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2026-11-05

The US has always done things much bigger than elsewhere.

Government is bigger, corruption is bigger, the military is bigger, its ideas are bigger, its News Media are bigger, and the CIA is bigger, perhaps biggest of all ...

And certainly its off-books black budgets are bigger than anybody could have imagined, or at least were until Elon set DOGE upon them - but we still don't have a handle on how much remains to be accounted for.

So in the wake of the Mid-terms, this article reviews the current state of play, with reference to historical precent too - there's truly nothing new under the sun ...