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When Can We Call It a Cabal?
One of my favorite TV shows is “Blacklist.” yes, it is bloody, sordid, and unbelievable at times, but it’s TV. One aspect of the show focuses on an international cabal, whose leadership is still in question. But who needs TV? I hate to sound paranoid, but I think that Obama formed his own cabal. Was he the one to start it, or are we only seeing its latest iteration? Is George Soros behind all of these plans?
When you have people like Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, John Brennan, James Clapper, Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, James Comey, Adam Schiff, Susan Rice, and Samantha Powers clearly violating government policies for the same end, it makes one wonder what in the world is happening. Whose names have I forgotten? Do you think there is a person in charge of all of these people? Is there more of a plan than just getting rid of Donald Trump in the short term? Or is there a long-term diabolical outcome planned?
Someone please tell me I’m nuts, and this isn’t all happening.
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For those of you who missed it, there’s this from Basil:
A Washington, D.C. Democratic lawmaker is apologizing after posting a video in which he blamed late-winter snow on Jewish bankers.
“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” Trayon White Sr., who sits on the city council, said in the video. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”
He did apologize later. Right.
Yes. But I just heard on Fox News that he will still collect most of his pension with slight delay in distribution. Anyone seen anything in the news on that?
I’m not “editing” this list, @stephenmolasky, so have at it!
Yeah, I figured that out just as I posted it–doh. Let’s see, Andrew something-or-other . . .
I spoke out with the desire for clarity and accuracy: if it’s a cabal, I want/need those facts to come out so we can make at least some effort to bring people to justice. On the other hand, the idea of an organized cabal is truly frightening.
Getting fired doesn’t mean you forfeit your pension, to which you contributed while you were working. McCabe will not be entitled to an immediate early law enforcement annuiity, but will be entitled to a deferred annuity when he reaches regular retirement age.
So the penalty for his breaking the law is a deferred annuity? Or is not following the code of conduct legal?
The penalty for violating workplace standards of conduct is that you get fired from your job using administrative procedures. The penalty for breaking the law is that you get prosecuted using criminal procedures. Two different standards of proof. McCabe has been fired for violating workplace standards. If he’s also suspected of violating criminal statutes, he can be prosecuted for that using criminal procedures.
Thanks so much for explaining the difference !
Susan reading your post and the comments reminds me of Witness by Whittaker Chambers. The conspiracy he laid out was truly jaw dropping. A combination of active Communist Party members & their fellow travelers embedded in the government and subverting U.S. policy to that of the U.S.S.R.
I don’t know if much has changed in 70 years. The Soviet Union may be gone but the mind virus that it was infected with is alive and well.
How dare you besmirch the hard-working agents of the FBI, Susan Quinn! Have you no decency?
Thanks for your comment, @tribbey. Do you believe this is all exaggerated or that it might have some credibility? I tend to be the down-to-earth type, so I’m fine with being called to task. Recently hearing about the outrageous efforts to murder two ex-spies in England suggests they may still be a danger.
Probably not, @bloodthirstyneocon. But you knew that.
@bloodthirstyneocon, I do feel bad that the rank-and-file are smeared with this ugliness, when it appears that the PTB are the guilty ones. Then again, how can we be sure?
Be careful that you don’t incur the wrath of the NT’s. They don’t like it when Trump is cast as the victim.
@susanquinn I think it’s probably a combination of planning (by some actors, not all) and what Bob Ross called “happy accidents”.
If you think you are on the “right side of history” and uniformity of thought is a feature, not a bug, it’s not surprising you end up all pulling in the same direction.
Your post also reminded me of the infamous “JournoList”. I was almost surprised when it was uncovered because I didn’t think a group of people in such ideological lockstep needed to review their talking points before publishing.
What’s even more ridiculous is that the JournoList 2.0 was called … the Cabalist!
Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen Sebelius, Ben Rhodes, “Conservative” Chief Justice John Roberts, Olympia “When history calls, history calls” Snowe…(more as I think of them)
Bart Stupak, John Kerry, Ezekiel Emanuel…
Candidate Trump said ‘There’s something terribly wrong going on and somebody has to do something’. We see what he was talking about and what a formidable task he has undertaken.
If you see this as a Trump-specific thing you are standing much too close. Trump is an unexpected thorn that amounts to a slightly more than minor irritant during their long progressive march. Getting rid of him would be nice but stalling, distracting, and wasting as much of his (relatively) little time is really more of what the game is all about. They will gnash their teeth and cause great commotion with every little thing he does for four or eight years but, even in the first few hours after-Trump, they will openly laugh in our faces at just how easy it was for them and their army of useful idiots to frustrate every moment, every issue, every day with charade after bogus charade just to force him to bleed off as much political capital as possible.
Trump has made it interesting so far, displaying a certain amount of antifragility to this game, but don’t expect that to last. At best, his game clock is very limited. When that expires our other two parties will simply lick their wounds and resume the march.
Yes, you are naive. Trump had nothing to do with the left’s ongoing efforts to reduce America to another big socialist state, run by them. Like your last paragraph says, the left here is the left everywhere. They hate us for our success and our freedom, and all that they do is intended to weaken and subvert us.
Give me one policy, appointment or treaty that Bill Clinton or B Hussein Obama promulgated, which had as its goal the strengthening of America, the improvement of our international status, the increasing of our people’s freedom. I defy you to find even one.
These guys love themselves and hate America. That fact, you can take to the bank.
The one I really can’t stand, mainly because her condescending voice makes my skin crawl: Susan Rice
Agree on Rice, among the worst of the deep state. Which begs the question- who would be the single best representative of the deep state? It’s tough to narrow it down to one name.
I’m just happy to idea of a deep state is beginning to take hold with the American people, maybe folks are waking up?
Let’s not forget Rahm!
This is important. It’s tempting to be part of the movement, to be part of the gang, to feel that you’re doing your part. Tempting–and corrupting.
I also think they are genuinely frightened that their work is being uncovered. My hope is that through their fear they will take foolish steps and make it even easier to discover what else they’re up to, @philo.
I agree!
I think there’s a good chance that it’s George Soros and his organizations. Or it’s likely someone who stays out of the limelight. Everyone else carries the water for that person.
I once loved it. It’s worn out its welcome.
Susan,
I think, in some ways, the whole ruling class is a big cabal. They go to the same schools, they marry each other, they all live in the same circles. Oh, people like to deride the “Georgetown cocktail parties”, but that is a shorthand for what is going on. They swim in water they cannot see because they swim in it. Everyone outside is deplorable in some way. This is not a party thing, but a class thing. And is is not a class thing in the American sense of who has money, but in a more social standing. Trump is not part of their class and never will be.
I don’t think Sam Walton would have been either.