Ah, politics in America—the grand spectacle where the powerful pretend to serve the people while sharpening their knives for anyone who dares disagree. It’s like a bad family reunion: everyone’s smiling, but Aunt IRS is auditing your socks off, Uncle DOJ is slapping cuffs on your opinions, and Cousin FBI is peeking through your blinds. From a center-right, America First vantage point, this isn’t just bureaucracy gone wild; it’s the deep state flexing its muscles to crush the little guy who loves low taxes, strong borders, and questioning the status quo. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, those paragons of “hope” and “build back better,” turned federal agencies into political hit squads. Let’s dive into the muck, shall we? Because nothing says “democracy” like using taxpayer dollars to kneecap your critics.
The Obama IRS: Tea Party? More Like Target Practice
Back in the halcyon days of 2010, when the Tea Party was brewing up a storm against big government overreach, the IRS decided to play bartender—with a side of poison. It all kicked off right after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling on January 21, 2010, which loosened campaign finance rules and sent Democrats into a tizzy about conservative cash flowing freely. Suddenly, IRS agents in Cincinnati started flagging tax-exempt applications from groups with names including words like “Tea Party,” “Patriots,” or anything smelling of limited government zeal.
By March 2010, managers were directing employees to scrutinize these outfits extra hard. Lois Lerner, the IRS bigwig in charge of exempt organizations, got wind of it by April 19, 2010, via a “Sensitive Case Report.” Applications piled up, delayed for months or years, while the IRS demanded absurd details—like donor lists, meeting minutes, even prayers recited at events. Some groups waited over 1,000 days; others just threw in the towel, unable to fundraise or organize without that precious 501(c)(4) status.
The scandal erupted publicly on May 10, 2013, when Lerner admitted during a speech that yes, the IRS had been playing favorites—or rather, playing dirty. She invoked the Fifth Amendment before Congress, refusing to testify. Investigations followed: By June 2014, reports showed the IRS had targeted hundreds of conservative groups, far more than liberal ones. The results? A chilling effect on grassroots conservatism, with the Tea Party movement hobbled just as midterm elections loomed. The IRS coughed up settlements totaling millions—$3.5 million to one batch of groups in 2017 alone. Lerner retired on September 23, 2013, with a full pension, no charges filed. And in a fresh twist from 2025, the IRS finally axed Holly Paz, another key player in the mess, on grounds tied to the old targeting fiasco. Justice delayed, but hey, better late than never—unless you’re one of the groups that got steamrolled.
It’s classic Obama-era sleight of hand: Promise transparency, deliver audits. If you’re a conservative nonprofit dreaming of fiscal responsibility, you’re suddenly Public Enemy No. 1. America First means putting Americans before the swamp, but here the swamp was draining conservative wallets dry.
Biden’s DOJ and FBI: From Law and Order to Lawfare and Disorder
Fast-forward to the Biden years, and the weaponization went from tax forms to tactical raids. Starting in 2021, the Department of Justice and FBI ramped up operations that smelled less like justice and more like payback. Take the school board saga: In September 2021, after parents protested COVID policies and critical race theory in classrooms, the National School Boards Association begged the feds for help. By October 4, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo directing the FBI to investigate these “threats”—labeling upset moms and dads as potential domestic terrorists. Agents showed up at homes, chilling free speech faster than a winter in Delaware.
Then there’s the big one: Operation Arctic Frost, an FBI probe launched around August 2020 but supercharged under Biden. By 2025 revelations, it targeted 92 Republican organizations and individuals, including Turning Point USA, the Republican National Committee, and even churches. The FBI snooped on financial records, issued subpoenas, and treated conservative activism as “domestic extremism.” Whistleblowers spilled in 2025 that this was no random fishing expedition—it was a dragnet for political foes. In one jaw-dropper, the FBI grabbed tolling data from the personal cell phones of eight Republican senators as part of the probe, all tied to challenges over the 2020 election mess.
The results? Intimidation galore. Groups like Turning Point USA faced subpoenas that drained resources and scared off donors. The DOJ coordinated with state prosecutors to hammer Trump with indictments—four federal ones alone by August 2023—while burying Hunter Biden dirt. Raids on Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, felt like a scene from a bad spy thriller, with agents rifling through Melania’s wardrobe for “classified” docs that Biden himself stashed in his garage without a peep. And the IRS? It got beefed up with 87,000 new agents in 2022 via the Inflation Reduction Act, only to leak Trump’s tax returns in 2023 and audit conservatives at suspiciously high rates.
Biden’s crew turned the feds into a partisan battering ram, suppressing stories like the Hunter laptop (deemed “disinformation” by 51 intel officials in October 2020) and pressuring Big Tech to censor COVID skeptics. The outcome: Eroded trust in institutions, with conservatives feeling like they’re in a banana republic where disagreeing with the regime gets you a dawn raid.
Fresh Dirt from 2024 and 2025: The Hits Keep Coming
Just when you thought the swamp was drained, 2024 and 2025 unearthed more gems. A House Select Subcommittee report in December 2024 detailed how the Biden-Harris admin weaponized everything from the FBI to the EPA against opponents, including coordinating censorship with Meta (Zuckerberg admitted it in August 2024). Whistleblowers in 2025 revealed the FBI’s Arctic Frost as “worse than Watergate,” with documents showing deliberate targeting of Republicans to “undermine investigations.”
In September 2025, Sen. Chuck Grassley dropped bombshells: The FBI spied on those eight senators, and the probe was a blatant political hit job echoing Obama’s IRS antics. Even the DOJ got called out for plotting to pin election challenges on Trump via Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose August 2023 charges were built on this shaky foundation. And in a poetic twist, the IRS finally canned that lingering Obama-era figure in 2025, admitting the old wounds still fester.
These revelations paint a picture of systemic abuse: Over a decade of feds playing favorites, costing millions in settlements, investigations, and lost freedoms. Polls from 2025 show 62% of Americans believe the DOJ is politicized—up from 48% in 2021—proving the rot runs deep.
In the end, this Obama-Biden legacy isn’t “change we can believe in”—it’s chains we can’t escape. America First demands a government that serves, not surveils. Until we dismantle this machine, we’ll keep getting audited, raided, and censored. As for me, I’d rather laugh at the absurdity than cry over the tyranny. Pass the popcorn; the show’s just getting started.