Where is the money for these "paid" protests coming from? I was under the impression Mr. Musk and DOGE had located the source and turned off the spigot.
They turned off some of the federal money spigots, but not the corporatized NGO spigots, nor the private citizen spigots. It's hard to find them all and shit them down, especially when you have multiple billionaires with multiple financial pipelines coming in and going out. People like to refer to it as a "spider web," but if you think about it, it's more like multiple "rats nests." If you you've ever seen a rat nest, it is weaved with hundreds or thousands of strands of material and has multiples of tunnels within, with some that dead-end and some that lead out. It's so chaotic in appearance and structure that it's almost impossible to follow, so you just pour gas on the whole structure and torch it. Or, if it's located in your house, you physically remove it and demolish the nest and hope you kill a few rats while they scatter.
The problem is that we aren't dealing with rodents, we're dealing with humans. So you can't just arrest a billionaire and his executive staff and destroy the whole structure to contain this particular mess. You have to follow each strand and tunnel to find the corrupt people and organizations within and dismantle each one, and hope you've not just dismantled each network and it's multiple tunnels, but also catch each corrupt person so none get away. For every known corrupt individual in an organization, there could be 1-5, or more, that are unknown and never found.
This is why RICO investigations take so freaking long.
Where is the money for these "paid" protests coming from? I was under the impression Mr. Musk and DOGE had located the source and turned off the spigot.
They turned off some of the federal money spigots, but not the corporatized NGO spigots, nor the private citizen spigots. It's hard to find them all and shit them down, especially when you have multiple billionaires with multiple financial pipelines coming in and going out. People like to refer to it as a "spider web," but if you think about it, it's more like multiple "rats nests." If you you've ever seen a rat nest, it is weaved with hundreds or thousands of strands of material and has multiples of tunnels within, with some that dead-end and some that lead out. It's so chaotic in appearance and structure that it's almost impossible to follow, so you just pour gas on the whole structure and torch it. Or, if it's located in your house, you physically remove it and demolish the nest and hope you kill a few rats while they scatter.
The problem is that we aren't dealing with rodents, we're dealing with humans. So you can't just arrest a billionaire and his executive staff and destroy the whole structure to contain this particular mess. You have to follow each strand and tunnel to find the corrupt people and organizations within and dismantle each one, and hope you've not just dismantled each network and it's multiple tunnels, but also catch each corrupt person so none get away. For every known corrupt individual in an organization, there could be 1-5, or more, that are unknown and never found.
This is why RICO investigations take so freaking long.
Thank you for such a comprehensive explanation. I understand it much better now.