"Call Them By Their True Names." -- Rebecca Solnit
Don't get upset at "the United States." The regime is not the United States. Save your upset for your children and your spouse.
Judge’s Gavel. (Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons)
There are a lot of upset people out there. They are upset with the regime, which is understandable. But these people generally refer to the actions of the regime as though they were the actions of their United States Government, or even the actions of the United States.
The actions that we have seen since January 20, 2025 are not actions of the United States. If this did not become clear enough after the regime's budget of death passed the senate and house, here are three relatively brief examples that illustrate that the actions of the regime are not the actions of the United States.
First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor.
First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor. It says on their website, which of course is now run by the regime, that this Bureau is independent. That is not exactly true.
I looked at the roster of personnel at the BLS as it's called, so you wouldn't have to, as the saying goes. During the Second American Apocalypse that we are living through now, or trying to, the Bureau is run by many people who were installed during the First American Apocalypse.
Further, this supposedly independent Bureau "works closely with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection ... to collect trade and transportation data." Resume Valley Report titled How Accurate Are the Projections of the Labor Statistics?, online July 6, 2025, at https://www.resumevalley.com/how-accurate-are-the-projections-of-the-labor-statistics/ (emphasis added).
In my research, I also came across reports that the Department of Labor might be "cooking the books," meaning publishing false figures. On closer examination, these reports were repeating that claim about Barack Obama! Barack Obama left office sometime on January 20, 2017 before the First American Apocalypse took over.
None of this generates trust or respect for the current Department of Labor. It is certainly not the Department it used to be, so it is a big mistake to treat it as though it is still what it used to be.
Second, the Civil Division of the Department of Justice is not a department of justice any more; in fact, it isn't even the civil division any longer.
On June 11, 2025 the current Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a MEMORANDUM directed to "All Civil Division Employees." The Memo said a number of things, so it would be good to read it for yourself to see what they intend for you. You can find it on the doj website: https://www.justice.gov/civil/media/1404046/dl?inline.
For nearly one page of this four-page Memo, beginning on page number 3, they focused on "radical gender experimentation." Lest you think that they only have a harmless fetish, their Memorandum continues: "The Civil Division will use all available resources to prioritize investigations of doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and other appropriate entities consistent with these directives."
They do not have the authority. They are "investigating" anyway. What do "investigations" of your doctors, your hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies from which you buy your prescribed drugs, "and other appropriate entities" actually involve, what do they mean?
The part of this Memo that the press paid attention to, begins on page 3 and goes on to the end. For a full page and roughly an additional third of a page, the Civil Division of DOJ is similarly and deliberately vague about what their Memo calls "Prioritizing Denaturalization." The first priority on the list, on page 4, consists of cases against "individuals who pose a potential danger to national security." This category of individuals includes "those with a nexus to terrorism."
We have seen that this regime treats all the people it kidnaps like the people are dangerous to the regime's security.
We have also heard lawyers and other people paid by this regime say that everyone abducted has "a nexus to terrorism." They even said that about a student walking alone on the street whom they surrounded with at least 6 people, some masked, and at least some armed because, I guess, the student might be dangerous to them.
She was a co-author of an op-ed in a student newspaper.
This is not your mother's and father's department of justice.
Third, there is ICE. There is always ICE now.
Third and finally, there is Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. ICE will get more money from the budget of death that this regime required, than the armed forces of many nations. I have also read, and you probably have as well, that after this budget of death, ICE will become the largest "law enforcement" agency in the country.
But ICE will not be the United States. In fact, many people have doubts that it is a "law enforcement" agency like, say, the FBI used to be.
I will conclude these three examples that illustrate how the current regime is not the United States, with this quote from the conservative or perhaps libertarian Cato Institute Blog:
“ICE's deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics and priorities is defending violent criminals. But violent criminals are not ICE's primary focus. Indeed, it now has no focus altogether. That's the essence of mass deportation: It is indiscriminate, unfocused, and chaotic.”
David J. Bier, 65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions, CATO BLOG INSTITUTE (June 20, 2025), at https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions (emphasis in original).
Even the Cato Institute recognizes that this regime is not the United States.
We all should see them for what they are. Call them by their true names.
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