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Panic in DC
X ^ | Tony Seruga

Posted on 02/16/2025 9:02:25 AM PST by FLT-bird

There is absolute panic in DC. Thousands are going to prison and all the taxpayer money they stole will be clawed back.

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" and "RICO Laws" went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode.

The searches coincided with DOGE's efforts to neuter USAID's funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.


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Great comment by Mark Mitchell of Rassmussen

https://x.com/Mark_R_Mitchell/status/1891001481815310491?ref_url=

1 posted on 02/16/2025 9:02:25 AM PST by FLT-bird
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I sincerely doubt that thousands of people are going to prison. I’m not holding my breath until even on of these corrupt bureacrats is even indicted—let alone convicted by a DC jury. I’ll believe it when I see it.


2 posted on 02/16/2025 9:08:25 AM PST by rbg81 (=)
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Wikileaks has been posting all the search term trends for the DC area — https://x.com/wikileaks

erase
wipe
statute of limitations
swiss bank - offfshore bank


3 posted on 02/16/2025 9:10:29 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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One of the advantages the Department of Justice has is they can find a way to tie criminal activity to a favorable venue before they try a case....

...Unless of course the leftist criminals were clever enough to commit all of their crimes inside the city limits of the District of Columbia.


4 posted on 02/16/2025 9:11:25 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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" Thousands are going to prison"

Highly doubtful IMO... There's been enough dirty money thrown around to incriminate virtually the entire lot of them, if for nothing else just looking the other way...

and all the taxpayer money they stole will be clawed back.

No flippin' way. It's all already been pissed away by criminals on the kinds of shit that criminals piss money away on after a big heist. See Goodfellas...

5 posted on 02/16/2025 9:13:31 AM PST by OKSooner (Communists gonna communist.)
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I want to believe that “thousands are going to prison”,but for now, I don’t believe it. That is a bet I hope to lose.
Our nation has entered a mode of protocol, that usually doesn’t punish the most guilty. Instead, someone who took a video of the offense gets doxxed and prosecuted.
Maybe the pendulum will begin to swing in the opposite direction, stopping still on equality of enforcement.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 9:14:38 AM PST by lee martell
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“Thousands are going to prison and all the taxpayer money they stole will be clawed back.”

When?


7 posted on 02/16/2025 9:15:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I seriously doubt thousands are going to prison.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 9:15:32 AM PST by Jonny7797
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I seriously doubt thousands are going to prison.


Hey, we are trying to keep the fire going, not put it out.............


9 posted on 02/16/2025 9:20:07 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: rbg81

I’d be happy if a dozen people go to prison


10 posted on 02/16/2025 9:22:36 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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Thousands are going to prison...

Please ping me when that happens.

11 posted on 02/16/2025 9:23:35 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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"Thousands are going to prison and all the taxpayer money they stole will be clawed back."

Oh horse feathers..! The politicians of DC will never be held responsible for their corruption. There are LOTS of republicans that are just crooked as the rats and they will stand shoulder to shoulder with the rats against any real cleanup in DC. (spit)

12 posted on 02/16/2025 9:24:56 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" ... went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode.

Reality's starting to hit home for DC Democrats.

What kind of prison sentence is handed out for stealing three hundred million from taxpayers to buy beach homes, private jet rides, heated floors and rip off 'book deals'?

13 posted on 02/16/2025 9:25:34 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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Predicted, and now here we are. The cockroaches scurrying out of DC (see Zillow listings).


14 posted on 02/16/2025 9:25:57 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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15 posted on 02/16/2025 9:27:56 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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What about large MSM groups that took money they shouldn’t have taken from corrupt democrat ‘benefactors’? Will they be asked to repay taxpayers?


16 posted on 02/16/2025 9:28:31 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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17 posted on 02/16/2025 9:28:32 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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Our adversaries have to be laughing at us right now.

They have been laughing all the way to the bank to deposit those pallets of taxpayer cash we sent them. Doubt they are laughing now.

18 posted on 02/16/2025 9:28:49 AM PST by Dan Zachary
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I can assure mark that I am indeed taking it seriously. I am seriously very happy with the direction. For those allies that are disappointed, they’re not really allies.

I also wish to assure Mark that our adversaries are not laughing. Especially not like they have been for the last 4 years.


19 posted on 02/16/2025 9:36:16 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: rbg81

“I sincerely doubt that thousands of people are going to prison.”

Some irrational exuberance in the article IMO. I am also reminded of Newton’s 3rd law - every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

The left owns much of the media, educational institutions and judges. They will increasingly attempt to slow down the Trump train.


20 posted on 02/16/2025 9:37:01 AM PST by plain talk
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