America is Fucked
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- maquito6
From my Latin American perspective, what happened in the Capitol, without going into details, represents a weird, bizarre, giant milestone. Not only because of the meaning and shat triggered what ended up with a violation of such an emblematic institution, but mainly because of the mere fact that somehow it was possible, what for me (and I dare to speak in the name of other Latin Americans) seemed unwavering; The Capitol of the safest nation, with the most feared military power in the world, with the hundreds of films and documentaries since I can remember, building an absolute, unequivocal, heavy-handed feeling of total control... a nation showing such an absolute leadership..
How could it happen to the military intelligence, the one that has been instilled in us by more than half century, that a couple thousand civilians disguised as special ops made everything fail so bluntly so that the occupation of the fucking Capitol could even happen??I feel that everything I considered about the US “intelligence” has been put into perspective. The FBI, CIA, blah... imo it is going to take several years to re-establish that "almighty" aura in the eyes of the rest of the world after having shown such an ominous breach.
- shat = what :|maquito
- Yep. I worry that the US will have to flex its military and CIA operations to try and regain some face globally.thumb_screws
- Or at least condemn whoever corrupted them. Again, I think it’s far..maquito
- The freedoms we openly took for granted here as well as institutional safeguards were exploited... as a result the United States may never be the same.jonny_quest_lives
- It may just be a return to the 50s/60s era FBI and DOJ that aggressively attacks this homegrown terrorist threat the same way they went after the Klanjonny_quest_lives
- No good outcomes for liberty or freedom either way.jonny_quest_lives
- Was it close to 45% of the entire population back in the 50’s?maquito
- Hoover's FBI was notoriously ruthless on whoever they turned their attention to back then.jonny_quest_lives
- I think the idiots have taken over. And those are way more than the 69’s “klan”.maquito
- *60’smaquito
- He was spying on the Kennedy's, Martin Luther King Jr. and just about anyone who pissed Herbert Hoover off.jonny_quest_lives
- not sure where everyone gets this 50% of the population supports trump number.jonny_quest_lives
- There are 239.2 Million eligible voters in the US. In this 2020 Election 159 million voted of that tally Biden won 51.3% or81 million voters.jonny_quest_lives
- Trump garnered 46.8% or 74 million votes. That leaves 81million voters who didn't even vote they either don't give a shit or feel their vote is wasted.jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.npr.org/…jonny_quest_lives
- I just have visions of some department within the FBI cranking out Qanon/ Right wing Militia warnings steadily for the past 4 yearsjonny_quest_lives
- only to have them shelved by Trump's DOJ whether it was Jeff Sessions at the time or Later William Barr.jonny_quest_lives
- Trump was never able to reign in the FBI he tried like hell but the DOJ he got his ultimate Stooge in Barrjonny_quest_lives
- Meanwhile over in Homeland security he found another stooge in Chad Wolf... Between Barr and Wolf the priorities were feeding the Antifa narrativejonny_quest_lives
- in the past year alone... we've had:jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.justice.…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.salon.co…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.justice.…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.freep.co…jonny_quest_lives
- so with those threats why was Chad Wolf and Homeland Security so obsessed with Antifa in Portland? Agitate and enrage Trump's militant supporters.jonny_quest_lives
- but to your original point there is a definite deflating of the power/ aura of US Intelligence agencies...jonny_quest_lives
- I feel it's directly attributable to the Trump Administration inability to lure any profession competent candidates to oversee these cabinet positionsjonny_quest_lives
- for the last four years as well as Republican leadership allowing him to staff critical law Enforcement Agencies with "Acting Directors"jonny_quest_lives
- with little or no relevant experience. https://www.justsecu…jonny_quest_lives
- "Secreatary of State" Mike Pompeo still hasn't answered for how this happened:jonny_quest_lives
- Sorry "Secretary"jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.fbi.gov/…jonny_quest_lives
- The State Department was responsible for vetting all international military students training in the US. But Trump had other priorities...jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.reuters.…jonny_quest_lives
- From Kids in Cages at the border to all of the above the last four years have been outrage after outrage until you just become numb.jonny_quest_lives
- Then the Capitol attack occurs and just out of sheer dumb fucking luck they managed not to get a hold of any lawmakers in the Senatejonny_quest_lives
- Now Republicans feel we need to turn down the temperature a bit and help the country "Unify"jonny_quest_lives