Diehard pundits/pollsters such as Nate Cohn held out on the Blue Wave with the usual "yes-but..." qualifications, with "tRump wasn't on the ballot" as house fav. Even the Orange Felon took up that line in a predictable early-a.m. rant.
As for the FBI, no doubt they were a skilled investigative force. Where the skills were used and investigations focused is subject to examination and debate. There has never been an FBI Director who was a Democrat and Comey played more of a role in its present demise than Patel. J. Edgar Hoover brought considerable skills to a blackmail operation that assured his lifetime rule, provided aid and comfort to Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon and tried to bring about the suicide of Martin Luther King. Patel has similar intentions but doesn’t have the skill set to pull it off. When this reign of incompetent terror ends, we will need to think long and hard about the future of the FBI.
Though there has been lawlessness in every administration, nothing compares to what is being done in this regime.
TG there is awareness - made screamingly apparent - that every component of our civil society needs reform. The courts, the executive, congress and every governmental entity needs work to prevent continued corruption.
I dunno, maybe it’s old age, but I see this mourning of the FBI that allegedly was and I go knee jerk and think of Fred Hampton, its institutional failure re 9/11 (and I suppose after?) and, of course, supporting Trump in 2016–and in the last case, certainty that Clinton was going to win isn’t a defense.
As to the election, I’m not sure it was a rejection of Trump but a matter of R candidates’ inability to create space between him and them. Every R candidate seen as a surrogate for Donny whether or not they actually.
I’m not laying that out well, but all I’m trying to say is that the repulsion by Trump is maybe broader, a repulsion of everything he touches. Time’ll tell how much it matters, how it plays out, how Donny lashes out over the rejection.
Here, here! FBI to me was and is J Edgar Hoover, his vicious crusade against Martin Luther King, his own "Red Scare" torment of lefties, and a national "policing" org that viewed civil liberties as a conditional "privilege" rather than a constitutional right....essentially, fuck the FBI.
"I could smell the onions and mustard.” Awful! We all know how bad onions and mustard smell, though some seem to like the odor. I wish ICE's worst behavior was throwing sandwiches.
Way back in the 70s While I was in Vietnam in 1970 I got my draft card. So I took it, with a couple of friends, to a burn barrel that was right in front of a huge sign naming our base and smaller signs with miles to where they were and while my friend took pictures I set it on fire. then after I developed the pictures, I sent them off to my local draft board. Good joke right? Weeelll, when I got home-in my Class A uniform-I discovered 2 FBIs at my house, waiting for me. The thing that got me was these were the same 2 local FBI idiots who had, 2 years previously, investigated my background(went to my HS school, the places where I had worked, and several relatives homes) for my security clearance. They were a Fumbling Bunch of Idiots then and I haven't changed my mind since
Great Election Day! Unless you’re a NYC Jew, part of one of the most consistently Democratic voting blocs in the country, who just realized your entire city doesn’t care a lick about you, of course. History shows us what happens when populist antisemites get into positions of power. Very scary times.
I feel like I can breathe more deeply again, with some hope we can re-build our country for a future.
Thank you David, thank us all who truly voted our conscience.
Diehard pundits/pollsters such as Nate Cohn held out on the Blue Wave with the usual "yes-but..." qualifications, with "tRump wasn't on the ballot" as house fav. Even the Orange Felon took up that line in a predictable early-a.m. rant.
You just can't please some people.
" I could smell the onions and mustard.”–Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore, testifying in the trial of the D.C. sandwich thrower."
Powerful testimony indeed, which almost guarantees jury nullification.
P.S., the sarnie wrapper remained intact following the "assault".
Only in tRump's Murka.
And today, the DC jury acquitted Sean Dunn on his "sarnie assault" misdemeanor charge...LOL!
Let them all “smell the onions and mustard.”
As for the FBI, no doubt they were a skilled investigative force. Where the skills were used and investigations focused is subject to examination and debate. There has never been an FBI Director who was a Democrat and Comey played more of a role in its present demise than Patel. J. Edgar Hoover brought considerable skills to a blackmail operation that assured his lifetime rule, provided aid and comfort to Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon and tried to bring about the suicide of Martin Luther King. Patel has similar intentions but doesn’t have the skill set to pull it off. When this reign of incompetent terror ends, we will need to think long and hard about the future of the FBI.
Though there has been lawlessness in every administration, nothing compares to what is being done in this regime.
TG there is awareness - made screamingly apparent - that every component of our civil society needs reform. The courts, the executive, congress and every governmental entity needs work to prevent continued corruption.
Thinking of the new mayor of New York, I’m reminded that the New York police seemed very involved with the assassination of Malcom X.
I hope his staff are mindful of history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/18/malcolm-x-assassination-letter-attacked/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Malcolm_X
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/21/ex-new-york-policeman-implicates-nypd-and-fbi-in-malcolm-x-murder
I dunno, maybe it’s old age, but I see this mourning of the FBI that allegedly was and I go knee jerk and think of Fred Hampton, its institutional failure re 9/11 (and I suppose after?) and, of course, supporting Trump in 2016–and in the last case, certainty that Clinton was going to win isn’t a defense.
As to the election, I’m not sure it was a rejection of Trump but a matter of R candidates’ inability to create space between him and them. Every R candidate seen as a surrogate for Donny whether or not they actually.
I’m not laying that out well, but all I’m trying to say is that the repulsion by Trump is maybe broader, a repulsion of everything he touches. Time’ll tell how much it matters, how it plays out, how Donny lashes out over the rejection.
And BTW: I love Josh’s headline.
Here, here! FBI to me was and is J Edgar Hoover, his vicious crusade against Martin Luther King, his own "Red Scare" torment of lefties, and a national "policing" org that viewed civil liberties as a conditional "privilege" rather than a constitutional right....essentially, fuck the FBI.
They got better after Hoover yet still a shit show of mediocrity and worse as per my post-J Edgar examples.
Wow NY city had the
highest voting turnout
since 1969! Nearly 2
million people voted. 👍
A great day for
democracy across the
country.
The blueprint of P2025
is to basically destroy
the government. Trump
and regime bros are the
tools, so not surprised
about the FBI under
Patel.
"I could smell the onions and mustard.” Awful! We all know how bad onions and mustard smell, though some seem to like the odor. I wish ICE's worst behavior was throwing sandwiches.
I'm elated with the election results; but cautious — very cautious.
Mamdani is Sociopath with a Business Card https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/a-sociopath-with-a-business-card
onions and mustard mmmmmm
paywall on Jamelle Bouie article
Way back in the 70s While I was in Vietnam in 1970 I got my draft card. So I took it, with a couple of friends, to a burn barrel that was right in front of a huge sign naming our base and smaller signs with miles to where they were and while my friend took pictures I set it on fire. then after I developed the pictures, I sent them off to my local draft board. Good joke right? Weeelll, when I got home-in my Class A uniform-I discovered 2 FBIs at my house, waiting for me. The thing that got me was these were the same 2 local FBI idiots who had, 2 years previously, investigated my background(went to my HS school, the places where I had worked, and several relatives homes) for my security clearance. They were a Fumbling Bunch of Idiots then and I haven't changed my mind since
Great Election Day! Unless you’re a NYC Jew, part of one of the most consistently Democratic voting blocs in the country, who just realized your entire city doesn’t care a lick about you, of course. History shows us what happens when populist antisemites get into positions of power. Very scary times.