US Politics

Interesting take on the impact of the McCabe 'resignation'

https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/958166228392120320

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https://youtu.be/l1uKNAMU1Qw

So, Stormy Daniels supposedly issued this statement

But also seems to be denying that she issued it... All a bit mysterious

JK: "Did you sign this letter that was released today?"
SD: “Doesn't look like my signature, does it."
JK: “Do you know where it came from? Do you have any idea?”
SD: “I do not.”

I wonder what the truth might be?

Whatever, she does seem to have changed her signature

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Lovely!

Love it, esp the first step!

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at all the liberals coming out of the woodwork to stand up for the poor put upon FBI top brass. Trump, though a paranoid idiot cunt, is at least right that the FBI is a massive unaccountable force in US politics and public life.

What on earth do these people stand for if they are anti Trump but pro FBI?

Rule of law?

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When did the FBI start caring about the rule of law?

What I'm saying is that anybody who genuinely wants to oppose Trump and the conditions that put him in the Whitehouse should not be relying on these oppressive institutions to do so. The FBI no doubt has its own agenda here and it certainly isn't the betterment of the living conditions of ordinary American citizens.

Edit: It's just a demonstration that liberals are not interested in social progress but in ordered inequality. I doubt we'll be hearing much from the #resistance once Trump is gone and a more palatable Republican/Democrat is installed to continue the US' programme of perpetual class warfare.

ordered inequality

What's wrong with that?

... to continue the US' programme of perpetual class warfare.

This is confusing because it sounds as if you're all for this.

It was everything but class warfare in 2016 – perpetuated by both sides. Race/gender/sexuality/religion were the type of wedge talking-points.

oppressive institutions

A tautology really.

Are you an anarchist?

What's wrong with that?

I honestly have no idea how to respond to that.

The recent prevalence of empty identity politics hasn't really done anything to slow the ongoing campaign against the poor in the US. That should be pretty obvious to everybody by now, not least to Hilary Clinton and the losers who still cling onto the tatters of the Democratic Party.

Liberals seem to hate Trump because he is an offensive buffoon who lacks the sense to disguise his contempt for the global poor. At least Obama was rapping or playing basketball or whatever other shit on late night TV whilst simultaneously raining fire on civilians from his weaponised robotic killing machines.

I went off on a bit of a tangent there but the point is that Trump is bad for liberals because they love exploiting the poor but hate getting seen doing it. By dint of being a hideous, stupid man and an even worse politician, Trump has exposed what Obama and the whole Democratic establishment were working so hard to cover up. He's bad for business and so has to go.

I'm not sure that it is a tautology? I work for a public institution which I would say is the opposite of oppressive. But then I would say that.

I mean what is wrong with ordered inequality in a functioning society? By functioning I mean 'decent' (equality of opportunity, limited corruption etc).

Any institution promotes a prescribed behaviour. This is going to be "oppressive" to someone, somewhere. National/Federal level law enforcement is always afforded some oppression because of the cost/benefit.

but they at least want to promote healthcare

#notall

Many of them would quite happily let single payer healthcare slide.

Your two examples of why Democrats are the good guys are pretty easily debunked. The Democrats make a show of promoting free healthcare when in fact what they are promoting is a humiliating means tested paperwork exercise. I don't doubt that they would prefer people not to die but then what good capitalist wouldn't want to maintain a surplus of healthy workers in a low wage economy?

Labour's problem isn't really comparable to the Democratic Party. The Democrats' problem right now is that they remain incapable of accepting that they handed the presidency to Trump by not standing for anything. The reason they won't stand for anything? Because their campaigns are paid for by the financial sector, the military industrial complex, the pharma industry etc etc. The US is desperately hurting for a party that genuinely represents working people - the Democrats will never be that.

Honestly I see where you're coming from but we're so far beyond being able to entertain best-worst arguments that they're really not worth having. Why wouldn't Hilary commit to a meaningful minimum wage increase, or to an actual universal healthcare programme, or to de-escalating US imperialist projects overseas? It's because they are following the money, just like Trump. They're just better at hiding it.

Any assertion that the FBI can be a force for justice is, as you put it, not worth the trouble to respond to.