by El Gato Malo
I tried to warn you about what was coming for you, DC.
I told you—you were not ready.
Well, here it is:
And I quote:
“DC is going to feel like it’s being invaded by an entire bestiary of mythical monsters with magical powers who can see through walls and huck immovable objects over the horizon.
They will come from every side at once. They will replace thousands of federal employees right from the start. You’ll be fighting against the outside and the inside. They’re going to transfer and move those permanent staters they cannot fire. Have fun in Topeka or Guam. They’re lovely this time of year.
They are not going to play nice or play fair.
They are going to get things done.”
Meet the new boss—nothing whatsoever like the old boss.
Not this time. Maybe never again.
DC lacks even a model to guess at how effective people like this can be, even when fighting from the outside. With the keys to the kingdom, it’s something else entirely. The sheer energy and activity of DOGE is staggering the swamp dwellers.
Being crawled over by AI, insight, and energy of this magnitude is a new, new thing.
Welcome to “Dismantle Leviathan”—the fun new game that all the cool kids are playing.
I warned you about how these people were not going to act like the gormless opposition party of old. They will understand the system better than you do. And they’re going to tear it down.
DC is finally starting to see how much trouble it is in, and people are freaking out. The moves are coming too fast for the news cycle to even keep up with. And DC has mostly already lost. All the high ground has been taken, and now it’s just going to be about squeezing.
DOGE grabbed the OMB and the Treasury payments system.
That’s it. Lights out. Game over.
The simple fact is this: Half the permanent state is a massive grifter-plex of special interests running amok and waging war on We the People for their own benefit. It’s thousands of unelected anointed running groups like this:
They got $769 million back in 2022. Their sole aim is to encourage illegal immigration and to make expelling such illegal aliens more difficult. It’s taxpayer money spent to create outcomes that most taxpayers would happily pay to avoid. It’s a jobs program for cronies and extra-governmental activism to subvert the basic sovereignty of the state and its ability to serve the demos.
There are innumerable groups like this. Back in SF, we called it “the homeless industrial complex.” They got huge budgets based on how many homeless people they “served.” But if they ever actually got them off the streets, they got less money. It was literally capitated. So they fed them, gave them money for drugs, and made it impossible to arrest them no matter what they did. They donated to politicians who favored that. The incentives were entirely perverse.
The circle of malfunction is like a plasmid for anti-social outcomes. It takes taxpayer money and uses it to fund agencies that create outcomes (like homelessness or illegal immigration) which taxpayers hate. These agencies then donate some of that taxpayer money to politicians, who then force taxpayers to pay more money to solve the now larger problem.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
And this is not even the awful part.
From Ukraine to climate science, to NIH, to a hundred different agencies like USAID, money is being funneled everywhere and stolen in wholesale quantities.
USAID—and who knows who else—were all out meddling for decades in foreign elections. They have probably been meddling in ours.
Suddenly, these agencies are losing their minds about “declassification efforts.”
It certainly does make one wonder: Why were they classifying anything at all? Wasn’t this supposed to be aid?
And DC is finally realizing how much trouble they are in. Leviathan is shrieking in terror and rage—but it’s already way too late.
Threads are exposed. They will be pulled. And this is going to, for the first time in generations, tear the covers off these boxes and let us see what’s inside. And it’s not gonna be pretty, friends. I’m telling you point-blank: However bad you fear this was—it’s worse.
The middle of the American Overton is about to see that government is 80% money laundering, unaccountable tyranny, and theft by weight.
The DC denizens are so far behind the game that even the tepid resistance looks hilariously slow, tepid, and lame.
Imagine thinking this was going to score points in the current zeitgeist.
WIRED stories are trying to call this tyranny by the inexperienced.
It’s not.
AOC and “The Squad” are out howling about how this is dictatorship and a grab of unaccountable power.
It’s not.
This is the end of those things. And the rage at the dying of the lechery is so deliciously insincere that it’s hard not to smile.
They are in absolute trauma that DOGE has access to the Treasury payment systems.
I told you they’d find just the right place to put the lever and pry.
That’s it. OMB and payments. It’s the whole game—the commanding heights.
Let me explain, because what’s going on is brilliant:
OMB is the government’s HR department. The payments system is how the Treasury actually sends out money—the pipes of payola.
These two systems touch everything in government. Everything. All the jobs, all the money. Every program and person passes through this at some point.
It’s the universal choke point.
So, everyone has to come into work now. Let’s get your faces seen and learn what you do here. All the people who have had no-show sinecures for decades are going to get bounced out.
Hey, where does the money go?
Time to find out.
There is no way, even with AI, to ferret out all these groups, their cutouts, their subterfuge, and skullduggery. It’s too deep, too vast, too well-hidden, and camouflaged.
You cannot find them.
So you make them find you.
You shut the money off and see who squawks.
It turns out that whole cadres of federal payment officers were told, “Just pay whatever comes in. Do not say no. Ever.”
It also turns out that all you had to do was shut off the flow of free food, and many of the cockroaches would walk right out into the middle of the kitchen floor and announce themselves.
Some of these substacks writers really capture the essence of what’s happening at any one moment.
Elon Musk has already lost a $100,000,000 contract over his role as head of DOGE.
I think it’s wonderful and genius that he’s pulled in brilliant engineers to quickly clean house.
A blitz war is the only way to catch the wasters unprepared.
I wonder if George Soros’ son, Alex, is prepared to take up the slack with his own wealth like dad did.
What do you want to bet Alex would rather pull strings with other people’s money than with his own.
I’m glad he has those geniuses working for him instead of for someone that might not be so friendly with us.
Now Elon top yourself…Find the funding for weather modification.
eff that. next?
Aww John are we a little behind on tech? Wouldnt you like to know how hurricanes gain strength after they hit landfall? Who may be funding weather warfare on your fellow citizens?, then leave them hanging out to die?
Democrats are in 5-alarm panic because this is how they fund their terrorists, their protesters, their lawfare and their campaigns, not to mention their lifestyles. It’s unfortunate that some helpful and legitimate funding might be delayed while all the corruption is sorted through, but this is the fault of the Democrats that abused USAID to such a monumental extent. No one was looking and every Democrat (not doubt numerous Republicans as well) past and present have undoubtedly made themselves wealthy through negligence and theft. Currently, Rubio is traveling checking up on some aid programs and identifying those that are not corrupt but are accomplishing goals that benefits the United States.