I know this is old news but I decided to watch this Joe Rogan podcast with Kash Patel that was taped I guess today and just listening at random almost, you hear that the people who were in charge under Obama and Biden were ruthless criminals who had no fear of being caught performing completely illegal operations against their political enemies. Russia-gate is the supreme example but there is no end to how many crooked acts and operations they performed with complete impunity.
I think the stellar quote is that former FBI director Comey had a room where he stashed his worst documents and data. When he left, he locked the room and removed all record of what was hidden in the room and from 2017 till 2025 no one outside of Comey’s inner circle knew about it. Patel says he’s mining those documents and data files for proof of Comey’s crimes.
So other than a reason to be outraged by all of these Deep State criminals what is the take away from all this? Well, to me, it’s just a reminder that this is government. Corruption and abuse of power is what happens as soon as people get a taste of power and the money that comes with it. And this will happen with Republicans in power almost as egregiously as when the Democrats are running things. This is human nature.
So, from my point of view, we have to look at the present Trump agenda as an extreme anomaly. Maybe it won’t happen again for a hundred years or maybe never again. And that is why it must be embraced and ridden as far as it can possibly go. When it’s time for Trump’s term to end we should select the man who promises to do the most damage to the existing system. Whatever damage Kash Patel does to the FBI should be considered only a good start. What is really needed are legislative mandates to eliminate the unconstitutional activities that the 9/11 attacks enabled. The Patriot Act and the FISA Courts need to be eliminated. Those instruments strip away our constitutional protections and render the FBI and the other intel agencies the equivalent of the Stasi or the KGB.
I don’t know if it’s Trump’s intention to push for these legal changes. His Justice Department should right now be in front of SCOTUS with a brief declaring these laws unconstitutional. And this isn’t even radical. Even at the time they were enacted it was believed that they were unconstitutional but because of the public’s fear after the 9/11 attacks it was believed that these laws should temporarily exist. Well, it’s almost a quarter of a century down the road and these laws aren’t keeping Americans safe. They’re being used to put us in prison. They need to be struck down as unconstitutional.
People seem pretty sure that JD Vance is going to be Trump’s successor. Well, maybe Trump will make that decision. But I want to hear from Vance’s mouth that he is going to continue the process of tearing out the Deep State by the roots. FBI. CIA, IRS, ATF; all of these agencies are pointed like weapons at the American people. Destroying them now will not make us permanently safe. But it will buy us a respite from the worst of the surveillance state that has been built by the people who run our government.
That’s what that Joe Rogan podcast made me think.