Wray quitting makes himself look guilty for the lies Trump spews. He should have held out and stood up for himself and the institution. That's a shame.
The FBI director obeys in advance, you say? Shocker! Welcome to the new world order of the American Taliban! First we saw the oligarchs collapse faster than a cheap lounge chair; a year before the election. Then the corporate and oligarch MSM followed suit. Now we have the FBI director prove he was born an invertebrate.
My only question is why is anyone expecting a different result? And as for all of Trump’s heinous nominees? They’ll be confirmed by the spineless senate, or face the wrath of MAGA Inc.
That said, it only gets worse from here. Every lever of power is controlled by Trump and a religious fascist court; hell bent on turning this nation into a White Christian, fascist kakistocracy!
And it should be noted; we’re already half way there. SCOTUS has been destroying the very fabric of this nation, and undermining our administrative state; one slow, painful death, by a thousand judicial cuts.
The goal is to rule by judicial fiat, regardless of which party is in power. And since this fascist court owes their allegiance to the right-wing extremists of this country; The Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation, etc…; it’s not going to end well for the rest of us! IMHO!….:)
It is amazing to me what, in my opinion, this country has come to. Gutless, spineless and no moral integrity are front and center. The United States is not the leader of the world based on Character or Moral Compass but rather on appearance!! We look good compared to others not because other countries see us as Special or some Role Model to emulate. We are HOLLYWOOD...look good but nothing of real substance. $$$$$ drives everything. Look at all of our Senators ( how many millionaires) and Musk, Zuckerberg et all. Money talks and all the MINIONS get in line.
Tr*** just earned less than 50% of the Vote for the 3rd time but he is in charge. ONLY IN THE USA🤦🏻♂️
All Repubs are front men for big money. They need to convince just enough little people to get in power, but their policies are only for the rich. Thump is the perfect front man because he’ll say whatever pleases the person in front of him. All other public Repubs will do as the bigwigs demand. Christopher Ray is no exception. I hear Hegseth now has the votes he’ll need to be confirmed too. The oligarchy has been chipping away our democracy for years. We’re in the final stages. So called “centrists”, ie most Dem politicians including Biden & Harris are complicit. True Progressives are pin pricks. Bye bye democracy.
Not surprising at all, IMO. He just announced that he’s unlikely to run again. How magnanimous. He will be 89 when his current term ends. There are probably other good candidates out there who aren’t 90.
I totally get that and I'm honestly tired of our country being run by people 60+ yrs of age who can't use a computer super well. it just feels like so many people are giving up or bowing down and it frustrates the f*ck out of me (pardon my language)
A Book written by Stuart Stevens. It is about "How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump" a man who had already become a version of 1984.
"The back cover of this book states: “Stuart Stevens spent decades getting Republicans elected at every level, from presidents to senators, to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in his book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. . . Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of the party’s hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960’s. . . Stevens reveals how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP’s DNA.” I read this book and had to question my own reasoning on how Trump became the GOP. I also realize that my own views are based on years of living outside of the United States, and hearing what the rest of the world thinks of our country, our government, and our society.
George Orwell’s “chilling prophecy about the future” (back cover of 1984) written about 70 to 80 years ago, was a “dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative.” (Ibid) This book should once again be read by every American. Communist and dictator-led countries operate on this basis. The truth is NOT what matters, and only what the leader propagates and disseminates is to be considered gospel.
I lived in six dictator-led countrys but have to say that the Turkmenistan government under a man the called Turkmanbashi was the worst. He changed the names’ the days of the week and months of the year after his relatives, as well as the month of April after his mother. I barely escaped this country before being arrested and imprisoned for “holding Christian religious meetings” in a Muslim country. I was living there operating a micro-credit program which I designed. The Turkman government officials wined and dined me before the program was approved, and the president of the Turkman bank befriended me. Operating costs were funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and we were awarded $800,000 for three years. CAAEF (Central Asian American Enterprise Fund) approved our program loans for $2 Million dollars. One morning I left my rental home to face a Turkmen Government black Zil (a large Russian-manufactured automobile used exclusively for local governments). Two men presented me with official documents written in Turkmen, which I could not read, and they asked in Russian to sign them. I refused and told them I needed to speak with my Turkmen translator. Later that day, I learned that the documents were an admission of my ”guilt” and said that I had placed meeting notices to discuss Christianity on telephone poles around the city of Ashgabat. I DID NOT post notices, nor have religious meetings, nor did I ever mention religion while in Turkmenistan. I notified USAID at the Embassy, packed my bags and escaped. I was lucky - and could have just been killed or imprisoned, but then those American funders would have pulled their support and money out of Turkmenisan. They wanted this money, just not American control and management. They waited to threaten me until I had secured the funds and trained the local personnel.
The news this morning (December 12, 2024) was an appalling and frightening flashback. Good Morning Joe’s newscast said that “some” Republicans are supportive of jailing the January 6th Committee members. On the Meet the Press interview, Trump said “And Liz Cheney was behind it, and so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.” If this happens, it will be the first “political” arrest and imprisonment in the U.S.
Rooted in Lenin-Marxist thought, the rhetorical vehicle for spreading ideas, thoughts, and propaganda goes way, way back in the Communist Manifesto. Hitler used the same communication mechanisms to brainwash Germans so in a short period of time he converted a country of followers into mass murderers. Trump uses the exact same process to “plant the seeds” and watch them grow in the minds of his brainwashed followers. The truth - or law - no longer matters to these adherent partisans - it is what Trump says and wants. Trump has seduced half the American public, just like he was entrapped, inveigled, and mislead by Russians. What goes around comes around.
In the very near future, those who disagree with Trump may be arrested. Under Trump, those who walked thousands of miles to escape persecution and live/work in the “land of free” - may be arrested and thrown into prisons and/or deported. Laws and justice - the backbones of the USA that I know - are already obsolete.
The truth is now truant. In 1984, “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.” (Ibid)
I so wanted to believe what I read from David French this morning, but there's no playing 3D chess when it comes to Trump. He just throws all the pieces off the board and says he won. I'm mortified to know what Cory Booker, Jared Moskowitz, and Jim Clyburn, et al, are saying. (Bernie doesn't surprise me but is still disappointing.) It's as if they haven't been paying the tiniest bit of attention the past 9+ years, especially the past year.
While I LOOOOATTTHHH moskowitz's position on Gaza he seems to be a good newsmaker and street fighter and has definitely been a thorn in the side of Comer on the Govt weaponization committee so MAAAAAAAYBEEE he (and sanders) are putting themselves in a position to call out the fucking bullshit like not cutting the military when non defense discretionary budget is only 15% of our budget and we spend more than the other top 13 combined
Love your overall message and reasoning. Yet let’s also be nice to the Chris Wrays in the world having been through a lot and making a personal choice that had to be amazingly difficult. On balance I am motivated and encouraged by your writing. Keeps me a happy PN subscriber!
agree with you on hate group member David French's hot take being wrong. Also he more importantly appears to be obeying in advance which sets the stage for the lower rank and file to buckle. He could have stood up and set a fighting example and slowed trump down if nothing else.
Wow, Wray folds instead of being fired—hardly unexpected. A Trump nominee after all. Why resist when you’ve got the bucks to hide in luxury? Id, some Democrats—why bother at all? As if browning the nose will prevent future insult from an unstable man.
I am hoping that Wray, knowing full well that Trump looks at the US as real estate to sell off every piece that he can, is busy shredding everything that could be used to compromise someone.
Wray quitting makes himself look guilty for the lies Trump spews. He should have held out and stood up for himself and the institution. That's a shame.
Read NYT(!) and Mueller She Wrote for good reasons he might be defying Trump, not folding.
That's in our piece too. But for reasons we mention, I don't buy it.
Thanks for letting me know I’m hoping against hope.
The FBI director obeys in advance, you say? Shocker! Welcome to the new world order of the American Taliban! First we saw the oligarchs collapse faster than a cheap lounge chair; a year before the election. Then the corporate and oligarch MSM followed suit. Now we have the FBI director prove he was born an invertebrate.
My only question is why is anyone expecting a different result? And as for all of Trump’s heinous nominees? They’ll be confirmed by the spineless senate, or face the wrath of MAGA Inc.
That said, it only gets worse from here. Every lever of power is controlled by Trump and a religious fascist court; hell bent on turning this nation into a White Christian, fascist kakistocracy!
And it should be noted; we’re already half way there. SCOTUS has been destroying the very fabric of this nation, and undermining our administrative state; one slow, painful death, by a thousand judicial cuts.
The goal is to rule by judicial fiat, regardless of which party is in power. And since this fascist court owes their allegiance to the right-wing extremists of this country; The Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation, etc…; it’s not going to end well for the rest of us! IMHO!….:)
🤗🤗🤗,
It is amazing to me what, in my opinion, this country has come to. Gutless, spineless and no moral integrity are front and center. The United States is not the leader of the world based on Character or Moral Compass but rather on appearance!! We look good compared to others not because other countries see us as Special or some Role Model to emulate. We are HOLLYWOOD...look good but nothing of real substance. $$$$$ drives everything. Look at all of our Senators ( how many millionaires) and Musk, Zuckerberg et all. Money talks and all the MINIONS get in line.
Tr*** just earned less than 50% of the Vote for the 3rd time but he is in charge. ONLY IN THE USA🤦🏻♂️
I’ll tell ya, with this bunch, we would have lost the revolutionary war and WW2.
All Repubs are front men for big money. They need to convince just enough little people to get in power, but their policies are only for the rich. Thump is the perfect front man because he’ll say whatever pleases the person in front of him. All other public Repubs will do as the bigwigs demand. Christopher Ray is no exception. I hear Hegseth now has the votes he’ll need to be confirmed too. The oligarchy has been chipping away our democracy for years. We’re in the final stages. So called “centrists”, ie most Dem politicians including Biden & Harris are complicit. True Progressives are pin pricks. Bye bye democracy.
so disappointed in Bernie lately. it's a little disheartening.
Not surprising at all, IMO. He just announced that he’s unlikely to run again. How magnanimous. He will be 89 when his current term ends. There are probably other good candidates out there who aren’t 90.
I totally get that and I'm honestly tired of our country being run by people 60+ yrs of age who can't use a computer super well. it just feels like so many people are giving up or bowing down and it frustrates the f*ck out of me (pardon my language)
"IT WAS ALL A LIE"
A Book written by Stuart Stevens. It is about "How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump" a man who had already become a version of 1984.
"The back cover of this book states: “Stuart Stevens spent decades getting Republicans elected at every level, from presidents to senators, to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in his book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. . . Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of the party’s hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960’s. . . Stevens reveals how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP’s DNA.” I read this book and had to question my own reasoning on how Trump became the GOP. I also realize that my own views are based on years of living outside of the United States, and hearing what the rest of the world thinks of our country, our government, and our society.
George Orwell’s “chilling prophecy about the future” (back cover of 1984) written about 70 to 80 years ago, was a “dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative.” (Ibid) This book should once again be read by every American. Communist and dictator-led countries operate on this basis. The truth is NOT what matters, and only what the leader propagates and disseminates is to be considered gospel.
I lived in six dictator-led countrys but have to say that the Turkmenistan government under a man the called Turkmanbashi was the worst. He changed the names’ the days of the week and months of the year after his relatives, as well as the month of April after his mother. I barely escaped this country before being arrested and imprisoned for “holding Christian religious meetings” in a Muslim country. I was living there operating a micro-credit program which I designed. The Turkman government officials wined and dined me before the program was approved, and the president of the Turkman bank befriended me. Operating costs were funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and we were awarded $800,000 for three years. CAAEF (Central Asian American Enterprise Fund) approved our program loans for $2 Million dollars. One morning I left my rental home to face a Turkmen Government black Zil (a large Russian-manufactured automobile used exclusively for local governments). Two men presented me with official documents written in Turkmen, which I could not read, and they asked in Russian to sign them. I refused and told them I needed to speak with my Turkmen translator. Later that day, I learned that the documents were an admission of my ”guilt” and said that I had placed meeting notices to discuss Christianity on telephone poles around the city of Ashgabat. I DID NOT post notices, nor have religious meetings, nor did I ever mention religion while in Turkmenistan. I notified USAID at the Embassy, packed my bags and escaped. I was lucky - and could have just been killed or imprisoned, but then those American funders would have pulled their support and money out of Turkmenisan. They wanted this money, just not American control and management. They waited to threaten me until I had secured the funds and trained the local personnel.
The news this morning (December 12, 2024) was an appalling and frightening flashback. Good Morning Joe’s newscast said that “some” Republicans are supportive of jailing the January 6th Committee members. On the Meet the Press interview, Trump said “And Liz Cheney was behind it, and so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.” If this happens, it will be the first “political” arrest and imprisonment in the U.S.
Rooted in Lenin-Marxist thought, the rhetorical vehicle for spreading ideas, thoughts, and propaganda goes way, way back in the Communist Manifesto. Hitler used the same communication mechanisms to brainwash Germans so in a short period of time he converted a country of followers into mass murderers. Trump uses the exact same process to “plant the seeds” and watch them grow in the minds of his brainwashed followers. The truth - or law - no longer matters to these adherent partisans - it is what Trump says and wants. Trump has seduced half the American public, just like he was entrapped, inveigled, and mislead by Russians. What goes around comes around.
In the very near future, those who disagree with Trump may be arrested. Under Trump, those who walked thousands of miles to escape persecution and live/work in the “land of free” - may be arrested and thrown into prisons and/or deported. Laws and justice - the backbones of the USA that I know - are already obsolete.
The truth is now truant. In 1984, “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.” (Ibid)
Elizabeth Graham
I so wanted to believe what I read from David French this morning, but there's no playing 3D chess when it comes to Trump. He just throws all the pieces off the board and says he won. I'm mortified to know what Cory Booker, Jared Moskowitz, and Jim Clyburn, et al, are saying. (Bernie doesn't surprise me but is still disappointing.) It's as if they haven't been paying the tiniest bit of attention the past 9+ years, especially the past year.
While I LOOOOATTTHHH moskowitz's position on Gaza he seems to be a good newsmaker and street fighter and has definitely been a thorn in the side of Comer on the Govt weaponization committee so MAAAAAAAYBEEE he (and sanders) are putting themselves in a position to call out the fucking bullshit like not cutting the military when non defense discretionary budget is only 15% of our budget and we spend more than the other top 13 combined
Isn't there some federal law that sought to insulate the FBI director from the wishes of POTUS? (;^()
Love your overall message and reasoning. Yet let’s also be nice to the Chris Wrays in the world having been through a lot and making a personal choice that had to be amazingly difficult. On balance I am motivated and encouraged by your writing. Keeps me a happy PN subscriber!
He's a fascist scumbag, is what he is.
agree with you on hate group member David French's hot take being wrong. Also he more importantly appears to be obeying in advance which sets the stage for the lower rank and file to buckle. He could have stood up and set a fighting example and slowed trump down if nothing else.
Wow, Wray folds instead of being fired—hardly unexpected. A Trump nominee after all. Why resist when you’ve got the bucks to hide in luxury? Id, some Democrats—why bother at all? As if browning the nose will prevent future insult from an unstable man.
I am hoping that Wray, knowing full well that Trump looks at the US as real estate to sell off every piece that he can, is busy shredding everything that could be used to compromise someone.