by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
Where is this all heading? Will closing the Department of Ed, USAID, and other agencies actually lead to less government intrusion in our lives? Or will they be replaced by something more intrusive?
The billionaire globalist technocrat Bill Gates is reportedly in panic mode, making the rounds in the corporate media to push back against Elon Musk’s latest cost-cutting move, folding USAID into the U.S. State Department.
As reported by Disswire.com and others, the shake-up would give Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversight of the agency, a scenario that could put an end to USAID’s lucrative funding pipeline for Gates’ pet projects.
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Appearing on NBC’s Today Show, Gates insisted that USAID’s work is not at all politically motivated.
“Elon doesn’t understand the importance of USAID’s mission,” he said. “It’s about global development, not politics.”
Truth is, USAID was a front for the CIA’s disruptive work around the globe, funding bio-pharma “research” labs, LGBTQ propaganda, abortion and all of the worst things Western culture has to offer.
Gates then appeared on The View, where he doubled down on his defense of the federal agency.
While Gates may be concerned that he is going to lose some government funding, he can make it up elsewhere, no problem. And Gates’ Microsoft AI juggernaut is already listed as one of the beneficiaries of Trump’s Stargate project. Nor is Gates worried about being “arrested,” as indicated by the Disswire article.
Gates, contrary to what many conservatives believe, is not on the outside looking in. As a billionaire technocrat, Gates is already part of the “in” crowd with this White House. He requested a meeting with the new president a few weeks ago and he got what he wanted, three and a half hours with Trump. His AI partner, Sam Altman of ChatGPT, then surfaced as one of Trump’s main partners in Stargate.
Trump, if we’ve learned anything from his first two weeks in office, is attracted to technocrats and billionaires.
Trump, like his biggest billionaire technocrat backer, Peter Thiel, prides himself in being a “disrupter.” While some amount of disruption is needed in a country as wayward as the United States, too much disruption delivered too quickly will simply plunge the nation into chaos. And chaos can then be exploited by the very globalists Trump says he is against.
While I fully support the idea of reducing the government’s bloated footprint on our lives, we’d better be careful what we wish for. Will whole government agencies be shuttered, not to reduce the size and scope of government authority, but to replace that authority with a more efficient AI?
Who needs 2 million federal employees if AI is on the cusp of taking over their duties anyway? A government run by algorithm could be so terrifying that we will one day wish we could bring back those old inefficient bureaucrats.
Some of Trump’s policies also fly in the face of his campaign promises and appear more globalist than “America first.”
For example, Trump came out this week and said he will continue U.S. funding of the war in Ukraine as long as the U.S. can lay claim to Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals. So, the same bloody war he said on the campaign trail he would end within the first 24 hours of his presidency, he now wants to keep going, under the condition that the U.S. gets to take a spoil.
