Update June 5th, 2025

Well, Elon Musk didn’t last long enough to make any impact finding a trillion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse, and he didn’t keep his Tesla EV subsidies in the BBB. Never in the history of the United States has the President stood up to the Robber Barons, aka Oligarchs, until President Donald J. Trump came down the golden elevator nearly 10 years ago.

This is the epic downfall of Elon Musk, and he has only himself to blame. Tesla was down by 15% today. There’s something that’s very twisted in the mind of Musk, and President Trump is right to send him packing, perhaps back to South Africa.

Watch this afternoon’s episode of Steve Bannon’s War Room on Rumble. Bannon has been holding his fire on Musk, giving him the benefit of a doubt, and today he let loose in a typically epic fashion:

Update June 3rd, 2025

Only days after leaving his post as the head of DOGE, along with billions of dollars in losses to his personal fortune, and violent attacks on Tesla dealerships and owners, Elon Musk has slammed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, calling it an “digusting abomination”.

For more details, see this post at Zerohedge.com.

March 2, 2025

Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park

“DOGE COMETH”

A small group of outdoor enthusiasts and perhaps a few fired park rangers gathered Saturday at the entrance to the Death Valley Visitor Center at Furnace Creek. It was a beautiful, sunny day at 200 feet below sea level. The weather was calm and peaceful and so were the protestors. It was certainly a great day for a protest.

By Sunday morning, Death Valley was hit by a sandstorm with 50-60 mph sustained winds and the protestors were gone. Damages were minimal, but an old, dead salt cedar standing at the entrance to the Visitor Center blew over nearly hitting the stop sign.

This is called “climate change” in Death Valley. One day it’s beautiful and serene, the next day it’s a wind-blown wasteland filling the air with sand to be deposited at the Mesquite Flat Dunes which are located off highway 190 near Stovepipe Wells.

When asked what were they protesting about and whether they worked for the National Park Service, one protestor stepped forward and said she would “neither confirm nor deny” that she worked for the National Park Service while calling President Trump’s firing of federal employees “illegal”. Another held a sign that depicted President Trump giving a Nazi salute.

The protestors brought more signs than there were protestors so tourists passing through were invited to hold signs too. By noon, the temperature at Furnace Creek was already 90 degrees and the protest had dwindled to a handful of sweaty leftist diehards hoping to save the Park’s rangers from President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Among them was a young woman from a nearby federal government enclave called Ridgecrest California.

Ridgecrest is a small, isolated city with a population of 28,000 located just west of Death Valley. The city is home to 4,260 civilian employees working for the Department of Defense at the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake.

The U.S. military spends nearly one TRILLION dollars per year, totalling more than what the next 12 nations combined spend on their militaries, and that includes China and Russia. What’s truly shocking is that DOGE is uncovering an unimaginable level of corruption in our government. Just wait until DOGE digs into the waste, fraud and taxpayer abuse inherent at the DOD.

There are a few China Lake employees afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome working at the DOD, but even for them, protest scenes holding signs implying President Trump is a Nazi or hanging the flag upside down on El Capitan won’t go over well. Local reports of anxiety including one from the city’s new mayor, who’s also a recent DOD hire on probation, are understandable reactions to the cutbacks. Blaming them on Trump is disingenuous.

In Yosemite National Park, reports that government employees were hanging the American Flag upside down drew criticism and a reprimand from the park’s boss. See Yosemite Employees Hang US Flag Upside Down In Budget Cut Backlash for more information.

The National Parks Traveler website reported on a letter signed by 495 assorted environmental groups and “outdoor organizations” demanding Congress halt the firing of public lands workers.

A group of 495 outdoor-related organizations have signed a letter being sent to Congress urging an immediate reversal of the federal government’s seemingly arbitrary firing of public lands workers. Groups to sign on include conservation organizations, local tourism boards, friends of national parks, tribal organizations, and even outdoor marketing firms, among others. The letter is a reaction to the chaotic firings of park rangers, researchers, and general staff among federally run public lands agencies. 

Public land managment employees, including those working for the Bureau of Land Managment, the US Forestry Service and the National Park Service, will all be impacted by across the board cuts in the federal bureaucracy.

It’s not possible for the federal government to continue as it is currently structured, and as Elon Musk said just a few days ago “We cannot sustain as a country $2 trillion deficits. If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt. It’s not an optional thing. It’s essential”.

By comparison to DOD’s massively bloated trillion dollar budget, the National Park Service’s budget is a mere $3.57 billion for FY 2025. So far, the cuts have been minimal and won’t impact the NPS budget to any material degree, but they will have an outsize impact on the people who visit public lands as well as those who rely on recreational tourism for their income.

It’s clear that any cutbacks in federal spending will be loudly rejected by environmentalists and “outdoor groups” in spite of America’s dire financial condition. The National Park Service has approximately 20,000 employees but relies on over 200,000 volunteers to maintain their operations and has fired only 1,000 employees. The US Forestry Service has fired 3,400 employees. The Bureau of Land Managment has fired only 800 employees. The worst is yet to come.

The protestors shouldn’t worry too much about fired National park employees because National Parks should be largely self-supporting and profitable, and they have over 200,000 volunteers supporting their mission. Death Valley attracts over a million visitors per year, and if the environmentalists want to save the planet and the park rangers, they might want to organize a protest in Ridgecrest and demand cutbacks from the DOD’s budget in order to offset the losses at our national parks.

Added for flavor (via Zerohedge.com):

Federal Employees Hate DOGE Because They Fear Meritocracy

Hegseth Orders DoD Civilian Employees To Respond To ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ Email – Then Torches Hillary Clinton