#administrativehaunting

Tariffs are not strategy. They are ideology with a price tag. The pain is real—job losses, inflation, shattered supply chains. The gain? An imagined nationalism, branded and brokered.

She says she’d rather suffer. But history says she won’t. Not really. Not like the workers laid off. Not like the single mother with rising grocery bills. Not like the people whose labor built the system being “restructured.”

This is not economic policy. It is ritual austerity—suffering as a moral offering. Pain as patriotism. Harm as heritage.

Elon Musk speaks of Ghost Payments—millions flowing into dead ends, zombie contracts, corporate coffins. But this is no glitch. This is the ritual of American empire: Money must move, even if no one remembers why.

A contracting officer dies. A company receives checks long after relevance. No service, no accountability, just the silent drip of treasury blood.

This is not fraud. It’s the economic séance of late capitalism—paying ghosts to keep the illusion of function. An entire economy built on inertia and absence.

What is the Pentagon but a temple of ghost payments? What is the surveillance state but a ghost program? What is governance now but a haunted spreadsheet?