CTH has never pretended or played the game of pretending, but several people have discussed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today on the Twitter censorship issue… and thus, some reminders and clarifications of inside DC politics are needed.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, hereafter called the House Oversight Committee or HOC, has a very specific function in DC circles that apparently too few understand. Once again, let us be clear while trying to explain decades of false information founded upon arcane legislative outlooks.
This article is specific only to the House Oversight Committee.
Within Washington DC, the HOC has a very specific and unique function. What Fox News is to corporate conservative punditry, so too is the HOC to the same DC system of pretending. The House Oversight Committee is the “Chaff and Countermeasures” committee. The HOC operates for both parties with the same mission.
The House Oversight Committee was/is created by the House legislative leadership to make money for the party in control of the Chair. When the House Speaker is notified of a DC corruption issue, inside his/her office they will often be heard saying, “give it to oversight.” The intent of that instruction is to give the issue to the HOC, so they can hold hearings, create soundbites and fundraise from the issue.
Making money for the party in control of the Chair is the primary function of the House Oversight Committee. The HOC does not exist to create accountability or oversight; the HOC exists to exploit the issue for fundraising and satiate the base voters of the party in control of the Chair. The HOC presents the illusion of accountability by constructing soundbites and member performances which are then broadcast on television for appearances to the voting audience. It is essentially theater.
The HOC is a “general oversight’ committee, not a committee of “specific jurisdiction.” Thus, the HOC is the vehicle where Democrats and Republicans publicly display their political initiatives, frame their narratives and then broadcast them on MSNBC, CNN (Democrats) or FOX NEWS (Republicans).
Depending on the issues at hand, the HOC committee members are generally those performance actors best known to the audience of both parties. This is not accidental; this is by design. Again, for emphasis, I am only talking about the HOC, a “generalized oversight” committee. Only this specific committee has this specific mission.
A hot button topic enters the committee ecosphere. Specifically trained staffers and performance artists, uniquely qualified to put on theatrical productions (both parties), are then deployed to assist the representatives in creating the soundbites that hopefully will go viral and assist them with fundraising and opportunities to say, “here’s what we are doing.” Outlining this construct is not an exhibition in cynicism; this is the reality of what the HOC is designed and created to do.
When you see the HOC performing at their best, you will see lots of soundbites created.
The Chair of the HOC is always part of the House Speaker’s close inner circle. From that association you will discover by training, by habit, and by consequence, the HOC framework is developed to sustain the process itself as an end result. The questioning is the sum total of all accountabilities. The performance is the interview; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire.
Oversight, in the HOC framework of narrative creation, has evolved into reveling in the endless process (a fundraising proposition) and, as a consequence, it completely ignores the end point, misses the bottom line, doesn’t actually SEE the subject matter, and never actually applies accountability toward what might be discovered. This is why you end up with high blood pressure, frustrated with the questions not asked, and throwing bricks at the screen or monitors when viewing.
The point of HOC hearings is to create what are now described as “viral moments” that can be used to generate money. The second, and lesser objective, is to give the illusion of accountability while not actually ever holding anyone or anything accountable. See prior HOC reference points like Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, Benghazi which outline the latest intent with the Twitter censorship issue.
If you watch the HOC Twitter hearing through the prism of expecting some form of accountability for the violations of the First Amendment, you will be frustrated and disappointed. However, if you watch the HOC Twitter hearing through the prism of how well the panelists will do at raising money from their performances, then you can evaluate the effectiveness; the proverbial winning and losing.
The HOC is designed by House leadership to perform the same basic function for both Democrats and Republicans. The HOC committee assignments are selected based on the theatrical skills of each representative. This is not to say the motives of the members are sullied or impure, it is simply to point out the motive of the committee itself is to generate fundraising from the skillsets of the members on the committee.
Once you fully grasp what the intent of the House Oversight Committee is about, and once you drop the expectation that any accountability in oversight is the intent, then you can watch the performances through the entertainment prism of partisan politics and genuinely enjoy them. There are, after all, some exceptional soundbites and moments created by the hearings themselves.
The HOC is called the “Chaff and Countermeasures” Committee, because that’s essentially what the committee does. It gives the appearance of targeting, steering the target to a controlled destination, and then distracting the audience from the outcome of accountability.
If sunlight is achieved, meaning the Mainstream Media cannot ignore the issue as presented and questioned, and if the general public become more familiar with the controversial subject matter or topic at hand, and if the party of the Chair can fundraise from the issue, then the committee has succeeded. However, if you are looking for something to change as an outcome of any HOC hearing, you will be disappointed.
All of the insiders in Washington DC know this to be true; but, when discussing the HOC specifically, the insiders cannot violate the DC code and make this reality a part of the public consciousness. To make this operational mission widely understood is to diminish the financial value of it.
Now, let’s ENJOY:
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Thank you for the reminder, Sundance.
I was hoping for revelations, accountability and ultimately change in the system. Looks like I need to go back to my original stance.
Burn it all down.
Yep! Its gonna hurt…but that is exactly what needs to be done!
I’ll bring the matches
Well-orchestrated Kabuki theater, that’s all. A very dangerous game behind it all.
I’ll bring the gasoline.
There was only one question which needed asking. Give me the names of all Federal officials directing you to censor speech. That is all.
The dog that didn’t bite. Tells you all you need.
and if you don’t give them to me, you’ll sit in prison until you do.
Yes, but Garland will not prosecute . . . too busy with J6 and school parents.
So many questions.
I have often watched Trey Gowdy (until it was clear he was an empty ineffective Roosterhead), and now Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz, effectively expose and dismantle clear enemies of the people.
I was impressed by the rapidfire, clearly planned questions, the large visible on TV placards, and casebuilding, the lack of effective defense by the seemingly speechless, caught red-handed “criminals”.
It would lead me to think, “This is good — they got them nailed now. Good government is in control now.” Trey is a white hat, Devin is a white hat, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz is an effective advocate for my values. I hope nothing happens to them, I better support them.”
I would wait for the sure to come prosecution of our countries traitors, the perp walking of our enemies.
Nothing would happen. Nothing happens now. Sunlight maybe. No indictments, prosecutions, resignations, removals.
I feel like Charlie Brown with Lucy and the football.
You get excited. We’re finally gonna win. Justice is gonna be served. We’re gonna take the country back. The precision and preparation in these displays — congress is impressive– but out of proportion to reality. The hope rises, the clickbait of evidence of change increases. But the arrests never come, the stripping of power never materializes. The clean up never occurs.
Trey is now on Fox. Nunes on Truth. Jordan is not acting like he has long term political aspirations, but he is moving up the ladder into bigger and bigger spotlights. I still don’t know who is really a white had and who is an imposter, or who is really effective.
I often wonder if Trump is the same: Theatrics of a white hat, coming to save the country, reflecting my values. But by God I saw results with PDJT for two years until Covid. I saw it in my bank account, in cohesion of MAGA patriots, effective change in behavior of other countries and international leaders in respect for the U.S. power and independence.
Jesus said, “By their fruit you can know them”
Trump produced fruit of change at all levels. Even today is past actions and current actions are producing fruit. I’m hard pressed to come up with fruit produced by Jordan, Gaetz, Gowdy, and others.
Our cities are crumbling, our medical infrastructure is crumbling and physicians, nurses, scientists, and health care communities are no longer effective. Schools and universities are producing a facade of education. The money is a ‘flowin, for sure — but in every sector of our great country we are being economically and spiritually sucked dry by political swamp in Washington, but even more by the Economic swamp of the USCOC and globalists.
We are in the clutches of large greedy parasites. Each parasite wants to keep the country alive just enough to keep producing money. But they are all too greedy, and unless we find a way to kill the parasites, their greed will kill us until we are taken over by China, Russia, or an elite set of globalists.
I feel sure that at this moment there are Chinese. Russians, Germans, Lebanese, Saudis, etc., stating that they are in the clutches of large greedy parasites. It is an age old problem. Check the Sanhedrin about year AD33.
Don’t worry country, voting I’m sure will fix all of these problems.
We must vote moar harder !!!
… yeah… voting… Voodoo magic.
Well said, country doc.
We haven’t even mentioned the border.
Deuteronomy 28:43-45 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.
42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.
44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,
Agreed. I hold onto the ideas of MAGA because its torch bearer is a billionnaire, and doesn’t need campaign money to
stick his finger in the Swamp’s face. The swamp was petrified to know that DJT wasn’t bought.
Trump has many flaws (ego) and probably is too toxic to run again, but at least he ‘ain’t bought’
I don’t think Trump is too toxic. I think he controls his behavior and has the ability to be gentlemanly , or how his is, or how to incite a riot (which he didn’t). I’m not sure Toxic is the correct word. Perhaps irritating enough to accomplish the goals:
-Sunlight and exposure
-rally the people
-define the goal (MAGA/Consitution/Republic/economy that supports the citizens)
-Restore the republic without destroying it
The problem is our enemy has no morals, no goals but money and power, and does not care if it destroys life, liberty, or the country, and it uses our morals and love of life against us.
I think PDJT was just right and he accomplished a lot. Any less, and he would be as effective as Jim Jordan is. I think Jim is sincere and a good man. He is accomplishing sunlight. But he and other congressmen have no real power unless we get more people in there in key positions. McCarthy has yet to prove himself
I like Jim Jordan, I think he is sincere. I think he is doing what he can with the power and position he has. I think he is being effective in bringing much to light and has been since he was in office. But there is too much out of his control to result in arrests, convictions, jail time, dismantling the current Treason happening in this country.
Getting elected to Congress is like making it to the Big-Show
And getting on a House Oversight Committee is like winning the Big-Show lottery.
And passing legislation that everyone knows has no chance of becoming law is just a side benefit of being in the Big-Show majority.
This is entertainment at it’s best. Awards should be given for best performance. Maybe instead of a State Of The Union, the leaders of each party should hand out Best Performance Awards and include Best Dressed at that entertaining event.
This would be much better than any Hollywood Awards Show.
As Rush often said “DC politics was Hollywood for ugly people” or words to that affect – same narcissistic ambition drives both endeavors
Anyone, name the biggest performer…my choice…
Jim Jordan, never accomplished a thing.
Yes! I marveled at how he could rattle off all kinds of evidence and information about stuff and never accomplish anything, but he did get re-elected.
I bet we could come up with a bunch of interesting categories for awards.
One might be-Number of times appearing on the Hannity Show-The winner is Lindsey Graham. And the crowd goes wild.
This is exactly true and once you see it you cannot unsee it. This is all Kabuki theatre pure and simple. They outsource their actual legislative and representative functions for their actual self-interested goal of staying in their office to launder our money. It is not complicated. And it sickens me.
Why not put all these government officials and Twitter employees in the gulag with the January 6ers. They don’t need to be charged just like the J sixers…maybe they will figure out how to answer a question “honestly” after three or four years of the gulag.
Don’t ever trust men in 3 piece suits!
My moto for 6 decades.
“Don’t talk to the suits” Secret of my Success
I figured this out long ago. There would be an outcry followed by a deluge of fundraising emails saying my donation was the only thing that could possibly smote the latest atrocity. And I got it from both sides. Hard to miss the uniparty’s shameless coordination.
Why do I / we still pay attention, even just in snippets?
We are waiting for it, that first glimpse of when a politician shows us he is part of the uniparty, he’s in it for himself, not us. The tide turns and so do they. And the status quo remains.
Beyond these performances where he won’t admit what is really going on, I’m still waiting for Jim to slip.
Maybe it is self preservation to keep his position until he can do something about it?
I’m hoping but, meanwhile, I wait to see a leaked pic of him in something opposite of shirtsleeves rubbing elbows at an invitation only dinner party with people he supposedly disdains.
Love this Sundance, this is so good to remind us of this of true motives, and putting on notice that these hearings always going nowhere. Puts it back in perspective.
All of Congress is the “HOC”. Not sure why self-abbreviated CTH went to such trouble to say otherwise in this article. The #1 priority of everyone in Congress is to get reelected. The #2 priority is to stay there as long as possible until promoted to Propagandist or Lobbyist.
If i recall, one of the outcomes of the Church Committee was our national security was compromised, so they say. We know there is a huge stack of these cards to be played by the witnesses. This will be more thee-ATE-er, as they say in some circles.
Yuck Sundance that dose of reality was certainly bitter thanks anyway.
Yep well I already knew this was all for show. And we all knew full well that sitting there and enduring the grilling was the only punishment these rogue actors at Twitter will receive. None of us expect meaningful changes at the FBI regardless.
Nevertheless, gotta admit I was taken in by the theatrics of MTG,
Mr. Higgins, Jordan, Luna and Boebert even though I knew nothing will happen to improve the corruption.
In terms of “we the people”
our government is absolutely broken and the function of the Constitution has now become also a meaningless “dead letter.”
The government for the people by the people has been destroyed from the inside out and what has risen up in its place as regards individual freedom is an abomination.
The very foundation of society has been demolished it’s hollow and empty.
So then, I don’t see any of this being corrected all I see now on the horizon is death, famine, war and conquest as the world continues to spiral into more chaos every single day.
Mankind is bring judgment of the apocalypse on himself.
Dad, always said give em’ enough rope and men will eventually hang them selves.
Oh Sundance, ye of little faith.
Don’t you know a strongly worded letter has already left the committee and a wonderful fundraising text and email have been sent out.
I got a text yesterday myself.
Yes we must donate heartily, tune into handily and vote moar harder !!!
Appropriate adjectives ? – Kabuki, Professional Wrestling , Red Meat (for rubes). shiny object, sucker bait, auditions for future Cable news gigs ? Appropriate description of goal of exercise ~one word – Fundraising. ….
It is good to finally see that f*****r Baker in the hot seat.
I know what’s going on. I did not watch any of this…maybe I will. But knowing what Sundance is saying is true…its seems a waste of time. Nothing real will come from it…except some sunlight to maybe awaken some still sleeping normies. Which is becoming harder and harder for me to understand how one could still be asleep. All these previous blow hards, Gowdy, Issa, etc….I at one time believed and had hope in them. But crickets is what we got. A facade that they were doing something. Same thing thing here…a facade. The talking points that come from it do not interest me. We are wasting precious time while this commie regime destroys our country. While this system stands…there will be foot soldiers ready to come in until their mission of destroying America is accomplished! The system itself IS the problem and must come down! To keep accepting the status quo and keep moving closer and closer to destruction is insane. The system, and those that use it against us…which are too many to name here…are our enemy and must be held accountable, removed, and replaced. Especially…the system!
By the way…waiting for Congress, the House or our government to come up with answers…or accountability, or correcting the system to make things right again…is never going to happen by expecting the frickin government to literally go after itself! Like letting the FBI investigate itself for everything we know they are guilty of…that IS INSANITY!
Now some will see the crap in the picture window, unfortunately to many will get a whiff, momentarily wonder and move on through the cattle gate. When all these people socialize eventually the us versus them attitude develops, they call it politics. I call it collusion when they forget they are there to represent the citizens. The system was never supposed to be a career, once we became anonymous like removed from our tax payment we lost our humanity in their eyes, thus it is easier to put personal gain ahead doing what benefits the citizens. Remember Harry Reed said he didn’t like mixing with the citizens visiting the Capital, they smell. Yet at home I’m sure he conditioned himself to think the smell was money in the presence of the donors.
Translation- No indictments will be handed down and this will slowly and silently fade away.
It’s like “election interference.” Show me the Federal statute that Twitter violated. Twitter was and is an advocacy platform that doesn’t adhere to Free Speech. All anyone can do is “push back.” Nobody goes to jail and they know it. Meanwhile, at the local level that states control, Maricopa county had real election interference, real interference created by the Usual Suspects and nobody can do anything about it. The problem I see is that the elections are manipulated by servers placed outside of the United States. If you want true local control, get off Dominion and the U. S. Fake Census and cut the cord. Meanwhile, all they need to do is defund the FBI and break it up because all the alma mater from there is at Twitter. While you’re at it defund the CIA as well. The CIA isn’t supposed to be funded for country internal ops. That’s the FBI. They won’t let Congress into their operations. Well, defund them, Congress. You have the Purse Strings! DO IT!
DEFUND THE FBI! THAT’S THE ROOT CAUSE, CONGRESS!
They are only effective when they want it to be, they never want to be.
“Fox meet hen-house”
To me the big question is…….WHY DO WE (not me personally) KEEP FALLING FOR THIS SHIT??????
Hope
Hopium…..
It’s nothing more than political theater. As is much of everything in Washington now.
I guess it’s probably true nobody in government will be held accountable. Perhaps the best we can hope for is the sun light shown on all this. They may never pay a price in terms of actual punishment but maybe after all this, the best best punishment we can expect is for the public to not only not ever believe government agencies but maybe ridicule and mock a government worker or bureaucrat when we meet one. Make fun of them. Laugh at their chosen profession. Ostracize them. Make it equivalent to wearing the scarlet letter. Make people think twice when deciding if you want to work there. As for the Twitter employees. They’re not government employees. Maybe they will be punished in an effort to make it look like something was done.
This is why McCarthy put MTG on this committee. He knows she was a powerhouse fundraiser, and prior to his promises to her in return for voting on his takeover, those funds were all being directed against her own party for ousting her from all of the committees.
We got Adam Shift and Eric Swalwell we’re stripped off their House Intelligence committee and Ilhan Omar’s stripped off the House Foreign Affair committee.
I guess that is the harshest level of punishment you will receive from an oversight committee investigation.
I feel the pain!
Yesterday I thought in the end they’d hand over criminal referrals to the DOJ only to be ignored. I know better now & my blood pressure thanks you for the lesson.
God save Us from our Government. Amen
Very good article.
The founding fathers were politicians too and they liked money too. So did Lincoln. That said, something concentrated their minds and from most perspectives they did the right thing even though in the short run it cost lives even Lincoln’s. It seems we are at that point now. Our enemies know they can kill 90% of Americans with little residual radiation. The billionaire oligarchs have their secret shelters as do a number in the deep state. Most politicians and the people know they will be F***ed. This should concentrate their minds to do or force the corrective measures or maybe not. It maybe too late.
I agree with Kash:
https://truthsocial.com/users/Kash/statuses/109832315287706091
APL had the best performance of the day.
The primary responsibilities of congress are to right laws, authorize funding and perform oversight into the executive branch and federal agencies. They have been failing miserably in all these capacities. It’s so disgraceful it has insulted even the dead voters. Anyone who expects this will improve any time soon has their head neck deep in the sand and suffers from mass psychosis. Academia and the media have done a convincing job in their brain washing efforts.
Apparently, we are too weak and too stupid to stop this betrayal; forfeiting our future generations to “live” in misery.
I didn’t realize this was wholly a theater production holding no accountability for the crimes against the people of the US.
…….sigh……..we are being fooled and treated as fools by the people we elect.
A little off subject, but I have been attempting to get an answer as to why Sen Tom Cotton’s name is associated with several Senators you would expect to sign the tax bill at the last minute before the House changed hands. I was shocked to see that he had signed the bill. You would expect some Republicans to sign it–i.e. Romney, etc. but not Cotton. any insite as to why?
$$$$$$$$$$$$
One could say the same regarding our political government: they are there to to retain the illusion of democracy. Our congress is a theater, our political executive and judiciary are puppets. There is the illusion of choice.
All the major political conflicts today demonstrate government ruling in opposition to the will of the people. The majority of citizens are against each major government policy: border, immigration, crime, economic, woke racism, trans policies, creating fake wars, etc.
Creating sound bytes and the illusion of accountability and oversight is what Congress is all about other than when they are attacking, investigating, or impeaching President Trump. Then they actually get serious even though that mission was based 100% on lies.
In watching the clip of Rep. Luna, I noticed to her right my newly elected Rino Rep. Chuck Edwards from Western NC. He took money from FTX and McCarthy to slander and take down Ultra MAGA Madison Cawthorn. Mr. Edwards showed a range of facial expressions while Ms. Luna was speaking that varied from boredom to ignorance to disdain.
This what corrupt elections produce.
The white hats have the proof, show it to us and then come up with the excuse that the DOJ won’t bring prosecution.
All to save themselves and tell us “Well, we tried”.
They are NOT going to prosecute themselves…..EVER.
i don’t know who all those people are sitting behind Twitter peeps, but they all look worried and tired. Circles under their eyes, lifeless, and guilty as all hell. Just give us the names from the DOJ, FBI and Biden white house admin who told them to censor. WTP will take over from there.
In and around the mid-’80s to the early 90s I spent a good deal of time working in and around Captial Hill on both the Senate and House sides.
There were lots of games being played back in those days by both Republicans and Democrats.
The games got bigger and better conceals with each passing year and each passing decade.
I can’t speak specifically to what’s going on these days because I no longer work and have no cause or desire to be anywhere near the place.
But, given my past experience, there is no doubt in my mind that what Sundance has described as the HOC’s practices and reason for existence is correct.
Justice delayed is justice denied and that’s what’s been happening for a long, long time. Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers, planted bombs in public places and killed people. To this day Ayers brags, “I’m guilty as hell and free as a bird.” Ayers should have been tried, convicted and executed 50 years ago. Instead he lives large and imposes evil like Obama on the rest of us. We know that every one of the Bidens are as guilty as Ayers. So are many other swamp denizens in DC and everywhere else. They are like a plague of locusts destroying everything in their path.
Why do we continue rehearsing known details of their evil corruption and guilt? Why do we continue deceiving ourselves with useless pabulum about the legal process working out in a court system that is every bit as corrupt as Hunter Biden, Bill Ayers and all the rest of them? Not one court anywhere in this land gave standing to the plain truth of the Great Fraud that took place in Election 2020. We should expect a different result with Hunter Biden’s case or any other of this bureaucratic sh*tshow? Sorry, but at this point such an expectation is ridiculous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
This House Oversight Committee is a cheap charade. We’ve known that for years, haven’t we? It and the great degenerative crisis in western civilization now are a direct result of removing prayer from schools and discussion of God’s Work from the public square. How many vacant church-houses are there in your town? It has taken the evil spirits of Satanic corruption 2000 years to re-establish their kingdoms of darkness over the human world. “…and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward [Jerusalem] to be born?” God’s Work for our Age began in Bethlehem. It will conclude in Jerusalem. That’s the only error in Mr. Yeats’ terrible lament, “The Second Coming”
Approximately 700 years before the Christ-child was born in Bethlehem, prophet Isaiah was given the vision of Christ’s coming and the words to describe Christ’s Work as the head of all government with justice and judgment:
Isaiah 9:6, 7 > > > For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. > > > Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Cheer up, saints! It’s gonna get worse before it gets better! Put on the whole armor of God and wait on Him with enduring endurance. When He makes his move, he will move every single one of us with Him and > > > He. Will. Not. Fail.
Unless those questioned are arrested and cuffed, prosecuted and jailed, this is yet another waste of breath and bandwidth. No one knows anything and nothing is ever done.
Yeah, we understand. Thank you for reminding us that nothing will change. The aim is not resolve or repair. But to continue the status quo. However, it is also true that as people are pushed further, and closer to the wall, they become more combative.
Great post…thank you
So MAGA Nation, the message is…Enjoy The Show and Send No Dough! Consider sending your money to The Gateway Pundit and The Conservative Treehouse. Perhaps the HOC should be called House Obtaining Cash?
HOC: House Obstructing Consequences.
I did notice that previous hearings, although fully exposing D/Gov shenanigans, led to nothing, nada, zilch!
Only fear of REAL consequences will deter wrongdoing. Nothing more to say.
My most dreaded line said is.
We must make sure that this doesn’t happen again.
Just a warning this time.
Man you are lucky this time.
“ It is essentially theater.”
uh-huh.
I accept that.
I Like republican theater.
Not me. Sick to death of it, in fact.
Yep, and then one can analyze how much of the time one will never get back one spends on this stuff each day/week/month/year. If one chooses to ignore it, not keep up, not ‘get involved’, then the enemy continues their march un-scrutinized,unchallenged, un-attacked.
Quite the conundrum and balance to strike. IMO, another fallout of increasingly becoming a God-less, hedonistic nation. We of moral conscience end up spending much of our time defending our lives and keeping an eye on all the criminal humans out there.
History is replete with such cultures which have risen and fallen. We’re barely an adolescent in that world. A stupid teenager who thinks they are immortal and know it all.
Agreed, Dunes.
Even the former communist -turned- exposer, Whittaker Chambers said, “History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died.”
Got any better ideas that will work in the world of politics? If politicians have their way, no politician will ever be required to vote on any issue that the slam dunk majority cannot be readily identified. This is part of the reality of the world that politicians must live in. Why is that? Because any vote that gets cast will be used for campaign fodder by the political enemy, and that same enemy will have no target for their ire if no votes actually occur. That is the best I can do on that.
The reality is that preachers and politicians must tell stories that cannot lose voters, in order to keep their jobs. This is supposed to happen, in a Republic, so that radical ideas don’t have a chance to be adopted by the power structure. Allowing the Bureaucrats to work and devise regulations that they can enforce as the law totally slaughters the whole concept. Bureaucrats will always create rules and regulations that will make themselves more important and less expendable to the Governing majority. When that majority is supported by all of the information sources, those bureaucrats know just what they can and cannot do.
We the People are no longer be an important member of the power structure. Corruption has become a very easy access to power. Monopolistic corporations and ultra rich individuals can use their money to get what they want from the politicians and benefit from the self serving activities of the Bureaucrats. It is a never ending downward spiral, just like the increasingly disfunctional family structures of We the People. The Republic, if we ever had one, is essentially dying. Now you have it, in a nutshell.
I don’t disagree, Pokey. What I don’t think you quite understand is that there is not going to BE a “political solution “ to a moral, cultural problem.
That downward spiral you so accurately describe is not an illusion, and the steps we’ve taken, as you point out, have not made a difference.
We must all, individually and as a nation, return to God’s truth. We were blessed as a nation until we turned our backs on the Lord.
I agree with you, except for the part about me not understanding that we are out of political solutions. That was the main point of my first paragraph. The votes they take while in office will never matter much to most of them, and We the People are obviously the losers because of their unique predicaments. Sorry I didn’t make that very clear. I am old and sometimes my thoughts don’t translate to words as well as they should. When you are old, you have a lot of bouts with your weakening synapses. Although I believe my relationship with God is completely unique as I believe it is for everyone, I firmly believe your last two sentences. We have lost our way because we have lost our awareness of our connection to God’s will. Thanks for the reply.
God bless you, Pokey.
No offense or insult intended.
I’m old, too!
Theater that’s not worthy of popcorn.
The reality is unless they have the DOJ to back them up, as Democrats do, Congressional committees have little power. No way the DOJ will intimidate and arrest Democrats subpoenaed to testify before these Republican led committees as they did with people like Bannon, Navarro, Guilliani and others when Pelosi was in charge.
Arrests and prosecution will not come until Trump is back as President. This theater can lead to that eventual result.
All I have to say is this time he better stop listening to the people who got him to choose Bill Barr as his AG. I knew how that was going to work out the day he did it.
Yup. Fatso Bill was a Bush1 man. In my opinion, Trump allowed his inner cadre to give him terrible appointment options. And he bit on them; Preibus, Rex, Mad Dog, fatso Barr, cowardly Sessions, the list goes on.
If he starts listening to the wrong people including his son in law and daughter again, I give up.
I lost what little respect I had for Ivanka when she denied Jesus to marry a ((Kenite)). Trump AND Biden admins are packed with ((Them)) in every powerful position. Biblical!. Wake up!
We can also add some Uniparty Senate coffins to the matrix since it is the Senate that, apparently, drives who will actually be selected for many political appointments, including SCOTUS justices and federal judges. We saw that in work during PDJT’s administration as well.
As long as the Uniparty controls the Senate, getting MAGA ramrods into positions to clean house will be a tough row to hoe, never mind Branch 4 being able to get at people ‘six ways to Sunday’, including ‘suicide’ and ‘accidents’.
I agree that a Senate led by people like McConnell can limit who a GOP President can appoint. But that was not the issue in my opinion with Trump’s AG appointments. He simply did not understand who and what he was dealing with.
I don’t know what President Trump could have done differently. He was hamstrung from the begining.
A lot could have been done differently perhaps most important making the correct call for AG. Trump’s advisors like Cortes and Bannon readily admit they made some massive mistakes during the Trump transition. You have to surround the President with trusted people and Trump was not.
Yupper. Pure, unadulterated evil.
Wray
Sessions was a surprise
That nomination was a great indicator of just how naive Trump was coming in. He clearly did not understand the importance of the AG. He gave it to Sessions returning a political favor because of his very early support for Trump. Sessions was pathetically weak and that weakness caused the Mueller appointment by the traitor Rosenstein.
Read some interesting things about Barr in Whitney Webb’s first volume on One Nation Under Blackmail. He is the epitome of swamp.
What evidence is there that Trump will follow his own personnel advice? “He was unaware of the depths of corruption in DC.” Well, then, he was unprepared and is unqualified for the job. We really need to hold our own more accountable for their actions and stop excusing someone who is perceived as a savior.
Disagree. There is no way anyone,especially an outsider like Trump, could have been prepared for what hit him in the face with the government illegally spying on him even before he took office. The traitors already had their game plan to remove him in place before he was even sworn in. Trump was surrounded by traitors the day he entered the White House and many were chosen by him out of ignorance including John Kelly. Now, if Trump is reelected and still makes the same mistakes I will wash my hands of him. At that point, there is no room for personnel mistakes like Sessions and Barr and others.
I agree HT77, President Trump needed help and the help he received did not help. So he fired the help and hired new help. Then he fired the new help and hired others. The professional political class likes control, money and power. So they, the professional political class, provide resumes of those who will do just that and like it.
Yes, HT77, those were 2 mistakes of incalculable harm to PDJT and to the nation. May God be merciful to this exceedingly evil generation.
And:
Sun TZU — know your enemy. Trump’s vaunted experience with NYC thugs in Manhattan could not have prepared him sufficiently to take on the lurid and desperately wicked foes in DC who wanted him vanquished — at any cost.
I’d rather have been reading about all this in history books than having it unfold before our very eyes.
you are overlooking the fact that who you call “unqualified ” had this country at its strongest in history !
If we conservatives cannot overcome ballot harvesting in the key counties in the key states, President Trump will not get re-elected.
You seem to be continuing to buy into the game, like the GOP will ever do anything.
What about when they held all the reins?
They did n-o-t-h-i-n-g.
No, I just pointed out a big reason why we should put no real hope in Congress based investigations even if a committee actually wanted to do something. The real problem, which you are apparently ignoring, is the Deep State, especially the DOJ, which actually has the power to do things. Congress has no power to prosecute crimes.
What do you mean, “Trump did nothing.”? The list of Security initiatives is long. Oil independence, huge in terms of security, we are dependent on no one. We brought back companies from overseas which was huge, not only economically, but for security. Foreign leaders were intimidated by Trump, the Abraham Accords, this is almost incomprehensible in supreme importance of security, the supreme attention to illegal immigration by building the fence. His priorities, in spite of betrayal, and infiltration of people who were out for him or simply naive, we were strong militarily and Trump was respected, and not able to be bribed for or vulnerable to oust for money. He was pro life, law enforcement, anti censorship, and THE advocate for our constitution. Biden trashed it all and our security is about 0!
You are responding to the wrong person. Please be more careful.
Ignoring it? Not at all, my friend. I pointed out in an earlier post that when the GOP had total control (which would have included control over the DOJ) they still accomplished nothing.
But since the rise of the 4th branch of government, now even the DOJ can provide little more than chin music.
I’m not looking for an argument, just pointing out how corrupt and sadly decaying our government is.
You are correct that only the Democrats can get the DOJ to act on these egregious acts. So while it’s theater, Republicans are playing with one hand tied behind their backs. The unconstitutional overreach will continue until Republicans wake up and understand the macro problem. It’s not the FBI. It’s not Twitter. It’s not any new fangled tool that they will create. The problem is the Democrat party, as Lincoln said, from it’s “inception” They get Republicans to focus on the details while they continue with their RICO activities. Eliminate the Democrat party, eliminate 80 percent of the country’s problem.
Here’s the rub, North J, when we talk about the parties as they stood in the past versus today. I think a large number of people on this site who want less government power and authority would have been Democrats in the past. There were more staunch conservatives there than in the GOP in the past. Remember, the South was a Democrat stronghold until Democrats embraced the welfare state and civil rights and race politics. Now those Southern states are the base of the GOP.
I believe that they have two points of leverage available. The first is the debt ceiling. Refusing to lift that and using it to defund everything discretionary, and letting Biden et al shut down the government is one; then use that club to get the budget desired passed/signed. It remians to be seen if the Speaker can be led into doing this or not.
The second is to “fence” funds and refuse to allow the monies appropriated for the agency in question to access them. If you’re being shut down by the agency when docs have been requested, then the Speaker can make the decision to do this and deny funding until the appropriate docs which have been subpoenaed have been presented. Again, this is up to the speaker. This is how Kash Patel and Elise Stefanik received the docs for Russiagate which had the evidence of FBI involvement in the coup. There are ways, but it requires leadership and spine to use them. I question whether McCarthy has that when push comes to shove.
Leadership and spine — yes; and a willingness to laugh in the face of the MSM which will bring out the heavy artillery; we all understand metaphor, right?
You make solid arguments.
The glitch is getting the GOP to act on their advantages.
Those two big buts you mentioned are huge buts.
When Republicans win an election, they take office. When democrats win an election, they take power.
Impeach Garfinkle and make his life miserable by dragging it out until the elections. He will never roll over and Democrats in the Senate will never convict him but he deserves to be harassed to death..
I think building a new FBI Building larger than the Pentagon is an ominous sign.