The Sunday Ops Report
We've had the War on Drugs, the War on Terror... We need a War on Corruption
Friends of The Ops Desk, let us at this point agree on a basic fact: our government has been exposed as hopelessly, indulgently, decadently corrupt.
It gives me no joy to say it. But we are perhaps worse than the average so-called “third world” nation; our corruption is often done today with a patina of legitimacy, cheerleaded by a supine legacy media, and occurring on a scale the Soviets could only have aspired to.
It really is that bad.
At this point, it seems all-but-undeniable that the Biden administration and their enablers were one big RICO. For God’s sake — we still don’t know who was really running the country for four years.
But it’s more than just ginormous government grants given out to unqualified climate hustlers and favored political hacks like Stacey Abrams. We start today with a nascent DOGE initiative that is long overdue but perhaps finally getting underway: an examination of how members of Congress, who for most of their careers have earned less-than $200,000 a year, have managed a net worth of millions or more.
Exhibit A: Elizabeth Warren.
Now, I confess I do not know who Nick Sortor is. All I know is, he is the only person I have seen to have the temerity to ask a member of Congress, face-to-face, how it is that she is worth $12 million on a federal salary of approximately $200,000:
And let’s not forget that U.S. Senator/career scammer Warren achieved her positions in government and academia by lying about her heritage — she’s about as Native American as Chief Jay Strongbow.
Warren’s own claim of being worth $12 million is, in fact, likely an understatement.
In any case, Sortor’s questioning has gotten the attention of Elon, whose interest is piqued. And it looks like DOGE will be picking up the mantle.
But Elon shouldn’t stop at Fauxcohontos. There are so many others — especially among the virtue-signaling, hiding-my-wealth-while-claiming-to-be-a-champion-of-the-downtrodden, progressives.
Here, for example, is the home of California Congresswoman, Maxine Waters:
Note that the house’s valuation has fluctuated — the $4.5 million valuation is as of 2020. It is likely worth more now.
Then there’s Nancy Pelosi’s supernatural ability to pick rising stocks. Warren Buffett should be so lucky.
And how does socialist Bernie Sanders have three homes and a net worth of at least $2.5 million as of 2019?
We could go on.
Now, it’s possible that Warren, Waters, Pelosi, Sanders, et al made their money legitimately. But is it not well-past time somebody at least asked the question?
Why is this such a scary concept to the DOGE-hating left?
We know — it’s a question that answers itself.
DOGE has to succeed. Corruption is, at present, perhaps the greatest existential threat to the American experiment.
As I said: it really is that bad.
The NGO Corruption Racket
Then there is the non-government organization racket, which is the mechanism so much of the left uses as the cut-out to move and hide big money. This network is, perhaps more than any other conglomeration, the true “Deep State.”
And the level of penetration of our institutions by dark-money NGOs becomes visible upon investigation of almost any government controversy. Here is but one recent example, from The New York Post:
Is there anything patently illegal here? No. Unethical? Remains to be seen. But it’s a perfect example of the interconnected network of NGO money and those deciding the fate of our society.
Are there potential issues with the Trump deportations? Yes — we’ve written on that before. But the fact that some complex web of funding, lobbying, and influence-peddling seems to emerge within every new policy dispute we encounter cannot be an accident at this point.
It’s the NGOs receiving billions in hastily cobbled together grants from the EPA. It’s the NGOs getting the big US AID money. It’s NGOs that midwifed much of the invasion of our southern border, by being paid to solicit illegals.
It’s NGOs undoubtedly paying for protestors to show up at Tesla showrooms and play their part.
Nobody does NGO scammery like today’s left. It’s been raised above an art form. It’s become their belief system — a religion.
And just try arguing someone out of a religion. Especially one that pays so well.
Flanagan On: The Security-Clearance Corruption Racket
Top Secret was a moderately funny 80’s movie starring Val Kilmer. A zany spoof of Cold War spy movies. But in today’s federal government Top Secret is a cash cow for our taxpayer-funded bureaucrats. Our government labels everything Top Secret, hides it from the American people, and then sends its politically connected retirees out to make beaucoup bucks in the private sector.
What is worse is that many of our bureaucrats who are supposed to be overseeing sectors on behalf of the government are corruptly allowing misconduct in return for a high paying job. Former FDA honchos all work for the drug companies they were supposed to be regulating. Generals and Admirals agree to sweetheart contracts with companies in the military-industrial complex and then go work for them. Assistant U.S. Attorneys switch sides and go work for the white shoe law firms who previously opposed their federal prosecutions.
Even one of the first federally regulatory agencies, the Interstate Commerce Commission, had to be dissolved after it became a wholly owned subsidiary of the railroad tycoons it was supposed to control. Dissolving it only took 100 years of the constant corruption of agency insiders.
In recent weeks President Trump has pulled the clearance of several former federal employees. It was targeted based on politics and retaliation for past attacks. Trump even went after law firms that attacked him by pulling the security clearances of their employees. That resulted in an immediate lawsuit – one that he could well lose. That is not a good way to go about cutting unnecessary clearances.
We would argue that clearances should be cut whenever an employee leaves the government. Perhaps leave their clearance in place for a few months to cover any questions from the transition team or the successor in their position.
This would have the immediate effect of reducing government corruption, as former employees would no longer have a unique window into the federal government’s innermost workings. It would make Americans safer. It would save taxpayers wasteful spending. It would make government more transparent and more accountable. That is good for all of us.
Trump was elected to drain the swamp — and not just of his enemies. Don’t cherry-pick targets on this issue. Mr. President: Go after the whole corrupt system.
Attacking A Tesla: A New Level of Stupidity
Will it be easy to convince even the left to get on-board with fighting the corruption rotting out our system? Let’s consider the past few days.
There were over 200 protests around the world this weekend at Tesla locations. The “Tesla Takedown” drew thousands of the dumbest among us.
We usually try not to stoop to personal insults on The Ops Desk, but we can’t contain ourselves. This movement has got to be the most ridiculous social movement in decades. Dumber than a Philadelphia sports championship riot, more inane than the pet rock, sillier than people who walk around naked to protest nudity laws.
There have been at least 80 instances of vandalism nationwide to Tesla vehicles in recent weeks. Radical progressives are picketing car dealerships. Damaging their fellow citizen’s property. Yelling and frightening even the environmentally conscious who purchased electric cars. In some cases committing acts of arson and domestic terrorism. And for what?
This movement just makes no sense. Sure, Elon Musk is a bit out there at times. His choices from the book of baby names is certainly a bit weird. And he does seem intent on repopulating the world on his own. But the guy is a genius. That’s hard to dispute.
But this attack on Tesla puts all of that on the plane of normal. People are protesting the fact that he is cutting government waste? What exactly is the problem here? I don’t get it. It seems like Trump Derangement Syndrome is somehow contagious but not in the way you would think; apparently, it can spread in the same host but to different targets.
Everything I have seen published regarding DOGE – and its website allows for great transparency – is simple common sense. Musk and Co. are lowering government payrolls when positions are found to be duplicative or unnecessary. They’re getting rid of people who don’t show up to work. They’re exposing ludicrous financial allocations for pointless programs for which the American taxpayer is footing the bill.
Seems like a good thing when this is tax money and the country is financially insolvent, no? Haven’t both sides of the aisle been saying we need to get spending under control or our country, and therefore the rest of the world, will fall into a financial disaster?
Don’t these protestors realize that they are also trying to eliminate jobs? Tesla employs over 120,000 people. Do they want to see them all unemployed? Would that constitute “victory”?
And where did the “environmentalism” of all these radical lefties disappear to? Wasn’t transitioning to electric vehicles supposed to be the cure-all?
Many of these people were supporting Tesla just a minute ago. They were protesting SUVs and gas guzzlers, throwing trash at Ford Expeditions, flattening the tires of Chevy Suburbans, keying Hummers. The electric car revolution that Tesla and Musk started was saving the world.
But that’s all in the past. What was good is bad and what was bad is good in the ill and brainwashed minds of these anti-Tesla warriors.
So will even the Dems at some point come around to the War on Corruption?
Well, put it this way: We’re only surprised they didn’t throw rocks at the SpaceX ship that just rescued our astronauts.
Um… Why Wasn’t This An Arrest?
Urging people to burn a Tesla — in front of a Tesla dealership?
Here’s a couple of statutes, in case anyone cares:
S 100.10 Criminal solicitation in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal solicitation in the second degree when,
with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a class A
felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise
attempts to cause such other person to engage in such conduct.
Criminal solicitation in the second degree is a class D felony.S 240.08 Inciting to riot.
A person is guilty of inciting to riot when he urges ten or more
persons to engage in tumultuous and violent conduct of a kind likely to
create public alarm.
Inciting to riot is a class A misdemeanor.Just trying to help here….
The Trial of Karen Read, Part II
Gang, Part I of our interview with New England crime reporter John DePetro really took off last week — we thank everyone for the feedback (even where it was a bit, ahem, heated).
This week: Part II. Click below for a snippet — and HERE for the full thing….
And finally…
Precisely.
I agree completely that an in-depth investigation of these Senators and Congress folk needs to be done. It is amazing that it appears the fastest way to become a multimillionaire in America is to get elected to Congress or the Senate.
You are 100 percent correct as usual regarding all this anarchy going on. Many of these players are being paid as we know. It's all about the Communist takeover of the world. The great reset for One World Order. Corruption is the basis, and it is of course worldwide. The globalists and the Davos gang included.