Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Clarence Kelley was the last and only non-JD to head the FBI. What I don't get is how Obama and his fellow progs can go from "the 80's want their foreign policy back" to "let's start a war in Ukraine to bring down Putin." I know that Obama liked to covertly bring down leaders around the world, but usually to advance radical Islam. I thought he was cozy with Putin.
Tocqueville predicted America’s fatal flaw would be the legal profession and a resulting rule by lawyers. Looks like we’re there. Catherine Crier published a book on the same theme circa 2006. Sad.
I see you already got the T reference, but fwiw I wonder if Crier, who has basically disappeared from public life, got blackpilled before the rest of us?!
From my 2002 notes: “Catherine Crier was on Imus yesterday and had some interesting things to say. Her new book, ‘The Case Against Lawyers’, talks about how the legal system has run amuck. She mentioned how prescient De Tocqueville was in 1840 when he said that Americans will eventually lose their liberty to lawyers and become as "timid, industrious sheep", afraid to do anything outside the box...”
Thanks. Very interesting how T saw the legal profession as a conservative restraint on radicalism, but it's been co-opted and has become the driving force of radicalism in many ways. The enabling force that makes radicalism so powerful in the US.
Yes, it was once one of our more meaningful institutions, but is no more. NEOCON lawyers mainly found at Lawfare are the nemesis of a Constitutional Republic like the USA. They obstruct the rule of law by using perceived loopholes then shop around for a like minded judge, usually another NEOCON or angry minority uplifted by affirmative action to legitimize their cause. Money is usually used as grease for the wheels of deceit to succeed.
Its also an arrogant disdain for the electorate and their elected representatives. 'Smart', 'lefty' lawyers from elite law schools can persuade 'smart', 'lefty' judges from elite law schools to make laws which the legislatures would never pass.
The 'at the helm' controlling elite seem to be using a tactic to execute something that will get flipped back to correct eventually, and doing as much mischief as possible inside t=eventually. For that reason, I think Zhou will push the "14th amendment requires ..." debt-ceiling (eye roll here) button.
Illuminating substack I just started reading on culture and gender wars.
Trans Lawfare from The Obama Administration led to the suicide of a Hispanic Trans (girl>male) in Arcadia. I grew up next to Arcadia, and most graduates either go UC’s or Ivy League.
It's all about the Transgressive mentality. It's fundamental, I believe, to cultural marxism, which is what animated the Obama fundamental Transformation regime as well as BLM.
I just have cognitive dissonance with a blm coloring book with a pro trans message.
Just like the naacp pushing a trans agenda.
When blacks are overall very anti trans culturally.
But the donors are pro trans, so Black Organizations are pro trans, because if a Black Politician or organization objects, they risk being blacklisted / defunded. Same with anti illegal immigration.
btw, Richard Pilger resigned because of it. He was Director of the Election Crimes Branch at the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice
Actions speak louder than words. We all learned that there was a chasm between what Barr said and what Barr did. The man turned out to be an establishment shill. But worse, the performances you cite show him to be a liar and a traitor to those of us who took him at his word.
Trump is a meany on Twitter, and not acting prim and proper like a good Republican, and gracefully just taking it. He is a narcissist.
(And unsaid - he’s allowing in popularity ideas and showing we are a bunch of people full of hot air making empty promises to get elected, and we can’t allow his lower class voters to control the gop and government, and upset our big money donors and other elites).
- EGOP
On Barr - he was protecting the doj and fbi. Nothing else seemed to matter, no matter the cost. Trump was a threat, so he had to be removed at any cost.
Yes!!! Perfectly stated. My only question or quibble is do these people realize how powerless they are to change the culture? It's not even a war. For us deplorables it is a reality. There is no question of us changing our morality or religion or the facts as we see them, and so the official 'culture' is doomed to be rejected by what is probably the majority of citizens. This will impact on their implementation of anything they propose to do. How will they deal with it? I reject the assumption that we have lost. They have not, and will never win.
Tucker should pick up on your monologue whenever he gets his voice back.
On the judges' front, they passed on the election fraud case brought on by conservative states who had constitutional 'standing' to contest other states breaking their own voting laws resulting in questionable - or would it be unlawful - outcomes. My gut tells me they just wanted to get rid of Trump, get past his MAGA movement, and all would return to normal politics with the elites still in charge. But they continue to this day haranguing Trump with government sanctioned lawfare while using every finger and toe to plug the dam holding back the ever-building evidence of Biden family corruption. And that means they still fear Trump in a general election, no matter what their media lackeys spew.
“My gut tells me they just wanted to get rid of Trump”
That’s exactly what I thought at the time. Supreme Court “Justices” attend the same cocktail parties as the rest of the ruling class. I don’t doubt for a second that from 2016 to 2020 lots of conversations at those parties centered on how to resolve the Trump Question.
Do you really think we’re going to hear anything from Tucker again? Maybe after the coming election has been stolen and the new world order is in place
I'm not sure about DeSantis, meeting with the Bushes, the epitome of Deep State. Is this where his funding will come from? He will then be controlled. I don't think he is ready for what is ahead. Trump has been effective because of his wealth and ability to fight back.
Used to be someone commenting here that thought either Desantis or Youngkin (my Gov) wd be best selection for Pres ever. My problem w/that is & always has been that Trump was cheated out of his 2nd term "6 ways to Sunday." Just 'cuz states lied, cheated & judges colluded w/them on "no standing" hasn't changed a thing. I can't & won't move forward w/out a major cleanup.
Fwiw imo, Youngkin is just like DeSantis. Does enough to improve some awful stuff - like recently bailing out of fed ERIC voter roll registry, but only when it couldn't be brushed under rug (due to alert Virginia citizens) what a cheat system it was.
It's a real concern. It could be a matter of allowing him to continue his popular domestic rhetoric as long as he doesn't upset the Globalist/Neocon foreign policy. There are indications of that in play.
I agree it’s a concern perhaps a big one since it implies biz as usual for the oligarch’s and the elites. But what would a DeSantis candidate/president elect mean for the citizens? That’s the 64 Trillion dollar question.
Doesn’t matter what “his ideas” are. Mark’s point is that he might be allowed to talk up populist domestic policies (even culture war tropes) because these will be easily thwarted or at least substantially watered down once he’s in office. Recall, for example, how long the GOP officially held a pro-life stance. Yet somehow Republicans never managed to make any progress in that regard. They never intended to. (Speaking of which, apropos of Mark’s comments regarding wives, Barbara and Laura Bush were both outspokenly “pro-choice.” Just sayin.)
Not sure how WWII/Cold War figures in, but splitting headache & half a brain today. Totally agree w/rest.
But u know what? Facist oligarchs only believe in their own power & control. The American people are better than that & have much more God given creativity available to them, imo. ❤
Winning WWII set up the modern IC/NS State we have now; the OSS of WWII morphed into the CIA after the war & is largely blamed for the hit on JFK in ‘63 & possibly RFK in ‘68 + a host of different “operations” co-opting the media & the motion picture industry. The Cold War only caused the IC groups to expand & increase their power. Notice when the Soviet Union collapsed the MIC was not really rolled back - @ least @ the senior echelon level; the so-called “peace dividend” did about halve the number of active duty divisions the Army/Marines could field - but the MIC largely went on a hunt to find a new enemy. By 2001 it was “radical Islam” & within the last couple of years it’s switched back to the big, bad old Russians.
Ok, my head has cleared significantly since this thread began. Kinda hard w/WWII. My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck. He passed in the 90s & likely never knew the uglier details of WWII. Who wd have known if they didn't keep pulling the same stunts again & again? I didn't start getting hints that something was odd until after 9/11, & the crash course didn't begin until Trump took office.
At some point, b.s. becomes impossible to ignore & ppl are no longer happy to continue along in the same ol' way. I hope that's what we're seeing today. Certainly, tpb want to keep on in the same ol' way, but everyday ppl are seeing the chinks in their armor on the fullest display ever.
As far as voting, VA just pulled out of the phoney ERIC voter registration system w/TX right behind us. It's just a small piece, but progress forward, at least. I'd rather go back to everyone voting on one day w/paper ballots & NO computers.
Ok, my head has cleared significantly since this thread began. Kinda hard w/WWII. My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck. He passed in the 90s & likely never knew the uglier details of WWII. Who wd have known if they didn't keep pulling the same stunts again & again? I didn't start getting hints that something was odd until after 9/11, & the crash course didn't begin until Trump took office.
At some point, b.s. becomes impossible to ignore & ppl are no longer happy to continue along in the same ol' way. I hope that's what we're seeing today. Certainly, tpb want to keep on in the same ol' way, but everyday ppl are seeing the chinks in their armor on the fullest display ever.
As far as voting, VA just pulled out of the phoney ERIC voter registration system w/TX right behind us. It's just a small piece, but progress forward, at least. I'd rather go back to everyone voting on one day w/paper ballots & NO computers.
Hence the name, “Lawfare.” By the way not all lawyers are uber-liberals consorting with the Devil. There are many of us who are NOT OK with all that is going on.
How does Thug Nazi pres/leader Zelensky make "Thug Lite" to your way of thinking? I'm w/Cosmo - Putin seems to care a whale of a lot more abt his region & ppl in general than most US leaders & elites. If he didn't, he wouldn't have finally stepped into Ukraine w/SMO. Do you not realize it was US neocons like Nuland + NATO that made this unavoidale from 2014 till now?
The club of Thugs include a lot of American politicians. I no longer see Putin the thug some make him out to be. It appears, different from our elites and they’re bought and paid for political class, that Putin has the ability to change, they don’t. Putin cares for his country and is looking out for his people, our bettors not so much in fact they prefer us dead you see that helps with climate change.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Clarence Kelley was the last and only non-JD to head the FBI. What I don't get is how Obama and his fellow progs can go from "the 80's want their foreign policy back" to "let's start a war in Ukraine to bring down Putin." I know that Obama liked to covertly bring down leaders around the world, but usually to advance radical Islam. I thought he was cozy with Putin.
Right you are--and that was a long time ago.
Tocqueville predicted America’s fatal flaw would be the legal profession and a resulting rule by lawyers. Looks like we’re there. Catherine Crier published a book on the same theme circa 2006. Sad.
If you have a Toqueville ref I'd appreciate that.
I see you already got the T reference, but fwiw I wonder if Crier, who has basically disappeared from public life, got blackpilled before the rest of us?!
From my 2002 notes: “Catherine Crier was on Imus yesterday and had some interesting things to say. Her new book, ‘The Case Against Lawyers’, talks about how the legal system has run amuck. She mentioned how prescient De Tocqueville was in 1840 when he said that Americans will eventually lose their liberty to lawyers and become as "timid, industrious sheep", afraid to do anything outside the box...”
In my copy it’s in chapter eight under the heading “On the spirit of the lawyer in the U.S. and how it serves as a counterweight to Democracy”
Thanks. Very interesting how T saw the legal profession as a conservative restraint on radicalism, but it's been co-opted and has become the driving force of radicalism in many ways. The enabling force that makes radicalism so powerful in the US.
Yes, it was once one of our more meaningful institutions, but is no more. NEOCON lawyers mainly found at Lawfare are the nemesis of a Constitutional Republic like the USA. They obstruct the rule of law by using perceived loopholes then shop around for a like minded judge, usually another NEOCON or angry minority uplifted by affirmative action to legitimize their cause. Money is usually used as grease for the wheels of deceit to succeed.
Its also an arrogant disdain for the electorate and their elected representatives. 'Smart', 'lefty' lawyers from elite law schools can persuade 'smart', 'lefty' judges from elite law schools to make laws which the legislatures would never pass.
Speaking of emergency edict… https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/north-carolina-gov-roy-cooper-declares-state-of-emergency-for-public-education/amp/.
The 'at the helm' controlling elite seem to be using a tactic to execute something that will get flipped back to correct eventually, and doing as much mischief as possible inside t=eventually. For that reason, I think Zhou will push the "14th amendment requires ..." debt-ceiling (eye roll here) button.
The YouTube video link is broken Mr. Wauck, it’s labeled as having been removed for violating ToS
What happens to truth tellers.
And the lawfare, cancellation, and censorship continues.
Twitter / Rumble link:
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1660381696066461696?s=20
Illuminating substack I just started reading on culture and gender wars.
Trans Lawfare from The Obama Administration led to the suicide of a Hispanic Trans (girl>male) in Arcadia. I grew up next to Arcadia, and most graduates either go UC’s or Ivy League.
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-to-meet-with-me-nobody
The blm coloring book in Chicago schools is pushing trans:
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/queer-normative-elementary-schooling
And another on teach for America:
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/taught-for-america
It's all about the Transgressive mentality. It's fundamental, I believe, to cultural marxism, which is what animated the Obama fundamental Transformation regime as well as BLM.
Transformation regime is appropriate.
I just have cognitive dissonance with a blm coloring book with a pro trans message.
Just like the naacp pushing a trans agenda.
When blacks are overall very anti trans culturally.
But the donors are pro trans, so Black Organizations are pro trans, because if a Black Politician or organization objects, they risk being blacklisted / defunded. Same with anti illegal immigration.
Big Mike
Nice piece. Not quite sure about Barr, though. He acts different in front of a camera.
1) his opinion on mail-in ballots: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/09/02/bill_barr_vs_cnns_wolf_blitzer_we_are_playing_with_fire_with_mail-in_ballots.html
2) his resignation letter (read first paragraph): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20424018-attorney-general-william-barr-resignation-letter
3) Authorizes "Post-Voting Election Irregularity Inquiries" - https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/barr-memo-elections-fraud/9bf5cac375012c4c/full.pdf
btw, Richard Pilger resigned because of it. He was Director of the Election Crimes Branch at the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice
Actions speak louder than words. We all learned that there was a chasm between what Barr said and what Barr did. The man turned out to be an establishment shill. But worse, the performances you cite show him to be a liar and a traitor to those of us who took him at his word.
Don’t be fooled.
Head on a swivel...
Typical eGOP.
Eek, look how bad this is! We need to fix this!
- EGOP
Proposes or does changes to address problem.
- Trump
Trump is a meany on Twitter, and not acting prim and proper like a good Republican, and gracefully just taking it. He is a narcissist.
(And unsaid - he’s allowing in popularity ideas and showing we are a bunch of people full of hot air making empty promises to get elected, and we can’t allow his lower class voters to control the gop and government, and upset our big money donors and other elites).
- EGOP
On Barr - he was protecting the doj and fbi. Nothing else seemed to matter, no matter the cost. Trump was a threat, so he had to be removed at any cost.
Yes!!! Perfectly stated. My only question or quibble is do these people realize how powerless they are to change the culture? It's not even a war. For us deplorables it is a reality. There is no question of us changing our morality or religion or the facts as we see them, and so the official 'culture' is doomed to be rejected by what is probably the majority of citizens. This will impact on their implementation of anything they propose to do. How will they deal with it? I reject the assumption that we have lost. They have not, and will never win.
Tucker should pick up on your monologue whenever he gets his voice back.
On the judges' front, they passed on the election fraud case brought on by conservative states who had constitutional 'standing' to contest other states breaking their own voting laws resulting in questionable - or would it be unlawful - outcomes. My gut tells me they just wanted to get rid of Trump, get past his MAGA movement, and all would return to normal politics with the elites still in charge. But they continue to this day haranguing Trump with government sanctioned lawfare while using every finger and toe to plug the dam holding back the ever-building evidence of Biden family corruption. And that means they still fear Trump in a general election, no matter what their media lackeys spew.
“My gut tells me they just wanted to get rid of Trump”
That’s exactly what I thought at the time. Supreme Court “Justices” attend the same cocktail parties as the rest of the ruling class. I don’t doubt for a second that from 2016 to 2020 lots of conversations at those parties centered on how to resolve the Trump Question.
Do you really think we’re going to hear anything from Tucker again? Maybe after the coming election has been stolen and the new world order is in place
How about this?
"get rid of Trump, get past his MAGA movement," and get on with the fundamental transformation of America.
I'm not sure about DeSantis, meeting with the Bushes, the epitome of Deep State. Is this where his funding will come from? He will then be controlled. I don't think he is ready for what is ahead. Trump has been effective because of his wealth and ability to fight back.
Used to be someone commenting here that thought either Desantis or Youngkin (my Gov) wd be best selection for Pres ever. My problem w/that is & always has been that Trump was cheated out of his 2nd term "6 ways to Sunday." Just 'cuz states lied, cheated & judges colluded w/them on "no standing" hasn't changed a thing. I can't & won't move forward w/out a major cleanup.
Fwiw imo, Youngkin is just like DeSantis. Does enough to improve some awful stuff - like recently bailing out of fed ERIC voter roll registry, but only when it couldn't be brushed under rug (due to alert Virginia citizens) what a cheat system it was.
Virtually all of his money is Establishment money, approved by the Deep State. Fact.
In other words, Mark,he is bought and paid for like Sundance suggested. Just sayin
It's a real concern. It could be a matter of allowing him to continue his popular domestic rhetoric as long as he doesn't upset the Globalist/Neocon foreign policy. There are indications of that in play.
I agree it’s a concern perhaps a big one since it implies biz as usual for the oligarch’s and the elites. But what would a DeSantis candidate/president elect mean for the citizens? That’s the 64 Trillion dollar question.
The idea would be that his domestic ideas could be thwarted on the national level.
Once we hear his ideas then we’ll know.
Doesn’t matter what “his ideas” are. Mark’s point is that he might be allowed to talk up populist domestic policies (even culture war tropes) because these will be easily thwarted or at least substantially watered down once he’s in office. Recall, for example, how long the GOP officially held a pro-life stance. Yet somehow Republicans never managed to make any progress in that regard. They never intended to. (Speaking of which, apropos of Mark’s comments regarding wives, Barbara and Laura Bush were both outspokenly “pro-choice.” Just sayin.)
K.T. McFarland mentioned she had to pay hundred of thousands of dollars in legal fees due to the Mueller investigation:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/02/14/kt-mcfarland-media-not-covering-durham-report-implicating-team-hillary-because-theyre-in-on-the-con-1201035/
Sad there is no redress.
Welcome to the fascist oligarchy. And what can be done if McFarlane is correct?
Not much it seems short of a cartridge box & that’s precisely what they - the “elites” - want hence all the ground prep about “white supremacy”.
This is what we get for winning WWII/Cold War.
Not sure how WWII/Cold War figures in, but splitting headache & half a brain today. Totally agree w/rest.
But u know what? Facist oligarchs only believe in their own power & control. The American people are better than that & have much more God given creativity available to them, imo. ❤
Winning WWII set up the modern IC/NS State we have now; the OSS of WWII morphed into the CIA after the war & is largely blamed for the hit on JFK in ‘63 & possibly RFK in ‘68 + a host of different “operations” co-opting the media & the motion picture industry. The Cold War only caused the IC groups to expand & increase their power. Notice when the Soviet Union collapsed the MIC was not really rolled back - @ least @ the senior echelon level; the so-called “peace dividend” did about halve the number of active duty divisions the Army/Marines could field - but the MIC largely went on a hunt to find a new enemy. By 2001 it was “radical Islam” & within the last couple of years it’s switched back to the big, bad old Russians.
Hope you’re right about the American people, recent elections would indicate otherwise but I try to be the eternal optimist. If all this voting chicanery is not stopped/rolled back & the rogue agencies are not dealt with (see here: https://www.wdayradionow.com/news/national-news/64831-former-deputy-national-security-adviser-fbi-cia-and-doj-will-interfere-in ) it’s all a moot point.
Ok, my head has cleared significantly since this thread began. Kinda hard w/WWII. My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck. He passed in the 90s & likely never knew the uglier details of WWII. Who wd have known if they didn't keep pulling the same stunts again & again? I didn't start getting hints that something was odd until after 9/11, & the crash course didn't begin until Trump took office.
At some point, b.s. becomes impossible to ignore & ppl are no longer happy to continue along in the same ol' way. I hope that's what we're seeing today. Certainly, tpb want to keep on in the same ol' way, but everyday ppl are seeing the chinks in their armor on the fullest display ever.
As far as voting, VA just pulled out of the phoney ERIC voter registration system w/TX right behind us. It's just a small piece, but progress forward, at least. I'd rather go back to everyone voting on one day w/paper ballots & NO computers.
Ok, my head has cleared significantly since this thread began. Kinda hard w/WWII. My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck. He passed in the 90s & likely never knew the uglier details of WWII. Who wd have known if they didn't keep pulling the same stunts again & again? I didn't start getting hints that something was odd until after 9/11, & the crash course didn't begin until Trump took office.
At some point, b.s. becomes impossible to ignore & ppl are no longer happy to continue along in the same ol' way. I hope that's what we're seeing today. Certainly, tpb want to keep on in the same ol' way, but everyday ppl are seeing the chinks in their armor on the fullest display ever.
As far as voting, VA just pulled out of the phoney ERIC voter registration system w/TX right behind us. It's just a small piece, but progress forward, at least. I'd rather go back to everyone voting on one day w/paper ballots & NO computers.
It's a way to punish innocent people.
Hence the name, “Lawfare.” By the way not all lawyers are uber-liberals consorting with the Devil. There are many of us who are NOT OK with all that is going on.
I understand. I'm a lawyer by education. But the legal profession is owned by liberals and has been, by and large, for a long time.
Only if Rick Grennel is AG (don’t think I spelled his name correctly but you can probably figure out who I’m referring to)
How does Thug Nazi pres/leader Zelensky make "Thug Lite" to your way of thinking? I'm w/Cosmo - Putin seems to care a whale of a lot more abt his region & ppl in general than most US leaders & elites. If he didn't, he wouldn't have finally stepped into Ukraine w/SMO. Do you not realize it was US neocons like Nuland + NATO that made this unavoidale from 2014 till now?
Totally agree - don't think I cd stand to be a leader of anything beyond my own personal & very humble life!
The club of Thugs include a lot of American politicians. I no longer see Putin the thug some make him out to be. It appears, different from our elites and they’re bought and paid for political class, that Putin has the ability to change, they don’t. Putin cares for his country and is looking out for his people, our bettors not so much in fact they prefer us dead you see that helps with climate change.
Putin was never anywhere close to being head of the KGB:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin#KGB_career