Category Archives: Deep State/Swamp

DEI Continues to Cripple Secret Service

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Hanlon’s razor states, “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.” A slight variation might be applied to the Secret Service’s bungling in Butler, PA: “Never attribute to Deep State treachery what can be explained by DEI.”

Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics reports:

Two female Secret Service Uniformed Division officers got into a physical fight outside former President Obama’s D.C. residence while guarding it. The fracas occurred at roughly 2:30 a.m. early Wednesday morning…

The lack of professionalism was on display during the fight and in a call one of the women made on a recorded Secret Service line to request a supervisor to come to the scene “immediately before I whoop this girl’s ass.” The woman officer who made the call was upset that her shift replacement was late and assailed her verbally and physically when she finally did arrive to relieve her. …

The incident is raising new concerns among fellow Secret Service agents and officers about the agency’s lowering of hiring standards during years of a major DEI push to add more minorities and women to the ranks under previous Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

Cheatle was forced to walk the plank after Butler, but her legacy lives on in the form of intersectional DEI:

The incident has precedent:

Last year a female secret service agent assigned to Kamala Harris got into a physical fight with other agents at Joint Base Andrews.

According to reports, the problem agent, identified as Michelle Herczeg, began acting aggressively, speaking gibberish and shouting incoherently at other agents while they were near the lounge at JBA.

Herczeg reportedly threw menstrual pads at another agent before getting into a brawl…

Where merit has been marginalized, all bets are off.

On tips from seaoh and David Kight.

James Comey Posts Call to Kill Trump

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To get an idea of how urgently Democrats’ Deep State needs to be addressed, consider that not long ago James Comey was Director of the FBI. Now he is on Instagram posting a call for yet another assassination attempt on Trump in the form of an arrangement of seashells spelling out the code “8647.”

For those unfamiliar with the term, the New York Post published this last April 8:

How much longer will Democrats accept their supporters’ escalating calls for violence? …

In Holland, Mich., Redmond, Ore., and elsewhere, grinning marchers wore shirts and carried placards emblazoned with the number “8647,” pairing the old slang term for murder with a 47 for Trump.

Comey now says he doesn’t know what 8647 means, despite years of experience investigating the sort of people who use “86” to mean “kill.” That would leave him with no reason to have posted the picture.

Comey has shared his political seashell collection with the public before:

Fortunately the FBI is currently under very different management:

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is calling for Comey to be put behind bars. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has announced DHS and the Secret Service are investigating.

It is one thing to place patriots atop federal agencies. It is another to root out the James Comey types likely to thoroughly infest them.

Trump had better drain the Swamp quickly. He may be living on borrowed time.

On tips from Anonymous, DCGere, and Varla. Hat tips: Legal Insurrection, Twitchy.

African Development Foundation Sums Up Swamp

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Jamie Raskin isn’t the only Swamp creature with good reason to oppose DOGE:

Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.

For years, workers at the small, USAID-adjacent federal agency focused on Africa have told oversight bodies about allegations of self-dealing, procurement violations, and mysterious offshore bank accounts, many of them involving Zahui.

Suspicious grants to companies in Africa corresponded with wire payments to Zahui’s bank account.

It isn’t just Zahui. The African Development Foundation doesn’t want anyone poking around because the agency amounts to a crime scene:

By law, the agency is only allowed to give grants to Africa-based groups. But it moved money through African entities and then back to the United States to pad salaries of D.C. bureaucrats and pay their friends and former employers, employees said.

Americans being forced by their government to hand their money over to Africa-based groups is another crime that needs to end.

Even by DC standards, hatred of America’s core population has been rife at the African Development Foundation:

From 2021 until February, the agency was led by CEO Travis Adkins, who came to it after a short stint at USAID as a Joe Biden political appointee.

Adkins’ former assistant, who is black, said in a sworn affidavit that “On at least three occasions, Mr. Adkins told me that he wanted his entire team (to include the General Counsel) to consist only of Black people. He wanted all of his direct reports to be Black.”

The assistant said Adkins would not hire whites or veterans.

Adkins bragged about concealing operations from the board, saying “them white motherf—ers, they don’t need to know… I don’t think I should tell them sh–,” according to the assistant.

The federal behemoth developed by Democrats is an abomination hostile to most Americans and must be flushed clean.

On tips from R F and Bluto.

Open Thread

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On tips from David Kight and WDS 2.0.

What a Fired NOAA Bureaucrat Did for Our Money

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Before popping champagne corks over the many $billions of waste DOGE has saved taxpayers, spare a thought for promising careers that have suffered a setback, as with this former “public affairs specialist”:

Tom Di Liberto, the ousted employee, called his termination from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “ridiculous” in a Monday interview with CNN’s John Berman… Di Liberto was the creator and star of “Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth,” an animated series produced by NOAA at a cost exceeding $3 million, according to federal spending records.

The probationary employee was told that his “skills and abilities no longer met the agency’s needs,” now that the Swamp is getting an overdue draining.

Regarding what Di Liberto did for taxpayers,

The five-part series, intended to educate children about Earth’s weather and climate, stars Di Liberto as himself alongside Teek, an apparently androgynous, cyclopean extraterrestrial from the planet “Queloz.” Teek is addressed using they/them, or “gender-neutral” pronouns in transcripts provided on NOAA’s website.

Virtually no one has been watching the videos:

The series’ most popular installment, “Episode 4: An Ocean of Data From Cool Technology,” [had] amassed over 150 views on YouTube as of Monday.

Now that Di Liberto is in the news, it still has only 568 views after being up there for a month. However, with liberals it is not results but politically correct intentions that count.

Here’s how Di Liberto has applied his pricey Ivy League education:

On a tip from Franco.

How Some Deep Staters Spend Their Time

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Elon Musk made heads explode by asking federal employees what they did last week. AP sputters that this has caused “confusion and anger,” not to mention “turmoil.” HHS shrieks that lists of activities/accomplishments will be read by “malign foreign actors.” Why all the hysteria over asking Swamp bureaucrats what they have been doing with the time we pay them for? A chatroom frequented by members of federal intelligence agencies offers a clue:

Apparently DEI selects for degeneracy and depravity in federal hiring.

Rufo reports:

According to our sources, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA’s commitment to “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Activists within the agency used LGBTQ+ “employee resource groups” to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties. According to the current NSA employee, these groups “spent all day” recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as “Privilege,” “Ally Awareness,” “Pride,” and “Transgender Community Inclusion.” And they did so with the full support of NSA leadership, which declared that DEI was “not only mission critical, but mission imperative.”

In this case, “diversity” was not a byword for racialism, but rather a euphemism for sex talk.

Just as anything liberals don’t like is “bigoted,” anything they do like is “diverse.”

Not all government employees are on board:

The active source at the NSA claimed to have witnessed hundreds of sexually provocative discussions, which, he added, occurred mostly on taxpayer time. The former NSA source who was familiar with the chats recalled being “disgusted” by a particularly shocking thread discussing weekend “gangbangs.”

In intelligence agencies as elsewhere, normal people have been increasingly marginalized — by the militantly “marginalized.”

Warns Rufo,

NSA chat logs suggest the presence of at least hundreds of gender activists within the intelligence services who cannot distinguish between male and female, and who believe that discussing castration, polyamory, and “gangbangs” is an appropriate use of public resources. For psychological and ideological reasons, these kinds of people will not be easily sidelined.

An NSA spokesman has confirmed the sex chats are for real.

On tips from Barry A and Mr. Freemarket.

Panic as Party Ends for Corrupt Swamp Rats

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The continuing DOGE revelations have reduced the Party of Government to panic. Flustered Democrats have lacked even enough composure to pretend to be opposed to waste, fraud, and abuse. Instead, they have hysterically attacked and even threatened Elon Musk for bringing the scandal to public attention.

Swamp rats look guilty enough in front of cameras. Imagine what is going on behind the scenes. DC area search trends offer a clue:

Earlier this week, internet search trends for “Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “RICO Laws” went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington’s political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE’s efforts to neuter USAID’s funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Search trends have become even more suggestive:

IBAN = International Bank Account Number, a standardized number used by financial institutions to identify individual bank accounts when processing international payments. Bureaucrats are getting our money out of the country while they can.

Other soaring search terms include “wipe” and “erase” — presumably in reference to eradicating evidence of what they have been doing with our money. In support of this assumption, the more explicit terms “wipe hard drive” and “BleachBit” have skyrocketed.

At least lawyers will make out well, as they always do. DC searches for “lawyer” are up 400%.

Another advantage of shining light upon the cockroaches comprising the federal establishment is that as they scatter for crevices, there will be great real estate deals in some of the USA’s wealthiest counties.

On tips from WDS 2.0.

Doomed Democrats Panic

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Outside the Treasury Building last week, when prominent Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters openly sided with waste, corruption, and unaccountability against taxpayers, the cringe-inducing scene was emblematic of a party entrenched in opposition to the public:

As Gerry Baker puts it:

It was a tableau for the ages, one example of the many strange battle lines the Democratic Party has chosen to defend these past few years: illegal migrants over citizens, teachers unions over parents and children, criminals over victims, men-turned-women over girls.

At least they are consistent. Democrats always side against regular Americans.

Government is supposed to exist for the people, but the DOGE process has laid bare what we have long suspected—that at scale, it exists first and foremost to further the interests of the permanent bureaucracy and their like-minded friends who dominate almost all our major institutions.

What DOGE is doing to the Swamp needs to be extended by the rest of us to the entire liberal establishment:

The accountability DOGE can bring needs to be emulated in other areas of public life where these interests have long dominated, immune from responsibility: radicalized higher education, failing city governments, intellectually corrupt media and entertainment companies.

That would spell doom for Democrats.

Smelling their own extinction, they have succumbed to panic, committing political suicide by defending the indefensible USAID. Ed Morrissey comments:

You know who loves USAID and its unaccountable structure? The progressive Academia elite that run it and other less-than-responsive federal bureaucracies. Why? It appeals to their elitism, and the flow of money without accountability allows for massive manipulations and social engineering. …

You know who hates USAID and other less-than-accountable federal bureaucracies? Everyone else. Almost literally.

They do still have the support of federal bureauweenies. At a rally yesterday outside Capitol Hill,

Hundreds of federal workers gathered for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) “Rally to Save the Civil Service.”

Rep Maxine Dexter (D-OR) was there to present her party’s pitch to the public:

The Trump Administration caught them by surprise when Musk switched on the kitchen light with his USAID revelations. Rather than retreat under the stove by pretending they didn’t know what was happening to our money, the roaches wag their antennae belligerently. The instinctive reaction is to grab a can of Raid.

Democrats still have the entertainment industry to promote their public image. But as the respective responses to Donald Trump and Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl made obvious, that won’t be enough.

On tips from Varla and Justin Truedope.