It was billed as a coming “Red Wave”. It was supposed to be an informal referendum on Joe Biden’s disastrous inflation, intentional border collapse, unforgivable crime wave, unscientific pandemic fiasco, and fascist police state policies. Aside from Florida which was a masterclass on how to run an election and have results in a more than timely manner, the “Red Wave” never really materialized. The expected ballot shenanigans occurred, outcomes are delayed and as usual, votes will be “counted” until the Democrat wins.

But how was it that the topics that have affected so many millions of Americans were seemingly ignored and those who created the hardship and mayhem got reelected? It was because those whose lives were relatively unaffected had no reason to issue a protest vote.

Those who voted for more of the same are the entitled, government class.

While Americans were told to close businesses and lay off millions of employees, there is one group of people who have yet to miss one paycheck since the beginning of the pandemic: politicians, federal and state employees. It was clear from the start, they were indifferent to the plight of those who had to suffer shutdowns.

Voting maps routinely show small blue urban areas with large population centers mostly voting Democrat and large, rural landmass areas with smaller populations voting Republican. So, who was it that was okay with the direction of the country while the majority saw us going down the “wrong track”?

Federal and State Employees

Many of the nation’s wealthiest counties surround Washington, D.C. and the vast majority of federal employees donate and vote Democrat. In fact, some were willing to participate in a planned coup if Donald Trump was reelected in 2020, so unlike those who live outside the Beltway, the blue urban areas in gentrified cities saw no reason to abandon their party because they were fine. Many, if not most, federal employees “earn” as much as three times the median American’s income so higher food and gas prices were not an insurmountable hardship worthy of change.

Too many federal employees are liberal transplants from other states, move into red areas because of a friendlier standard of living, and dilute the votes of the Republican locals by voting Democrat.

Many federal employees earn enough to send their kids to private schools, so the teacher union-inflicted pain on parents and their children really didn’t affect them either. And unlike the majority of Americans who lost jobs, too many federal employees were encouraged to work from home and thousands continue to do so even though the pandemic is officially ended. They saw no reason to change course because again, they were fine and their votes nullified those who’ve been directly hurt by Biden’s policies and those who ratified them.

State employees, for the most part, were unscathed by pandemic and inflationary Democrat edicts. Aside from school bus drivers, almost all were compensated while most Americans had no paycheck coming in. As most support Democrats, they had no real complaints worthy of rebelling against their party.

Dependent Class

Like government employees, the entitlement class went relatively unscathed during the shutdowns and received their various subsidies and payments since losing a job (thus income) was never a consideration.

They voted Democrat by the millions because they know who butters their bread.

Government Education Class

Thanks to the traditionally liberal indoctrination, colleges are reliably Democrat. Like federal employee transplants, college students inundate local populations and dilute, if not nullify, the values of those whose area they temporarily inhabit.

Of course we saw the usual incompetence and/or planned interference by state election officials who have one job to do every two years and still managed to fuck it up. Until we join civilized nations and do away with voting machines (of which we were told are not connected to the Internet, but they are) and go back to the time where paper ballots were counted and the results were known very early the next morning, 2022 midterm elections will continue, especially when almost all of these issues seem to benefit Democrats.

Until we ALL feel the pain of destructive Democrat policies, one side with large numbers of voters will continue to support those who maintain their very comfortable lifestyle. They will mute the hell most Americans are experiencing as they will be immune, little things like inflation and crime can be avoided in safer red areas.

No-Class Youth

Don’t get me started (again) on Gen Z.

And this wouldn’t be an election aftermath if not for the…

Customary Democrat Cheating Class

We’re used to the pattern: when a Democrat wins his or her race, it’s called immediately. When a Republican is winning, all of the ballots need to be counted days or weeks after the polls closed until enough votes are found for a Democrat victory.

Sometimes the “math” reveals how efficiently Democrats count when so motivated.

We’ve got something for you if you’re looking for irregularities in your local elections. Columbia, New Hampshire. It’s way up north. A tiny little town that, according to the 2020 US Census, had 695 residents. But according to the Secretary of State, Maggie Hassan received 1,106 votes from the same town.

Don Bolduc had 193 votes.
— Granite Grok, 11/12/22

Funny how this kind of thing NEVER meets the media’s “zero evidence of vote fraud” demand we accept because they say so.

Since the Biden takeover of the Oval Office with a Democrat House, Senate, and justice system (enforcers), they’ve criminalized parental opposition to elected school boards, criticism of the ever-evolving election process, questioning the medical and climate “science”, and now daring to vote against them. Anyone who’s worked for the prior Republican administration is now fair game for political persecution with their personal finances and freedom at stake.

It’s obvious to all who those who consume more than CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and New York Times what the whole Mar-a-Lago raid of Donald Trump’s personal space and belongings is all about: retrieving ALL documentation regarding the FBI’s fraudulent “Crossfire Hurricane” (and all involved in the) witch hunt against his 2016 campaign and administration that resulted in two failed impeachments. It wouldn’t be surprising if evidence regarding Justice Department interference in the 2020 isn’t in the confiscated cache as well.

Once obtained the, Justice Department will claim all documents as information that could damage national security (in this case, DOJ and FBI job security and justification for possible prosecution) and despite any declassification from former President Trump, will be kept forever from scrutiny of the American people. That is, unless Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2025 and makes all available for all to see.

So, who’s now on the Biden law enforcement hit list?

Much was hidden from the public in the heavily redacted search warrant affidavit for the FBI’s raid on former President Donald J. Trump’s South Florida residence but one thing that wasn’t was the name of Kash Patel and he’s furious about it.

“Today marks another vicious attack from DOJ/FBI who intentionally jeopardized my safety by un-redacting my name in the most reviewed search warrant in the history of the United States,” he said in a statement posted to Truth Social. “This cartel of corruption inside our government is so devoid of concern about national security, they could not be bothered to see the judge in-person. Instead, they literally called in the raid on the home of a former president via the FBI’s best friend, Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp.”
— BizPacReview, 8/29/22

And to further illustrate the sheer brazen nature of the Biden administration’s political persecution of his political opponents, fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok gleefully issued a very public warning to Patel on friendly social media.

As mentioned here before (and expectedly concealed from the American people by the media), President Trump signed the Schedule F executive order in October of 2020 to take effect in January 2021. We’ve seen over the years how freaked federal employees get whenever a shutdown restricts their ability to fill their bellies and pay mortgages, so knowing a President Trump was ready to clean house of all the obstructionists in and around Capitol Hill was a probability they could not allow to happen.

They also appreciate that Trump is the nation’s most popular Republican and should he be allowed to run and win again, would spell professional and financial doom for the thousands of overpaid federal employees. There are nowhere near enough contractors and liberal nonprofits to absorb a fraction of them. Their proud instances of insubordination towards the elected President of the United States and his staff will be rewarded with florescent pink slips and a majority of Americans will offer them little sympathy, considering how almost all lived very comfortable lives while citizens were financially suffering after Biden undid every success Trump achieved for the nation.

So, don’t let the legacy media fool you into believing this is all about politics. It is NOT.

This is about the Deep State muscle-flexing while making the best attempt to save their own livelihoods and pensions. That, to them, is what a Donald Trump campaign and presidency is all about and that’s what they need to stop by any means necessary. Of course, a President Trump and his supporters in 2025 will be minded of political decorum, how improper it would be to persecute political opponents, and the potential lives that could be financially ruined by prosecutions.

A tit-for-tat will be necessary to teach Democrats that their actions will be punished as that message will have to be sent for the future. If Republicans obey the demands of the media and their unhinged pundits, take the “high road” and not return the favor, Democrats will do this again. They need to know their bully tactics will be turned back on them if they choose this road again and there needs to be tens of thousands of liberal Democrat casualties to remind them.

THAT is the only thing that will return some semblance of fairness and equal application of justice.

Mark Esper, the former Secretary of Defense, is publicly fretting that Donald Trump will retaliate against those in the deep state that sought to undermine his first term as President of the United States, telling the media that he thinks those worried about retaliation have a “legitimate fear”.
— National Pulse, 10/01/23

And with good reason.

Some of these unelected federal employees deemed it their duty to derail the Constitutional mandate of their boss, who just happened to be the President of the United States, which when left to their own devices (and a sympathetic media) led to rumors and innuendo that distracted the Trump Administration for its entire four year term. Most of the false allegations, that led to two failed impeachments, either came from Democrat party operatives or disgruntled federal appointees and employees. This didn’t have to happen.

While it was of great controversy then and to this day, the whole “elections have consequences” was played out for decades where the winner of a presidential election could literally clean house of as many federal employees as he wanted and replace them with people who were loyal to him and his agenda. This also opened things up for the expected “cronyism” and nepotism, but how different was that to what we currently have in a system where bad federal employees are almost impossible to fire?

After four years of direct insubordination by federal employees in almost every agency, Trump had enough and was going to make sure he could belatedly do a little disruption of his own at the start of his second term.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump signed an executive order that threatens to return the U.S. to a spoils system in which a large share of the federal government’s workforce could be fired for little or no reason – including a perceived lack of loyalty to the president.
— Professor Barry M. Mitnick, 1/21/21

“A perceived lack of loyalty to the president”… puh-leez.

I’m sure you can imagine the sheer horror and fear that flowed through the veins of entitled, overpaid, liberal Democrats in every federal agency, especially those who patted themselves on the back for the very public and semi-successful obstruction of the Trump agenda.

‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service

President Trump signs directive that would potentially pull thousands of federal employees in “policy-making” positions out of the competitive service, making them at-will employees.
— GovExec, 10/22/20

Aww….

And yes, there’s a local DC area television program produced specifically for federal employees and contractors.

Such a public display of disrespect to a cabinet official hasn’t been seen in decades. Rules of decorum were rewritten during the Trump Administration.

Contempt led to fear.

Trump executive order strips protections for key federal workers, drawing backlash
Trump Just Signed and Executive Order Letting Him Purge Thousand of Federal Workers For Disloyalty
Trump’s Order Sets the Stage for Loyalty Tests for Thousands of Feds
Trump’s New Executive Order May Make It Easier To Fire Scientists Like Fauci
Coalition of 28 Labor Groups Urges Congress to Block Trump Order Creating Schedule F
New executive order could strip civil service protections from ‘wide swaths’ of federal workforce
House Democrats demand immediate stop to Schedule F executive order

The chutzpah of that ‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service title IS “stunning” as if the actions of thousands of federal employees during Republican administrations (most notably Trump’s) were anything but weaponized. Many reveled in their success, bragged during friendly media interviews and even anointed themselves as whistleblowers who took one for the team, resulting in even more unnecessary and expensive distractions for the president and the American people.

While some on the left are slowly catching up, they’re expectedly and falsely portraying Schedule F as this new “radical” scheme.

A radical plan for Trump’s second term
Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his “America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios.
— Axios, 7/22/22

Note how federal employees become “civil servants” once their livelihoods are threatened….

The “spoils” system, despite the impressions given, is NOT a novel peril devised by a tyrannical Donald Trump. It’s been around, in one form or another, as early as the 1820s and has been a political football ever since.

The peak of the spoils system came under James Buchanan, who served from 1857 to 1861. He replaced virtually every federal worker at the end of their “rotation.” William L. Marcy, who was secretary of state under Buchanan’s predecessor and was the first to refer to patronage as “spoils,” wrote in 1857 that civil servants from his administration were being “hunted down like wild beasts.”

Almost every Conservative working in the federal government knows what that feels like.

Even Abraham Lincoln, who followed Buchanan, made extensive use of the system, replacing at least 1,457 of the 1,639 officials then subject to presidential appointment. The number would have been higher but for the secession of Southern states, which put some federal officials out of his reach.

In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant asked Congress to take action, complaining, “The present system does not secure the best men, and often not even fit men, for public place.” Congress responded with legislation that authorized the president to use executive orders to prescribe regulations for the civil service. That power exists today, most recently exercised in Trump’s own order.
— Professor Barry M. Mitnick, 1/21/21

The whining of obstructionist Democrats was soon etched in stone.

“To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.”
— Senator William L. Marcy (D-NY)

The virtuous have always argued that the “spoils system” should always be based on merit and performance; NOT on politics. For the most part, Trump’s appointees were only as effective as those under allowed them to be. The fact that Republican federal employees still have to keep their values silent for fear of professional retribution shows just how badly the need for Schedule F to be deployed.

Employees at all the agencies analyzed, without exception, are sending their campaign contributions overwhelmingly to Clinton over her Republican counterpart. Several agencies, such as the State Department, which Clinton once led, saw more than 99 percent of contributions going to Clinton.
— The Hill, 10/26/16

The havoc created by unelected, federal employee Democrat ideologues during the Trump term was blatant and it didn’t take long for their loyalty to be rewarded.

President Joe Biden repealed Trump’s Schedule F executive order which permitted the Trump administration to hire and fire federal employees for political reasons; among a flurry of executive orders and memos to federal agencies were directives that directly affect work/life of federal workers. Since the presidential election, AFGE had called on the incoming Biden administration to undo Trump’s harmful executive orders. We thank the President for taking swift and decisive action to protect the federal workforce.
— American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), 1/25/21

Let’s hope in 2025 when Donald Trump is sworn in for his next term, one of his first acts is the issuance of thousands of pink slips to the fat-and-perpetually miserable federal employees who were active insubordinates then and who be even more determined if they were to get “four more years”.

Businesses across nation board up windows ahead of potential Election Day unrest
Boarded-Up Windows and Increased Security: Retailers Brace for the Election
Detroit area Marshalls stores board up windows ahead of Election Day
Shops in downtown San Francisco boarding up ahead of election
NYC Stores Board Up and Take Precautions Before Election
Denver warns downtown businesses to prepare for Election Day unrest as shops board up their windows
‘Horrified We Have To Go Through This’: Businesses Board Up Ahead Of Potential Election Unrest

After a summer of property vandalism and damage, arson, looting, injuries and death of law enforcement and the public at the hands of Black Lives Matter activists, Antifa punks, and pissed off millennials, there has yet to be one “peaceful protest” turned violent that was instigated by Trump-supporting Republicans.

It would be naive to assume a Biden defeat would not result in nights and days of anything other than “mostly peaceful”.

Some of these concerns about violence may also connect to the small but not insignificant number of people who said they may not to accept the election results. Almost 14% of those polled said that they were not prepared to accept the election results if Trump wins. As for Trump supporters, 10% said that they would not accept the results if Biden won.
— Boston Herald, 10/28/20

Sorry, if 14% are not “prepared to accept the election results if Trump wins”, just what are they prepared to do about it?

It’s as if President Trump sees this for what it is and after four years of #swamp meddling from those within the federal governemt, enough was enough.

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order creating a new classification of “policy-making” federal employees that could strip swaths of the federal workforce of civil service protections just before the next president is sworn into office. But federal employee groups and government observers described the executive order as a “stunning” attempt to politicize the civil service and undermine more than a century of laws aimed at preventing corruption and cronyism in the federal government.
— Government Executive, 10/22/20

Coming from clearly partisan federal employees who routinely discriminate (or worse) against Republicans, the irony is hilarious.

Knowing conservatives as we do, should Joe Biden win, there will be disappointment and anger but chances are very slim it will result in provocative violence and destruction. It’s not the primary instinct of conservatives to take to the streets if something happens that pisses them off.

Given how they take to the streets in Third World frenzies when they win, a loser left on the other hand, is a whole other scenario and there will be more involved than we can count.

Those who disrupt know their options are wide open.

Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had not decided whether to use National Guard troops for election-related violence, though some troops still remain activated amid the coronavirus pandemic.
— Fox Business, 11/1/20

Had ONE “peaceful protest”-turned violent been a Republican creation, it would have been labeled as such repeatedly by the media. This has not been the case as any violence involving conservatives during the summer of rioting has been defensive.

Should Biden lose, there will be mayhem in the streets. As much as the media will try and insulate the destruction, these will be Democrat-supporters doing the damage. The video we’ll see on social media of attacks on police, looting of stores and vandalism of businesses will be Democrat constituents. They will not be “mostly peaceful” and what we’ll see are not things “all sides” are doing.

At a time of national pandemic angst, it was supposed to sound so nice.

“We are in this together.”

But as some of us came to realize, that was not the case.

In retrospect, had President Trump known what was to become of the United States as we knew it, he may had referred to the first tenant of the 1994 Contract with America before obliging the suggestions of bureaucrats.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government: First: Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress.
— U-S-History.com

The COVID-19 shutdown resulted in thousands of businesses and corporations around the nation being ordered shutdown for an undermined amount of time, thus resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs. It became ironic that those who were in the position of locally determining who could reopen and how long were those whose personal paychecks were never in jeopardy: politicians, their staffs, federal and state employees, and unelected officials.

MARCH 30
More states issued stay-at-home directives.

Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., issued orders requiring their residents to stay home. Similar orders went into effect for Kansas and North Carolina. Other states had previously put strict measures in place. The new orders meant that least 265 million Americans were being urged to stay home.
— New York Times, Coronavirus timeline, 7/21/20

Had an Executive Order or Memo been issued by the president that required the suspension of all taxpayer-funded salaries on the federal and state level as long as private citizens were forced to stay home and not earn theirs, just how serious would the “advice” of  so-called health officials been taken given how all-over-the-map the models have been since the Coronavirus made landfall?

Would there have even been talk of a prolonged shutdown had the generous salaries of governors and mayors (some between $3000-4000 weekly!) been in the slightest way been threatened. How many on Capitol Hill would have told Dr. Fauci to go pound sand if their paychecks and that of their staff would have been cut off until some curve was flattened? How many of our federal and state employees would feel so cavalier to demand Americans on social media shut up and stay home if they weren’t receiving steady paychecks? We already know how quickly they squawk when there’s any kind of government shutdown that always results in their getting paid on the back end.

And given their specific First Amendment status, maybe the media could have been also included in a paycheck stoppage. The Freedom of the Press would not be halted; they just wouldn’t get paid for what they did and the professional media has enough rainy day cash lying around to last for a short duration.

How do you think their coverage of the “pandemic” would be if they weren’t receiving compensation for their time? Instead of telling us all to stay home and keep everyone else safe, do you think they might have introduced the term “herd immunity” into their daily action lines? Do you think this whole shutdown thing would be considered an policy that should be very, very temporary?

This has again turned out to be just another example of the “Do as I say, not as I do” two-tiered system of American government which calls into doubt the known seriousness of the pandemic when we’ve also seen the many examples of politicians and elites finding convenient justifications to go for a walk in the park, visit beauty salons, the gym, parties, fundraisers, and of course, #BlackLivesMatter protests… masks optional.

ObamaCare was good enough of us while federal politicians and their staffs wrote themselves a way around it, saving thousands of dollars we were mandated to pay. Now, the COVID-19 crisis has given us state and local politicians who play their constituents like an accordion, setting arbitrary phased reopening dates, just to yank them back in a manner that would make any garden variety sadist smile with envy.

The economy was the issue that would have seen President Trump sailing into a second term. Keeping it in the tank is a political no-brainer.

And until we’re really “in this together”, the political class will continue to inflict their political pain on all of us because it doesn’t hurt them at all.

In this particular case, simple numbers explain why things don’t get done in an efficient manner in our nation’s capital.

Americans’ incomes have risen in recent years, but the wealth hasn’t been evenly distributed, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. There were 21 counties with median household incomes above $100,000, the new estimates show, and half of the top 10 fell in northern Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital, which itself boasted a median income of $77,649.
— US News & World Report, 12/6/19

The Washington D.C. region including The District, Southern Maryland and Northern Virginia is unsympathetically referred to as “recession proof” because when cyclical economic downturns befall the rest of the nation, certain people are almost always spared the pain.

The Great Recession is one of the most severe economic downturns in American history. Washington D.C. appeared almost unscathed as the rest of the country suffered. The capital city was also one of the first places to start seeing growth when the recovery started. Washington’s success stirred resentment as the region thrived amidst the downturn. New buildings and a wealthy economy were fueled by the federal government and taxpayers.
— Inside Sources, 8/7/17

One would think those fortunate enough to be gainfully employed with generous compensation and benefits would be grateful to those who pay to maintain those comfortable lifestyles.

Alas, that is not always the case….

…
Unlike most industries that actually create and manufacture products that people are willing to purchase, D.C. creates virtually nothing aside from constant reasons why they should keep their jobs, if not create more for those with mediocre creativity and incentive to improve their skills.

One possible reason there is so much resistance to the Trump presidency is that the president’s business acumen has exposed a culture where the actual completion of a project puts fat-and-happy incomes in peril. After a building is erected, those who built it move on and look for another construction project. In D.C., simple tasks are oh-so slowly performed as to not put their jobs in peril and that philosophy trickles down to the lackluster approach of foreign policy, health care, or mostly anything that could improve the lives of citizens by making a solvable problem go away.

The cost of living is also much higher in this area because higher-paid federal employees have more disposable income and those who service them took note many, many years ago.

One thing that drives the capital and its environs is those very large federal paychecks, which now amount to about $90,000 a year in money wages and just under $125,000 a year in total compensation. Washington pay has long been above the national average, but it is pulling away. In 2000, the median compensation for an American worker at large was about 74 percent of the median compensation for a federal employee; today, the average working taxpayer makes only 55 percent of what the average federal tax-eater makes. Our would-be class warriors talk about “transfers of wealth” and “transfers of income” when they mean mere changes in those metrics, but in this case, there is a literal transfer, with the most fearsome agency of the federal government — our corrupt and politicized IRS — raiding our households and businesses to support $1,000-a-night La Tur habits in Washington.
— National Review, 11/6/16

This has also had the negative effect of gentrification which, despite the faux laments, makes these areas whiter, more “progressive” thus less tolerant of those not well paid, liberal and white.

The mediocrity, when it comes to the calibre of the typical federal employee, is also a self-maintaining mechanism because they are in the majority. Federal employee unions have made it almost impossible to shed dead weight and generous pensions are one of the sole motivators of those who’ll do just enough to do their “25” so taxpayers can enjoy the privilege of supporting them for the rest of their lives.

And that is why you see Hill staffers who put in ten years at modestly-paid jobs and then go to work at lobby shops that pay them enough to drive a Bentley and live in one of those horrifying weird $3 million suburban piles in Arlington.

The nonprofit sector (representing many ideologies and causes) also thrives where principles are sanctimoniously packaged; principals are lavishly compensated while they suck up to those in the immediate area who enjoy annual tax write offs. Their overheads are many times more than those in private sector, and they really don’t have to achieve their promoted missions. The media is hardly any better as so many employees never leave their office spaces to collect news, but simply search online for interesting stories they can repackage (aggregate) and make their own.

Whenever the gloom-and-doom of a government shutdown reaches public awareness, it’s been shown many Americans are fairly indifferent because they’re rarely inconvenienced. But it the D.C. area, it’s time to panic. The media throws government employee sob stories in our faces. We’re to feel sorry for those who’ll suddenly find themselves out of work while most everyone knows as soon as the shutdown ends, these employees will be back to work and receive compensation for the forced time off.

But the most ironic is how the media mismanages optics by presenting federal employees, most of whom one would think is primarily worried about how to pay rent or a mortgage, daycare costs, make car payments, etc.

One in five new vehicles sold in those states is from a luxury marque (about a third higher than the national average) with BMW leading the way, because D.C. is exactly that douchey, and Mercedes-Benz in second place. Aston-Martin is unusually popular in Virginia; Bentley sells unusually well in Maryland.

It turns out most important to these employees is food, which bad optics is manifest when you see the obese whining on broadcast news, alerts are issued by local supermarkets and restaurants that a federal government identification card entitles them to free meals, goodie bags and breaks on bills because we should all sympathize with them; a concept not bestowed on Americans when politically-bollixed bad times hit the rest of the nation.

Restaurants are offering free food for workers who present their government IDs, historic sites are offering passes to federal workers, major banks are rolling out special assistance programs, and some centers are even offering free knitting classes for government employees.
— The Hill, 1/3/19

So, pay attention whenever census numbers again reveal the have-and-have-nots are not just a rich vs. the poor political narrative. It’s also a reminder that there are hundreds of thousands of people in one relatively small region of the United States that are living a comfortable life and despite what they’re not doing or doing TO us, expect us to maintain them.

A bill now being considered by the New York State Legislature would require Trump’s state tax returns to be published online. Since those contain much of the same information that’s in his federal returns, we’d finally get a sense not only of how much he’s actually worth, but how much he’d potentially stand to benefit from his radical tax-slashing plans.
— New York Magazine, 5/5/17

Here’s the thing: President Trump has been in political office 108 days and has accomplished much, however there are those now serving who’ve been in office, in some cases, for decades and aside from mandatory campaign filings, are not required to release personal tax returns and it could be argued if they had, we may have had a cleaner House and Senate.

While there seems to be a lot of concern about the potential of the president to misuse his office for financial gain and tax returns may reveal the potential, there is a history of elected officials (local, state, and federal) who’ve used their office (or familial proximity to power) for personal gain and tax returns would’ve revealed some truth.

• FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud
• Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to face trial on bribery and corruption charges
• Frm. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL): Money in account came from birthdays, Christmas and ‘sometimes I had boyfriends’
• Thirty-six Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes
• Fmr. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), gets 10 years in prison for corruption
• Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) Reveals Nearly $300,000 in Unpaid Property Taxes
• Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Ethics Scandals
• Tax-dodging ex-Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) finishes prison term, calls clink ‘horrible experience’
• Fmr. US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) reports to prison for 3-year term
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) accused of three ethics violations
• Ex-New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) to pay $5M for his part in brokerage firm MF Global collapse
• Fmr. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) Gets 30 Months, and His Wife 12, to Be Served at Separate Times
• Ex-Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) gets 13 years in freezer cash case
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) charged on three counts
• Ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham (R-CA) Gets 8-Year Term in Bribery Case
• Rep. Frank Ballance (D-NC) Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
• Ex-Congressman Mel Reynolds (D-IL), facing tax charges, gets locked up

And this comes nowhere near the state and local scandals where politicians abused the public trust and enriched themselves, politically and/or monetarily. A scrutiny of their personal tax returns would have given these corrupt individuals limited safe haven and many who would consider getting into the political arena might just reconsider.

Federal employees are even worse.

As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640), who also owe the most — almost $270 million. Veterans Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department has 322 employees owing $5 million. The country’s chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes.
— Investors Business Daily, 1/14/09

Some of the very federal employees who are part of the anti-Trump “deep state” swamp and also demand to see the president’s returns would fail similar scrutiny because they’d have tax obligations they blew off.

So, let’s be fair.

If Democrats want demand the President of the United States’ tax returns be released for public inspection, ALL politicians’ tax returns should be submitted annually for public inspection as well. This should be required from the president down to the local dog catcher.

Only those with something to hide would have a problem with that.

We personally know many federal government employees who endure the verbal “Fuck Republicans!” outbursts of Democrats in the workplace, and for many years have had to keep their mouths shut because we all know how petty and vindictive liberals can be. They would have no problem ridding themselves of any conservative presence in their workplace, even if that meant making Republicans lose their livelihoods.

Now that President Donald Trump is in the White House, the shoe is on the other foot as he has no problem cleaning house when it comes to those within the #DeepState who believe it’s free speech to “resist” the boss.

And we all wonder where the “leaks” are coming from….

Tell us ONE job in the real world where one could talk shit about the boss and expect to remain employed very long? Let’s not even get into what would happen to soldiers that attempted to “resist” their Commanding Officer.

“There’s a real frustration among many — including from the president — that things aren’t going as smoothly as one had hoped,” said one senior administration official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “Reince, fairly or not, is likely to take the blame and take the fault for that.”

“It’s sheer incompetence,” said another White House official. “There’s a lack of management, and a lack of strategy.”
— Politico, 3/5/17

We’re now hearing all the horror stories of federal government employees who’ve been so traumatized by the Trump victory, they’ve formed support groups so they can commiserate and plan.

At a church in Columbia Heights last weekend, dozens of federal workers attended a support group for civil servants seeking a forum to discuss their opposition to the Trump administration. And 180 federal employees have signed up for a workshop next weekend, where experts will offer advice on workers’ rights and how they can express civil disobedience.

The resistance is so early, so widespread and so deeply felt that it has officials worrying about paralysis and overt refusals by workers to do their jobs.
— Washington Post, 1/31/17

And some are using technology to keep their insubordination a little more stealth. While we’re past tired of repeating this, imagine the screech from the left if George W. Bush staffers conducted themselves in the manner Barack Obama/federal employees are “resisting” now?

Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.

Fearing for their jobs, the employees began communicating incognito using the app Signal shortly after Trump’s inauguration. Signal, like WhatsApp and other mobile phone software, encrypts all communications, making it more difficult for hackers to gain access to them.
— Politico, 2/2/17

Using a relic from the Vietnam War, employees at the State Department are utilizing the “Dissent Channel” to voice their disapproval of the President’s first executive order on “extreme vetting”.

From AFSA: What You Need To Know When You Disagree With U.S. Policy
Dissent Channel: The State Department’s internal dissent channel, covered in 2 FAM 070, states that the State Department may not punish an employee who uses the dissent channel. It also prohibits raters and reviewers from negatively mentioning an employee’s use of the dissent channel when writing said employee’s EER. The Foreign Service promotion precepts explicitly recognize appropriate dissent as a positive factor to be considered when reviewing employees for promotion.
— USAID Alumni Association, 1/31/17

For decades, unelected liberals could (through added rules and regulations) circumvent the legislative process and pretty much inflict whatever policies they believed in on the American people. President Trump is tearing their world up, the left is freaking out from their inability to stop him, and chances are good this is where a lot of those leaks from “anonymous sources” are coming from.

Dissent at the U.S. State Department: Why Trump Should Welcome It
It was precisely in order to avoid that sort of stark choice that the State Department’s dissent channel was first established. Created during the Vietnam War, when many Foreign Service officers understandably had grave misgivings about U.S. foreign policy, it offered a way for them to speak their minds while continuing to serve their country. Since then, the dissent channel, at its best, has been a source of creativity and open thinking inside the bureaucracy, allowing diplomats to question widespread assumptions and challenge ideological stances from within.
— Foreign Affairs (published by the Council on Foreign Relations), 2/3/17

Working for an inflated paycheck from the federal government is NOT a right. If the #DeepState doesn’t like the new direction the “shitty” American people decided they wanted the federal government to go in, they should quit and survive in the world they created for the rest of us to live in (or the world they’ve been shaping for decades).

Or, maybe that’s the real problem?