Every time a Republican sneezed in the last decade there was a mob of Democrats there to protest it. Whenever a Republican called for an end to the genital mutilation of children or a Hamas terrorist murdered Jews somewhere, a gaggle of progressive goons tried to murder police officers, burn down a courthouse somewhere or call for the completion of Hitler’s work of wiping out the Jews. The rent-a-mob was always at the ready, with tents and signs ready to go and the ability to show up pretty much anywhere in the US at a moment’s notice. Where are they now?
Isn’t it odd that the only “protests,” insofar as they can be called that, are happening in Washington, DC? New York City streets aren’t being marched down. Seattle isn’t burning. Neither Portland is under siege. Where are they?
Well, I have a theory.
We always knew these mutants were paid. Not all of them – there are just a lot of people who are desperate to be led, scrambling for some sort of “purpose” in life, who get hoovered up by the progressive left and become grist for the mill. But their leadership and organizers don’t work for free. They won’t pay their own airfare to an event; they have mortgages and lives. If you notice, being a leftist leader pays well.
It's the same as it ever was. The political left is a Ponzi Scheme that makes Social Security look like a sound investment. The drones on the streets are the eunuchs willing to throw bricks at cops, knowing it’s what their masters want, and in return their bail will be paid and some tattooed, unshowered girl will talk to them about the revolution. As long as the drones were supplied, the bail money rolled in.
Actually, as long as USAID was handing out billions to left-wing organizations around the world, the bail money rolled in.
The USAID money is not rolling in anymore, which means the bail money isn’t guaranteed. More importantly, the leadership and organizers – many of whom don’t even show up to the destruction they create, pulling the strings and transferring funds to where they’re needed from the comfort of their very nice homes – aren’t getting paid, and they don’t run a charity.
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Without the money, our money, flowing into the accounts of progressive organizations around the world, there’s nothing to launder back to the United States to operate the goon squads. Democrats can’t get a crowd without that laundered tax money.
That, I suspect, is why the laughable “protests” we’ve seen in DC consist exclusively of government union members and Democrat hill staffers and party grunts. That’s all they are, that’s all they have: people required by their employers to show up.
And the crowds are tiny. Why would federal workers show up to a protest when they barely show up to work? Moreover, why would they show up to support a union that is actively suing to prevent them from being able to take advantage of a buyout that gives them 8 months off, fully paid, and the chance to retire early? Have you ever seen ANY federal bureaucrat so in love with their job that the idea of retiring early would offend them, spurring them into the streets to protest? Of course not.
That leaves only union staffers – of which there are a lot, because unions (like Democrats) enjoy spreading other people’s wealth around – and Democratic staff from Senate and House offices.
Technically, those staffers are barred from engaging in political work while on the clock, but who’s going to hold them to account? Republicans won’t hold a hearing on it, as Democrats would do everything to obstruct any inquiry. So it goes unremarked upon by the press, which would be playing “spot the staffer” on MSNBC to get people fired if it were Republicans doing it.
But Republicans don’t do it. Republicans don’t have goon squads at the ready because Republicans don’t use government money to send overseas to advance their agenda while filtering back large chunks of it through countless “charities” to pay for their activists. That’s what Democrats do, all the time.
Well, not all the time. Once President Donald Trump and Elon Musk shut off the spigot on USAID, these “charities” that passed US grant money from one group to another – all wetting their beaks through “overhead” – so only pennies on the dollar ended up actually “helping” the people the grants were designated for, the left-wing industrial complex came to a halt. Weird, right?
I don’t expect it to hold indefinitely – there’s simply too much money in play, and someone like a Soros will open their wallets wider to get the gears moving again, if only a little. But the money has to be laundered, to some degree. Anyone seen as directly funding violence and terrorist activities runs risk of a RICO charge, and the Trump Justice Department, unlike any run by Democrats, won’t sit idly by as cities burn. The people paying for it will be made to pay.
USAID was the buffer the left-wing industrial complex needed to not only launder US taxpayer money to the Democrats’ Brownshirts, but the left-wing billionaire class too. Killing it and rolling anything worthwhile directly into the State Department may end up being the most important, most pro-American move any President has made in the last 100 years.
Now you see why DOGE, Trump and Musk are constantly under attack for the simple act of trying to make sure we don’t get ripped off – the entire left exists because we get ripped off.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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