Department of Government Efficiency taking USAID "down" and Trump admin criminalizing transgender identity point to a bleak conclusion
Something to keep in mind and how we will know if it comes true
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Recently, the Trump administration started going after USAID. This is not the only government agency the new administration went on a crusade against, but it is notable because USAID is very important to the regime change apparatus of the United States. The name is purposely obscuring the true purpose of the agency: after all, it’s AID from the US, right? What nefarious goal could it have? Well, former Director John Gilligan once stated that USAID was “infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people.” It has a $30 billion yearly budget, which may seem like nothing in the age of billionaires but which also operates in countries where the US dollar goes much, much farther. In Venezuela for example, USAID — under the guise of humanitarian aid coming in through the border with Colombia — supported opposition to president Maduro’s party (thereby meddling and influencing foreign elections, something the US accuse Russia of doing).
The news of DOGE’s crusade against USAID made the rounds in certain circles (including this one) as Musk seems to have fallen for the agency’s cover story. He called it several things, one of which was a “radical-left political psy op”. Mind you, this is the same Elon Musk who in 2020 tweeted “we will coup whoever we want! Deal with it” in reference to Bolivia, which had indeed just been coup’ed by far-right military junta supported by the United States.
The contradiction was certainly very funny, but, as happens often in the age of instant news, a more concerning reality soon appeared: USAID was not to be dismantled by DOGE, but reintegrated under Marco Rubio’s State Department. Rubio has long been a tool of US regime change, and his State Department is no exception.
It seems then that the Trump plan is not to unwittingly destroy the tools of regime change, but to reshuffle them in a perhaps less overt configuration. It was only a few months ago that the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA creation (to do openly what they couldn’t do abroad sneakily), took out its public grants dabatase, which was a favorite tool of investigative journalists as it laid bare, to the public, all the money they poured into groups such as the World Uyghur Congress — though the database is still partially searchable on the Wayback Machine by typing in a few letters of an organization and letting autocomplete find its name.
However, it always pays when considering new developments to ask: why now specifically? Why not a year ago, or in five years?
And to that question, the taking down of USAID doesn’t really find an answer in the “overt-to-covert” explanation. USAID is still very much liked by the media and politicians — any search for the term USAID in the mainstream news will let you know just how important that agency was to deliver “aid” abroad. It wasn’t facing any specific hardships either, such as waning influence abroad. In other words, it didn’t need to go dark.
It occured to me to look at the entirety of Trump’s administration so far instead to understand the broader context. And something very insidious is taking place.
First, DOGE exists as a black site of sorts — an agency which answers to no governmental oversight because it was rushed into existence and the paperwork hasn’t even been filled yet. Under these conditions, billionaire and South African apartheid boy can easily obscure what his agency does, what it’s supposed to do, and what it’s not allowed to do. This essentially bypasses any semblance of democracy that exists in the US and allows him to enable whatever Trump wants to do but can’t. This is important.
At the same time as the Trump administration is providing Musk with limitless government power through a bespoke and unelected agency, he is planning two other things:
Deporting all “illegal immigrants”, which really just means deporting any non-white person from the US.
Criminalizing marginalized identities, starting with trans people.
I won’t mince my words in saying that this is exactly how Nazi Germany started out.
Indeed, the new administration is openly (and very quickly) mounting up a project that includes concentrating immigrants in Guantanamo Bay, the CIA black site that has been used to torture men and children for a decade under Bush. This is of course on top of the already-existing concentration camps at the border, which Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried under the first Trump administration but suddenly went silent about when the Biden admin continued their use.
Trump is also very quickly looking at criminalizing any non-normative identity, starting with a very vulnerable group — and, if Nazi Germany is any indication, later expanding the policies to more and more groups until all are in concentration camps.
One of Trump’s first act in office was to hastily define sex and gender in an executive order, which allows him to make whatever he wants into law without requiring Congressional approval. Afterwards, he suspended gender changes on passports, meaning that US passports will have to be issued with the assigned gender at birth on them, which may not correspond at all to what the person looks like in front of the emigration officer — and you can see where this is going. With this excuse in mind, it may very well be possible that transgender people will simply not be allowed to travel out of the country anymore. After that, gays and lesbians will be next, and then… anyone who is not a straight white male, really.
What may very well be happening right now is a soft coup that will place Trump as dictator for life, for lack of a better word. Remember that Nazi Germany was funded by capitalists (much like the Musks of the time) and gained power through the limits of liberal ideals. Hitler didn’t seize power with a rifle; he was invited to rule by the elected chancellor. Before that, he was also considered to be a joke and a clown.
I think there will be a number of smoking guns that will show if this reality starts panning out; there might be a false flag attack on US soil (much like the Reichstag fire) or Trump might start throwing around the idea of extending his term in one way or another.
And, just like everything else Trump and Musk have done, the mass media will treat the statement as a joke for about a week, until it becomes woefully serious. Then they’ll ask “who could have seen this coming? Certainly not us, the journalists! Anyway, here’s 10 tips to cope with your neighbors disappearing to the Forever Place.”
There is much more that could be said; about how ultimately this will change very little for the rest of the world, because we’ve been living under US tyranny whether it was a Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden in office. Or how the Nazis were themselves inspired by US laws (and found some of them too harsh to adopt even). But the crux of the matter now is that only people in the US are able to do anything about this. You can’t rely on the institutions that made this possible in the first place to do the right thing and save us; only us can save us.
Republicans are Nazis