During yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took the opportunity to confront the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI with the recent history of their activity.
As noted by Senator Paul, the past several years exhibits clear and irrefutable evidence of the DHS and FBI working collaboratively to conduct surveillance on American citizens, while simultaneously violating the first amendment by coordinating with big tech social media companies on censorship. WATCH:
Everything Rand Paul says in that statement is factually correct. However, highlighting just how the game of pretending is conducted in DC, at the end of hearing Senator Rand Paul -joined by Senator Lindsey Graham- voted to approve Jack Lew as Joe Biden’s ambassador to Israel. Quite a shift in ideological priority considering that Jack Lew was the primary cover-up official responsible for protecting Obama from exposure to the IRS targeting operation against conservatives.
Additionally, prior to his job as Treasury Secretary, and prior to his position as President Obama’s Chief of Staff, and prior to him being Obama’s Budget Director (comical considering Obama never had a budget) Jack Lew served as State Department Director under Hillary Clinton. It was Lew’s influence that shaped and positioned the failed Obama/Clinton foreign policy toward the Middle East. Specifically, toward Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya during their upheaval, the Arab Spring. How did that work out for our interests?
For those who believe the bankers control everything, Jack Lew is a case study.
President Obama’s first chief of staff was Rahm Emanuel, he sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Obama’s second CoS was Bill Daley, a previous top executive at financial firm J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Next came Jack Lew.
From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank’s alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting “U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments.”
Lew made millions at Citi, including a bonus of nearly $950,000 in 2009 just a few months after the bank received billions of dollars in a taxpayer rescue, according to disclosure forms filed with the federal government. Jack Lew was CEO of Citibank’s hedge fund of “credit default swaps“, the financial tool that devastated the housing equity market and created the subsequent economic collapse.
Notice the pattern?
I digress…
Hey, at least Senator Paul can talk eloquently about the constitutional protections being usurped in real time. Doing something about it, not so much.
I’ve always been skeptical of Grand Stand Rand. Talks a good game…
They all talk a good game.
They are allowed to talk but not allowed to do. This means they are completely conscious of their inaction. I’m reminded of Jack Dorsey who acknowledged the things going on at Twitter and requested that congress legislative controls over the company “he controlled.”
As we 100% know now, according to Elon Musk, Twitter was effectively controlled as a part of the intelligence community. Say said it explicitly in a Joe Rogan interview. I don’t see Jack Dorsey as a willing participant but rather as a captive. The difference between Jack and Elon is that Elon isn’t a F’ing COWARD.
I know that if I OWN a thing, that means the party who sold it to me DOES NOT. So when I see people buy into subscription services in their own cars, I am aghast that they don’t see the problem with it.
Jack Dorsey never owneed Twitter — the IC did and he was captive.
Similarly, the fact that Rand Paul can SPEAK but never ACT is indication that he too is captive because if he was in this with the intention of deception, he wouldn’t call any of this out at all. We call this “controlled opposition” but in some cases (distinctions without a difference) we are looking at CAPTIVE opposition.
I can’t say for sure if Paul is captive or controlled or just another brand of corrupt. Can anyone really know? We can’t.
But what we CAN know is that he demonstrates PLAINLY that he knows better than what he is doing. And this begs the question why? Does he think we do not notice? Does he WANT us to notice? I tend to think it’s the latter as there is no indication he is hiding anything here.
I think we have a deficit of courage — not enough “liberty or death” instinct here. Trump has that. It’s why we love him.
Excellent commentary and I agree with your surmises about Rand.
Until today I was foolish enough to believe that he was different than the others and that he was not
all talk and no action.
I am terribly disappointed at his lack of courage and his failure to use his own power. A US Senator is not without at least some clout, especially someone like Rand who’s been there for awhile.
I still have high hopes for Ron Johnson, however. Please don’t tell me that he’s not the hero he appears to be!
He jumped on the George Floyd bandwagon with the leftists. Read his interview with Walter Isaacson or watch: Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire’s shared video captioned, “full clip of the new GOP speaker saying that George Floyd was murdered and we need systemic changes to fix the racism in out country.”
Ron Johnson is a senator and Speaker Mike Johnson are two different people.
My mistake. I should have paid closer attention … saw the name ‘Johnson,’ immediately thought of the new Speaker of the House, and jumped the gun with a comment. I apologize. Thanks for the correction.
Sorry, Ron Johnson is NOT the hero you WANT him to be.
Me too
One of the best ways of explaining it I’ve seen ever..👍
No one could ever come close to Rooster Head in the Art of The Sound Bite. Not to ruffle any feathers but Jim Jordan is a good runner up although his platform was X formerly known as Twitter. (this crap should have ended with Prince)
If actions were the only barometer (as they should be), you are absolutely correct. All that speech making, indignation and outrage is becoming passé and does not have any effect on regular people.
The GYM JORDAN of the Senate.. All Hat no cattle or cowboy…
Not sure Jordans no cowboy, I think theres a little brokeback mountain in him…
Treavor…it is A I R JORDAN …. nothing but bag of air…saaaad..
His father Ron Paul did a lot of that, too. Talked a big game, but did he actually do anything while in Congress? Nope. Just two bills to his name, of which one of them was a building rename. Flowery rhetoric doesn’t do anything to stop or reverse creeping authoritarianism, but that is all we get from the professional right, in or out of government.
Creeping authoritarianism? I think stampeding authoritarianism is where we currently are.
You’re correct as to the current state.
It was still ‘creeping’ (and growing) in Ron Paul’s day….
Professional grifters, like father, like son.
Yes Virginia, we are in an abusive relationship.
Some are allowed to say things that others cannot, because that is the role they play.
NO ONE is allowed to take action unless UniParty approved.
1984 is coming at us faster and faster. Desperation breeds dangerous action.
Absolutely! And that goes double for those who actually cast their votes for/ against controversial legislation. These grandstanders are only permitted to rage against the UNiparty machine -to the oohs and ahhs of their grateful constituents- if and only if, the legislation they are grandstanding has absolutely *no* chance of passing.
But at least they get to pretend they *tried* to do the right thing. Classic RINO move.
When Donald Trump became president, and Republicans held both the House and Senate, yet could *not* manage to pass even one significant MAGA bill in four years time? How obvious does it have to be?
The RINOs complete and total opposition to everything MAGA ensured that President Trump’s executive orders would disappear the moment that Biden was sworn in.
Yes, even Rand Paul refused to call a recess so his president could appoint his own MAGA cabinet. These traitors are directly responsible for the tyranny we see today.
Totally board with this long running production of Hamlet. Worse than Cats! Lol
Sound and fury signifying nothing.
The British call their Parliament a “Talking Shop”…a moniker which I apply to both the House and the Senate.
So this was Paul’s fifteen minutes of fame was it?
Pfffffft….
Wake me please when these pontificating buffoons accomplish anything for the American people.
Godot will be arriving before that happens.
there are SO MANY THINGS these guys could do to gum up the works.
one senator is slow walking the entirety of DoD approvals based on the abortion thing… imagine what they could do to every department and every single dollar if they really wanted to???
Tommy Tuberville is a standout.
What he is doing the Dems do all the time…as you say, Muley, gumming up the works.
Not so the Republicans.
I have nothing but contempt for every one of them.
(Release those J6 tapes yet, Christian Mike Johnson? Maybe it’s time you stop talking about what a followed of Christ you are and walk the walk…)
In all fairness, Senator Paul wants to keep breathing, right?
They already tried once.
Talking about Rahm, Obama and the guy named “Bill Daley”, cousin or long lost relative???—the Daley dude…any relation to the former Mayor Richard Dally of Chicago? Mayor for 22 years???
Those homeowners who could not make their payments…weren’t they the people who got big balloon mortgages and the market crashed and lost their homes? Lost them to the bank?
People that got mortgages that should not have been eligible for the high mortgage?
And exploding payments…they were convinced by the banks that their salaries would go up in the future and they would be able to afford the increase in payments….
Yes, a pattern….a definite pattern…
Yeah, but they got to live in them for free for three years.
NINJA loans,… No Job, No Income. What could go wrong?
I’m not a bank apologist, but the banks did not convince them of ANYTHING. These are people who knew darn well what they were doing. The banks did as they were told.
And that’s the problem, all of the demons do as they are told.
We need a real, GENUINE exorcist to perform an exorcism!
Those guys are as cool as cucumbers, and are rock solid!
Some people do not realize how highly regulated the banking industry is.
Economics and critical thinking are vital to financial decisions.
Since we’re talking about Chicago and Bank scammers let’s not forget
Subprime Mortgage Securities Maven
Penny Pritzker, heiress of the Hyatt Hotel AND Nursing Homes fortune, sister of IL Governor JB Pritzker, Fairy Godmother to Senator Obama’s Presidential run.
Penny bought newly created Superior Bank, a Franken-bank created by the FHLBB 1988 in a deal that included her Uncle Jay Pritzker, her brother Thomas and Alvin Dworman who added lender Alliance Funding to the mix. The Pritzkers also had a credit-reporting company named TransUnion Corp which made identifying unworthy subprime borrowers easy pickings.
By 2001 the deal makers milked the bank dry, reneged on an interest free settlement with the Feds then got a sweetheart deal with the FDIC to discount their balance in 2011. However the FDIC didn’t have the ability to pay Superior depositors who were still out more than 10 million dollars.
Penny then went on to become Obama’s pick for Commerce Secretary after initially withdrawing her name the first time, due to family obligations. At the time Obama told 60 Minutes that “fat-cat bankers” were thwarting his ability to create better regulations for Wall Street.
Fat Kitty Penny’s estimated worth at the time was $1.8 Billion.
What is that song?Oh yes,you’re a great pretender??
It is all orchestrated,and they are all in on it.
Just one big air bag after another,playing their roles,good cop,bad cop.
Nothing new under the sun,and I am blessed to know the ending.
Talk isn’t cheap in D.C.
It’s flat out free of charge.
Actuallu no. Look at their incomes; they are handsomely compensated for blowing hot air.
Talk in D.C. is rather expensive. It is costing us the Republic.
To those who talk
And talk and talk
This adage doth appeal:
The steam that blows the whistle
Shall never turn the wheel
Lew is the designated financial grift gruber to launder the spoils of our tax dollars going to Israel.
Lew is an enormous POS and terrible choice for anything beyond dog walker.
I really am fond of my dogs, so no.
What is going on with his finger? He keeps rubbing it back and forth on his arm? Is that related to the injury from when his neighbor attacked him?
Or is it a nervous reaction to something else?
that’s the location of the control chip he may or may not be aware of
Like father like son.
To those preceding, who rag on Rand and Ron; don’t let the chip dip soil your shirt as you swig your brew, watching from the 50 yard line as the big boys slug it out on the field.
Well said, Pancho
Would you have voted to confirm Lew? Beer and football have nothing to do with the discussion at hand. And no I don’t do either.
Please Rand, more tiresome rhetoric from the face of the Trey Gowdy conservative wing. How ’bout maybe one of yous put something on the line for once, like your reputation, or your seat.
Then they wonder why we dismiss it all as kabuki theater. Problem with this particular kabuki is that it has and will get a LOT of people killed.
Lew illegally approved the Treasury’s reimbursement of the failed Solyndra investors, all Oh Bham Ah donors. Watch out, Bibi, for this Snake.
They will spy on us, tell us what to think, where to live, what to eat, what to drive, who to vote for and so on.
Absolute Power corrupts absolutely!
“Alex Marlow: Joe Biden’s A.I. Oligarchs Plan for Our Future — Harness U.S. Government, Team with China, and ‘Break’ Capitalism”
“Next on the agenda will be a massive expansion of the security state in the name of freedom.
“The order commits to ‘ease AI professionals’ path into the Federal Government’ and offer expanded AI training to bureaucrats,” Axios summarized.”
“The latest—and by far the scariest—way Biden World intends to accelerate this trend is with artificial intelligence (A.I.). Earlier this week, Biden announced an A.I. executive order that contains the beginnings of a blueprint to create a permanent majority for the left-wing. Though it was framed as an effort to regulate the A.I. sector, Axios notes that “Biden’s approach is more carrot than stick.”
It appears as though the Biden administration’s first goals when it comes to A.I. is to use robots to enforce censorship of “misinformation” (i.e., normative conservative thought).”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/01/alex-marlow-joe-bidens-a-i-oligarchs-plan-for-our-future-harness-u-s-government-team-with-china-and-break-capitalism/
Normally Rand Paul is one of just a few I can honestly listen to but, after reading Sundance’s article, I’d rather pass. I’m tired of all the lying about what others have done to our country as the task given to the one speaking as a representative is ignored. The great Fauci slayer keeps feeding the same dragon he complains is ruining our nation.
Well, Rep. Ken Buck has announced he is retiring, and the reason IS the thing, lol.
Says he is disgusted with a Republican party that insists the 2020 election was STOLEN.
So, I guess they do “hear us NOW”!
1 down, 435 to go, and 100 in the Senate.
We should all stop paying taxes.
All of these people hate us and I’m sick of paying them to terrorize me.
Until employers start pushing back against the government about being tax collectors, that will be next to impossible.
I know someone who has. I see him frequently.
I’d love to figure out how to do that and not go to jail. It’s only the criminals now that stay out of jail.
I keep thinking that if enough Americans just said no, what would they do?
Yes, I am a supreme cynic …. which is the reason I do not view people like Jack Lew or any of the more intelligent life forms serving Obama, Clinton or even Sock Puppet JoeBama as “failures” in some of their assignments. They are actually performing quite well in carrying out their instructions. There are a few major disasters along the way but they are doing their job as instructed and by design.
There are a couple of life form types serving the likes of the Obama, Clintons and JoeBama:
There are the appointed licensed idiots … i.e. Kamala Harris, Blinken, Milley or his successor, the $1 Man Austin, FEMA Director Criswell, Janet Yellen … their job is to be sound bite generators … no matter how dumb the sound bite or video clip.
Then there are those with some brains and who can reliably execute orders … they are whores and mercenaries with no scruples by nature … i.e. Jack Lew or Surgeon General Murthy. Allot of the evil, poor policy, whatever …. is not poor execution or mistakes … they are actually executing given orders.
It comes down to who’s orders they are following.
You be right.
From my days working California Corrections—-trust NO ONE. ONLY by REPEATED positive ACTIONS can trust be earned…..and even then very carefully.
Yadent: Good advice.
Thank you, Sundance, for that article. I looked up who the two Republicans were who voted for Lew and was not surprised that Graham was one. I was a little disappointed in Paul. I say a little because I have always been skeptical of the loudest in the GOP. The fact that he voted for Lew, when it wasn’t necessary confuses me a little. I guess some big money sources had to see a sign of his loyalty. OK. Not confused anymore.
I don’t hear anyone else worrying about out rights being violated but we are done talking about it.
Time for impeachment of DHS and FBI heads. Time to take away their funding.
It is up to the House to do so and we have a new speaker.
Everyday I watch footage of immigrants flooding our border.
No one stops them. Everyone sees them?
The only thing that gets a politician’s attention is to take away their money.
Like everyone else in the senior ranks of the “Biden” administration, Jack Lew is Jewish.
So, are you Hamas? Noting people’s religion accomplishes what?
“Democrats Send A Corrupt, Inexperienced Hyperpartisan Iran-Booster To ‘Help’ Israel”
Lew’s only experience in foreign policy is championing pro-Iran policies. During the Iran deal debate, Lew predicted the giveaway “will make our country safer, it will make our allies safer, and it will make the world safer.” Not once, in his Washington Institute speech praising Obama’s foreign policy, incidentally, did Lew mention the word “Israel.” What the deal — and subsequent support for Iran — did was reward the Revolutionary Guard for murdering around 600 Americans in Iraq and incentivize that regime to take more American hostages.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/01/democrats-send-a-corrupt-inexperienced-craven-hyperpartisan-iran-booster-to-help-israel/
Only in DC can speeches and sternly worded letters suffice for action. Rand Paul routinely brings up issues the GOPe have no intention of taking action against.
As the federal debt accelerates beyond the point of remedy.
Where is this going?
Jus’Aksing….If you want your comments to immediately post…without being held in moderation…you’ll need to get rid of the “apostrophe”.
Why?
It has to do with the apostrophe in your username acting as a “delimiter” A delimiter serves as a data and code boundary when being read by a program. Our software reads it as stop sign.
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3779/delimiter
I’ve already fixed this for
fivenumerous other Treepers…so deleting the apostrophe WILL work.As always, THANK YOU, Admins, for all you do!
All hail Ad rem!!!! Let’s ban apostrophe’s!!!!!!
Rand has always been just a mouthpiece who’s words speak louder then his actions.
Jack Lew is obviously of Chinese descent and I wonder who his handlers are?
Funny, reading comments, apperently Jack Lew is one of those Chinese Jews, lol.
Thats the lost 14th tribe, O guess.
No, and he’s not from the French word for toilet, either.
“From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank’s alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting “U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments.”
Today’s food costs and energy costs.
To be closely followed by a fundraising email, memo, letter:
rand paul fundraising letter today
https://www.newsweek.com/after-fauci-says-rand-paul-profiting-off-pandemic-paul-raises-funds-calling-him-hysterical-1668367
Paul admitted the 2020 election was rigged and then turned around and voted to certify Biden anyway. Most turned a blind eye.
Finally, someone gives us permission to stop pretending….
MP,
Respectfully disagree with your assertion elections weren’t rigged prior to 2020.
Given there are $Trillions at stake, of COARSE they have manipulated the whole process, for many many years.
2020 was different, because in 2016, someone NOT ‘IN on it’ by fluke, divine intervention what have you, was elected despite their best efforts.
2020 was an over the top attempt to get him out, as having 4 more years of PDJT in the Oval would have destroyed them.
Agree. The crooked Dems (I repeat myself) used the California congressional elections in 2018 as a test-run for 2020.
2020 is the new abnormal. the fraud is now completely institutionalized. Nothing compares. Comparing obsolete forms of election manipulation in the past is not going to wake people up. The previous methods of manipulating elections were not going to work anymore. Its different now where in the past the media could have a large enough impact to manipulate minds, now merely plays a supporting role to the precision based institutionlized fraud in place now.
November 1, 2020 – speaking to reporters, President Trump predicts exactly what ended up happening on Election Night with mail-in ballots:
“You’re gonna have 1 or 2 or 3 states, depending on how it ends up, where they’re tabulating ballots and the rest of the world is waiting to find out. And I think there’s great danger to it, and I think a lot of fraud and misuse can take place.”
Two days later on Election Night, multiple states where Trump was winning would inexplicably stop counting votes at the same time. Overnight and in the coming days, Biden would receive a slew of ballot dumps and come back to “win” these states.
As Trump foreshadowed in this clip, Biden would overcome a nearly 700,000 vote deficit in Pennsylvania by receiving over ONE MILLION votes after Election Day.
They can claim eLeCtiOn deNiAL all they want, but Trump laid out, in advance, exactly what they were going to do and we all witnessed it unfold on Election Night.
WATCH:
https://streamable.com/m42uaw
“From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank’s alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting “U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments.”
I would have bet the same thing had I the opportunity. When mortgages are being thrown around to people who couldn’t afford them and those same people didn’t even have to put out a downpayment and they could roll their credit card debt into the mortgage…well what could go wrong? How about EVERYTHING! That was probably the most honest thing Jack Lew ever did.
Does Rand Paul wear the uniform? The purple tie that suddenly became the style dujour after Hillary Clinton lost. Roosterhead wore it proudly as he screamed about Benghazi.
Rand Paul sure do talk purty.
I am beginning to suspect that neighbor was a bit more justified than we gave him credit for.
This just reeks of the Benghazi hearings, day after day. Surreal.
Strongly worded letters and double speak from awol Paul.
The marine corp ball was cancelled by Central Command. Something is afoot.
He supports Mitch every cycle.
Is there anyone in the U.S. Senate that is worth a goats hoot? Hawley is the only one I can think of.
Not holding my breath on that one either…just sayin’.
No, Hawley is just like Paul and Cruz, the fake and controlled opposition.
And don’t get excited about Ron Johnson, either.
There is not ONE MAGA in Congress, either House.
Sad to agree. Swear I’m living in a matrix, nothing as it seems…
I think that it’s a flawed assumption that Democrats or communists (hard to tell the difference) since Obama have been working to protect OUR interests- especially if we happen to be conservative voters. In most of the cases these have not even been in the US interests.
Back in Egypt, after his famous speech, Obama set the tone letting the whole world know that we are not an exceptional country, we are just like all the others. Since then, he has gone about making that happen so we are just like Venezuela (after Maduro) through his three terms and will probably finish the job if he had another couple. Right now, the RINO party would rather have that than bow to the MAGA patriots and help Trump win. They are all in on it, Rand Paul’s speechifying notwithstanding.
all hat no cattle…. eff him sort glad now his staffers got the shat beat out of them….didn’t seem to show him the way though …. SAD
If the Republic survives after next summer ( dosnt look good) Americans need to really discuss secession. Not even President Trump can fix D.C. Since all the assholes screwing up America are in Washington D.C. along with California, New York,New Jersey, Chicago Illinois, we just have to secede from THEM. But I dont have all the answers- it’s a big problem that needs big decisions. One thing I’m sure of- the Uniparty is killing our Nation. THEY GOTTA GO!
Devastatingly disappointing. Of all the serpents with a liquid tongue in Congress, Paul is the one that fooled me. It’s so disheartening to learn these things.
When that crazy Bernie bro shot up the congressional baseball game I was worried Rand had been harmed because he was my guy. Not so much anymore.
But if any of us need a lesson in the depravity of Congress men and women, see Steve Scalise. Guy takes a bullet to the pancreas based on all this rhetoric and commie BS, and yet keeps towing the party line. That in and of itself, is terrifying. Bullet to the pancreas. Unreal…
The bullet that he took in the hip was more life – threatening than the one he took in the pancreas, the hips are the junction for a number of major blood vessels.
They all suck. Deal with it and decide if you will collar up or die a serf….choice is yours mine and ours……love that movie. Well I like it alot
Any senator voting to elevate McConnell is a traitor to the country. And that includes all of them.
wayback machine:
Serial Pretenders Activate
The one man “in the arena” who did more than just talk about draining the swamp has been spied on, threatened, impeached, falsely accused, framed, and indicted.