I often hear or receive this question in various iterations. When discussing the research outlines of current events, especially when we cite the historic background of what took place leading to those events – and how it created the outcome we now witness, we often get this question – or a version therein:
…”Have you tried to meet with DNI or DOJ or NSC people to attempt to ”unsilo” their thinking and understanding of all that transpired so they can connect all the dots. You have said that different people you’ve spoken to know pieces and parts, but the silos prevent anyone from knowing the whole. Can you not be the link? I love that we know but we can’t affect change. We/I only become more frustrated as our new leaders bumble along talking and focusing on seemingly trivial things compared to the Treason that has been on display since 2008.”….
My friends, part of the reason the corrupt DC system is so transparently predictable, is precisely because everyone engaged in the events has a vested interest to retain the corruption. When you peel down the onion, when you get through the smoke to the fire, when you go deep into the rabbit hole and finally reach the dead end, you discover the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.
From my myriads of travels and interactions with the system operators, I can boil down the answer to a few key points:
♦First, to the point of those we count on to stop the corruption, these are not smart people. You project infinitely more intelligence upon them than they actually possess. The high-information voter and researcher has much more knowledge than they do. We fail and become frustrated when we mistakenly believe they carry an awareness that is factually not present. You know more than your representative, and you know the context of that information at a much, much higher level than they do. They ARE NOT smarter than you; where “they” applies to every-single-one of the names you might reference. You are smarter than them.
♦Second, corruption is a business; whether in the initiation of it, or in the maintenance of it. Quoting myself in discussion of the situation: “My honest and respectfully intended question to you would be: What is it that makes our representatives always want to “talk about the information” rather than act upon the information, when the information is there for the taking?
Perhaps, by training, by habit, or by unintended consequence our representative form of government, our American system of politics, has developed to live for the process itself as an end result. Is it logical to believe that removing corrupt activity is a discussion; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire?
The business of Washington DC has evolved into reveling in the process 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 action to what might be discovered. In fact, I’m led to believe that sometimes those within system avoid the corruption deliberately, because if they get their heads around it and nail it home, they won’t have anything to talk about anymore–nothing to fundraise from anymore-because they will have exhausted their stash.
Washington DC has gotten into the habit of milking every example of corruption for “so many talking points,” “so many interviews,” “so many column inches,” and “so many angles” that problem-solving does not appeal to them at all. They oddly appear to favor the endless process.
So, when there’s an approach like what they encounter with me, with our significant research, and our reluctance for self-involvement or financial benefit, well, I just don’t fit in–because I don’t give a flying flip about “the process.” And therefore, I do not fit into the rationale of the box or their predicted PERT chart. And I say this having been a target of their stupid investigative nonsense.
♦Third, and this is the one that hurts; as long as the money is flowing – they really don’t care about the consequences outside the bubble of corruption that surrounds them. This is where the “pretending not to know” aspect becomes a matter of importance to retain position.
They built the silos as a self-preservation system, where what they are preserving is their access to money. The examples of corruption that flow like an endless stream around the silos, the feeder material for the DC swamp is simply an outcome of their own creation.
Perhaps it is better to give you an example FROM TODAY as to how this applies to what we review. All three points noted above will be visible in this example.
♦ READ CAREFULLY– Back in December of 2017 and January of 2018, there was a battle within Washington DC -in the headlines- around the issue of the “Nunes Memo.” Devin Nunes wrote a five-page outline of the corruption evident within the Carter Page FISA application used to conduct political surveillance on Donald Trump. The DC Silo System operators within the DNI (Dan Coats), FBI (Chris Wray, Andrew McCabe), and DOJ (Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller) did not want the Nunes Memo released, so they said it contained “classified” material.
Remember, this was President Donald Trump’s DNI, DOJ and FBI telling the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes, that they would not permit the public release of the Nunes Memo; despite the material inside the memo largely exonerating the President and providing material, factual and irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized use of the FISA application itself by the DOJ, FBI and CIA.
At the same time as this “Nunes Memo” issue was being argued, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was attacking the office of the presidency with fraudulently narrated material from the surveillance the fraudulent FISA warrant authorized. Read that again if needed. SLOWLY.
The Silos (DNI, DOJ, FBI, CIA), while working for the President, were operating to isolate and target the President.
Now, in the background of this Nunes Memo fight, the FISA-702 bill was also up for reauthorization. The DNI, DOJ, FBI and CIA wanted the FISA-702 reauthorization that permits them to conduct surveillance on Americans without a warrant. The DC Intelligence Silos wanted 702 reauthorized. HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, who ultimately controlled the reauthorization, wanted his memo declassified. Nunes lead strategist was Kash Patel, the senior staffer within the HPSCI.
Kash Patel and Devin Nunes entered negotiations with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to declassify the Nunes Memo, in exchange for reauthorizing FISA-702. They negotiated a position where a “redacted version” of the Nunes memo would be released, in exchange for 702 reauthorization. That’s what they did. FISA-702 was reauthorized and the Nunes Memo was released [albeit with redactions].
The DOJ, FBI, CIA and SSCI kept attacking President Trump and the Special Counsel operation continued for another year.
[Six months after the FISA-702 reauthorization, with the term of the search warrant exhausted – and the content no longer useful, the FISA Application used against Carter Page was released publicly by the Robert Mueller special counsel.]
Hopefully you can see from the outline above how the Silo system operated during these events. The key takeaway is how Patel and Nunes worked within a corrupt and weaponized system and played by the rules of the corrupt and weaponized DC Silo operation. There was ZERO reform, either to the DOJ, FBI, CIA (silos) or the FISA-702 surveillance process. The corrupt system just moved along as it does.
This is why you cannot reform this system by using the participants within it that accept and continue playing by corrupt rules.
Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have played a strategy where they confronted the DNI, CIA, DOJ and FBI by saying publicly Dan Coats was holding the declassification of the Nunes Memo hostage. They did not.
Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have gone to President Trump and told him the issues, and requested President Trump declassify the memo without any redactions. They did not.
There were alternatives to playing within the rules of the Silo system. But they didn’t. They accepted the Silo process and in doing so perpetuated the process that targeted President Trump.
Now, we fast forward to today. What does that factual outline of HPSCI Kash Patel tell you about the predictive nature of FBI Director Kash Patel?
NEW: Kash Patel Promises ‘Wave of Transparency’ at the FBI Within Weeks—Says Prior Leadership Withheld Key Information from the Public
FBI Director Kash Patel says the American people are about to see exactly what the old guard tried to bury.
“We weren’t here in the FBI in the… pic.twitter.com/TMpgNYI0v0
— Overton (@overton_news) May 18, 2025
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I expect nothing from FBI leadership that plays by the rules of a corrupt and weaponized system.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
When you see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to invoke your sixth amendment right to due process, you need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution – when you see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics – when you see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and your representatives don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified – you may well know that your freedom too is soon to perish.
I will never relent, because I do not consent.
Love to all,
~ Sundance

I will add that this occurs at all levels of government.
Gov’t intentionally recruits varying combinations of low IQ, low curiosity and the brainwashed. The few good ones that slip through tend to become the whistleblowers.
“They ARE NOT smarter than you; where “they” applies to every-single-one of the names you might reference. You are smarter than them.”
This is pretty much my only frustration in life… Knowing and watching the the corrupt destruction of Our Republic but not having enough power to improve the Republic and stop the destruction.
I’ve come to believe that our “power” must be built locally. Like within our community schools, our city and county government. American’s spend much of their lives pursuing recreation, business, education, family and social activity. All worthy things, but there is only marginal time left to pursue “power”. If we are to be a nation governed by its people, we must take part. There is a sacrifice made for freedom. The bulwark of protection against abuses of the federal system is a local and state level leadership that can nullify federal overreach and would be willing to fight to that end.
The things that affect your life most directly emanate from the local schools, local government, and local utilities.
Working to fight the corruption at the local level for the last 5 years has panned out to be very very difficult and eye opening. As you have implied, priorities are not focused on freedoms or rights lost, they are focused on personal gains and pleasures and the use of the term my “family comes first” seems to be used to justify their lack of involvement. Few are fighting and the special interest lobbyist agenda’s coming from the top take advantage of the few fighters or few eyes on what is going on in our local schools, school boards and local city councils etc. Attention spans are short. Memory is short. Scary times!
Yes it does, city, county, state.
Thank you Sundance. For bringing us the unbridled, painful, ugly Truth. You are the bravest man I never met.
It has been my experience that offering “…the unbridled, painful, ugly Truth” here frequently gets screened out by the moderator, and if it does post it usually rewards the poster with replies of contempt and reproach.
Go piss up a stump. I’m in no mood for dumbasses or liars.
That must be you. That’s what cats do.
I’m not a cat. I’m a Wolverine.
Once again WELL SED thanks Allycats
Thank you RED DOG, that’s sweet of you to say. ❤️
Can’t say it any better than Allycats just did thanks Sundance
He walks the walk, Alleycats…
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality. There is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
~Ayn Rand~
So true, dear Bets. A hero to me, and mine indeed. Perfect image, luv. 😎
And to me…💕
naturally like your web site however you need to take a look at the spelling on several of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very bothersome to tell the truth on the other hand I will surely come again again.
That’s your primary takeaway?
Hahahaha. No kidding. For someone who finds spelling errors bothersome, she needs to reflect on her sentence structure structure.
<For someone who finds spelling errors bothersome, she needs to reflect on her sentence structure structure.>
Hahahaha. Awesome.
God help us…
HE is. 🙏
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Good grief!!!
Spare us, please!!
Lol.. I’ll be looking for your 3000 word analysis sans spelling issues by later today.
Naturally should be capitalized.
The punctuation wouldn’t pass a second grade test.
You missed a few commas in your comment. I counted 4, maybe 5, missed commas.
Don’t come back until you apologize for not beginning your paragraph and sentence with a capital letter.
You have some “spelling errors” yourself, Ms. Pot.
Run-on sentences in your comment. Pot, look at kettle.
Punctuation is your friend. Try it sometime.
too sumarize all y’all here and there and beyond the great divide….with edjumacashunns in minds:
Weellll Bleass thair heart!
AND no gramar notzis were hurt in the mackeing of this notis.
You forgot to capitalize the first word of your sentence. You also missed a comma in your first sentence. And your second sentence is a run-on sentence. How about focusing on the content instead of trying to be the grammar police?
You mean like starting a sentence without a capital letter?
That you Hilly?
You forgot to capitalize “naturally”. When you start a sentence you should do it with a capital letter.
You also did not put a comma after “however”. However, we will only penalize you a little bit.
Your second sentence is a run-on sentence. Try putting a period after “truth” and the making a new sentence of “On the other hand, (comma!) I will surely come again.”
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
YOU MADE NINE (9) GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN YOUR VERY SHORT COMMENT!
I suggest you take a remedial grammar class and quit making yourself look foolish.
As if on cue… An example:
The Man needs to start paying more attention to this siht. Maybe go get some of the Plan 2025 people.
I am not surprised.
😡
Strickland advising that he will name names, but does not ‘have time to do it now’ is only inviting his silencing. We have seen this before. I do not understand why, when people have such information, they decide to ‘wait’ to provide it…..wait until those who will be damaged by such information decide to act.
I hear you. Let’s give the bad guys time to retaliate.
…OR, to smash their phones and erase their hard drives…
book deal maybe?
Not so much that they wait to provide the information (need to cross the t’s and dot the i’s), but they telegraph that they will be providing the information.
🤣 How many mystery shows and movies have had someone revealing that they know “whodunit” and will reveal their secret at a future time, only to be “bumped off” before they can talk? (Frequently, the victims were planning to profit from their knowledge.)
All the while, the audience is saying, “No, no, don’t do it! They’re going to kill you!”
I guess people really are that foolish…
(edited) Will share this post of yours as a reply to Strickland’s tweet.
So Kristie Noem is a player. I believe you have said as much in the past.
Amen
May God have mercy on us all. I’m all in for Trump, not this “kick the budget can” down the road 10 years is not the answer. I can’t imagine how any of this is still going to end well. Still can’t get them to cut ANYTHING….
Seems to me that means,”don’t expect much, from either Patel,,or bongino,, just the way I see things. Just more bs from the both of them
To me, from the beginning,
appeared they had both
been ” measuring for drapes”
for years.
Which is why when I heard
the news about …another..
FBI facility– I spent the rest
of the day chuckling. 🤣
Sometimes when your thoughts
and opinions become reality….
🤷♀️🤷♀️all that is left is the humor
of the situation.
I was thinking he (Kash) redid his office in the FBI building pretty quickly, putting in gym equipment and I don’t remember what else. Now he is looking at another building only 3 or so months later? Also, he is going to spread the agents around the country. I don’t think they are normal people from their training and I wouldn’t want one in my neighborhood.
Money truly is the root of all evil.
The Love of money is the root of all evil.
Amen Bessie!
No. It’s a tool. The problen is, “Love of money”.
The love of money, not money itself.
Oh,,and might I add, don’t expect much from blondi either,, looks like a dud
Not just Barbi Biondi. What hasn’t been made public since the big spash of Musk getting in to the totally corrupt USAID scam, is where billions of taxpayer dollars are going now those giveaway functions are under the State Department. I don’t care about Rubio, what I want to see is a dollar by dollar accounting of all US tax dollars. Pretty strong possibility the same anti-American garbage is still being funded by the State Department without the spotlight shinning on it.
I can pay attention now, since retired, but for 50 years was only concerned with raising and providing for a family.
You said a mouth full.
Your words speak for most of us I imagine.
Now I’m at the age when my get up and go got up and went.
How does President Trump do it?
Same here and it seems every time I started to get ahead, boom, another recession or war or you name it. For years I wondered why I just kept getting further behind and then I realized it’s all baked into the corrupt system. The only people I know who are financially comfortable inherited it or were politicians. Now I’m old, but well informed thanks to dear Sundance.
I retired 18 yrs ago and thought I’d earned my good life after all those years in service and construction trades and the damage to my body. I took early, reduced retirement because I just couldn’t do it any longer. Still I didn’t want.
Now I’m drowning. I looked at an inflation calculator and learned my purchasing power has been cut in half! My income is fixed but inflation is not.
I come from long lived people and I’m only 73.
I must generate additional income just to survive (let alone live) and plan on doing so for another 25 years or so….
Kash Patel looks frightened now. By his appearance and recent statements and actions, apparently the Controllers made him an offer he couldn’t refuse, now he is a fearful puppet. Guessing that it involved a threat against loved ones, by his expression.
It has been suggested that the Five Eyes arrangement circumvents the 4th Amendment completely – the other Eyes are not constrained by the US Bill of Rights and pass intel on US citizens to the US IC. If that’s true, all the debate about the FISA-702 is a Limited Hangout, the US IC already has panopticon surveillance of US citizens without the 702 – both directly and indirectly from the other Eyes.
Yes. He certainly looks as though he took a ride in a black SUV and was given an offer that he could not refuse. He cannot even fake it well.
What mob family is running Las Vegas?
Never trust an Indian.
What about Tonto?
Especially a fake one like Faux-ahontas.
If he can’t stand the heat he should look for employment elsewhere.
He may be looking for an exit strategy. Right now, he is the face that is fooling MAGA. They probably want him there as long as he does what he is told to do.
Maybe he can find a medical condition or a sick relative who needs his undivided attention. But, right now, he is stuck.
Totally concur with you, Sundance. Not much roadway left, if any.
Thank you for that!
My follow-up question would be — Has anyone significant in or around the current Trump Administration ever reached out to YOU?
Regards,
I believe others have asked this question before.
it makes sense, no?
They won’t let him anywhere near the inner circle…DJT’s gatekeepers keep him out…the best we have is Melanie does appear to read here from time to time….
I don’t know who Melanie is but I wish Tulsi would read here.
Melania???
Maybe Tulsi does. She may be good at keeping secrets and a low profile.
I really liked a couple of her songs.
It’s all, ever and only about the money.
Excellent summary.
I had a similar experience in 2008.
I couldn’t figure out how a Senator would sell out his entire State for 50K.
A key error in the Constitution is term limits for ‘all’ offices with an initial selection process like jury duty with the voters deciding in the end who gets 2x their current pay or 300K, which ever is greater, + room/board/travel.
No lobby or re-election money.
DC will turn even Saints into sinners give enough time.
I said long ago in these comments that the invention of “money” would go down in history as the critical inflection point in the “timeline of man” that would eventually lead to humanity’s ultimate destruction.
And I sit back and watch, in abject horror, as does Sundance and the rest of my fellow Treepers, as humanity accelerates every day, relative to the length of time the aforementioned timeline has previously existed, as we barrel towards that foreboding demise.
Ask yourself: why is it that millionaires and billionaires will do almost anything — unethical, criminal, corrupt, and even evil — to amass yet more millions and billions.
For the love of money.
Is it the money or the societal worshiping of it? Even the Declaration makes it clear that the pursuit of happiness (not money) is the right of the people! Our leadership has lost its way.
IMHO, “the love of money” is the love of anything used as currency. Be it actual currency, property, power, prestige, fame, sex and so on.
It’s key to understanding why old codgers, like Glitch, don’t ever retire until it’s time to go directly to the ICU or the morgue.
I remember thinking THIS EXACT THING:
Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have played a strategy where they confronted the DNI, CIA, DOJ and FBI by saying publicly Dan Coats was holding the declassification of the Nunes Memo hostage. They did not.
Well said.
Where do we go to get a Kash refund?
It’s called a Ka$hout in Vega$.
So that is very clear and very helpful. It has been hard to understand the constant insistence that true sunlight and true justice are impossible to achieve now. If that is the case, do you think that America is doomed and that President Trump and MAGA should accept that and give up? Or do you still hope that they will fight back in the ways you think they should? If so, why do you have that hope?
And this nagging question remains, why should we think that President Trump and his top leadership, whoever you think they may be, are not smarter than us? Why should we think they do not know what you/we know and that they do not have a plan to destroy the corruption for our benefit?
“Fight! Fight! Fight!”
-President Trump immediately after being shot in the head
Perhaps because, at least in hindsight, we have learned not to ‘trust the plan’. There is none.
Sundance, would TOTALLY ELIMINATING all central banks, and all their, “attachments” (WHO, BIZ, etc)?
Ask Dr. Zelenko and chaya Raichik (libs of tik tok.)
Sometimes it just takes one or two determined, courageous and creative people who are ready to charge forward without regard to personal cost that will upend the march to destruction. See what you personally can do and don’t let the immensity of the problem overwhelm you to give up. Collectively we can each individually start a ripple which together turns into a flood that cannot be stopped.
Thank you Sundance.
Thank you for all you do Sundance ! I feel enraged and powerless but I know somewhat about who I should be enraged with and an ill defined path to regain power. You have illuminated some the sources. I can work towards a solution for problems I can identify.
Having swam in the swamp for a couple years, you find many hard working well intended souls mixed in with the overblown slimy egos of those that corrupt the institutions into what we see today. Filtering out the slime demands harsh chemicals and a large net. Other than a couple clearances revoked, I’m just not seeing much cleaning going on.
I was so hoping and expecting that PDJT would go scorched earth on those jackals. Guess not. BTW, my apologies to actual jackals wherever they may be.
Term limits for Government employees.
in the military we pretty much had that! Others there, not so much.
A refined and simpler version of this explanation should be taught in high school civics classes (if they’re even available). Even those perpetrating the corruption are seldom aware of all the pieces and how they negatively impact the entirety of govt. As Sundance said, at the bottom of it all is the money.
Thank you Sundance! I agree 1000% with you. The one person I count on to give us the unfarnished truth.
“When you peel down the onion, when you get through the smoke to the fire, when you go deep into the rabbit hole and finally reach the dead end, you discover the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.”
And “For the LOVE of money is the root of all evil.” – 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV) (My emphasis.)
Money =Power=Control
During my time inside the MIC, the silos got progressively wider and deeper. Anyone who took the time and the trouble to find out what was happening inside each silo, as a means of making progress for their program or their project, was viewed as a serious threat not just to their own silo’s agenda, but also to multiple silo agendas.
Go too far and too fast in pushing for faster progress, and the silo managers would all get together and nail your hide to the wall for the mortal sin of not following procedures — both the formal procedures and the informal good-ole boy rules and defacto unwritten procedures.
If you make the wrong person angry, it is really easy to set a “classified information security violation” trap. I’ve seen it happen and it almost ruined a fine man and his career.
I agree with every written word on this issue.
Thanks very much.
In communication studies that is called organizational culture, the way things are done written and unwritten. Each group/organization large or small develops methods and attitudes that must be fostered and followed. There are strict consequences both negative and positive to certain behaviors within said groups. It is a very difficult dynamic to undo and until top level people leave or are removed, the “culture” remains.
Likely what Harry Truman was referring to when discussing the entrenched US bureaucracy. It exists to serve itself and is almost impossible to remove.
OMG serious correction needed STAT:
It was President CALVIN COOLIDGE who made the statement on bureaucracy.
So now that my brain is rebooted please check out this site, which explains it a lot better.
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/70151-calvin-coolidges-warning-entrenched-bureaucracy.html
This is almost like all of the cancer societies, all of the diabetes societies, all of the animal welfare societies and heart and domestic abuse societies never preventing or curing whatever they raise money for. If they did what they said, they would be out of a job.
Very good analogy.
cherp: You got that right. Perpetual fundraising organizations with nice offices and highly compensated executives.
But if you contribute monthly, you would get the T-shirt.
Anything helps. God bless you Sundance; if you never give up, you can never lose because, for us, you are all we have and you continually arm us with the truth.
Yep, never been about ideology. Ideology is cover. Just like they call it weaponization. That’s cover too.
It’s really just a bunch of common crooks who have sold out their oath and country for personal gain and power. Who have figured out how to steal endlessly from the American people while also not paying for their abuses of young children.
And the tool they use to keep everyone in line is BLACKMAIL.
If we could ever get Ed, Pam, Kash and Dan to follow the NGO laundered money and then depose some of those perverts on the tens of Thousnds of videos sitting on Pam’s desk you could prove that blackmail has been the tool to the massive amounts of crimes they have committed.
It truly is easy to resolve if the Gang of Four would start to approach this not as a radical ideology, not as weaponization but simply crooks who lie, steal, rape and pillage for power and wealth. Period.
Absolutely concur almost every one in Congress is 1.) Stupid; 2.) Lazy; 3.) Uncurious; 4.) Generally incapable of creating/building a profitable business. But for having had the good personal fortune of winning an election, they’d be nobodies. They’re talentless.
Almost every single one of them is a Meghan Markle.
Or an AOC?
At the beginning of DJT’s 2.0 Administration SD said something that has stayed with me…to not expect any changes in the DS/FBI/DOJ or any of the “silo’s”…rather to get excited about the economy and the “Golden Age”…I have tried to hold onto that as best I can and have no expectation for any DS changes…with my mind centered on that, it is almost funny watching Blondi, Kash, Bongino and their traveling circus…even more entertaining has been the “maga” influencer set…Not sure who around DJT in his administration, but someone is the conduit to them…telling them what to focus on and what not to…Remember how we used to make fun of the “echo chamber” on the left and talking points? People, MAGA has them as well…pay attention…
Without reform, the “Golden Age” will fall victim to the same crooks. It will just give them more money to steal.
Thank you for the truth and the explanation of where we are. You completely explain why civilizations end. The corruption gets bigger and bigger. Follow the money. The only workable solution is to close most of the Departments and downsize substantially the rest. Close completely the IC silos and start over.
They won’t allow it…not even close.
It’s going to take all of us, standing up at the same time (so to speak). One man’s resolve just can’t do it alone. And he is alone.
Never ending Team MAGA besmirching. 🙄
So, then, there is no solution.
Truth, sunlight, courage, massive organization and coordination.
“J6” was designed to remove all these things from the equation.
Solving an issue means the money spigot is turned off. Bureaucratic empires crumble. Loyal team members are reassigned/retired/released. All you have to do is look at the “War on Poverty” or the “War on Drugs” or the “Global War on Terror.”
Bureaucrats would rather perpetuate problems for self-serving reasons than solve them.
“Serve at the pleasure of the President” used to mean something to the people who occupy those positions. Now, they do whatever they want and squeal like little schoolgirls when their service displeases the President and they discover there are supposed to be consequences. Their friends in the judiciary stick up for them, and now it looks like SCOTUS is fatally compromised (NOT in the 86 sense of “fatally!).
Public executions would go a long way towards changing the culture of Washington DC.
We are gonna need a whole lot of wood and rope….but I’m with ya!
NO MERCY!
Sure, sure. Ain’t gonna happen.
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Our VSGPDJT just got back from the ME where he arranged some big money deals.
Are those countries rife with corruption, also?
Seems to me, if they are seriously concerned about rooting out corruptions in their own countries, a side deal may have also been reached.
How many do you suppose of the US politicians/support network surrounding them are salivating at getting a portion of that big money into their own grubby little hands?
Can anyone say ABSCAM?
If history does repeat, then all those stupid people who never learned about the past, are ripe for repeating same . . .
June US Treasury notes are more likely to be sold to these countries and their allies now that their investment is in USA.
It will help knock back the BRICS nations and the chance of displacement of the US-$.
Who wants to invest in our trea$uries?
With outside investment(s), we are safer.
Jmho
Sundance, did you watch the interview that Marie did with Devin Nunes also this morning?
I saw a quote a few years ago that really resonated with me and it’s seems very applicable in this situation. (I apologize that I can’t find the original quote so this is not verbatim but I think you will get the gist.)
“Only about 10% of the population are actually thinkers. The vast majority of people are simply repeaters, because that is so much easier than truly thinking things through!”
Most of the people in our society, especially in the fields of education, politics, the media, and sadly religion as well, simply repeat what they have been told and will push back on anyone who dares them to follow their opinions up with actual facts! This is nowhere more evident than in the halls of government, where “going along to get along” can be incredibly profitable, but bucking the system or asking hard questions can very quickly get you ostracized (or worse)!
Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
That’s not the quote that I saw but he is absolutely correct, IMHO! Thank you for sharing this one!
You are most welcomed.
“. . . the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.”
So what exactly does Nunes and Patel’s reluctance to confront Coats over declassification have to do with money?
Loss of access to the money to be made in the swamp. The fit in or they find themselves out.
That’s true in most organizations; not peculiar to the swamp. The advantage of the governmental swamp is the opportunity for corruption. But I don’t think Nunes and Patel are corrupt.
“Nice cattle ranch you have there, Mr. Nunes. Be a shame if the water permit got rescinded.”
Or something similar. They suddenly put the Nunes family business under the microscope when he started to expose the corruption.
That’s certainly plausible, though it’s not just about money–it would be blackmail or extortion, and certainly criminal if it could be prosecuted.
And since OUR money is the root of THIER evil the answer is clear….
Remove OUR money (ie completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL income taxes) from the equation…
No money…no honey….
And ps…for the lawless ones….
NO MERCY!
THE ANSWER IS CLEAR……REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT (which was NEVER properly ratified BTW)!
It long ago morphed into it’s their, the gubmint’s, money.
It’s ongoing, look at how the DOGE discoveries are treated.
Another area where nothing will be done.
I’m just happy that Sundance put to rest the notion that we just need to give Trumps appointees more time because it’s only been 4 months .
Both Bongino and Ka$h were unified in their declaration that Jeffery Epstein committed suicide.
Another day, another corrupt FBI
Where is this interview taking place? It looks like FIB HQ from the logo on the floor.
Why the vast emptiness?
Did Kash move out all the furniture and fixtures to the new palace already?
So @SD, is there a silo for WE THE PEOPLE’s AI/social media and viewing content ?
This has been my experience with all levels of government. Almost everyone is concerned more about protecting their jobs and their agency than doing what’s best for the people who elected them or the citizens they are supposed to be working for. It is self preservation at work when you think about it. There is no future in actually solving problems because if you do, you may put yourself out of work. A perfect example would be NATO. NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union and contain it. Guess what, it succeeded and the Soviet Union is no more. So tell me, why does NATO still exist? It still exists because it creates nice cushy jobs for people. Who within NATO would want to end that. Answer, almost no one. So NATO carries on.
The difficult truth to understand for most people who want to reform the system is that it is operated mostly by people who just don’t care. They are not necessarily crooked or evil, they just don’t care. Certainly not enough to risk their careers or pensions. There are a lot of good and very nice people at all levels of government, but until you get rid of the current crew and start over with a very much smaller government with far fewer people it is likely that the system will never truly be fixed. The problem with government is not government, it’s the people who work in the government. It has to be gutted, good people or not.
It would be nice to offer everyone currently working for the federal government in a civilian position a nice juicy severance package. Something like this: everyone within 5 years of retirement is given a five year full pay lump sum payout and with lifetime pension fully guaranteed. Everyone else at all levels is laid off and given five years severance at full pay with a good recommendation for future employment. Truly essential employees would get the same deal but must continue working until their replacements are hired and trained up. Everyone except retirees will receive fully paid relocation expenses and the government will buy their current home at today’s market price if they find employment elsewhere. The deal on relocation and home purchase is good for five years after employment ends.
We need all new people in government. It will never happen, but one can always dream.
I’ve got to believe PT knows that many in DC are crooks who have committed numerous crimes against this country.
So now that the people have put him back in a position of authority it is up to him to push his team to investigate, expose and arrest these crooks for their crimes.
If he can’t get Ed, Pam, Kash, Dan, Tulsi and Ratcliffe to do their job of enforcing the rule of law and weeding out the bad apples in their agencies then PT needs to replace them. It’s that simple.
I know he is one man but unfortunately successfully draining the swamp includes investigations, exposing the truth and arresting the crooks. Lip service doesn’t do it.
PT needs people of action who don’t fear the DS otherwise nothing changes and his Presidency will be a failure even with his economic and border successes.
He has to know this.
Was there in fact anything classified in the Nunes Memo, or to put it another way, anything that actually needed to be classified? There is massive over-classification of almost everything all across the whole of the federal government, and most of it is to protect the operators on the inside from any outside scrutiny of their actions rather than to protect anything that gets even remotely close to a genuine national security concern. Nunes certainly knows this.
In the end, the memo was released without any redactions whatsoever, begging the question why Nunes let the inside operators appear to basically roll him for more than a year. He had to have known what was going to happen even before he wrote the memo. The only conclusion is that he was just another one of the players playing a scripted game on the inside while trying to make it look like he was on the outside attempting to do the right thing.
all true in the article. shorter version. we all are being played as suckers. in the past week we’ve seen spit gate (no arrest), comey (no arrest), tub of lard gate at the ice facility (no arrest of the congress woman creep), fill in the blank. live your best life.
Perhaps the one difference is that Trump has no motivation to follow the process. He’s a one-term President, already a billionaire, and at the sunset of his life. No time for patience–steamroll everything. Granted it’s like plucking weeds, in a few weeks they’ll all be back but for one brief moment, we can have a drained swamp.