I believe the fundamental mandates of the FBI and the CDC are not to foster business or stability, but to create a form of chaos. We see this in the political antics from both sides that surround these agencies, which makes me think they’ve become redundant. We are already served by the National Guard, state and local police, and U.S. Marshals. These organizations are business-minded and have a deep understanding of the communities they protect. The FBI, in my view, has gone rogue.
I know enough about how the USA is supposed to operate to see that if things were running correctly, the FBI wouldn’t even be needed. Think about it: we have the TSA for travel security and other agencies for our borders. I can maybe understand the need for the CIA to handle international threats, but the FBI’s domestic role seems to have devolved. I believe the FBI alone has the power to throw us into a recession and can literally tank the whole country’s economy. In that sense, they are more powerful than even the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to manage economic stability. You just have to look at the political turmoil they get involved in. The Wikileaks situation in 2016 with Hillary Clinton and Seth Rich, the drama around John Bolton—these events show an agency enmeshed in politics, not justice.
And it’s not just the FBI. The CDC operates in a similar fashion, creating chaos under the guise of public health. Their handling of COVID-19 with constantly changing and conflicting data was a disaster that hurt businesses and families. That’s why I think what Bobby Kennedy is doing now is so important. He’s trying to fire them all, and they deserve it. He has defended the firings at the CDC, citing what he views as their failures during the pandemic. Kennedy has said that the people at the CDC who “put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving.” I believe these changes are necessary to restore trust in an agency that lost its way.
This all feeds into a larger, scarier picture. We humans live a short life, and we’re watching our national debt run wild with no real strategies to fix it. The tariffs are a nice idea, but they aren’t part of a coherent plan. Then you have some Republicans, who I call the “chaos caucus”—figures like MTG and Massie—who just seem to create chaotic headlines. It’s a frightening time, and I am surprised that no president seems to see how rogue agencies like the FBI and CDC are at the center of this storm, capable of causing immense economic and social damage.