Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, March 19, 2018

Kill One, Educate Ten Thousand

I wonder if the real reason that Trump had McCabe fired in such a public and humiliating fashion was to send a message to other senior career federal employees: Toe the Trumpian line or lose everything you've worked for.

Trump clearly has had designs to turn the Department of Justice into his private legal team and to turn the FBI into his strong-arm force. Beyond that, with his personal attacks on McCabe and Mueller, he's behaving more like a New York mob boss who knows that he's guilty as sin, so his only recourse is to get the people trying to prosecute him.

If Trump were as innocent as he proclaims to be, about all you'd hear from him would be, well, nothing. Maybe a few initial comments about "full cooperation" and such, for that's what the innocent do.

Doctors used to do initial examinations by touching suspected areas: "Does it hurt when I press here?" If the patient winced, then that was something that needed to be looked into.

Mueller's been probing Trump and Trump has been squealing like a stuck pig. That should indicate, to a casual observer, that Trump is hiding something. Something that might cost him the presidency. Something that, more likely, will end with indictments of his family members and associates.

Meanwhile, this:
Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a stern warning Sunday to President Donald Trump against firing special counsel Robert Mueller.

"As I said before, if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency," the South Carolina Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."
I'll bet that Trump believes none of it. When has Lindsey Graham actually done anything? He is the Cowardly Lion of the Senate: All roar and no tooth.

And then there is this: Jared Kushner's company filed false documents so they could push out long-standing tenants. What they did was lie about what tenants were in their buildings, so that they could make life miserable for them and encourage them to leave. It's a well-known tactic of scumbag landlords like Kushner and, yes, his father-in-law.

Kushner's probably going to end up like his father: A multi-year "guest" of the Bureau of Prisons.

3 comments:

w3ski said...

I haven't exactly made a list, but there seem to be quite a few instances of Jared screwing up necessary paperwork, with omissions and falsehoods and the like.
I understand that we live under 'the Cheetolini' now, but is the Justice Department only there to Investigate and Prosecute Democrats?
Is all that legalese at the bottoms of official forms just spam?
just a wondering
w3ski

3383 said...

My reading is that you may file, and then 'correct' the form within a certain amount of time.

So this might be at least quasi-legal fuckery.

Does this rule carry a penalty for violation?

CenterPuke88 said...

Well, the old SF-86 is now e-QIP. Punishment for omissions is up to 5 years per. There is an ability to update, however, generally that is in the context of simple omissions realized during the investigation or interview. That being said, the nature and amount of the “updates” is a factor considered in a Security Background Check. A massive failure like Jared’s makes it extremely unlikely that applicant would be approved for anything other than a Confidential or Secret clearance, at least until a LOT more investigation was done. “Forgetting” to report millions in wealth and hundreds of reportable connections is literally unheard of.