Only pawn in game of life. A pox on both of their houses.
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"You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God". - Mattie Ross of Yell County.
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Douglas Grinder retweeted
“Pick another day.”
That’s the first thing retired FBI whistleblower George Hill says when two FBI agents from the Philadelphia Field Office show up at his door on Ring camera — over a tweet.
The agents themselves indicate on the video they know it isn’t a real threat. They still came within 24 hours of Laura Loomer running to the top of the federal government. George is a 26-year military intelligence veteran and Marine (the FBI showed up on the Marine Corps birthday, no less), with five years at the NSA and 11 years at the FBI as a Supervisory Intelligence Analyst.
This is the “Good German” problem in real time. These agents, "Will" and "Brian," are just "ordinary men" who drove to knock on a door despite knowing it was wrong. No principles to push back and say: “this is protected speech and not a threat.” Just compliance and "following orders." (They didn't even have the courage to leave a real business card with their names - just a blank one from the field office.)
The FBI showed who they were during the Biden admin. They knocked on doors over politics, protected speech, or thin pretexts. They sent a SWAT team over politics, religion, or your criticism of whatever admin approves their budget.
Nothing in that culture has changed. The institution didn’t change. You CANNOT do reform when you keep the same people.
Hill has testified about the Bureau’s handling of Jan. 6 data. He has spoken out about the role the FBI has played in creating the modern American "police state."
Now they’re at his front door proving they haven't addressed the problem... over protected speech in a f-ing tweet. And even the agents on video seemed embarrassed about complying with the order.
The "following orders" will continue until the Bureau's gutless management has been completely dismantled.
Free Speech Absolutist @LauraLoomer
had these two @FBI agents from @FBIPhiladelphia
sent to @SeniorChiefEXW 's home today.
The agents implied they HAD to door knock because of pressure from the White House.
"Will" and "Brian" apologized, saying they "had to."
Douglas Grinder retweeted
Massie: "DOGE never really happened... Elon Musk found it was easier to land rockets backwards and put internet on Antarctica... than it was to get anybody in these two chambers to cut a penny of spending."
Even the Mandalorian ship looks like a small firefly. And the voice of the Mandalorian sounds a lot like Nathan Fillion.
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Douglas Grinder retweeted
The best way to honor America's veterans isn't to praise their sacrifice. It's to stop demanding it for wars that never needed to be fought.
Douglas Grinder retweeted
We used to build bombs to fight wars.
Now we fight wars to build bombs.
Eisenhower warned us.
Few listened.
Douglas Grinder retweeted
Americans invented a word for bribery so it would stop sounding like bribery.
They called it "lobbying."
A pharmaceutical company that spends $300 million purchasing the votes of legislators who will then block drug price regulation is not, in American law, corrupt.
It is "civically engaged."
A defense contractor that pays a retired general $500,000 a year to advocate for weapons contracts, contracts the general previously approved from the government side, is not a conflict of interest.
It is "private sector expertise."
A senator who receives $2 million from the insurance industry over a career and votes against universal healthcare every single time is not bought.
He is "fiscally responsible."
The genius of American corruption is not that it is hidden.
It is that it is legible, documented, publicly filed, searchable on the internet, and still not called what it is, because the people who would name it are the same people cashing the checks, and the people watching it happen have been trained to call it "democracy."
At least when a Nigerian official takes a bribe, everyone in the room knows what happened.
In Washington, they hold a press conference about it.
Republicans are more comfortable in the role of the minor party. That’s how controlled opposition works. They never really had any interest in ruling, just in giving the illusion of having a choice.
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Is anybody surprised by the non-support of Massie’s impeachment resolution? Republicans haven’t given a crap about the constitution for a long long time.
“Droids are not good or bad. They are just neutral reflections of those who created them.” From the mandalorian.
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Watching “The Mandalorian” for the first time. Series has a real “Firefly” feel to it. It ain’t great but it ain’t bad, either.
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Douglas Grinder retweeted
The great part about this Hegseth impeachment is it forces these murky questions (following illegal orders,the limits of POTUS’ c-in-c powers,etc) into open debate in a way pols generally prefer to avoid. It creates “rubber meets the road” moments that are healthy for republics.
Douglas Grinder retweeted
My “true colors”.😂 If only folk like you knew how profitable just picking one side of the Duopoly & running with it would have been for someone with my career.Programmers BEGGED me to (try marketing a “political Martian” on AM radio in the 1990s).
My true colors are American.
Douglas Grinder retweeted
I like politicians who talk about the Constitution a lot and also see long-unaddressed structural issues and Constitutional guardrails we’ve let slide as needs to be (finally) tackled.
I can work with people from either side of the Duopoly to make progress on this issue.
Douglas Grinder retweeted
It is critical that everyone understand this: the issue of highly enriched uranium is a goalpost that the neocon & Israeli lobby echo chamber will keep moving until we physically go into Iran to “take it”. The actual goal is to force a ground invasion and/or never-ending air strikes.
Even when we bomb & obliterate all of Iran’s HEU, as we did w/Op midnight hammer, the lobby insists we have to go get the “nuclear dust,” creating the circumstances for more strikes and/or that prized boots-on-the-ground op.
The U.S. intelligence community assessed that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon. The entire premise of chasing “nuclear dust” was—and remains—bait to draw us into Israel’s war.
Fuck, we have a new problem. The Neocons have a new pitch to Trump: 'The only way to fix the damage the Iran war has done to your legacy is to force them to give up their highly enriched uranium.'
They're spamming him with this stupid new idea, undermining Vance's efforts to reach a diplomatic solution
What they leave out of their pitch is that Iran will NEVER give up their uranium to Trump, as it's their only bargaining chip, and giving it up is an irreversible step, while Trump's conscessions (lifting the blockade and sanctions) are easily reversible
And needless to say, the Iranians do not trust Trump, or the U.S.
Douglas Grinder retweeted
What an interesting reveal.
Let’s assume for the moment that this is true (and there is no real reason to believe it is).
The power move is to sit back and wait. If Iran does nothing, there is no unpopular war and red wins the midterms.
If Iran launches an attack on Paris or London?? Suddenly the admin is *handed* a popular war and red destroys the midterms.
Nothing is more unpopular than an unpopular war - nothing is more popular than a popular war.
If this video is truthful, it is saying that the Trump admin made the stupidest choice - just from the point of power politics.
Makes me wonder what the OP is.
