meaning most institutions of higher learning in the United States are Not Safe For J...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Scott Walker, who ought to know, urges DeSantis to spend less while remembering what made Trump's campaign unique

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He's from Milwaukee. For president in 2016 he spent like he was blitzed on Blatz.   Here : From the moment he opened his mouth at the f...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Supremes slap down EPA meddling in property owners' wetlands under Clean Water Act, reversing yet another pestilent view of former justice Anthony Kennedy

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A majority in Rapanos (2006) couldn’t agree on how to limit EPA’s authority over wetlands. Four Justices said the Clean Water Act’s scope...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Biden administration's Kerry Doyle is unlawfully granting illegal immigration amnesty to tens of thousands of the 2 million backlogged immigration cases by simply dismissing them

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The Washington Examiner obtained leaked video recordings of virtual meetings that Kerry Doyle, ICE's principal legal adviser, held wit...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Biden kills one in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, with drone strike after Kabul airport suicide bombing kills 13 Americans

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  Story . This response epitomizes what has been wrong with US policy in Afghanistan since 9/11, and everywhere, frankly. America treats thi...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Trump is proud of rewarding his implacable enemies in The Swamp with a pay increase and paid family leave

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"Former" Democrat.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

NDAA creating Trump's Space Force and paid family leave for The Swamp will also give immigration amnesty to 4,000 Liberians

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Story : Many Liberians fleeing civil war in the 1990s were given temporary protected status to stay in the U.S. — with no path to cit...

FISC order against FBI is just more Swamp CYA: Republican Nunes warned them twice in 2018

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Tennessee's Tim Burchett rightly complains about spending the $1.4 trillion, but voted for the massive NDAA anyway which gave paid family leave to The Swamp

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Rings hollow in the holler, Tim.