Oh, the irony! The absolute, mind-melting irony of an administration issuing an executive order—a unilateral decree, mind you—on ending the so-called weaponization of the Federal Government while simultaneously using the full weight of that same federal government to conduct a political inquisition. This is a textbook example of gaslighting on a national scale.

Let’s break this down. The order claims that the previous administration (we all know who they mean) engaged in a “systematic campaign” to crush its political enemies through investigations and prosecutions. Yet, this entire executive order is just a thinly veiled attempt to weaponize the federal government even further—but now under the guise of “justice” and “accountability.” You can almost hear the bureaucratic cogs whirring as government lawyers desperately search for anything that even remotely looks like political persecution—unless, of course, it’s the current administration doing the persecuting. Because, apparently, government overreach is only bad when it’s someone else doing it.

And can we talk about the sheer hypocrisy baked into this nonsense? The order bemoans the Department of Justice prosecuting over 1,500 individuals for January 6, as if storming the U.S. Capitol—attacking police officers, disrupting democracy, and chanting for the execution of elected officials—is the same thing as a peaceful protest. Meanwhile, it throws in a gratuitous jab about how the government supposedly "dropped nearly all cases against BLM rioters." First off, this is blatantly false. Second, what’s the message here? That crimes committed by one political faction should be ignored, but another group—who conveniently supports the administration—should get a free pass? That’s not justice. That’s corruption.

And let’s not forget the deliberate vagueness of this order. The Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence are tasked with conducting some nebulous four-year review of agency activities, searching for actions that were "contrary to the purposes and policies of this order." What exactly does that mean? Are we talking about legitimate investigations into fraud and corruption? Court-approved indictments based on real evidence? Or are we just going to cherry-pick cases that make the previous administration look bad while conveniently ignoring abuses of power by the current one?

This order reeks of a partisan fishing expedition. It’s not about justice. It’s not about fairness. It’s about retroactive revenge—an authoritarian attempt to rewrite the past to justify even greater abuses in the future. If anything, this escalates the weaponization of government under the guise of preventing it.

And don’t even get me started on the chilling effect this will have on future law enforcement actions. This order essentially tells every prosecutor, every FBI agent, and every SEC investigator: Be careful what cases you pursue—because if the political winds shift, you could be the next target. That is not how justice works. That is not how a democracy functions. That is how an authoritarian regime consolidates power.

In the end, this executive order is nothing more than a bureaucratic hit job disguised as a reform. It doesn’t end the so-called weaponization of government—it institutionalizes it under the current administration’s control.

If there’s any weapon here, it’s this executive order—a loaded gun pointed directly at the rule of law.