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When did you first hear the little saying “follow the money”? For most of us it was probably from the shaded character in “All The President’s Men” known as Deep Throat. As he gave little hints to reporters Woodward and Bernstein he would add in the little reminder “follow the money.” As we all know now the money trail led to Dick Nixon’s pocket. A separate money trial led to Spiro Agnew, but that is another story.

Fifty years on here we are again. When you deal with the Republican Party, especially the MAGA manifestation, the money is never very far from the story or the conversation. With that in mind, we received an email from congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AOC has been one of the loudest and staunchest critics of the current president as Democrats look for leadership in the second Trump era:

AOC talks about the huge money MAGA wants to steal from the little guy through abolishing programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. We know they (Musk, Trump, Thune, Johnson, Bondi, Ernst, Grassley, Miller-Meeks, Hinson, Nunn and Feenstra) are coming after these programs and they are charging hard.

Don’t be afraid to call your senators and representative and ask them straight up if they will vote to keep these programs. These are things they do not want to go on record about. Taking away these safety net programs is very, very unpopular. Let them know how unpopular they are.

Also remember that destroying these long standing social safety nets are just a part of the story. Do you remember that the United States Post Office will soon be in the bullseye? Now that Louis DeJoy has been able to destroy much of the infrastructure of the USPS, expect Musk and company to sell off pieces for pennies on the dollar. This will open a huge opportunity for some MAGA billionaires.

The USPS is but one of the examples of destroying your government. Don’t forget the great opportunities to make huge money by gutting the US Treasury, or from selling out Ukraine or from wiping Palestinians from Gaza and turning it into a resort for the obscenely wealthy. Expect Trump and Musk to get big bucks there. 

There will be hundreds of other ways MAGAs can destroy the government and turn it into big bucks as they do to the government what their vulture capitalism has done to American business. Call, call, call! And Follow The Money even thought the MAGA aligned press will make it hard.