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A Few Thoughts Regarding the FBI Raid of Donald Trump’s Home
I think this is a really, really big deal. The party in power is using the power of the government they now control to destroy their political adversaries. Oh my God. This has my head spinning, a bit. Here’s a few thoughts that have come to mind in the 10 minutes since I heard about the FBI raid:
- Oh my God.
- They didn’t raid the Clintons or the Bidens, despite their obvious criminal activities. The Democrats in our government know that this is an obvious double standard, which will be quickly pointed out by many. I find it terrifying that they don’t care. They apparently feel that it no longer matters what anyone thinks. As if elections don’t matter anymore. I wonder if they’re right?
- This is an open threat to anyone who might consider criticizing a Democrat, anywhere. We can destroy a President of the United States. We can certainly destroy you.
- I suspect that popular support for Mr. Trump running for President again just jumped. By a lot.
- I also suspect that the FBI knows that this will make Mr. Trump more popular and will broaden his support. They wouldn’t do this, unless they thought they could control elections.
- It’s possible (although unlikely, I think) that Mr. Trump goaded the FBI into raiding his home somehow. Appeared to withhold evidence, that he could later show that they already had, or something like that. He may have wanted this showdown, to elevate his popular support. Again, I doubt that, but I suppose it’s possible.
- I used to laugh at people who predicted that America would break up into two or more countries in the near future. Then, I didn’t laugh, but I still thought that was insane. Now, I see no other way to save something that is vaguely like America. Lord help us.
- The problem is that that will never happen. It’s just impossible, I think. But once our government can select its own leaders, and persecute its political opponents, then that fundamentally changes the relationship between citizens and their government. Once government has that much power, it cannot be changed except by force. Which, again, I just cannot imagine happening.
It will be interesting to see who defends Mr. Trump. We’re about to learn a great deal about various Republican leaders. I suspect that we won’t like what we learn.- This is a really big deal. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God…
I fear what we are going to learn. If Mitch doesn’t come down hard on this, if Mitt weasels, and so and so forth, it is hard to know why we are voting even if they would let the count be accurate.
Here is my take. Texas tried leaving the United States once and it didn’t work none too well. And Kurt Schlichter is right when he says the the continent is too small for a based nation of sane people and a woke, fascist nation. When the balloon goes up the answer is obvious. This time around Texas has to fight to preserve the Union and liberate those in the slave states. And deal with the fascists in this country the way we dealt with the fascists in Europe and Asia back in the 1940s.
Dr. B, and you were one of the first to only, oh, so mildly hint that elections were to be a thing of the past. YES! They wouldn’t do this (and many other things) unless they knew elections were no longer a real thing.
I think you are wrong on that. They may think elections are no longer a real thing, but I suspect they will find subverting them more difficult and more dangerous than they realize. There are too many guns in this country to blithely ignore the will of the people, however easy it looks inside blue bubbles.
Doc, I believe your Points 3 and 9 are especially relevant.
Point 3. I believe that anyone with a functioning brain will realize the dangers to the average citizen. I’d be willing to bet that firearms (and ammo) will be flying off store shelves for the rest of the month.
Point 9. If the usual suspects in the Republican Party begin to equivocate, they should be strongly encouraged to resign or change parties. There’s simply no reason to keep them around.
As they say, when the comms go offline, find something communist and destroy it.
I agree that classical Civil War scenarieaux are highly improbably even in the event of a break. Still, there’s a lot of unpleasant ground between where we were “yesterday” and that easily understood point — all of it murky. And we are now in it.
I kept trying to make this a longer comment. Gosh, there’s a lot to say. But it’s been said. Sure, it’s a five-alarm fire. But it’s a five alarm fire in a burning city.
When the comms go offline, find something communist and destroy it.
When has Mitt done anything but weasel?
The Dems better not want a civil war. It won’t be like the last one. People can go down to the voter registration office and get a list of who is registered in the other party. It would not be a few redneck MAGAs against tanks and fighters like they think. It wouldn’t be two countries fighting each other like in our last civil war. It wouldn’t even be states against states, but people against people. These Democrats are insane. All those who voted for Trump must realize they feel the same about all of us. How long before they get our voter registration lists and send armed IRS agents to our houses. Beginning to think those IRS agents aren’t all auditors.
The Dems crossed the redline when they fabricated a reason to impeach Trump the first time.
It is not who votes, or for whom they vote for. The real issue is who counts the votes and provides the tallies which are deemed final, and above reproach. Hah!
They did it blatantly, openly, without fear, 2 years ago. What they learned then is how to refine and perfect their subterfuge and cheating ways, knowing the nice Republicans and judges won’t lift a finger to stop it. I like to refer to them as our “special friends”.
Are you still that naive to think future elections will count?
Is it naive to think that Trump, if indicted on some “Trumped up” charge would receive a fair jury trial? Perhaps they can reseat Bannon’s jury for that.
Why bother; just have the J6 committee add a prime time night to convict him live for the 800,000 that might watch.
Fair point.
I will be checking my inventory of self-defense ammo. You know, about 10 years ago I was in a military surplus store and asked why he was selling Howitzer tubes. He said people wanted them for burying stuff. I thought it was silly then. Now? Too bad the store closed.
But he looks so good doing it…
Yugoslavia and Bosnia come to mind.
You might want a little supply chain disruption emergency food.
https://mypatriotsupply.com/
Yes, a soft response from Mitch may as well say, “Stay home during midterms.” You almost anticipate such a thing will come up, that thing that sours voter enthusiasm for Republicans.
It would matter a lot less had the caucuses and campaign committees put forth an agenda, but, of course, they’re doing it Beltway style (no promises to be responsible for).
Yes, guns are the opposite of elections. Guns may happen when elections stop, but they already have stopped. You will likely see this again in November, but it will be only by word of mouth. Posting about it on youtube or facebook or twitter will not happen.
There is a great deal that is unknown at this point and I’m very reluctant to draw too many hard conclusions. The FBI has repeatedly shown themselves to be corrupt and up to their eyeballs in perfidy. I’m happy to draw hard conclusions about that. But what the raid is actually about — it’s too soon to tell.
But for the sake of argument, let’s assume it’s entirely political and a miscarriage of justice. We need to ask then what they hope to accomplish.
My husband heard they were after classified. When Trump was President, he could declassify whatever he wanted. I wonder what they were really after, perhaps just on excuse.
Pretext all the way. The president can declassify anything except statutorily classified info which IIRC is limited to nuclear weapons. So there is no there there. So this was an opportunity to intimidate, and possibly plant evidence. I have zero trust in anything DOJ says about the why and results of the raid.
that’s what I fear too
Was Trump’s lawyer present?
According to Eric Trump none of the President’s lawyers were permitted to observe the search and seizures.
But of course not. Can’t have Constitutional protections in the new commie utopia..
Given the shenanigans with the dossier, with the laptop, with the “Alfa Bank backchannel,” they face the likelihood that any “evidence” they uncover will be hooted at.
The day has come. The next time an FBI agent is put under oath for a trial, he’s going to hear laughter. From the jury box.
It has always been heading this way. It is why I have always been a card carrying dues paying Democrat. This is why I have refused to purchase Trump stuff or publicly support him. It may be time to leave this forum in order to survive what is coming. Time to find a hole and get in it and pull in the hole.
The CIA does have the ability to plant classified documents or child p0rn evidence on any computer.
Can I have some of what ever it is you are smoking? Because that has got to be some serious %hit! Happy Hallucinogens!
I’ve said this here for some time. The next civil war won’t be two nation-states against each other. It’ll be Yugoslavia and the Troubles writ large.
And if the military comes into play, well, all those tank drivers and aircraft pilots have families who will be seen as fair game. G-d help us.
My guess is that there was only one copy of some group of documents because all other copies were deleted/destroyed. And Trump had the documents and they were very bad for the FBI and/or some other alphabet agency. Probably several.