No Country for Law Men: The GOP Votes to Defund the FBI
No Country for Law Men: The GOP Votes to Defund the FBI
It is a supreme irony that with urban Democratic leaders easing ill-advised restrictions on police, Republicans in Congress have managed the only successful federal attempt to defund the police.
GOP politicians: “I love cops, just not when they investigate my guy’s crimes”
Hey FBI remember when that russian plant cheated his way into the office of predisent and you fucking did sweet fuckall for years about it? Member that?
And then, hey, and then remember when he staged a really fucked up coup to try and steal the election in front of god and everybody and y'all sat there with your thumb up your asses instead of arresting him and tearing the right-wing white-supremacy network apart to its foundations? Member?
yeah. Yup.
You could argue that former director Comey actually helped them out a lot by announcing news about Clinton's ongoing investigation during the election, rather than did fuck all.
At least he grew a spine once Trump was actually in office.
I'm not sure they member
Shiiiiiit, I member.
Almost like the racio-fascists are imbedded deep in intel world
Lmao okay so the FBI is great when you want to investigate hunter biden
Then when you don't get what you want you defund them hahahaha
The Party of Law and Order, I've heard that somewhere before. The party that is tough on crime, is another false appellation. smh
We need democrats or at least Super PACs to start commercials the fact that they are soft on crime. They want to defund the police.
Remember that nuance is not a characteristic of the right.
The Democrats need to get a whole hell of a lot tougher on messaging. Biden needs to stand in front of crowds and cameras and call Trump exactly what he is: a traitor, a criminal and a dangerous Russian asset. Fuck statesmanship at this point. Trump should have never, ever been able to get this close to the presidency again, yet here we are.
It's not enough to just be quietly polite when your opponent wants to destroy the rule of law and order. I'm so entirely sick of watching as the Democrats blow opportunity after opportunity to win big.
The bases for the two parties are very very different.
It's why Republicans can, with little consequence, call Democrats pedophiles, crooks, etc.
Democrats have a big tent, with a lot of moderates in the base. Moderates, for the most part, see democrats as the paragons of virtue, people who should stand tall while their opponents throw shit at their face and call it confetti.
Moderates won't vote for Democrats if they feel like they can't be polite. They won't vote for Republicans but simply keeping them out of the ballot box is enough for Republicans to win.
The only good way to deal with this is as a SuperPAC. Running attack ads and forcing Republicans to play defense. But remember that conservatives have significant backing from rich assholes and they have their own SuperPACs.
While I agree with your assessment, I don't think it'll have much of an impact on turn out. Everyone who's paying attention has likely already made up their mind.
What I think we need now is more peer to peer grassroots messaging. Get those who aren't paying enough attention informed and motivated, while not wasting time on trying to -change- minds.
I think the DNC is going to have a lot of room to play around this election, given the massive amounts of campaign funding their opponents have burnt up on Donald Trump.
The only people to attempt to defund the police are the Republicans
In their eyes, FBI isn't the police because the FBI investigate their donors.
Hey I hate fascist republicans as much as the next guy but….. based?
Like fuck the FBI, absolutely defund that shit, the FBI spends 99% of its time obsessed with monitoring leftwing activists and after totally being caught off guard on January 6th I think they have basically forfeited any claim to actually protecting the security of the United States. They missed a publicly announced attempted overthrow of the US government that almost resulted in multiple serving US politicians being killed or hurt, they MISSED THAT.
This story is interesting as criticism of GOP, not support for FBI.
Have whatever opinion of FBI you want: when the people who have made the Thin Blue Line a core piece of their personality suddenly find some police that they'd like to do away with a whole band of high-profile police, then it reveals that the thin blue line shit was just code for something else.
Have whatever opinion of FBI you want: when the people who have made the Thin Blue Line a core piece of their personality suddenly find some police that they’d like to do away with a whole band of high-profile police, then it reveals that the thin blue line shit was just code for something else.
Then let’s take advantage of the fact that in this narrow case republicans are accidentally right and defund the FBI.
I am getting really tired of Centrists/Democrats taking Republican positions to point out that Republicans are hypocritical, because it ends up with Centrists and Democrats taking and parroting Republican positions.
The vast majority of convicted violent insurgents and anti-government communes in the USA are not "leftwing". If they were defunding the CIA then I could be on board, but the FBI are the organization that investigate paramilitants and police departments in the USA.
Exactly. You want people to vote for you?! This is how you get people to vote for you.
Biden is a super tough pig supporter. Kamala even more so putting tons of people behind bars for barely any reason. They try to talk a good game but in the end support police and crime units more so than the republicans.
So if you're going to defund the FBI, CIA, NSA, and various police departments... I'm all for it.
ACAB
"We need to defund the FBI to get back at them for trying to stop Russia from interfering in our elections," said members of the Party of Reagan.
FBI goes after white collar rich person crimes. That is no Bueno.
Bizzaro world.
^this, also i’m calling it now, next they’re gonna try to privatize them
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republicans criticized the Bureau for investigating the more than 100 contacts ultimately found insufficiently collusive between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia during that country's interference with our presidential election.
If Trump were a man with a spotless record of respect for the law, Republicans might be right to call into question the FBI actions against one so highly placed.
But no serious observer would call Trump above reproach in the face of the unprecedented catalogue of credible claims against him, including his questionable connections to Russia and the non-criminal court conclusions that he has engaged in fraud, rape, and insurrection.
In 1973, with the J. Edgar Hoover era over at the FBI, Attorney General Elliot Richardson refused to follow President Nixon's order to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, and so did his deputy.
It had been an article of faith in Washington until the Trump Era that the Justice Department, including the FBI should not be tampered with by the White House or Congress.
Thomas G. Moukawsher is a former Connecticut complex litigation judge and a former co-chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Employee Benefits.
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But... without Mulder and Scully, who's going to stop weirdos from coming through our air ducts and getting us, huh???
I thought that if you didn’t like what cops did you were supposed to fund them more?
no, no, that's the DNC.
Oh, good! Now can someone tell them that ICE is a liberal conspiracy?