Screw the Blue

Washington D.C., where power slithered through the marbled corridors like a serpent, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto wore a smile sharper than any blade. To the public, she was a beacon of progress.

But behind closed doors, Masto was something else entirely–a co-architect of a movement that had warped into something darker, something corrosive. It had a name now, whispered in the shadows—”Screw the Blue.”

Years earlier, under the guise of justice and reform, Masto and her inner circle within the political elite had fueled a campaign that started as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. But this was no grassroots cry for equity—it was a carefully constructed engine of chaos designed to weaken law enforcement, destroy public trust, and let criminal elements fill the vacuum.

And it had worked.

Retailers from Reno to Rochester were besieged not by protestors but by slick, well-organized crews that moved like ghosts. In coordinated waves, stores got hit, inventory vanished without a trace, and whole supply chains buckled.

The media blamed “societal unrest,” the public never guessing that the very woman calling for the rule of law was one of those who had helped sow the seeds of disorder. But now, with the nation teetering on the edge, Masto played her next hand.

Standing beside the silver-haired Senator Chuck Grassley—an aging figurehead used for credibility—she unveiled the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025. On paper, it looked noble–a bipartisan bill to crack down on theft, restore order, and empower law enforcement.

But, deep in the legislation’s language were clauses only her people understood—loopholes, backdoors, and layers of oversight stacked so high that actual enforcement would smother under bureaucracy. Her centerpiece? The creation of an Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center housed within the Department of Homeland Security.

It sounded promising, but Masto knew what it was—a clearinghouse for federal control. A surveillance net not just over criminals but over every small business, every local police force, and every warehouse that dared to operate without the federal bureaucracy’s blessing.

“Large criminal organizations are constantly evolving,” she declared with a polished smile during the press conference. “This bill will give law enforcement the tools they need to adapt.”

But those who truly listened and remembered the ghost towns of boarded-up shops and hollowed-out neighborhoods—heard the chilling ring of irony. The woman who’d helped unleash the chaos was now selling the cure, and the price was power.

As cameras flashed and applause echoed, Masto turned her gaze not to the crowd but to the darkened corners behind it. There, her real allies waited—lobbyists with encrypted phones, operatives who dealt in data and disinformation, and party loyalists who had never forgotten the mantra–“Screw the Blue.”

Now, it was time to tighten the grip.