Is DeSantis Firing A Shot Across The Bow In The War Against The Deep State?

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Don’t get me wrong. I am ecstatic that we have re-elected Donald Trump to his rightful second term as President of the United States. But as a realist—a pragmatic realist—I understand that it will take much more than four years of Trump 2.0 to damage and dismantle the Washingtonian Deep State and reform the federal government.

The current “expert-dominated” federal bureaucracy (commonly referred to as the Deep State when you factor in K Street and the many special interest “complexes”) has been metastisizing for over 120 years. It first arrived on the American political scene with the Wilson administration and has been growing and encroaching on our individual and state rights ever since.

That’s why the recent move by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in the wake of reports that a FEMA official allegedly directed employees to skip over the homes of Trump supporters while assessing damage from Hurricane Milton is so important. This move could symbolize the first shot in a constitutional confrontation between an overreaching federal government and the states.

The Shot Heard Around The States

As reported by a plethora of honest information outlets, including X and TheGatewayPundit.com, a whistleblower has come forward with text messages that reveal FEMA official Marn’i Washington ordered relief workers working in the area to purposely skip over homes in Florida displaying Trump signs in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.

According to TheDailyWire.com on X:

“Whistleblowers say that relief workers were told it was ‘best practice’ to pass over houses ‘advertising Trump'...The workers would enter into the system that they made no contact with the residents, blaming the directive: ‘Trump sign, no contact per leadership.”

In another post on X, one FEMA volunteer who was exposed to the directive stated:

“I thought we could go help and make a difference. When we got there, we were told to discriminate against people. It’s almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that’s okay.”

In the aftermath, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell posting on X, called the all-but-admitted act “reprehensible,” and said the employee had been fired and will be referred to the Office of Special Counsel.

A Long Awaited Push-Back

In response to this blatant discrimination by our federal government towards its citizens, DeSantis issued a terse but warranted statement and directive:

“The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days.

“At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.

“New leadership is on the way in DC, and I’m optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.”

The key words to focus on here are these: “...launching an investigation into the federal government’s…”

This marks a historic moment in time, and one held long in the waiting. For the first time in US history, a state government—in this case, the State of Florida, at the direction of its governor—is launching an investigation into the federal government that could end in criminal, civil, and constitutional consequences.

With DeSantis' order for the Florida Division of Emergency Management to investigate Ms. Washington, the total effort of FEMA’s actions in the state will be investigated. It is all but certain that any discriminatory and/or illegal actions taken by FEMA in the state will end up being referred to the State’s Attorney General for actions, as this precedent has been set in the second Trump assassination attempt.

Given the wide latitude established by recent federal investigations into private citizens and government officials alike, this would mean Florida’s Attorney General, Ashley Moody, would be able to look at not only Washington’s actions and directives but every aspect of FEMA operations in the state, including finances.

So, it must be asked: If criminal, civil, and constitutional malfeasance is discovered, prosecuted, and adjudicated, what would be the consequences? Criminally, we know fines and jail time would be the order. Civilly, we know the Floridians affected would have to be made whole. But what would it mean constitutionally?

Why This Is A Good Shot Across The Bow

If, as reported by this whistleblower, FEMA supervisors openly discriminated against people affected by Hurricane Milton in Florida, what kind of discrimination and agency slow-walking took place in northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and especially in western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene?

Each of these locations voted heavily, if not overwhelmingly, for Trump in the 2024 General Election. Are we to believe that in these rural areas, where people lost everything they’ve owned for generations, FEMA was on the up-and-up in their responses and aid? Are we really to believe that the Florida FEMA supervisor’s directive about letting Trump voters suffer in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton was an isolated incident, especially with the waterfall of first-hand reports from western North Carolina providing evidence that the FEMA response after Hurricane Helene was almost cruel in its malfeasance?

As the country awakens to just how corrupt our federal government has become under the far-Left extremism and tyranny of the Obama-Biden-Harris administrations, are we really supposed to believe that this kind of special interest, partisan, elitist governance is secluded to one agency as it applies its authority in one state? To believe that is the case would be so far beyond naive that I’m not sure there’s even a word or phrase to describe it.

It is for this reason that DeSantis' action to investigate FEMA—and through that agency, the federal government–serves as an opening salvo to a confrontation centered on the Ninth Amendment and the Tenth Amendment, which state, respectively:

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

And:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

DeSantis' move is the first move in a constitutional chess match between the states and the federal government that could pave the way for states to reassert their rightful authority over their constitutional domain and re-establish their rightful place as a potent check and balance to federal government overreach through the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the use of the potent tool of nullification.

Has Our Republic Caught The Cancer In Time?

The clear-eyed American understands that Deep State elitist tyranny has become endemic in our federal government and lives in the bureaucratic apparatus, which has rendered representative government severely damaged, if not significantly hobbled.

We see it in the actions of far-Left extremists like US Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), opportunistic RINO Republicans like US Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John Thune (R-SD)—now the incoming Senate Majority Leader, the whole of the bought-and-paid-for Uni-Party, and pathetic groups like The Lincoln Project, whose leader actually said this:

Our federal government has been co-opted by the greedy, the opportunistic, the manipulative, and the egotistical.

We see it in the actions of federal employees and agents working for the elitist tyrants—mostly appointed and placed—at FEMA (in this example), the now politicized Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation, the decades-long partisanship of the Internal Revenue Service, and the dictatorial despotism of agencies like the National Institute for Health, the Food & Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Center for Disease Control.

Our nation’s federal government has become an oblivious whore for the global elite and connected. We suffer from crony corporatism and public-private cooperative soft fascism. Our elected leaders, most often, have to answer to the federal government's bureaucracy when that flow of authority is—constitutionally—supposed to be in reverse.

This is the cancer—the political cancer—that the American people gave a mandate to Donald Trump to extinguish. And while Donald Trump’s second administration works diligently to cripple the Deep State, it will be governors like Ron DeSantis, Kristi Noem, Kim Reynolds, Greg Abbott, and the rest of the governors who stand to truly serve their peoples that work to re-establish the constitutional balance between the federal government and the states.

If we can keep the pressure on (an Alinsky rule that has served the neo-Marxist progressives well) and run interference against the Deep State—and especially the Uni-Party establishment electeds masquerading as Republicans—as Trump, DeSantis and the other governors move to return our Republic to constitutionalism, we have a chance at surviving the neo-Trotskyism of the Left.

But make no mistake. It’s going to take longer than just four years. We must start playing a potent long game.

Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

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