Autogolpe

I generally do not report on, nor pay attention to, the latest news of the day, because it is best understood years later, or centuries later. And I tend to discourage conversation about such news, because it is noise. The shills send in piles of links to latest noise, and I silently delete them.

But the meaning of Trump 2.0 now becomes apparent. So this post is going to be a pile of links to the news of the day.

USAID is the arm of Harvard, and the CIA the arm of the State Department. State Department CIA tends to be a lot more lethal, but when they strike, Harvard/USAID has done the cultural and political groundwork.

USAID was pursuing cultural, political, and economic objectives that Maga and alt-right never liked, and that Trump 2.0 does not like either. Mostly they were promoting “Democracy”. Which is to say, making cultural and political groundwork for coups against governments that were pursuing policies that their public liked and Harvard did not like.

Marco Rubio, speaking on behalf of the Trump administration, and claiming authority to control USAID, told Congress: “Autogulpe”. No, not what he said. What he actually told Congress was. “USAID’s systems and processes … often result in discord in the foreign policy and foreign relations of the United States. This undermines the President’s ability to carry out foreign relations, …”

Yes, it results in discord in foreign relations because they are trying to overthrow governments, those governments don’t like it, and complain to Trump. Who does not like it either, since their objections to those governments are strikingly similar to their objections to Trump and Maga. So Trump tells Doge “follow the money”, and USAID did not want them to follow the money.

Doge sent in people to find out where the money was going. Naturally those people were turned away. USAID does not want people to know where the money is going. So Trump loaned Doge some muscle men. USAID headquarters staff, all of them, where sent home, so that the Doge team could dig through their computers, and some of them were fired. Illegally fired they complain, but Trump established the precedent with the IGs that if you are “illegally” fired and do not go, the muscle men will show up and physically remove you from the facility. Which may well be illegal, and likely judges are issuing orders at high speed, but the orders are just bits of paper.

The Jan. 30 email from Nick Gottlieb, USAID’s director of employee and labor relations, carried the subject line, “Farewell and Thanks (Again) – Illegal Activity in the USAID Front Office.” It said, “Today, representatives of the Agency’s front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees without due process. I refused and have provided Acting Administrator [Jason] Gray with written notification of my refusal.”

Gottlieb’s email also said that moments before he sent it, he was notified that he would be placed on administrative leave.

It looks like the key confrontation took place with HR, the woke priesthood. They had an area in USAID headquarters which was extra special secret, and Doge suspected that the the real dirt was secured there.

Members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain access Saturday to the aid agency’s classified information, which includes intelligence reports,

What, I wonder, is HR doing with intelligence reports? Normies might ask what USAID is doing with intelligence reports, but the Alt Right has long known the answer to that one.

This starts to look like Henry the Eighth’s dissolution of the monasteries. The Monasteries had a great deal of wealth and power, and a great deal of soft power, and the Papacy was meddling in England’s affairs. There is a plausible conspiracy theory that the Jesuits were responsible for the deaths of some inconvenient royalty. But because of all that soft power, Henry could not just take their wealth and power merely because they had it and he wanted it. He need good Christian and good theological grounds for doing so. So he sent in some protestants to go digging for dirt, and an impressive supply of dirt was found. Henry was not protestant, but he found he needed them.

It is not tanks in Harvard yet, but we are headed in that direction, if the nukes do not fly first.