The Snake
Elon Musk and his unofficial agency, DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) showed up at the US Treasury Department, Office of Personnel Management, and the General Services Administration and broke into all the employee computers, locking employees out. They took sensitive information such as social security numbers, addresses, birth dates, performance reviews, pay grade, etc. Anybody that stood in their way was put on leave, including the head of the chief security office. Employees were told that anybody who tried to interfere will be prosecuted. Now Musk has put himself in charge of $6 trillion of taxpayer money. This is totally illegal but they did it anyway. Congress is supposed to control the money. Those who weren’t put on leave are working from home. They started Friday night and worked through the weekend while Trump golfed and Americans were preoccupied with being the center of the universe.
The government’s checkbook is in the hands of the world’s richest man.
Elon Musk is the co-president.
Elon Musk and DOGE have also requested access to all SBA (Small Business Administration) systems.
Trump and Musk are actively trying to shut down the US Agency of International Development. They told people not to go in to work today. They won’t let anybody inside the building. USAID gives humanitarian assistance to millions around the world and is under control of Congress. Musk and Trump have no legal right to do this but they did it anyway, like a couple of snakes.
Trump’s trade war is on. He imposed the 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico on Saturday. Mexico fought back so Trump caved for 30 days. Canada isn’t having it. Ontario ripped up its contracts with the US, Elon Musk and Starlink. American liquor will not be sold in Ontario. Canada has moved some its troops to the border for increased surveillance.
A trade war will affect every single aspect of American life.
Trump signed a new order for every worker in the federal government, in every department. He is offering every department manager, every civil servant, every scientist, every inspector, every accountant, every researcher, every secretary — EVERYBODY — a termination package. They will get a nice payoff and perks if they agree to quit their job. Only MAGAs would be dumb enough to fall for that. Trump is notorious for not paying people.
The FBI has removed “diversity” as a core value of the department. 6 top officials were told to retire by the end of the day today or be fired. Anybody involved in investigating Trump is OUT.
Trump ended requirements of reporting gifts and investments.
Federal employees were told to remove pronouns in their email signatures.
Trump is going to switch things up for the 3 million employed in the federal government. He’s going to transfer people into different departments where they won’t have any experience such as sending new IRS hires to deal with immigrants at the border instead. He may send workers to far-off locations, uprooting and disrupting families, like he did when he sent all the FDA scientists to a midwest location during his first administration. Half of them quit.
The Department of Transportation was told to give preference to communities with higher marriage and birth rates, higher than the national average. This is straight out of Project 2025.
More white babies.
The plan for Project 2025 is to TOTALLY dismantle our government and to rebuild it as a stripped down corporation beholden to oligarchs.
It’s the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Snake. Trump is the snake. He read The Snake poem at his MAGA rallies, and told the MAGAs straight to their faces he was going to screw them over:
On her way to work one morning,
Down the path alongside the lake,
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake.
His pretty-colored skin had been all frosted with the dew.
“Oh well,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you.”
“Take me in oh tender woman,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake.
She wrapped him up all cozy in a curvature of silk
And then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk .
Now she hurried home from work that night as soon as she arrived.
She found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been revived.
“Take me in, oh tender woman ,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake.
Now she clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried.
“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died.”
Now she stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed and held him tight .
But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite.
“Take me in, oh tender woman,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake.
“I saved you,” cried that woman.
“And you’ve bit me even, why?
“You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die.”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin,
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in,
”Take me in, oh tender woman,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,“ sighed the snake.
