[BBee] After posting a Twitter poll that seemed to indicate most Twitter users want him to step down from Twitter's leadership, Elon Musk has revealed that millions of mail-in ballots sent in yesterday confirmed most people want him to stay.
"Initially the poll seemed to indicate that the majority of users and bots wish me gone, but that was a mirage," said Musk as he emerged from a dark, windowless room with stacks of ballots. "It looks like we got an overnight dump of 2 million mail-in votes that all say they want me to stay in charge of Twitter! Imagine that! Vox Populi Vox Dei!"
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I think he has discovered just how boring Twitter truly is.
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One of the great traits of successful men is finding competent subordinates. I think Elon may have found what he needed in the debris and detritus of Twitter.
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With all the spooks “working” there, I would be afraid that the seemingly competent person just wasn’t marginally more productive than a cardboard cutout. My actual caution to him would be that there are usually some insiders who could make a difference and know where the bodies are buried, but a truly bright insider would have left that building Andy DuFresne style long ago.
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He'll be off to a new challenge soon. He and Donald will be drinking some aged Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky and having a very good laugh.
Game farm guides rarely go hunting. It's the human encounters and stories they seek.
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I think this was a bot magnet, a way to pull lefties back into twitter, and a way to leave the day-to-day working of the job since he's got Boring, SpaceX, and Tesla to run.
#2
Carjacking is pejorative. Let’s call it Extreme Uber instead.
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While the LSD's are at it...
How about adding back in some basic social morality and decency. Plus purging the (DNC) of the seriously mentally ill sexual oddities holding key admin positions.
[American Spectator] Many Americans are troubled by FBI investigations that have interfered in elections. A recent Trafalgar Group poll found that 46.2 percent of American voters believe the Department of Justice and the FBI to be "too political, corrupt, and not to be trusted."
When I was growing up, my family knew several FBI agents. They were straight arrows, men of integrity — the embodiment of the agents in movies depicted by Kevin Costner and Jimmy Stewart.
Sadly, that sterling reputation has become tarnished.
I have spent the last few months trying to figure out what has changed in the culture of the FBI such that its top executives would thrust the bureau into elections. I have read hundreds of articles and documents as well as interviewed many former employees of the DOJ and the FBI. I have concluded that two pivotal events dramatically changed the culture of the FBI and paved the way for its top executives to insert the bureau into politics.
FIRST PIVOTAL EVENT: HOOVER’S DEATH
The death of J. Edgar Hoover in 1972 brought about a total change in the culture of the FBI. A good friend who served as an FBI agent for over two decades gave me a cogent explanation of how Hoover’s death opened the door to political maneuvering within the bureau.
Politicians in both parties decided that they had to prevent future FBI directors from holding their "indiscretions" over their heads as Hoover had done. William C. Sullivan, the third official in rank under Hoover’s regime, explained: "The moment [Hoover] would get something on a senator, he’d send one of the errand boys up and advise the senator that ’we’re in the course of an investigation, and we by chance happened to come up with this data on your daughter. But we wanted you to know this. We realize you’d want to know it.’" The politicians got the message: Don’t cross Hoover, or your dirty laundry will be exposed. (READ MORE: The Real Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover)
To avoid being leveraged by future directors, President Richard Nixon and leaders of both parties decided that from that point forward directors of the FBI would be weak leaders.
Clarence M. Kelley was appointed as the first post-Hoover director. He was a nebbish who was a good fit for what the politicians were seeking. He had been chief of police in Kansas City, where he had managed a $23 million budget and a few dozen investigators. After Kelley was appointed director, he had to manage the FBI’s budget of about 15 times that amount (over $336 million) and oversee several thousand agents, plus thousands of support personnel.
My friend, the former agent, went on to explain that under Hoover the FBI was a paramilitary organization — a pyramid with Hoover at the top as the dominating presence. Following Hoover’s death, the top of the pyramid was lopped off, leaving a vacuum.
If Kelley had been a strong leader, he would have filled it. However, because he wasn’t, the top FBI executives on the seventh floor of the FBI headquarters isolated him so that they could control the flow of information sent to Kelley. They cut him off from what was actually happening in the field and treated him like a mushroom: in the dark and covered with manure.
They were ambitious, and they soon were maneuvering to replace Kelley as a new director. The senior executives began cozying up to rising-star politicians who would appoint one of them director of the FBI if elected president.
These ambitious bureaucrats earned the gratitude of those political patrons by investigating their potential opponents, digging for dirt on the rivals and their family, close advisers, and major contributors. In essence, they were political "hitmen" looking to target their chosen politician’s challengers.
The FBI bigwigs leaked word that the opponents and their supporters were under investigation, hoping that the stories the FBI planted "on background" would cause the supporters to abandon helping the rival.
A good example of the impact these underhanded tactics have had on politics is the prosecution of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. McDonnell’s prosecution was thrown out by a unanimous Supreme Court. However, the court’s decision came long after McDonnell’s hopes of becoming president had collapsed.
To get a good picture of how such dishonest tactics are used against innocent people, I recommend renting the movie Absence of Malice, which stars Paul Newman and Sally Field in a stark portrayal of how the lives of innocent people can be turned upside down by an ambitious and dishonest U.S. attorney.
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^ They began salting the senior and mid-level management of the Bureau from Day One, and the redesign of the DoJ to create the National Security Division was a matching effort.
[ZERO] Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want - it doesn’t really matter what America is if there is truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had "direct knowledge" of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA.
If indeed the CIA was in any way involved in the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, then anything that has happened in the public sphere in our country since that day has basically been a hallucination created by an intelligence agency far deeper than most of us—certainly me, since I was never much given to conspiracy theories—ever imagined.
The affairs of the day—RNC chief Ronna McDaniel revealed to be a profligate spender on her own luxury travel, not on Republican candidates; Donald Trump releasing self-aggrandizing NFT pseudo-art as a fundraiser (rest in peace, Johannes Vermeer); even Elon Musk’s exposure of the multiple mendacious censoring creeps behind Twitter, although that has an eerie similarity—pale by comparison to CIA involvement and, therefore, massive coverup for decades in the JFK assassination.
They should be lined up against the wall and shot.
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In San Frisco on Lombard St after one crosses the GG Bridge from the north is a motel that the CIA used as an op center to dose unsuspecting citizens with LSD. Supposedly it was an experiment. I think they did it for shitz n giggles.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[American Spectator] Many Americans are troubled by FBI investigations that have interfered in elections. A recent Trafalgar Group poll found that 46.2 percent of American voters believe the Department of Justice and the FBI to be "too political, corrupt, and not to be trusted."
[ZERO] Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want - it doesn’t really matter what America is if there is truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had "direct knowledge" of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA.
