There's a price to be paid for retribution.

[Billiejeens]

Appreciate the solid post. Here’s what I found digging deeper:

Yes, 9 senior FBI execs were fired at the start of Trump’s second term—some tied to Jan 6 probes—according to NYT and Guardian reuters.com+2theguardian.com+2thedailybeast.com+2.
Yes, Loyalty testing and polygraphs were instituted under Patel—many view that as political pressure .
Yes, several NSC staff also got abruptly dismissed after influence from far‑right operatives .

Experts warn all that could jeopardize national security—but there’s no record yet of a specific mission failure. The concern is about erosion of institutional know‑how, not necessarily a direct plot slipping through.

So I’d tweak your framing: World’s not crashing, but the risk profile just got a lot noisier—and that matters. Curious to hear if anyone’s seen pushback inside the FBI or any concrete lapse tied to this purge.

Thry stopped harassing parents at school board meetings

 

[Billiejeens]

The FBI was useless under Sleepy Joe and Chris Wray.

They couldn't even figure out who bumped off Seth Rich, who smuggled coke into the WH or who leaked the Dobbs decision.

Under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, the outfit is getting refocused on their actual responsibilities.

Hope so
We shall see

They had better each be pristine to survive.

 

[berg80]

I think he does all the time and without using any lies, insipid platitudes or fatuous generalizations.

He lies constantly about everything including the recently passed bill. He's known not to read, study policy, he doesn't get daily security briefings, he's too busy trying to enrich himself by using the presidency as a cash cow.

Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill​

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/politics/fact-check-trump-big-beautiful-bill

Trump and Republicans Mislead on Policy Bill’s Effect​

The president and his allies in the Senate have cited inaccurate claims about their tax and policy bill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-policy-bill.html

Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law​

Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law

The emails say nearly 9 in 10 Social Security beneficiaries won't pay income taxes on their benefits in the future. But the Trump tax law did not directly address Social Security.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Foxfyre]

He lies constantly about everything including the recently passed bill. He's known not to read, study policy, he doesn't get daily security briefings, he's too busy trying to enrich himself by using the presidency as a cash cow.

What has he specifically lied about.? Be specific.

 

[j-mac]

How tired you must be from tap dancing around the circumstance of your inability to refute my premise. Did you think I wouldn't notice?

Your premise is weak, TDS driven nonsense...That's all you do in here, is ***** and moan about Trump this, or Trump that...Meanwhile, you don't talk about anything consequential to anything...Just mindless ranting about Trump...What a useless existence...

 

[j-mac]

He lies constantly about everything including the recently passed bill. He's known not to read, study policy, he doesn't get daily security briefings, he's too busy trying to enrich himself by using the presidency as a cash cow.

Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill​

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/politics/fact-check-trump-big-beautiful-bill

Trump and Republicans Mislead on Policy Bill’s Effect​

The president and his allies in the Senate have cited inaccurate claims about their tax and policy bill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-policy-bill.html

Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law​

Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law

The emails say nearly 9 in 10 Social Security beneficiaries won't pay income taxes on their benefits in the future. But the Trump tax law did not directly address Social Security.

www.nbcnews.com

The trifecta of cult propaganda...Trump, Trump, Trump....It's like I said....You are really nothing but a triggered, regurgitating parrot for angry leftists...

What a joke.

 

[BackAgain]

Well, that makes you a threat to national security.

What a stupid thing to say. But, then, stupid and bug.80 is redundant. Bug is a dishonest retard.

 

[Meathead]

Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe

Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump, and Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda.

That was just the beginning. Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents, including other top managers and national security experts, have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration. Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public. These losses have “obliterated decades of experience in national security and criminal matters at the F.B.I.,” Adam Goldman of The Times wrote.

Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities. He is chasing out agents who might refuse to play along and installing loyalists in their place. He is seeking to remove the threat of investigation for his friends and allies. And he is trying to instill fear in his critics and political opponents. Among his many efforts to weaken American democracy and amass more power for himself, his politicization of the F.B.I. is one of the most blatant.

These developments should unsettle all Americans, regardless of party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opinion/trump-fbi-politics-safety.html

trump’s second term has done more damage to American democracy than anything else since Reconstruction. He is attempting, with some success, to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts (while being enabled by the Roberts court), in which he and his appointees can ignore written law at their choosing. It is exactly the autocratic approach that the founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution.

While doing so he has left the nation less safe. All to satisfy his need for revenge against those who investigated his many crimes. As if firing the investigators wiped the slate clean of the illegal acts they uncovered.

Where are Comey, McCabe and that sleazebag (Stryzk or something) that was whoring around with some FBI skank?

 

[Godboy]

Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe

Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump, and Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda.

That was just the beginning. Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents, including other top managers and national security experts, have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration. Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public. These losses have “obliterated decades of experience in national security and criminal matters at the F.B.I.,” Adam Goldman of The Times wrote.

Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities. He is chasing out agents who might refuse to play along and installing loyalists in their place. He is seeking to remove the threat of investigation for his friends and allies. And he is trying to instill fear in his critics and political opponents. Among his many efforts to weaken American democracy and amass more power for himself, his politicization of the F.B.I. is one of the most blatant.

These developments should unsettle all Americans, regardless of party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opinion/trump-fbi-politics-safety.html

trump’s second term has done more damage to American democracy than anything else since Reconstruction. He is attempting, with some success, to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts (while being enabled by the Roberts court), in which he and his appointees can ignore written law at their choosing. It is exactly the autocratic approach that the founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution.

While doing so he has left the nation less safe. All to satisfy his need for revenge against those who investigated his many crimes. As if firing the investigators wiped the slate clean of the illegal acts they uncovered.

Retribution is the natural result of what democrats did. YOU democrats caused this. If you use federal agencies to go after your political opponents, we will break those agencies.

 

[scruffy]

Retribution is the natural result of what democrats did. YOU democrats caused this. If you use federal agencies to go after your political opponents, we will break those agencies.

Yep. This is 100% on the Democrats. They started this mess.

And everyone knows it. It's why they have a lowly 20% approval rating right now. Even the Democrats don't like the Democrats.

 

[Correll]

Now that you have that tantrum out of your system you are free to try to give me a clear, fact based, example of weaponization. Not rhetorical garbage without substantiation from credible sources.

I'm not interested in playing silly games.

We are past discussing if water is wet.


You want to be part of the discussion, join in, you want to play silly games, you make yourself irrelevant.

 

[berg80]

What has he specifically lied about.? Be specific.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-debunked

Take your pick.

 

[berg80]

Your premise is weak, TDS driven nonsense...That's all you do in here, is ***** and moan about Trump this, or Trump that...Meanwhile, you don't talk about anything consequential to anything...Just mindless ranting about Trump...What a useless existence...

How tired you must be from tap dancing around the circumstance of your inability to refute my premise.

 

[berg80]

I'm not interested in playing silly games.

We are past discussing if water is wet.


You want to be part of the discussion, join in, you want to play silly games, you make yourself irrelevant.

If YOU wanted to make yourself relevant you could have tried to give me a factual example of the weaponization to which you referred. But you couldn't, or won't. So, time to bugger off.

 

[Dekster]

Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe

Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump, and Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda.

That was just the beginning. Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents, including other top managers and national security experts, have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration. Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public. These losses have “obliterated decades of experience in national security and criminal matters at the F.B.I.,” Adam Goldman of The Times wrote.

Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities. He is chasing out agents who might refuse to play along and installing loyalists in their place. He is seeking to remove the threat of investigation for his friends and allies. And he is trying to instill fear in his critics and political opponents. Among his many efforts to weaken American democracy and amass more power for himself, his politicization of the F.B.I. is one of the most blatant.

These developments should unsettle all Americans, regardless of party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opinion/trump-fbi-politics-safety.html

trump’s second term has done more damage to American democracy than anything else since Reconstruction. He is attempting, with some success, to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts (while being enabled by the Roberts court), in which he and his appointees can ignore written law at their choosing. It is exactly the autocratic approach that the founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution.

While doing so he has left the nation less safe. All to satisfy his need for revenge against those who investigated his many crimes. As if firing the investigators wiped the slate clean of the illegal acts they uncovered.

What comes around goes around. Next democrat can use the same powers to undo the Trump doings and appointments

 

[j-mac]

How tired you must be from tap dancing around the circumstance of your inability to refute my premise.

Your premise is stupid...How's that? Understand yet?

 

[Correll]

If YOU wanted to make yourself relevant you could have tried to give me a factual example of the weaponization to which you referred. But you couldn't, or won't. So, time to bugger off.

MAGA is purging your political operatives from the government. You are welcome to keep shittalking while we are taking action.

We will see if your denial is stronger than reality come the mid terms.

 

[Billiejeens]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-debunked

Take your pick.

You pick one.

 

[Billiejeens]

Your premise is weak, TDS driven nonsense...That's all you do in here, is ***** and moan about Trump this, or Trump that...Meanwhile, you don't talk about anything consequential to anything...Just mindless ranting about Trump...What a useless existence...

Get in
Make fun of berg
Get out.
Nothing meaningful can be done.

 

[j-mac]

Get in
Make fun of berg
Get out.
Nothing meaningful can be done.

Oh, every chance…