Our Government Has Become the Mirror Image of Trump's Cowardly Id
Trump appoints a former Far-Right podcaster to head up Ethics Watchdog
30-year podcaster Paul Ingrassia’s resume has little — that means zero — to make him qualified for the position to which TACO appointed him. There is one thing, though, that sends his candidacy off the charts in the mind of Trump, and that is the following comment he made on a podcast back in December 2020: “Time for @realDonaldTrump to declare martial law and secure his re-election.”
With those words of support echoing in the chasm that is Trump’s mind, TACO had this to say about Ingrassia:
In a Truth Social post on Thursday night, Mr. Trump called Mr. Ingrassia “a highly respected attorney, writer and Constitutional Scholar (Head an Ethics Watchdog).”
Before we move on to the bigger issue here, let’s take a look at what the punk-fascist Igrassia will be responsible for.
If confirmed by the Senate, Ingrassia would oversee the agency that enforces the Hatch Act, which limits government employees from engaging in certain partisan political activities, and provides protections to whistleblowers (Ties to Anti-Semitic Extremists).
Paul Igrassia is assuming a role that is supposed to protect federal government employees who see bad things and report them. One of the first things the Trump administration, under the leadership of the Project 25 junta, was to purge from the government anyone whose official role was to independently function as watchdogs for government over-reach, corruption, abuse of power, etc.
Because of the size of the federal government, Congress created 20 such watchdog positions. Most, if not all, of these men and women fulfilled their duties non-partisanly. See fraud, report it was the mantra. If you see incompetence that leads to fraud, abuse of power, etc., report it. The Trump administration, from day one, knew that it was going to rid the country once and for all of those silly checks and balances in its efforts to seize total power. To achieve such goals, it required filling key government positions with criminals, fascists, clowns, abusers, addicts, and pretty much anyone whose key qualification could be summed as “the Constitution is for suckers.” Appointing the cadre of losers that Trump has in place was the easy part the potential problem, however, that needed to be eradicated were the independent watchdogs.
March 9, 2025 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS President Trump is casting aside those who might stand in his way, and among the first to go were at least 20 leaders of federal offices that were created by Congress to hold administrations accountable. You may not know it but, after Watergate, Congress set up a system to audit the executive branch and ensure the rights of federal workers. Those offices became known as watchdogs. Congress has guarded their independence from politics so that no president can use these powerful auditors to punish enemies or hide their own fiascos. But now, for the first time in 44 years, President Trump has fired these officials en masse. One of them is Hampton Dellinger, who has a warning about what America is losing as it’s firing the watchdogs.
Hampton Dellinger: Going forward, you’re always gonna have now a person in my position who’s gonna be dependent on the President’s good graces. That is not how Congress set up the position, that’s not how it’s been for the past 50 years. But that independence, that protection is gone (What America Is Losing).
With the appointment of a POS like Paul Igrassia, the Trump administration is putting in place a new kind of watchdog. Igrassia won’t be seeking to ensure the government is good and ethical, but authoritarian, oppressive, and devoted to promoting and protecting the caprice of the orange blob currently defiling the White House. People like Igrassia will weed out federal workers offering resistance to illegal orders. Anyone not willing to go along with the greatest heist in our nation’s history will be identified and possibly even imprisoned as traitors to the president, not the country, mind you.
As many of you already know, I lived in Russia for 28 years. I will tell you without the slightest hesitation that the Russian government exists to protect Putin. The massive bureaucracy that controls everything perpetuates his rule, but also acts as a gatekeeper for what gets enforced. It is like when the locks of a canal are opened to let the water in, leveling out ships. Putin understands and accepts this power of the bureaucracy because, ultimately, the men and women administering the country will never err in favor of the citizen.
In the rare instances when the government rules in favor of a citizen against the government, the matter will be quickly redone, and the administrator who made such a mistake will be punished. Over the years, I have seen and heard countless bureaucrats shake their heads in disgust at the government’s capricious and inhuman rules, but then shrug their shoulders and offer up a “What can be done?”
America was never this way. Over those 28 years, I have also dealt with our own bureaucracy. I can tell that until Trump started unraveling our country for the sole purpose of destroying it, and not to make “great again,” dealings with the men and women who administer our country’s rules and laws were always pleasant and straightforward comparatively. I would listen to friends and family complaining about their run-ins with the bureaucracy and laugh at the naivete. I would always say, “You don’t know how good you have it.”
We didn’t know, and now won’t know because in an effort to fix something that wasn’t broken, we chose a narcissistic man-child and a blathering idiot to make us great again. Because he is ignorant and obsessed solely with the fulfillment of his own most primal wants and needs, he has allowed a junta of fascists to tinker away in the dark, 24,/7, to dismantle our Constitutional order and turn us into a fascist dictatorship.
No longer can we, as Americans, consider that our government exists to help and protect us. The government, and as we are seeing, even the police, now exist to protect Trump and his fascist coup.
June 14th isn’t far away. Stand up, Americans, the time to take the streets is upon us.
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