Posted on 01/25/2025 4:33:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
“The purpose of a pardon is to correct a miscarriage of justice, not to prevent future judicial action.” — Dr. Joseph Sansone.
This, as they say, is one of those weeks when decades happen. You realize that under the fiends fronted by “Joe Biden,” the US government became a demon-driven machine for wrecking lives, perverting the law, and demolishing all scaffolds of decent behavior. And now, it all has to be fixed, cleaned up, fumigated, rectified, rehabilitated.
Scores of executive orders flew out of the Oval Office, rescinding four years of “Biden” regime lunacy in every direction: Censorship, dead. . . Gain of function research, killed. . . CBDCs banned. . . CBP-app for aiding illegal migrants, discontinued. . . border fortified. . . homicidal alien mutts deported. . . World Health Organization, no thanks. . . Paris Climate Accords, fuggeddabowdit. . . DEI, vacated through all of government. . . Green New Deal, scrapped. . . “pride” in mental illness, cancelled. . . Ukraine War, headed for the negotiating table. . . all in four days and so much more coming.
The DEI flimflam is particularly illustrative of the hazards still lurking. The DC blob is desperate to hide its chaos agents by switching their job titles and shuffling them around to hidey-holes in obscure precincts of this-or-that bureaucracy. Being federal employees, of course, they all have searchable names and payroll accounts, so you may be sure they’ll be discovered wherever they’re hiding-out and placed, as ordered, on “administrative leave.” Since DEI was essentially a program to promote incompetence, these employees represent a monumental cargo of dead-weight. So, the next task will be finding a way under the civil service codes to cashier them for good. For instance, reclassifying their job status to render them fire-able.
This is sure to be a major friction-point for the so-called “resistance,” the huge cadre of “activist” Wokesters embedded in the agencies. Cue the army of Democratic Party lawyers who will be filing suits to prevent the chief executive from coherently managing the departments of the executive branch. But there’s a catch: this time, the White House will not be funneling scads of money directly to the NGOs that pay for these blob-adjacent lawyers, nor will they be able to redirect money out of the DOJ, FBI, and CIA for that purpose. The president may also find a way to interrupt the flow of money from foundations financed by malign freelancers such as George Soros and Linked-in founder and billionaire Reid Hoffman (who financed the E. Jean Carroll “rape” trial hoax and many more Democratic Party pranks ).
Another friction point: release of the pardoned J-6 prisoners is being loudly opposed by DC District federal judges such as Tanya Chutkan and Amy Berman Jackson. They don’t enjoy any privilege or prerogative for voicing prejudicial opinions about vacated cases, nor for failing to comply with paperwork needed to discharge them. They can be impeached for that in the House of Representatives. Or, if they actively obstruct releases, the new-and-improved Department of Justice might consider 18 U.S.C. § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law.
Meanwhile, goons at the DC jail detained pardoned prisoners unlawfully this week after years of the grossest mistreatment, including solitary confinement in basement “holes” without beds, blankets, or water, and direct physical assault that could be described as “torture.” All of this was countenanced by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, despite plentiful public reports of abuse over the past four years. That is, she knew all about it. This is an argument for finally rescinding Washington DC’s “home rule” status and placing the city and all its departments back under federal management.
Last night, Mr. Trump signed an order to declassify government files relating to the murders of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. Of course, the intel agencies holding these files have had a half-century to expunge anything in the files that might reflect poorly on the intel agencies — such as, the long-trafficked rumor that the CIA was behind the killing of all three. Why would you expect to get anything like that? How could the remaining material be anything but a cover-your-a** file? Well, now we shall see. At some point in his first term, Mr. Trump allegedly saw what was in the files and demurred from his promise then to release them. Was it too shocking? Or was it the well-groomed nothingburger described above?
Now, we await the confirmation of Mr. Trump’s cabinet. Pam Bondi’s USAG nomination was held up for a week by peevish freshman Senator Adam Schiff, after she called him out for being censured last year in the House for “reckless” statements — that is, she reminded the committee and the public that Mr. Schiff is a chronic liar. There are rumblings that he will be kicked off the Senate Judiciary Committee (maybe not such a good fit for someone incapable of telling the truth)......SNIP
The left sure do love their marxism, especially the shiny and new DEI cultural marxism.
The “Chief Diversity Officer” types should have their next job begging for food on street corners.
Their reign of terror and error is about to end.
This raises the question of how best to ferret out the Deep Staters from our federal bureaucracies?
Wholesale housecleaning by handing pink slips to all the senior executives, much like the do-nothing, DEI hire herself Ms. Boykin, might be effective, but it risks paralyzing any legitimate activity and invites a massive number of lawsuits against the Administration for wrongful termination.
Continuing to enact and implement common sense rules and policies might encourage a number of these left-leaning losers to voluntarily resign, but that could take a long time, and I wouldn’t want to underestimate the ability of these bureaucratic barnacles to stubbornly resist removal. We certainly need policies that make it easier to fire them.
I really don’t know the answer, so how DO we get to a place where government becomes much, much smaller, more efficient, and focused on serving the American people? Serious question.
BTTT
James Howard Kunstler ping
In some cases, it is real easy. In the DoD we always could tell who these people were. One deployment to the green zone and a career made by telling how great they were during that one deployment. The people we knew we could count on made mutiple deployments to really s****y places and they usually didn’t get promoted beuase they were not in DC promoting themselves.
Promote the guys who did everything they could to stay out of DC. I know lots of those guys.
If I could not fire a DEI type I would immediately detail them to Alaska or Antarctica or nuclear missile bases in the Dakotas for six months.
You can do that to any federal employee.
90+% would quit at that point—and remember the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Then you have six months to deal with the bureaucratic mess trying to get them fired.
If I could not fire a DEI type I would immediately detail them to Alaska or Antarctica or nuclear missile bases in the Dakotas for six months.
You can do that to any federal employee.
90+% would quit at that point—and remember the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Then you have six months to deal with the bureaucratic mess trying to get them fired.
Send them to special duty in E Palestine or W NC
Start with impeaching Chutcan and Jackson.
Reassign the folks he cant fire to a new, very spartan city in the interior of Greenland.
Please add me to your Kunstler ping list.
Thank you
You are added to the ping list.
Kunstler is always a good read.
Thanks for the Ping.
These are the guys in the chain to prevent Trump's orders from being executed. Lying by shifting titles and covering up is a felony. They can be fired immediately for that.
That is an artificial deep state construct too.
Kunstler’s style reminds me of Schlichter. Love them both for their biting brashness.
The DEI commissars will have to be bribed to quit with generous severance packages.
TELL ME SHE GOT FIRED...PLEASE
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