Trump has a pretty reasonable pretense for this, as anyone living among regular gunfire, theft, rape, assault, drug dealing, etc. can explain.
Obama would have had a perfectly fine pretense for doing this too, as Chicago and D.C. weren’t doing great under his watch, but the comparison isn’t really the same due to the changing situations in the last 10-15 years with regards to fentanyl, defund the police idiocy, and open borders with accompanying sanctuary policies to preserve the new voting bloc.
Lewiston wouldn’t have needed federal support during Obama’s term, because our streets weren’t shooting galleries, our parks, library, and other public spaces weren’t overrun with homeless fentanyl addicts, and our schools were safe, decently-functioning public institutions. Federal agents or National Guard in Lewiston would be welcome with open arms by most of the actual US Citizens and legal residents in Maine today. Many of us would cheer at their presence if it meant kids downtown could walk to school safely.
I’m also fine with people drawing whatever conclusions they want about the name change of the War Department. We have been in a cold civil war for a long time. I first used the phrase six years ago in relation to the Covington Catholic kids, which is roughly when it became abundantly clear to me that this domestic conflict was, in fact, a war. Given the stark ideological differences of the sides in 2025, it might be the highest-stakes war ever fought.
I give Alex Jones credit when he’s right, even though I’ve never considered him particularly reliable, because he isn’t. We have been in an information war for a long time, which is why so many of us seem to exist in completely different political realities.
DOGE was the first part of it, but USAID as an organization is now dissolved and shut down. USAID was doing a lot of the CIA and State Department’s regime change activities in other countries, the same model that was applied to us domestically. Trump also declassified the JFK and MLK files, which weren’t about revealing if a grassy knoll gunman was in play, but demonstrating the CIA’s involvement in overseas regime change operations.
They are targeting the actual funding that went into the CIA domestic regime change operation. See Harvard for another example. The stipulations on the funding essentially amount to “no more radical socialist activism”.
Why do you think all of western society was subjected to an ideological campaign at the same time, with the same new, crazy ideas being repeated by media talking heads, celebrities, establishment academia, the teacher’s union, and all of these other groups whose interests align around ideological conformance to the ideas of mass migration, transgenderism in public education, DEI, etc? It was a CIA coup, done to ourselves.
I’m not sure what kneecapping the CIA would look like to you, but I like what I’m seeing so far.