Officially what has happened is that Trump has repurposed the FBI Joint Terrorism Task force to find Trantifa terrorism instead of straight white male Christian terrorism.
For forty years the FBI Joint Terrorism task force has been monomaniacally searching for straight white male Christian terrorists, and over the years as they searched and searched and searched and never found any, they have slowly been getting weirder and weirder and crazier and crazier. This is why FBI shills usually glow in the dark. They have lost track of the boundary between themselves, the voices in their heads, and external reality. They cannot pass as normal people. They don’t just need a purge, they need an exorcism.
When Bush tried to repurpose them from straight white male Christian terrorism to brown Mohammedan terrorism, it had absolutely no effect. They were crazy back then and have only become crazier since then. It seems unlikely that Trump will be any more successful than Bush was.
I hope that what is actually going to happen is that the men in white coats with butterfly nets catch the existing FBI joint terrorism task force, stick them in strait jackets for their own safety and the safety of others, stash them in the loony bin, and we get all new personnel in an all new FBI joint terrorism task force.
But officially, that is not what is happening. And Kash Patel does not seem like the man we need to do it. Unless it does happen, we are not going to get any progress against Trantifa.
The problem is not just that they are all leftists. The problem is that they are leftists who have been full time searching for what is not there, and people who look too hard for what does not exist tend to lose their connection to external reality.
Personnel is policy. At the time of the murder of Charlie Kirk, the FBI Joint terrorism task personnel were not only leftists, but leftists with even less connection to reality than passes for normal among leftists.
https://x.com/AP/status/1971735097331073203
Seems like it.
The reactions of libs on Bluesky are quite funny
https://x.com/BlueskyLibs/status/1971754154864660982
You beat me to the draw, alas.
The AP reports this evening that Patel has fired 20 FBI agents who were photographed kneeling during a George Floyd virtue-signaling session in ’20. Based on the photo, this will hurt the bureau’s Clarice Starling division the hardest.
It’s a start.
Bongino signaled before the Kirk shooting that he has come to grasp the enormity of the (governance-complete) FBI disloyalty problem, but after the shooting it looks like he and Patel understand what time it is and are trying to clean house.
It may not be possible to actually clean house all that much in the agencies. The massive ICE expansion/recruitment, an army of mostly MAGA volunteers, can be the substitute while the older forms are maintained to keep up appearances.
Scratch the Patel part — it seems he is still defending the FBI “rank and file” on his X account.