"When the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has 'weaponized' the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully," says a senior FBI official.
Well, I'm glad the FBI caught up with the rest of us. I've got a neighbor with a rotating array of hand-lettered (not proficiently hand lettered mind you) signs about Biden, democrats, how dumb you must be if you voted for them, this is a "small town", (referencing the recent song controversy), blasted a lot of Kid Rock after bud light printed that one can. One time his sign started with "next time 4 guns" - I could never read the rest of it because it was so poorly lettered. I haven't seen that one come up again so far.
Got a lot of friends that come and go, mostly in loud pickup trucks.
I know I'm going to look out the window one day and see the FBI at his house. I'm quite sure he'd have been there on Jan 6 if only he didn't have to work that day lol.
People need to stop acting like the FBI are better than any other cops or acting "surprised" that it took them this long to take this seriously. This is par for the course with the FBI.
They're doing this begrudgingly. They didn't want to stop January 6th, because you've got a lot of Trump sympathizers in the Bureau, but after the fact, they needed to "prove" themselves since they obviously fucked up massively by ignoring a coup attempt that was so brazen, so not hidden, so out in the open that motherfuckers printed up t-shirts for the event.
Stop acting like this is anything but covering up for a right wing organization with a history of abusing left wing movements while letting right wing movements thrive. This is the same FBI that wrote letters to MLK Jr telling him he should commit suicide. This is the same FBI that railroaded Bruce Ivins over Anthrax in the Bush years (literally Robert Mueller) only for it later to be proven that it was impossible for Ivins to have produced Anthrax that pure. This is the same FBI that has made it a mission since the Bush years to find troubled, mentally-ill US citizens, put guns or bombs in their hands and push them to commit violence, only to swoop in at the last second, stop the violence, and then claim "We're stopping terrorism!" It's such a commonly known thing they do, comedy movies have been made about the subject.
https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/fbi-honeypot-ensnares-michigan-man/
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-terror-sting-pizza-man/index.html
In other words, the FBI is responsible for creating homegrown terrorists as a business model for funding for the last 20 years. Do we really believe that they're so concerned about the MAGA threat after they completely ignored it during the Trump years?
This is PR bullshit. This is to cover for the fact that at the end of the day, the FBI are cops and what do we say about cops, kids?
All Cops Are Bastards.
I think it's a mistake to view the modern FBI as a coherent will. Under the abuses of Hoover, sure, but today's FBI was more than willing to investigate the Trump campaign (silently, as it should be) while the NY field office openly interfered with Hillary Clinton's campaign.
I can't speak for US, but here in Melbourne Australia, our cops are legends, so I definitely wouldn't say all.
But even in US, I'm sure there are a lot of good cops too
I'm sure there are a lot of good cops too
The problem in the US is that they don't do nearly enough to stop bad cops or make them face punishment.
If you're a so called "good" cop but you can't stop your compatriots from organizing internal gangs and breaking the law with impunity and hiding behind the benefits of the badge (qualified immunity, civil forfeiture, etc), you have become a bad cop.
They always claim it's "a couple of bad apples" while ignoring the whole phrase is "a couple of bad apples spoil the bunch."
You don't get to claim being a good cop if you work with bad cops and aren't doing everything you can to get them punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Yes, that's even if it's because you knew there would be violent retaliation up to and including being murdered by your fellow cops (that has happened recently in California). You can either walk away with the evidence you have and give it to the public, or you can sit on it for your own safety.
I mean seriously, if there's cops willing to fuck up your life because you're a good cop, the entire system is already off the fucking rails, my man.
Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
As they should.
They finally caught up with the rest of America.
Remember when CPAC proudly proclaimed "We are all domestic terrorists" ? They weren't lying.
That's what I used for the thumbnail.
can someone put a MAGA hat on me while walking, take a picture, report me, and in 5mins to get arrested?
or if I listen to loud music and angry neighbor report me as MAGA terrorist?
the idea that reasonable people need to tread carefully around the minefields laid by idiot assholes who do nothing but make threats is the reason for this whole mess… stop fucking treading carefully you cowards and stomp the shit out of whoever wants some… you fucking pussies with badges… you all win the McClellan Award for Circumspection… you're all devoted champions of the CYA Doctrine of Law Enforcement…
"Potential," yeah right. They're would-be killers, waiting for the chance to kill.
What is a MAGA follower? Anyone that doesn't vote for Biden?
What is a douchebag? Anyone that asks questions in bad faith?
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It's not bad faith. FBI says MAGAs are terror threats, Hillary says MAGAs should be 'reprogrammed' . Am I a MAGA because I think Biden is a disaster and our country is significantly worse off since he came into office? I sure as he'll won't be voting for him.
No, you're just another low-information voter, believing any of that.
Ah yes, MAGA, the slogan that originated with Biden. No wonder you have questions.
Am I a MAGA
After a quick peek at your post history - not sure but probably. I didn't scroll far enough to be sure.
What is a MAGA follower?
A person who strongly supports many of the activities & goals of the far-right in the US, AND who are ok with the use of violence & gross abuses of power to achieve those goals.
Anyone that doesn't vote for Biden?
No.
Explicitly, most conservatives are not MAGA followers. Hell, many Trump voters aren't either.
You can't please everyone in a democratic system, there will always be actual problems, and reform is painfully slow, so it is natural that some get impatient, but jettisoning the whole concept is extraordinarily dangerous.
