Posted on 05/14/2025 8:11:54 PM PDT by bitt
My mind always goes to the biblical story of Abraham pleading with God to save Sodom in Genesis 18:23. He starts by pleading with God to find 50 and in the end guess what happens. Yes there are zero. That is my take on the FBI, CIA and DOJ and about 99% of the rest of the government.
A friend was a troubleshooter for the U.S. Army Air Force during WW-II. Army bureaucrats imagined that the training command (where bad decisions most often resulted in death and destruction), did not require high octane aviation fuel.
My friend observed the fate of a glider tow plane plus glider, that plunged to the ground just 200 ft from the end of the runway. All Army personnel perished.
Friend knew a guy at Pratt & Whitney (Connecticut), and flew to get that guy, thence to Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, where tests were run on aircraft pistons. (The guy from Pratt & Whitney was a lifelong friend of the wife of Charles Lindbergh.) The test results, were in a report about piston failures.
A note from friend, attached to that report, sent directly to General Hap Arnold, requesting clearance (plowing thru the bureaucracy) for ensuring that the training command would receive high octane fuel.
Letter from Gen. Arnold to friend: “Do it.” -signed, HAP.
I view this a bit differently—and btw most cabinet officers have been following the approach I am about to describe.
Think of it as a corporate acquisition with a large and (mostly) hostile workforce.
You know the corporation you have acquired is corrupt, inefficient and the existing employees will undermine you every chance they get.
How do you deal with it?
1. You bring in your own people—as many as you need—young bright hungry people (that is DOGE in this case).
2. Then you fire all leadership of the acquired entity and replace them with your people. (In the case of .gov you can keep “positions” vacant while your people do the real work.)
3. Then you identify the offices with the most hostile people and close those offices.
4. Then you begin your “investigations”.
Now we have criteria to evaluate Bondi and Kash.
Step 1: A little bit.
Step 2: A little bit.
Step 3: Nothing
That is what is called a “clue”.
You’re way ahead of me.
But: Pelosi is just the front girl for this. She really ain’t that smart. So who actually came up with this incitement? It’s agency people that worked it for her. That’s who they’re covering for.
I agree. But it is useless trying to stop them from bad mouthing them.
And there is no downside for them. They can gripe and complain, if they are wrong, we will never hear from most of them, so they rarely have to worry about being called out.
If they are right, we will never stop hearing from them...ever.
I like a lot of these people, so I can live with it. I have had discourse with many of them over the years, and generally enjoyed it. It is what they feel like they need to do, to blow off steam, or whatever.
I don’t think they are blowhards or anything like that. They are just frustrated as we all are.
So be it. I can live with it in that light.
To this point the Third Article war is holding up both #1 and #2.
The Third Article war is in effect here. The cases about whether Trump can do mass firings are winding their way up to the Supreme Court. What you describe is exactly what Trump and his people are trying to do. The black-robed tyrants are in the way right now.
Yes, I understand the frustration and I also am waiting not so patiently. It’s like these leaders are Aragorn and we can all hear Sauron whispering his foul temptations to him and are just watching with dread, expecting to see the power of the ring overtake him like it has overtaken all past leaders.
I’m just suggesting that maybe while we care so deeply and fear, we should also be praying as if it all depends on God, because it truly does. Moses needed Aaron and Hur to hold up his arms in order to defeat the Amalekites. He wasn’t able to hold his arms up all the time by himself, and whenever he lowered his arms the Amalekites started winning. This is primarily a war of good v evil, and the very forces of Hell are ramped up against these people who fight on our behalf. As Ed Martin said, it’s good for us to hold the feet to the fire, but I think even more than that we need to pray mightily for these people who are confronting Hell.
Other cabinet members do not make up excuses.
They act.
Do or don’t do.
Life is easy when you know the rules.
In the corporate world you find the folks who give the most impressive and excellent arguments for doing nothing.
Those are the ones you fire first!
What cabinet members are dealing with Third Article delays and still getting all these firings and cleanup done?
And what cabinet members have gotten all the investigation done and arrested the crooks within their own ranks by this time?
It feels to me like you’re blaming the D-Day fighters because they didn’t slice right through Europe like the “good” fighters in north Africa were able to. Different place, different conditions and challenges, different reasons. The people at the tip of the spear are taking flak that clears the way for others to be successful.
Cabinet members/agencies that have fired huge numbers of employees so far:
—HHS
—HUD
—DOD civilians
—IRS
—Department of Interior
—EPA
—Department of State
—Agriculture
—Education
—Energy
—Labor
—Transportation
You can do the research yourself.
These departments are shrinking big now—and fast.
Good for them. How many of them have lawsuits against them?
Arresting crooks is step 4.
You have to get the first three steps done first.
Motion is emotion.
It radically changes culture and gives you the momentum you need.
That is why you quickly fire the naysayers—even when they have valid points.
There are tons of lawsuits.
They didn’t care.
I don’t care.
They are changing the culture of their agencies—now.
Maybe some of the fired employees will end up winning in court and get a cash settlement—but at the end of the day they will be gone and the agency will be flushed.
When you move first and move fast you win.
Oh, but that’s a silly question. Even if those agencies had lawsuits against them, the agencies themselves wouldn’t handle the lawsuits. The DOJ and/or US Attorney in DC would. Cuz those are the people who handle all the lawfare issues on behalf of all the others. I wonder why the people having to deal with the lawfare are the ones getting less done in their own agencies. Hmmm....
Maybe the question I should have asked is how many of those agencies have legal injunctions against firing people?
I don’t see where Trump has any choice but to defang this pit of vipers. Otherwise they’ll be coming after him and his family for the rest of eternity.
You can go fast or you can go deep. We all know darn good and well that if Trump just ignored these injunctions the Collins, Murkowski, and McConnell wing would impeach Trump again just as the lawfare against him in the courts winds down to the point where he can actually be our President. In a total of 8 years of elected service, Donald Trump would actually get to serve as President ZERO years.
At this point I don’t care if you call it all “excuses”. I think there are more constructive things for us to do than the circular firing squad.
With that, I gotta get to work.
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