video: Perfecting The Heist of YOUR Tax Dollars – Grifters at Work

The Sopranos have always managed to dig their hands into the coffers of local New Jersey township, divvying up the local spoils among themselves and their political cronies, and while shoddy workmanship to the public, to be fair, they also created a lot of no-show jobs for their friends.

Now, picture the truly slick operators, the truly sophisticated sharks, and the bloated corporate pigs at the trough, salivating when they see the fat stacks of cash, belonging to the world’s super power— the U.S. government’s.

The yearly, multi-trillion-dollar budget. KACHING

Imagine how large the incentive becomes to perfect their rent seeking abilities, and siphoning, even just a sliver of that sweet tax revenue, that you out there pay in from your your sweat, your hard work.
And as they sharpen their griftmanship, the amount of treasure they are able to subtly steal increases.

It’s not a question of if the grifters show up; it’s how fast they’ll swim, slither, or waddle to gorge themselves. And today, they aren’t just nibbling—they’re ripping us off like a pack of hyenas tearing flesh from off zebra, the kill of an absent lion, and they’ll leave crumbs to re-distribute amongst the rest of us, all holding their heads high and squealing, ‘It’s for the public good!’
This is human nature on full display, and it’s why centralized power, and the associated giant honeypot of money is a corruption magnet with a greater gravitational pull for the imperfect human psyche than a black hole jealous.

Take a fat stack of taxpayer cash, pile it in D.C., and watch the feeding frenzy. Defense contractors snag billion-dollar deals for weapons that don’t work—looking at you, Lockheed Martin with your F-35 money pit. Big Pharma jams through overpriced pills while lobbying to keep generics off the shelf, and, in a Nobel Prize moment of Grifting, getting the government to not only pay for a non-working vaccine they produced, but getting them to mandate it’s uptake into the population. I mean this, those who formulated the plan are freaking brilliant. Evil, but genius none the less.
Green energy cronies pocket subsidies for solar panels that’ll rust before they pay off. And don’t get me started on the ‘infrastructure’ scams—bridges to nowhere funded by your paycheck while some suit’s yacht gets a new deck.
These aren’t outliers; they’re the system working as designed. The bigger the pile, the more snouts shove in. It’s not a bug; it’s a feature.

And today, the rent-seekers are so entrenched, they will do anything to protect their ill gotten revenue stream.

Elon Musk laid this bare on Joe Rogan’s podcast, blunt as a sledgehammer. He’s out there trying to slash the government bloat with DOGE—Department of Government Efficiency, for the uninitiated—and he knows the stakes.

Not hyperbole—don’t interrupt a shark’s feeding frenzy.

He’s talking about the swamp creatures who’ve spent decades perfecting the art of sucking the system dry: lobbyists, bureaucrats, corporate leeches with their claws in the Treasury. Disrupt that, and they won’t just send angry tweets—they’ll come for your head. (Trump)

Elon’s not wrong; he’s got a target on his back because he’s daring to kick over their slop bucket.

And here’s the kicker: give it time, and corruption’s not just likely—it’s guaranteed. Humans are greedy, lazy, and power-hungry by default. Leave a honeypot unguarded, and someone’s dipping their paws in, whether it’s day one or year fifty. Look at history—Roman senators skimming taxes, medieval kings selling titles, modern politicians funneling ‘aid’ to their donors. Fast forward to now:  Iran’s mullahs rake in cash from Biden’s geniuses who think appeasement’s a strategy and Ukraine gets billions while Zelensky’s cronies buy villas.

I have a serious question i would like you to answer in the comments, how many powerful Ukrainians don’t want a cease fire or peace, because having one stops the gravy train of US cash? You tell me. Looking out for number one, which benefits them more.
Could that be why Zelensky scuttled the deal in public that Trump and JD thought would be signed at the White House.
I try to understand the world the world via the incentives of each party, and poor Vladimir might have been told it was nix the deal or be removed from power via a magical Russian bullet.
Again, this may or may not be true, but when you are talking about multi-billions of money you didn’t have to earn at stake, the incentives line-up.

Power centralizes, and the deeper the liquidity of public sector becomes, the further the sharks advance and gobble up the productivity of the private sector. That’s why the smallest government possible isn’t some libertarian fantasy—it’s the only way to keep the sharks from coming onto the beach.

But they’re clever, these bastards. They don’t just grab—they distract. Enter the media and identity politics. The magicians shake their wands and distract you while the other picks your pocket.
‘Look over here!’ they shout, George Floyd, Gorge Floyd George Floyd, trans women are women bigot, Elon sighailed, Trump said what?! or whatever hashtag’s trending on X this week.

Meanwhile, they’re slipping trillion-dollar ‘relief’ bills past you, stuffed with pork for their pals, the lobbyists that donate to their campaigns to get them re-elected.
The media’s in on it—CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times—puppets owned by the same Big Pharma, Big Ag, and defense contractor overlords cutting the checks. They’ll scream ‘systemic injustice’ all day to keep you riled up and blind while the real heist happens off-screen. It’s a shell game, and you’re the mark.

They’ve got the nerve to call it democracy, but it’s a grift dressed up in a flag pin. X lights up with folks calling it out—raw posts, no filter, showing the receipts—but the corporate press slaps a ‘misinformation’ label on it and moves on.
Media trust is tanking—Gallup’s got it at 32% and falling—because people aren’t as dumb as they hope. Frankly, I personally hope to drive that number lower.

The smaller the honeypot, the less they can steal, and the less incentive they’ll have to to enact their societally rotting smoke-and-mirrors act.

Elon’s right: upset that cart, and they’ll fight dirty.
But that still doesn’t mean it’s not our responsibility to reduce the budget, reduce taxes, stop printing money, adopt bitcoin, or a combination thereof, and starve the rent-seekers, and maybe—just maybe—we’ve got a shot at a flourishing nation that doesn’t stink of corruption from sea to shining sea.

So no matter how much their high priced magicians distract you with, I invite you to join me on keeping focused on trimming the fat to zero, and watching the corruption fall with it.
And with less incentive to divide and steal our money, maybe we can once again begin to heal as a nation and people.
This my friends is prayer, I hope you join me.