Attorney Mike Davis has some good constructive criticism surrounding the current construct and status of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Govt. {Direct Rumble Link}
As Mr. Davis notes the current allocated budget ($2 million) and staffing (5 persons) of the committee itself does not reflect a priority, and the demands of the regular House Judiciary Committee upon Jim Jordan (chairs both) means his time focused on the subcommittee is curtailed.
I’m not sure the issue is as dire as Davis notes; obviously we do not know the background work that might be taking place; but the lack of general urgency -in combination with the history of the GOP in congress- does lend credibility to the overall concerns. WATCH:
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My own perspective on the challenge is somewhat conflicted. On one hand the scale of addressing the issue of this size doesn’t fit the traditional model of legislative oversight. On the other hand, this entire process is the only one available that conforms to the role of government oversight.
I have previously outlined the scale of the opposition the House Subcommittee faces and will face. Knowing the size of the opposition, you can make an argument that it takes a long time to prepare for this battle. However, the issues raised by Mike Davis are fair and legitimate.
I am cynical about congress’s ability, given the scope of the effort required. However, we live our best life and remain pragmatically hopeful. If they have genuine intent, we will all benefit. The only thing we can do is provide proactive input and advice; ultimately, it is up to the republicans in congress to determine if this is their priority.
BACKGROUND – The 118th Congress has authorized a “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” The subcommittee falls under the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jim Jordan. Additionally, Thomas Massie (R-KY) is being reported as a representative under consideration for the chairmanship of the House Subcommittee.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan should have a grasp of the scale and scope of the opposition they are about to face. Assuming they have a fully prepared staff to support them – willing to take on a very consequential investigation; then we begin by first anticipating who will oppose their effort to investigate the “weaponization of government“. Which is to say, everyone!
The defensive apparatus of the DC political system will likely do everything in their power, individually and with collective assistance, to ensure this committee fails. The stakes are quite high. As readers here can well attest, DC politics is an institutional system of purposefully created compartmentalized silos.
The compartmented information silos permit plausible deniability, and this collection of weaponized institutions contains career bureaucrats who view their opposition as the American people.
Example – The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and every Republican member therein, including SSCI Vice-Chairman Marco Rubio, will make it their willfully blind priority to obstruct any investigation that touches on how the intelligence apparatus of the United States Government is weaponized against the people.
The SSCI is the institution that facilitated the creation of the National Security State. Any effort to investigate the outcome of that system will make the House investigators adversarial to their colleagues in the Senate.
Additionally, every executive branch intelligence institution, including the DOJ-NSD, FBI, DHS, ODNI, CIA, DoD, DIA, NSC and every sub-agency within their authorities, will do anything and everything to block a subcommittee looking into their domestic activity.
A lot of bad decisions have led to really bad things. DC does not want those bad things discussed.
Every national security justification that exists, and some that have yet to be created by the DOJ National Security Division solely for the expressed interest of blocking this subcommittee, will be deployed.
Every member of the subcommittee and their staff will be under constant surveillance. Phones will be tapped and tracked, electronic devices monitored, cars and offices bugged, physical surveillance deployed, and top tier officials at every subsidiary agency of the U.S. government will assign investigative groups and contract agents to monitor the activity of the subcommittee and provide weekly updates on their findings.
The White House together with the National Security Council will also backchannel to and from these agencies doing the surveillance.
The intelligence apparatus media will be deployed, and daily leaks from the various agencies to their contact lists in the New York Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will be in constant two-way communication for narrative assembly and counterpropaganda efforts.
This is the context of opposition to begin thinking about before anything moves forward.
Additionally, the national security state will demand the House investigation take place on their terms. They will demand secrecy, national security classification and require House subcommittee members to adhere to the Intelligence Community terms for review and discussion of anything.
Each agency will not voluntarily assist or participate in the investigation of any of their conduct. Every official within every agency will do the same; and they will require legal representation that will be provided to them by Lawfare, political operatives skilled in the use of “National Security” and “classified information”, as a justification for non-compliance and non-assistance. A protracted legal battle should be predicted.
Lastly, anticipate Special Counsel Jack Smith using his position to block the House Subcommittee from receiving evidence. The House should anticipate that congressional representatives are already under investigation as a result of the authorities granted to Jack Smith by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco {Go Deep}. The White House and all of the executive branch agencies will use the existing Special Counsel to block House investigation. Heck, that looks to be the primary purpose of the appointment.
As a result, expect the House Subcommittee members to be under constant threat from the DOJ, via the Special Counsel, specifically from DAG Lisa Monaco, with statements that House Subcommittee investigative efforts are “obstructing” a special counsel investigation. The aforementioned agencies and the Senate Intel Committee will work with the DOJ to use the Jack Smith special counsel as a shield to block participation with the House Subcommittee.
With all of that in mind, what is the successful path forward?
♦ First, everything has to be done in sunlight and maximum transparency, even the planning and organization of the committee construct, purpose and goals.
The committee can have no shadow operations, unknown guiding hands or secrets that can be discovered and then weaponized against the intent. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
I know DC has little concept of working like this, but you can train yourself to do it. You have nothing to hide; however, those who are being investigated have everything to hide. Do not provide them ammunition by retaining secrets that can be weaponized against you.
As Andrew Breitbart said, be open with your secrets.
Your second cousin Alice will be a source for the New York Times to write about the Thanksgiving dinner three years ago when she heard the “N” word or a tasteless joke about something outrageous. Every member of the committee and staff need to prepare for a dossier completed by the FBI about them and distributed to the government allies in mainstream media.
Security clearances will be leveraged and threatened as a tool of the national security state to stop the secrecy envelope from being opened publicly. This will happen; so just anticipate it. When the security clearance of [insert_name_here] is threatened, go to the microphones and tell the public who is doing the threatening, and why.
♦GOALS – The goal needs to be crystal clear to anyone and everyone who would contemplate assisting. Yes, there needs to be a legislative intent in order to legally formulate the committee; that’s a no-brainer. However, the ultimate goal should NOT BE accountability on those who may have perpetrated or supported weaponized activity against American Citizens. The ultimate goal SHOULD BE for maximum public information, transparency and sunlight about the weaponization as it is discovered.
Let us assume the goal is accepted. Before moving forward, the subcommittee needs a professional communication strategy in place before the rules, terms and member outlines are structured or made public.
A thoughtful communication strategy so that information can come from the committee to the public without the filtration of a corrupt system that will bend and skew the findings as a weapon against the committee itself.
♦COMMUNICATION PORTAL – Hire a communication staff, and set up a website for the sharing of information directly from the committee to the public. The daily activity of the committee should be shared publicly in granular detail. The witness names as scheduled, documents requested, everything that involves the committee activity should be known to the general public. This system should be updated at least DAILY, or as information is compiled.
This communication network should also contain a separate staff assigned to solicit, accept and distribute information provided by the public to the subcommittee. Yes, you read that correctly, the subcommittee website should be able to accept information provided by the public as it relates to the ongoing committee work.
Crowdsource We The People as research leverage against the much more effective Lawfare operations you will face in opposition. This means a portal where the ‘open source’ information can be delivered by researchers, many of those on the spectrum, who hold deep knowledge of the information and system processes in the silos.
In the past several years, thousands of documents have been retrieved by FOIA and public records investigations. Hundreds of experts in the granular details of the DHS, FBI, DoD and DOJ-NSD systems have knowledge that can benefit the committee; you just need a way for them to transmit the evidence/information to you.
That ‘open source’ evidence should flow into the committee portal with address sourcing that allows the committee staff to review and locate it independently. This avoids the predictable counterargument, from the national security state, that Russia (or foreign actors) is feeding disinformation into the committee.
The documentary evidence will mostly be “open source,” extracted and then cross-referenced from within the multiple silo system the national security state uses as a shield. And the origination of the documents will be traceable and easy to duplicate, thereby providing secure provenance. The internal staff manager for this inbound portal is critical (think former HPSCI Nunes staff).
Documents found by the committee should then be uploaded to the same communication system (website), permitting the public -especially the autists- to review and then cross reference the committee material; ultimately channeling information back into the committee if important dots connect or puzzle pieces clarify. Think of this as a massive counter Lawfare operation with hundreds of Deep State subject matter experts assisting the committee.
Witness transcripts should be uploaded within 36 hours of testimony. Then let the public do the research, background review and dot connecting from the testimony. If you build it, they will come.
♦ Next, GO PUBLIC with everything. Do not use the terms and conditions of the secretive administrative state. Tell the public what you are finding as you are finding it. You can share information without violating “sources and methods.” Schedule a media appearance at the 8pm hour twice weekly with a high visibility broadcast media network to provide updates and answer questions.
These scheduled appearances should be in addition to random media press releases and press comments as pertinent information to the subcommittee arrives. What this means is that you do not wait to produce a 2,000-page final report before releasing the information. The final report should be an update and summary of all previous findings that have been released to the public along the way.
♦ At the outset, put no rules on media contacts with any subcommittee staff or member. Counter the darkness that fuels the intelligence community agenda with maximum sunlight and transparency. Use truth as a weapon against disinformation. That means no nondisclosure agreements at any part of the process.
Yes, this is radical change in approach, but this is also a radical enemy you are facing. Playing the secrecy game works in their favor, not yours. Transparency is your tool, not theirs – use it.
Use truth as a weapon.
Every member of the committee can say anything they want about any of the material or witness testimony they hear during the course of the investigation. Public hearing or closed-door sessions, it matters not. The same rule applies. Committee members are completely free to discuss any findings as the information is reviewed.
The goal should NOT BE accountability on those who may have perpetrated or supported weaponized activity against American Citizens. The goal SHOULD BE for maximum public information, transparency and sunlight about the weaponization as it is discovered. This approach makes We The People the accountability portion of the process. As a result, the next section is again rather groundbreaking….
♦ Every witness to the committee should be granted full legal immunity provided by the House and House Speaker for anything said during the testimony or admitted as being done as part of the evidence fact-finding. Again, the goal is transparency and openness, not prosecution and accountability. Use sunlight as a weapon to draw out the truth, then let the American people be the judges of what that truth means when contrasted against the constitution of our nation.
Let me repeat this… There should be ZERO legal liability for any conduct that happened as a part of any witness effort to weaponize the United States government against the American people. The immunity should cover everything *except* perjury from the witness to the committee itself (ex. Oliver North). If the witness lies, the immunity evaporates.
Why this approach? Because (a) it circumvents any issues that might impede testimony, removes hurdles; (b) immunity compels confession, honest sunlight and the urgency of the situation; (c) immunity makes the truth more likely; and finally, (d) you are not going to get legal convictions anyway. The truth has no agenda.
Another reason for the immunity is because the operation of the subcommittee should be heavily focused on witness testimony, not documents. The documents can come as part of the follow-up to the witness testimony, but it is the witness testimony needed; the publication of the transcripts then provides the public sunlight. This is key.
90% of the committee work should be focused on witnesses and questions therein. Only 10% of the committee work should be seeking documents. Avoiding the documents shortens the time needed for investigative disclosures and avoids protracted legal battles therein. If the people on the committee, those who are asking the questions, do not already know the details behind the questions and the locations of the supportive documents, then you have the wrong people on the committee.
Every response to a questioned witness should come with the following question: “How do you know this?” That is how you will discover the nature of the documents, communications, emails etc that support the fact-finding mission. “How do you know this” also leads to more witnesses. Work the issue from the bottom up. How do you know this; who told you this; why did you do this; what authority guided you; who authorized this approach? etc. etc. etc.
Use fully immunized witnesses to tell the story, then go look for the documents to corroborate the witness statements using the ‘under oath’ transcript as part of the impenetrable subpoena itself; but don’t wait, keep questioning witnesses.
♦DOCUMENTS – Once you identify the location of documents that would assist the sunlight objective, don’t only rely on the government side of the conversation as the targeted source for retrieval. If the document contains communication to external parties, ie public-private partnership, then move to gain the documents from the private side, thereby avoiding the roadblocks inside government.
Regardless of the status of the document search, and regardless of whether legal battles will be needed to retrieve those documents, keep moving forward with the witness testimony. Do not stop committee work just because internal silo opposition is being fought. Keep working the plan and bringing immunized witnesses, both inside government and outside government, forward for questioning. Leaders within organizations and agencies are important, but clerks, staff, and administrative aides in/around those same leaders could also provide important information.
This subcommittee approach, along with the people needed, will obviously take more time to assemble. However, once put together everything thereafter moves at a very rapid pace, which is also part of the strategy. Flood the information zone with maximum sunlight and keep the opposition off balance.
The goal is sunlight. Rip the Band-Aid off, call the baby ugly and start the process to fix this crap by exposing it. Restore the First and Fourth Amendments, and heal the injury.
From the Church Commission we got the secret FISA court and more tools for violations of our Fourth Amendment rights. From the 911 Commission we got The Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, DNI and many more violations of our rights and Fourth Amendment protections. We do not need any legislation as an outcome of the House “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
We do not need your legislative help. All prior legislative help only ended up making things worse.
What we need is a full, uncensored, brutally honest expose’ of how bad things have become and how that system can be dismantled. The existing constitution is the protection, just remove the stuff that is violating it.
I know this approach is rather different from the norm. However, if this roadmap seems reasonable, I am certain you will find support from within the silo system that is currently operating, and from people outside the government who will volunteer time and effort to assist.
Summarized: (1) Know the scale of opposition. (2) Formulate a communication strategy around it and build a website. (3) Communicate findings by telling the story to the American people as it is discovered. (4) Grant immunity to all witnesses. (5) Don’t wait until the end to generate another useless report that few will read. (6) Make sunlight the motive of the committee. (7) Consider success when the American people can see the problem. (8) Dissolve any weaponized systems. (9) Don’t create new ones.
If you tell us the truth, We The People will fix it ourselves.
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Retired Magistrate here: I know a lot of people think that Jim Jordan is great; however, being from Ohio I can’t think of one thing that he has actually done for Ohio. Yes, he rolls up his sleeves and talks a lot but what has he actually done?
As far as I am concerned, it is just another “dog and pony show” paid for by taxpayers to keep the torches and pitchforks at bay.
Marcia: Indeed, a dog and pony show. In this case, a chihuahua that doesn’t bark and a very small Shetland.
Maybe…but there are no alternatives. We work with what we have.
If a government fails to address the needs of we the people, it must be abolished and a new one constituted.
Those past dog and pony shows got lots of air time, inconvenienced Obama but never really hurt him, and duped voters into thinking that if Republicans had power, that they would fix these things.
Not only didn’t they fix anything, they broke their promises and did real harm to President Trump using lies and fake charges.
You bring the torches and pitchforks and I’ll find some hot tar and feathers.
Not from Ohio, but I agree about Jordan.
He takes a lot of $ from Big Tech, as does McCarthy.
Way too much focus on personality, over policy.
And too much focus on words and delivery, rather than actions.
Its become obvious we need wholesale change, not piecemeal nibbling around the edges, and those who benefit from the current system, are NOT going to dismantle it.
PDJT/KL 2024 and may their campaign force the RNC to openly deny them the nomination, to finally enable the MAGA movement to destroy the Whig, Rockerfeller Country club, donor class elites, by stripping them of the base.
It HAS to happen, but THEY have to cause it, that is my current view.
“Lets see what happens,…”
I kind of like the idea of Devin Nunes as the VP running mate for PDJT in 2024. He knows the workings of the government, has withstood the vilification of the weaponized government, and has experience with being a private business owner (family farming with a refresher running Truth Social) so is familiar with current red tape the government has instituted so he’s a tried and tested person that would be a good right hand man for when our Mr. Revenge gets back into the driver’s seat.
No, Nunez is not the person for Trump. It will have to be an outsider if possible or someone new that is a fighter on the inside but I don’t really see anyone. Maybe Marjorie Green.
He should know by now that EVERYONE in there is contaminated with Greed and Power so hopefully he comes in with outsiders who know how to stand up to that powerful machine.
I’ve lurked here since Treyvon Martin, to dumb to add anything of value, but here goes.
It finally dawned on me. All the republicans were in on it, at any time any hour any day, anyone one of them could have spilled the beans.
Jim Jorden and the rest, it’s all a scam. tgv
You’ve stated it very succinctly and my brain works the same way 🤔👍
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Lot of value in that comment, and most people on this site feel the same damn way. If Trump can’t win and changed how everything works, then we need to blow up the GOP for good and start again with a new party.
Another option: read George Washington’s Farewell Address and act accordingly.
There is an obvious disconnect between the high admiration of normal Americans for President George Washington and the open-ended (pretty much total) refusal to consider his reasoned advice on precisely this issue.
Good luck with getting rid of the Party system, and I agree with what he said. Unfortunately the best we can hope for now is destroying a Party when it becomes corrupt and start over with a new one. It has happened before in this country with the Whig Party and it can happen again with the GOP.
Most Americans have no idea whether or not they agree with what he said because they’re never read it or considered it. Seems to me that reading it might help raise comprehension of the core rot of what is wrong if a bit of actual thinking/reasoning could be exercised on the subject. But that’s just me.
Reality is constantly hold press conferences that have very, very limited attendance.
Oh I have no doubts that only a few have read anything George Washington. Don’t you know he was a slave holder so he’s a racist founding father who has been erased from our history. All intentional by the way and so far they are getting away with this. Meanwhile Mitch McConnell has been a Senator for how long? Does he ever say anything about this or do anything? Don’t answer its a rhetorical question.
My kids are homeschooled for this very reason. Meanwhile these politicians need to read President Eisenhower’s farewell address.
For those interested to read the extremely – and now proven true beyond any doubt – insightful words of our nation’s frst Army General and first President, George Washington’s Farewell address in September 1796:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc21/pdf/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc21.pdf
(This pdf can be downloaded onto your device / computer)
saaaaaaaaaaaadly is it 28 months too late…75+ millions voters with modest donations of $100.00 each could start new party…seen to me someone really want torches and pitchforks to keep at bay….
Change always begins slowly until enough people say STOP.
Change starts slowly until it suddenly swamps everything in a violent, unforeseen crushing rush.
Yep. Exactly!
Jordan-E (Eunuch party), Grassley-E (Eunuch party), Ms. Lindsie-EPF (Eunuch Party Founder) and the rest of our ‘castrated’ leaders love to bang on their cowbells and makes lots of noise to show us how effective they really are.
Gowdy-E and Chaffetz-E were good cowbell banger’s too and they still are.
Too many “-E’s” to name.
OFF TOPIC:
Speaking of WEF lindsey Graham and the other Eunich’s ha ha,
I seen he now wants to put a bill forward to put our military into Mexico to stop the cartel, ok….. then I see WEF eye patch McCain Dan Crenshaw (Eunich Party) is now saying and supporting this same idea…
which made a hair on my neck go up…..wondering while i might agree that military might not be a bad idea on the border to control the border (it’s actually their job)
I’m left asking… what is it the WEF is really trying to accomplish via their puppets with such a move?…. is it another step towards their third world war being sold as border control to a desperate lot of Americans….. skeptical Cat is very busy these days
Good questions.
Trump said he wanted to attack the cartels in his CPAC speech.
The entire Washington DC farce is telegenics. 100% about looking right and being heard on the tv blip. It isn’t remotely tied to values or worldview and working to preserve those. Pure TV.
Yes, I used to admire Darrell Issa of CA, but we see his investigations led nowhere; OTOH, Rep. McClintock of CA has fought tooth and nail to get as far as he has, and he should be given a Chairmanship, he’s earned it; I am suspicous of Thomas Massie, too, he’s shown me nothing. And, I wish Chris Kobach of Kansas could get to DC, he and McClintock have similar histories at the state level.
Ditto on Thomas Massie. I hear him interviewed on a local Huntington, WV radio morning show quite often. Part of his KY Congressional District line is very close contiguous to WV’s border. Haven’t heard him on though in a month or so.
Massie is always talking a good MAGA game, but reports have it he is snuggling up with DeSantizied to deny Trump the 2024 nomination. As a result of reading about that here on the CTH, I began to question why he did not join the 20 fellow MAGA Congress members who stood strong against McCarthy for Speaker until they got important concessions on the rules of the House.
Same thing with Jim Jordon, MTG, one of my WV Congress critters Carol Miller. All profess to be staunch Trump and MAGA America First supporters, but yet sat there like a knot on a log and voted for McCarthy every single time from the first to the last vote. All even voiced their support for McCarthy weeks before with the lame excuse that a Democrat might end up as Speaker if the “Republicans” did not vote in unison for McCarthy on the first vote.
Actions like that make me a very “suspicious cat” when it comes to these “investigation”. Is this going to be another “Parakeet Head, Gowdy Duty” publicity fanfare trying to cover the swamp gas by gaslighting the MAGA movement? We shall see.
I agree with Sundance. Don’t worry about retribution right now and just put out the whole transparent facts for all to see. Also put the relevant unedited J6 security video on a website to be viewed and shared by all and not just under the control of Tucker Carson and subsequently the Fox New Murdock pressure crew. The public needs to know the truth about the false “insurrection” created narrative.
As Sundance rightfully states, put out all the unconstitutional shenanigans of the scumbag “elected” politicians, their global corporate masters, and most important the unelected intelligence agencies (politburo) scum who plan, perpetuate and execute these incursions on our God given rights, liberty and freedom. The retribution will take care of itself in the discredit and backlash of the public when millions of others wake up from their media induced apathy, brainwashing and slumber and realize they have been had.
Massie initially said that the J6 protest taken in context of being a violent protest was Trump’s fault, he also accepted the ’20 election results as being completely correct, no corruption, no fraud; in those respects, why is he to be trusted, he’s no more trustworthy than Turtle.
Oh yea, that’s the other guy that I was trying to remember but could not recall at the time!
Issa-E
He’s a high and mighty accomplished cowbell banger!
Hopelessness may be a policy, but it’s not a good one.
I always liked and supported Jim Jordan.
Right now however, I trust Mike Davis.
5 staffers doing this as a night job. Give me a break.
How many times have we said we needed bulldogs/fighters to get in the ring and get down and dirty. Davis appears to be a true fighter. As with many issues, I may be proven wrong as time passes but right now it looks like Jordan doesn’t have the inclination or motivation to make this subcommittee anything more than the usual performative display.
This is old news and probably why many like Rep. Jim Jordan.
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Jerry Nadler (D-NY), is afraid of parents . Nothing has changed with Democrats…. dictators.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY),
the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
at the onset of a hearing
on Oversight of the Justice Department .
Nadler upheld an objection to block Jordan from showing a video about school boards.
Jim Jordan is asking the right questions.
Jordan is giving parents a voice. Good for him.
What Nadler read (about a protocol;
calling a non- existing/ bogus non-rule
a “rule”)
wasn’t the worst thing he said.
No.
The fact that he READ
from a prepared /written paper; JUST handed to him,
that ~> an objection
had (JUST) been made
about showing the video, therefore, the video could not be shown.
Some might say that it’s standard practice to be prepared ….
~I say that it’s evidence that the leftists just play games to block… to prevent truth.
More word games.
I may have missed his input, has he visited and said much of anything re: Palestine, OH?
Retired Magistrate here: No!
Quite telling to little old me out here thinking Jordan would be in a position to help the folks in Palestine. He must be really busy.
So Jim Jordan is the Trey Gowdy and Lindsey Graham of Ohio. Maybe he’ll write a mean letter.
The “dog and pony show” is also designed to raise Swamp money with the sound bites and video of the righteous indignation. Me, no more money to the Uniparty.
Reminiscent of that rooster-haired Congressman, Trey Gowdy, and his non-stop hearings. Lots of fire–zero results.
Or how about that poser from California, Darrell Issa? He was a big talker, made lots of media announcements, held a lot of hearings. Results?
Sure looks like Jordan may be made of the same stuff.
Considering the whole place needs to burned to the ground and rebuilt, I guess it is the best we can hope for at this point.
since the beginning of time there has been evil
in government
The issue now, in our country, is that evil in
local, state and federal government has taken
over and stomped out good. And what to do about it?
I believe we are one election away from
the point of no return – meaning that we will
have a civil war.
This is where Tom Jefferson’s “Tree of Liberty” quote comes into play; I firmly believe TJ was correct, there must be blood.
Anyone here who thinks that all this will go away in 2024 is going to be shocked when the democRATS win…….
after the last two steals we will be shocked?
“at this point” is the most appropriate part….
Task = burn and rebuild
Purpose = establish a republic for the benefit of the people
Endstate = MAINTAIN a republic for the benefit of the people with the maximum liberty and maximum rights attached to the people.
Intent.
Trump’s stated intent.
Your “tools” to implement your intent include the militia when necessary.
Its necessary… at this point
No, I do not think Congressional hearings will play a significant role in bringing about the needed changes.
Elon Musk with his twitter file releases, and TC with his J6 security footage releases, coming on top of a LOT of work by many others, have akready clearly “made the case” that our Govt has been weoponised against the people, and Congress has played an integral role in creating the buerocracy, AND in its weoponisation.
Its as if we have numerous credible witnesses, and videos from multiple angles, confirming the owner if a building set in on fire.
And now 6 months later, we are bringing in an arson investigator, the fire starters brother, to “investigate” to detirmine if the fire was arson.
I am NOT “pessimistic” about events, just pessimistic that we will get anything of significance out of Congress, so long as Mitch maintains his death grip over the Senate, or those currently controlling the RNC continue to do so.
More broadly, I see our “enemy” as being like a “plate spinner”; the entertainer that spins plates on small vertical dowels, only they have been spinning false narratives.
First muh Russia, then another and another. And, as they continued to put up more and more “plates”, the ones they started with, began to wobble and then fall.
They continue to put up more plates every day, (Ukranians blew up Nordstream, Tucker is destroying democracy!) and are now slipping and falling on all the broken plates littering the stage, as they continue to run around trying to keep the routine going.
This is simply unsustainable, and the outcome, just like the plate spinning routine, is inevitable.
THEY are not winning, but I suspect History will show that Congress will not play a major role in the collapse of our enemies agenda.
At this point, Congress are just by-standers. The recent performance of Mitch, Chuck, Mitt and others condemning TC, demonstrates they are just commenting on events, NOT shaping them.
IMHO…
I often wonder why so much emphasis is placed on Mitch and what he does while no emphasis is placed on those who elevate Mitch to his position of authority.
Amen. It’s not Mitch, it is all the traitors who make him their leader; They are the problem.
The entire body has become a direct threat to our nation since the 17th Amendment was passed.
The Framers never intended a popular vote for Senators, they were to be appointed by each state for a reason. I know the Framers would have change their term to two years instead of six if they knew they would be elected by popular vote.
In the end, Mitch is just another traitor.
You are not pessimistic. You are realistic. But then you jump to they are not winning? Trump said Saturday we passed socialism and are on our way to the final destination. Dutchman, that is not winning.
” … current allocated budget ($2 million) and staffing (5 persons) … ”
Compare that to the money and staffing used to try to inciminate President Trump.
Exactly. Also, compare that to the money supporting and staffing the new OD Green tee shirt “George Washington” Zelenskyy is getting for his staffing, paydays, pension and all.
Congress of the Uniparty gives 100’s of billions to defend Ukraine’s borders and “democracy” while a few years ago they couldn’t afford to give President Trump 10 billion to build the wall to defend our southern border from an invasion of biblical proportions.
The “Path Forward” section here is excellent and would really benefit from being condensed to something highly readable and engaging by all who need to see it.
Our current overly digital society is unfortunately limited in the ability to take time to read, digest and act on the written word as in days not-too-long-gone-by.
The overall approach of oversight is incorrect — bottom line.
Disclosure leading to prosecution is correct.
Else para 2 of Dec of Ind applies in all of its rights and duties and the MOST appropriate civil construct here forward, until elections are fixed (with Trump’s help and approval and in office)is… the Militia of the several States
Reform is not the same as reconstituted — bottom line.
We need the truth… there is a reason Trump said I am your “retribution” at CPAC.
He knows.
I know.
Many of CTH know + many more “out here” in flyover country.
It is difficult to be a one man band
as seen over the four years of
President Trump’s presidency
I suspect Jim Jordan is a good guy,
however, who is helping him
in this regard or any other.
We have 20 MAGA in the house;
what are they currently doing?
Or, should I say what are all
of them including Jim Jordan
BEING allowed to do?
The right just isn’t good at this stuff. The uni-party establishment has the 85 Bears team assembled to use the federal government to destroy its political enemies and establish false narratives for crisis initiation with their buddies in the press.
We get Jim Jordan and his team.
“The right just isn’t good at this stuff.”
WHAT “right.” A mere 20 of the 45 member House Freedom Caucus earned their membership in that in the Speaker vote.
Seats in House Republican Conference 45 / 222
Seats in the House 45 / 435
Seats in state upper chambers 19 / 1,987
Seats in state lower chambers 76 / 5,413
Two Million Dollars and five staffers?
That should pay for a lot of sternly worded letters. At least five per day. Or Zelensky’s tee shirts and Paris shopping trips, for about 16 hours.
Jordan’s strongly worded Tweets will remain relatively inexpensive, however, at the cost of a blue check mark.
I think the “Tucker Carlson” approach of keeping everything out in the open like with the Jan 6 tapes is the best. However given the Republicans track record with this kinda stuff I am not hopeful at all.
Dear Congress Members, do your job. You have the power of the purse and are REQUIRED to do oversight.
Grow some already!
thanks for that reminder
defund them
In order to get these agencies to adhere to their Constitutional Oaths, to stop their grifting, and cease the Biden-ordered thuggery, cut their budgets until they do so.
They will have to institute a RIF (reduction in force). Once this happens, they are required to make personnel cuts according to a specified hierarchy. But they won’t follow it, they will instead get rid of competent people they don’t like, and keep their pals. At this point their power diminishes.
Continue to cut, until they perform as they should, or just rif them into oblivion.
And get rid of that ridiculous SES (Senior Executive Service) and its FBI and CIA equivalents. They wreak havoc on agency efficiency.
I have VERY little faith that any GOP led investigation will result in any change whatsoever. They are very good at the bluster but useless at changing anything.
Color me jaded.
This guy Davis has some good points. I am of the opinion that something earth moving is needed to fix this mess. First thought, Trump. If these Marxists succeed in gumming up the election again, party is over. The easier they make it to vote, the easier they can cheat. Voting needs to have some inconveniencies.
Transparency is about the only thing attainable at this point. There will be no legislation and referrals for DOJ action will go nowhere. Hopefully, some new information will be discovered, possibly even criminal activity. But unless and until a new administration takes office, there’s not much to hope for here, even if the budget were $20MM.
How much money and how many staff did J6 committee have?
Congressional committees and investigations, special counsels are just noisy wheels spinning in the mud of the swamp.
They may sling a bit of dirt, make a lot of noise, but in the end, don’t solve the problem.
All of what you say is valid. The work-around is to limit the number of committee members, maybe 5-9 members tops. And select members from both parties without input from the Democrats.
This is extremely unfortunate, but for me not unexpected.
Keep praying and giving thanks to dear God – for every bit of sunlight which gets people like Schumer and McConnell over in the Senate agitated re Tucker Carlson and the J6 tapes –
Someday it WILL all come out – Liz Cheney demanding Mitch McConnell to stand up for the J6 Committee or ELSE? Or else WHAT? Why should Mitch McConnell be bothered?
Will this House committee do anything good – I don’t know – but I choose to have an attitude of gratitude, of EXPECTATION – not giving up already! That we EXPECT this Committee to do the job – with every obvious effort to “weaponize” such as the FTC of all things “demanding” information! How was it that they thought they should do that – is Merrick “Mitto” Garland still out of town, over in Kyiv?
It’s a symptom of behind-the-scenes power grabs, lack of discipline now as lower ranks of the cadres see that this might be the time to make a move.
FTC re Twitter
Energy Dept. re investigation re Covid
Back when Hillary was Secretary of State, she was somehow the one “deciding” on the Keystone Pipeline . . . oh, and she was also overriding the Pentagon resending help to Muhammar Ghaddafi, his pleas for help went unanswered by our Defense Department . . .
(and THAT is another reason to look at George W. Bush and ask him how HE can live with himself as it was on HIS watch that Ghaddafi became an ally?)
so the current crop under the present administration is looking for opportunities to expand THEIR horizons!
Weaponization.
Merrick “Mitto” Garland going over to Kyiv – that too, is odd – curious and curiouser –
how is THAT part of his bailiwick?
Jim Jordan sounded very MAGA and stole our hearts and we all chear leaded Jimbo to be SOTH
Then he backed Kevin McCarthy even when it was clear he could be a MAGA Speaker of the house , he just needed to accept it.
So, pardon my skeptical cat and I as we sit here with a funny look and the thought – Jimbo will be in purposeful limbo through most of the committee time he chairs. while still giving us all his best sounding MAGA yadda yadda yadda
(It’s all just a theater after all.)
I initially wanted Jim to be SOTH as well. But it wasn’t clear he could get the votes for it. And he didn’t want it, because he didn’t want to spend all his time and energy flying around the country to fundraise, which is a lot of what that involves. And I don’t think he wanted to be herding cats, which is what the other half of the job involves. He wanted to be chair of the Judiciary, and investigate all the corruption with a Republican majority, and get it all on the record — so hopefully people can be held accountable.
I also heard him talking about WHY he backed McCarthy for SOTH, and it made sense politically. He saw on certain issues the way McCarthy was able to corral the Republicans and get enough of them on the same page. In the past, that has usually meant the RINOs win, and the important stuff gets lost or diluted. But I think Gaetz, Bobert, and others have figured out how to use their slim majority as leverage to push for what conservatives want. And fortunately, Kevin wanted to be SOTH enough to accept their terms.
I also think Jordan saw what Trump saw in McCarthy — someone they could work with, who could be persuaded to stand up for conservative causes with the right backing — while being able to get enough of the RINOs and squishes on board to make it happen. Jordan is a reasonable, articulate guy from the heartland, but with all the rounds of voting, if the majority had wanted a MAGA speaker, the majority would have voted for Jim as SOTH. I believe Jordan is more at home being “Mr Smith Goes To Washington” and a pit bull in standing up for what he believes, than having to argue and compromise with RINOs to get anything done.
Let’s face it — the House is NOT the Freedom Caucus, or MAGAland…yet. It’s amazing to me that the handful of true conservatives have prevailed as much as they have. Jim’s backing of McCarthy has given him the Judiciary position, and the cover to focus on what he loves and what he really is good at.
Like Tucker illustrated last night on TV; “they’re all on the same side”! The idea of “self regulation” in any human endeavor is a joke because human nature defeats it every time. The examples are doctors regulating Covid and lawyers regulating politics.
Congressional oversight
is often
hindsight ( 1 to 5 years behind, or water under the bridge that’s already made it out to sea )
It would be more helpful if congressional oversight,
had honest foresight with proactive accountability
( instead of hindsight ).
And no,
dishonest, corrupt foresight should be avoided
– invasion of border,
– jabs that make new health problems instead of solving illness
etc )
FISA 702 reauthorization should be first on the list for deauthorization!!! The FISA Court is a joke and any comments like this from the ChiCom Joe Administration “oversight of FISA applications has been expanded to include “completeness reviews” intended to ensure the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, or colloquially, the “FISA Court”) is provided with accurate and complete FBI case files for a probable cause determination.” is of no reassurance that warrants won’t be used against We The People once again!!! The FBI and FISA Court have no credibility -0-!! Cancel FISA 702 but it won’t happen!!
Probably just so they can say “we genuinely looked at the house from a distance but could not spot anything notable”.
Did not see the fact that the house was starting to catch fire from a 2 miles away.
I am also not sure to expect a miracle here.
I would be curious to learn about even one example of the Government investigating itself and coming up with anything useful or objective that made the Government change its policy.
What usually affects policy quicker is cars burning in the street and broken windows and society upheaval that affect change.
I am not condoning Antifa’s strategy here but you got to give it to them they know what works.
Maybe that is also why they are so adamant about demonizing January 6th.
Because if it were a true riot it would actually change something.
Discourage any such events in the future for non-Republican and non-Democrat aligned.
Why is nobody talking about the cost of our bloated government? Larry Kudlow says the Federal government costs about 22% of GDP, adding State and Local brings the tab up to 42%.
FAIR says we are spending $151 to $182 billion per year on illegal immigration, depending how it’s figured (https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/03/08/the-bill-youre-footing-for-illegal-immigration-should-send-shockwaves-n713395)
WHY AREN’T WE DISCUSSING DEFUNDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Taking away the punch bowl of the Federal Income Tax is in my opinion the only way to reduce government back to its Constitutionally-mandated scope and more appropriate cost.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TAX THE PATRIOT COLONISTS REBELLED AGAINST? I have read it was about 3% per year.
Their side hires a massive Lawfare team as staffers who handle all the research and questions to badger and hound the GOP and demand their time back. Our side has a highschool wrestling coach who pulls an all nighter, rolls his sleaves and sends soft ball questions over his reading glasses and Ms Linsey who exonerates and coaches every witness before him. We are doomed before the questioning starts. There has to be a better way…..
Why are we not discussing the Article V Convention of States movement?
Congress will never rein in its spending, and the Executive branch bureaucrats will never stop abusing us, until We The People stop sending them our hard-earned money!
Because once you open it up, the Constitution will be ripe for the communists to rewrite.
because it is too easy for evil to infiltrate it
we may (would) end up being worse off.
Correction:
MORE evil to infiltrate…
When revolutions took place and a new (often military) power took control of a government they had a massive purge of the old regime.
Usually thousands were executed, thrown in prison, exiled. With or without show or legitimate trials. Some countries more bloodthirsty than others.
These enemies of the new regime included the ruling politicians, many within their beauracracies, heads of institutions, top legal figures, media and intelligentsia. Those who promoted, financed, taught and justified the status quo and those who used the levers of power.
Illustrating how extensive a ‘cleansing’ was perceived necessary to eliminate the old base.
The most notable revolutions were violent and visible, culminating over a relatively short time. But others happen incrementally and aren’t obvious to the masses. Which I think is something that has been happening for decades. And not even recognized as such even by most of the useful idiots being manipulated and brain washed.
What ideally is needed is a counter revolution with an extensive purge. Not violent as such, if possible. But it has to begin with government change. Top down and then filter into the other areas usually dealt with in purges.
Trump pulled the curtain back and that was a necessary beginning. Maybe Putin is likewise involved with a counter revolution fighting for traditional values ultimately against the WEF orchestrated ‘reset’ which aims to devour the entire world. And which is being led by the ‘five eyes’ and associated countries. But who can really know his big picture mindset? Or how China factors in.
Regardless, the next two years will bring America to an existential crisis like no other.
Jordan is the new Gowdy…
Nice guy, better than a sharp stick..
But, once again, all show and no go….
this site is now infiltrated by debbie downers or trolls
“Every member of the subcommittee and their staff will be under constant surveillance. Phones will be tapped and tracked, electronic devices monitored, cars and offices bugged, physical surveillance deployed, and top tier officials at every subsidiary agency of the U.S. government will assign investigative groups and contract agents to monitor the activity of the subcommittee and provide weekly updates on their findings.” — Sundance
They need to stop investigating and just shut them down on the8r obvious failure to do their actual jobs. Defund the departments who are politicized. Just imagine the money we could save.
The problem is: who is going to do the defunding?
The Tooth Fairy has a better chance of accomplishing it than those in Washington.
It has been that way for longer than we’d like to imagine.
I’m all for getting DJT back in there but don’t know how that happens with the uniparty controlling elections now. They are out and out stealing elections here in PA. ACT 77 (i.e., mail in voting) gives them all the tools they need, same in the other states/cities they targeted for control.
in PA, RINOS passed ACT 77 in 2019, to get rid of Trump. Now we’re stuck with it (probably by design…they could have included a sunset provision, but didn’t). Dems in control everywhere.
free and Fair elections are a thing of the past.
Watched this on War Room and I agree we need someone with a will of iron to go after these cutthroat deep state actors. Jordon’s too nice …
Nothing will happen. Nothing will be done to traitors. It will be just another group of emasculated swamp creatures, who get their millions from the Washington swamp poking holes in the air with their fingers, while doing absolutely nothing. Say what you want about no good slimy rat turd democrats, they actually do something. Repubs are the new dindonufins.
and what a good nom de guerre you chose!
Fueling hopelessness and cashing in on spewing pessimism.
The few are doing what they can. Not all of them are all in. But then again, how many ARE willing to lay down their own lives for their people?
There is too much fear and control. Once a people break through that, there is only victory.
Anyone who’s expecting anything more than kabuki theater or perhaps some stern scoldings to come of all these house committees needs to lay of the wacky weed for a while.
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What a concept
Derrick Evans is one of the J6’s who was forced to resign from his newly elected WV House of Delegates seat from Wayne County, WV. The first Republican WV House member to be elected from that county in 80+ years.
Derrick was picked up at his home by the FBLie in front of his wife and children and eventually forced to plead guilty to “felony civil disorder” in Federal Court. After a plea deal, Derrick was sentenced to 90 days in jail, $2000 restitution, a $2000 fine and supervised release after the 90 days. https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/derrick-evans-sentenced-to-three-months-in-prison/
Nevertheless, Derrick is not a quitter. He has now filed and is running for the U.S Congress District 1 for WV in 2024 facing incumbent Carol Miller.
Insane corruption!!!!!
Technically, it was a crooked “Commission”–it didn’t meet the standards to be called a Committee.
And “Pelosi’s Alibi Factory” was too honest.
Their biggest limitation is themselves. They, themselves cannot face/imagine the scope of the problem. If they do not have a very clear idea of the remedies that they must use to fix things (which they cannot, because they have no idea of the scope of the corruption) they cannot know the paths they must take to get there.
For this House, yes. For a serious bunch of pro-america, pro-constitution, pro-freedom legislators, no.
You could completely fix all of this in a few months through defunding, passing legislation that stripped the deep-state of its extra-constitutional power, and wiping-out most of the three and four letter agencies entirely. It’s easy except it isn’t when you don’t want to.
Also, if you ever tried to do it, all hell would break loose. These deep-state terrorists have many, many poison pills they would unleash on America if anything ever really threatened their power.
Must reading for Jordan and all committee aspirants.
I have a saying about abortion that I’ll adapt to the corrupt Federal government.
With abortion, it’s not that Liberals are unaware that they are killing people. They know. They simply don’t care.
When it comes to Government employees targeting the regime’s political enemies, it doesn’t matter what the committee comes out with. Liberals already know, and they don’t care.
When you’re dealing with “the ends justify the means” fanatics, there is no such thing as shame or embarrassment or hypocrisy or even criminal acts. They can scream bloody murder about something today, engage in it tomorrow and switch back to screaming bloody murder by Friday. And when you point this out, they literally pretend they never said it.
While we’re out there trying to prove we’re right for the sake of history or whatever, the Left is killing all the historians they don’t like and then writing the textbooks.
This madness can only end in one of two ways: violent removal of the people responsible or violent destruction of people who oppose them.
Guess who thinks they’re winning.
These are all good solutions – ways to change the endless inconsequential investigations and hearings.
I’m glad President Trump reads here – Hope members of Congress and Senate do.
There’s only one way to kill the beast and that’s to starve it of money. Of course, that would involve the budget process originating in the House and not a series of continuing resolutions that fund everything on the uniparty wishlist.
This committee is just a warning to the weapon that they are expected to fight their old masters if/when the new masters come into power.
Based on past Republican “performance” – they just dont have the fight in them. The Demonic Pedo Democrats fight like the Viet Cong. The Repubs…..give up thire lunch money.
This is a brilliant strategy. It hit home how every single one of us – We The People – have opportunity serve and now have been tasked to do so.
The FIB radicalized me. I feel so violated.
I deserve reparations for this.
I think it’s manageable. First start with the FBI. It took 30 agents to arrest a man for pushing a lunatic in scuffle in front of an abortion clinic. That is 15 times too many agents. Therefore the FBI’s personnel budget can be slashed 1500%.
Start where you have the constitutional power and watch how these tasks somehow become not so daunting.
There will be no legitimate accountability via political action.
Until God intervenes, the devil will continue his rampage using these demons at his disposal.
Two million dollars is pocket change for something this big.
There actually is a way forward. It would require tenacity and patience. Keep exposing as much as possible. Focus on laying bare the facts of the last two and a half years. Don’t worry about outcome. Nothing can be done until the Eric Holder Department of Justice is dismantled. That can only be done by electing a president willing to do that. President Trump needs to go out in the woods and find a stump to run as vice president. And then when he is elected with that stump, give him zero power. Zero assignments. Just let him do the Kamala thing, spending his days feasting on THC Laden gummy bears and staying out of sight. Because that’s the only person Trump can’t fire. Stock the DOJ with killers. Identify them now. It’s pretty easy. Just look for people without ivy league resumes, or previous government service. Our country is full of patriotic no politics involved prosecutors. Figure out who they are. Until people start going to prison, until people start being hung for selling out our country, the two-party system will continue to fail us. Hard times require strong men.