Deckard is no hondoper.

Deckard is no hondoper.

While hondope….will live forever on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance.

Good article …

President Trump’s December Executive Order on “Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption” is

An extra constitutional usurpation of power with no due process whatsoever.

"Human Rights Abuse" or "corruption" is whatever a lone wolf gov administrator says it is.

Let's pretend for a moment that President Trump is a Saint and will only go after evildoers like Hillary, Senator McCain, George W. Bush & Obama DGP*. Once this EO becomes established precedent, what would a President Pocahontas do with it?

The Donald would be lucky to keep his hair, and only end up in Gitmo!

*Drone Gangsta President

They really see Putin as the Soviet Union under a mask. They really hate the Russians and see them as a mortal threat.

To them, Russia is an incredibly dangerous country - they're sure they know because they see Russian military buildup and aggressive Russian pursuit of its own policies (which is no different from any other country including ours).

Instead of seeing them as a competitor, a rival and - in many places - a cooperative partner, they see Stalin manipulating FDR and driving for world conquest.

Their whole lives have been devoted to this cause, and they really believe in it. And because they have deep intelligence materials out of Russia, they see Russia's active pursuit of its own self-interests as the proof that confirms their biases and learned prejudices.

Obviously, then, anybody who discounts this Russian and Putinic THREAT to American SECURITY is either an ignorant fool or, if that person sees it but doesn't really agree that it is such a titanic threat, a fifth element - a TRAITOR!

To these folks, to see Russia as another France - or Pakistan - a prickly and difficult but not actually ENEMY country - this is stupidity incarnate.

They think they're Churchill resisting the rise of another Hitler faced with a blind and stupid world that does not see, has gone to sleep, etc. And they feel it's their patriotic duty to keep up the fight EVEN IF national policy and the national will is in the opposite direction.

Are they willing to actually KILL our own elected leader? Institutionally, no. This isn't 1963. But they ARE willing to use their power and information to make grease stains out of the people around Trump, and to snare him in legal problems if they can. And there are probably unstable nut-jobs that some rogue Cold Warrior could push in that direction.

It's a tough thing to deal with: a whole army of well-trained professional guard dogs, intelligent, aggressive, and vicious, whose enemy has gone away. It's not easy to retool them because they have invested so much of their lives immersed in the languages and culture of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. It's not simply a matter of reassigning them to the China desk (where we REALLY need those skills, but where the language is utterly different and the cultural reference points are all different).

We mustn't be too terribly hard on these men and women either: they did a good job handling the USSR. We need to reward them for their service, incentivize them to either retire and move on to the next phase of their lives, or retool the Russia/Eastern European arm of the CIA for much more collaborative and economic developmental work. We work really well with British and French intelligence. The endless animosity makes us work a lot less well with Russian intelligence, but we COULD if the CIA were taken on- wing by an Administration that really had an economic plan for co- development of areas problematic to us (Central Asia) by the Russians. Cooperative ventures with Russia can bring the US and Russia closer just as cooperative trade with the UK brought the US and Britain back together pretty closely despite the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. In time, the old warriors retired and the new people accustomed to cooperative effort replaced them.

Vic they are just evil.

The Soviet union collapsed about 27 years ago. Most of those people are dead or gone.

The leadership is gone, but the young rank-and-file lieutenants are not the chiefs of station and such, at the top of their careers, and they cannot let go.

The Soviet union collapsed about 27 years ago. Most of those people are dead or gone.

And the ones who survived the Soviet state hated their communist masters and were glad the state died.

The leadership is gone, but the young rank-and-file lieutenants are not the chiefs of station and such, at the top of their careers, and they cannot let go.

That wasn't what I saw or experienced either time I went there. NOBODY wanted communism to return.

The young people (then,not so young now) that would have been in line to be the new generation of elites don't even want communism to return. Most of them are little more than organized crime bosses now,and can flaunt their wealth without worrying about going to the gulag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmt5-1yrwmQ

That wasn't what I saw or experienced either time I went there. NOBODY wanted communism to return.

You're not understanding me. I'm going to let this one go and not keep working on it, too many irons in the fire.

You misunderstood our conversation. We're talking about US government employees.

True,but in my defense it IS hard to tell the difference sometimes.

Deep State Is ‘TERRIFIED’ Of Trump And ‘Want Him TAKEN OUT’

The largest major industry in the U. S. is demogogery and holding office by incompetent soft screw-ups. The cities are full of them. The counties are full of them. The states are full of them. Our national government is full of them. Our bureaucracies are full of them. Any outsider who appears to represent the remotest possibility of change is terrifying.