The point is not to deprive the government of funds. It\u2019s to expose the regime\u2019s criminality<\/p>\n
Political power boils down to two things: votes and money. But when money buys presidents, senators and judges, votes are merely the sales receipts. What\u2019s left is money, and the purpose of power is to get more of it.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s non-billionaire followers appear thrilled that Elon Musk and his so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d are burning down the government. \u201cImagine if Trump hadn\u2019t met and talked with Elon Musk that all this progress on efficiency may not be taking place or at such a fast pace needed before the midterms,\u201d comments holy666 on a Fox News story<\/a> about the mass layoffs of federal employees.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The point is not to deprive the government of funds. It\u2019s to expose the regime\u2019s criminality Political power boils down to two things: votes and money. But when money buys presidents, senators and judges, votes are merely the sales receipts. What\u2019s left is money, and the purpose of power is to get more of it. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}