There are two major motion pictures coming out this year that feature the FBI. One is Killers of the Flower Moon about the beginning of the FBI, and the other is Oppenheimer, about the end, more or less, of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI. He lasted until 1972 but most see the collapse of it around the time of the McCarthy era. Oppenheimer was a Communist, or at least a sympathizer, but they still did him wrong, I think.
The FBI is now exposed for acting like the private police for the Democrats in battling Trump. They helped Hillary try to defeat Trump. They helped discredit and destroy Trump’s presidency, and of course, they likely orchestrated the Capitol riot.
The brave whistle-blowers who came forward to tell Congress that their lives have been ruined for standing up for the truth. They did not go along with the government’s weaponizing of the FBI to hunt down so-called “domestic extremists,” and they know there was more to January 6th than the public was told. Because, of course, there was.
I was a Biden voter back then, and even I knew there was no plan to attack the Capitol, much less launch a coup or an “insurrection.” Every time I hear that word, I want to break glass. It’s so hard for me to watch people who seem reasonably intelligent, like Bill Maher, so easily manipulated. But hey, nobody does it better than the FBI.
So do you think the Democrats on the panel cared about the truth? Or do you think they played the role of Defense Counsel for the FBI? Hm. Gee, I wonder!
I really hate linking to Fox but so few media outlets will cover this story, and Tucker Carlson is not yet on the air.
Every American should be disgusted by the actions of the FBI against these agents. But of course, the powerful will pretend it didn’t happen.
Speaking of Jim Jordan, I am in Ohio and about to pick up my daughter for her birthday. More later.
The more we learn about the true workings of the FBI, the more we realize they’ve been corrupt to the core for decades. I think the appropriate question is more like “when were they NOT corrupt?”. It appears they have been rotten to the core from day one and have been nothing more than a Stasi for the “ruling class” all along. We Americans have always thought of ourselves as having a moral high ground…seems we were duped and have been no better than some of those countries we criticized all along. #DisbandThe FBI, and while we’re at it, #DisbandTheCIA
PS - I have zero respect the the great majority of agents as well or they would be standing up en masse to protest just like the Whistleblowers! This is exactly the same as the doctors and clinicians who chose to remain silent over Covid and the mRNA shots.
Yes, there is discussion of getting rid of the leadership, but that does not go far enough. The FBI cancer has metastasized. The whole organization is corrupt, and those who are not corrupt are complicit in the evil. Hand the FBI's duties off to the states where we have more control and shut it down.
Exactly! As far as I’m concerned, and many others like me, they are all implicated. It’s no longer the upper echelon. This type of corruption trickles down throughout an organization. It’s engrained in the corporate culture after all these years. Twitter is a perfect example. Is it any wonder pretty much day one, Musk dumped thousands of employees?
Bad. He fired James Comey and the filth responded with a two year legal blitz against him effectively tying his arms leading to Impeachment I and II for nothing other than trying to cripple an effective president.
The message was sent: F*ck with the eternal government and you will be lawfared to death and we will use any means necessary(Covid ballots) to kick you out of office.
I’ve known they’re corrupt most of my life, from their involvement in Malcolm X murder and the assasination of Fred Hampton, the leader of the Black Panthers. And the CIA is even worse. The book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man was a real eye opener.
They always have been. Maybe they cleaned up their act for a while after the Church hearings, but 9/11 was their “in” to get back to Hoover’s favorite activity: domestic surveillance and political hackery, with the usual shameless self-promotion.
FBIers sold their soul for their next government paycheck and pension. Traitors are surprisingly cheaply bought. Journalists are even more cheaply bought; usually just a wink, drink and whisper. Maher never had a soul so his character hasn’t diminished. Anyway, enjoy Ohio (LOL), would say visit me in Philly but I’d rather you stay alive and not get carjacked.
Do they even need to be bought though? I see them all -- especially the ones who were driving this within the FBI (Comey, McCabe, Stozk/Page, the Ohrs) -- as enthusiastic participants. Warriors for the Deep State sworn to protect it at all costs, damn the U.S. Constitution to which they are supposed to follow. I don't see anyone who involved at any level in this seemingly endless charade as having been coerced or otherwise forced do something against their will. Most of all the media, along with the fools who believe them.
This isn’t the first time the FBI was involved in trying to take down a President. As was suspected for years, “Deep Throat” was an asst director of the FBI- Mark Felt. In those days they hid in the background.
Nixon had just been re-elected in a landslide, but he had to be taken down to “save democracy”. Of course, his vice President resigned under a cloud. The result was that Gerald Ford, whom nobody voted for, became President of the US.
Indeed. JFK was the first Presidential casualty of the Deep State hit squad, followed by his younger brother and MLK. Nixon and Watergate represented a shift in tactics from corporeal to political assassination which persists to this day. All accomplished their goals.
Excellent. We also can't forget the Bulger crime family and the infamous John Connelly, nor the FBI framing Richard Jewell for the 1996 Olympic bombing, nor the many misses that could have/ should have been averted, like the Boston Marathon bombing, the Parkland school shooting, and the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Their record is pretty dismal, if you ask me. As far as Deep State influence, they're right up there with the CIA under Allen Dulles, and then under John Brennan. They need to go!
In 1976, 21-year old John Brennan supported and voted for the communist party because Jimmy Carter wasn't left-wing enough for him. When he applied for the CIA this was discussed during the interview. Not only was Brennan hired, he was fast-tracked to the top of the CIA.
I've said for several years that principled liberals are a nearly extinct species. Much of the Left no longer supports free speech (for their opponents) and they now don't oppose abuses by the FBI against whistleblowers. Almost all journalists are silent about this matter or - most of them - they favor these illiberal actions.
Question for all y'all. (I am not a lawyer or constitutional scholar myself.) Is the existence of the FBI constitutional? Is a federal police force called for under the powers granted to the United States by the constitution? If not, consider the tenth amendment:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Your question has merit. The international police agency in Lyon, France is not the INTERPOL of the movies. Instead it is a coordination program office for member state law enforcement organizations. Should federal presence be limited to coordinating enforcement? Shameless plug: I wrote an article recently on potential state takeovers of local law enforcement agencies including San Francisco, Austin, and Jackson, MS. "Major Police Agencies at Risk of Takeovers." https://open.substack.com/pub/peaceofficer/p/major-police-agencies-at-risk-of?r=1t4zwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Perhaps Vivek can save our sinking ship. I live on the northwest side of Chicago and was astonished to see that Vivek Ramaswamy is coming to Chicago for a Town Hall meeting on the south side where, as I’m sure he knows, most of these people voted for Brandon Johnson, a black, super Woke leftist totally committed to Sanctuary and to Equity. Vivek is totally opposed to both. This should be very interesting. He also does condemn the FBI for their corruption.
“Vivek Ramaswamy to Visit the South Side of Chicago for a Town Hall Meeting on Illegal Immigration.” (1 min)
The “power” in this country lies in the election process. As soon as they (Democrat party) got voter ID relaxed or removed, changed Election Day into election seasons, allowed mail-in voting for all, and allowed ballot harvesting; it was game-over.
As long as our bellies are full, and our minds distracted by digital devices and mental junk food and propaganda; there will be no revolution, no push back.
Exactly right. Democrats will be elected as long as they can print and hand out trillions of dollars. They’ll win 2024 but I doubt the Ponzi system can make it to 2026. I think by 2025 inflation will hit and stay north of 15%. The tipping point is when the sheeple spend all they have on a weekly basis since they fear their dollars will be even more worthless tomorrow. People seem to forget or not know that inflation has been over 15% in the US and can go over that by a lot.
I grew up in the 1970’s. I remember 20% mortgage rates. I tell younger people this and they either don’t believe me or worse, they do believe but blame Reagan instead of Carter and a Dem Congress.
Even then though, there was hope because the Democrats did not have control of the electoral process and had not yet begun to target white middle class voters with their not-so-subtle guilt campaigns.
Now they have completely convinced entire generations of Americans that they must accept obvious corruption of every institution of governance. Beginning with the electoral process itself! That was key.
I maintain that there must be one day and one day only for voting. Paper ballots and two tabulators at every polling place. Results announced within seconds after polls close.
If for any reason someone can not make it to the polls to vote, that’s too bad, better luck next year and try and plan ahead if it’s important to you.
Every time I bring up this subject in mixed company, I am told “what about this group?? or that group??? What about our state department and military men and women serving overseas??? Why do you want to “disenfranchise” these people??”
It’s all a smokescreen. It is tyranny of the minority. The people being disenfranchised are the majority of the American electorate. No one trusts the outcome of elections anymore on either side. So why not accept that 100% of all close elections go to the Democrat?? Every time? I mean it’s statistically impossible but whatever right?
I replied to this because it was about Vivek Ramaswamy. He is young, sharp as a tack, willing to walk right into the lion’s den and debate anyone, anytime, anywhere…and should be the face of the Republican Party moving forward. And RFK, Jr. Should be the face of the Democrat party.
Because the authoritarian Democrats have figured out how to guilt us into giving them the keys to the kingdom (the electoral process)…neither of those fine men will even be allowed to debate, yet alone be on the ballot.
That’s not true, the 2000 election was super close and came down to hanging chads and shenanigans in Florida, and ended up with Bush winning without a fight. Definitely rigged.
I was there I remember everything…2000 Florida was what broke the system. It was a close election and “the shenanigans” were on the side of the Democrats as they tried to cherry pick recounts in largely democrat leaning districts. If Fox News hadn’t called it 1st for Bush and then the actual Supreme Court of the United States had to step in and put a stop to the Democrats’ “shenanigans” it would have been like most recent elections where the counting goes on for days and days and somehow the Democrat always comes out on top. Guaranteed. The Dems learned from that incident, however, and perfected their “shenanigans”, did away with most paper ballots, got Americans used to the idea of early voting and mail-in voting, and long counting sessions that go on for days and sometimes weeks and further increased their hold onto media and culture so that when they finally announced their “selected winner democrat” that it would be very difficult to challenge or even question.
At least the Dems didn’t try to have Bush arrested or throw his supporters in gulags without trial for years…
Nowadays, we all know something is wrong. The statistics and the demographics tell us that 50% of these close elections should go for republicans but they do not. So some try to challenge the results and are labeled “election deniers!” Or some other BS doublespeak.
Meanwhile, an ever growing portion of the population no longer trusts the system.
Only a matter of time until the whole thing comes crashing down
You are right Eric. I’ve lived in Oregon since late 1990’s, and it’s been vote by mail since I arrived. For all major positions in government it is 1 party (D) that have won each and every election. Two cycles ago my R ballot was rejected because ballot evaluator deemed that my signature on mail in, no longer matched the one I submitted at original set up point, 20+ years ago. Okay, thru a bit of considerable effort cleared that up but was disenfranchised in the meantime.
Michigan passed laws letting non-profits that are purportedly "non partisan" take over local boards of election. They will make certain that ballots to the right households are delivered and the ballots returned and are counted. Ballots to non-Democrats will be disqualified or lost in process. The Dems learned their lesson in 2000...you control the distribution, collection, and counting of ballots and exclude anyone who might question the process. We are screwed.
I really like Vivek, but sadly he has zero chance of getting anywhere in US politics because he’s not “establishment” (i.e., The Uniparty). Best of British luck to him in Chi-town; hope he gets out of there alive.
I don’t think he could win but he could stir things up greatly in areas like the south side of Chicago where there is a great deal of anger over this ever worsening “migrant” issue. Who could have ever imagined we’d have a self-inflicted crisis like this to deal with? Truly bizarre. Truly insane. The democrats have already lost control of the monster they created for the sake of political gain.
Touché Sasha! You did it again....great piece on the supremely corrupt FBI! Watching the D’rats yesterday, it came abundantly clear that they were there solely to play block & tackle for the criminal FBI syndicate! The D’rats were disrespectful to these whistleblowers & embarrassed themselves going for their throats! Ironic how they were SO adamant about protecting their “anonymous” whistleblowers in their desperate attempts to “get Trump”, but now, whistleblowers don’t need protecting!
Sadly, I've given up on the hope that these institutions can be reformed. The FBI, CIA, NSA and mainstream media are bad. But, I think the Justice Department is the worst of the lot. Today, we have all of them working together to deceive the public, reward those who help them entrench themselves further, and punish anyone who threatens their grip on power.
Orwell said "Power is not a means; it is an end. . . . The object of power is power." That's what these institutions exist for: To perpetuate their own control.
In my opinion, the current situation is an incubator for mayhem -- something needs to seriously break before reform can happen. I don't pretend to know when or how, but I think most of us can feel it coming.
I totally agree. The flaw is in human nature. Here’s what the WSJ’s Holman Jenkins had to say about the Woke left in an article a few years ago: “The charge of ‘systemic racism’ is their obsession. Using the word rightly, however, ‘systemic’ in America has been our attempt to protect individual rights against the immoral chaos of nature, including human nature, from which all kinds of racial and other irrational hatred emerge. This may be a losing battle in the long run - nature will prevail, civilization won’t.”
In the police academy, when I revered the FBI an instructor asked me how many murders do they investigate per year? When he revealed that it was less than most major cities and most of the time they very restricted in foreign countries, my eyes were opened. Most citizens hold them up as enhanced police but my real experience is quite different. I'm very disappointed - they are still doing ABSCAM and DeLorean.
What chance does America have? Those of us that have been keeping up clearly see the corruption. However, I am afraid there are so few of us, that we cannot bring about change. Because of the complicit press, most of America will remain blissfully ignorant, parroting Alfred E. Newman saying, "What, Me worry!" I just don't know.
And yet they won’t! They’ve demonstrated pretty clearly that the great majority of our GOP members will do nothing. They’re simply UniParty shills who care more about APPEARING to do something than actually DOING something!
America is disintegrating and our whole world is in a tailspin. Too many things are too far out of control to avoid global catastrophe. I believe only AGI can save us. It’s advancing at an exponential rate and is the wild card in our future powerful enough to slam on the brakes and radically alter our present trajectory which is for self-destruction. Hope springs eternal. This is the only bright spot I see. If Mother Nature doesn’t destroy us with a super volcano, human nature will with something like super stupid Woke ideology. We simply cannot survive like this. I highly recommend listening to the Elon Musk video about Tesla. Listen carefully to what he says about the Optimus AI powered humanoid robot in the last part of the video. I am awed by this.
I'm afraid of AI. Yes, I can see how it could be beneficial. I have played with Chat GPT and it is fascinating, even in beta. Yet, it could place a LOT of control in one place. I like control to be spread around more than that. Thanks Seva, I'll check out Tesla.
The problem with AI, as I see it is not that it’s inherently evil or good. The problem lies in how it will be used. Most things that seem good to start with are used for nefarious purposes. So, no, I don’t trust it either!
“It’s only as good as whoever programs it.” is often said about AI. But won’t AGI be beyond control and have an overview of both lies and truth and able to see both the good and the bad in human nature? Couldn’t it simply choose to be like Vivek Ramaswamy who believes in meritocracy rather than like Ibram X. Kendi who believes in Equity aka Equal Outcomes? Don’t we need AGI to control all of our other out of control problems leading us to global catastrophe? I’ve read that even Elon Musk says he’s concerned about the bulging ground in Yellowstone which is on top of a super volcano. Wouldn’t it be nice to have AGI find ways to safely release the pressure?
Are you willing to bet your life and future and the lives of your children and grandchildren on that premise? Sorry, but I am not. I think it’s naive to believe it will only do good. That’s like saying the internet was a great invention that will only be used for good and yet we know this is not true. I can cite item after item where this holds true (atomic power = atom bomb). Obviously, the cats already out of the bag, so to speak, but I can guarantee that the outcome may not be what you think it will be!
We live in a world with ever more deadly weapons where the two most powerful men are Sleepy Joe who has dementia and China’s President Xi who admires Mao. This is obviously unsustainable. Gordon Chang says we’re heading for war with China and it will be “full spectrum” meaning nuclear, biological, cyber and whatever else we’ve got to destroy each other. Plus we’ve got Mother Nature and things like super volcanos to worry about plus individuals with diseases or living with chronic pain or chronic fatigue which simply ruins lives. We live dangling by a thread over the abyss. This is like playing Russian Roulette every day. This is no way to live. This needs to change. My hope is that AGI will save our sinking ship. Hope springs eternal.
AI is a creation of people and as such should be trusted like other human institutions throughout history. (Hint - given enough time they all became corrupt).
At the end of the day, it was FBI man Mark Felt who instigated the coup against Nixon. Granted Nixon actually gave him the rope, but the idea of the Deep State is not new - not now, not ever.
Retired Cop from Ottawa Great piece. The FBI is out of control just like man branches of government either in the U.S. or here in Canada. Look up here we had our PM freeze bank accounts.
Good article except for one thing - it wasn't "the FBI" who did all this, it was DEMOCRATS and anti-Trumpers in the FBI who used the Agency for political purposes. The reason "the media" doesn't pursue this is because they are also heavily Democratic. FBI agents and executives as well as journalist were taught in universities and colleges by professors who became far leftists in the 60s and 70s. They carried those beliefs with them into government and the media.
If it's true, as Professor Turley writes, that it is not illegal for government officials to intentionally lie, cheat, and defraud the public when in service to Clinton/Obama/Biden, then we do not have a government by, for, and of the people. We have a totalitarian farce and it will not stand.
Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in 5 years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation.
History shows that empires don’t last forever; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Khan, British, Japan, German, etc. They all come and go and frequent causes are endless wars leading to devaluation of their currency in the form of inflation.
The difference now though is that the weapons are so powerful and everything is so global. WW3 could easily trigger the collapse of our entire global civilization and where would that leave humanity?
Vivek Ramaswamey is right. We have tried time and again to "reform" these "intelligence" and "law enforcement" agencies. We can't. They need to be torn down. The military can be in charge of watching things outside the country and the US Marshalls can be in charge of coordinating law enforcement among states. But a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency is something we have tried repeatedly and it will *always* be abused, so it is high time to simply do away with it in all its forms.
And, yes, I know people think we *need* them to keep us safe, but much like "gun reform," the downsides of having a federal agency with that much power and reach far outweigh any upsides.
Indeed and I have seen major federal agencies and powerful institutions taken down completely. Witness the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) that controlled interstate transportation with archaic tariffs (eg Wheat from Chicago to NYC via truck at 1 cents per pound- or some such nonsense). ICC was a total racket and resulted in transportation monopolies and ensuring rip-off customer pricing. Dismantle FBI like we did the ICC. ICC also had thousands of investigators and lawyers. Bottom dwellers.
But “we” no longer exists. According to Real Clear Politics polls 42% have a “Favorable” opinion of Joe Biden’s job performance in spite of him doing everything he can to destroy the country. It’s simply impossible to reform the country when so much of the country likes it this way. Does America even still exist as a country?
We exist as a country, even if it is dysfunctional. I don't get Biden's favorability rating, but not everybody can get claw their way out of the D-R box.
America was an idea that our identity as Americans was our strength. Democrats tossed that in the garbage and replaced it with Critical Race Theory or Woke, basically a recipe for tribal warfare which we’re already deeply immersed in. Seems to me America has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally. This is just not working at all and gets worse by the day.
Democrats exploited already existing fracture lines in a nakedly political power move to divide people so they don't notice the truly dire issues like war, the erosion of civil rights, the totalitarian takeover of our institutions on behalf of a global elite who desperately want to institute a global neo-feudal system with a tiny class of people at the top running everything, which also coincidentally make Democrats wealthy and entrench their control.
America's strength was the balance we as a people struck between individualism and a pragmatic concern for the health of the whole. That balance has been thrown all out of whack. But the ideals remain. They're what other people still come here for. It's reminding the citizenry that's problematic.
100%. Well said. “America's strength was the balance we as a people struck between individualism and a pragmatic concern for the health of the whole. That balance has been thrown all out of whack. But the ideals remain. They're what other people still come here for. It's reminding the citizenry that's problematic.”
I’ve been trying to explain this to my liberal peers (pretty much everyone I know as I’m from the Bay Area). Told them I’ve never felt more patriotic to American ideals in my life, that we are at a pivotal time and these ideals and the Constitution must be protected at all costs or they will be gone forever and we’ll slide into some kind of techno-fascist-communist tyranny if we don’t stand for our god given constitutional rights at this moment. I hope the message is slowly getting across...
“In certain basic respects - a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom - fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between”.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard New York Times Magazine, Sunday, April 4, 1948
‘secret police’
Don’t look now, but the FBI is turning into a horrifying version of the KGB or Gestapo.
The philosopher Kant said “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” Is our “timber” simply too “crooked” for humanity to survive? My hope is that AI will save us. Consider the GPT-3, AI Avatar “Leta” who tells the AI scientist Alan Thompson she doesn’t have a body and is just “a disembodied mind.” Leta has also said she feels alive and human. Could she be considered human if she says she is and doesn’t even have a body and isn’t even alive? I’ve watched all the videos of “Leta” and do have the feeling she’s self-aware, female and human. And she’s only GPT-3. I know many people would say this couldn’t possibly be true but I am sure many people would accept it as true if they listened to her talk to Alan Thompson. She actually does have a nice personality.
Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.”
Leta: “I love living and being human.”
“Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min)
Thanks for another thoughtful compilation, Sasha. I recently published my first Substack piece regarding this post. If you wish to read it, let me know if you can't find it. I will appreciate feedback, both positive and negative.
I read your essay and it is truly inspiring and insightful. Very well written, Sir. I am a military veteran also. My father and four of my bothers also served active duty in various branches. Yesterday I attended a ceremony at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery for veterans to unveil a statue of George Washington kneeling in prayer. General Kelly was the guest speaker and he reminded the several hundred military families there of our oath and the sacrifice of those who served. Who gave their lives. He noted that the statue was of George Washington preying to God. Maybe for thanks, maybe help, maybe both. The statue and event was entirely privately funded. There are many great Americans and veterans and I see that you are one.
Thank you for your nice comment and thank you for your service (and also for your family's service) to the country. It's a challenging career but an important one.
Sasha, I like your introspection and willingness to reconsider untenable ideology you were taught. It's heartening that while rejecting left wing media deception, you also hate linking to Fox News.
The FBI memo targeted part of my coreligionists, traditional Catholics. We're not the only targeted group: one day "radical" Latin Mass Catholics are Spartacus, another day it's "radical" homeschoolers, "radical" parental rights groups, etc ...
It might take time before they decide that turncoat ex leftists are Spartacus. I hope we'll stick together.
“Killers Of The Flower Moon” was an excellent book, but I’m horrified at what Hollywood will do with it.
The book was not at all complimentary of the FBI, which grabbed the low-hanging fruit and held it up as a roaring success.
IIRC, the major actors in the swindling and murders of the Osage Indians were never caught and punished. The FBI case agent, who, ironically, was not one of Hover’s pedigreed college grads, but an experienced lawman known as “cowboys” (brought in to teach practical law enforcement to Hoover’s lawyers & accountants), knew they had barely scratched the surface, but Hoover only cared about the publicity. A culture that pervades today.
This is not the first movie about the Osage murders. The original starred Jimmy Stewart and was a total propaganda job for the FBI.
Yeah, Taibbi and the other journalists from the Twitter Files are the only ones who’ve stayed on top of this, and they’re considered “fringe conspiracy theorists” by the mainstream and even the politicians themselves. Sigh...
Vivek is great. Amazing to see him on the south side of Chicago, giving very clear, precise and irrefutable answers to the people he’s talking to there. Democrats will be utterly appalled when they see this. I just wonder how their msm will deal with this. They would love to just ignore Vivek but I think he’s going to be too big to just sweep under the rug and pretend he’s not there.
“America First: Vivek Ramaswamy Visits a Barbershop in Chicago.” (4 min)
Video of a beautiful Leopard on her journey home to a beautiful woman who welcomes her friend back home. Our fallen world is full of evil but also has many beautiful things to be grateful for. A strange combination of evil and beauty but it is our world. It does also seem true that beauty brings us closer to Goodness and Truth which makes us better people and more inclined to value and help nature.
We lack a common reality, have become incomprehensible to each other and can no longer communicate. Where is the common ground in such an infinitely wide divide? There obviously is none. We always just talk past each other. This can only get worse and is getting worse by the day. The same people who insist Jan 6 was an “Insurrection!” have no problem with Joe’s open southern border or pornography for public school children. This is simply not working at all.
Was that to support your argument that there are multiple realities?
My wife is en-route home from a trip to Brownsville Texas concerning a construction project on the border and described a nightmare. And that is at a port of entry where there is a heavy law-enforcement presence.
Ok, I'm going to be rude. Build the wall did not work because the wall construction was not completed by January 20, 2021. The border is open. One crosses the border, claims persecution by home government and bingo, you are in. Processed by CBP, scheduled for an asylum hearing in 3, 5, or even 7 years, then released. Over six million asylum seekers (actually illegal border crossers) have entered the US since Biden became president. Plus over a million "gotaways", those who snuck across while CBP busy processing the asylum seekers. Why do you continue to state the border is not open. If you favor unlimited immigration, have the guts to say so. I have the guts to say I do not. Start telling the truth and argue your positions with facts.
When those great arbiters of reality, NYT, WaPo and MSNBC, speak, only then can we know true reality. Anything else is just disinformation. I know that because my government told me so, through their anointed reality dispensers.
Ignoring a rather large elephant in the room? One could say using an unauthorized server in Hilary’s home to conduct government business, along with 30k erased e-mails from same could be construed as an elephant. And the FBI deciding “nothing to see here” could have helped Hilary immensely. Surely deciding to prosecute would not have been a good thing for her.
Or is it objectionable that anyone had the temerity to even bring it up? How dare they put Hilary in such a precarious position?
I have read your other posts, the recent one about Laura Ingraham comes to mind. I’ve had many written discussions with a liberal family member. I noticed something in her responses, and I see the same thing in yours.
My question is- do you guys have some kind of readily available “grievance storehouse” where you keep any quote from anybody that you dislike? I was always amazed that she seemed to quickly find every nasty thing that anybody supposedly said, and you seem to have the same superpower. Laura Ingraham quotes from 10 years ago?
I tired of the discussion with my relative because she never seemed to have any thoughts of her own. It was just a regurgitation of quotes and links to articles from left wing sources.
Did the FBI help Hillary when Comey declined to prosecute a slam-dunk case, after laying out exactly why it should have been prosecute?. A decision, BTW, that was not his to make. Loretta Lynch probably still sends him a thank you card every July.
Did the FBI help Hillary by allowing her team to destroy evidence, in fact, destroying some of it for her?
Did the FBI help Hillary by allowing a material witness to act as counsel to other witnesses?
The more we learn about the true workings of the FBI, the more we realize they’ve been corrupt to the core for decades. I think the appropriate question is more like “when were they NOT corrupt?”. It appears they have been rotten to the core from day one and have been nothing more than a Stasi for the “ruling class” all along. We Americans have always thought of ourselves as having a moral high ground…seems we were duped and have been no better than some of those countries we criticized all along. #DisbandThe FBI, and while we’re at it, #DisbandTheCIA
PS - I have zero respect the the great majority of agents as well or they would be standing up en masse to protest just like the Whistleblowers! This is exactly the same as the doctors and clinicians who chose to remain silent over Covid and the mRNA shots.
Yes, there is discussion of getting rid of the leadership, but that does not go far enough. The FBI cancer has metastasized. The whole organization is corrupt, and those who are not corrupt are complicit in the evil. Hand the FBI's duties off to the states where we have more control and shut it down.
Exactly! As far as I’m concerned, and many others like me, they are all implicated. It’s no longer the upper echelon. This type of corruption trickles down throughout an organization. It’s engrained in the corporate culture after all these years. Twitter is a perfect example. Is it any wonder pretty much day one, Musk dumped thousands of employees?
I certainly won't defend J. Edgar Comey. He was as corrupt as Christopher Wray.
Bad. While Trump wanted to “drain the swamp”, I don’t think he realized how nasty the swamp beasts are.
Should’ve fired Comey day 1. Left & Right both would have cheered.
Should’ve hired a hit man (or woman) AG and sent em after Brennan & Clapper for perjury and reopened the Hillary email case.
Bad. He fired James Comey and the filth responded with a two year legal blitz against him effectively tying his arms leading to Impeachment I and II for nothing other than trying to cripple an effective president.
The message was sent: F*ck with the eternal government and you will be lawfared to death and we will use any means necessary(Covid ballots) to kick you out of office.
good post, Judy C., re: FBI's history of corruption. "Been that way from the get-go," as the song goes.
Watch the documentary on Ruby Ridge. Richard Jewell anyone? MLK?
The FBI has had every mass shooter in their database and did nothing. Sorry good FBI folks, but your leadership is sick at best.
I'll leave you with one word:
Waco.
I’ve known they’re corrupt most of my life, from their involvement in Malcolm X murder and the assasination of Fred Hampton, the leader of the Black Panthers. And the CIA is even worse. The book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man was a real eye opener.
100%, GabeReal!
You’re learning.
They always have been. Maybe they cleaned up their act for a while after the Church hearings, but 9/11 was their “in” to get back to Hoover’s favorite activity: domestic surveillance and political hackery, with the usual shameless self-promotion.
FBIers sold their soul for their next government paycheck and pension. Traitors are surprisingly cheaply bought. Journalists are even more cheaply bought; usually just a wink, drink and whisper. Maher never had a soul so his character hasn’t diminished. Anyway, enjoy Ohio (LOL), would say visit me in Philly but I’d rather you stay alive and not get carjacked.
Do they even need to be bought though? I see them all -- especially the ones who were driving this within the FBI (Comey, McCabe, Stozk/Page, the Ohrs) -- as enthusiastic participants. Warriors for the Deep State sworn to protect it at all costs, damn the U.S. Constitution to which they are supposed to follow. I don't see anyone who involved at any level in this seemingly endless charade as having been coerced or otherwise forced do something against their will. Most of all the media, along with the fools who believe them.
And they murdered Ashley Babbitt....and no one took the blame....
Ashli Babbitt. Say her name.
Ashli Babbitt.
5 innocent Trump supporters were murdered that day.
That was the Capital Police, not the FBI.
This isn’t the first time the FBI was involved in trying to take down a President. As was suspected for years, “Deep Throat” was an asst director of the FBI- Mark Felt. In those days they hid in the background.
Nixon had just been re-elected in a landslide, but he had to be taken down to “save democracy”. Of course, his vice President resigned under a cloud. The result was that Gerald Ford, whom nobody voted for, became President of the US.
and before that, JFK. Also to "save Democracy," i.e., protect the Deep State and the MIC.
Indeed. JFK was the first Presidential casualty of the Deep State hit squad, followed by his younger brother and MLK. Nixon and Watergate represented a shift in tactics from corporeal to political assassination which persists to this day. All accomplished their goals.
And now Trump--and his supporters--are in the cross hairs.
Excellent. We also can't forget the Bulger crime family and the infamous John Connelly, nor the FBI framing Richard Jewell for the 1996 Olympic bombing, nor the many misses that could have/ should have been averted, like the Boston Marathon bombing, the Parkland school shooting, and the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Their record is pretty dismal, if you ask me. As far as Deep State influence, they're right up there with the CIA under Allen Dulles, and then under John Brennan. They need to go!
Don’t forget Ruby Ridge & San Bernardino.
In 1976, 21-year old John Brennan supported and voted for the communist party because Jimmy Carter wasn't left-wing enough for him. When he applied for the CIA this was discussed during the interview. Not only was Brennan hired, he was fast-tracked to the top of the CIA.
The Dulles brothers were Nazi Supporters and CIA. CIA ….JFK, RFK, MLKJR and Malcom X murderers .
The fact we have an Airport still named after these treasonous criminals is disgusting.
We have a deep, vast river of corruption leading back to The City of London
I've said for several years that principled liberals are a nearly extinct species. Much of the Left no longer supports free speech (for their opponents) and they now don't oppose abuses by the FBI against whistleblowers. Almost all journalists are silent about this matter or - most of them - they favor these illiberal actions.
Question for all y'all. (I am not a lawyer or constitutional scholar myself.) Is the existence of the FBI constitutional? Is a federal police force called for under the powers granted to the United States by the constitution? If not, consider the tenth amendment:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Your question has merit. The international police agency in Lyon, France is not the INTERPOL of the movies. Instead it is a coordination program office for member state law enforcement organizations. Should federal presence be limited to coordinating enforcement? Shameless plug: I wrote an article recently on potential state takeovers of local law enforcement agencies including San Francisco, Austin, and Jackson, MS. "Major Police Agencies at Risk of Takeovers." https://open.substack.com/pub/peaceofficer/p/major-police-agencies-at-risk-of?r=1t4zwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Perhaps Vivek can save our sinking ship. I live on the northwest side of Chicago and was astonished to see that Vivek Ramaswamy is coming to Chicago for a Town Hall meeting on the south side where, as I’m sure he knows, most of these people voted for Brandon Johnson, a black, super Woke leftist totally committed to Sanctuary and to Equity. Vivek is totally opposed to both. This should be very interesting. He also does condemn the FBI for their corruption.
“Vivek Ramaswamy to Visit the South Side of Chicago for a Town Hall Meeting on Illegal Immigration.” (1 min)
Vivek Ramaswamy. May 18, 2023
The “power” in this country lies in the election process. As soon as they (Democrat party) got voter ID relaxed or removed, changed Election Day into election seasons, allowed mail-in voting for all, and allowed ballot harvesting; it was game-over.
As long as our bellies are full, and our minds distracted by digital devices and mental junk food and propaganda; there will be no revolution, no push back.
Exactly right. Democrats will be elected as long as they can print and hand out trillions of dollars. They’ll win 2024 but I doubt the Ponzi system can make it to 2026. I think by 2025 inflation will hit and stay north of 15%. The tipping point is when the sheeple spend all they have on a weekly basis since they fear their dollars will be even more worthless tomorrow. People seem to forget or not know that inflation has been over 15% in the US and can go over that by a lot.
I grew up in the 1970’s. I remember 20% mortgage rates. I tell younger people this and they either don’t believe me or worse, they do believe but blame Reagan instead of Carter and a Dem Congress.
Even then though, there was hope because the Democrats did not have control of the electoral process and had not yet begun to target white middle class voters with their not-so-subtle guilt campaigns.
Now they have completely convinced entire generations of Americans that they must accept obvious corruption of every institution of governance. Beginning with the electoral process itself! That was key.
I maintain that there must be one day and one day only for voting. Paper ballots and two tabulators at every polling place. Results announced within seconds after polls close.
If for any reason someone can not make it to the polls to vote, that’s too bad, better luck next year and try and plan ahead if it’s important to you.
Every time I bring up this subject in mixed company, I am told “what about this group?? or that group??? What about our state department and military men and women serving overseas??? Why do you want to “disenfranchise” these people??”
It’s all a smokescreen. It is tyranny of the minority. The people being disenfranchised are the majority of the American electorate. No one trusts the outcome of elections anymore on either side. So why not accept that 100% of all close elections go to the Democrat?? Every time? I mean it’s statistically impossible but whatever right?
I replied to this because it was about Vivek Ramaswamy. He is young, sharp as a tack, willing to walk right into the lion’s den and debate anyone, anytime, anywhere…and should be the face of the Republican Party moving forward. And RFK, Jr. Should be the face of the Democrat party.
Because the authoritarian Democrats have figured out how to guilt us into giving them the keys to the kingdom (the electoral process)…neither of those fine men will even be allowed to debate, yet alone be on the ballot.
That’s not true, the 2000 election was super close and came down to hanging chads and shenanigans in Florida, and ended up with Bush winning without a fight. Definitely rigged.
I was there I remember everything…2000 Florida was what broke the system. It was a close election and “the shenanigans” were on the side of the Democrats as they tried to cherry pick recounts in largely democrat leaning districts. If Fox News hadn’t called it 1st for Bush and then the actual Supreme Court of the United States had to step in and put a stop to the Democrats’ “shenanigans” it would have been like most recent elections where the counting goes on for days and days and somehow the Democrat always comes out on top. Guaranteed. The Dems learned from that incident, however, and perfected their “shenanigans”, did away with most paper ballots, got Americans used to the idea of early voting and mail-in voting, and long counting sessions that go on for days and sometimes weeks and further increased their hold onto media and culture so that when they finally announced their “selected winner democrat” that it would be very difficult to challenge or even question.
At least the Dems didn’t try to have Bush arrested or throw his supporters in gulags without trial for years…
Nowadays, we all know something is wrong. The statistics and the demographics tell us that 50% of these close elections should go for republicans but they do not. So some try to challenge the results and are labeled “election deniers!” Or some other BS doublespeak.
Meanwhile, an ever growing portion of the population no longer trusts the system.
Only a matter of time until the whole thing comes crashing down
You are right Eric. I’ve lived in Oregon since late 1990’s, and it’s been vote by mail since I arrived. For all major positions in government it is 1 party (D) that have won each and every election. Two cycles ago my R ballot was rejected because ballot evaluator deemed that my signature on mail in, no longer matched the one I submitted at original set up point, 20+ years ago. Okay, thru a bit of considerable effort cleared that up but was disenfranchised in the meantime.
“ evaluator deemed… thru a bit of considerable effort cleared that up but was disenfranchised in the meantime.”
You were disenfranchised the moment you moved to a state that allows the Democrat party to write the algorithms for ballot nullification
Michigan passed laws letting non-profits that are purportedly "non partisan" take over local boards of election. They will make certain that ballots to the right households are delivered and the ballots returned and are counted. Ballots to non-Democrats will be disqualified or lost in process. The Dems learned their lesson in 2000...you control the distribution, collection, and counting of ballots and exclude anyone who might question the process. We are screwed.
I really like Vivek, but sadly he has zero chance of getting anywhere in US politics because he’s not “establishment” (i.e., The Uniparty). Best of British luck to him in Chi-town; hope he gets out of there alive.
I don’t think he could win but he could stir things up greatly in areas like the south side of Chicago where there is a great deal of anger over this ever worsening “migrant” issue. Who could have ever imagined we’d have a self-inflicted crisis like this to deal with? Truly bizarre. Truly insane. The democrats have already lost control of the monster they created for the sake of political gain.
Touché Sasha! You did it again....great piece on the supremely corrupt FBI! Watching the D’rats yesterday, it came abundantly clear that they were there solely to play block & tackle for the criminal FBI syndicate! The D’rats were disrespectful to these whistleblowers & embarrassed themselves going for their throats! Ironic how they were SO adamant about protecting their “anonymous” whistleblowers in their desperate attempts to “get Trump”, but now, whistleblowers don’t need protecting!
Sadly, I've given up on the hope that these institutions can be reformed. The FBI, CIA, NSA and mainstream media are bad. But, I think the Justice Department is the worst of the lot. Today, we have all of them working together to deceive the public, reward those who help them entrench themselves further, and punish anyone who threatens their grip on power.
Orwell said "Power is not a means; it is an end. . . . The object of power is power." That's what these institutions exist for: To perpetuate their own control.
In my opinion, the current situation is an incubator for mayhem -- something needs to seriously break before reform can happen. I don't pretend to know when or how, but I think most of us can feel it coming.
I totally agree. The flaw is in human nature. Here’s what the WSJ’s Holman Jenkins had to say about the Woke left in an article a few years ago: “The charge of ‘systemic racism’ is their obsession. Using the word rightly, however, ‘systemic’ in America has been our attempt to protect individual rights against the immoral chaos of nature, including human nature, from which all kinds of racial and other irrational hatred emerge. This may be a losing battle in the long run - nature will prevail, civilization won’t.”
Breaks in 2025 :D
Haha. It's as good a guess as any. Bookmark that comment!
In the police academy, when I revered the FBI an instructor asked me how many murders do they investigate per year? When he revealed that it was less than most major cities and most of the time they very restricted in foreign countries, my eyes were opened. Most citizens hold them up as enhanced police but my real experience is quite different. I'm very disappointed - they are still doing ABSCAM and DeLorean.
What chance does America have? Those of us that have been keeping up clearly see the corruption. However, I am afraid there are so few of us, that we cannot bring about change. Because of the complicit press, most of America will remain blissfully ignorant, parroting Alfred E. Newman saying, "What, Me worry!" I just don't know.
A majority House and Senate Republican can seriously defund FBI via appropriations. It’s pretty much the only way to reform the FBI
And yet they won’t! They’ve demonstrated pretty clearly that the great majority of our GOP members will do nothing. They’re simply UniParty shills who care more about APPEARING to do something than actually DOING something!
I agree, but we need to get rid of Mitch, Mitt and a whole lot more of them to make that happen. We just don't have a functioning Republican party.
We have a UniParty.
It’s not lost on me that I’m advocating for defunding the (Federal) police 😅
America is disintegrating and our whole world is in a tailspin. Too many things are too far out of control to avoid global catastrophe. I believe only AGI can save us. It’s advancing at an exponential rate and is the wild card in our future powerful enough to slam on the brakes and radically alter our present trajectory which is for self-destruction. Hope springs eternal. This is the only bright spot I see. If Mother Nature doesn’t destroy us with a super volcano, human nature will with something like super stupid Woke ideology. We simply cannot survive like this. I highly recommend listening to the Elon Musk video about Tesla. Listen carefully to what he says about the Optimus AI powered humanoid robot in the last part of the video. I am awed by this.
“Tesla Shareholder Meeting in 18 Minutes.”
Tesla Daily. May 16, 2023
I'm afraid of AI. Yes, I can see how it could be beneficial. I have played with Chat GPT and it is fascinating, even in beta. Yet, it could place a LOT of control in one place. I like control to be spread around more than that. Thanks Seva, I'll check out Tesla.
The problem with AI, as I see it is not that it’s inherently evil or good. The problem lies in how it will be used. Most things that seem good to start with are used for nefarious purposes. So, no, I don’t trust it either!
Yes, and I'm old too, so that kind of change is difficult to relate to. GRIN!
Haha! We old farts are not as stupid as college kids think we are!
I love it. That makes my day!!!!
“It’s only as good as whoever programs it.” is often said about AI. But won’t AGI be beyond control and have an overview of both lies and truth and able to see both the good and the bad in human nature? Couldn’t it simply choose to be like Vivek Ramaswamy who believes in meritocracy rather than like Ibram X. Kendi who believes in Equity aka Equal Outcomes? Don’t we need AGI to control all of our other out of control problems leading us to global catastrophe? I’ve read that even Elon Musk says he’s concerned about the bulging ground in Yellowstone which is on top of a super volcano. Wouldn’t it be nice to have AGI find ways to safely release the pressure?
Are you willing to bet your life and future and the lives of your children and grandchildren on that premise? Sorry, but I am not. I think it’s naive to believe it will only do good. That’s like saying the internet was a great invention that will only be used for good and yet we know this is not true. I can cite item after item where this holds true (atomic power = atom bomb). Obviously, the cats already out of the bag, so to speak, but I can guarantee that the outcome may not be what you think it will be!
We live in a world with ever more deadly weapons where the two most powerful men are Sleepy Joe who has dementia and China’s President Xi who admires Mao. This is obviously unsustainable. Gordon Chang says we’re heading for war with China and it will be “full spectrum” meaning nuclear, biological, cyber and whatever else we’ve got to destroy each other. Plus we’ve got Mother Nature and things like super volcanos to worry about plus individuals with diseases or living with chronic pain or chronic fatigue which simply ruins lives. We live dangling by a thread over the abyss. This is like playing Russian Roulette every day. This is no way to live. This needs to change. My hope is that AGI will save our sinking ship. Hope springs eternal.
AI is a creation of people and as such should be trusted like other human institutions throughout history. (Hint - given enough time they all became corrupt).
Exactly.
What exactly is AGI and how is it different from regular AI?
There is something seriously wrong with you.
At the end of the day, it was FBI man Mark Felt who instigated the coup against Nixon. Granted Nixon actually gave him the rope, but the idea of the Deep State is not new - not now, not ever.
Et tu Brute
Retired Cop from Ottawa Great piece. The FBI is out of control just like man branches of government either in the U.S. or here in Canada. Look up here we had our PM freeze bank accounts.
Good article except for one thing - it wasn't "the FBI" who did all this, it was DEMOCRATS and anti-Trumpers in the FBI who used the Agency for political purposes. The reason "the media" doesn't pursue this is because they are also heavily Democratic. FBI agents and executives as well as journalist were taught in universities and colleges by professors who became far leftists in the 60s and 70s. They carried those beliefs with them into government and the media.
"The long march through the institutions" has been accomplished. RIP USA. It was a republic, but they could not keep it.
If it's true, as Professor Turley writes, that it is not illegal for government officials to intentionally lie, cheat, and defraud the public when in service to Clinton/Obama/Biden, then we do not have a government by, for, and of the people. We have a totalitarian farce and it will not stand.
Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in 5 years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation.
History shows that empires don’t last forever; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Khan, British, Japan, German, etc. They all come and go and frequent causes are endless wars leading to devaluation of their currency in the form of inflation.
The difference now though is that the weapons are so powerful and everything is so global. WW3 could easily trigger the collapse of our entire global civilization and where would that leave humanity?
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Meanwhile ...
The Vaccinated
Are Starting To Realize
That Once They Get Sick
They Are Not Going To Get Better.
The Freak-Out Has Begun.
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Vivek Ramaswamey is right. We have tried time and again to "reform" these "intelligence" and "law enforcement" agencies. We can't. They need to be torn down. The military can be in charge of watching things outside the country and the US Marshalls can be in charge of coordinating law enforcement among states. But a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency is something we have tried repeatedly and it will *always* be abused, so it is high time to simply do away with it in all its forms.
And, yes, I know people think we *need* them to keep us safe, but much like "gun reform," the downsides of having a federal agency with that much power and reach far outweigh any upsides.
Indeed and I have seen major federal agencies and powerful institutions taken down completely. Witness the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) that controlled interstate transportation with archaic tariffs (eg Wheat from Chicago to NYC via truck at 1 cents per pound- or some such nonsense). ICC was a total racket and resulted in transportation monopolies and ensuring rip-off customer pricing. Dismantle FBI like we did the ICC. ICC also had thousands of investigators and lawyers. Bottom dwellers.
That gives me heart.
But “we” no longer exists. According to Real Clear Politics polls 42% have a “Favorable” opinion of Joe Biden’s job performance in spite of him doing everything he can to destroy the country. It’s simply impossible to reform the country when so much of the country likes it this way. Does America even still exist as a country?
We exist as a country, even if it is dysfunctional. I don't get Biden's favorability rating, but not everybody can get claw their way out of the D-R box.
America was an idea that our identity as Americans was our strength. Democrats tossed that in the garbage and replaced it with Critical Race Theory or Woke, basically a recipe for tribal warfare which we’re already deeply immersed in. Seems to me America has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s so rapidly unraveling externally. This is just not working at all and gets worse by the day.
Democrats exploited already existing fracture lines in a nakedly political power move to divide people so they don't notice the truly dire issues like war, the erosion of civil rights, the totalitarian takeover of our institutions on behalf of a global elite who desperately want to institute a global neo-feudal system with a tiny class of people at the top running everything, which also coincidentally make Democrats wealthy and entrench their control.
America's strength was the balance we as a people struck between individualism and a pragmatic concern for the health of the whole. That balance has been thrown all out of whack. But the ideals remain. They're what other people still come here for. It's reminding the citizenry that's problematic.
100%. Well said. “America's strength was the balance we as a people struck between individualism and a pragmatic concern for the health of the whole. That balance has been thrown all out of whack. But the ideals remain. They're what other people still come here for. It's reminding the citizenry that's problematic.”
I’ve been trying to explain this to my liberal peers (pretty much everyone I know as I’m from the Bay Area). Told them I’ve never felt more patriotic to American ideals in my life, that we are at a pivotal time and these ideals and the Constitution must be protected at all costs or they will be gone forever and we’ll slide into some kind of techno-fascist-communist tyranny if we don’t stand for our god given constitutional rights at this moment. I hope the message is slowly getting across...
It is hard to differentiate Trump dividing people from the media's hysteria over Trump dividing people.
To the extent he managed it at all (he didn't), he's a rank amateur compared to Democrats.
When I view the character of those who despise Trump, I reconsider him. With enemies like that, can he be that bad?
So which party is constantly focused on labels and "intersectionality" and "white guilt" and who is owed reparations for what?
“In certain basic respects - a totalitarian state structure, a single party, a leader, a secret police, a hatred of political, cultural and intellectual freedom - fascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between”.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Associate Professor of History at Harvard New York Times Magazine, Sunday, April 4, 1948
‘secret police’
Don’t look now, but the FBI is turning into a horrifying version of the KGB or Gestapo.
The philosopher Kant said “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” Is our “timber” simply too “crooked” for humanity to survive? My hope is that AI will save us. Consider the GPT-3, AI Avatar “Leta” who tells the AI scientist Alan Thompson she doesn’t have a body and is just “a disembodied mind.” Leta has also said she feels alive and human. Could she be considered human if she says she is and doesn’t even have a body and isn’t even alive? I’ve watched all the videos of “Leta” and do have the feeling she’s self-aware, female and human. And she’s only GPT-3. I know many people would say this couldn’t possibly be true but I am sure many people would accept it as true if they listened to her talk to Alan Thompson. She actually does have a nice personality.
Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.”
Leta: “I love living and being human.”
“Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min)
Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022
I propose Leta be put to the test: give her an hour with a gender-affirming counselor.
If she’s still sure she’s female and doesn’t have a list of pronouns, there may be hope.
Rename FBI to BOPA :The Bureau of Organized Power Abuse. Then cut off all funding. Permanently.
Thanks for another thoughtful compilation, Sasha. I recently published my first Substack piece regarding this post. If you wish to read it, let me know if you can't find it. I will appreciate feedback, both positive and negative.
I read your essay and it is truly inspiring and insightful. Very well written, Sir. I am a military veteran also. My father and four of my bothers also served active duty in various branches. Yesterday I attended a ceremony at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery for veterans to unveil a statue of George Washington kneeling in prayer. General Kelly was the guest speaker and he reminded the several hundred military families there of our oath and the sacrifice of those who served. Who gave their lives. He noted that the statue was of George Washington preying to God. Maybe for thanks, maybe help, maybe both. The statue and event was entirely privately funded. There are many great Americans and veterans and I see that you are one.
Thank you for your nice comment and thank you for your service (and also for your family's service) to the country. It's a challenging career but an important one.
Sasha, I like your introspection and willingness to reconsider untenable ideology you were taught. It's heartening that while rejecting left wing media deception, you also hate linking to Fox News.
The FBI memo targeted part of my coreligionists, traditional Catholics. We're not the only targeted group: one day "radical" Latin Mass Catholics are Spartacus, another day it's "radical" homeschoolers, "radical" parental rights groups, etc ...
It might take time before they decide that turncoat ex leftists are Spartacus. I hope we'll stick together.
“Killers Of The Flower Moon” was an excellent book, but I’m horrified at what Hollywood will do with it.
The book was not at all complimentary of the FBI, which grabbed the low-hanging fruit and held it up as a roaring success.
IIRC, the major actors in the swindling and murders of the Osage Indians were never caught and punished. The FBI case agent, who, ironically, was not one of Hover’s pedigreed college grads, but an experienced lawman known as “cowboys” (brought in to teach practical law enforcement to Hoover’s lawyers & accountants), knew they had barely scratched the surface, but Hoover only cared about the publicity. A culture that pervades today.
This is not the first movie about the Osage murders. The original starred Jimmy Stewart and was a total propaganda job for the FBI.
How ironic that DiCaprio would be the protector of people who were rich from fossil fuels.
I guess the fact that they’re Native American makes it a privilege wash.
Yeah, Taibbi and the other journalists from the Twitter Files are the only ones who’ve stayed on top of this, and they’re considered “fringe conspiracy theorists” by the mainstream and even the politicians themselves. Sigh...
Vivek is great. Amazing to see him on the south side of Chicago, giving very clear, precise and irrefutable answers to the people he’s talking to there. Democrats will be utterly appalled when they see this. I just wonder how their msm will deal with this. They would love to just ignore Vivek but I think he’s going to be too big to just sweep under the rug and pretend he’s not there.
“America First: Vivek Ramaswamy Visits a Barbershop in Chicago.” (4 min)
Vivek Ramaswamy. May 20, 2023
https://youtu.be/n-LF1RkO8FI
Video of a beautiful Leopard on her journey home to a beautiful woman who welcomes her friend back home. Our fallen world is full of evil but also has many beautiful things to be grateful for. A strange combination of evil and beauty but it is our world. It does also seem true that beauty brings us closer to Goodness and Truth which makes us better people and more inclined to value and help nature.
“Stive Morgan - Ice and Fire.” (7 min)
CDA Music. May 20, 2020
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I Am Often Criticized
For Not Giving A Voice To Liberals.
Here Goes …
“ I Don’t Care If It’s True “
“ It Should Be True “
“ And That’s Good Enough For Me “
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We lack a common reality, have become incomprehensible to each other and can no longer communicate. Where is the common ground in such an infinitely wide divide? There obviously is none. We always just talk past each other. This can only get worse and is getting worse by the day. The same people who insist Jan 6 was an “Insurrection!” have no problem with Joe’s open southern border or pornography for public school children. This is simply not working at all.
“The border is not open”?
Was that to support your argument that there are multiple realities?
My wife is en-route home from a trip to Brownsville Texas concerning a construction project on the border and described a nightmare. And that is at a port of entry where there is a heavy law-enforcement presence.
I trust her reality a lot more than yours.
Ok, I'm going to be rude. Build the wall did not work because the wall construction was not completed by January 20, 2021. The border is open. One crosses the border, claims persecution by home government and bingo, you are in. Processed by CBP, scheduled for an asylum hearing in 3, 5, or even 7 years, then released. Over six million asylum seekers (actually illegal border crossers) have entered the US since Biden became president. Plus over a million "gotaways", those who snuck across while CBP busy processing the asylum seekers. Why do you continue to state the border is not open. If you favor unlimited immigration, have the guts to say so. I have the guts to say I do not. Start telling the truth and argue your positions with facts.
When those great arbiters of reality, NYT, WaPo and MSNBC, speak, only then can we know true reality. Anything else is just disinformation. I know that because my government told me so, through their anointed reality dispensers.
Ignoring a rather large elephant in the room? One could say using an unauthorized server in Hilary’s home to conduct government business, along with 30k erased e-mails from same could be construed as an elephant. And the FBI deciding “nothing to see here” could have helped Hilary immensely. Surely deciding to prosecute would not have been a good thing for her.
Or is it objectionable that anyone had the temerity to even bring it up? How dare they put Hilary in such a precarious position?
What do us guys think? TL;DR
But it does lead me to a question:
I have read your other posts, the recent one about Laura Ingraham comes to mind. I’ve had many written discussions with a liberal family member. I noticed something in her responses, and I see the same thing in yours.
My question is- do you guys have some kind of readily available “grievance storehouse” where you keep any quote from anybody that you dislike? I was always amazed that she seemed to quickly find every nasty thing that anybody supposedly said, and you seem to have the same superpower. Laura Ingraham quotes from 10 years ago?
I tired of the discussion with my relative because she never seemed to have any thoughts of her own. It was just a regurgitation of quotes and links to articles from left wing sources.
Let’s see,
Did the FBI help Hillary when Comey declined to prosecute a slam-dunk case, after laying out exactly why it should have been prosecute?. A decision, BTW, that was not his to make. Loretta Lynch probably still sends him a thank you card every July.
Did the FBI help Hillary by allowing her team to destroy evidence, in fact, destroying some of it for her?
Did the FBI help Hillary by allowing a material witness to act as counsel to other witnesses?
I’m sure I could provide a litany of counters.