Will the American People Rise
Against Adam Shit, the Bitch Pelosi, and the Nadler Turd and Save their Country
from Ruin, or will the American People Submit to The Rule By Lies? What
Confidence Can We Have in the American People?
Many people regard Matt Taibbi as a
leftist as he writes for the sometimes foolish Rolling Stone magazine. I regard
Taibbi as a vicious truth-teller, who, leftwing or
not, has integrity and intelligence far above the Identity Politics American
left who are not even worth wiping your ass with.
Taibbi’s
truthful account below tells you that the Democrats are incapable of
speaking any truth, and so is the whore American media that services the
Democrats and the Deep State. The Democrats are serial liars. They are
destroying the fragile political stability of the United States. A
country–whose unity has been destroyed by Identity Politics, whose middle class
jobs have been offshored to Asia by corrupt American corporations kowtowing to
corrupt Wall Street, a country whose media on which the Founding Fathers relied
to protect American liberty from a rapacious State is the complete and total
whore of the oligarchs who control the explanations and the agendas–is no
longer a country, no longer a people. Overrun by
immigration, America is a Tower of Babel.
In American politics, the oligarchs are accustomed to deciding
with their campaign contributions who are the candidates for President, Senate,
and House for both Republicans and Democrats. That way they stay in control
regardless of which party wins the elections. Trump is an exception to
this. Trump is the product of a people’s revolt. It caught the oligarchs
off guard. They thought Hillary had it all wrapped up. They are
determined to get Trump out because they are fearful of having an outsider in
the White House for 8 years.
If the
American people allow this, they are destroying themselves. If
they believe any of the Democrat-military/security-presstitute propaganda, they
are self-destructing.
The
question of our time is: Do the American people have enough
intelligence to survive?
The Democrats, military/security
complex, and presstitutes are betting “No.”
Dear American, if you are so stupid, so
indoctrinated and brainwashed that you with your insouciance give yourself over
to be made into a total unknowing slave, that is the fate you deserve.
Here is Taibbi’s article: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/whistleblower-ukraine-trump-impeach-cia-spying-895529/
The
‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t
By Matt
Taibbi, Rolling Stone
09
October 19
It’s
an insult to real whistleblowers to use the term with the Ukrainegate
protagonist
Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington
Post “broke” on September 18th:
TRUMP’S
COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT
SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY
The
unnamed person at the center of this story sure didn’t sound like a
whistleblower. Our intelligence community wouldn’t wipe its ass with a real
whistleblower.
Americans
who’ve blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either
spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward
Snowden, end up in jail, like Chelsea Manning, get arrested and ruined
financially, like former NSA official Thomas Drake, have their
homes raided by FBI like disabled NSA vet William Binney, or get charged
with espionage like ex-CIA exposer-of-torture John Kiriakou. It’s an
insult to all of these people, and the suffering they’ve weathered, to frame
the ballcarrier in the Beltway’s latest partisan power contest as a
whistleblower.
Drake,
who was the first to expose the NSA’s secret surveillance program, seems to
have fared better than most. He ended up working in an Apple Store, where he ran into
Eric Holder, who was shopping for an iPhone.
I’ve met
a lot of whistleblowers, in both the public and private sector. Many end up
broke, living in hotels, defamed, (often) divorced, and lucky if they have any
kind of job. One I knew got turned down for a waitressing job because her
previous employer wouldn’t vouch for her. She had little kids.
The
common thread in whistleblower stories is loneliness. Typically the employer
has direct control over their ability to pursue another job in their
profession. Many end up reviled as traitors, thieves, and liars. They often
discover after going public that their loved ones have a limited appetite for
sharing the ignominy. In virtually all cases, they end up having to start over,
both personally and professionally.
With that
in mind, let’s look at what we know about the first “whistleblower” in
Ukrainegate:
•He or
she is a “CIA officer detailed to the White House”;
•The
account is at best partially based upon the CIA officer’s own experience, made
up substantially by information from “more than a half dozen U.S. officials”
and the “private accounts” of “my colleagues”;
•“He or
she” was instantly celebrated as a whistleblower by news networks and major
newspapers.
That last
detail caught the eye of Kiriakou, a former CIA Counterterrorism official who
blew the whistle on the agency’s torture program.
“It took
me and my lawyers a full year to get [the media] to stop calling me ‘CIA Leaker
John Kirakou,” he says. “That’s how long it took for me to be called a
whistleblower.”
Kirakou’s
crime was talking to ABC News and the New York Times about
the CIA’s torture program. For talking to American journalists about the CIA,
our federal government charged Kiriakou with espionage. That absurd count was
ultimately dropped, but he still did 23 months at FCI
Loretto in Western Pennsylvania.
When
Kiriakou first saw the “whistleblower complaint,” his immediate reaction was to
wonder what kind of “CIA officer” the person in question was. “If you spend a
career in the CIA, you see all kinds of subterfuge and lies and crime,” he
says. “This person went through a whole career and this is the thing he objects
to?”
It’s fair
to wonder if this is a one-person effort. Even former CIA official Robert Baer,
no friend of Trump, said as much in an early confab on CNN with Brooke Baldwin:
BAER:
That’s what I find remarkable, is that this whistleblower knew about that, this
attempt to cover up. This is a couple of people. It isn’t just one.
BALDWIN:
And on the people point, if the allegation is true, Bob, what does it say that
White House officials, lawyers, wanted to cover it up?
BAER:
You know, my guess, it’s a palace coup against Trump. And who knows what else
they know at this point.
That
sounds about right. Actual whistleblowers are alone. The Ukraine complaint
seems to be the work of a group of people, supported by significant
institutional power, not only in the intelligence community, but in the
Democratic Party and the commercial press.
In this
century we’ve lived through a president lying to get us into a war (that
caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and the
loss of trillions in public treasure), the
deployment of a vast illegal surveillance program, a drone
assassination campaign, rendition, torture, extralegal
detention, and other offenses, many of them mass human rights violations.
We had
whistleblowers telling us about nearly all of these things. When they came
forward, they desperately needed society’s help. They didn’t get it. Our
government didn’t just tweet threats at them, but proceeded straight to
punishment.
Bill
Binney, who lost both his legs to diabetes, was dragged out of his shower by
FBI agents. Jeffrey Sterling, like Kiriakou, was charged with espionage
for talking to a reporter. After conviction, he
asked to be imprisoned near his wife in St. Louis. They sent him to
Colorado for two years. Others tried to talk to congress
or their Inspectors General, only to find out their communications had been capturedand cc’ed
to the very agency chiefs they wanted to complain about (including former CIA
chief and current MSNBC contributor John Brennan).
The
current “scandal” is a caricature version of such episodes. Imagine the mania
on the airwaves if Donald Trump were to have his Justice
Department arrest the “whistleblower” and charge him with 35 years of offenses, as Thomas Drake faced.
Trump incidentally still might try something like this. It’s what any autocrat
of the Mobute Sese Seko/Enver Hoxha school would do, for
starters, to mutinying intelligence officials within his own
government.
Trump
almost certainly is not going to do that, however, as the man is too dumb to
realize he’s the titular commander of an executive branch that has been jailing
people for talking too much for over a decade. On the off chance that he does
try it, don’t hold your breath waiting for news networks to tell you he’s just
following an established pattern.
I have a
lot of qualms about impeachment/“Ukrainegate,” beginning with this
headline premise of the lone, conscience-stricken defender of democracy arrayed
against the mighty Trump. I don’t see it. Donald Trump is a jackass who got
elected basically by accident, campaigning against a political establishment
too blind to its own unpopularity to see what was coming.
In 2016
we saw a pair of electoral revolts, one on the right and one on the left,
against the cratering popularity of our political elite. The rightist populist
revolt succeeded, the Sanders movement did not. Ukrainegate to me looks like a
continuation of Russiagate, which was a reaction of that defeated political
elite to the rightists. I don’t feel solidarity with either group.
The
argument that’s supposed to be galvanizing everyone right now is the idea that
we need to “stand up and be counted,” because failing to rally to the cause is
effectively advocacy for Trump. This line of thinking is based on the
presumption that Trump is clearly worse than the people opposing him.
That
might prove to be true, but if we’re talking about the treatment of
whistleblowers, Trump has a long way to go before he approaches the brutal
record of the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, as well as the cheerleading Washington
political establishment. Forgetting this is likely just the first in what will
prove to be many deceptions about a hardcore insider political battle whose
subtext is a lot more shadowy and ambiguous than news audiences are being led
to believe.
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