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Required Reading
Powerline’s Scott Johnson has this brief, outstanding summary of the greatest political scandal in our nation’s history up today. This is absolutely required reading.
At the time, I thought Fast & Furious was the greatest political scandal in our history. Getting American law enforcement officers killed with weapons that our own government sold to criminal gangs in a foreign country in an effort to change popular opinion sufficiently to demand that we change the 2nd Amendment of our own Constitution. Holy Toledo.
But this scandal, in which officials of our own government attempt to overturn an election by using the power of their unelected offices, with active assistance from the media – my God. When appointed bureaucrats decide that they consent to democracy only when it goes their way, then how far are we from typical third world socialism?
At first, I thought the term “Deep State” was a bit overwrought. I was wrong. This is not hyperbole. This is an immediate threat to freedom and democracy around the world (imagine the world without American democracy). This ends either with one party rule, or it ends with torches and pitchforks. Unless our government successfully excises this “Deep State” cancer, which is now widely metastatic. Regardless, I think this is enormously important, and I don’t see how it can end well. Somebody, please tell me I’m over-reacting. Please?
Published in General
Just as an aside: I have read that frogs will indeed jump out of a slowly heating pot, when the water gets warm enough. Given their cold-blooded nature, that kind of makes sense.
(That doesn’t mean, of course, that the utility of the analogy is diminished.)
You don’t really think you’ll get an answer to this question (or similar) here on the internet, do you? (From anyone with a clue, that is.)
McCabe is inside a bubble of the Senior Executive Service people.
Although at time American intelligence media is not credible, in their reporting on Senior Executive Services, they are spot on. Some 8,000 entrenched bureaucrats participate in and run Washington DC’s Fed agencies. Close to 6,5000 of them were appointed by Obama.
This is how we arrive at vast sums of Fed money being sent out to states like New Jersey to offset the expenses of newly arrived immigrants. That way the libs in New Jersey can tell themselves: “See, it doesn’t cost us a thing – Washington DC sends us Fed money to pay for the expenses.”
I confess I owe my very life to Michael Savage. His over the top, angry beyond par, discussions combined with ear splitting volume kept me awake many dark nights when driving home after working two shifts back to back and barely having had any sleep.
Yes.
Laws are for the proles.
The fact that Hillary is still walking free should make that clear.
What about Obama’s unprecedented war on whistleblowers? A lot of the people prosecuted were journalists, i.e. part of the government.
Obama even chided Glenn Greenwald for being concerned about the supra-Surveillance state that was created under Clapper and revealed by Ed Snowden. Obama stated, “You are the last person who would need to worry about any of this.” He basically was trying to stop Greenwald from bringing attention to the tremendous type of power such Surveillance has over journalists, but Obama wanted him to think that with such credentials as he had, making him legit, he wouldn’t ever suffer.
Not too long after that, his life partner was detained while entering or leaving Great Britain, in a way that made it all too obvious it was the Deep State attempting to intimidate Greenwald. Both men now reside in Brazil.
I didn’t know that. Interesting.
I try not to worry about “likes” and it’s mostly pretty easy, because my primary reasons for being on social media are self education and psychotherapeutic acting out. I’m trying to learn stuff and think better. I’m trying to figure out how the world actually works and what really creates a fair and prosperous world. Everything else is very secondary.
That’s what I mean when I say a see-saw is most precarious when you’re trying to balance in the middle and little added weight one side or the other can accelerate things quickly out of control. I do think there’s an off chance of right-wing anger and violence, but a very, very small chance. That’s why I’m hoping someone can step forward, ideally the president, and calm, direct, mitigate, inspire and unite people of various not-far-leftist thinking to call for a rule of law and a return to sanity.
This seems to me to be the best if not the only way to go forward. A Martin Luther King or a John Kennedy or a … never mind.
I understand your point of view, but I’m not sure that to lose their jobs, be ostracized, get bad grades, etc isn’t just another wet blanket on a spark of reformation that will never allow anything to take place. I doubt I’ll ever be able to endorse any kind of violence (though the process that brought us the US was violent for sure) but how many Nakoula Bassely Nakoulas and Dinesh D’Souzas do we need getting locked up or sent to prison on trumped up charges before some form of overt reformational effort is begun? All of us?
Lois Lerner (IRS attack dog) was the final straw for me. Is she getting a gov. pension? If so I bet it is ‘healthy.’
it’s outrageous. The IRS adds negative value. Wipe it out.
And you’ll never see her name even mentioned in regard to this whole affair.
Ironically, Hillary has little to fear (from the law) so long as the GOP holds control in DC. They can be counted on to do nothing. What she should fear is the Dems taking over with a Leftist cabal, who, like Stalin, will start to tie up inconvenient loose ends. That’s when the knock on the door from the Feds will happen for Ms. Clinton.
Wouldn’t that be an odd form of justice.
You make me wonder what would be justice. Maybe being confined to her mansion in Chappaqua confined only with Bill shuffling around in his house robe, with no servants at her call with a snap of her fingers, “Gum, gum!” and a continuously playing recording of her introduction at the DNC primary convention “And Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States!” followed by a laugh track, over and over again for eternity.
This is ok, but real justice would also include having the “Energizer Bunny” (IYKWIMAITTYD) exercising conjugal visits with Bill.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Flicker.
However, the nation has been under the direction of the CIA for quite some time. Until Trump assumed the nation’s highest office, every single candidate for the Oval Office and every single Pres. since 1988 has either directly been involved in the CIA, or else been willing to have as advisers people from the Council for Foreign Relations, the World Bank, the IMF and on and on. H Clinton was actually a member of the CFR, or at least so closely connected that during one speech she mentioned her happiness in the CFR’s office being so close to hers.
The PTB, both here and world wide, love to have dissonance & actual violence taking place unchecked. For instance, in Israel, since early 1980’s to 1992, at least 18 moderate political parties attempted to come into existence. Some were groups under Palestinian citizens; some were groups under Israeli citizens. In all instances, the groups were destroyed through assassination. The assassinations were usually blamed on the PLO or other radical Palestinian groups, but it is believed that it is just as likely that the neo con leaders in Israel had a hand in some assassinations.
Since Trump was elected in Nov 2016, the media has helped the New Left create such a divisive society that people can no longer talk to one another, unless they hold identical political beliefs. The hope that any type of moderate behavior or belief can be encouraged in our society is as slim as what has occurred in Israel. The serious breach of the firewall between our secret police and the media is no longer even well hidden – a person can turn on any of the Sunday afternoon round table discussions and see Clapper or others of his ilk addressing how our nation needs to proceed as though Clapper were just an ordinary guy.
This and everything related to it is a menace.
Yes, it’s pretty well gone. But I just can’t give up any and all hope. My hope is so tenuous I would be willing to start talking about the original Watchmen comic book. In it a plan was hatched to save the world by uniting it against an existential threat from outer space. A US leader of today (probably in Venezuela too, for example) could give a stunning, scary TEOTWAWKI speech, and scare people into doing the right thing, explaining that further divisions will kill us all and starve the survivors (so to speak) and we better get our act together culturally and spiritually. Maybe it’ll work. Not too Likely. Even getting the message out would be technologically very hard.
Other than that it’s chickens and well water on a couple acres in the country, at best. I’m probably one of the few here who thinks this way. But it’s at best going to be very primitive.
Fortunately it’s not a conspiracy. :)