Kate – Trump would launch a devastating series of tweets at Chris Wray, nominate Michael Bekesha for AG, and then call it a day after word gets back to Trump that Chris Wray said something flattering about him to Maggie Haberfield.
Bauxite, we don’t know what Trump would do. (That’s Maggie Haberman, I think.)
My point in posting this was that DeSantis has specific, extensive plans. His record in Florida is establishing the vision and hiring people to execute it who share his vision. I think we can also count on DeSantis to take effective steps to root out CRT and gender ideology from the military.
My worry about a second Trump term is that, even if he and DeSantis share the same vision, whom will Trump hire to execute it? In my opinion, DeSantis is more likely to find competent people to fill the administration who are willing to work for him and with him.
This is a very instructive moment for us all. Those who hate Trump will turn themselves into psychotic pretzels in their desperate attempts to avoid seeing reality. We see it from Michael Barone and the Powerline bunch. We have seen it from the RINO neverTrumpers since 2016.
We see it from all the usual Democrat cheerleaders in trying to justify an indictment that cannot possibly be justified.
The lesson is clear. Hatred makes people stupid. Eventually it makes them insane. Kahneman taught us that none of us are capable of accounting for our biases, even when we are fully aware of them. It’s a warning we all need to take seriously.
I’m flawed, foolish, ignorant and sometimes stupid. As all of us are. Is it possible I am afflicted with my own bias re: the indictment? Sure. I am totally dedicated to defeating the Democrat push to install Big Brother permanently. That makes me view Trump more favorably than his persecutors.
But I don’t like Trump. Didn’t vote for him in the 2016 primary. Don’t currently favor him in 2024 primary. I don’t like his personality. But I also recognize that his first three years in office were the best of any president in history for both domestic and foreign policy. That matters. I think.
There are certain FACTS that the Trump haters avoid. Context counts. The unrelenting war of crimes and treason waged against him since 2016 is the most relevant fact of all. Yet, the Trump haters refuse to talk about it. They treat the indictment as if it were a good faith, honest product of an unbiased DOJ. When they do so, they are lying to all of us. And they are actively slandering Trump.
I think the aspect that disgusts me the most is the pious attitude that Trump should ignore the 7 years of criminal jihad waged against him and behave as if the jihadists are polite, honest, and operating in good faith. If he doesn’t embrace this ridiculous farce and behave as Caspar Milquetoast under Robert’s Rules, he’s acting inappropriately. This grotesque attitude makes me sick. The jihad happened and continues. It’s the most important factor of all.
Bill Clinton told us he believes in killing people who are hurting him politically. I am sure he meant it. I suspect he has.
If anyone actually deserves to have some enemies eliminated, it is Trump. No one has ever faced anything even 1/100 as egregious and despicable as what he has endured. To expect him to have endured it all and act as if it didn’t happen is sick. Not just wrong. Not just heartless. Not just bizarre. Sick. It’s a product of the hate the neverTrumpers have embraced.
stan, the most constructive suggestion I’ve seen is in a Twitter thread I posted at the end of yesterday’s open thread. The timing of this indictment, the deliberate choice by the AG of a biased and discredited prosecutor, and all the circumstances make this election interference. Trump’s attorneys should ask that all proceedings be halted until after the Nov. 2024 general election.
A president is in office for 8 years max; the federal bureaucracy and it’s employees can just wait out the punishment and once a new president and new Congress are in power, it’s back to the good-ole-days.
A few top guys can maybe get fired and/or moved out of DC, but there will always be dozen more career, power hungry ideologically driven parasites to take their place no matter their location.
The really really hard to watch congressional hearings demonstrate that
bureaucrats have nothing to fear by lying, refusing to answer or refusing to cooperate with Congress. This will not change at all until congress has the authority to indict, arrest and jail uncooperative govt bureaucrats.
The bureaucracy is a govt unto itself; it does whatever it chooses and is accountable to nobody.
Any effort to “clean house” will result, maybe, in a clean house for about 8 years, maybe.
The bureaucracy is the child of Congress and the parent – the Congress – has abrogated it’s responsibilities in supervising their children. The children are now the branch of govt that makes and enforces laws and routinely gives Congress the middle finger.
This suits members of Congress just fine , for it allows them to avoid making decisions and gives them more time to do less and less on the taxpayer dime.They turn a blind eye to their law breaking bureaucratic off-spring.
Trump is a real-life Goldstein. Imagine someone, after observing seven years of the vicious Goldstein hate fest from every powerful institution in the nation, wondering why Goldstein didn’t trust Big Brother.
It’s a mystery.
John Tyler,
Agree. The only real possibility of change is to convince Democrat voters to stop their support for the totalitarian Big Brother. We all have to work to educate them about the evil they support.
If the vast majority of Congress has awakened to Woke and an anti-Big Brother candidate is in the White House, we have a chance. And I really do think it might require wholesale firngs and shutting down entire agencies.
First, we have to fix election integrity. And that also requires educating all the voters.
Why isn’t every honest observer preaching this one simple message — we have the worst election integrity in the world. That one sentence needs to be the most recognizable one in America.
JohnTyler:
Congress is a legislative body. It can impeach and remove from certain offices (like the presidency) if found guilty. it can hold hearings, it can issue subpeonas, and find someone in contempt. The DOJ makes the decision to try people. You imply that Congress should have “the authority to indict, arrest and jail uncooperative govt bureaucrats.” It doesn’t, and I am pretty sure if it passed a law that gave itself that power it would be overruled by SCOTUS.
The problem is that the bureacracy is beholden to no one right now except its simpatico politicians on the left.
What Congress could do – if the GOP ever got control of it and the presidency, which is unlikely – is to reform the Pendleton Act in some way.
@Kate:In my opinion, DeSantis is more likely to find competent people to fill the administration who are willing to work for him and with him.
The more likely this is, the less likely it is that the people he finds will work toward dismantling the Deep State in any fundamental way, or advance any other conservative goals.
But yes, if he got elected, which is a vanishingly small possibility since the states that can swing the 2024 election have not had their elections reformed and remain “fortified”, some progress could be made and it would be better than the Dems.
Kate – I agree with your point. I don’t know if DeSantis’s plan will work, but it is a heck of a lot more promising than anything else on offer.
And you’re right about Haberman. Whichever NYTimes reporter Trump kept inexplicably granting sit down interviews while he was president.
I also agree with you about election interference, but you won’t fix it by delaying the trial or until after the election. The point of the interference is to destroy the GOP primary process by making it all about Trump, thereby pushing Trump to the GOP nomination. The first half of that mission is already accomplished and the second half is well underway and looking promising. Delaying the trial wouldn’t fix either half.
(Frankly, if Aileen Cannon is really a GOP partisan hack, she would speed up the trial so it happens before Iowa.)
Kate says, “I think we can also count on DeSantis to take effective steps to root out CRT and gender ideology from the military.”
Speaking of gender ideology in the military: The Space Force has at least one general from Outer Space (Snow on Pine take note):
“A top Space Force general gave a scathing speech last week calling out ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ state laws, saying such legislation occasionally prevents her from picking the most qualified job candidates. Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear, made the comment at the Pentagon’s Pride event, where she bemoaned what she described as difficulties placing LGBTQ+ and female guardians in roles that are based in states that have passed purported anti-trans, anti-gay and anti-abortion laws.”
Burt is a person of pallor and a biological non-man rather than trans; maybe she feels left out during Pride Month.
“The only real possibility of change is to convince Democrat voters to stop their support for the totalitarian Big Brother. We all have to work to educate them about the evil they support.”
Good luck with that! Given the Democrat voters I know, they will steadfastly refuse to listen to any “education”…hands over the ears..nah, nah, nah, I can’t hear you!
Not only is the national level DNC batshit crazy, even the D voters I know, who in most aspects of their lives operate normally, but when it comes to politics they are as batshit crazy as their leaders.
they made terri garr a general, its nearly as absurd,
CDC finally acknowledges what has been known since August 2021: the more injections, the more likely to get infected and hospitalized with Covid.
The first peer-reviewed myocarditis paper was published in the spring of 2021. Why even Paul Offit opposed injecting young people.
Papers showing suppression of IgG3 and boosting of IgG4 started coming out then too, IIRC–explaining why this was happening. (As had been predicted by Geert van de Boosche, and others.)
Joseph Nocera’s assessment of Ellsberg, ca. 1986, was that leaking the Pentagon Papers was an act of genuine courage, but that it was distasteful how he’d spent the rest of his life dining off it.
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My wish is there is a wonderful free future for them : )
https://www.businessinsider.com/14-year-old-spacex-employee-too-young-linkedin-account-restricted-2023-6?op=1
I saw this a few days ago. DeSantis and team have a detailed plan for deweaponizing the FBI and the DOJ.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/06/13/exclusive_the_desantis_plan_to_wage_war_on_weaponized_doj.html
Kate – Trump would launch a devastating series of tweets at Chris Wray, nominate Michael Bekesha for AG, and then call it a day after word gets back to Trump that Chris Wray said something flattering about him to Maggie Haberfield.
Bauxite, we don’t know what Trump would do. (That’s Maggie Haberman, I think.)
My point in posting this was that DeSantis has specific, extensive plans. His record in Florida is establishing the vision and hiring people to execute it who share his vision. I think we can also count on DeSantis to take effective steps to root out CRT and gender ideology from the military.
My worry about a second Trump term is that, even if he and DeSantis share the same vision, whom will Trump hire to execute it? In my opinion, DeSantis is more likely to find competent people to fill the administration who are willing to work for him and with him.
This is a very instructive moment for us all. Those who hate Trump will turn themselves into psychotic pretzels in their desperate attempts to avoid seeing reality. We see it from Michael Barone and the Powerline bunch. We have seen it from the RINO neverTrumpers since 2016.
We see it from all the usual Democrat cheerleaders in trying to justify an indictment that cannot possibly be justified.
The lesson is clear. Hatred makes people stupid. Eventually it makes them insane. Kahneman taught us that none of us are capable of accounting for our biases, even when we are fully aware of them. It’s a warning we all need to take seriously.
I’m flawed, foolish, ignorant and sometimes stupid. As all of us are. Is it possible I am afflicted with my own bias re: the indictment? Sure. I am totally dedicated to defeating the Democrat push to install Big Brother permanently. That makes me view Trump more favorably than his persecutors.
But I don’t like Trump. Didn’t vote for him in the 2016 primary. Don’t currently favor him in 2024 primary. I don’t like his personality. But I also recognize that his first three years in office were the best of any president in history for both domestic and foreign policy. That matters. I think.
There are certain FACTS that the Trump haters avoid. Context counts. The unrelenting war of crimes and treason waged against him since 2016 is the most relevant fact of all. Yet, the Trump haters refuse to talk about it. They treat the indictment as if it were a good faith, honest product of an unbiased DOJ. When they do so, they are lying to all of us. And they are actively slandering Trump.
I think the aspect that disgusts me the most is the pious attitude that Trump should ignore the 7 years of criminal jihad waged against him and behave as if the jihadists are polite, honest, and operating in good faith. If he doesn’t embrace this ridiculous farce and behave as Caspar Milquetoast under Robert’s Rules, he’s acting inappropriately. This grotesque attitude makes me sick. The jihad happened and continues. It’s the most important factor of all.
Bill Clinton told us he believes in killing people who are hurting him politically. I am sure he meant it. I suspect he has.
If anyone actually deserves to have some enemies eliminated, it is Trump. No one has ever faced anything even 1/100 as egregious and despicable as what he has endured. To expect him to have endured it all and act as if it didn’t happen is sick. Not just wrong. Not just heartless. Not just bizarre. Sick. It’s a product of the hate the neverTrumpers have embraced.
stan, the most constructive suggestion I’ve seen is in a Twitter thread I posted at the end of yesterday’s open thread. The timing of this indictment, the deliberate choice by the AG of a biased and discredited prosecutor, and all the circumstances make this election interference. Trump’s attorneys should ask that all proceedings be halted until after the Nov. 2024 general election.
https://twitter.com/willscharf/status/1669333178962571264
De-weaponizing the FBI, DOJ, etc.
A president is in office for 8 years max; the federal bureaucracy and it’s employees can just wait out the punishment and once a new president and new Congress are in power, it’s back to the good-ole-days.
A few top guys can maybe get fired and/or moved out of DC, but there will always be dozen more career, power hungry ideologically driven parasites to take their place no matter their location.
The really really hard to watch congressional hearings demonstrate that
bureaucrats have nothing to fear by lying, refusing to answer or refusing to cooperate with Congress. This will not change at all until congress has the authority to indict, arrest and jail uncooperative govt bureaucrats.
The bureaucracy is a govt unto itself; it does whatever it chooses and is accountable to nobody.
Any effort to “clean house” will result, maybe, in a clean house for about 8 years, maybe.
The bureaucracy is the child of Congress and the parent – the Congress – has abrogated it’s responsibilities in supervising their children. The children are now the branch of govt that makes and enforces laws and routinely gives Congress the middle finger.
This suits members of Congress just fine , for it allows them to avoid making decisions and gives them more time to do less and less on the taxpayer dime.They turn a blind eye to their law breaking bureaucratic off-spring.
Trump is a real-life Goldstein. Imagine someone, after observing seven years of the vicious Goldstein hate fest from every powerful institution in the nation, wondering why Goldstein didn’t trust Big Brother.
It’s a mystery.
John Tyler,
Agree. The only real possibility of change is to convince Democrat voters to stop their support for the totalitarian Big Brother. We all have to work to educate them about the evil they support.
If the vast majority of Congress has awakened to Woke and an anti-Big Brother candidate is in the White House, we have a chance. And I really do think it might require wholesale firngs and shutting down entire agencies.
First, we have to fix election integrity. And that also requires educating all the voters.
Why isn’t every honest observer preaching this one simple message — we have the worst election integrity in the world. That one sentence needs to be the most recognizable one in America.
JohnTyler:
Congress is a legislative body. It can impeach and remove from certain offices (like the presidency) if found guilty. it can hold hearings, it can issue subpeonas, and find someone in contempt. The DOJ makes the decision to try people. You imply that Congress should have “the authority to indict, arrest and jail uncooperative govt bureaucrats.” It doesn’t, and I am pretty sure if it passed a law that gave itself that power it would be overruled by SCOTUS.
The problem is that the bureacracy is beholden to no one right now except its simpatico politicians on the left.
What Congress could do – if the GOP ever got control of it and the presidency, which is unlikely – is to reform the Pendleton Act in some way.
@Kate:In my opinion, DeSantis is more likely to find competent people to fill the administration who are willing to work for him and with him.
The more likely this is, the less likely it is that the people he finds will work toward dismantling the Deep State in any fundamental way, or advance any other conservative goals.
But yes, if he got elected, which is a vanishingly small possibility since the states that can swing the 2024 election have not had their elections reformed and remain “fortified”, some progress could be made and it would be better than the Dems.
Kate – I agree with your point. I don’t know if DeSantis’s plan will work, but it is a heck of a lot more promising than anything else on offer.
And you’re right about Haberman. Whichever NYTimes reporter Trump kept inexplicably granting sit down interviews while he was president.
I also agree with you about election interference, but you won’t fix it by delaying the trial or until after the election. The point of the interference is to destroy the GOP primary process by making it all about Trump, thereby pushing Trump to the GOP nomination. The first half of that mission is already accomplished and the second half is well underway and looking promising. Delaying the trial wouldn’t fix either half.
(Frankly, if Aileen Cannon is really a GOP partisan hack, she would speed up the trial so it happens before Iowa.)
I’ve put up a post on the DeSantis plan.
Kate says, “I think we can also count on DeSantis to take effective steps to root out CRT and gender ideology from the military.”
Speaking of gender ideology in the military: The Space Force has at least one general from Outer Space (Snow on Pine take note):
“A top Space Force general gave a scathing speech last week calling out ‘anti-LGBTQ+’ state laws, saying such legislation occasionally prevents her from picking the most qualified job candidates. Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear, made the comment at the Pentagon’s Pride event, where she bemoaned what she described as difficulties placing LGBTQ+ and female guardians in roles that are based in states that have passed purported anti-trans, anti-gay and anti-abortion laws.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/16/space-force-general-rips-anti-lgbtq-laws-says-they-hurt-readiness/
Burt is a person of pallor and a biological non-man rather than trans; maybe she feels left out during Pride Month.
“The only real possibility of change is to convince Democrat voters to stop their support for the totalitarian Big Brother. We all have to work to educate them about the evil they support.”
Good luck with that! Given the Democrat voters I know, they will steadfastly refuse to listen to any “education”…hands over the ears..nah, nah, nah, I can’t hear you!
Not only is the national level DNC batshit crazy, even the D voters I know, who in most aspects of their lives operate normally, but when it comes to politics they are as batshit crazy as their leaders.
they made terri garr a general, its nearly as absurd,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJRtLzdo5Y
June 16th…
Happy Bloomsday!
I assume everyone is celebrating in their accustomed manner.
US Energy Department Received
Ransom DemandsCharitable Contribution Requests at Two Facilities in Data Breach…for a worthy cause, of course.
https://www.voanews.com/a/daniel-ellsberg-who-leaked-pentagon-papers-dies-at-92-/7140762.html
Sic transit gloria mundi.
CDC finally acknowledges what has been known since August 2021: the more injections, the more likely to get infected and hospitalized with Covid.
The first peer-reviewed myocarditis paper was published in the spring of 2021. Why even Paul Offit opposed injecting young people.
Papers showing suppression of IgG3 and boosting of IgG4 started coming out then too, IIRC–explaining why this was happening. (As had been predicted by Geert van de Boosche, and others.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-vaccinated-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-cdc-data_5335428.html?utm_source=prtnrhard&utm_campaign=vigilantf&src_src=prtnrhard&src_cmp=vigilantf
Joseph Nocera’s assessment of Ellsberg, ca. 1986, was that leaking the Pentagon Papers was an act of genuine courage, but that it was distasteful how he’d spent the rest of his life dining off it.