Fascism 101: 1) Politicize the DOJ, 2) Accuse the other side of politicizing the DOJ (if only Garland had a spine!)...
#GOP #GQP #spy on #Congress #fascist #Republicans #politicize #DOJ #secret #judge #subpoena #text #messages #Garland #Schiff #Swalwell #political #targets #Patel #enemy #list #USA #WhiteHouse #threats #press #reporters https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-doj-secretly-obtained-phone-text-message-logs-43-congressional-rcna183610

"This imbalance reflects a longstanding and classic power dynamic in which Republicans set the terms of public debate, excusing their own objectionable behavior while constantly attacking Democrats in a fiery display that attracts media attention but distorts reality."

The media have long since made it clear that law and order is expected of the Democrats, but for the Republicans? Meh.

And they expect us to keep listening?

#Trump #Biden #Hegseth #Patel #pardon #media
/18

"In today’s news coverage, the exercise of the presidential pardon—which traditionally gets very little attention—has entirely outweighed the dangerous nominations of an incoming president, which will have profound influence on the American people."

#Trump #Biden #Hegseth #Patel #pardon #media
/17

"who pleaded guilty to federal charges of tax evasion, campaign finance offenses, and witness tampering and whom Trump has now tapped to become the U.S. ambassador to France. …

Trump also pardoned for various crimes men who were associated with the ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian operatives working to elect Trump."

#Trump #Biden #Hegseth #Patel #pardon #media
/16

"Instead, they have focused on President Biden’s pardon of his son, many of them condemning what they say is Biden’s rejection of the rule of law.

Some have suggested that Biden’s pardoning his son will now give Trump license to pardon anyone he wants, apparently forgetting that in his first term, Trump pardoned his daughter Ivanka’s father-in-law, Charles Kushner,"

#Trump #Biden #Hegseth #Patel #pardon #media
/15

"And yet, much of American media today has been consumed not with the story that Trump has appointed a deeply problematic candidate to run what could be considered the nation’s most important department, overseeing about 3 million personnel and managing a budget of more than $800 billion, or with the reality that Biden’s distrust of our legal system under Trump is a profound warning for all of us."

#Trump #Biden #Hegseth #Patel #pardon #media
/14

"Meanwhile, the actual incoming president of the United States has signaled that he’s going to fire the director of the FBI for [reasons] and replace him with a psychopath. And everyone just kind of shrugs."

#Trump #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
/5

"The Hunter Biden Pardon Discourse is a perfect distillation of our dominant political asymmetry. ...

Hundreds upon hundreds of columns in the mainstream media are being written about Biden and the pardon. Most of them seem critical.1 Even supposedly nonpartisan analysts took the Hunter Biden pardon and extrapolated it to the moon as a litmus test for the Democratic party writ large."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Biden #Patel #pardon #media
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/then-now-and-forever-the-people-are

"Hunter Biden’s pardon is front page news — not because anyone cares about Hunter Biden at all, but because it is the type of Presidential misbehavior that our elite media knows how to object to.

Kash Patel’s intent to turn the FBI against his 'enemies list' is a lesser news story, right up until the moment he throws those enemies in prison."

#Trump #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
/3

"I have come to think of this as the hidden, unspoken ideology of our media and political elites. They behave, in word and in deed, as though what is most important is the protection and maintenance of the status hierarchy."

~ Dave Karpf

#Trump #Hegseth #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
/2

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/uncouth

"Patel is angry about being a target of an FBI investigation; I guess we’ll find out if he actually was. And why. Outside of his bitter analysis that everything is politically motivated, he actually has surprisingly little to say about what are the true problems at the Bureau and inside the intelligence community.

All of this reminds me of the January 6 protesters who broke into the Capitol building and then just milled around aimlessly, posing with the Speaker’s lectern and taking selfies inside the Senate chamber and Rotunda. They say they want radical change, but clearly have no clue what that even looks like. Will Kash Patel mill about Washington? It sounds to me that he doesn’t really know what he wants or how to implement what the public does. He’s all about his personal agenda, the very definition of “political.”"

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nominee-for-fbi-director

#USA #Trump #Patel #FBI #Intelligence