Like most things surrounding Trump’s election and occupation of Washington, D.C., I like the government much more than I did prior, especially regarding the CIA, where Trump’s appointee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency was sworn in on January 23, 2025, John Ratcliffe.  I still think the CIA is a ridiculous organization of unpatriotic losers who cause trouble in the world, lie to the American people without accountability too often, and blame their habit on “national security.”  However, I think Trump has a better handle on them than any other president, so as I did all around Washington D.C., my wife and I spent a lot of time checking out the CIA from the employees’ perspective.  I wanted to live where they lived and shop where they shopped; I tried to eat where they ate and see the world through their eyes as much as possible.  In general, because it always comes up regarding politics, I wanted to understand the politics of Fairfax County, where the CIA is located, and understand what being the wealthiest county in the United States looked like. Loudoun County just to the northwest of Fairfax, is the richest, but we wanted to be as close to the CIA headquarters in Langley as possible so my wife and I camped our RV at Fairfax Lake for over a week and used that as our base of operations for exploring Washington D.C., since it was so close by from that location.  These affluent areas are not from mass productivity and a diversity of economic output.  It comes from employees with high-paying but otherwise useless government jobs, especially at Langley and the Pentagon just down the road.  I can’t say enough about the benefits of RV camping to investigate areas like this, where you have all your stuff and resources, and can get far enough away from the topic to gain an objective opinion.

Every day, we would take the Washington Memorial Parkway into the city, so we got to see a lot of how Fairfax County lived from our base camp, essentially at Tyson’s Corner.  We shopped at that Walmart for our stay, visiting there several times, which I enjoyed as it was the first one in a skyscraper I had ever been to.  Walmarts are generally prominent places with big parking lots outside of cities.  So we expected a Tyson’s Corner Walmart to be one of the biggest and wealthiest stores in the country.  But this one was smashed into the first floor of a high rise, and all the parking was in a parking garage, so it was different.  I enjoyed going there to get our groceries, which prevented us from wasting a lot of time eating out during our stay, which is a giant time killer.  You don’t get to do nearly as much when you waste time on necessities like food.  On road trips, which we do frequently all over the country, we usually eat in the morning at our RV, in the comfort of our own space, and then again once we return to the camper that night.  Everything is much more comfortable than a hotel room, and it’s incredible how much you can get done when you decouple from excess human interaction.  But to feed that, you need access to a good grocery, so the Walmart at Tyson’s Corner took care of all our needs and gave us a nice window into the kind of people who lived there.  We were camped as close to the CIA headquarters as anybody could get, and I could begin to see what daily life was like for those employees. 

And let’s say I have never seen so many mansions in all my life, anywhere in the world.  The drive to Washington, D.C., from our campsite was under 20 miles, and it didn’t take long to go back and forth.  But if I had to compare it to a region, such as Indian Hill in Cincinnati, Ohio, which is the wealthiest area in that location, the mansions in Fairfax County went on for dozens of miles consistently, whereas Indian Hill is only a few miles with some hodge podge real estate here and there that was less than optimal.  In Fairfax County, the people were swimming in loot and had a skewed impression of life and the government’s role.  They were being paid a lot of money to be part of a big machine with questionable value.  You could see how much people would have been threatened by the proposal of President Trump and used the power of government to protect their jobs in the Deep State because they weren’t going to replace their careers with a private sector one of equal value because they were being paid way too much to do way too little.  Driving down their streets and seeing how they lived in very opulent settings, all that government power would and had gone to their head.  However, the area was also much smaller and less scary once you could see everything from a reasonable perspective.  I measured such things, for instance, by traveling from the Breitbart Embassy, where Steve Bannon and the gang do the WarRoom podcast, and driving back to our campsite, going right by the Pentagon and the CIA headquarters, and suddenly, some of the biggest influences of the world are put in perspective relative to each other. 

Yes, the Deep State was real.  But it comprised of people in big government jobs who had created a fourth Branch of government to protect their high incomes.  Not to take over the world so much.   But to maintain an illusion given to them by being brokers of the broken world of too much government power funded by looted tax money and not actual industrial enterprise. Prominent celebrities and ostentatious personalities did not own most of the mansions I saw in Fairfax County, as you might find in Beverly Hills—or even people you see reporting on the government with news coverage on television.  No, there were way too many mansions for that.  Most of the occupants were high-level employees at the CIA and Pentagon who were making a lot of money brokering in national security, and they were able to hide their worthless jobs behind a need for “national security.”  Whenever taxpayers questioned their worth, they would release another UFO story so that our fear of an alien attack would keep us from pulling support for the CIA, which was getting most of its money from black budgets without congressional oversight because of the need for “national security.”  However, they shop at Walmart just like everyone else, hoping nobody notices that what they do isn’t all that important.  And America could do wonderfully without them.  That was my perspective from our campsite and our RV, considering many hours of contemplation from our experiences.  It was a town built on looted money, and a branch of shadow government had formed to protect the illusion of value they were hiding from even themselves.  But the truth is all those government jobs could go away tomorrow, and the people throughout the rest of the country wouldn’t even notice.  So, to pave the way for their continued illusion, they spend their confiscated wealth on lavish furnishings and residences, hoping that reality never comes knocking on their door to tell them just how worthless they are.  Which is why they hate and despise the President and his supporters.   

Rich Hoffman

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