Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan along with Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are demanding answers about the TSA's "Quiet Skies" program
The best part was last night at the DNC, when the red headed snake woman said that if Donald Trump gets in he'll weaponize government against his political rivals. I mean... this is what you are fighting against. Mao got nothing on this group.
exactly..every thing she said, I was like, that is what has been happening since 2021 and like today, it was stated, the dems controlled the WH for 12 years, and the 4 that Trump was in, all they did was attack him and made up fraudulant claimes about him
I believe a majority of Americans feel as you do. I find the DNC and the propagandist MSNBC literally painful to watch. I'm sick of being taken over the hurdles by gangsters. I wonder how many Americans will actually overcome their personal political lethargy and vote?
This is a great quote by Grace McAndrew Whitnah: "...and the 4 that Trump was in,
all they did was attack him and made up fraudulent claims about him." This brings up the next point. The fraudulent claims continued after he was out of office too.
It's just that this time they recruited the entire judiciary to get him through the actions of prosecutors. Why is that so different? It is because it required all of them to break the rules of professional conduct to get him. What difference does that make? If they break the rules, the rules mandate that they all be disbarred for doing it. The next question is, if this is obvious why aren't the Republicans, who many are lawyers, ringing the alarm bell over this which involves the Republican colleague by the name of Trump? Here is the newsletter, entitled "The Supreme Court Buries Professional Misconduct" that documents this malfeasance: https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-buries-professional?r=3tdx2w
On weaponization of government by Dems under the Biden/Harris regime:
Manufacture lies about the truth that was the Hunter Biden laptop? Check.
Issue administrative orders to open the borders to a massive surge of effectively illegal immigrants? Check.
Deploying the apparatus of the state to pressure social media to censor disfavored opinions? Check.
Throwing money (student loan debt cancellation) at their base - Gen Y and Z voters fortunate enough to have been to (increasingly worthless) college - at the expense of their opponents - those who forwent expensive college or paid as they went? Check.
Denying facts or even debate about the origins of Covid-19, efficacy of preventive measures, or massively detrimental effects thereof, dangers of the vaccine, and the benefits and safety of existing low cost pharmaceuticals? Check.
Coercing through extreme measures (the denial of a livelihood) the forfeit of the right to bodily autonomy? Check.
Complete takeover and lock step messaging from dominant media outlets of Democratic propaganda (e.g. "Joe Biden is sharp as a tack", "Republicans are weird", "joy")? Check.
Weaponization of the legal system (passing laws temporarily changing the statue of limitations), for harassment of the leading political opponent? Check.
Neutering the standards and moral of the Secret Service to allow an assassination attempt on said opponent? Check.
Flaunting the power of the unseen oligarchs running the DNC (and the country) by openly defying longstanding democratic processes to manipulate (not once, but twice) the selection of the Democratic nominee? Check.
Placing former congresswoman and presidential candidate (and noted shamer of Kamala Harris) Tulsi Gabbard on a TSA watch list with punitive effects? Check.
This is a great, great quote by James Roberts: "Weaponization of the legal system
(passing laws temporarily changing the statute of limitations), for harassment of the leading political opponent? Check." There were many irregularities in that NY hush money case, even illegal. However, those irregularities fall within the discretion of the judicial process to overturn or not overturn it. However, underneath all that was the weaponization of the legal system that involved serious professional misconduct that necessitated the state bar association and the judiciary to get involved to stop it.
Those were not areas of discretion. Those were areas of the mandatory requirement of the legal profession to penalize the prosecutor for misconduct. Instead, they all looked the other way, hoping (successfully) that the American people would never figure it out. Here is the newsletter that documents this travesty so that the American people can know the score. It is entitled: "The Supreme Court buries Professional
Kidding. This is an incredibly powerful, but by no means exhaustive list of the greatest hits of our authoritarian overlords. My blood pressure rose with each outrage you describe. Respect.
Other pet outrages, not necessarily related to weaponization of government:
Debasing the prestige of American troops with a shamefully mismanaged, humiliating, and craven withdrawal from Afghanistan? Check.
Continuing extravagant and obviously inflationary Covid-19 handouts once it was apparent the economy could be reopened (and never really closed due to work from home)? Check.
Compounding inflationary pressures with an infrastructure bill that seems to have produced little observable infrastructure? Check.
Curtailing domestic energy production to further exacerbate inflation, and increase the wealth of other oil producers, including Iran and Russia? Check.
Further facilitating Irans's nuclear program and sponsorship of terrorism by going soft on them and handing them billions from frozen accounts? Check.
Unfortunately, there are not a few elite Republicans on their side. There is an entire list of McCain, Romney and Bush former campaign and/or admin employees who are putting money toward Harris and Walz. Now I know I was right to leave the Republican Party under Bush. The Party had abandoned We the People in favor of global capital.
They've blocked borrowers at every point. No bankruptcy rights, no statutes of limitations. etc. Anyone saying they can help is LYING. You can pay a small amount every 269 days, and go off the grid, avoid wage garnishment, etc. But the debt is immortal. That's why I started StudentLoanJustice.Org 20 years ago.
Thanks for the clip. Ugh. At the 0:22 mark she actually catches a fly. And wow, she has a lot of M’s, and from Michigan to boot. Introducing MM(f)M, the RHSW! The dems have created a stable of evil villains second to none.
Is RHSW "Red Headed Snake Whisperer?!" Have they become a Harry Potter trope, along with their shared and fervent need to cancel JK Rowling? Talk about jumping the shark! Or at least giving it a sex change. (Call me JK!)
Sticking the tongue out is a baby’s very first way of saying “No.” When they’ve had enough milk, they stick out their tongue. The impulse remains in the unconscious mind and becomes a microexpression signifying disgust. (Note that this is different from the conscious, playful or defiant act of sticking out one’s tongue. McMorrow is obviously unaware she’s doing this.) What is she disgusted by? Her subject matter or her own words?
This is a great quote by Turd Ferguson: "...if Trump gets in he'll weaponize government against his political rivals..." Indeed, the government was weaponized against Trump, not the other way around. Yet, the Republicans and legal commentators refuse to see "how" it was really weaponized against him, not on political reasons but on legal ones. It was weaponized when the entire judiciary broke all the rules through the prosecutors. It merited disbarment for all of them. Why aren't these people bringing it up? Are they in the tank with them? Here is the newsletter, published two days ago, that documents this corruption accurately. It's entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried ..." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
What we learned from this, (as if the lesson wasn't already drilled into our brains from Matt and Mike S' trip to the ministry of truth)is that dems are utterly devoid of principles. As Malcolm X said, "I'll always fight for justice. No matter who it's for, or against". Now THAT's a principled stance.
At the Trump debate with Kamala Trump could announce he is considering Tulsi to take over and clean up Homeland Security and RFK Jr. would make a good fit for CIA. Malcolm X would agree that would be justice.
If Bobby Jr had had you running his campaign, he'd still be in the race, and probably not an inveterate Zionist. That said, massive respect and admiration for Bobby for kicking Monsanto's ass. David and Goliath 2: Electric Boogaloo.
This was a great topic brought up by Jose Weto. It is the subject of JFK.
One massive area always overlooked by the government and conspiracy theorists is the prosecution of Lee Harvey Oswald. Over 34,000 justice officials
had the controlling role in his murder by Jack Ruby. Why is it that no one has looked into this? Could it be because it indicts the judiciary, the prosecutors and the state bar associations? Could it be because the news media is in bed with them and will do their best to cover this up? The reality of this massive wrongdoing is documented in the newsletter entitled: "The Judiciary Cartel's
Controlling Role in the Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald is Clear. Here's how."
08/21/24: I'm old enough to remember when ONLY the Democrats were outraged when something like this horrible event would happen! Now all the ACLUers are fascists!
Sure, but sometimes partisanship and principle overlap. It's unfortunate principle isn't the motivator all of the time, but this is American politics. Are you suggesting an inquiry by Republicans is illegitimate because what happened to Tulsi happened under a Democrat administration, thereby making any Republican inquiry "partisan"?
The person stated the inquiry is motivated by partisanship instead of principle in the form of a question. I answered the question from my perspective, and asked a further question because I want to know if there are any circumstances under which they think an inquiry by Republicans in Congress of a Democrat administration would not be motivated by partisanship. I'm not trying to be funny or "make the previous person say things they didn't..." Good luck at your improv classes, the subject doesn't really interest me.
We're all so busy dodging turds in the punchbowl trying to get a glass of punch, we can't even find a piece of objective truth to discuss.
Republicans MAY be investigating dem crimes out of partisanship. I've historically reflexively disliked republicans since Nixon, but I don't care who investigates, because the crimes of the dems are egregious.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. So I'm 100% with you Ryan and I couldn't care less if the genesis of these investigations is partisanship "Unwarranted". Drew, yes, and I think Ryan S made a great point.
As Fredrick Douglas said, "I'll work with anybody for good, and I'll work with nobody for bad". Pretty simple, unless you ascribe to Cancel Culture.
I agree, the inquiry is important because it's reasonable to want to understand how Tulsi ends up on a TSA terror watchlist. It appears to be intimidation and harassment, and the apparent weaponization of government concerns me. I may be wrong though, maybe the designation was legitimate or was an honest mistake. I haven't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since making that mistake in 2000. This shouldn't be a partisan issue, though in this political climate I'm not surprised it is.
This is a great point by JC. Yes, it's illegal surveillance under the fourth amendment. And yes,
it is wrong. And yes, the Dems are not concerned about it. But what about the Fifth and the Sixth Amendments. Neither Dems nor Republicans evince any concern when Trump is denied his fair trial rights. Yes, the Republicans investigated Mark Pomerantz and DA Bragg in the prosecution of the hush money case. But, not one of them (or Dems either) even thought of ringing the alarm bell about the professional misconduct they committed and the professional misconduct of the state bar association and the judiciary. These wrongs are documented in the newsletter just published two days ago entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the
Dedicated Marxists aren't represented at all. The closest we got to Marxists running the federal government was a single city council member elected in Seattle.
The psychological assault being implemented to create division, destroy and prevent the healthy and productive national conversation we the people deserve, is definitely Marxist.. (James Lindsay/NEW DISCOURSES)..
My opinion: It's a clique of faux Marxist ideological utopians serving the megalomaniac narcissism of criminal financiers, political grifters and a mercenary surveillance bureaucracy. And it's all the same people. Same schools. Same parties. Same clubs. Same gated communities. While we try to understand the irrationality and damaging consequences destroying American life being perpetrated by the one, the other is destroying our lives from another direction. It's one beast with multiple heads. In mythology, a hydra. Million dollar salaries for Marxist university deans and six figure incomes for DEI commissariat members. Stock tips and fortunes for elected American political leaders. Huge corporate and Federal grants paid to professional spies and snitches who work with surveillance state operatives and tech oligarchs to distort and prevent the healthy American national dialogue and reality we the people deserve. The hypocrisy of the LIE it represents is so huge it can only be termed a "psyop". Their goal is seizure of everything not bolted to the ground before the inevitable economic collapse resulting from their avarice hurls the free peoples of the world into serfdom. Will the words fascist, marxist, Democrat or Republican really mean anything to the beaten down, depressed, uneducated inhabitants of the gray world open air totalitarianism the DNC/EU/WEF/CCP hopes to install on the free peoples of the world?
If you are guided by generally Marxist philosophical principles you are a Marxist. If you are a "soft" communist (i.e., "socialist") you are a Marxist. Do you have to parrot Marx exactly to be an ideological Marxist? No. Can you be wealthy and be a Marxist? Yes. Must you eschew a rich lifestyle to be a Marxist? No. Come on down, Boinie Sanders!
Agreed, unless they're actually evil, whereby they could be conscious AND totalitarians. I dunno, why don't we ask one of the millions of people that the US Govt has brought freedom to around the world with 500lb bombs which it is?
Ecclesiastes 10:2 says, “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.” A fool is one whose wayward heart turns continually toward foolishness. “Fools speak foolishness and make evil plans” (Isaiah 32:6). Proverbs 26:11 says, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.” Fools do not learn their lessons from the mistakes they make. They continue doing the same foolish things over and over again, to their own destruction (Proverbs 18:7)."
This is a great quote by Drew: "That's because everything must be partisan now, including your accusatory comment." Partisanship indeed, can obfuscate so many things that are not partisan at all. Democrats can scream of injustice. Republicans can scream of injustice. Yet when injustice is staring them in the face they refuse to call for penalties against the wrongdoers. Recall the investigation of DA Bragg and ADA Mark Pomerantz into their wrongdoing in the hush money case. Not even a whisper was heard from the Republicans, much less the Democrats, on the disbarrable professional misconduct they committed against Trump. Here is a newsletter, published this week, that documents what happened that proves this point. It is entitled "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. It is the Record of DA Alvin Bragg. Part One." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
The Democrats just do whatever they want now openly mocking Republicans who huff and puff but end up getting nowhere. I don’t know what needs to be done but this is not working. No Democrat or Democrat operative is ever held accountable for the blatant corruption yet there are people in jail for wandering around the Capitol on January 6.
You're right. Election campaigns were never known for their truthfulness, but the fictions being peddled now are coming fast and furious. It's like they're daring the opposition to get bogged down trying to refute the avalanche of lies.
No. The other way around. They are coming at us with snarling claws. I see NO fear in them but an unholy self righteousness. Just the texts my sister sends to me shows she has strapped on some kind of evil righteous (in her mind) HATE. I never answer her back. I kept the door open when she disowned me for some time for not vaxxing. But, it’s closed now. I certainly can’t visit her because her tv is tuned to CNN all day. She lives and breathes sulphuric hate for Trump and republicans. And me, by extension if she knew how I really feel.
You're right. The dems and cancellers are aggressive and ruthless. And Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to make them immune to truth. Many of know very well the feelings of dismay and betrayal that these dems have done with their "A Trans Handmaid's Tale". I think i just made that up, but tell me the differences between today's Democrats and the oppressors in "A Handmaid's Tale". The oppressor's target (dissidents), and wardrobe were the only ones I could find. Fundamentalism is fundamentalism, and it's always f*cked for the out group.
I'm sorry that your relationship with your sister has degenerated. I agree with your description of (many) Democrats - their hatred is visceral, especially among women.
I've been told that their hatred of Trump is indeed visceral because he's emblematic of the type of predatory male that they've had to deal with all their lives.
In many ways, this election is a battle of the sexes - very "Freudian".
They COULD put teeth into their subpoena s. Put propkd in jail. They have that power. They could hacs impeached Biden and myorjas. But Republicans won't stand together fir this.
Hello, Susan G. You can take a look at The Runnymede Report's reply to EndOfTheRoad's point about the powerlessness of Jordan that also fits for Comer.
EndOfTheRoad, no truer words could be said on this topic. He, along with the rest of the Republican Congressional leadership had DA Alvin Bragg and former ADA Mark Pomerantz right in the crosshairs and let them go without even a whisper. Both of those people were plainly guilty of professional misconduct on numerous levels in how they prosecuted Trump, yet the Republican Leadership refused to even touch the fact that they should have been removed from the practice of law for what they did. Who are they trying to protect? Is it just the prosecutor and his former assistant or is it also the state bar association and the judiciary who were all in on it against Trump. Here is the latest newsletter documenting this point. It is entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. The Record of New York DA Alvin Bragg." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
This is a great point made by Big Wally, in noting the antagonism between the Democrats and the Republicans. Amazingly, the Republican led House of Representatives had the golden opportunity to condemn what happened to Donald Trump in the four wrongful prosecutions against him when they investigated what DA Bragg and ADA Mark Pomerantz did. They had them dead to rights in the obvious professional misconduct they were guilty of. Instead of
calling for their disbarment, with all the facts at their command they avoided this subject. Why?
ResistWeMuch hits the mark when it comes to where the Founders were coming from.
Though they didn't get rid of their oppressive and evil government by voting,
they did frame a government to prevent oppression and evil government. One of the key things they drew upon was the Magna Carta that was signed in Runnymede, England.
Indeed, they incorporated into the Fifth and the Sixth Amendment which provided for the protection of fair trial rights of accused defendants. The legal profession went one step further and made conduct rules that prohibited the prosecutor from taking away the fair trial rights of the defendant in a criminal prosecution. If he were to do it,
the rules provided for his disbarment from the practice of law. So what is the problem?
The state bar associations and the judiciary routinely allow the prosecutor to get away with it because that the public does not know the difference. It's high-time that that changed. Because it hasn't happened yet, oppressive and evil government continues to dominate.
Quiet skies is quite an Orwellian name. It’s so quiet they’ll disappear you to a black site. For safety and democracy! Vote for joyful Kamala and folksy Tim!
It's time for the Great Cleansing. If any bureaucrat is worth our taxpayer dollars, they can demonstrate their value during the interview to get their job back.
Noam Deplume, Jr. (look,at,me), this is a great topic. You can take a look at The Runnymede Report's reply to John Holmes in which an entirely overlooked "Great Cleansing" is noted and needs to be demanded.
Indeed, government abuse calls for the firing of government bureaucrats. However,
the firing alone won't do it when it comes to the wrongdoing of prosecutors.
If they are only fired, they will go back to lucrative law jobs from their political connections. However, if they are rightly disbarred from their professional misconduct in how they prosecuted Trump, they will be banned from the practice of law.
We surveilled her because she's a sharp and painful thorn in the Biden/Harris administration's side and because she made a mockery of Harris in an old debate, and is still mocking Harris's lack of credibility as a leader.
We ordered it because we could and to send a message to other potential critics. Any questions? Sorry, can't comment, it's classified.
congress works for the administrative state and the multinational corporations. it would be a modern day miracle if they ever did one tiny damn thing to protect our natural rights.
Congress vs. the DOJ is a political calibration. And that should be known. Still, there is another calibration that needs to be weighed in the balance. The DOJ and the U.S.
Attorneys are bound by rules of conduct that they routinely break with the complicity of the state bar associations and the judiciary. These violations occur because all of these participants are guided by political motivations. Yet the judiciary (which includes the prosecutors under their authority) are expressly prohibited from being political. Indeed, if they are political they cannot be an independent branch of government which is supposed to operate as a check and balance on the other two branches of government (the executive and the legislature). It is a major scam of the news media and the legal commentators this great truth is hidden. Here is the latest newsletter that corroborates this corruption entitled: This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court buried. The Record of New York's DA Bragg. Part One." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
It is great for Mike Menzie to bring up the American Gestapo. Yes, the Gestapo concept did not terminate with the fall of the Third Reich as it relates to the DHS and the TSA.
However, it goes deeper than that. In Nazi Germany the Gestapo was famous for rounding up political undesirables and bringing them to the People's Court in Berlin in which the guilty verdict was already decided upon even before the defendant came into court. As with Nazi Germany, the American Gestapo works through the prosecutors to bring cases to court against political undesirables with the guilty verdict already arranged ahead of time before judges with the full complicity of the state bar association and the entire judiciary. Here is the latest newsletter that documents this. It's entitled: "The Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. The Record of New York DA
Just like the finding the other day that Biden most likely took bribes from Ukraine. Really, guys? That happened way back when he was VICE President. Today he's a dead man walking, and you're just now getting around to it? The GOP is a bunch of enablers for Democrats.
You project harder than a democrat. You seem to be writing violent, incendiary BS as a provocateur to induce others to write something that will get them on the Quiet Skies list with Tulsi. Go back to Huffpo or Neera Tanden. Or are you Antifa/CIA? Actually, that snake ate it's tail, in the Kurt Metzger approved L.G.B.T.Q.C.I.A.
PaxAlto a very good point. "Nothing comes out of these Congressional dog-and-pony shows." Here is a great example. NY DA Bragg and former ADA Mark Pomerantz are brought before Congress about how were involved in the hush money case. They committed numerous acts of professional misconduct resulting in jury nullification in the contamination of the jury pool by their negative extrajudicial publicity against Trump. Many in Congress are lawyers and would have fully known what this meant. Yet, none called for disbarment of these two. The record of what Bragg and Pomerantz did with the help of the Supreme Court is documented in the newsletter, published just two days ago, entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court buried ..." Here it is: https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
Take a bow. I read nothing of this in the mainstream press. Even my comments about it were suppressed. Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, and a vital crew of fearless blowers of whistles seems to be keeping democracy afloat.
This is a very important quote from Sera: "...a vital crew of fearless blowers of whistles seems to be keeping democracy afloat." One of the chief ways that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment are routinely violated is from the fact that civil liberty proponents stress free speech rights and "never" bring up the destruction of fair trial rights against undesirable defendants by wrongdoing prosecutors. Why is it never brought up? Who are civil liberty proponents trying to protect? Not only is the subject never raised but nowhere is the demand made that those who destroy fair trial rights must need be disbarred under the rules of conduct if the constitution is to reman inviolable. The violators get away with it because the American people are blinded from knowing it! It is high-time that that changes. Here is the latest newsletter that shows how the alleged civil libertarians hide this reality. It is entitled:" The Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. The Record of New York DA Alvin Bragg. Part One."
May I presume that you once believed that the mainstream press had some interest in keeping democracy afloat? If so, would you date the demise of this intention to the early 1960s, or does this date to more recent events like March 2020?
Trump’s election and then Trump/Russia marked major changes. Remember early Wikileaks stuff got wide reception, even while Obama was in office. But when Trump was elected it was like everyone went bananas overnight
The mainstream press was comprised of newspapers and TV until the advent of social media. I think it is useful to distinguish between these two epochs because internet communications were not subject to partisan manipulation until recently, as your Wikileaks reference illustrates. The little bit of free expression that we continue to enjoy in substacks like Racket News has been instrumental in pulling back the curtain. Nothing like this existed in the 1960s. The press hid the troop buildup in Vietnam and buried a much-needed debate over the war of attrition that was launched in May and June of 1964. This was an election year. Goldwater was portrayed as a raving lunatic for merely bringing up the real issues of a war in Vietnam that LBJ and McNamara were already embarked upon, as is documented in "Dereliction of Duty". I think we have deluded ourselves over the historical role of the press. The delusions are useful, as they seem to motivate some journalists to seek the truth, but they divert us from dealing with a reality that is increasingly bleak and all the journalists who merely seek to exploit the chaos for their own benefit. Myths of past glories and heroes ... remember the Maine? ... seem to blind us to the institutional collapse that characterizes nearly every branch of government and the very nature of our Republic.
Upton Sinclair (“The Brass Check”) and George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia and private letters) would beg to differ. Sinclair wrote over 100 years ago about how the AP were the captive stenographers of the powers that be (the titular brass check referred to a token carried by prostitutes, showing what he thought of the bought and paid for media). Orwell almost 100 years ago wrote in the context of the Spanish Civil War about how the press would completely invent stories in favor of the government narrative, while ignoring any stories inconvenient to it. I don’t think these phenomena are anything new, it’s that we have much more information about how things actually work in the age of the Internet than we did in the age of 3 TV channels, let alone the age of William Randolph Hearst basically inventing the pretexts for the Spanish-American War.
Believe that part of the reason the MSM went bat shit crazy was due to the lack of influence they had previously held in elections. Trump ignored many/most of the MSM pundits and went straight to Twitter to reach voters, and wasn't involved with the MSM explaining to voters what he really meant or said.
yes - the left had co-opted the power of the state, implemented by the right, so now it was a good thing. Trump challenged that which had them clutching their pearls. i am not convinced the Republicans would not do the same if they return to power. Adding RFK to the fold might help mitigate that?
The party out of power always gets more libertarian (at least rhetorically) and the party in power always gets more authoritarian for fairly obvious reasons.
I noticed the mainstream media go sideways starting around 2010, in the heat of the sub-prime home mortgage crisis. And then around Occupy Wall Street I saw many blatant examples of media disinformation produced right before my eyes. I'd say that was a key turning point.
It’s a tricky thing to write about history as we live it, like trying to put out a house on fire while you’re lying in bed. But Chris Hedges was once Middle East bureau chief for The NY Times, where Seymour Hersh was a legendary reporter; that paper also published the Pentagon Papers. Glenn Greenwald wrote for the Guardian; and Matt Taibbi covered deep sea cephalopods for Rolling Stone. That’s just a sampling of those that the MSM has exiled in order to keep us safe.
"However, we have made any corrections to records that our inquiries determined were necessary, including, as appropriate, notations that may assist in avoiding incidents of misidentification."
There was an interview on Fox today when a NY congresswoman said they had to file FOIA requests months ago to find out something about border statistics. Why the hell does a congressperson with oversight have to file an FOIA request for anything within their jurisdiction? Because --- none of our business.
Meanwhile, today the Dept of Labor corrected its new jobs number. Over 800, 000 --- to the downside. Wow. Dept of Labor was off by almost 1 million on numbers that move markets --- and elections. The only "industry" segment on the plus side? Not manufacturing, not anything, but "government."
You really don't have to have that inquiring of a mind to figure this out.
haha. Maybe when everybody is a government employee and the only place to go for your job is where the government tells you to, it will all work out. Government, bigger. Private sector, no more. As Buffy the Vampire Slayer said, "Fire bad, tree pretty," or something like that.
BTW, does the federal gov't ever impose the same rules on their projects as the private sector, or does the Congressional staff have the same goodies as their bosses? Maybe not.
As an American voter/taxpayer/citizen. Am I allowed to ask any question, or do I have to just ingest the poison from our Leaders?
This number wasn't off by a little, like a railroad strike or avian flu or any number of things that can disrupt statistics and figures. This was just short of 1 million jobs over how long --- WRONG!
I am not a religious person. I am a skeptic with a brain that thinks my government owes me. This big number error can be based on one of many things. Incompetence is really my first suspicion, not corruption for the ruling party which is second suspicion. But as HRC famously said, "What difference does it make!"
We had a huge bureaucracy that was supposed to protects us from pandemics. How did that work out? Now the bureaucracy in charge of counting working people is off by, how many! And, why?
Does anything ever have a chance of changing with your and several other almost identical comments here? Yup let's all just get on our backs put our feet in the air and say why bother? 🙄🙄🙄
It’s not the comments here. It’s the endless wast of time and money by Congress on toothless investigations. As to what I’ve done personally, I’ve written my congressmen and senators and speak several times a year to another house member. And vote, of course.
When the people who write the laws and enforce the laws abuse the law, we are screwed.
Musk, RFK, could help but someone with a conservative heart and big balls needs to tear down the justice dept, the FBI, and the CIA and rebuild it where it’s apolitical.
RFK is speaking on Friday near Trump’s next rally. Don Jr just dropped a tweet how nice it would be to join forces and let RFK do some house cleaning. Cornell West and Jill Stein complaining all they can do is fight the Democratic machine of law-fare which they seemed to have perfected. And the Dems, well they just smile and talk about joy and their polls keep going up. This is one big pysop being perpetrated on the American people. They are behaving just like 2020. Biden in the basement all the while smiling like they knew the gig was up.
Why shouldn't the DNC party utilise that "Joy" trope? Remember the "Hope and Change" BS? Worked like a champ in 2008. Let's go with the shit that works...Debbie Wasserman-Shulz.
I don’t think I’m a cynic— I wouldn’t be slogging through all this stuff if I were. Exhausted and jaded maybe, but not a cynic yet. I still cling to that scene from Predator: “It bleeds. We can kill it.”
The TSA has to be among the most ridiculous and infuriating examples of unconstitutional, overbearing and ineffective Federal overreach.
They have turned every airport in the nation into a bill-of-rights-free zone.
For over two decades now, this legion of surly blue-suited clowns have been groping, scanning, harassing and thieving from travelers, enforcing an ever-expanding canon of absurd, arbitrary rules that anyone with an IQ exceeding their shoe size knows does nothing to contribute to actual security.
I personally have seen them reduce children to tears when stealing sets of liquid crayons, humiliate women and the disabled after scans, and barking orders like some sort of Stasi parody.
And for what? To my knowledge they have yet to catch a single terrorist.
It is long past time to eradicate this pox on the traveling public.
Another gift of the worst presidency of the post-WW2 era, Bush/Cheney.
The lies, the wars, the war crimes, all the soldiers killed or mutilated so the neocons could jerk each other off imagining global domination, the unprecedented combination of arrogance and ignorance that is George W, all topped off with a financial crash.
And then there's the Dept of Homeland Security, a massive unaccountable ipso facto violation of civil rights that can never be shut down or reformed—brought to you by supposed "small govt" conservatives.
What did America do to deserve such terrible, terribly stupid and terribly greedy, leaders?
Just so. The whole lot of the Shrub & Co. should be remembered and treated as the war criminals they are.
As for the GOP, there is a reason many call it the Stupid Party. The term 'spineless' also comes to mind.
Americans keep getting, and therefore deserving, exactly what they vote for.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
Shrub was skewered by that Texan Mencken, the late great Molly Ivins, who knew both the depths of his ignorance, entitlement and malevolence—though he was just an infant compared to Big Dick Cheney, the power behind the throne.
But then again, there will only ever be one Mencken!
I dunno. BO and crew give them a run for their money in terms of malevolence. But at the time I thought Bush might literally be the Antichrist, and I’m not even a Christian!
Try going through the same system in the UK. Very rarely do you see issues with 3.4 oz of liquid in the US, in the UK, you can't have more than a small sandwich baggie full of 3.4oz bottles or they throw them all out.
I guess it could be worse. I have no idea what I've said on line that might upset those jackals over there. No way I am stepping foot over there to find out. Of course after Kamala wins (and she's winning) I'll likely be extradited.
One can only imagine the rigorous data analysis and deep thought that went into landing on 3.4 oz., as opposed to, say, 3.39.
Probably 15 or so years ago, I was told by an airline agent that I was "on the list" and had to check my luggage with my young daughter. Several years after that, I had some special code on my boarding pass that entitled me to the full package of extra indignities.
Certainly, It can always get worse, and very well may. The way things are going over there across the pond, you may soon have to flee to the one of the further Orkneys.
What a perfect comment. A radio jock I listen to called it "Security Theater". Can you guess the one airport where they DON'T have X-ray machines? Dulles, where congress goes to boondoggle. Can't have the proles seeing their junk. But they sure want to see ours.
Yes, the term was coined by Bruce Schneier, who, among other contributions to civilization, wrote *Applied Cryptography*, arguably the definitive volume on the subject.
I highly recommend it, even (or perhaps especially) for the non-technical.
Donald Trump, I am begging, yes, begging you to offer the Director of the CIA job to RFK Jr. And RFK Jr., I am begging, yes, begging you to take the job.
Not bad, but I would go with RFK Jr as Attorney General, Michael Flynn at CIA, Tulsi Gabbard as Sec Def, Ron Paul at Treasury, Elon Musk as special advisor on all kinds of sh!t; and to really mess with the deep state Hulk Hogan at the FBI. Ok that last one’s a stretch.
Why was George Herbert Walker Bush head of the CIA? He was, wasn't he?
RFK Jr. is a lawyer with a proven history of representing liberal environmental causes. Against the horrid freedom crackdown that happened with Covid and censorship. Time to open up the books.
There’s an old baseball story about a new umpire who blew a call at third base, calling the runner safe. On the next play that runner slid safely into home and the plate umpire called him out.
Later, the new guy teased the veteran, saying: “You sure missed that call at the plate.” “No,” said the vet, you missed him at third. I nailed him at the plate.” Sure you can try to open the books, but Umpires, like postmen, always ring twice. Do you think that might be on the minds of both Trump and RFK jr.?
I don't follow sports at all, but trolls like you make me wish Matt would initiate a good ole', Jim Rome-style Smack Off. The trolls would comment with some BS then get their pride obliterated by real humans with lives. It happens with trolls here now, but Jim Rome had elevated it to an art, the last time I heard one.
Awesome dude! If the Republicans are good for anything, they SHOULD be good for ending the surveillance state.
Keep doing what you're doing. It's showing results. Just go for the big stuff though. We need legislation barring the government AND private concerns from getting our data. Those fucking creeps. No more stockpiling of internet browsing history, emails, etc, etc. Preventing these fucking CREEPS in using these data in self-serving, nefarious ways (AI being what it is) is exactly the thing that needs to happen right now. This is a small start, but don't get caught up in small-ball while the Tsunami overwhelms us, man.
Very good point! I'm appealing to their "better angels", I suppose. What I have in mind: In the wake of the Snowden revelations, Republicans in the Maryland State House introduced a bill that would have literally cut off utilities to the NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland. That was bold! Unfortunately, the Bill was quietly killed in the ensuing months, with nearly all the cosponsors, one by one, withdrawing their names from the Bill.
We need something like that again, only without the second part. We need something from them that sticks.
NSA: "Congressman, our records show that you have a habit of sharing hotel rooms with your twenty-three-year-old intern. We just thought you'd like to know that. By the way, how do you plan to vote on the bill to cut off our utilities?"
Thanks Matt. My money is on Kamala Harris or Nancy Pelosi. The use of Tulsi’s congressional photo makes me think it is Nancy, because she would have easy access to it. This was a petty, wasteful decision, that sounds like Nancy.
I don't really wish anyone to come to harm, i just want them to go away. But i don't think i'd shed a tear if that vain old bat met a fate like Feinstein's. Who i was no fan of, but she absolutely didn't deserve that.
Notice that no Dems are outraged or stepping up to find out why this happened!!
The best part was last night at the DNC, when the red headed snake woman said that if Donald Trump gets in he'll weaponize government against his political rivals. I mean... this is what you are fighting against. Mao got nothing on this group.
exactly..every thing she said, I was like, that is what has been happening since 2021 and like today, it was stated, the dems controlled the WH for 12 years, and the 4 that Trump was in, all they did was attack him and made up fraudulant claimes about him
I had to stop watching and went to bed.
I could only stomach clips.
I believe a majority of Americans feel as you do. I find the DNC and the propagandist MSNBC literally painful to watch. I'm sick of being taken over the hurdles by gangsters. I wonder how many Americans will actually overcome their personal political lethargy and vote?
I wish this were true. I fear that unfortunately, a majority of American's stomach the Cackling only to not support Donald Trump.
I wanted to puke.
This is a great quote by Grace McAndrew Whitnah: "...and the 4 that Trump was in,
all they did was attack him and made up fraudulent claims about him." This brings up the next point. The fraudulent claims continued after he was out of office too.
It's just that this time they recruited the entire judiciary to get him through the actions of prosecutors. Why is that so different? It is because it required all of them to break the rules of professional conduct to get him. What difference does that make? If they break the rules, the rules mandate that they all be disbarred for doing it. The next question is, if this is obvious why aren't the Republicans, who many are lawyers, ringing the alarm bell over this which involves the Republican colleague by the name of Trump? Here is the newsletter, entitled "The Supreme Court Buries Professional Misconduct" that documents this malfeasance: https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-buries-professional?r=3tdx2w
On weaponization of government by Dems under the Biden/Harris regime:
Manufacture lies about the truth that was the Hunter Biden laptop? Check.
Issue administrative orders to open the borders to a massive surge of effectively illegal immigrants? Check.
Deploying the apparatus of the state to pressure social media to censor disfavored opinions? Check.
Throwing money (student loan debt cancellation) at their base - Gen Y and Z voters fortunate enough to have been to (increasingly worthless) college - at the expense of their opponents - those who forwent expensive college or paid as they went? Check.
Denying facts or even debate about the origins of Covid-19, efficacy of preventive measures, or massively detrimental effects thereof, dangers of the vaccine, and the benefits and safety of existing low cost pharmaceuticals? Check.
Coercing through extreme measures (the denial of a livelihood) the forfeit of the right to bodily autonomy? Check.
Complete takeover and lock step messaging from dominant media outlets of Democratic propaganda (e.g. "Joe Biden is sharp as a tack", "Republicans are weird", "joy")? Check.
Weaponization of the legal system (passing laws temporarily changing the statue of limitations), for harassment of the leading political opponent? Check.
Neutering the standards and moral of the Secret Service to allow an assassination attempt on said opponent? Check.
Flaunting the power of the unseen oligarchs running the DNC (and the country) by openly defying longstanding democratic processes to manipulate (not once, but twice) the selection of the Democratic nominee? Check.
Placing former congresswoman and presidential candidate (and noted shamer of Kamala Harris) Tulsi Gabbard on a TSA watch list with punitive effects? Check.
Trust died here.
Well done, James. Thanks for taking the time to do that compilation of the weaponization of our government.
Pacificus, please see the Runnymede Report reply to James Roberts.
Yes. I forgot to say thanks, James.
Hi Jose, how about taking a look at the Runnymede Report reply to James
Roberts.
Excellent comment
Hi Carily Myers, how about taking a look at The Runnymede Report reply to James Roberts.
Saul Alinsky smiles: “my children have learned well...”
This is a great, great quote by James Roberts: "Weaponization of the legal system
(passing laws temporarily changing the statute of limitations), for harassment of the leading political opponent? Check." There were many irregularities in that NY hush money case, even illegal. However, those irregularities fall within the discretion of the judicial process to overturn or not overturn it. However, underneath all that was the weaponization of the legal system that involved serious professional misconduct that necessitated the state bar association and the judiciary to get involved to stop it.
Those were not areas of discretion. Those were areas of the mandatory requirement of the legal profession to penalize the prosecutor for misconduct. Instead, they all looked the other way, hoping (successfully) that the American people would never figure it out. Here is the newsletter that documents this travesty so that the American people can know the score. It is entitled: "The Supreme Court buries Professional
Misconduct." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-buries-professional?r=3tdx2w
Well that's just quibbling, innit?
Kidding. This is an incredibly powerful, but by no means exhaustive list of the greatest hits of our authoritarian overlords. My blood pressure rose with each outrage you describe. Respect.
Other pet outrages, not necessarily related to weaponization of government:
Debasing the prestige of American troops with a shamefully mismanaged, humiliating, and craven withdrawal from Afghanistan? Check.
Continuing extravagant and obviously inflationary Covid-19 handouts once it was apparent the economy could be reopened (and never really closed due to work from home)? Check.
Compounding inflationary pressures with an infrastructure bill that seems to have produced little observable infrastructure? Check.
Curtailing domestic energy production to further exacerbate inflation, and increase the wealth of other oil producers, including Iran and Russia? Check.
Further facilitating Irans's nuclear program and sponsorship of terrorism by going soft on them and handing them billions from frozen accounts? Check.
More grand slams! Gracias.
Ya, I'm sure I missed a lot. I'd like to flesh it out. Feel free to list any you might care to add!
Outlawing the gig economy
? not familiar with this one !
Unfortunately, there are not a few elite Republicans on their side. There is an entire list of McCain, Romney and Bush former campaign and/or admin employees who are putting money toward Harris and Walz. Now I know I was right to leave the Republican Party under Bush. The Party had abandoned We the People in favor of global capital.
Democracy Dies In Darkness indeed.
With thunderous applause, no less.
That's not a warning. It's a mission statement.
If you could fit this on a bumper sticker, you'd be lighting cigars with $20s.
Damn that's actually a good idea. TRADEMARK!!!!!
It IS a good idea. I wish I were a Democrat and utterly devoid of ethics, because I'd already be printing the stickers and lighting the cigars.
They've blocked borrowers at every point. No bankruptcy rights, no statutes of limitations. etc. Anyone saying they can help is LYING. You can pay a small amount every 269 days, and go off the grid, avoid wage garnishment, etc. But the debt is immortal. That's why I started StudentLoanJustice.Org 20 years ago.
ok. I did not watch. who is the rhsw?
Mallory McMorrow—Michigan State Senate Majority Whip
On X @OCpatriot_ wrote:
"Basically she's the Joseph Goebbels of the DNC."
She stormed out on stage with a hard-bound copy of Project 2025.
And she stuck her tongue out a lot. Like a snake. Or a lizard. It was pretty biblical.
https://x.com/ZadeSmith4/status/1825859022672757065
Thanks for the clip. Ugh. At the 0:22 mark she actually catches a fly. And wow, she has a lot of M’s, and from Michigan to boot. Introducing MM(f)M, the RHSW! The dems have created a stable of evil villains second to none.
Is RHSW "Red Headed Snake Whisperer?!" Have they become a Harry Potter trope, along with their shared and fervent need to cancel JK Rowling? Talk about jumping the shark! Or at least giving it a sex change. (Call me JK!)
Superb imagery! Thanks for a belly laugh.
thanks. I now saw a clip. wow. talk about hyperbole plus a dry mouth. they have drugs for that. she needs them
Sticking the tongue out is a baby’s very first way of saying “No.” When they’ve had enough milk, they stick out their tongue. The impulse remains in the unconscious mind and becomes a microexpression signifying disgust. (Note that this is different from the conscious, playful or defiant act of sticking out one’s tongue. McMorrow is obviously unaware she’s doing this.) What is she disgusted by? Her subject matter or her own words?
Maybe she is disgusted by her own self.
I knew they were lizard people!
She stuck her tongue out? 'spose that sounds about right.
It's actually hard to google search because I am sure they've pushed Red headed snake woman way down the algo's.
I've got $100 that says you're correct.
Search terms: Mallory McMorrow "sticking out tongue"
Google results: It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search.
A sane and honest government would have broken up google years ago.
Wow. I got exactly the same thing! Turd Ferguson called that one exactly right. Now who owes me $100?
And crab people.
"Taste like crab, look like people" South Park.
This is a great quote by Turd Ferguson: "...if Trump gets in he'll weaponize government against his political rivals..." Indeed, the government was weaponized against Trump, not the other way around. Yet, the Republicans and legal commentators refuse to see "how" it was really weaponized against him, not on political reasons but on legal ones. It was weaponized when the entire judiciary broke all the rules through the prosecutors. It merited disbarment for all of them. Why aren't these people bringing it up? Are they in the tank with them? Here is the newsletter, published two days ago, that documents this corruption accurately. It's entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried ..." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
Because they are uniparty RINOs
Thank you Sir.
08/21/24: Quite right, Sir T. They are The Lobotomized, and would scare the living daylights out of Rod Serling.
It is always informative to listen to dem allegations. It tells you exactly what they are currently doing.
What we learned from this, (as if the lesson wasn't already drilled into our brains from Matt and Mike S' trip to the ministry of truth)is that dems are utterly devoid of principles. As Malcolm X said, "I'll always fight for justice. No matter who it's for, or against". Now THAT's a principled stance.
At the Trump debate with Kamala Trump could announce he is considering Tulsi to take over and clean up Homeland Security and RFK Jr. would make a good fit for CIA. Malcolm X would agree that would be justice.
I sure as hell hope all of them and Nikki Haley too get positions in his cabinet
Nikki Haley needs to be put out to pasture with all of her Neocon friends.
You're dropping truth A-bombs all over the place. Gracias.
If Bobby Jr had had you running his campaign, he'd still be in the race, and probably not an inveterate Zionist. That said, massive respect and admiration for Bobby for kicking Monsanto's ass. David and Goliath 2: Electric Boogaloo.
The Guardian - so beware the BS - is saying RFK is about to pull out.
08/21/24: RFK Jr would make a good ambassador to Ireland.
Got him killed, too.
Funny how that's a recurring theme...(lookin' at you Honest Abe, JFK, RFK, MLK)
They tried to add Trump to the list.
Hi EndOfTheRoad, How about taking a look at the Runnymede Report's Reply to Jose Weto on the subject of JFK.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpTMsToiJU
Could add a couple names to that song now.
Great tune and memories! Thanks for the link.
This was a great topic brought up by Jose Weto. It is the subject of JFK.
One massive area always overlooked by the government and conspiracy theorists is the prosecution of Lee Harvey Oswald. Over 34,000 justice officials
had the controlling role in his murder by Jack Ruby. Why is it that no one has looked into this? Could it be because it indicts the judiciary, the prosecutors and the state bar associations? Could it be because the news media is in bed with them and will do their best to cover this up? The reality of this massive wrongdoing is documented in the newsletter entitled: "The Judiciary Cartel's
Controlling Role in the Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald is Clear. Here's how."
Here it is: https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/the-judiciary-cartels-controlling?r=3tdx2w
It'd be funny to find out that Joe Manchin was being followed. He's the proverbial, constant burr under Pelosi's saddle.
I bet he is
I bet Fetterman is on the list too.
1. Grassley, 90, proves that the issue was never age.
2. We now know that the primary enemy of the state isn't white supremacy or police forces, or George Soros, or even Trump. It's We the People.
I sure did notice. It's because they support weaponization w Gabbard being a "Russian asset" and all
08/21/24: I'm old enough to remember when ONLY the Democrats were outraged when something like this horrible event would happen! Now all the ACLUers are fascists!
Notice how this inquiry isn’t motivated by principle but by partisanship?
Sure, but sometimes partisanship and principle overlap. It's unfortunate principle isn't the motivator all of the time, but this is American politics. Are you suggesting an inquiry by Republicans is illegitimate because what happened to Tulsi happened under a Democrat administration, thereby making any Republican inquiry "partisan"?
> Sure, but
Remember your improv classes. It's "yes, and" not "yes, but."
And trying to make the previous person say things they didn't just isn't funny either.
The person stated the inquiry is motivated by partisanship instead of principle in the form of a question. I answered the question from my perspective, and asked a further question because I want to know if there are any circumstances under which they think an inquiry by Republicans in Congress of a Democrat administration would not be motivated by partisanship. I'm not trying to be funny or "make the previous person say things they didn't..." Good luck at your improv classes, the subject doesn't really interest me.
We're all so busy dodging turds in the punchbowl trying to get a glass of punch, we can't even find a piece of objective truth to discuss.
Republicans MAY be investigating dem crimes out of partisanship. I've historically reflexively disliked republicans since Nixon, but I don't care who investigates, because the crimes of the dems are egregious.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. So I'm 100% with you Ryan and I couldn't care less if the genesis of these investigations is partisanship "Unwarranted". Drew, yes, and I think Ryan S made a great point.
As Fredrick Douglas said, "I'll work with anybody for good, and I'll work with nobody for bad". Pretty simple, unless you ascribe to Cancel Culture.
I agree, the inquiry is important because it's reasonable to want to understand how Tulsi ends up on a TSA terror watchlist. It appears to be intimidation and harassment, and the apparent weaponization of government concerns me. I may be wrong though, maybe the designation was legitimate or was an honest mistake. I haven't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since making that mistake in 2000. This shouldn't be a partisan issue, though in this political climate I'm not surprised it is.
This is a great point by JC. Yes, it's illegal surveillance under the fourth amendment. And yes,
it is wrong. And yes, the Dems are not concerned about it. But what about the Fifth and the Sixth Amendments. Neither Dems nor Republicans evince any concern when Trump is denied his fair trial rights. Yes, the Republicans investigated Mark Pomerantz and DA Bragg in the prosecution of the hush money case. But, not one of them (or Dems either) even thought of ringing the alarm bell about the professional misconduct they committed and the professional misconduct of the state bar association and the judiciary. These wrongs are documented in the newsletter just published two days ago entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the
Supreme Court Buried: https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
They’re unconscious.
They're TOTALITARIANS. They APPROVE of this
You’re right.
But if they weren’t unconscious, they wouldn’t be totalitarians and approve of it.
It goes back to Plato’s Republic, although Plato hasn’t aged well on that one.
I don't think that is correct for a lot them. They're dedicated Marxists.
Dedicated Marxists aren't represented at all. The closest we got to Marxists running the federal government was a single city council member elected in Seattle.
The psychological assault being implemented to create division, destroy and prevent the healthy and productive national conversation we the people deserve, is definitely Marxist.. (James Lindsay/NEW DISCOURSES)..
My opinion: It's a clique of faux Marxist ideological utopians serving the megalomaniac narcissism of criminal financiers, political grifters and a mercenary surveillance bureaucracy. And it's all the same people. Same schools. Same parties. Same clubs. Same gated communities. While we try to understand the irrationality and damaging consequences destroying American life being perpetrated by the one, the other is destroying our lives from another direction. It's one beast with multiple heads. In mythology, a hydra. Million dollar salaries for Marxist university deans and six figure incomes for DEI commissariat members. Stock tips and fortunes for elected American political leaders. Huge corporate and Federal grants paid to professional spies and snitches who work with surveillance state operatives and tech oligarchs to distort and prevent the healthy American national dialogue and reality we the people deserve. The hypocrisy of the LIE it represents is so huge it can only be termed a "psyop". Their goal is seizure of everything not bolted to the ground before the inevitable economic collapse resulting from their avarice hurls the free peoples of the world into serfdom. Will the words fascist, marxist, Democrat or Republican really mean anything to the beaten down, depressed, uneducated inhabitants of the gray world open air totalitarianism the DNC/EU/WEF/CCP hopes to install on the free peoples of the world?
If you are guided by generally Marxist philosophical principles you are a Marxist. If you are a "soft" communist (i.e., "socialist") you are a Marxist. Do you have to parrot Marx exactly to be an ideological Marxist? No. Can you be wealthy and be a Marxist? Yes. Must you eschew a rich lifestyle to be a Marxist? No. Come on down, Boinie Sanders!
Agreed, unless they're actually evil, whereby they could be conscious AND totalitarians. I dunno, why don't we ask one of the millions of people that the US Govt has brought freedom to around the world with 500lb bombs which it is?
Ecclesiastes 10:2 says, “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.” A fool is one whose wayward heart turns continually toward foolishness. “Fools speak foolishness and make evil plans” (Isaiah 32:6). Proverbs 26:11 says, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.” Fools do not learn their lessons from the mistakes they make. They continue doing the same foolish things over and over again, to their own destruction (Proverbs 18:7)."
https://www.gotquestions.org/fool-Bible.html
Because they are vindictive totalitarians.
Nothing more.
they will when Trump puts them on that list.
> Notice that no Dems are outraged or stepping up to find out why this happened!!
That's because everything must be partisan now, including your accusatory comment.
This is a great quote by Drew: "That's because everything must be partisan now, including your accusatory comment." Partisanship indeed, can obfuscate so many things that are not partisan at all. Democrats can scream of injustice. Republicans can scream of injustice. Yet when injustice is staring them in the face they refuse to call for penalties against the wrongdoers. Recall the investigation of DA Bragg and ADA Mark Pomerantz into their wrongdoing in the hush money case. Not even a whisper was heard from the Republicans, much less the Democrats, on the disbarrable professional misconduct they committed against Trump. Here is a newsletter, published this week, that documents what happened that proves this point. It is entitled "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. It is the Record of DA Alvin Bragg. Part One." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
Or 99.9% of America?
The Democrats just do whatever they want now openly mocking Republicans who huff and puff but end up getting nowhere. I don’t know what needs to be done but this is not working. No Democrat or Democrat operative is ever held accountable for the blatant corruption yet there are people in jail for wandering around the Capitol on January 6.
You're right. Election campaigns were never known for their truthfulness, but the fictions being peddled now are coming fast and furious. It's like they're daring the opposition to get bogged down trying to refute the avalanche of lies.
The dems do seem more and more to be the injured wild animal backed into a corner.
No. The other way around. They are coming at us with snarling claws. I see NO fear in them but an unholy self righteousness. Just the texts my sister sends to me shows she has strapped on some kind of evil righteous (in her mind) HATE. I never answer her back. I kept the door open when she disowned me for some time for not vaxxing. But, it’s closed now. I certainly can’t visit her because her tv is tuned to CNN all day. She lives and breathes sulphuric hate for Trump and republicans. And me, by extension if she knew how I really feel.
You're right. The dems and cancellers are aggressive and ruthless. And Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to make them immune to truth. Many of know very well the feelings of dismay and betrayal that these dems have done with their "A Trans Handmaid's Tale". I think i just made that up, but tell me the differences between today's Democrats and the oppressors in "A Handmaid's Tale". The oppressor's target (dissidents), and wardrobe were the only ones I could find. Fundamentalism is fundamentalism, and it's always f*cked for the out group.
I'm sorry that your relationship with your sister has degenerated. I agree with your description of (many) Democrats - their hatred is visceral, especially among women.
I've been told that their hatred of Trump is indeed visceral because he's emblematic of the type of predatory male that they've had to deal with all their lives.
In many ways, this election is a battle of the sexes - very "Freudian".
John, your comment is absolutely brilliant. Scoundrels divide us and it IS very Freudian.
I disagree. Their iron grip on 90% of the media puts the Republicans at an extreme disadvantage.
How do the republicans do anything when the head of the justice dept will never prosecute someone on the left
The Dem House impeached Trump twice. Rep House is playing Mr Nice Guy.
They COULD put teeth into their subpoena s. Put propkd in jail. They have that power. They could hacs impeached Biden and myorjas. But Republicans won't stand together fir this.
Jim Jordan is the prime showboater. Lots of bluster that goes nowhere.
No, that's Jim Comer. Jordan is a good guy. So are Senators Paul and Grassley.
Seems like a good guy but haven’t seen much in the way of results unfortunately, I’m hoping he isn’t Trey Gowdy 2.0
Hello, Susan G. You can take a look at The Runnymede Report's reply to EndOfTheRoad's point about the powerlessness of Jordan that also fits for Comer.
Showboating is an art during Congressional investigations.
Speaking of showboating, Danno, you can take a look at The Runnymede
Report's reply to EndOfTheRoad's assessment of the Republican Congressional leadership.
EndOfTheRoad, no truer words could be said on this topic. He, along with the rest of the Republican Congressional leadership had DA Alvin Bragg and former ADA Mark Pomerantz right in the crosshairs and let them go without even a whisper. Both of those people were plainly guilty of professional misconduct on numerous levels in how they prosecuted Trump, yet the Republican Leadership refused to even touch the fact that they should have been removed from the practice of law for what they did. Who are they trying to protect? Is it just the prosecutor and his former assistant or is it also the state bar association and the judiciary who were all in on it against Trump. Here is the latest newsletter documenting this point. It is entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. The Record of New York DA Alvin Bragg." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
Jim Jordan can go straight to hell. Absolutely a joke.
Hello Dan, you can take a look at The Runnymede Report's reply to EndOfTheRoad.
It gets to the heart of where Jim Jordan and his ilk are coming from.
You poor thing! Let's find you a safe place away from the mean Democrats.
Do you know the history of the democratic party?
…and PUT in prison by the Democrats! 😡😡😡😡😡😡
Hi Big Wally, how about taking a look at The Runnymede Report's reply to Drew. It directly documents what you are saying.
This is a great point made by Big Wally, in noting the antagonism between the Democrats and the Republicans. Amazingly, the Republican led House of Representatives had the golden opportunity to condemn what happened to Donald Trump in the four wrongful prosecutions against him when they investigated what DA Bragg and ADA Mark Pomerantz did. They had them dead to rights in the obvious professional misconduct they were guilty of. Instead of
calling for their disbarment, with all the facts at their command they avoided this subject. Why?
Who are they in the tank for? This professional misconduct involved these two and the U.S. Supreme Court. Here is the newsletter entitled: "The Supreme Court Buries Professional Misconduct:" https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-buries-professional?r=3tdx2w
look to the founders. they didnt get rid of their opressive and evil government by voting.
ResistWeMuch hits the mark when it comes to where the Founders were coming from.
Though they didn't get rid of their oppressive and evil government by voting,
they did frame a government to prevent oppression and evil government. One of the key things they drew upon was the Magna Carta that was signed in Runnymede, England.
Indeed, they incorporated into the Fifth and the Sixth Amendment which provided for the protection of fair trial rights of accused defendants. The legal profession went one step further and made conduct rules that prohibited the prosecutor from taking away the fair trial rights of the defendant in a criminal prosecution. If he were to do it,
the rules provided for his disbarment from the practice of law. So what is the problem?
The state bar associations and the judiciary routinely allow the prosecutor to get away with it because that the public does not know the difference. It's high-time that that changed. Because it hasn't happened yet, oppressive and evil government continues to dominate.
Quiet skies is quite an Orwellian name. It’s so quiet they’ll disappear you to a black site. For safety and democracy! Vote for joyful Kamala and folksy Tim!
From a suggestion on another comment the other day, look on Wikipedia for "strength through joy". Pretty funny.
Vivek's proposal to fire all government bureaucrats on Jan. 20th is seeming more and more rational.
It's time for the Great Cleansing. If any bureaucrat is worth our taxpayer dollars, they can demonstrate their value during the interview to get their job back.
"What would you say you do here." -Bob
Noam Deplume, Jr. (look,at,me), this is a great topic. You can take a look at The Runnymede Report's reply to John Holmes in which an entirely overlooked "Great Cleansing" is noted and needs to be demanded.
Indeed, government abuse calls for the firing of government bureaucrats. However,
the firing alone won't do it when it comes to the wrongdoing of prosecutors.
If they are only fired, they will go back to lucrative law jobs from their political connections. However, if they are rightly disbarred from their professional misconduct in how they prosecuted Trump, they will be banned from the practice of law.
🤣🤣🤣 Perfect.
not to be missed
Straight into the Ministry of Love!
> Quiet skies is quite an Orwellian name.
Seriously? In a country whose war department is "The Department of Defense," this is the name that qualifies as Orwellian?
Why can’t they both be Orwellian?
Because obvious hypocrisy doesn’t win online arguments with strangers. 😂😂
The program itself was created by Republicans during the Bush Administration, but don't let that inconvenient fact slow you down.
The Bush Admin has nothing to do with today's Republican party. You obviously have been asleep for the past 8 years.
Today's Republican party traces itself back to the Bush administration, it's just more senile today then it was then.
We surveilled her because she's a sharp and painful thorn in the Biden/Harris administration's side and because she made a mockery of Harris in an old debate, and is still mocking Harris's lack of credibility as a leader.
We ordered it because we could and to send a message to other potential critics. Any questions? Sorry, can't comment, it's classified.
Dead on. These sons of bitches.
LIKE
Obviously a National Security Issue....
why do you hate America? /s
Congress has a phone and a pen, but no spine.
The power is in the purse, where they keep their balls.
congress works for the administrative state and the multinational corporations. it would be a modern day miracle if they ever did one tiny damn thing to protect our natural rights.
If we force them to live under the same laws as us they will protect ours to protect their's.
That's a big IF
It'll go nowhere, like all "investigations".
Congress only has power if DoJ will enforce its contempt decrees. Republican DoJ won’t do it, Dems do - but only against Republicans.
Rinos will not vote to withhold funding
Congress vs. the DOJ is a political calibration. And that should be known. Still, there is another calibration that needs to be weighed in the balance. The DOJ and the U.S.
Attorneys are bound by rules of conduct that they routinely break with the complicity of the state bar associations and the judiciary. These violations occur because all of these participants are guided by political motivations. Yet the judiciary (which includes the prosecutors under their authority) are expressly prohibited from being political. Indeed, if they are political they cannot be an independent branch of government which is supposed to operate as a check and balance on the other two branches of government (the executive and the legislature). It is a major scam of the news media and the legal commentators this great truth is hidden. Here is the latest newsletter that corroborates this corruption entitled: This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court buried. The Record of New York's DA Bragg. Part One." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
Answers at last! We can't say whether you were under surveillance but we have updated our notes about whether or not you were under surveillance.
Right, the usual “we can neither confirm or deny” BS. Time to disband the American Gestapo aka DHS and their attack dog the TSA.
It is great for Mike Menzie to bring up the American Gestapo. Yes, the Gestapo concept did not terminate with the fall of the Third Reich as it relates to the DHS and the TSA.
However, it goes deeper than that. In Nazi Germany the Gestapo was famous for rounding up political undesirables and bringing them to the People's Court in Berlin in which the guilty verdict was already decided upon even before the defendant came into court. As with Nazi Germany, the American Gestapo works through the prosecutors to bring cases to court against political undesirables with the guilty verdict already arranged ahead of time before judges with the full complicity of the state bar association and the entire judiciary. Here is the latest newsletter that documents this. It's entitled: "The Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. The Record of New York DA
Alvin Bragg. Part One." https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
Oh what bullshit! Nothing comes out of these Congressional dog-and-pony shows. Time for pitchforks, baseball bats, and guillotines.
Just like the finding the other day that Biden most likely took bribes from Ukraine. Really, guys? That happened way back when he was VICE President. Today he's a dead man walking, and you're just now getting around to it? The GOP is a bunch of enablers for Democrats.
They're his partners in crime.
Absolutely.
Did you forget the torches?
Screw the torches. General Atomics' MQ-9 Reaper drone. That can even fry Zuckerberg in the sub basement of his Hawaiian bunker.
Is General Atomics a real company? I thought that was just in Fallout!
Very real. Are you real? I have my doubts.
You project harder than a democrat. You seem to be writing violent, incendiary BS as a provocateur to induce others to write something that will get them on the Quiet Skies list with Tulsi. Go back to Huffpo or Neera Tanden. Or are you Antifa/CIA? Actually, that snake ate it's tail, in the Kurt Metzger approved L.G.B.T.Q.C.I.A.
Agreed. Sober up PaxAlto.
Minor correction: the company's name is General Atomic (not "Atomics). And they are very real.
Pitchforks, baseball bats, guillotines, and torches . . .
Yes, torches fits that group.
But one of those things is not like the others. It's a sure sign that someone also had trouble with IQ tests.
PaxAlto a very good point. "Nothing comes out of these Congressional dog-and-pony shows." Here is a great example. NY DA Bragg and former ADA Mark Pomerantz are brought before Congress about how were involved in the hush money case. They committed numerous acts of professional misconduct resulting in jury nullification in the contamination of the jury pool by their negative extrajudicial publicity against Trump. Many in Congress are lawyers and would have fully known what this meant. Yet, none called for disbarment of these two. The record of what Bragg and Pomerantz did with the help of the Supreme Court is documented in the newsletter, published just two days ago, entitled: "This is the Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court buried ..." Here it is: https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
plus rags and gasoline for the bunkers.
Take a bow. I read nothing of this in the mainstream press. Even my comments about it were suppressed. Taibbi, Jimmy Dore, and a vital crew of fearless blowers of whistles seems to be keeping democracy afloat.
I love this: "a vital crew of fearless blowers of whistles seems to be keeping democracy afloat." Brilliant language!
David 1260, you can look at "The Runnymede Report's reply to Sera, in which the alleged nobility of "fearless blowers of whistles" is evaluated.
This is a very important quote from Sera: "...a vital crew of fearless blowers of whistles seems to be keeping democracy afloat." One of the chief ways that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment are routinely violated is from the fact that civil liberty proponents stress free speech rights and "never" bring up the destruction of fair trial rights against undesirable defendants by wrongdoing prosecutors. Why is it never brought up? Who are civil liberty proponents trying to protect? Not only is the subject never raised but nowhere is the demand made that those who destroy fair trial rights must need be disbarred under the rules of conduct if the constitution is to reman inviolable. The violators get away with it because the American people are blinded from knowing it! It is high-time that that changes. Here is the latest newsletter that shows how the alleged civil libertarians hide this reality. It is entitled:" The Professional Misconduct that the Supreme Court Buried. The Record of New York DA Alvin Bragg. Part One."
https://therunnymedereport.substack.com/p/this-is-the-professional-misconduct?r=3tdx2w
May I presume that you once believed that the mainstream press had some interest in keeping democracy afloat? If so, would you date the demise of this intention to the early 1960s, or does this date to more recent events like March 2020?
Trump’s election and then Trump/Russia marked major changes. Remember early Wikileaks stuff got wide reception, even while Obama was in office. But when Trump was elected it was like everyone went bananas overnight
The mainstream press was comprised of newspapers and TV until the advent of social media. I think it is useful to distinguish between these two epochs because internet communications were not subject to partisan manipulation until recently, as your Wikileaks reference illustrates. The little bit of free expression that we continue to enjoy in substacks like Racket News has been instrumental in pulling back the curtain. Nothing like this existed in the 1960s. The press hid the troop buildup in Vietnam and buried a much-needed debate over the war of attrition that was launched in May and June of 1964. This was an election year. Goldwater was portrayed as a raving lunatic for merely bringing up the real issues of a war in Vietnam that LBJ and McNamara were already embarked upon, as is documented in "Dereliction of Duty". I think we have deluded ourselves over the historical role of the press. The delusions are useful, as they seem to motivate some journalists to seek the truth, but they divert us from dealing with a reality that is increasingly bleak and all the journalists who merely seek to exploit the chaos for their own benefit. Myths of past glories and heroes ... remember the Maine? ... seem to blind us to the institutional collapse that characterizes nearly every branch of government and the very nature of our Republic.
Upton Sinclair (“The Brass Check”) and George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia and private letters) would beg to differ. Sinclair wrote over 100 years ago about how the AP were the captive stenographers of the powers that be (the titular brass check referred to a token carried by prostitutes, showing what he thought of the bought and paid for media). Orwell almost 100 years ago wrote in the context of the Spanish Civil War about how the press would completely invent stories in favor of the government narrative, while ignoring any stories inconvenient to it. I don’t think these phenomena are anything new, it’s that we have much more information about how things actually work in the age of the Internet than we did in the age of 3 TV channels, let alone the age of William Randolph Hearst basically inventing the pretexts for the Spanish-American War.
Believe that part of the reason the MSM went bat shit crazy was due to the lack of influence they had previously held in elections. Trump ignored many/most of the MSM pundits and went straight to Twitter to reach voters, and wasn't involved with the MSM explaining to voters what he really meant or said.
Two edged sword in quite a few cases.
yes - the left had co-opted the power of the state, implemented by the right, so now it was a good thing. Trump challenged that which had them clutching their pearls. i am not convinced the Republicans would not do the same if they return to power. Adding RFK to the fold might help mitigate that?
The party out of power always gets more libertarian (at least rhetorically) and the party in power always gets more authoritarian for fairly obvious reasons.
I noticed the mainstream media go sideways starting around 2010, in the heat of the sub-prime home mortgage crisis. And then around Occupy Wall Street I saw many blatant examples of media disinformation produced right before my eyes. I'd say that was a key turning point.
It’s a tricky thing to write about history as we live it, like trying to put out a house on fire while you’re lying in bed. But Chris Hedges was once Middle East bureau chief for The NY Times, where Seymour Hersh was a legendary reporter; that paper also published the Pentagon Papers. Glenn Greenwald wrote for the Guardian; and Matt Taibbi covered deep sea cephalopods for Rolling Stone. That’s just a sampling of those that the MSM has exiled in order to keep us safe.
Do you seriously think that your comments on this issue are targeted by some kind of deep state operatives?
You're not skimping on medication, are you?
No, I’m terribly sorry not to have been more clear. They were suppressed by the newspaper to which they were submitted. The Deep Times.
"However, we have made any corrections to records that our inquiries determined were necessary, including, as appropriate, notations that may assist in avoiding incidents of misidentification."
Quite the non-statement.
And word salad. Get used to it.
THEY'RE ALL ASSHOLES!!!
If you find you're the only one using all caps, you might be the asshole.
Get some quality time with a paper bag, Internet stranger.
Another Leftist, MORONIC troll. Get some quality time out of your Mom's basement.
There was an interview on Fox today when a NY congresswoman said they had to file FOIA requests months ago to find out something about border statistics. Why the hell does a congressperson with oversight have to file an FOIA request for anything within their jurisdiction? Because --- none of our business.
Meanwhile, today the Dept of Labor corrected its new jobs number. Over 800, 000 --- to the downside. Wow. Dept of Labor was off by almost 1 million on numbers that move markets --- and elections. The only "industry" segment on the plus side? Not manufacturing, not anything, but "government."
You really don't have to have that inquiring of a mind to figure this out.
I have been told (cuz I am an idiot and don't understand macro economics) that gubmint hiring helps the tax base.
haha. Maybe when everybody is a government employee and the only place to go for your job is where the government tells you to, it will all work out. Government, bigger. Private sector, no more. As Buffy the Vampire Slayer said, "Fire bad, tree pretty," or something like that.
BTW, does the federal gov't ever impose the same rules on their projects as the private sector, or does the Congressional staff have the same goodies as their bosses? Maybe not.
> You really don't have to have that inquiring of a mind to figure this out.
No, the typical religious person also tends to see all things connected and invisible entities controlling it all.
As an American voter/taxpayer/citizen. Am I allowed to ask any question, or do I have to just ingest the poison from our Leaders?
This number wasn't off by a little, like a railroad strike or avian flu or any number of things that can disrupt statistics and figures. This was just short of 1 million jobs over how long --- WRONG!
I am not a religious person. I am a skeptic with a brain that thinks my government owes me. This big number error can be based on one of many things. Incompetence is really my first suspicion, not corruption for the ruling party which is second suspicion. But as HRC famously said, "What difference does it make!"
We had a huge bureaucracy that was supposed to protects us from pandemics. How did that work out? Now the bureaucracy in charge of counting working people is off by, how many! And, why?
We are The Soviet States of Americka.
I’ll wait for your article saying someone has been fired or jailed, but I doubt I’ll live that long
Yeah. Don't hold your breath. But you will very quickly hear a lot of passive voice stuff. "Hey, mistakes were made" "some folks were drone bombed"
My favorite is the word misspoke being used to cover an intentional lie.
you are wrong. im pretty sure you will see an article saying the (lying traitorous) whistleblowers were fired. Fairly soon.
I think the communists called that “ cleansing “ during the revolution
Does anything ever have a chance of changing with your and several other almost identical comments here? Yup let's all just get on our backs put our feet in the air and say why bother? 🙄🙄🙄
It’s not the comments here. It’s the endless wast of time and money by Congress on toothless investigations. As to what I’ve done personally, I’ve written my congressmen and senators and speak several times a year to another house member. And vote, of course.
When the people who write the laws and enforce the laws abuse the law, we are screwed.
An outsider like Trump could make a difference, but he will need serious help
maybe like RFK and Nicole
Musk, RFK, could help but someone with a conservative heart and big balls needs to tear down the justice dept, the FBI, and the CIA and rebuild it where it’s apolitical.
RFK is speaking on Friday near Trump’s next rally. Don Jr just dropped a tweet how nice it would be to join forces and let RFK do some house cleaning. Cornell West and Jill Stein complaining all they can do is fight the Democratic machine of law-fare which they seemed to have perfected. And the Dems, well they just smile and talk about joy and their polls keep going up. This is one big pysop being perpetrated on the American people. They are behaving just like 2020. Biden in the basement all the while smiling like they knew the gig was up.
Why shouldn't the DNC party utilise that "Joy" trope? Remember the "Hope and Change" BS? Worked like a champ in 2008. Let's go with the shit that works...Debbie Wasserman-Shulz.
that would be the end of the republican part as we knew it. im all for it
Cynicism is a disease. It's tough to combat because of the fact that it presents itself as worldlier-than-thou wisdom.
Thank god Matt's not infected.
Matt is terminally infected. As is any sane person. Perhaps look up "cynicism" in your handy pocket dictionary.
I don’t think I’m a cynic— I wouldn’t be slogging through all this stuff if I were. Exhausted and jaded maybe, but not a cynic yet. I still cling to that scene from Predator: “It bleeds. We can kill it.”
A cynic is a disappointed idealist, carrying a lamp in the daytime looking for an honest man.
None of us will.
Another one? Wow
The TSA has to be among the most ridiculous and infuriating examples of unconstitutional, overbearing and ineffective Federal overreach.
They have turned every airport in the nation into a bill-of-rights-free zone.
For over two decades now, this legion of surly blue-suited clowns have been groping, scanning, harassing and thieving from travelers, enforcing an ever-expanding canon of absurd, arbitrary rules that anyone with an IQ exceeding their shoe size knows does nothing to contribute to actual security.
I personally have seen them reduce children to tears when stealing sets of liquid crayons, humiliate women and the disabled after scans, and barking orders like some sort of Stasi parody.
And for what? To my knowledge they have yet to catch a single terrorist.
It is long past time to eradicate this pox on the traveling public.
Another gift of the worst presidency of the post-WW2 era, Bush/Cheney.
The lies, the wars, the war crimes, all the soldiers killed or mutilated so the neocons could jerk each other off imagining global domination, the unprecedented combination of arrogance and ignorance that is George W, all topped off with a financial crash.
And then there's the Dept of Homeland Security, a massive unaccountable ipso facto violation of civil rights that can never be shut down or reformed—brought to you by supposed "small govt" conservatives.
What did America do to deserve such terrible, terribly stupid and terribly greedy, leaders?
Just so. The whole lot of the Shrub & Co. should be remembered and treated as the war criminals they are.
As for the GOP, there is a reason many call it the Stupid Party. The term 'spineless' also comes to mind.
Americans keep getting, and therefore deserving, exactly what they vote for.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
Shrub was skewered by that Texan Mencken, the late great Molly Ivins, who knew both the depths of his ignorance, entitlement and malevolence—though he was just an infant compared to Big Dick Cheney, the power behind the throne.
But then again, there will only ever be one Mencken!
True Mencken was in a class by himself, but Molly was a gem.
She once said of Arnold Schwarzenegger; 'That boy looks like a condom full of walnuts' And the then governor Rick Perry was simply "Good Hair".
Some comments, like this one, read like a fine shot of tequila tastes; Smooth, complex and substantial.
I dunno. BO and crew give them a run for their money in terms of malevolence. But at the time I thought Bush might literally be the Antichrist, and I’m not even a Christian!
> What did America do to deserve such terrible, terribly stupid and terribly greedy, leaders?
Well . . . first, they're clearly all Americans. And our system is built on greed. Most of us mistake greed for democracy at this point.
Try going through the same system in the UK. Very rarely do you see issues with 3.4 oz of liquid in the US, in the UK, you can't have more than a small sandwich baggie full of 3.4oz bottles or they throw them all out.
I guess it could be worse. I have no idea what I've said on line that might upset those jackals over there. No way I am stepping foot over there to find out. Of course after Kamala wins (and she's winning) I'll likely be extradited.
One can only imagine the rigorous data analysis and deep thought that went into landing on 3.4 oz., as opposed to, say, 3.39.
Probably 15 or so years ago, I was told by an airline agent that I was "on the list" and had to check my luggage with my young daughter. Several years after that, I had some special code on my boarding pass that entitled me to the full package of extra indignities.
Certainly, It can always get worse, and very well may. The way things are going over there across the pond, you may soon have to flee to the one of the further Orkneys.
Good luck, mate.
You have nothing to worry about Turd. All us Racketeers are going to be in Hillary's "Basket of Deplorables". You'll be in good company.
What a perfect comment. A radio jock I listen to called it "Security Theater". Can you guess the one airport where they DON'T have X-ray machines? Dulles, where congress goes to boondoggle. Can't have the proles seeing their junk. But they sure want to see ours.
Yes, the term was coined by Bruce Schneier, who, among other contributions to civilization, wrote *Applied Cryptography*, arguably the definitive volume on the subject.
I highly recommend it, even (or perhaps especially) for the non-technical.
https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Source/dp/1119096723/ref=sr_1_1
Donald Trump, I am begging, yes, begging you to offer the Director of the CIA job to RFK Jr. And RFK Jr., I am begging, yes, begging you to take the job.
Not bad, but I would go with RFK Jr as Attorney General, Michael Flynn at CIA, Tulsi Gabbard as Sec Def, Ron Paul at Treasury, Elon Musk as special advisor on all kinds of sh!t; and to really mess with the deep state Hulk Hogan at the FBI. Ok that last one’s a stretch.
Interesting idea. Though I would prefer Michael Flynn.
Why was George Herbert Walker Bush head of the CIA? He was, wasn't he?
RFK Jr. is a lawyer with a proven history of representing liberal environmental causes. Against the horrid freedom crackdown that happened with Covid and censorship. Time to open up the books.
There’s an old baseball story about a new umpire who blew a call at third base, calling the runner safe. On the next play that runner slid safely into home and the plate umpire called him out.
Later, the new guy teased the veteran, saying: “You sure missed that call at the plate.” “No,” said the vet, you missed him at third. I nailed him at the plate.” Sure you can try to open the books, but Umpires, like postmen, always ring twice. Do you think that might be on the minds of both Trump and RFK jr.?
HW Bush had previously been our ambassador to China. So he actually had some street cred to be head of the CIA.
GHW Bush had previously been head of the RNC. It's a political appointment, so that qualified him more than being second chair in China.
I think it was membership to "Skull and Bones"
RFK, Jr. has a lot of unseemly personal baggage. Bus was a career "Easter Establishment" politician. Made him a "safe" choice to head CIA.
So Bush was, "See no evil . . ." Let's open the books.
Let's open the books.
I'd prefer RFK Jr at Justice as Attorney General.
The "system" didn't start this. Individual(s) did this. Who?
It's a long, mostly unknown list. But let's start with the headliners:
1. J. E. Hoover.
2. James Clapper.
3. Add your own names!
Obama
Allen Dulles
Holder
Cheney
James Jesus Angleton
E. Howard Hunt
Philip Zelikow
Colin Powell
GHW Bush
LBJ
I'm honestly surprised you haven't received more entries Alan.
That's a very Republican way to not deal at all with systemic problems. Congrats on your partisanship!
Says the Partisan!!
I don't follow sports at all, but trolls like you make me wish Matt would initiate a good ole', Jim Rome-style Smack Off. The trolls would comment with some BS then get their pride obliterated by real humans with lives. It happens with trolls here now, but Jim Rome had elevated it to an art, the last time I heard one.
Awesome dude! If the Republicans are good for anything, they SHOULD be good for ending the surveillance state.
Keep doing what you're doing. It's showing results. Just go for the big stuff though. We need legislation barring the government AND private concerns from getting our data. Those fucking creeps. No more stockpiling of internet browsing history, emails, etc, etc. Preventing these fucking CREEPS in using these data in self-serving, nefarious ways (AI being what it is) is exactly the thing that needs to happen right now. This is a small start, but don't get caught up in small-ball while the Tsunami overwhelms us, man.
> If the Republicans are good for anything, they SHOULD be good for ending the surveillance state.
Because none of them supported the PATRIOT act, right? Good luck looking for heroes among the Republicans.
Very good point! I'm appealing to their "better angels", I suppose. What I have in mind: In the wake of the Snowden revelations, Republicans in the Maryland State House introduced a bill that would have literally cut off utilities to the NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland. That was bold! Unfortunately, the Bill was quietly killed in the ensuing months, with nearly all the cosponsors, one by one, withdrawing their names from the Bill.
We need something like that again, only without the second part. We need something from them that sticks.
Really interesting story: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/10/lights-out-for-nsa-maryland-lawmakers-push-to-cut-water-electricity-to-spy-agency-headquarters
NSA: "Congressman, our records show that you have a habit of sharing hotel rooms with your twenty-three-year-old intern. We just thought you'd like to know that. By the way, how do you plan to vote on the bill to cut off our utilities?"
Ex--Fking-zactly!!!
We knew this could happen. Now, it is.
We need people to run who don't care what nonsense comes out about them. We need voters who will overlook the bedroom-gossip.
Kind of a tough order, but maybe not too tough....
Far better that than holier-than-thou candidates, who always screw us!!!!!!
...AND SPY ON US!!!
Thanks Matt. My money is on Kamala Harris or Nancy Pelosi. The use of Tulsi’s congressional photo makes me think it is Nancy, because she would have easy access to it. This was a petty, wasteful decision, that sounds like Nancy.
I'm still waiting for someone to hold Pelosi to account for what she did to Dianne Feinstein. That was a lot more cruel than what she did to Biden.
Exactly. That old harridan.
I don't really wish anyone to come to harm, i just want them to go away. But i don't think i'd shed a tear if that vain old bat met a fate like Feinstein's. Who i was no fan of, but she absolutely didn't deserve that.
> he use of Tulsi’s congressional photo makes me think it is Nancy, because she would have easy access to it.
Wasn't it just this one?
https://www.congress.gov/member/tulsi-gabbard/G000571?page=5
Anyone younger than a boomer has easy access to that.