FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases ‘Escorted Out’ of Offices in Friday Night Purge
FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases ‘Escorted Out’ of Offices in Friday Night Purge
A so-called "purge" of rank-and-file agents who investigated Trump and the heads of 20 field offices was announced earlier in the day.
It's frightening how a dictatorship is setting itself up in plain sight, at an accelerated pace, almost hour after hour, and nobody does a damn thing about it.
These are fascist purges. The way a military dictatorship would take over. This kind of thing is what you see in undeveloped poor countries, banana republics.
As it turns out, American exceptionalism is bullshit propaganda.
There's so many parts and pieces that all failed to get to where we are today. Each time you reflect a moment and realize that we shouldn't be be here in the first place:
- The FBI // justice department shouldn't be a tool of personal revenge.
- But wait Trump/Musk shouldn't have become presidents to begin with.
- Voters should be educated and well informed enough to simply not vote for an autocrat.
- Merrick Garland should never have become attorney general and even so Biden should have pressured him hard to do his job.
- Trump should have been impeached multiple times already.
- But the democrats too should have had a better alternative candidate.
- The democrats should have had a real primary contest.
- Biden should have never announced to run for another term out of the blue.
- And his handlers shouldn't have tried to hide his frailty for so long.
- If only Donald Trump should have been sentenced for his many crimes.
- And he shouldn't have had the backing of the Republican party for this long.
- Arguably voters should have realized he's inept the first time around.
- The media shouldn't have sensationalized him as much when he first ran as a publicity stunt
The list is not exhaustive and goes on and on...
And in the background there's all the systemic failures and problems that enabled this: terrible public education, ignoring a large chunk of the electorate for too long, citizens united, social media and outrage culture, rampant disinformation and propaganda disguised as news, the electoral college and de facto 2 party system, too few checks and balances being hard codified, obvious loop holes like presidential pardons, ...
Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations. If we will still live in a world where historians are allowed to about their work freely.
The ultimate should have is, America should have got it's shit together somewhere in the last 20 years.
You make Supreme Court judges political appointees, all of this was always going to happen at some point.
All you needed was the right guy to pull the levers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung?wprov=sfla1
this is whats happeningWho is going to do something? This is what the country voted for. So far, everything done has been legal. It will take time to make worse things legal, probably, but that is coming, too.
Not everything done so far has been legal and there are multiple ongoing cases suing Trump's actions. Book bans, healthcare, and anti-trans legislation are the first that come to mind. People and organizations (e.g. ACLU) in positions of power are trying to stand up for the common person where they can. If I had more money I'd donate to them.
No, it's not all legal. But the courts don't act at the speed of this executive.
This is a breakdown of our government.
I'm curious as to who's doing the actual force of these things. I know federal employees at the Treasury aren't expected to be armed resistance, but who, exactly, is behind forcing the way for Musk's people? Is it police? Private security? His own goons?
So far, everything done has been legal. It
Fuck legality.
Slavery? Legal.
The Holocaust? Legal.
Legality is what fascists use to keep the population in line, because if it's legal, what can we do, right?
Well someone is going to do something, likely a lawsuit because these firings are pretty clearly illegal. Now if the Supreme Court (again) decides the law doesn't apply to Trump, then maybe it's time to freak out. But that'll take over a year and then it'll be midterms time. And as terrible as Democrats are at winning, they'll have to really suck to screw that up.
First they came for the FBI, and I did nothing, just like those pigs did when they had the chance to do something.
Why? It's literally what half the country voted for
Half the country didn't vote. A quarter of the country voted for this.
what have you been doing?
I'm not in a position to do anything. But others are, and they're sitting on their thumbs in the Capitol Building, or actively collaborating with the orange utan in the hope of keeping their miserable jobs.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives?wprov=sfti1
Wonder what they could be purging dissidents for? 🤔
Another purge.
And another.
A forever purge, if you will.
This is what happens when you lose a class war.
The FBI was never on the side of the working class
Was addressing more of the ‘“taking out your government in the dead of night” aspect.
Yep, the USA is heading toward a 3rd World dictatorship at full steam.
3rd world? We're about to invent the 4th world (or 4th reich, either term works)
Yep, I'm all for it. 4th World it is.
This has to be illegal in soooo many ways.
Something is only illegal if someone upholds the law. And so far no one has upheld anything. And these are the people who tried, and now they're being made examples of just in case anyone else gets the wrong ideas.
And?
Legality had its chance...
You slow walk it for him and this is the thanks you get.
Lol really. I understand there's probably a lot of nuance but for the majority of us laymen this is what we saw the whole 4 years Biden was in office. Nothing was done to prevent a return of Trump. Which speaks volumes about those in power even when a democrat is in power.
they must all be in on it… how else could it take them so long to prosecute him on anything?
how has musk taken control of the federal payment system that pays social security and trillions of other dollars? what about security clearances? locking employees out of computers? are they modifying the system?
i know if i sneezed in the same room as one of those computers id be arrested….
they took that over and the media only cares about tariffs and stock prices….
Their own "night of the long knives" but with mere illegal firings.
Makes me wonder why they didn't give em the ol' dirt nap.
If I had to guess, it's because they are cops, and it's more important to have them loyal and not questioning their positions.
The night of the long knives.
Longer knives.
Fun Hitler fact (as if there is such a thing): the phrase "Night of the Long Knives" was coined by Hitler himself in a speech given shortly after the event, although he used the phrase to describe what Ernst Rohm had allegedly been planning himself. The media instead attached the phrase to Hitler's actions, much against his wishes.
This is more like Stalin's Great Purge
Saddam Hussein , 1979. Have you seen that video?
And I suppose we'll get more feigned surprise in the "liberal media", pretending they didn't know that donvict is a vengeful asshole that plans on doing NOTHING for the American people and everything to enrich the broligarchy and make others suffer, all while carrying out revenge on anyone he thinks "wronged" him.
Oh, and I'm sure we'll get more gaslighting and total lack of any apology from the idiots that were telling everyone bOtHsIdEs in the run up to the election, because the Democratic Party didn't promise them a pretty pony.
The FBI is just another group of cops that are assholes. The ones that "went after Trump", didn't do shit for 4 years, and those that didn't want to will be wishing they had once they cross Trump for some other bullshit and find themselves on the chopping block.
When you support corruption you'll get fucked by a corrupt fucker sooner or later.
I don't want to defend cops, but in this case they did as good a job as expected from them. FBI can't prosecute, they can only make the case, and that's by design and that's the good design. They made very good cases. All the cases died with judjes that Trump appointed the last time.
I wouldn't say the FBI are good people, but these agents that are removed are probably at least not anti-constitution.
Merrick Garland fucked it up. FBI doesn't prosecute, the DoJ does. Fuck Garland.
(Also: Is Biden an idiot? What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?)
What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?
I don't understand what's surprising about that. I'd expect most people in a neoliberal cabinet to be right-wing.
the ones that tried might have just failed, i wouldnt blame them to this point
I kinda feel like the people who worked on putting Trump under the fucking guillotine deserve to be fired for failing to do so.
Disgruntled FBI agent returns to "finish the case' 🤞
If only this was some Movie/TV Show where a "Good Cop" gets fired by the "One Corrupt Government Official" and they somehow gather enough evidence and get rid of the Corrupt Official, and they get restored in their position, and get a promotion, and then the Happily Ever After ending!
Just that One corrupt official ruining everything, everything else in the system is perfectly fine and there are zero corrupt people left... Totally perfect hollywood logic.
This is not at all worrying /s