Tea at Trianon: How Gates, Soros, and Ford Use "Equity" to Hijack Federal Grants

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, May 11, 2025

How Gates, Soros, and Ford Use "Equity" to Hijack Federal Grants

From Amuse on X:

Let us begin with a familiar model: private equity. When George Soros breaks a currency or Bill Gates acquires a company, they begin not with domination, but with leverage. A modest injection of capital, paired with structure, timing, and most importantly debt, can produce wildly asymmetrical returns. That same logic is now applied not to companies or commodities, but to ideology. The left-wing philanthropic giants fund non-governmental organizations (NGOs) whose only product is political conformity. They seed them with grants, polish their proposals, and send them, briefcase in hand, to Washington. The return on investment is swift and staggering.
The scale is almost unfathomable. Private foundations make more than $100 billion in grants available to NGOs each year. Those NGOs, freshly seeded and polished, in turn raise nearly $900 billion from the federal government in additional grants. The leverage is nine to one. For every dollar a foundation donates, the federal government grants nine. This is not charity, it is a financing strategy. And it explains precisely why the philanthropic elite are in a panic: the Department of Government Efficiency, under Elon Musk’s leadership, is cutting the cords on this federal dependency at an alarming rate. Their influence pipeline is collapsing.
The trick is in the structure. According to IRS rules, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations may not engage in partisan political activity. This rule, theoretically, keeps charities out of elections. In practice, however, it is honored mostly in the breach. These organizations, funded by Soros, Gates, and Ford, do not endorse candidates. They do something more effective: they cultivate ideology. They infiltrate school curricula with critical race theory, press for open borders under the guise of humanitarian aid, and lobby for DEI mandates in every federal grant application. Their partisanship lies not in the explicit support of a party, but in the propagation of a worldview so thoroughly aligned with the Democratic left that the difference becomes academic. (Read more.)