Discussion: WaPo: Trump Has Political Advisers At Agencies To Track Loyalty To President

Are my taxes paying for this?

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Hereā€™s a little throw back to the 80s with Der Kommissar:

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Check out Putin in video: He canā€™t even have fun at Paul McCartney concert.

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Wowā€¦paranoid much? They canā€™t take the time to actually install people in the agencies to WORK but by God, they have their ā€˜trackersā€™ in place. MAGAā€¦um yeah.

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ā€œHow very Gestapo of youā€ you mean.

(Fascism and Leninism are two sides of the same coin.)

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Itā€™s the tracking poll, and it is more accurate than a three-day poll would be because it shows the pattern over time.

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The base support dispite policy that harms them and their neighbors seems to confirm the cult leadership of Trump. Downright scary!

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What scares me the MOST about this is collective shrug by the MSM when they heard about it.
They just donā€™t give a shit anymore.

This is the most outrageous form of autocratic ā€œthought policeā€ I can think of.
It is nothing less than instituting ā€œpolitical commissarsā€ in the government to enforce ā€œpersonal loyalty to Dear Leader Trumpā€, yet the MSM doesnā€™t even raise a peep about it.

We are well and truly Fucked people.

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" [ā€¦] an influential coterie of senior aides installed by the White House who are charged ā€” above all ā€” with monitoring the secretariesā€™ loyalty"

Jr. Nazis in training.

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It is all of a piece with the requests during the transition for the names of individuals in certain agencies that were working on programs that the Drumpfies oppose.

This is the logical conclusion of the if-youā€™re-not-with-us-youā€™re-against-us doctrine.

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I have a record that McCartney recorded and released in the Soviet Union.

Good piece of trivia, because very few people besides big audiophiles, have ever heard it.

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ā€œSie willt stricken zee regulations and qvuestion nussing!!!ā€

But the Presidentā€™s agenda is whatever he retweeted from Breitbart last Saturday, from the comfort of his gold plated toilet. Even for a loyal worker bee, it would be impossible to keep up.

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Talk to some of them and you will find out that ALL they care about is ā€œREVENGEā€ upon ā€œThe Otherā€ that they blame for everything bad that has ever happened to them.
They donā€™t care what happens to them as long as ā€œThose Peopleā€ are punished loudly and hard. If they lose everything, well, that is ā€œGods Willā€. At the same time, they have ā€œFaithā€ that Trump will ā€œsave themā€ because he is ā€œsuch a good businessmanā€ (with a very, VERY strong subtext of ā€œBut he is WHITE. He wonā€™t hurt US!ā€
I am not kidding about this. Talk to them (I have) it is downright scary what they think about Trump and ā€œThose Peopleā€.
The more rural and isolated the town is, the stronger these feelings.
It is not even at the level of critical thought. It is JUST ā€œfeelingsā€ about it. They ā€œbelieveā€ that he will ā€œsave themā€ and punish ā€œThose Peopleā€.
This is what we are up against. You cannot even have a conversation about it. They get very, VERY angry very fast if you try to bring up any facts about what the Trump Administration is doing. They shout that it is all ā€œFAKE NEWSā€ like it is a mantra that will dispell the ā€œevil Libā€™rul spiritsā€.
Scary stuff.
It shows that deep, deep down they have strong misgivings about Trump but cannot let themselves voice it out loud because to do so would result in them being ā€œkicked out of the Tribeā€ that they rely upon for moral support.

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Instead, we have a personality disorder.

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Will the Amerikan Gestapo be wearing brown or black uniforms?

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At the moment, it matches the March 16-18 Gallup poll as reported on 538.

Of course, you are right, and thereā€™s a lot of precedent for doing exactly that. In one way or another, every administration does this. Generally, that person is the agencyā€™s top legal officer, because all key decisions have to go through the GC on their way to the Secretary. In some adminstrations, that role has been fulfilled by the Deputy Secretary or the Executive Assistant to the Secretary. In any case, any cabinet member worth his salt knows exactly how to freeze out the political commissar sent over by the White House.

You really canā€™t blame Trump for this. There is something seriously wrong with him. His craziness has taken over. Iā€™m sure his has a second voice in his head that keeps telling him to behave, but his is unable to.

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