Originally published at: The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. A Decapitation Event It was a surreal juxtaposition. On the Hill, Kash Patel – the dangerously unqualified avowed enemy of the FBI – was going through the motions of a Senate confirmation hearing to lead…
So sorry for your loss David. Your morning memos have been a lifeline for me lately to help make sense of the crazy. Thank you.
Trump White House was proceeding right along with an illegal purge of the FBI’s leadership ranks.
The FBI failed in their counter-intelligence role and allowed an agent of a hostile power to get all the way to the Presidency. Now they’ll pay the price.
Here’s hoping that every one of the New York bureau fibbies, who were going to revolt over Hillary’s emails, gets fired and loses their pensions.
“Today, one must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.” John Le Carre, quoting May Sarton.
Elon getting access to the payment systems for Medicare and Social Security? Whatever worst-case bungling you can imagine, it will be an exponentially worse clusterfuck.
Our problem is a very wealthy immigrant left money to a son whose only ability is to run down people who have a functioning brain.
Mr Kurtz
I hope your injuries heal rapidly & completely. Sailing can be damn dangerous. And I’m sending support also for the loss of your friend.
Good morning!
After the disaster of a news conference, I expect that we will be hearing specific people scapegoated for this tragedy. It wouldn’t surprise me if he opened investigations on Pete Buttigieg or even just had him arrested on some pretense. Buttigieg is, after all, everything he would like to demonize: a gay man, Biden appointee, and, well, competent.
His press conference was such a failure that he is going to have to strike back at someone or something. He is a wounded animal, and while the wound isn’t fatal, for him, it’s even worse. The whole world has seen his incompetence, and the only ones who are praising him are either paid to do so or only hear those who are paid to do so.
At sunrise we learn a top treasure official is leaving the door to the chicken coop open for Musk to raid the American treasury on the day after a tragic air crash with no responsible head of FAA capable of keeping us safe.
All the while ICE continues their inhumane Nazi style raids resulting in indiscriminate deportations of citizens, Native Americans and veterans.
Who knew corporations would fold so readily after spitting out their millions to the felon in the WH.
Bloomberg: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Explore Seeking Trump Pardon for Son
I think they can hustle up the price.
“With the Department of Justice now compromised, who is there to enforce the laws that the Trump White House and its minions throughout government are violating with impunity every day?”
OMG, just quit. There is no one to rein Trump in. He’ll fail at much of what he tries to do out of sheer incompetence. But if there’s even a scintilla of legality (or even if there isn’t) he’s going to cause pain and wreck destruction at levels we’ve only begun to see. Even now we focus on what’s happening within our borders. He’s just getting started on all the bullshit he’ll inflict on other nations.
This is stage four cancer. And we’ve only just been told of the diagnosis by the oncologist. Chemo and radiation, wasting away, vomiting and dire sickness still await.
Don’t need a hotel anymore; there’s a transaction window right at the Oval Office this time around.
Well, most everyone here. I know I did. Pretty much similar to 1930’s Germany.
Glad to see you are your usual cheerful self!
It was Rudy’s buddies in the NY FBI office that caused Comey to do the HRC stunt.
I sincerely believe that Buttigieg will be more than capable of standing up to the fat orange tyrant
It’s like the scene in Austin Powers where a security guard, just doing his job, was trying to evade Powers who was driving a pavement smoother (not sure what they are called). He could clearly see the threat to his life, but it just kept slowly, inexorably rolling towards him. America now feels like that security guard, watching doom approaching clearly yet seemingly unable to stop it.