Narrated Version | Kash Patel will be the focus of scrutiny now, but the Bureau needs to look in the mirror. How J. Edgar Hoover's legacy was revived in the Trump years
There's been a nuclear mushroom cloud sized blast of bogus disinformation, fear mongering and toxic speculation since the election. Some of it is legit caution and criticism but mainly, I think, it's a last ditch effort to maintain and even amplify partisan hyperpolarization. So the peasants and pitchfork and torch bearing villagers continue to remain so scared of each other's motives and allegiances they will remain hopelessly divided and unable to storm the fortifications protecting the evil geniuses who have been responsible for the creation of one monstrous regional war after another and that domestic monstrosity that is the post Citizens United pay to play payola lobbyists and legislators collusion factory. The one with all the revolving doors and automated conveyor belts that so easily facilitate money laundering on a truly global scale; with no one ever being held to account or going to jail.
We have to ignore the smoke, all the carnival funhouse deceiving mirrors and stay focused on dismantling that whole international crime syndicate. The one that, since 9_11and the passage of the Patriot Act and all those global anti-terrorism bills in Congress, has cost the United States over 8 trillion dollars. I don't know if anyone knows the real number. The accounting offices in the Pentagon were blown up on 9_11, along with all those Securities and Exchange Commission records in Building 7. It's bankrupting our economy, it's driving our European allies into poverty and it's been responsible for the deaths and forced immigration and displacement of millions. Even predating all of the post September eleventh foreign military disasters. In the 1990's there was the re-engineering of political boundaries in Europe as the Baltic countries were split from the former USSR and Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were broken apart, the former peacefully, the latter requiring multiple bombing runs over the course of many years.
How has all of that bombing and droning and exchanging of missile attacks become normalized and not just tolerated but accepted as a regular, recurring cost of doing international business? To the point that today, December 7th, 2024 actually feels like all of humanity could be just inches away from or precariously teetering right at the cliff edge of nuclear Armageddon.
And no one really knows who the F is driving the bus. It's certainly not geriatric Joe Biden, just as surely as it wouldn't have been Kamala Harris and it most likely won't be Donald J. Trump's sole perogative.
How do we begin to fight back against people (or organized groups of forces?) who have been successfully hiding in the shadows since the day Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President?
Ok. I have a question. If someone could explain what's meant: ' unable to be investigated' due to pardons. I get no punishments. But how can that affect investigations. ?
There's been a nuclear mushroom cloud sized blast of bogus disinformation, fear mongering and toxic speculation since the election. Some of it is legit caution and criticism but mainly, I think, it's a last ditch effort to maintain and even amplify partisan hyperpolarization. So the peasants and pitchfork and torch bearing villagers continue to remain so scared of each other's motives and allegiances they will remain hopelessly divided and unable to storm the fortifications protecting the evil geniuses who have been responsible for the creation of one monstrous regional war after another and that domestic monstrosity that is the post Citizens United pay to play payola lobbyists and legislators collusion factory. The one with all the revolving doors and automated conveyor belts that so easily facilitate money laundering on a truly global scale; with no one ever being held to account or going to jail.
We have to ignore the smoke, all the carnival funhouse deceiving mirrors and stay focused on dismantling that whole international crime syndicate. The one that, since 9_11and the passage of the Patriot Act and all those global anti-terrorism bills in Congress, has cost the United States over 8 trillion dollars. I don't know if anyone knows the real number. The accounting offices in the Pentagon were blown up on 9_11, along with all those Securities and Exchange Commission records in Building 7. It's bankrupting our economy, it's driving our European allies into poverty and it's been responsible for the deaths and forced immigration and displacement of millions. Even predating all of the post September eleventh foreign military disasters. In the 1990's there was the re-engineering of political boundaries in Europe as the Baltic countries were split from the former USSR and Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were broken apart, the former peacefully, the latter requiring multiple bombing runs over the course of many years.
How has all of that bombing and droning and exchanging of missile attacks become normalized and not just tolerated but accepted as a regular, recurring cost of doing international business? To the point that today, December 7th, 2024 actually feels like all of humanity could be just inches away from or precariously teetering right at the cliff edge of nuclear Armageddon.
And no one really knows who the F is driving the bus. It's certainly not geriatric Joe Biden, just as surely as it wouldn't have been Kamala Harris and it most likely won't be Donald J. Trump's sole perogative.
How do we begin to fight back against people (or organized groups of forces?) who have been successfully hiding in the shadows since the day Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as President?
Ok. I have a question. If someone could explain what's meant: ' unable to be investigated' due to pardons. I get no punishments. But how can that affect investigations. ?
Thanks for this summary — perfect for me to send to some liberal friends with whom I was just discussing this the other day.
Excellent as usual Matt.