Caroline Glick on lawfare against Trump and against Netanyahu — 15 Comments
Glick closes with “So long as the legal systems that created Russiagate and ousted Netanyahu from power remain corrupted by politicized bureaucrats, our societies will only grow more divided and unstable.”
The left owns the legal system and the media. It controls the ‘educational’ sector. It has corrupted and controls the medical industry. A corrupted political system obstructs substantive reform.
If the elections of 2022 and 2024 fail to result in a reformation, the only choices will be to grovel upon our bellies under the left’s tyranny or resort to “politics by other means”.
Fortunately, Obama’s Jewish Spring was aborted before it could progress.
We need 10 year Term Limits on all non-military Federal employees.
“Fortunately…”
Ah, but we’ve been bequeathed “Biden” (or should that be Obama2.0? Obama3.0?)
Which is essentially, Obama without the “niceties” (even if those trousers are still immaculately creased); without the smile; without the need to do things “by the book” (sic)…or at least not Susan Rice’s “book”….
IOW, Obama Unbound. Unplugged.
Unleashed…
And when the ultimate “Biden” betrayal “arrives”—and it’s in the works (it has been from before Day 1)…though there’ve been so many betrayals and there WILL BE be so many more that it will be almost impossible to determine what the “ultimate” one will be…yes, they’re all a well-wrapped package…from hell—all the Best and the Brightest (TM), and most compassionate, caring, loving and concerned, may just begin to wonder what “rough beast” just landed…though they’ll never be able to conclude that they were somehow responsible for it, no not they!…
And so, “fortunately”?
Well, I suppose in a matter of speaking…there was a respite during which one was able to, with Trump, “Cry [BS]! And let slip [the blessings of potential peace]….(with apologies….)
– – – – – – – –
And in other news, a reassessment is certainly in order:
Maybe Hunter is INDEED—no malarkey—“…the smartest guy I know”…
“Hunter’s Hooker Scored $20,000 PPP Loan As Joe Biden Entered White House”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-prostitute-scored-20000-ppp-loan
(This of course is small change…even as it is just the merest tip of the iceberg…)
I suppose, though, that one could always blame aliens…(Can we even say these days that creatures from outer space are that?)
The FBI has functioned as the Democrat Party’s Gestapo since its inception.J
People are acting surprised, like this is something new. How did they become so politicized?
“become”? They started as the D’s political enforcers. That’s why the FBI was created. Getting hired or promoted at FBI HQ near DC requires a taking test that reads like a litmus test of hot-button D political issues. The purpose is to ensure that only hard-core leftists are employed.
We need 10 year Term Limits on all non-military Federal employees.
I think rotation-in-office for senior executives and the lawyers working in the U.S. Attorney’s offices and the divisions of the DoJ, yes. The rule might be that if you’ve held a given position (or one of a certain set of positions) for 12 of the last 14 years, you’re out. Federal employees in general would be mandated to retire when they were eligible for full Social Security, with early retirement credits available for construction workers, uniformed police, and the military.
What I’d prefer is
(1) a disciplinary system which provides for post-termination review to explore if the employee was dismissed for one of a half-dozen impermissible reasons, but otherwise allows for termination at will if three person’s in an employee’s chain of command countersign a letter of dismissal (two employees or one if there are fewer than three north of them in the organization).
(2) transparent compensation schemes, wherein fringe benefits would be financed by an assessment on an employee’s stated compensation.
(3) Calibrated stated compensation, so that across the whole body of federal employees it is a function of employee compensation per worker in the economy as a whole. Mean compensation for public employees should not differ much from private sector employees.
(4) Amendments to the tenure of those working in each of the inspector-general’s offices. Hourly employees and salaried staff employees could be regular civil servants or confidential employees according to common practice. The salaried line employees would have to be (a) at least 55 years of age at the time of their appointment and (b) debarred from taking other positions in the federal government once they’d passed their probation. Employment in an inspector-general’s office should be your last rodeo.
(5) The creation of a half dozen stand-alone inspectorates – a financial auditor, engineering auditor, general performance auditor, freedom of information and classification auditor, auditor of statistical collection, civil servant’s ombudsman, public ombudsman – whose employees would be lifers ineligible for future employment in other segments of the government.
(6) The restoration of competitive civil service examinations as the regulator of recruitment and promotion of all but an odd minority of federal employees. An implication of that would be that an administration could not infiltrate political appointees into positions in the permanent government.
(7) A scheduled flush of discretionary appointees at such time as a newly elected president takes office. Discretionary appointees would be sorted into four tiers. Tier 4 would have to leave their positions at the end of 15 months if they were not compelled to depart earlier; tier 3 would have to depart by the end of the calendar year; tier 2 would have to depart by the end of July; and tier 1 would have to depart by mid-June. The only exceptions would be officials who (a) require congressional confirmation and (b) have a standard term specified in statutory law. These could be dismissed at will, but the default would be for them to hold office until the end of their term; they could be renominated by the president except if rotation-in-office rules debarred that. No more ‘Obama holdovers’.
(8) a dramatic reduction in the number of discretionary appointees requiring congressional confirmation. Cabinet secretaries, chiefs of stand-alone agencies, members of stand-alone commissions, inspectors-general, and subdepartmental bureau chiefs whose bureau met certain criteria would require confirmation. In addition, certain categories of appointee would require confirmation per constitutional provisions or per counsels of prudence – federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, ambassadors, and flag-rank military. With an exception here or there, these could be subject to hearings by ad hoc senate committees drawn by lot rather than the regular senate committee system. Otherwise you’d have three senate committees with scores of nominations to process each year.
(9) Limit the employees of the president’s office to his chancery and chamber staff, an inspector-general’s corps, and an intelligence clearinghouse. The patronage office could give instructions to federal departments and agency per standing orders, but otherwise the employees of the executive office would be responsible for transmitting orders, not giving them.
(10) establish a superintendent’s corps with responsibility for supervising portfolios of federal departments and agencies. The composition of each portfolio would be at the president’s discretion. The superintendents would require congressional confirmation, but the VP could be assigned a portfolio without confirmation. The superintendents would report to the president, but he might have a set of departments and agencies which report directly to him.
(11) Debar for a term of years quondam federal employees from working as or for for registered lobbyists or for agencies incorporated under provisions of corporate law governing advocacy groups. That would apply to the president, the Congress, and the judiciary on down. The term of years would be the sum of years they were in federal employment divided by four, but a minimum of four years in any case.
(12) Dramatically reduce the retirement benefits accruing to the President. He gets a purse derived from with-holding from his stated compensation, twelve years of Secret Service protection for his household, an office staff to answer his mail, and that’s it. A module would be added to an archive in Kansas City to hold material of scholarly interest, but no monument to him called a ‘presidential library’. Also, federal law would prohibit corporations of all kinds from contracting across state lines for honoraria in excess of a certain multiple of employee compensation per capita in the economy as a whole, so this sort of side benefit or retirement benefit for federal office holders would be sharply circumscribed.
The problem is not unique to the us or even israel
Caroline and David Wurmser talk about Iran arriving at a nuclear enrichment threshold while the US and Israel are each undergoing absurd disputes within themselves.
Well the short version goes like this:
“Biden”—absurdly enough—is encouraging the Mullahs; while the Israelis—absurdly enough—have some problems with that…
Oops. Wrong again… (Me Baaaad….)
Let’s try this:
“Biden” is encouraging the Mullahs because that’s “Biden”‘s POLICY pure and simple.
So after transferring all that cash to “his” allies in Teheran; and after removing all (i.e., most of) the sanctions against “his” allies, “he” can dither and dather and blither and blather that “his” allies in Teheran are just not being reasonable NO THEY ARE NOT and are making a “Deal” simply impossible SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE, YOU BAD, BAD MULLAHS!!…while “his” oh-so-unreasonable allies are steaming right ahead on their civilian-only nuclear program, thank you very much. (Makes sense because they just don’t have enough oil. Apparently.)…
…even as “Biden” can then claim, but we DID NOT sign a “Deal” with the Mullahs NO WE DID NOT! because they were oh-oh-oh-so-unreasonable.
The upshot?
“So don’t blame us…” etc., etc., (Blame Putin, or Trump, or the Deplorables, or those ABSURD Zionists, or the Saudis…well, you get the idea…)
File under: Laughing (like hyenas) all the way to the bank….
As I listen to David and Caroline’s account I find I’m gaining a better understanding of the origins of Robert Malley — generally speaking, not in the sense of looking closely at his life in detail — i.e., where did this monstrosity of a human being come from? But, maybe check it out on other grounds anyhow.
See, the current Israeli government thinks it’s ABSURD that “Biden” is helping the Mullahs…
(That’s because the current Israeli government does NOT understand that “Biden” and the Mullahs are allies…it’s just not reasonable, it makes no sense, it’s inconceivable, yadda, yadda, yadda…. Though one might like to say “…UNDERSTANDABLY doesn’t understand that “Biden” and the Mullahs are allies”, but that train left the station long, long ago. Should be noted that the same Israeli government holds Netanyahu entirely responsible for alienating Obama, etc…. (and therefore the Democratic Party and therefore half the country), so one should get some idea of their, um, analytical, um, limitations AKA sense of reality.)
…And see, the current Israeli government thinks it’s ABSURD that “Biden” is NOT on the side of its ally—ISRAEL, America’s GREATEST ALLY IN THE MID-EAST, yadda, yadda, yadda—in this matter; that “Biden” does NOT seem to understand that Israel feels threatened by a policy that enables—even ENCOURAGES—a regime such as Iran to achieve nuclear breakout.
(But that’s because the current Israeli government does NOT understand that for “Biden”, Israel is most certainly NOT America’s—that is, “Biden”‘s—GREATEST ALLY IN THE MID-EAST and is, in fact, barely an ally at all….)
And so it goes.
(Regarding Israeli’s current government, the expression “like a deer in the headlights” comes to mind.)
OTOH, wouldn’t it be an irony of ironies if the NEVER BIBI-ists are the ones who, when push comes to shove, are forced to save their country from obliteration….?
Warning: Should this last scenario be forced to come about then Jewish communities around the world, and especially in large cities (along with those who look upon themselves as allies of the Jews) had better prepare to defend themselves—had better take measures to defend themselves—against the likely onslaught attempted by those minions out for wild, vendetta-style vengeance, enraged that Israel is doing what it’s not supposed to do: defend itself.
Glick closes with “So long as the legal systems that created Russiagate and ousted Netanyahu from power remain corrupted by politicized bureaucrats, our societies will only grow more divided and unstable.”
The left owns the legal system and the media. It controls the ‘educational’ sector. It has corrupted and controls the medical industry. A corrupted political system obstructs substantive reform.
If the elections of 2022 and 2024 fail to result in a reformation, the only choices will be to grovel upon our bellies under the left’s tyranny or resort to “politics by other means”.
Fortunately, Obama’s Jewish Spring was aborted before it could progress.
We need 10 year Term Limits on all non-military Federal employees.
“Fortunately…”
Ah, but we’ve been bequeathed “Biden” (or should that be Obama2.0? Obama3.0?)
Which is essentially, Obama without the “niceties” (even if those trousers are still immaculately creased); without the smile; without the need to do things “by the book” (sic)…or at least not Susan Rice’s “book”….
IOW, Obama Unbound. Unplugged.
Unleashed…
And when the ultimate “Biden” betrayal “arrives”—and it’s in the works (it has been from before Day 1)…though there’ve been so many betrayals and there WILL BE be so many more that it will be almost impossible to determine what the “ultimate” one will be…yes, they’re all a well-wrapped package…from hell—all the Best and the Brightest (TM), and most compassionate, caring, loving and concerned, may just begin to wonder what “rough beast” just landed…though they’ll never be able to conclude that they were somehow responsible for it, no not they!…
And so, “fortunately”?
Well, I suppose in a matter of speaking…there was a respite during which one was able to, with Trump, “Cry [BS]! And let slip [the blessings of potential peace]….(with apologies….)
– – – – – – – –
And in other news, a reassessment is certainly in order:
Maybe Hunter is INDEED—no malarkey—“…the smartest guy I know”…
“Hunter’s Hooker Scored $20,000 PPP Loan As Joe Biden Entered White House”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-prostitute-scored-20000-ppp-loan
(This of course is small change…even as it is just the merest tip of the iceberg…)
I suppose, though, that one could always blame aliens…(Can we even say these days that creatures from outer space are that?)
The FBI has functioned as the Democrat Party’s Gestapo since its inception.J
People are acting surprised, like this is something new. How did they become so politicized?
“become”? They started as the D’s political enforcers. That’s why the FBI was created. Getting hired or promoted at FBI HQ near DC requires a taking test that reads like a litmus test of hot-button D political issues. The purpose is to ensure that only hard-core leftists are employed.
Apparently “all’s fair in love and war”—and in whatever manner of vindictive spew is on the Democratic Party’s appalling agenda….
“The Indictment of Navarro is Unconstitutional” (Dershowitz)—
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18595/navarro-indictment-unconstitutional
The “We Do What We Want So F*** Off” Party….
Gosh, did someone mention Obama?
“Obama Approved Accusing Russia of DNC Hack Before FBI Received DNC Server Images”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/obama-approved-accusing-russia-of-dnc-hack-before-fbi-received-dnc-server-images_4514033.html
+ Bonus (what-the-heck):
“Revisiting the Flynn/Kislyak Leak;
“And – who at the DOJ is keeping tabs on Durham?”—
https://technofog.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-flynnkislyak-leak?s=r
H/T Zerohedge.
IOW:
“How I found out the Flynn/Kislyak leak took place on January 5, 2017”
We need 10 year Term Limits on all non-military Federal employees.
I think rotation-in-office for senior executives and the lawyers working in the U.S. Attorney’s offices and the divisions of the DoJ, yes. The rule might be that if you’ve held a given position (or one of a certain set of positions) for 12 of the last 14 years, you’re out. Federal employees in general would be mandated to retire when they were eligible for full Social Security, with early retirement credits available for construction workers, uniformed police, and the military.
What I’d prefer is
(1) a disciplinary system which provides for post-termination review to explore if the employee was dismissed for one of a half-dozen impermissible reasons, but otherwise allows for termination at will if three person’s in an employee’s chain of command countersign a letter of dismissal (two employees or one if there are fewer than three north of them in the organization).
(2) transparent compensation schemes, wherein fringe benefits would be financed by an assessment on an employee’s stated compensation.
(3) Calibrated stated compensation, so that across the whole body of federal employees it is a function of employee compensation per worker in the economy as a whole. Mean compensation for public employees should not differ much from private sector employees.
(4) Amendments to the tenure of those working in each of the inspector-general’s offices. Hourly employees and salaried staff employees could be regular civil servants or confidential employees according to common practice. The salaried line employees would have to be (a) at least 55 years of age at the time of their appointment and (b) debarred from taking other positions in the federal government once they’d passed their probation. Employment in an inspector-general’s office should be your last rodeo.
(5) The creation of a half dozen stand-alone inspectorates – a financial auditor, engineering auditor, general performance auditor, freedom of information and classification auditor, auditor of statistical collection, civil servant’s ombudsman, public ombudsman – whose employees would be lifers ineligible for future employment in other segments of the government.
(6) The restoration of competitive civil service examinations as the regulator of recruitment and promotion of all but an odd minority of federal employees. An implication of that would be that an administration could not infiltrate political appointees into positions in the permanent government.
(7) A scheduled flush of discretionary appointees at such time as a newly elected president takes office. Discretionary appointees would be sorted into four tiers. Tier 4 would have to leave their positions at the end of 15 months if they were not compelled to depart earlier; tier 3 would have to depart by the end of the calendar year; tier 2 would have to depart by the end of July; and tier 1 would have to depart by mid-June. The only exceptions would be officials who (a) require congressional confirmation and (b) have a standard term specified in statutory law. These could be dismissed at will, but the default would be for them to hold office until the end of their term; they could be renominated by the president except if rotation-in-office rules debarred that. No more ‘Obama holdovers’.
(8) a dramatic reduction in the number of discretionary appointees requiring congressional confirmation. Cabinet secretaries, chiefs of stand-alone agencies, members of stand-alone commissions, inspectors-general, and subdepartmental bureau chiefs whose bureau met certain criteria would require confirmation. In addition, certain categories of appointee would require confirmation per constitutional provisions or per counsels of prudence – federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, ambassadors, and flag-rank military. With an exception here or there, these could be subject to hearings by ad hoc senate committees drawn by lot rather than the regular senate committee system. Otherwise you’d have three senate committees with scores of nominations to process each year.
(9) Limit the employees of the president’s office to his chancery and chamber staff, an inspector-general’s corps, and an intelligence clearinghouse. The patronage office could give instructions to federal departments and agency per standing orders, but otherwise the employees of the executive office would be responsible for transmitting orders, not giving them.
(10) establish a superintendent’s corps with responsibility for supervising portfolios of federal departments and agencies. The composition of each portfolio would be at the president’s discretion. The superintendents would require congressional confirmation, but the VP could be assigned a portfolio without confirmation. The superintendents would report to the president, but he might have a set of departments and agencies which report directly to him.
(11) Debar for a term of years quondam federal employees from working as or for for registered lobbyists or for agencies incorporated under provisions of corporate law governing advocacy groups. That would apply to the president, the Congress, and the judiciary on down. The term of years would be the sum of years they were in federal employment divided by four, but a minimum of four years in any case.
(12) Dramatically reduce the retirement benefits accruing to the President. He gets a purse derived from with-holding from his stated compensation, twelve years of Secret Service protection for his household, an office staff to answer his mail, and that’s it. A module would be added to an archive in Kansas City to hold material of scholarly interest, but no monument to him called a ‘presidential library’. Also, federal law would prohibit corporations of all kinds from contracting across state lines for honoraria in excess of a certain multiple of employee compensation per capita in the economy as a whole, so this sort of side benefit or retirement benefit for federal office holders would be sharply circumscribed.
The problem is not unique to the us or even israel
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bannons-war-room/id1485351658
Caroline and David Wurmser talk about Iran arriving at a nuclear enrichment threshold while the US and Israel are each undergoing absurd disputes within themselves.
https://youtu.be/hySkqUm3Dhk
“…absurd disputes…”
Well the short version goes like this:
“Biden”—absurdly enough—is encouraging the Mullahs; while the Israelis—absurdly enough—have some problems with that…
Oops. Wrong again… (Me Baaaad….)
Let’s try this:
“Biden” is encouraging the Mullahs because that’s “Biden”‘s POLICY pure and simple.
So after transferring all that cash to “his” allies in Teheran; and after removing all (i.e., most of) the sanctions against “his” allies, “he” can dither and dather and blither and blather that “his” allies in Teheran are just not being reasonable NO THEY ARE NOT and are making a “Deal” simply impossible SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE, YOU BAD, BAD MULLAHS!!…while “his” oh-so-unreasonable allies are steaming right ahead on their civilian-only nuclear program, thank you very much. (Makes sense because they just don’t have enough oil. Apparently.)…
…even as “Biden” can then claim, but we DID NOT sign a “Deal” with the Mullahs NO WE DID NOT! because they were oh-oh-oh-so-unreasonable.
The upshot?
“So don’t blame us…” etc., etc., (Blame Putin, or Trump, or the Deplorables, or those ABSURD Zionists, or the Saudis…well, you get the idea…)
File under: Laughing (like hyenas) all the way to the bank….
As I listen to David and Caroline’s account I find I’m gaining a better understanding of the origins of Robert Malley — generally speaking, not in the sense of looking closely at his life in detail — i.e., where did this monstrosity of a human being come from? But, maybe check it out on other grounds anyhow.
See, the current Israeli government thinks it’s ABSURD that “Biden” is helping the Mullahs…
(That’s because the current Israeli government does NOT understand that “Biden” and the Mullahs are allies…it’s just not reasonable, it makes no sense, it’s inconceivable, yadda, yadda, yadda…. Though one might like to say “…UNDERSTANDABLY doesn’t understand that “Biden” and the Mullahs are allies”, but that train left the station long, long ago. Should be noted that the same Israeli government holds Netanyahu entirely responsible for alienating Obama, etc…. (and therefore the Democratic Party and therefore half the country), so one should get some idea of their, um, analytical, um, limitations AKA sense of reality.)
…And see, the current Israeli government thinks it’s ABSURD that “Biden” is NOT on the side of its ally—ISRAEL, America’s GREATEST ALLY IN THE MID-EAST, yadda, yadda, yadda—in this matter; that “Biden” does NOT seem to understand that Israel feels threatened by a policy that enables—even ENCOURAGES—a regime such as Iran to achieve nuclear breakout.
(But that’s because the current Israeli government does NOT understand that for “Biden”, Israel is most certainly NOT America’s—that is, “Biden”‘s—GREATEST ALLY IN THE MID-EAST and is, in fact, barely an ally at all….)
And so it goes.
(Regarding Israeli’s current government, the expression “like a deer in the headlights” comes to mind.)
OTOH, wouldn’t it be an irony of ironies if the NEVER BIBI-ists are the ones who, when push comes to shove, are forced to save their country from obliteration….?
Warning: Should this last scenario be forced to come about then Jewish communities around the world, and especially in large cities (along with those who look upon themselves as allies of the Jews) had better prepare to defend themselves—had better take measures to defend themselves—against the likely onslaught attempted by those minions out for wild, vendetta-style vengeance, enraged that Israel is doing what it’s not supposed to do: defend itself.
Related:
“Jewish groups respond to UNHRC report: ‘Distorts and minimizes threats facing Israel’;
“For Jewish organizations that roundly rejected the Commission of Inquiry’s creation in May 2021, the contents of the report were not unexpected.”—
https://www.jns.org/jewish-groups-respond-to-unhrc-report-distorts-and-minimizes-threats-facing-israel/
“all’s fair in love and war”
All’s fair in lust and abortion. Wicked solutions abound with diverse past, present, and progressive precedents.
Victor Hanson and Caroline Glick in conversation on stage at the Israeli Conservatism Conference (45:36): https://youtu.be/AkdWg28xevA