On November 3rd, the country bitch-slapped Trump and the US Congress hard. The collective populist beatdown of the 119th Congress and the president felt good, but any shared optimism won't last long.

Trump is laying blame elsewhere, and yearns for the safe and untouchable spaces of his architectural visions.  While he reverts to a boy playing with blocks in his room, Congress remains a reliable AIPAC (er…UDP) service provider.  Congress will be comfortable only when it says yes Yes YES to the folks on top of the K shaped economy.  It will take more than a ballot ritual to change this, although many in the America-first universe sensed their real power.  That power comes from principle and courage, a.k.a being backed into a corner and forced to do something.

No wars have ended, no federal reformation has occurred, no tax dollars have been accounted for, and no taxpayer or citizen justice for the various ongoing national Ponzi schemes and influence peddling pedophile scams has been found.  Voters may have blamed the 119th Congress for this, but the 120th will do no better.  The unfortunate trend of taking no responsibility for the big challenges and accepting personal enrichment as the consolation prize – one that Trump himself embraces – will continue until the country literally goes broke.  Unlike the Japanese who patiently tolerated four plus decades of stagflation as they wait for the aged to pass on, a similar situation will crack the United States in less than half that time.

That's the good news.  As the federal state becomes even more ridiculous, we find that nine months after the illegal war against Iran (on behalf of Israel AND part of a larger global resource grab in service to US dominance and dollar salvage), and nine months after Trump declared Iran's "nuclear capability" destroyed for the second time in less than a year, we have this ingenious new strategy.

Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and Bessent are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of our day, fighting crime and injustice and coming up with improbable and entertaining strategies on the fly.  Our DC mutants just came up with another one!

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo named the federal site "RewardsforJustice.net" and came up a "submit a tip" slogan of "Do Your Part. Secure a Safer World." It's eerie how "four pizza-loving, sewer-dwelling, crime-fighting mutant brothers" have literally emerged as national policymakers.  Who knew this popular cartoon was a civics roadmap, a required precursor to the far more realistic Idiocracy and Terminator?

What does this $20 million reward mean?  First, we print our own money in the US, it is ephemeral, and no one at the bottom of the food chain here or anywhere else is going to see a dime's worth of value.  Think of the Trump's recent offer of $5,000 to voters, or the $10 million bounty placed on the head of "our man in ISIS" Al Sharaa that silently vanished once we installed him as Syrian dictator.