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No Country for Law Men: The GOP Votes to Defund the FBI
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Hey I hate fascist republicans as much as the next guy but….. based?
Like fuck the FBI, absolutely defund that shit, the FBI spends 99% of its time obsessed with monitoring leftwing activists and after totally being caught off guard on January 6th I think they have basically forfeited any claim to actually protecting the security of the United States. They missed a publicly announced attempted overthrow of the US government that almost resulted in multiple serving US politicians being killed or hurt, they MISSED THAT.
This story is interesting as criticism of GOP, not support for FBI.
Have whatever opinion of FBI you want: when the people who have made the Thin Blue Line a core piece of their personality suddenly find some police that they'd like to do away with a whole band of high-profile police, then it reveals that the thin blue line shit was just code for something else.
Then let’s take advantage of the fact that in this narrow case republicans are accidentally right and defund the FBI.
I am getting really tired of Centrists/Democrats taking Republican positions to point out that Republicans are hypocritical, because it ends up with Centrists and Democrats taking and parroting Republican positions.
The vast majority of convicted violent insurgents and anti-government communes in the USA are not "leftwing". If they were defunding the CIA then I could be on board, but the FBI are the organization that investigate paramilitants and police departments in the USA.
Exactly. You want people to vote for you?! This is how you get people to vote for you.
Biden is a super tough pig supporter. Kamala even more so putting tons of people behind bars for barely any reason. They try to talk a good game but in the end support police and crime units more so than the republicans.
So if you're going to defund the FBI, CIA, NSA, and various police departments... I'm all for it.
ACAB