One wonders if these DOJ Swamp Rats raise more havoc after being fired. Out of spite. After all some of them will probably keep their security clearances and all of them will keep their contacts.
There's a good reason it is call the Swamp. The only place where the scum rises to the top.
You raise a good point. I don’t know what the protocol is, but 100% ofsecurity clearances should be voided as soon as a federal government employee leaves the federal government. They’re perfectly welcome to reapply for clearance, but they go to the back of the line.
The CIA rarely gets it right for the good of the country. The FBI is way overstaffed. Now perhaps the FBI could do something useful, like going after the scammers who cheat the elderly and others...that would save me a dozen scam telephone calls per day, not to mention the email frauds.
MM, I think those scammers are the slow-witted ones. The shrewd ones are probably fun friends of DC democrat Federal employees, and have engineering scams to cleverly bilk US taxpayers. Like the 1/10th of a TRILLION $ the DOEnergy shoved out their door in the 90 days after Trump was elected but before he took Office. I would like to finish my financial career as a contract DOGE employee to track those Felons responsible for doing that, and their complicit grifters that helped. Starting w DoEnergy Secy Jennifer Granholm. Haven’t heard a peep about getting that money back.
Big problem is that the gov’t is the employer of last resort for lawyers who didn’t finish near the top and get the plumber jobs. These gov’t lawyers and their staffs have to justify their jobs and by going after non-criminals they can pretend they’ve contributed to deterrence.
You might be right for some lawyers in thefederal government, possibly even most, but definitely not for all.
I know a very dear person. albeit on the left, who is a very kind and decent guy despite being politically naïve, who graduated from Harvard law school who had his career in the federal government. He simply chose the federal government over the shark infested waters of a law firm
Hardly high praise. There are lots of places lawyers can provide legal intelligence for social good without joining a firm, or getting "tenure" from taxpayers in the federal government. Scouts, Catholic Charities, Habitat for Humanity, hospice centers, just of the top of my head.
That comment is a bit short-sighted. You are suggesting that government does not need ANY legal advice. Govt requires legal guidance at least as much as any of the organizations that you mentioned.
Ok. And so one can work just as honorably in the fed govt as a lawyer as one can at a non-firm setting, so I don't condemn my friend for choosing to be a fed for his career, as long as (to the best of my knowledge) he has not participated in deep state efforts.
I know this is a very small thing in the overall problems this nation has, but please do something about the enormous amount of email fraud / spoofing. What a gigantic PITA.
Oh man! You should get the VTECH phone system that we got. It’s great! It screens all callers so that they must announce who they are before your phone will even ring! This is on our landline phone. On Apple phones, you can silence all unknown callers as well so I get zero telemarketers at this point. It’s great!
😂 I’m right there with you PM as an elderly folk. 🙂 And truth be told, we totally stumbled across this feature in the VTECH phone by accident.😂 but we love it! There are multiple versions of VTECH phones so you have to read through the features to make sure you get one that has this. I’m not sure if they all do. I think we got ours at Costco or possibly Amazon.
“Multiple people familiar with the Justice Department said scores of experienced staffers are opting to voluntarily leave the government to avoid being fired at random or asked to do things that would potentially violate their legal ethics.” That’s a hoot! They have no ethics! Think of it, James Comey who was head of the FBI now under criminal investigation left the FBI and started teaching “ethics” at some college. The hypocrisy is so astounding that it takes one’s breath away. But then when dealing with Democrats what can one expect?
Haven’t mentioned this in a while, but me, my wife and family can perfectly relate to the Ricky Williams tweet. I spent 2 yrs in FPC Ashland (3 yrs if you include halfway house, ankle bracelet & probation).
My crime boiled down to payback for calling a congressman for help with a stupid federal agency. (Paybacks are hell)
However, as Joseph said to his brothers- “What you meant for evil, God meant for good.”
God bless you Steve. So sorry you went through this injustice.
My reaction to the Ricky Williams' tweet is similar. These folks "melting down" because the Trump administration didn't handle the Epstein situation to their satisfaction are acting like children. Do I think Epstein was an IC asset--likely. Were powerful people involved--also likely. But I trust Pres. Trump to make the wise judgment on this issue.
When I consider what our lives would be like if Kamala Harris had won...I shudder.
Steve, Principled stands DO make a difference... witness Wilberforce who led to the end of slavery.
That was a persistent and horrible practice and Wilberforce led the way against establishment opposition.
Epstein's situation is different..obviously he is dead. In an ideal world we would expose all those with whom he collaborated, as part of taking down the "deep state". I'm not convinced based on what I've heard and read that publishing all serves that purpose.
Clearly many are using this for their own ends, meanwhile we are fighting a tough battle to deal with illegal immigration and continued rogue judges, not to mention, heck the debt!
Being a cabinet secretary in Trump’s administration must be daunting, to say the least. It must feel like every day you have to suit up with snake boots as you walk among the vipers, not knowing which ones are venomous. To pare down the swamp is an awesome task, indeed, but I think I’d just start with voter registration lists and go from there. When all the D’s are eliminated, then you look for the Comey republicans. Then you keep them busy on the big stuff. As a kid hanging around in the idle summer, complaining about nothing to do, my mother’s retort was always “I’ll find something for you to do!” to propel me out the door. Lawyers and cops with nothing to do are the most dangerous creatures in the swamp. Times ten if they’re democrats.
NGO's need to be pared back from thousands to tens. Too much taxpayer money going to fund democrats and their efforts to destabilize the government. USAID defunding was a good start but there's lots of work left to do. The Recissions bill is more than a little important right now.
I heard last night that many of the fired employees from USAID are in the process of reorganizing as a resistance group now that they have so much free time on their hands
What agency deserves purging next? All of the above. The 2 most harmful are the CIA & Federal Reserve. Get rid of the Fed & its collection arm the IRS disappears.
May the cornucopia of winning continue to overflow.
Folks are understandably upset with the lack of transparency regarding Epstein. But, Trump has his priorities and the political capital to weather the short term fallout so don’t get your panties in a wad.
“As you go through life, make this your goal, keep your eye on the doughnut; not on the hole”
Private sector unions once served a purpose, not anymore. They only keep unemployable mopes employed to keep those dues coming in.
Public sector unions have never served a useful purpose.
Even our first socialist President, FDR, knew that much. He really didn’t understand economics, though.
Eliminating public sector unions would be a giant step forward in curtailing fraud, waste & abuse.
Firing employees is an everyday occurrence in the American workplace and for any reason.
Why are overpaid and underworked government employees exempt?
President Trump has every right to terminate with prejudice underperforming government employees, especially those with agendas incompatible with Making America Great Again.
Fire the entire EPA. It's run by climate kooks who have no concept of cost-benefit analysis.
The climate kook thinking means that everything they dictate regarding climate change is baseless and 100% wasteful. The cost-benefit problem means they will halt multi-billion dollar developments that bring enormous economic benefit in order to protect the habitat of a tiny fish, a bug, or a birb. Not to protect the critter from extinction, mind you; just to preserve one habitat site.
The Fed and the 16th Amendment are at the bottom of all of our corruption. They have funded the grift. They are the 37 trillion dollar deficit. They have funded the wealthy Senators and Representatives. It’s a private bank. In their minds they own us. If we keep doing what they want, perhaps they do. The Creature from Jekyll Island…YouTube it…
There is so much corruption in our government it is difficult to decide what should be first. I think approaching the areas most relevant to everyday lives should take priority. As a healthcare provider I know the depth of corruption in virtually all federal departments. Covid revealed this and it’s somewhat surprising that very few leaders have even mentioned that we still have a lethal shot on our list of recommended vaccines. Worldwide!!
I’m glad to see our government getting cleaned up, but at the same time, it breaks my heart to see how unbelievably corrupt our government is.
I think it almost might be like the wife who knows that her husband is cheating, but she still loves the man that she married and so doesn’t want to confront the garbage that he’s become. It’s also sad but thank God Trump is cleaning it up. I just hope he’s able to finish the job in the next 3 1/2 years.
"Firings without explanation..." What is that exactly? Is WaPo switching from propaganda to comedy writing? Is WaPo now a federal judge entitled to approve every individual termination in the executive branch? Must Trump now post public notices justifying every termination within the executive branch? No wonder Bezos loses $75 million every year. He allows his editors to publish stinky insulting garbage every day. The People know why. Every DOJ employee knows why. Even the dumbest WaPo employee knows why. *** J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most vile people to ever hold a federal office. The tones of self-righteousness and entitlement he set at the FBI permeate all DC law enforcement functions and remain today. He nurtured a "We are all powerful and untouchable" attitude that allowed incompetence and rot to become the system's rulers. *** Historic markers for Don's readers. The Watergate break-in and subsequent coverup were orchestrated by former and then current DOJ officials. Who remembers the 2013 prostitution scandal involving Obama's Secret Service team? A major housecleaning has been overdue for many decades. Will WaPo and Judge Boasberg allow it?
As lawyers like to say, "Don't assume facts not in evidence." Recent history indicates the FBI is not any good at its claimed function. Evidence suggests it is more interested in political activity and enabling drug cartels.
Yes, that Secret Service prostitution scandal was a Red Flag that the agency had taken a wrong turn. Probably much we will never know about it. It may have been a set-up to entrap the Secret Service agents and "get dirt on them" for the purposes of being able to blackmail and control them.
The DEA was also involved in the prostitution scandal. I would bet the CIA (very active in South America, especially Columbia) was connected to it as well. It has been my experience that truly honest people don't stay within those agencies long term.
What a wholesale corruption of our government and society has been underway.
This is why it's going to be hard to prosecute. It isn't ordinary, limited, specific criminal situations--it's a pervasive deluge of corruption on all fronts.
It's really at the level that it was an attempted overthrow of America as a whole. The response to it has to be similarly broad scale-- we have to overthrow the overthrowers. The type of overthrow required is usually a military action or total political revolution--just pursuing criminal prosecution is not enough to get the job done.
Mostly when you see dramatic overthrows of an existing government around the world, they are violent. They usually kill the existing leaders, then move forward with setting up their new government. They don't try to ACCOMPLISH the overthrow through prosecuting the bad guys through the legal system, nor do they try to go back and retroactively use the legal system to prosecute everyone in the old, bad government.
America is unique, in that so far, Trump and MAGA have avoided violence, and are step-by-step overthrowing the Left using the existing legal and Constitutional structure, even though this has stretched our peaceful Constitutional structure to the max. But Trump is already instituting a complete anti-Marxist/Leftist peaceful, legal, POLITICAL revolution on all fronts.
If we can also get some criminal prosecutions (and we probably WILL get a few, at least) that is just icing on the cake.
Agreed on all counts. As you point out, the Second American Revolution is underway. The starting point was killing our enemy's biggest piggy bank, USAID. Musk says his team discovered over a Trillion Dollars sent to anonymous people and institutions. USAID, Social Security, State Department, grants by various agencies are included there. How much of our total national debt was created in similar fashion over the years? Trump's task is to reform every agency, cut off every avenue that funds our enemies, foreign but more importantly domestic. Looking at the long term, you are correct that the prosecutions are icing. Preservation of the Republic is foremost.
I will second that ; as to our national debt most of is grift in some shape, form , or fashion . Check out the metro transit departments across the nation . Best I can tell the entire industry is 100% taxpayer funded . Easy money makes for poor choices .
Likewise agree on all counts. And incredible that they have been using American's own money to finance the overthrow of America.
Each of us that is aware of these things does have an obligation to speak up to the liberals we know and awaken them. I've commented before on many angles to this, and do understand why we tend to avoid doing this.
But it is the most powerful thing we individual citizens can do, is to not allow the Left Media to be the ONLY input liberals hear. Yes, it makes them upset. And we have to pick carefully the liberals we engage with. But if done with respect, love, and even humor, we can successfully burst the liberal's "intellectual bubble".
And we individually don't have to burst the entire bubble for each liberal we talk to-- we just make some comments, and refer them to some new media sources. Others like us will also be talking to them. In aggregate, it can help to red-pill liberals. It's the least we can do to help America.
"to avoid being fired at random or asked to do things that would potentially violate their legal ethics."
I almost choked on my gum.
How does that saying go? "I won't listen to those lecturing me on ethics while they insist that men, who pretend to be women, get to read sexually-themed books to toddlers."
I have a harsher way of putting it, but somebody might accuse me of being "unethical". What can I say, I'm kinda Old School like that.
Touching on the Williams story...Sad that the authors of their misery are not themselves subject (yet) to such justice as is truly needed here. I admire Rickey's strength of character, that he put the needs of his child ahead of any deeper desire for retribution; I know that somewhere along the way, the scales will balance; I have seen that to be true in my own life, as well as others.
It is hard to wait...
Someone suggested to me, and I believe they are right, regarding the "Files": remember who had them BT(Before Trump!)? Disappointing, but not surprising. No, it ain't the fault of the current admin, nor Patel, Bondi, or Bongino(sic?) That stuff has been in the hands of other, less "ethical" people LONG before this. Do any of us honestly believe the full, unredacted ANYTHING made it this far?
One wonders if these DOJ Swamp Rats raise more havoc after being fired. Out of spite. After all some of them will probably keep their security clearances and all of them will keep their contacts.
There's a good reason it is call the Swamp. The only place where the scum rises to the top.
You raise a good point. I don’t know what the protocol is, but 100% ofsecurity clearances should be voided as soon as a federal government employee leaves the federal government. They’re perfectly welcome to reapply for clearance, but they go to the back of the line.
Not being too familiar with federal employment rules, I wonder: why would those fired NOT lose their security clearances?
The CIA rarely gets it right for the good of the country. The FBI is way overstaffed. Now perhaps the FBI could do something useful, like going after the scammers who cheat the elderly and others...that would save me a dozen scam telephone calls per day, not to mention the email frauds.
MM, I think those scammers are the slow-witted ones. The shrewd ones are probably fun friends of DC democrat Federal employees, and have engineering scams to cleverly bilk US taxpayers. Like the 1/10th of a TRILLION $ the DOEnergy shoved out their door in the 90 days after Trump was elected but before he took Office. I would like to finish my financial career as a contract DOGE employee to track those Felons responsible for doing that, and their complicit grifters that helped. Starting w DoEnergy Secy Jennifer Granholm. Haven’t heard a peep about getting that money back.
Big problem is that the gov’t is the employer of last resort for lawyers who didn’t finish near the top and get the plumber jobs. These gov’t lawyers and their staffs have to justify their jobs and by going after non-criminals they can pretend they’ve contributed to deterrence.
You might be right for some lawyers in thefederal government, possibly even most, but definitely not for all.
I know a very dear person. albeit on the left, who is a very kind and decent guy despite being politically naïve, who graduated from Harvard law school who had his career in the federal government. He simply chose the federal government over the shark infested waters of a law firm
Hardly high praise. There are lots of places lawyers can provide legal intelligence for social good without joining a firm, or getting "tenure" from taxpayers in the federal government. Scouts, Catholic Charities, Habitat for Humanity, hospice centers, just of the top of my head.
That comment is a bit short-sighted. You are suggesting that government does not need ANY legal advice. Govt requires legal guidance at least as much as any of the organizations that you mentioned.
Not at all. Simply responding to your friend's choice between feds and shark waters.
Ok. And so one can work just as honorably in the fed govt as a lawyer as one can at a non-firm setting, so I don't condemn my friend for choosing to be a fed for his career, as long as (to the best of my knowledge) he has not participated in deep state efforts.
I know this is a very small thing in the overall problems this nation has, but please do something about the enormous amount of email fraud / spoofing. What a gigantic PITA.
As I recall, didn’t Trump do something to vastly clear up telephone solicitations in his first term?
The call centers just moved offshore.
Get the VTech phone. See my comments above. They screen out everything!
And some of them are getting way more sophisticated. AI?!
Oh man! You should get the VTECH phone system that we got. It’s great! It screens all callers so that they must announce who they are before your phone will even ring! This is on our landline phone. On Apple phones, you can silence all unknown callers as well so I get zero telemarketers at this point. It’s great!
Wow. My T-Mobile still has a rotary dial. Thanks for a public service announcement. We elder folks are especially vulnerable. 😍
😂 I’m right there with you PM as an elderly folk. 🙂 And truth be told, we totally stumbled across this feature in the VTECH phone by accident.😂 but we love it! There are multiple versions of VTECH phones so you have to read through the features to make sure you get one that has this. I’m not sure if they all do. I think we got ours at Costco or possibly Amazon.
I hate the scam phone calls almost as much as the Federal Government.
Me too! Like the devil hates Holy Water!!
“Multiple people familiar with the Justice Department said scores of experienced staffers are opting to voluntarily leave the government to avoid being fired at random or asked to do things that would potentially violate their legal ethics.” That’s a hoot! They have no ethics! Think of it, James Comey who was head of the FBI now under criminal investigation left the FBI and started teaching “ethics” at some college. The hypocrisy is so astounding that it takes one’s breath away. But then when dealing with Democrats what can one expect?
It would interesting to audit one of his classes to hear him expound upon “ethics”.
Does the man actually and truly believe his actions while FBI Director were ethical or righteous?
How twisted a mind would have to be to convince oneself of that.
And he’s not the only one.
Man has an incalculable ability to convince himself that evil is good and good evil.
That’s what’s downright scary.
And that's how we got undocumented citizens and mostly peaceful riots.
Your next-to-the-last line, I believe, is confirmed by the Bible.
Believe it or not Comey was a registered Republican most of his adult life. Further proof he should be hung.
Slowly let the trap door down so it takes a while to stop his lying.
Has our society’s relegation of capital punishment to the dust bin of history neutered us in so doing?
Hung - for speaking with a forked tongue!
I think traitors like Baby Huey are called RINO’s (republicans in name only) for a reason - they have no core beliefs, no core principles.
Like prima-donna’s, everything’s about him/them.
Even though Baby Huey’s 80” tall, wimps like him, Brennan, Clapper & Strozk won’t do well in prison.
That’s a common practice in Dem dominated cities to insulate the prosecutor from the internal fighting among the Dems
by removing himself from the fray.
It’s all part of the redefinition of everything we have figured out.
NAILED IT !!
Hypocrisy is the price that vice pays to virtue.
Remember, hypocrisy is the price that vice pays to virtue.
Walk-off home run, Don!
Haven’t mentioned this in a while, but me, my wife and family can perfectly relate to the Ricky Williams tweet. I spent 2 yrs in FPC Ashland (3 yrs if you include halfway house, ankle bracelet & probation).
My crime boiled down to payback for calling a congressman for help with a stupid federal agency. (Paybacks are hell)
However, as Joseph said to his brothers- “What you meant for evil, God meant for good.”
God bless you Steve. So sorry you went through this injustice.
My reaction to the Ricky Williams' tweet is similar. These folks "melting down" because the Trump administration didn't handle the Epstein situation to their satisfaction are acting like children. Do I think Epstein was an IC asset--likely. Were powerful people involved--also likely. But I trust Pres. Trump to make the wise judgment on this issue.
When I consider what our lives would be like if Kamala Harris had won...I shudder.
Folks need to grow up.
NNTX- right after my reply to you, I returned to the book I’m reading- The Autobiography of Richard Baxter, who lived at the time of John Bunyan.
He was called to preach to parliament on the day before they voted to return their exiled monarch
It appears neither of his sermons gave entire satisfaction:” HIS MODERATE VIEWS DISPLEASED PARTISANS OF ALL SIDES.”
Thought you might enjoy that.
Steve, Principled stands DO make a difference... witness Wilberforce who led to the end of slavery.
That was a persistent and horrible practice and Wilberforce led the way against establishment opposition.
Epstein's situation is different..obviously he is dead. In an ideal world we would expose all those with whom he collaborated, as part of taking down the "deep state". I'm not convinced based on what I've heard and read that publishing all serves that purpose.
Clearly many are using this for their own ends, meanwhile we are fighting a tough battle to deal with illegal immigration and continued rogue judges, not to mention, heck the debt!
Agree entirely
“….asked to do things that would potentially violate their legal ethics.”
Oh, the irony!
Being a cabinet secretary in Trump’s administration must be daunting, to say the least. It must feel like every day you have to suit up with snake boots as you walk among the vipers, not knowing which ones are venomous. To pare down the swamp is an awesome task, indeed, but I think I’d just start with voter registration lists and go from there. When all the D’s are eliminated, then you look for the Comey republicans. Then you keep them busy on the big stuff. As a kid hanging around in the idle summer, complaining about nothing to do, my mother’s retort was always “I’ll find something for you to do!” to propel me out the door. Lawyers and cops with nothing to do are the most dangerous creatures in the swamp. Times ten if they’re democrats.
NGO's need to be pared back from thousands to tens. Too much taxpayer money going to fund democrats and their efforts to destabilize the government. USAID defunding was a good start but there's lots of work left to do. The Recissions bill is more than a little important right now.
NGO'S should be illegal. They serve no one but themselves .
Amen !!
I heard last night that many of the fired employees from USAID are in the process of reorganizing as a resistance group now that they have so much free time on their hands
Wonder what they will use for funding ?
Granholm may have some extra grift funds.
What agency deserves purging next? All of the above. The 2 most harmful are the CIA & Federal Reserve. Get rid of the Fed & its collection arm the IRS disappears.
May the cornucopia of winning continue to overflow.
Folks are understandably upset with the lack of transparency regarding Epstein. But, Trump has his priorities and the political capital to weather the short term fallout so don’t get your panties in a wad.
“As you go through life, make this your goal, keep your eye on the doughnut; not on the hole”
Good rule/motto Jack.
Perfectly said, Jack.
Private sector unions once served a purpose, not anymore. They only keep unemployable mopes employed to keep those dues coming in.
Public sector unions have never served a useful purpose.
Even our first socialist President, FDR, knew that much. He really didn’t understand economics, though.
Eliminating public sector unions would be a giant step forward in curtailing fraud, waste & abuse.
Firing employees is an everyday occurrence in the American workplace and for any reason.
Why are overpaid and underworked government employees exempt?
President Trump has every right to terminate with prejudice underperforming government employees, especially those with agendas incompatible with Making America Great Again.
Fire the entire EPA. It's run by climate kooks who have no concept of cost-benefit analysis.
The climate kook thinking means that everything they dictate regarding climate change is baseless and 100% wasteful. The cost-benefit problem means they will halt multi-billion dollar developments that bring enormous economic benefit in order to protect the habitat of a tiny fish, a bug, or a birb. Not to protect the critter from extinction, mind you; just to preserve one habitat site.
It's ridiculous wastefulness all the way down.
The Fed and the 16th Amendment are at the bottom of all of our corruption. They have funded the grift. They are the 37 trillion dollar deficit. They have funded the wealthy Senators and Representatives. It’s a private bank. In their minds they own us. If we keep doing what they want, perhaps they do. The Creature from Jekyll Island…YouTube it…
Money and government is the deadly cocktail.
The more money you can keep out their hands the better.
Great point !
There is so much corruption in our government it is difficult to decide what should be first. I think approaching the areas most relevant to everyday lives should take priority. As a healthcare provider I know the depth of corruption in virtually all federal departments. Covid revealed this and it’s somewhat surprising that very few leaders have even mentioned that we still have a lethal shot on our list of recommended vaccines. Worldwide!!
Disappear the biggest offenders.
Razorback farms work wonders. Feral pigs and hogs eat everything, leaving no evidence behind except scat.
IMHO, democRAT politicians and their surrogates deserve nothing less.
Shame on me---I agree !!
No shame in taking out the trash…
I’m glad to see our government getting cleaned up, but at the same time, it breaks my heart to see how unbelievably corrupt our government is.
I think it almost might be like the wife who knows that her husband is cheating, but she still loves the man that she married and so doesn’t want to confront the garbage that he’s become. It’s also sad but thank God Trump is cleaning it up. I just hope he’s able to finish the job in the next 3 1/2 years.
"Firings without explanation..." What is that exactly? Is WaPo switching from propaganda to comedy writing? Is WaPo now a federal judge entitled to approve every individual termination in the executive branch? Must Trump now post public notices justifying every termination within the executive branch? No wonder Bezos loses $75 million every year. He allows his editors to publish stinky insulting garbage every day. The People know why. Every DOJ employee knows why. Even the dumbest WaPo employee knows why. *** J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most vile people to ever hold a federal office. The tones of self-righteousness and entitlement he set at the FBI permeate all DC law enforcement functions and remain today. He nurtured a "We are all powerful and untouchable" attitude that allowed incompetence and rot to become the system's rulers. *** Historic markers for Don's readers. The Watergate break-in and subsequent coverup were orchestrated by former and then current DOJ officials. Who remembers the 2013 prostitution scandal involving Obama's Secret Service team? A major housecleaning has been overdue for many decades. Will WaPo and Judge Boasberg allow it?
If the FBI was really any good, one of those remarkably big files would be on Boasberg.
And his daughter!!
As lawyers like to say, "Don't assume facts not in evidence." Recent history indicates the FBI is not any good at its claimed function. Evidence suggests it is more interested in political activity and enabling drug cartels.
Yes, that Secret Service prostitution scandal was a Red Flag that the agency had taken a wrong turn. Probably much we will never know about it. It may have been a set-up to entrap the Secret Service agents and "get dirt on them" for the purposes of being able to blackmail and control them.
The DEA was also involved in the prostitution scandal. I would bet the CIA (very active in South America, especially Columbia) was connected to it as well. It has been my experience that truly honest people don't stay within those agencies long term.
What a wholesale corruption of our government and society has been underway.
This is why it's going to be hard to prosecute. It isn't ordinary, limited, specific criminal situations--it's a pervasive deluge of corruption on all fronts.
It's really at the level that it was an attempted overthrow of America as a whole. The response to it has to be similarly broad scale-- we have to overthrow the overthrowers. The type of overthrow required is usually a military action or total political revolution--just pursuing criminal prosecution is not enough to get the job done.
Mostly when you see dramatic overthrows of an existing government around the world, they are violent. They usually kill the existing leaders, then move forward with setting up their new government. They don't try to ACCOMPLISH the overthrow through prosecuting the bad guys through the legal system, nor do they try to go back and retroactively use the legal system to prosecute everyone in the old, bad government.
America is unique, in that so far, Trump and MAGA have avoided violence, and are step-by-step overthrowing the Left using the existing legal and Constitutional structure, even though this has stretched our peaceful Constitutional structure to the max. But Trump is already instituting a complete anti-Marxist/Leftist peaceful, legal, POLITICAL revolution on all fronts.
If we can also get some criminal prosecutions (and we probably WILL get a few, at least) that is just icing on the cake.
Agreed on all counts. As you point out, the Second American Revolution is underway. The starting point was killing our enemy's biggest piggy bank, USAID. Musk says his team discovered over a Trillion Dollars sent to anonymous people and institutions. USAID, Social Security, State Department, grants by various agencies are included there. How much of our total national debt was created in similar fashion over the years? Trump's task is to reform every agency, cut off every avenue that funds our enemies, foreign but more importantly domestic. Looking at the long term, you are correct that the prosecutions are icing. Preservation of the Republic is foremost.
I will second that ; as to our national debt most of is grift in some shape, form , or fashion . Check out the metro transit departments across the nation . Best I can tell the entire industry is 100% taxpayer funded . Easy money makes for poor choices .
Likewise agree on all counts. And incredible that they have been using American's own money to finance the overthrow of America.
Each of us that is aware of these things does have an obligation to speak up to the liberals we know and awaken them. I've commented before on many angles to this, and do understand why we tend to avoid doing this.
But it is the most powerful thing we individual citizens can do, is to not allow the Left Media to be the ONLY input liberals hear. Yes, it makes them upset. And we have to pick carefully the liberals we engage with. But if done with respect, love, and even humor, we can successfully burst the liberal's "intellectual bubble".
And we individually don't have to burst the entire bubble for each liberal we talk to-- we just make some comments, and refer them to some new media sources. Others like us will also be talking to them. In aggregate, it can help to red-pill liberals. It's the least we can do to help America.
Good morning, all.
"to avoid being fired at random or asked to do things that would potentially violate their legal ethics."
I almost choked on my gum.
How does that saying go? "I won't listen to those lecturing me on ethics while they insist that men, who pretend to be women, get to read sexually-themed books to toddlers."
I have a harsher way of putting it, but somebody might accuse me of being "unethical". What can I say, I'm kinda Old School like that.
Touching on the Williams story...Sad that the authors of their misery are not themselves subject (yet) to such justice as is truly needed here. I admire Rickey's strength of character, that he put the needs of his child ahead of any deeper desire for retribution; I know that somewhere along the way, the scales will balance; I have seen that to be true in my own life, as well as others.
It is hard to wait...
Someone suggested to me, and I believe they are right, regarding the "Files": remember who had them BT(Before Trump!)? Disappointing, but not surprising. No, it ain't the fault of the current admin, nor Patel, Bondi, or Bongino(sic?) That stuff has been in the hands of other, less "ethical" people LONG before this. Do any of us honestly believe the full, unredacted ANYTHING made it this far?
Trying to make me choke on my gum, again??
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Absolutely true--the current state of the Epstein files is probably a LONG ways from the original state.
Hallelujah for that Old School and all that followed.