January 28, 2025

Monastery of the Holy Order of Metora, Greece
James Bond climbed up to the monastery in
For Your Eyes Only
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"So tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump's second term that people have barely noticed, a week on, that last Tuesday he repealed affirmative action by executive order. That is astonishing. For half a century, affirmative action has been the federal government's principal instrument for carrying out desegregation, the longest and costliest moral crusade in American history. After the 1970s it was adapted to liberation movements, from feminism to gay rights. Supreme Court justices anguished over the way its call for special consideration of minorities might clash with the letter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred racial discrimination. Over the past decade affirmative action became the hammer of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement, which grew so unpopular that it has now brought affirmative action (and much else) down with it. Trump's decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this century--more significant than the Affordable Care Act of 2010 or anything done about Covid. How can people be talking about anything else? Yet major news outlets treat Trump's bold move as a detail of personnel management: "Distress and Fury as Trump Upends Federal Jobs," headlined The New York Times. Somewhere along the line, the Trump administration came to understand in a sophisticated way how the enforcement of civil rights actually works. Not many Americans do--and it's worth reviewing."
orgeSamantha Power used USAID to aid to terrorists:
@BehizyTweets BREAKING: President Trump just fired a bunch of USAID employees for conspiring to secretly send further foreign aid without approval. This administration is NOT playing games. "We've identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people. As a result, we have decided to put a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions." - Acting USAID administrator Jason Gray
David Wurmser
@Wurmserscribit Under Samantha Power -- an Obama ally -- USAID became a vanguard to leverage humanitarian law & aid to sabotage allies at war. "Humanitarian" demands on the Saudis, eg let the Houthis seize Hodeida -- the port from which the Red Sea subsequently was blockaded.
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The New York Times is preparing to publish a deep state hit piece on President Donald Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The piece is purportedly based on National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance of a pair of anonymous terrorists. Two people familiar with the matter told The Federalist the Times will accuse Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, of meeting with then-Lebanese Hezbollah Supreme Leader Hassan Nasrallah on a Middle East trip in 2017. The paper of "all the news that's fit to print" is expected to run the deep state smear against Gabbard as early as Tuesday afternoon, two days before a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Bernard Hudson, who was director of counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2016 and 2017, called the story by the Times, "one of the most bizarre allegations against a serving member of the U.S. military I have ever heard." "It strains credulity at every level," Hudson told The Federalist. "This is the kind of cheap skullduggery for which the Deep State has become infamous with the American people," said Dave Reaboi, a national security expert and fellow at the Claremont Institute. "We entrust these people with tremendous power to operate in the shadows and keep secrets from us, imagining that they are professionals dedicated to safeguarding our national security. Instead, many of the IC's senior leadership have undermined the faith we placed in them, using the capabilities their profession affords them to make war on their domestic political opponents." "I'd like to see the media and Senate Democrats go after Hezbollah with half as much venom as they've been directing toward Tulsi Gabbard," Reaboi added. "This scrap of intelligence -- hearsay from two terrorists -- wasn't taken seriously by anyone for a decade."Tulsi is a member of the US Armed Forces. But she, like Trump, has been a Secret Agent of Foreign Governments for years without anyone realizing it. Meanwhile, Caroline Kennedy has a surprise revelation: It turns out that male members of the Kennedy clan are cads who will stick it in anything that stops moving for a moment. She is now calling RFKJr. a "predators." She has known him all of her life. She could have revealed that he is a "predator" at any point. But, much like her fellow traveler Chrissy Blasey-Ford, the knowledge that her cousin is a sexual predator, while imprinted on her hippoocampus for decades, only migrated to her cerebellum in time for the Senate hearings for a Republican nominee.
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Before the new quote that will doom the already-doomed $350 million+ movie that's tracking on the same level as the bomb The Eternals, I'll just say that this isn't Anthony Mackie's invention. Marvel Comics is a leftwing asylum for untalented transgenders and fake lesbians (white women who get jobs by claiming to be LGBT, even if they're married to dudes), and they hate America and have long used Captain America to attack America. He's Captain Anti-America, and has been for decades.
Like the time where he unmasked the head of the terrorist organization The Serpent Society and it turned out to be... then-President Richard Nixon. Anthony Mackie played Captain America's partner, the Falcon. But Marvel decided that for some reason the world needed a black Captain America, so they gave the Falcon the White Man's hand-me-down mantle. This failed in the comics, and it's about to fail spectacularly at the box office. And it will not help that Anthony Mackie is promoting the film -- or anti-promoting it, actually -- by saying that Captain America is too good a character to represent evil America.Posted by: Ace at 04:13 PM | Comments (454) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Actually, Fauci wasn't "wrong" about covid being created in a lab, dullard. He knew it was created at the Wuhan lab because he illegally funded the Wuhan lab to weaponize bat viruses. He lied.
Baby steps, baby steps.Throughout Chris Cillizza's long career as a "journalist" and "political commentator," he has shown himself repeatedly to be a dutiful propagandist for the left, never daring to get even close to an independent thought, and instead faithfully reflecting whatever the political and media elites wanted him to think. And that is still largely the case, but these are unusual times, and even Cillizza has demonstrated a shocking level of independence for a leftist journo, even daring to say that Donald Trump, the veritable focus of evil in the modern world, may have been right about something. Et tu, Cillizza? Yes: for the left, it has come even to this. ... Cillizza noted a recent assessment from the CIA -- and they wouldn't lie to us, now, would they? "Here's a CIA spokesperson: 'CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting.'" Since this so sharply differs from what the CIA and the entire political and media establishment was telling us at the time, it is worth crediting, even though it does come from the CIA. And Cillizza was man enough to recognize its implications for his previous "reporting." Cillizza followed up the CIA assessment with this: "Which, if you're keeping track, is what Donald Trump and lots of prominent conservatives -- most notably Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton -- have been saying for a very long time now. And, candidly, they have taken a lot of s**t for it. Including from me." He even added: "My belief back then was that if this was a debate between Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci on the origins of a pandemic-level virus, I was going to go with the guy who spent his entire career studying this stuff, not the reality TV-star-turned-president." And: "Except, it now appears that the reality TV-star-turned-president was right. And Anthony Fauci was wrong."These are deeply stupid, ignorant, lazy, and most of all narcissistic people. They are the physical embodiment of Dunning-Krueger. They do not know what they do not know. They don't even suspect what they do not know. They are all stupid people who have, for good reason, a deep-seated intellectual insecurity, and they all parrot Democrat Talking Points -- and empty mottos like "I believe in The Science (TM)" -- because other stupid people have told them that repeating these cult creeds make them smart, and they desperately want to be accepted as smart and special.
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I sure hope Pete Bootyjudge left him a letter explaining all that he knows about transportation and months long undisclosed vacations in Porto, Portugal.
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I sure hope Pete Bootyjudge left him a letter explaining all that he knows about transportation and months long undisclosed vacations in Porto, Portugal.
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Ridiculous puffed-up Cluster B narcissist.
I mean "puffed up" literally. His face and jaw are so stuffed with fat it looks like he's pregnant. His Spanx For Men (TM) are holding on for dear Lycra. Same energy as a foot-stomping 12-year-old girl who's angry that her parents won't let her paint her bedroom jet black so she threatens to run off to Europe where they appreciate sensitive young girls and Bauhaus. What an absurd fat little swishy toad. And a Major Loser.
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This weekend, a radio station owned by the George Soros-controlled Audacy outrageously identified the vehicle whereabouts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in San Jose, California, which is known for violent gang activity.This is so far beyond civilized behavior that the response should be overwhelming and definitive. Audacy should be fined by the FCC, the radio station should lose its broadcast license, and if these responsible can be identified, they should be held accountable in the public square. Does anyone believe that the station acted in the public interest? Does anyone believe that those responsible for outing undercover agents of the federal government were not perfectly aware of the real possibility that they would be injured or killed? The difference between individuals shouting the presence of "Immigra" from the rooftops of whatever slum they were working, and a federally licensed radio station using the publicly owned airwaves to subvert legal activities of the government is obvious. At the very least, every rational American on the right side of the political spectrum to sever their relationship with Audacy. Boycott them until they fail. Boycott every radio station they own until they fail. Write letters to their advertisers! Contact every congressman on the committees tasked with overseeing the FCC.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
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“I think what he’s done with the military in addition to the legal aspects that may be involved has a lot to do with a publicity stunt. The point is cruelty. the point is instilling fear.”I believe the word you're looking for, genius is "deterrence." And as we know, or at least most of us were taught, if you do something wrong, you are going to get punished. From a spanking, to being grounded all the way up to the electric chair. At least, that's how it used to work until Leftists thought one way to achieve utopia meant decriminalization of crime - that and making any opposition to their quest for absolute power a crime against humanity. 100 million martyred souls in just over 100 years (and counting!) is proof positive of that observation.
New York City, Chicago and Boston are among the sanctuary cities collapsing after waves of migrants stormed across the open borders. Even cities that once boasted of providing sanctuary to illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement are now running away from the name. Sanctuary cities were always intended to be destructive. They were not, as many Democrats now wrongly claim, about providing safe harbor to refugees, but about bringing down America. The sanctuary cities did not emerge in response to the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide or any actual genocide, but to provide support and sanctuary for Marxists fleeing the civil wars they had started in Latin America, and then later for Islamic terrorists after September 11. Sanctuary cities were not about helping refugees, but about harboring America’s enemies. . . . . . The larger agenda had less to do with refugees and more to do with aiding Marxist revolutions. . .Et Voila, somehow Bernie Sanders becomes a US Senator and more amazingly (to me anyway) John Brennan not only becomes a CIA agent but rises to ultimately become head of the corporation itself! Invasion USA (1952) and Red Dawn (1985) have got nothing on this madness, my friends. And speaking of invasion USA . . .
. . . The sanctuary movement was smuggling migrants and then publicly announcing it to undermine the Reagan administration’s foreign policy and challenge American opposition to Communism.
US Border Patrol agents and suspected Mexican cartel members traded gunfire near the southern border Monday as a group of migrants tried to enter the US illegally, according to a report. The shooting took place around 1:30 p.m. near Fronton, Texas, but no injuries were reported, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement without revealing more details. A group of migrants were trying to cross the Rio Grande when shots first rang out, according to Fox News. Border patrol agents then returned fire at suspected cartel members, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted earlier Monday, citing law enforcement sources. The scene where the shooting took place remains active with the Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility, DHS Office of Inspector General, the FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety all involved in the probe, Customs and Border Protection said Monday night. The shooting comes as President Trump makes cracking down on illegal immigration and fortifying the southern border an early hallmark of his second term in the Oval Office. US officials said last week the Pentagon would start shipping up to 1,500 active duty troops to the Mexican border to join about 2,200 US National Guard and Reserve personnel already in place. Trump was also considering sending up to 10,000 troops to the border as part of the country’s effort to seal the borders, the Washington Post reported last week.Putting aside however many tens of thousands of the more than 40 million illegal aliens already in country are dangerous violent criminals and/or terrorists, the fact is that Mexico or at least large swathes of its territory are controlled by narco-terrorists and that in and of itself presents a grave national security threat that President Trump's response vis a vis sending our military to the border is wholly appropriate and in keeping with his oath of office. Regardless of whether or not you're merely an illiterate peasant coming here to pick lettuce or a drug or human trafficker coming here to rape, murder and pillage, if mass deportations, the deploying of our military to the border and if need be the use of deadly force to stop this makes even one foreigner from even daring to dip a toe into the Rio Grande, then Ana Navarro, you have proven the point! For me, the glycerine crocodile tears of Selena Gomez are akin to the nectar of the Gods. Cry me a river! - The Rio Grande with a flotilla of PBR boats with twin Ma Deuces blazing away fore and aft until the barrels glow red hot.
Film and TV star Selena Gomez deleted a video of herself crying over the mass deportation of accused child rapists, human and drug traffickers, gang members, and other violent criminals after receiving public backlash. “Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people,” the Emilia Pérez star said.
. . . “Shame on you, Selena Gomez, for fake crying over illegal aliens being deported back to their homeland. I’ve never seen you cry over the missing and exploited women and children that get trafficked through the Southern border,” another social media user declared. “If Selena Gomez is crying just imagine how Laken Riley’s mom feels,” another commented. “Did Selena Gomez cry like this when Laken Riley was brutally murdered?” another asked.
On another front, which is getting little coverage because of the border, Donald Trump has proposed some intriguing solutions that can address not only our insane national debt but the metastasis of an ever intrusive and oppressive bureaucracy that threatens our prosperity and liberty that are of course linked.
President Trump has once again demonstrated his unwavering commitment to making America great again by proposing a return to the economic policies that once made the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world, namely ending the federal income tax. In a speech Monday evening, Trump outlined his vision for reviving America's economic golden age through a strategic use of tariffs, a policy that has historically proven to be immensely beneficial for the country. Trump began by emphasizing the potential for rapid economic growth, stating, "America is going to be very rich again and it's going to happen very quickly." He then delved into the historical context, highlighting the period from 1870 to 1913 as "the richest period in the history of the United States." During this era, the United States relied heavily on tariffs, which Trump noted was a key factor in the nation's prosperity. One of the most compelling points Trump made was the establishment of the Great Tariff Commission of 1887. This commission was tasked with a unique and enviable problem: deciding what to do with the enormous sums of money generated by tariffs. Trump explained, "And this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so enormous that they had no idea—it was a blue ribbon committee set up in 1887—and what to do with all of the money that we had." This historical context underscores the immense wealth that tariffs brought to the United States.It raises questions that we here have debated and discussed for a long time. Namely, what is supposed to be the purpose of the federal government and what are we willing to cede to it in the name of our safety and security, personal and national? It is one thing, and indeed a very good thing to pay down the national debt that will one day destroy us. That is if erased borders and naked tyranny in and out of government doesn't turn the next generation into brainwashed zombies as it did perhaps much of the last two or three.
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- Daniel Greenfield: The real origins of our open borders nightmare. . . Sanctuary cities were always intended to be destructive. They were not, as many Democrats now wrongly claim, about providing safe harbor to refugees, but about bringing down America.
Sanctuary Cities Were Always Anti-American
- Trump began by emphasizing the potential for rapid economic growth, stating, "America is going to be very rich again and it's going to happen very quickly." He then delved into the historical context, highlighting the period from 1870 to 1913 as "the richest period in the history of the United States." During this era, the United States relied heavily on tariffs, which Trump noted was a key factor in the nation's prosperity. One of the most compelling points Trump made was the establishment of the Great Tariff Commission of 1887. This commission was tasked with a unique and enviable problem: deciding what to do with the enormous sums of money generated by tariffs. Trump explained, "And this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so enormous that they had no idea—it was a blue ribbon committee set up in 1887—and what to do with all of the money that we had." This historical context underscores the immense wealth that tariffs brought to the United States.
He Did It: Trump Calls for Ending the Federal Income Tax!
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- You can't predict how AI will behave. (Scientific American)
You can't predict how people will behave either, except in general terms. Toddlers are going to do toddler things. Malignant dirtbags are going to do malignant dirtbag things.
AIs are going to do AI things. Stop acting surprised.
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Shy, sad, and scared dogs don't get adopted from the shelters because people are worried they're unfriendly but they're really just abused and shut down and will open up when shown love. Depressed dog gets so happy. Lovely "mephitic" beasts spread joy to humans. In this house, we believe dogs should be pet. Horse enjoys his big teddy bear. Out of control! Baby cow. Dog vengeance ride. This cat's a straight savage for corn. Dogs parent the foster puppies.
will you play with me? Baby donkey running about. Doggie double dutch. Polyamorous polycule. Playing with kitty.
Don't laugh at that dog, you dumb donkey. Steve Inman: This is my house.
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And Then He Folds
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Did the leftwing media and their dead-ender viewers praise the evil socialist tyrant of Colombia for standing up to Trump and demanding that Colombia's pedophiles, rapists, and murderers be permitted to continue committing crimes in America!
The Walls Were Closing In On Trump, again! Seemed like old times were back! But then Trump announced punished and ever-escalating tariffs and other penalties for Colombia. Now the Colombian president is sending his own plane to pick up his citizens. Trump has saved us the cost of jet fuel for the flights! Huzzah!Colombian President Gustavo Petro swiftly backtracked on his refusal to accept deportation flights from the United States after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs and other measures. The White House confirmed on Sunday that Colombia's president had caved "to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay," "Based on this agreement, the fully ed IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement," the statement said. "The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned." "Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again," the statement added. "President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States." Earlier in the day Sunday, Gustavo appeared to fold almost immediately after Trump threatened to punish the country for refusing deportation flights. Gustavo offered his presidential plane to repatriate migrants coming back from the U.S. Trump told Fox News Petro did a total about-face after his tariff threat. In a statement translated from Spanish, the Colombian government said the plane will help facilitate a "dignified return." "The Government of Colombia, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro, has arranged the presidential plane to facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who were going to arrive in the country today in the morning, coming from deportation flights," the translated statement read.Harry Sisson, the sissfluencer born with a silver dick in his mouth, was so excited!
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James Comer has posed a question: Unless Biden can prove he is mentally fit, and that he actually took part in the decision-making here, are these pardons legally binding?
So Biden pardoned a child-murdering drug dealer. So much Social Justice. The ACLU demanded this pardon, and the Braindead Husk said "Okay" in exchange for some Parkinson's-soothing ice cream.Joe Biden left the White House a week ago, but the scandal surrounding his mental health is only deepening. On his way out the door, the former president signed a series of pardons at the ACLU's request. Billed as applying to "non-violent drug offenders" (which is an insanely broad generalization), they ended up including a drug lord who murdered an eight-year-old boy and his mother to stop them from testifying. Adrian Peeler is now set to be released in July.Even pro-terrorist, pro-criminal propaganda outlet AP understands that this is bad.
Relatives of an 8-year-old boy and his mother who were murdered by a Connecticut drug gang are outraged that a man convicted in the killings was one of nearly 2,500 people whose drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office. Adrian Peeler served a 20-year state prison sentence for murder conspiracy in the 1999 shootings of Leroy "B.J." Brown and his mother, Karen Clarke, in Bridgeport -- killings that shocked the city and led to improvements in state witness protection. Prosecutors said Brown and his mother were assassinated to prevent the child from testifying in another murder case. In December 2021, Peeler finished his state sentence but began serving a 15-year term in federal prison for dealing large amounts of crack cocaine. The federal sentence would have kept him behind bars until 2033. He is now set to be released in July.Great. The media jumped to cover the pardons. I mean Trump's pardons, obviously.
Flagship newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC spent over 46 minutes covering President Donald Trump pardoning Jan. 6 defendants but barely found time to mention former President Joe Biden issuing preemptive pardons for his family, according to a new study. During the final hours of his administration last week, Biden issued preemptive pardons for relatives James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden. That same day, Trump signed off on pardoning more than 1,500 charged with crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, shortly after retaking office. The Media Research Center analyzed flagship morning and evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC from Inauguration Day on January 20 through the morning of Jan. 22 to determine how the pardons were covered. While the pair of orders occurred on the same day, coverage was not exactly balanced. Flagship newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC spent over 46 minutes obsessing about President Trump pardoning Jan. 6 defendants but barely found time to mention former President Biden issuing preemptive pardons for his family, according to a study from the media Research Center. The Media Research Center analyzed flagship morning and evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC from Inauguration Day on January 20 through the morning of Jan. 22 to determine how the pardons were covered. The conservative media watchdog found that ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 46 minutes and 32 seconds on the Trump pardons, compared to only three minutes and 32 seconds on Biden's preemptive pardons. ABC's "Good Morning America" and "World News Tonight" spent 15 minutes and 30 seconds on the Trump pardons compared to a brief 34 seconds on Biden. "CBS Mornings" and "CBS Evening News" devoted 16 minutes and 32 seconds to Trump's pardons compared to only 64 seconds on pardons handed out by Biden, while NBC's "Today" and "Nightly News" spent 14 minutes and 30 seconds on Trump and less than two minutes on Biden.
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New DC US Attorney Opens Investigation Into DOJ's Overcharging of J6ers
A statement was issued stating that Trump cannot trust the DOJ prosecutors who used lawfare against him to implement his agenda "faithfully."
Indeed, we're seeing malicious compliance in the military. You can bet that Merrick Garland's/Norm Eisen's Special Lawfare Operators will likewise subvert Trump's orders.Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2 Some DOJ hacks are self deporting. A few days after being reassigned to a newly-created immigration enforcement unit, Corey Amundson--who as head of DOJ public integrity unit fought against an FBI probe into GA election fraud in 2020--quits. CNN reporting that acting AG James McHenry has fired at least a dozen DOJ employees involved in the criminal prosecutions of President Trump. I am trying to get the names but as far as I know--David Harbach, JP Cooney, James Pearce, Thomas Windom, and Molly Gaston did not resign. (Jay Bratt retired earlier this month) And I don't know if this includes FBI officials as well.
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2 SCOOP: New DC US Attorney Ed Martin has opened an inquiry into the DOJ's unlawful use of 1512c2, the post-Enron obstruction statute filed against 300+ J6ers. Martin called the use of 1512c2 a "great failure" of the office and directed staff to immediately deliver "all files, documents, notes, emails and other information" related to 1512c2 charging decisions to two other prosecutors, who will prepare a preliminary report for Martin by this Friday.
Martin further indicated his team will reach out to prosecutors who left the office but nonetheless were involved in the unlawful prosecution of J6ers under 1512c2. The Supreme Court determined in Fischer v US that the DOJ had misapplied the felony statute, which requires proof of documents/evidence destruction. After the June 2024 ruling, defendants--some of whom had already served years-long prison sentences--filed motions to vacate convictions, drop existing indictments. The DC circuit slowly overturned those cases but DC US Attorney Matt Graves tried to work around Fischer by bringing an alternative charge that was equally as dubious. Further, despite the fact the 1512c2 conviction animated long prison sentences, Graves tried to keep 1512c2 defendants in jail for the same amount of time EVEN AFTER THE CONVICTION WAS DROPPED by asking for new sentencing enhancements. Of course DC judges were only too happy to comply. The unlawful application of 1512c2 represents the dark heart of the abusive, reckless prosecution of J6ers. Every prosecutor signed their name to court documents related to 1512c2 and every DC judge except two--Carl Nichols and Greg Katsas--endorsed the statute's unlawful use. They all must be held accountable.
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"Malicious compliance" is a noted pathology in the workplace and in the military (where I think the term originated). The term describes the tactic used by insubordinate or just malevolent underlings who deliberately pervert the plain meaning of an order either because they don't like the order or just want to harm the organization that pays them, but don't want to risk open insubordination. They give the order a twisted "interpretation" in order to make the organization look bad and to create a backlash against the order and the person giving the order.
A "former intel officer" posted advice in how to engage in illegal insubordination against the duly-elected chief executive, instructing military personnel to violate the Commander-in-Chief's orders while "leaving no trace." She calls malicious compliance "strategic interpretation." All of these tactics are just cause for firing.

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