Religion excuses a lot of mental illness, and the Catholic Church never met a right-wing dictatorship they didnβt love. Kash Patel is obscenely unfit and unqualified to lead the FBI. He puts his loyalty to Donald Trump miles ahead of his oath of office.
Can there be any doubt but that the Trump administration is doing virtually EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to make the United States LESS powerful, LESS reliable, LESS credible, and most importantly, LESS SAFE?
And this story is just one of too many I have read lately that corroborates my assertion.
Now ask yourself a question -- if the terrorist in question had been Muslim and was attempting to recruit people (unsuccessfully, I might add) through a mosque, would a similar report have resulted in the same termination of its authors?
I think we all know that's such terminations would not have happened, and the mosque would remain a target of investigation.
Were that the case, the FBI would've done its dead level best to recruit as many people as possible to the cell, even if it meant they had to radicalize members themselves. We know this because it's exactly what they π₯πͺπ₯ do after 9/11. More than once.
Like Weimar, the real threats are ignored and coddled and paper threats are hyped. Thirty five years of allowing this cancer to grow unchecked has brought us to this point and I don't see us escaping it unscathed. The river of blood the reich is baying for is swelling in its bed and will overtop the banks before this is over.
Refusing to watch potentially dangerous people just because they happen to be explicitly Christian in order to stop "anti-Christian" bias is just plain stupid. Unless the particular brand of dangerous this anonymous individual is the thing they want. That makes it malevolent. And of course, we can't rule out that it's potentially both.
The right in general has rarely if ever been about nuance. They're about slogans and sound bites and catch phrases and click bait. Details and deep dives bore them, I suspect.
They also know that those things play to their audience all too well, which is the REALLY scary thing.
-- Ted Koppel, to Sean Hannity, on why he (Hannity) is bad for America
The conversation between Hannity and Koppel was EPIC for this last line, wherein a pretender got his ass handed to him by a genuine NEWSMAN who actually cares about facts and reality and details. Would that more of Hannity's audience could be bothered to listen and/or understand.
Paranoia and paranoid delusions seem to be a big component of the 'thought process' of the reactionary right... I despair of ever knitting the US back together when they have taken so much power and frankly want us dead.
It's either paranoia or a desire to broadcast a sense of paranoia to the general public. They can then feed off of the reaction of the mob to justify their positions and their subsequent actions.
Once again, it's simplistic and reductive, which is what the audience of the right feeds off of.
Or rather none of it. He's far too stupid to do any of that stuff. Not only that, he's dying from dementia and other serious health issues and could die any day now.
We'll live and so will this nation along with democracy as we know it.
The same people screeching about religious persecution because these cases happen to involve rad trad catholics are the very people who have no problem whatsoever targeting muslims solely because of their religion. They're also the same people who screamed bloody murder when the FBI issued a report about extremist christian nationalists recruiting from within the military - you know, the very people at the heart of the insurrection incited by Trump and convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Also, anyone else need convincing that it was a RWCN who leaked the draft report to right-wing media? The people who think every muslim is a secret terrorist don't want to look too closely at their religion. But the guy who was planning a violent terrorist attack on the usual right-wing target, minorities, LGBT folks, etc., clearly thought his views had a home in right-wing catholicism. Gee, wonder why.......
Great. While we're fighting an unprovoked, blatantly illegal war against Iran, let's also further hamstring the FBI in their efforts to protect us from domestic threats when the consequences come home to roost. And come home to roost they will, in one form or another.
I want to emphasize that I hope this NEVER, NEVER, NEVER happens, but if there's another 9/11 in the near future, I will not be surprised. Heartsick and despairing, yes, but surprised? With this violent, destructive, unhinged, demented clown car posse administration looking for things to smash like a strung out junkie looking for the next fix, all the while pissing off another round of world leaders with each news cycle? Sometimes I'm surprised that nothing has happened already.
Iβm grateful for those FBI agents who actually focus on protecting the country from actual danger as opposed to those who focus their efforts on ideological bull***t and grandstanding in service to the would be king
Kash Patel is the person who needs to be fired. Heβs incompetent and unqualified for the position he holds. Although the entire administration should be fired for their lack of qualifications and incompetence, it appears that only female cabinet members are losing their jobs. Glad to see them gone, but theyβre being replaced by equally unqualified and sycophantic males. The only qualification for this regime is loyalty to Trump.
Kash Patel is as much a dumpster fire for the FBI as Trump is for the whole country and, indeed, the world. The ONLY reason why he or Linda McMahon or Markwayne Mullin or ANY of the Cabinet have their positions is because Trump wanted sycophants to cootchie-coo him 24/7, and never mind expertise or experience.
I've said this before and will repeat: once Trump is out, ALL OF THEM need to be investigated, indicted, tried, and convicted of the multiple harms they have done to this country, with Trump at the top of the list!
βThat sounds like the government working as it should.β
Well, of course itβs working as it should, thatβs the problem for the reactionary right wingers. They want the government to be corrupt when theyβre in charge, so they vilify the government working as designed when theyβre not in charge. They make functioning institutions look corrupt so the public thinks thereβs something wrong with the way the left runs things, and then they say the right is the answer to the corruption, when theyβre just want to corrupt everything.
Religion excuses a lot of mental illness, and the Catholic Church never met a right-wing dictatorship they didnβt love. Kash Patel is obscenely unfit and unqualified to lead the FBI. He puts his loyalty to Donald Trump miles ahead of his oath of office.
I think the following is due to be cited again. Just strikes me as being on-point here:
πΌπ πΌ πππ’ππ πβππππ ππ’π π‘ πππ π‘βπππ, ππ‘ π€ππ’ππ ππ π‘π πππ π πππππ‘π π‘βπ ππππ ππ ππππ‘β ππππ π£πππ‘π’π β πππ€ πππ πππ ππππ β πππ π‘π ππ₯πππ π ππ‘ πππ π€βππ‘ ππ‘ ππ : π π πππ£πππ π€ππππππ π , π ππππ’ππ ππ πππ€ππππππ, πππ π π€πππππππππ π π‘π ππππππ€, π€ππ‘β πππππ’πππ‘π¦, ππππππ π€βπ πππ ππ π‘βπ βππβππ π‘ ππππππ π’ππ πππ’ππ’πππ’π .
-- Christopher Hitchens
Also by Hitchβ¦
βHuman decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.β
(from βGod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everythingβ)
Boy, this admin will do ANYTHING to protect an institution filled with child molesters.
With Jeffrey out of the picture, where π¦ππ΄π¦ is Donnie supposed to go victim-shopping?
Can there be any doubt but that the Trump administration is doing virtually EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to make the United States LESS powerful, LESS reliable, LESS credible, and most importantly, LESS SAFE?
And this story is just one of too many I have read lately that corroborates my assertion.
Now ask yourself a question -- if the terrorist in question had been Muslim and was attempting to recruit people (unsuccessfully, I might add) through a mosque, would a similar report have resulted in the same termination of its authors?
I think we all know that's such terminations would not have happened, and the mosque would remain a target of investigation.
Once again, Christian supremacists win the day.
Patel would have lost his shit before I could get to the end of this sentence. It would have been an "all-hands-on-deck" moment to beat the band.
This is the deference his type give to Christianity ... and why Patel needs to be shown the door.
Were that the case, the FBI would've done its dead level best to recruit as many people as possible to the cell, even if it meant they had to radicalize members themselves. We know this because it's exactly what they π₯πͺπ₯ do after 9/11. More than once.
Like Weimar, the real threats are ignored and coddled and paper threats are hyped. Thirty five years of allowing this cancer to grow unchecked has brought us to this point and I don't see us escaping it unscathed. The river of blood the reich is baying for is swelling in its bed and will overtop the banks before this is over.
Refusing to watch potentially dangerous people just because they happen to be explicitly Christian in order to stop "anti-Christian" bias is just plain stupid. Unless the particular brand of dangerous this anonymous individual is the thing they want. That makes it malevolent. And of course, we can't rule out that it's potentially both.
Nuance is lost on the far right power grabbers.
The right in general has rarely if ever been about nuance. They're about slogans and sound bites and catch phrases and click bait. Details and deep dives bore them, I suspect.
They also know that those things play to their audience all too well, which is the REALLY scary thing.
Details mean facts and reality, and those things rarely line up with their ideology.
πππ’ βππ£π ππ‘π‘ππππ‘ππ ππππππ π€βπ πππ πππ‘πππππππ π‘βππ‘ ππππππππ¦ ππ ππππ ππππππ‘πππ‘ π‘βππ ππππ‘π .
-- Ted Koppel, to Sean Hannity, on why he (Hannity) is bad for America
The conversation between Hannity and Koppel was EPIC for this last line, wherein a pretender got his ass handed to him by a genuine NEWSMAN who actually cares about facts and reality and details. Would that more of Hannity's audience could be bothered to listen and/or understand.
Would that molasses would run uphill in January...sigh.
They look on facts ans reality as the devils work without realizing that what they are doing is that same devils work.
Paranoia and paranoid delusions seem to be a big component of the 'thought process' of the reactionary right... I despair of ever knitting the US back together when they have taken so much power and frankly want us dead.
It's either paranoia or a desire to broadcast a sense of paranoia to the general public. They can then feed off of the reaction of the mob to justify their positions and their subsequent actions.
Once again, it's simplistic and reductive, which is what the audience of the right feeds off of.
I have encountered RWNJs since I was a teen and I (Retired Internist) think most of them have DSM-5 criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder.
Makes one wonder which one of Trump's failures is going to get us all killed.
All of them?
Or rather none of it. He's far too stupid to do any of that stuff. Not only that, he's dying from dementia and other serious health issues and could die any day now.
We'll live and so will this nation along with democracy as we know it.
The same people screeching about religious persecution because these cases happen to involve rad trad catholics are the very people who have no problem whatsoever targeting muslims solely because of their religion. They're also the same people who screamed bloody murder when the FBI issued a report about extremist christian nationalists recruiting from within the military - you know, the very people at the heart of the insurrection incited by Trump and convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Also, anyone else need convincing that it was a RWCN who leaked the draft report to right-wing media? The people who think every muslim is a secret terrorist don't want to look too closely at their religion. But the guy who was planning a violent terrorist attack on the usual right-wing target, minorities, LGBT folks, etc., clearly thought his views had a home in right-wing catholicism. Gee, wonder why.......
Great. While we're fighting an unprovoked, blatantly illegal war against Iran, let's also further hamstring the FBI in their efforts to protect us from domestic threats when the consequences come home to roost. And come home to roost they will, in one form or another.
I want to emphasize that I hope this NEVER, NEVER, NEVER happens, but if there's another 9/11 in the near future, I will not be surprised. Heartsick and despairing, yes, but surprised? With this violent, destructive, unhinged, demented clown car posse administration looking for things to smash like a strung out junkie looking for the next fix, all the while pissing off another round of world leaders with each news cycle? Sometimes I'm surprised that nothing has happened already.
The attack would also likely come from within the regime and not from foreign enemies. Or foreign enemies bought and paid for by the regime.
The right are constantly talking about false flag operations. Any bet that another 9/11 would try to disguise itself as a false flag operation?
If there is another 9/11 in this country, it'll be because Kash Patel likely dropped the ball or ignored serious evidence to that effect.
That man is about law enforcement in the same way that I'm a concert violinist.
It'll be because the regime deliberately ignored the terrorists we're most under threat from: their own base.
Iβm grateful for those FBI agents who actually focus on protecting the country from actual danger as opposed to those who focus their efforts on ideological bull***t and grandstanding in service to the would be king
Kash Patel is the person who needs to be fired. Heβs incompetent and unqualified for the position he holds. Although the entire administration should be fired for their lack of qualifications and incompetence, it appears that only female cabinet members are losing their jobs. Glad to see them gone, but theyβre being replaced by equally unqualified and sycophantic males. The only qualification for this regime is loyalty to Trump.
Kash Patel is as much a dumpster fire for the FBI as Trump is for the whole country and, indeed, the world. The ONLY reason why he or Linda McMahon or Markwayne Mullin or ANY of the Cabinet have their positions is because Trump wanted sycophants to cootchie-coo him 24/7, and never mind expertise or experience.
I've said this before and will repeat: once Trump is out, ALL OF THEM need to be investigated, indicted, tried, and convicted of the multiple harms they have done to this country, with Trump at the top of the list!
There's also one other aspect, many of the current cabinet members gave sizeable donations to Trump and his various committees.
Really, they ought to just install a pay-to-pass turnstile at the front door of the White House.
As long as that loyalty comes with a penis. And is white.
And is willing to give him money.
Always comes down to money, one way or another, doesn't it?
"He also described himself on social media as ββFascist and Catholicβ"
And, coincidentally, likes to fuck couches.
Solutions in search of problems while the country falls apart from real issues.
Too many cathoilcs in the current administration showed up in the list.
βThat sounds like the government working as it should.β
Well, of course itβs working as it should, thatβs the problem for the reactionary right wingers. They want the government to be corrupt when theyβre in charge, so they vilify the government working as designed when theyβre not in charge. They make functioning institutions look corrupt so the public thinks thereβs something wrong with the way the left runs things, and then they say the right is the answer to the corruption, when theyβre just want to corrupt everything.
OT: The hidden comment has no reason to be hidden. Here we go again.
Something untoward is going on with this "hidden" crap. I can't say as I like it in the slightest, and I'm wondering why Hemant is allowing it.