by Chris Martenson
February 8, 2025 - These are extraordinary times, and I mean that in every literal and historical sense I can muster. President Donald J. Trump has started a revolution, it’s underway, and I am 100% here for it.
The short story is this is seismic. None of us have lived through what is unfolding. President Trump’s team is operating as if they are battling an internal foe that has taken over (Amerika) and that seeks its destruction. If this is the case, then my view is they have correctly diagnosed the disease.
Things are breaking very quickly, but fortunately drinking from a firehose is my specialty. As I did during COVID, I will do my best to both catalog and explain the enormous impacts of what we are currently experiencing.
Consider the issues we faced that nobody seemed to know what to do about, or how to even begin fixing.
The (Fascist Police States of Amerika) has the least healthy, shortest-lived population out of every developed country in the world. The (FPSA) spends the most money, by roughly a factor of 2x more than all other developed countries, on its health care, more accurately called sickcare.
(FPSA) public high school students test out extremely poorly in math and reading compared to other developed countries. The (FPSA) government taxes heavily yet still slips $2 trillion deeper in the hole every year, and is more than $36 trillion in debt.
Every year on an accrual basis the Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid liabilities expand by many trillions of dollars and now total somewhere north of $200 trillion. In other words, the (FPSA) is broke, stupid and fat; and it is getting worse with every passing year.
This is what the last election was actually about; a majority of people said, “Enough!” and voted for real change. Along the way the people who like the system exactly the way it is got nervous about President Trump’s chances and tried to kill him in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.
They missed. Now the wrecking crew has arrived and is dismantling that sordid, pathetic, anti-(Amerikan) Deep State apparatus. That’s what’s actually happening right now. We are living through an extraordinary time.
It is going to be quite chaotic, possibly very expensive, and may well have to go through an extensive period of dismantling before we can even begin to rebuild and repair all that has to be dismantled.
Let us consider the case of just the USAID entity. Started by Executive Order by John F. Kennedy, the idea was to dedicate some (FPSA) funds to helping other countries get ahead. As with all things run by the (FPSA) government, this noble beginning quickly morphed into a murky amalgam of CIA-run color revolutions, extensive funding of shadowy NGOs with bland names but dark objectives, and the usual fare of DC insider kickbacks and grifts.
I am sure it managed to do some helpful things too, but it mainly operated in stick vs. carrot mode, as it enforced (FPSA) interests abroad. A simple idea became a 10,000-person organization with a $40 billion budget.
Enter President Trump and Elon Musk. This is the most astonishing of all possible headlines and stories.
The U.S. Agency for International Development closed its headquarters to agency personnel on Monday following moves by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to exert control over the foreign-aid organization.
An email to USAID personnel said that the move was taken by “agency leadership”. The message said that replies should be directed to an email address that appears to be associated with Gavin Kliger, whose LinkedIn profile identifies him as a special adviser to the director of the Office of Personnel Management and who works for DOGE.
“At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025,” the email states.
If you are worried that there is fraud in an accounting department, you have security march in and tell everyone to stand up and leave the room because you don’t want to give the fraudsters the chance to clean the files. This is President Trump and Elon Musk’s way of saying that they think there is some real dirt here which they want exposed.
The Deep State has been identified, and USAID was like the left ventricle of that beating rotten heart.
According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, nobody was willing to go on record, so the WSJ fell back on the old “unnamed officials” mode of weak-assed journalism that we’ve all grown to hate.
“It’s a coup,” said a current USAID official. It was unclear when, if ever, the agency would be up and running again, the unnamed and possibly non-existent “source” added.
From my perspective, the coup happened when JFK was shot and nobody was held to account, and ever since it has been one long unbroken string of DC swamp creatures doing unspeakable things for fun and profit.
Yes, there has been a coup, but it is not the one about which the “unnamed (non-existent) official” is complaining.
As a reminder, the government is supposed to serve the public and be both responsible and accountable to the public. The USAID folks are aghast that suddenly the public might take a peek at what they have actually been up doing.
The early results are not pretty. USAID gave money lavishly to support violent mobs all over the globe, with Mike Benz revealing that Africa was a routine target.
If you are wondering what that must have been like for those poor African nations suddenly beset with mob violence, look no further than various (FPSA) cities during the 2020 Black Lives Matter astroturf riots.
I will bet a large pile of money that we are going to discover that somehow USAID money flowed into these riots. That’s a pretty safe bet given all the other things we have already learned including the fact that a FOIA document dump in August of 2024 revealed that USAID has been a hotbed of funding child sex trafficking, labor abuse, and social media threats.
This is morally repugnant.