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Do As I Say, Not As I Do — 54 Years of U.S. Government Hypocrisy (1971 – 2025)

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From Watergate to COVID-era insider trades, the same playbook repeats: moralize in daylight, deal in shadows at dusk.

1 | Why This Matters

In my lifetime the U.S. has cycled through nine presidents, endless wars, and—at reliable two-to-five-year intervals—fresh headlines proving that the people who write the rules carve themselves exceptions. Below is a receipts-only timeline followed by the pattern-recognition toolkit and ways to snap yourself (and your circle) out of the trance.

2 | Timeline of “Rules-for-Thee” Moments (1971-2025)

Year(s)Who / WhatPublic linePrivate reality & fallout
1972-74Watergate — Nixon WH“Law-and-order presidency.”Directed break-in & cover-up; Nixon resigned Aug 9 1974. Encyclopedia Britannica
1978-80Abscam sting“We fight corruption.”7 reps & 1 senator filmed taking bribes from a fake sheikh; all convicted. Wikipedia
1981-87Iran-Contra“We never negotiate with terrorists.”Secret arms-for-hostages, cash funneled to Contras; 14 indictments, 11 convictions (later pardoned). Wikipedia
1991-92House Bank overdrafts“Fiscal prudence.”450 members floated fee-free rubber checks; voters furious, 77 lost seats. CQ Press Library
1995-96House Post Office — Dan Rostenkowski“Accountability.”Traded stamps for cash; mail-fraud plea, 17-month prison term. EBSCO
1998-99Clinton-Lewinsky“Family values.”Lied under oath about Oval-Office affair; impeached, acquitted, law license suspended.
2007Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID)Anti-LGBT voting record.Arrested for lewd conduct in airport restroom; career ended. Wikipedia
2008-09TARP bail-outs“Free-market capitalism.”$700 B rescue for banks whose risk blew up the economy.
2012-25STOCK Act“No more insider trading in Congress.”$200 slap-fines; 78 lawmakers missed trade disclosures 2020-23. Business Insider
Feb 2020Sens. Richard Burr & Kelly Loeffler“Publicly calm on COVID.”Dumped millions in stock after closed briefing. ProPublica
Nov 2020Gov. Gavin Newsom French Laundry“Stay home, mask up.”Mask-less $350-pp dinner while Californians under lockdown. PoliticoLos Angeles Times
2021-24Congressional harassment ‘hush fund’“Zero tolerance.”OOC admits $17 M taxpayer payouts 1997-2017; details still sealed. House Docs
2023-25AARO / UAP transparency“We’ll tell the public everything.”Briefings remain classified; civilian whistle-blowers forced to IG channels. AARO

3 | The Pattern in Plain Sight

  1. Legislate ➜ Exempt ➜ Profit
    Write the STOCK Act, then whittle enforcement down to a $200 parking ticket.
  2. Virtue Megaphone, Vice Backdoor
    Preach family values, plead guilty to airport-stall misconduct.
  3. Security for Thee, Leaks for We
    Publicly calm markets, secretly liquidate portfolios post-classified briefing.
  4. War Drums, Peace Crumbs
    93 % of America’s 250-year timeline is conflict; pork flows home, liberty erodes.

4 | How to Recognize You’re in the Spell

Red flagWhat it really means
“Urgent crisis” with blank-check bill attachedWatch for riders that shield lawmakers from the very law they pass.
Bipartisan moral outrage on TVOften stagecraft before quietly watering down enforcement.
Sealed settlements & NDAsSettlement paid? Follow the money—your taxes or their pocket?
Rules that apply to agencies but not to CongressOSHA, FOIA, insider-trading deadlines—all riddled with carve-outs.

5 | Breaking the Cycle (Personal & Collective)

  1. Track the ledger, not the lecture
    Follow trades (Quiver Quant), lobbying data (OpenSecrets), and leaked settlements (OOC reports).
  2. Support sunshine bills—across parties
    War Powers reform, no-stock-trading bills, FOIA expansion. Vote process, not personality.
  3. Rewire conversation rituals
    Next family dinner, replace “left vs right” with “law vs loophole.” Pin examples to dollars, not ideology.
  4. Deploy micro-activism
    One call or email per week to committee chairs when an enforcement-weakening amendment appears. Officials track call counts—tiny numbers move needles.
  5. Model transparency in your own org
    Publish budgets, meeting minutes, conflict-of-interest policies. Cultural change scales outward.

TL;DR

For 54 years the U.S. has perfected a rinse-and-repeat hypocrisy cycle: moralize, carve exemption, cash in, bury receipts. Recognizing the pattern is half the exorcism; persistent daylight does the rest.

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America’s Endless War Cycle & the Spell of Generational Control 🇺🇸🕰️

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“I’m a third-generation service member, raised to believe war is the perennial price of freedom.
But what if the real inheritance is a trance of perpetual conflict?”

1 | War vs Peace by the Numbers

From July 4, 1776 through 2025 (250 calendar years)

StatusYears% of U.S. History
Active war / conflict*≈ 233≈ 93 %
No declared conflict≈ 17≈ 7 %

*Includes everything from declared wars to “police actions,” covert ops, and drone campaigns. Multiple independent tallies land in the 92–94 % range—Smithsonian’s “Nation at Arms” infographic and several academic reviews peg it at 93–94 %.

Translation: only about one out of every fourteen American birthdays has dawned on a country technically at peace.

2 | Why the Combat Switch Stays Jammed “ON”

  1. Economic engine — $886 billion Pentagon budget feeds defense contractors, congressional districts, and Wall Street indices.
  2. Mythic identity — “Citizen-soldier” narratives dating back to 1776 frame combat as the crucible of patriotism; questioning war feels like treason.
  3. Media fog & two-year election cycles — Fresh villains = fresh ratings and campaign talking points; nuance gets throttled by 24-hour click fuel.
  4. Inter-generational imprinting — Kids absorb family war stories, service photos on mantels, folded flags in cabinets. Trauma and pride entwine; the cycle feels normal.

3 | A Veteran’s Eye-View of the Loop

I’m a third/fourth-gen military brat. Grandparents stormed beaches; dad flew sorties. Boot-camp posters said, “Honor family tradition—wear the uniform.” Only when I mapped the 93 % figure did the spell crack:

“Wait—if constant war is the baseline, maybe the ‘defense of liberty’ line
is less about defending and more about defining us.”

4 | Wake-Up Thought Experiments

PromptWhat to ask yourself / friends
Timeline swap“Pick any 5-year block since 1776. Which war or intervention fills it? What domestic rights were curbed during that span?”
Generational ledgerList how war shaped the careers, relocations, or injuries of each generation in your family. How would those lives look minus conflict?
Budget flipWhat could 10 % of the current DoD budget fund in healthcare, research—or, heck, Mars colonies? Do the mental math ($88 billion).

5 | Breaking the Inheritance

  1. Name the trance — Share the 93 % stat; numbers puncture patriotic fog better than slogans.
  2. Switch “support the troops” from slogan to action — Push for non-war missions: disaster relief, infrastructure rebuilds, climate-tech deployments.
  3. Vote veteran voices who challenge perpetual war — Post-9/11 vets across parties are co-sponsoring War-Powers-Act reforms; amplify them.
  4. Tell new stories — Elevate peace-time innovation legends (Carver, Salk, NASA engineers) alongside battlefield heroes in school curricula.

6 | Where WooWoo Comes In

If consciousness shapes reality, then collective fixation on conflict keeps manifesting it. Each generation reenacts the same battlefield archetype, like a karmic playlist stuck on repeat. Flipping the script is a ritual act: measure the trance, name it, imagine another timeline—and act.

Share your lineage-loop story

How many links of war are in your family chain? Drop a comment, or tag @WooWooHunters with a photo of the oldest service memorabilia in your house and the question you’re now asking about it.

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