Accountability is a dish best served cold

Dear Editor:

Truth doesn’t mind being questioned. A lie doesn’t like being challenged.

The outcry rising from the deep state minions is one of self-preservation. They demand the courts stop Elon Musk and the DOGE boys from auditing our federal agencies, all of which come under the authority of the Executive branch. Their idiotic retort that “Musk was not elected” is laughable – since, my dear despicable desperados – neither were the other three million bureaucrats presently employed by the federal government … Of course, you disingenuous clowns knew that.

The multiple billions squandered by USAID were the tip of the iceberg. Each day – each hour – brings new revelations about the breadth and depth of the money laundering and bureaucratic corruption that heretofore operated with impunity at every level of our federal government. When you file that 2024 federal tax return, think of all your taxpayer dollars these crooks flushed down the crapper of creative “financing.”

Remember the names of the panic-stricken political pundits alleging that Elon Musk is our “default president.” Take note of the congressional clowns screaming that his unrelenting juggernaut of auditing savants are “creating a constitutional crisis” and “destroying democracy” – for the reason of discovering that our federal government has not followed its own mandated accounting practices!

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used billions of American tax dollars to fund immoral, unethical and illegal activities abroad. These involved “charitable” groups from numerous religious institutions – including the Catholic Church, whose bishops turned a blind eye to questionable practices. When funding the importation and settling of millions of “migrants” into the United States, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops apparently believes (as do so many others) that “the ends justify the means.” Or perhaps it is that the “laundry business” was a boon to their sex-scandal-drained coffers and a substitute for declining donations from the pews?

Examples of what our tax money funded: “color revolutions” to affect regime change; human trafficking – including of children; population control directives that paid for abortions and contraceptives; climate change initiatives and green energy projects; DEI and LGBTQ programs – including “gender ideology.”

USAID programs also “directed millions of dollars in grant funding to the New York-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance and its sub-grantee, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) …” (Reason Magazine 02/06/2025). File that under things that make you go “Hmm.”

Of all the reforms the Trump Administration has implemented over the past 30 days, none has created so vicious a firestorm as the work done by DOGE. The flak is always heaviest when you’re over the target.

I don’t know which gives me the greatest satisfaction: having long-held suspicions about unbridled theft and wholesale misappropriation of taxpayer dollars confirmed or witnessing the mass meltdown of the scoundrels responsible for committing and concealing the fraud. Seeing them defunded, fired and their departments shuttered is a long overdue corrective action. But, personally, I would prefer the reparation involve a tree, a rope, the perps – and “some assembly required.”

Accountability, like revenge, is a dish best served cold.

Bruce Desautels

Stratton, Nebraska