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The FBI Poll, Consequences, and Some Semantics

Posted: August 20, 2022 by datechguy in crime, politics
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Question: What do you get when the FBI starting acting like the Biden Administration’s personal Gestapo?

Answer: A majority of the people deciding that’s what you are:

There are several oddities here the first being that for the entire time of the Trump Administration Democrats called him a Nazi but at no time did he either use the FBI as a private Gestapo against his political enemies nor did the people think of the agency as Trump’s private gestapo. Yet one year into the Cleanest election in the history of historyTM you have the majority of the public considering them the president’s private Gestapo.

The second is that the people most responsible for these actions that have driven this opinion have little care what the reputation of the agency is as long as it serves their political purpose.

The third is that left liberal seem delighted. And I suspect it not because they don’t think the FBI is acting like their own personal Gestapo but because they ARE. Remember a solid quarter of the Iraqi population liked Saddam because they where the folks who benefited from the oppression of his people. I suspect when (not if) the GOP decides to do the same when they return to power they’ll regret it as much as they did Harry Reid’s filibuster moves.

The biggest losers here of course is the agency itself because once honorable and honest people decide that there is no place for them in the FBI then only dishonest and dishonorable people will apply, this will within a generation turn it into exactly what the people think it is right now. We’re already seeing signs of this in the armed forces and unlike the Army you can’t have a draft for the FBI.

All of this of course comes from the steal of the election and the more I see of this the more I’m wondering if Trump as president was either in the process of or on the verge of exposing something so bad for the left/deep state that it not only justified the steal but justified destroying the FBI as a law enforcement agency.

One final note: The one expectation I take with these polling results is this. Joe Biden has the decision making authority of an ice cream cone. The FBI is no more Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo then they are mine and people who think so are wrong.

However if you ask me the question “Is if the FBI has been acting like the person Gestapo of the Biden Administration?” that’s accurate and I’d have to say “yes”. The question I have is, “Who is actually making the call”?

Update: In fairness the FBI has not been right for some time:

Biden presidency drenched in incompetence yet no one has been fired

Posted: August 14, 2022 by John Ruberry in News/opinion, politics
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By John Ruberry

Monday is the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul, the second-most ignominious event America endured in my lifetime, only the fall of Saigon was worse.

A month prior the more recent debacle, Joe Biden had this to say, “There’s going to be no circumstance where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.” That did happen–and of course the two black eyes for America are quite comparable.

Biden did what he, well, sort of, does best. He blamed Donald Trump for the Taliban victory. True, Biden inherited the agreement engineered by Trump–not a treaty, but an agreement–for the United States military to depart Afghanistan last year. And Biden didn’t even hold to Trump’s agreement, he postponed the withdrawal of US troops from May 1 to the ominous date of September 11. Because of the rout of the Afghan government forces by the Taliban, we were gone in late August–but after the tragic murder by terrorists of 13 members our military. 

What a mess. 

Who was fired after Afghanistan fell? Not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley (a Trump appointee), not secretary of State Anthony Blinken, not secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. 

No one.

A humiliation.

Milley, in a closed door meeting shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, testified that Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, could fall within three days after hostilities broke out. 

Yes, he’s really a general.

As the Taliban mopped up in Afghanistan, Biden assured Americans that al Qaeda was gone from there. But a few weeks ago the leader of the terror group, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was living in Kabul. That is, until an American drone strike killed him.

Last year there was a supply-chain crisis. What member of the Biden cabinet should have been answerable for that? Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of Transportation, who we learned–only after the media came looking for him–was on paternity leave as the supply-chain crisis unfolded. 

To be fair, Biden’s Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, recently admitted she was wrong when she said last year that inflation was “transitory.” But like Buttigieg, she’s still on the job. 

Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Secretary, claims our southern border is secure. (Insert the Kevin Bacon Animal House “all is well” meme here.) Mayorkas is a DC swamp critter that Biden seemingly found by looking for him under rocks. Yeah, I know, Mayorkas is simply following Biden’s far-left policy of open borders. And Jennifer Granholm, leading the Department of Energy, is kowtowing to the anti-energy zealotry of the extreme left. They are still on the job too.

Trump was a great steward of the American economy and he didn’t involve America in any new wars. And as a businessman he knew sometimes people have fired, his most prominent dismissals were his secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and James Comey, the director of the FBI. Sadly, Trump botched the appointment of Comey’s replacement by naming Christopher Wray to that post.

Last month in this space I wrote that Biden’s attorney, general, Merrick Garland, was America’s worst AG since Harry M. Daugherty, a prominent member of Warren G. Harding’s corrupt “Ohio Gang.” I was wrong. After last week’s unprecedented raid on the home of a former president, Garland, the progenitor of our politicized two-tiered justice system, is worse. 

Then again, “Moderate Merrick,” like Mayorkas and Granholm, is another clerk just taking orders. 

Biden, a failed president who is clearly suffering from cognitive decline, can turn things around, a little bit, with one big firing.

Himself.

His vice president, Kamala Harris, could be a slightly better president. Biden dramatically lowered the standard.

Perhaps Harris can write some pink slips.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

DaTechGuy’s Spontaneous Podcast the Mar-a-Lago Raid and an Immigration story that both spell trouble for the left

Posted: August 11, 2022 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, immigration, politics, Uncomfortable Truths
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The mood struck me to do a spontaneous podcast.

I talk Trump, How the left is trying to intimidate us and a story of a black immigrant woman that is bad news for the left

You can watch it here

Eventually all of this will be on Rumble but till all my youtube videos are moved we’ll still be there.

Five More Under the Fedora Thoughts on the Raid on Donald Trump’s House: More Norms, Trump as Mr. Clean, In Your Face on Purpose, Silence and Consent, The Left’s Fear of Exposure

Posted: August 10, 2022 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, politics, Uncategorized
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The degree of shock at the Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago confuses me. Once you have people willing to destroy the norms on stealing an election what makes you think they’re going to respect any other norms?

You know I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again, Donald Trump must be one of the cleanest businessmen who ever ran a business and one of the most honest pols who ever held office.

With the degree of scrutiny given to him and the enthusiastic desire to find something ANYTHING criminal about him from both the government and the press the fact that over six years they have come up with nothing solidifies this opinion.

The funny thing of course is that people likely would not have had that opinion before he ran.

There is one other aspect of what was done that should be addressed. One of the reasons people were shocked is how “in your face” this actually is.

That’s deliberate, they WANT people to understand that they will come after you and you can’t do anything about it, they want you to know who is in charge, who is the master and who is the slave.

It’s meant to be psychological terrorism.

There are a few people who are shocked at how few leftists are speaking out against this. I’m not shocked for three reasons:

  1. The violent wing of the left is still ready to go after anyone who speaks out of turn and particularly anyone they consider “traitors”
  2. The left didn’t see the possibility of Harry Reid’s filibuster reform being used against them, why would they see the consequences for them here?
  3. In a party that is post Christian, ends and means are what matters , why would you expect a moral stand?

Finally we talked about how clean Trump must be now let’s look at the other side of the coin.

For decades Republicans and Democrats have traded power, each side has been in charge for a while then the other. Other than that long run from the 50’s to the 80’s when the dems owned the house the back and forth was normal and both sides understood that sooner or later the pendulum swings back.

The sheer panic on the left concerning a 2nd Trump term suggest to me something different.

Could it be that the left is even more corrupt than we think? Could it be that the stuff that they’ve been doing, enabling and coordinating is even more horrific than that worst conspiracy theorists have imagined? Could it be that the Epstein’s of the world are the norm for the left and not the exception and that they’ve only caught the one?

That would explain the left’s Trump panic. Not being part of the normal system won’t turn a blind eye to things that have been done in the past and continue to be done, more than that he would be motivated to expose what the left has done for decades simply out of revenge over what’s been done to him without cause.

This is simply a theory, I don’t know if that’s true, but it certainly fits the current facts on the ground.

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