You’ve almost certainly noticed that a new narrative has begun emanating from the usual sources in the past few days. We’re now in a “crisis,” or a “constitutional crisis.”
New psyop just dropped pic.twitter.com/Ywo9skJTFR
— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) February 11, 2025
You’re hearing this everywhere in the legacy corporate propaganda press, and it’s being reported as emanating from the “unelected” Elon Musk and his DOGE prodigies applying a Big Data screen to federal spending and illuminating the amazing levels of waste and fraud built into the governmental fisc.
And of course, the judiciary, or those parts of its lower levels that are captured by partisan Democrat hacks in service to the rot the Deep State is built on, are attempting to block the execution of President Trump’s duties based on this new dynamic.
You’ll be pleased to know, if you haven’t heard, that Rep. Eli Crane (R-Arizona) filed articles of impeachment against federal judge Paul A. Engelmayer, the New York City hack who issued an idiotic ruling seeking to prevent the secretary of the Treasury from auditing his department’s books. Engelmayer subsequently rescinded his temporary restraining order in part, allowing Secretary Scott Bessent to look at the ledger but stating nobody else who came into government service after Jan. 20 could. That was even more absurd than the initial ruling.
Crane took up the challenge of inflicting an impeachment proceeding against Engelmayer:
Republican Rep. Eli Crane said he has drafted articles of impeachment against Judge Paul A. Engelmayer after the judge blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department payment systems.https://t.co/MOImtN3sRT
— Badlands Media (@BadlandsMedia_) February 11, 2025
He probably won’t be removed, as it would take 67 votes in the Senate to produce such a result, and that won’t happen. But the process is the punishment where impeachment is concerned, and that makes this worth doing.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia) got in on this game as well:
I’m drafting articles of impeachment for U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr.
He’s a partisan activist weaponizing our judicial system to stop President Trump’s funding freeze on woke and wasteful government spending.
We must end this abusive overreach. Stay tuned. https://t.co/ARp7KBjK9u
— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) February 12, 2025
McConnell is the judge in Rhode Island who made an utterly absurd order demanding that the Trump administration unfreeze funds for grants and other programs held up by the administration pending a review of their compliance with presidential executive orders. It turns out that his daughter has a position at the U.S. Department of Education that may or may not fall victim to DOGE’s review of that department, which creates a conflict of interest that a non-corrupt judge would recuse himself over; such ethical considerations apparently never enter the minds of these “esteemed jurists” appointed by Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
Meanwhile, Trump said Tuesday that he always abides by the orders of the judiciary and then complained that the multiple lawsuits resulting in injunctions against him doing the job of auditing the government’s books and killing the waste, fraud, and abuse he’s finding will only slow things down.
The Left doesn’t seem to believe him. They might be right. One could hardly fault Trump if he chooses the path of malicious compliance with these illegitimate judicial orders while publicly proclaiming his obeisance to them.
Nevertheless, it’s instructive enough that the propaganda press is screeching about a constitutional crisis that nobody else thinks exists. Seven out of 10 Americans see the current “crisis” as Trump fulfilling campaign promises he was elected to fulfill. Even the other 30 percent probably recognize it’s not really a valid complaint that attempting to find waste in government is some sort of threat to the republic.
For example, there’s this guy — whose advocacy leaves something to be desired in its persuasiveness:
Schumer, “everyone knows there’s waste in government that should be cut… but DOGE is using a meat axe.”
Democrats now openly want to keep wasting taxpayer money… because they’re obviously in on it and getting kickbacks. pic.twitter.com/pU260YihAZ
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 12, 2025
Boy, if that doesn’t give the game away.
It gets worse for the Democrats, though.
Because if the argument is that “nobody elected Elon Musk” and what’s happening is a “hostile takeover” of the federal government, and this is the product of a “shadow government” that is now seizing power, well … let’s just say this train is rolling well down the tracks from the platform they’re standing on.
Because this happened Wednesday”
Speaker Mike Johnson said he met with Elon Musk & more BOMBSHELL findings are coming.
“What Elon and the DOGE effort is doing right now is what Congress has been unable to do in recent years because the agencies have hidden some of this from us.”
“They’re uncovering things that… pic.twitter.com/Y32P4aWi8m
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 11, 2025
It’s important to understand fully what House Speaker Mike Johnson just laid in front of the American people in that statement, because it was very, very substantial.
First, obviously it’s an endorsement of DOGE. You picked that up, I know. But in doing so, Johnson has demolished the “nobody elected Elon Musk” narrative by noting that this isn’t a question of Musk somehow dictating America’s future to Trump but rather fulfilling the wishes of those representatives closest to the people in the entire federal government.
Now Congress is on the DOGE train as well.
And Johnson just offered a very polite, but nonetheless solid-steel rebuke to the Democrat hack judges attempting to stop this audit. He said that if Congress had the power to do an audit like DOGE is doing, they would have already done so but they’ve been stymied by the agencies.
That’s a big statement. What it tells you is two big things.
First, that scrubbing the federal budget isn’t just some fetish of Trump’s — but rather it represents the policy preference of the entirety of both elective branches of government (assuming Sen. John Thune doesn’t disagree with Johnson, which is a safe assumption given that the Senate majority leader is not an idiot). So these rulings and injunctions aren’t a block of some authoritarian action of Trump but rather represent a judicial attack on the other two branches of government.
Second, that what DOGE is doing is what Congress would like to do. Meaning that Congress is soon to acquire the investigative assets and technologies and skill sets that Musk is lending to the Trump administration. Which is a signal that this train cannot be stopped no matter how much caterwauling, public vulgarity, or kangaroo-court lawfare the Democrats might attempt to throw on its tracks.
Johnson said something else important, too. He said that DOGE’s findings are playing into the deliberations and negotiations over the budget reconciliation process. You can interpret that as an admonition to these judges that they aren’t just impeding Trump but rather the production of the federal government’s budget for the next fiscal year.
And that the federal budget is very likely to shrink by a drastic amount as a result of the good scrubbing DOGE now makes possible.
Yes, this is a very severe crisis the Left — which operates on the basis of having created a veritable power grid of public corruption out of the massive pile of filthy lucre raked out of these agencies, programs, and grants DOGE has now illuminated — is facing. It’s not a surprise their talking heads and ink-stained wretches are panicking over these developments.
For the rest of us, however, this is something entirely different.
For us, the crisis has been ongoing for many years, and we’re at a point of existential threat. How severe has our crisis become? Here you go:
Congratulations America: in the past 12 months you paid a record $1.167 trillion in interest on the federal debt; this is more than all US spending on Defense, Health and Income Security, and only Social Security spending is bigger (for 3 years at which interest will surpass it) pic.twitter.com/mHyZmwAyZ4
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 12, 2025
How severe is the waste, fraud, and abuse of the federal government? When you attempt to calculate the number, you’ve got to not only add up all the bogus programs, deadhead jobs, worthless contracts, and other things, which Musk puts at easily a trillion dollars a year. You’ve got to trace that bad spending all the way back through the decades, because the deficits it creates necessitate borrowing and the compound interest paid on the subsequent debt.
We’re probably $20 trillion in the hole, and paying more than $600 billion a year in interest, just from the federal government’s past waste of our money. And that tab grows every single year.
What Musk is offering is a light at the end of this pitch-black tunnel. To paraphrase what he said in that rather significant press avail with Trump on Tuesday, the more waste identified and scrubbed from the federal fisc, the closer we can get to a balanced budget without having to make any major policy choices.
And if those policy choices can be made in a way that allows for a robust, growing economy, it starts to become possible to get the federal budget into the black and begin paying down the debt.
Our frequent readers will no doubt have noted my oft-repeated refrain that we have entered a brand new era of American political history. This is the most definitive proof so far available of that notion. What’s on offer is a reality in which rampant corruption and waste in government can be targeted and identified by crowd-sourcing citizen investigators using open-source AI tools and published virally via social media, with politicians laying in wait to exploit it and score points with their constituents.
This makes a lot of the infrastructure of current American politics utterly obsolete. Almost all of that infrastructure is specifically built to benefit and support the Left in this country.
So yeah. It’s a crisis. They’ve got a real problem, and it’s only getting larger all the time.
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