REFORM CIA

“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber.”

“And the goal has always been that once she is comfortable, then she will be out with them. But it would be inappropriate for us to rush it. We want to see them together.”

“So this is a three-page, single-spaced memo on Letterhead that says, The Chambers of the Chief Justice. And he explains to his colleagues why he thinks the Obama plan needs to be halted. He says it's going to impose enormous burdens on states and on the coal industry. He says there's no time to waste because they're going to have to start complying with the requirements of the Clean Power Plan right away.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike.”

“2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year.”

“There are definitely people dying in ICE facilities. We just don't know. We just don't have transparency on it. We just don't. That's it. There are people dying in ICE detention centers. We know this to be true. We've seen some reporting on this, but really, we don't know.”

“And where it leads is what we've seen over the first year plus of the Trump administration, where the court is deluged by emergency applications and is spending seemingly half its time on them and is often in very short periods of time ruling for the Trump administration on major questions like immigration, like agency power, like government spending, like transgender troops.”

“The act of writing an opinion for a judge is the act of saying, here's why you should trust me. Even if you disagree with this outcome, I'm going to show you my work, I'm going to show you how I got to my answer. And so when the Supreme Court changes its way of operating, and does that so much less, there is truly a risk to the legitimacy of the institution.”

“Donald Trump is polling. I saw polls in the low 30s today. I don't know if they're right, but that's crazy numbers. You go to those Republicans, go to that Thomas Massie, you say, become an independent caucus with us and we will support your re-elect. There is no reason that this should be a Republican house right now.”

“Their priorities become our priorities, and all of a sudden, they're our only friend. And you can't tell me that's accidental. That's right. They're literally our only friend, and they're not a they're not a friend. They have a much longer term view of these things than we do. They they began to try to implement this policy in the sixties, and it finally came to fruition. It's prime minister after prime minister after prime minister cultivates not just American political figures, but but wealthy American Jews and says, look, you know, we've got a lot of lobbying to do.”

“Unfortunately, we have attached 40% of the market value of the S and P to incendiary content that tears us apart. And the result is people now don't believe that Russian troops pouring over the border in Ukraine is their enemy. They believe that their neighbor with a Trump sign is their enemy or someone who doesn't believe your ideology around gender politics is your enemy.”

“So the whole thing, as predicted, comes down to Justice Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote, and on February 9th, the fifth day of the debate, he sends a very short note. It doesn't say much at all. It's three sentences. He says he's voting with the chief, and that's it. It's over. The Supreme Court rules five to four, and within hours, the Supreme Court issues its order.”

“I guess it makes sense that they would find for the oil companies because this Supreme Court is filled with partisan hacks. But they do like Louisiana because it is a red state. So that was the only reason why I thought they might. But in fact, they are just partisan hacks. So very unsurprisingly, there we are.”

“He strongly implied the US would interfere in UK politics if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister because Jeremy Corbyn was against the ultra-zionists. That's why you need to worry about Pompeo; he was CIA and Secretary of State, and these people rise fast, as we saw with George H.W. Bush and Hillary Clinton.”

“The ultimate expression of masculinity is to get involved in the life of a child that isn't yours. And not enough men are doing it. Even really successful men. They're not stepping up. They're not helping young men. And the easiest thing to do, the most and it's so rewarding.”

“2023 also saw the roots of a global banking crisis arise out of four American regional banks, the two largest being Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank.”

“He's engaging in market manipulation on a daily basis, whether it's by going on Fox or putting out a social post or talking to a reporter who happens to call him at Monday morning at 7:45 AM, before the market's open. It's pretty clear what's going on here. I think the events are just going to take care of themselves here.”

“Why would a president believe a foreign intel agency before his own? I don't know. That's really the $64,000 question. You you recall in the in the first term when president, Trump met with, Vladimir Putin. He did not take his intelligence people into the meeting with him. Putin took his intelligence people into meeting with him because the president said he trusted the other side's intelligence people more than he trusted his own. I'm surprised that that feeling, that belief has held over all this way into the second term where you would believe the Israeli information before you would believe your own people's information.”

“In his testimony, he also discussed a phone call he had with Pelosi, whom he accused of trying to encourage him to undermine Trump's ability to launch a nuclear attack. The speaker claimed she apparently called Milley in an effort to strip Trump of his nuclear launch capabilities just one day after trying to initiate 25th Amendment proceedings.”

“Just a few months before all of this, the court had ruled against the EPA in a case involving mercury emissions. That case had been litigated over three years, three and a half years. In the normal Supreme Court process, and nobody had granted the challengers a stay. So, they were starting to comply with the regulation as the litigation goes forward. The Supreme Court rules against the EPA. The next day, the EPA official puts up a blog post and essentially says, very nice you ruled against this Supreme Court. But in the meantime, the rule has essentially gone into effect, and your ruling doesn't mean very much. That seems to drive the Chief Justice crazy.”

“The justices spend a lot of time considering which cases to go into here, and they get briefs on that. And if they decide to hear a case, they get another round of briefs, and supporting briefs, and then they hear arguments, and then they sit together and discuss and vote. And after all this process winds itself out for like a year, they issue a reasoned decision, could be 100 pages long, with lots of concurrences and dissents, and it's the product of great care and deliberation. That's the Supreme Court we're used to. The Shadow Docket short circuits all of that.”

“Afghanistan produces 93% of the world's heroin. Almost all of that heroin goes to Iran and Russia, and we want them to be addicted to heroin. It weakens their societies, and I never got it published. Well, fast forward years later That's disgusting. We've got a fentanyl epidemic in this country. That fentanyl is coming from China and Mexico. They want us to be addicted to fentanyl because it weakens our society, and that's why we're in the predicament that we're in.”

“So I loosely break it down into three very reductive qualities. And that is the first is to be a provider. I'm not talking about the way the world is, but the way the world should be. I think every young man should have a plan and have an assumption that at some point, he will have to be the economic leader provider for for his family.”

“You're gonna have to tear the place down to the studs, and you're gonna have to enact real controls. I'll give you an example. This may sound silly, but I think it's important. When I first joined the CIA, I had literally no idea the political views of the people that I was that I was working with. No idea. I think that to reform the place, you have to tear it down and then rebuild. And you have to have real rules that are really followed that you just cannot be political.”

“What is that in sort of the basic economic, an investment scheme with no product is a Ponzi scheme. I do not know what to tell you. Yes, this one has gone on a very long time. Yes, it has gone up and down and it was up and now it's down a bit, but it's still up from where it was in 2022, sort of barely.”

“I've never believed I don't think any CIA officer, past or present, believes or has believed that the Iranians were anywhere near a nuclear, weapon. They don't have a delivery system that could deliver a nuclear weapon to The United States. And, you know, when you've got two national intelligence estimates, a national intelligence estimate is a sense of the entire intelligence community, all 18 organizations within The US Intelligence Community, unanimously concluding that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program, twice.”

“I think they should study and and thoughtfully consider lowering their drinking age back to 18. I live in The UK and see by your face where those are going. I live in The UK. Military drinking age 18. I mean, I like some of the things that I've been doing. Well, if you're in the military, you can drink under the age of 21 because the idea is that if you're gonna die for your country, you should be able you're adult enough to order a drink.”

“Political scientists will tell you that there's more partisan voting on the Shadow Docket than on the Merits Docket. That you're much more likely to see Republican appointees voting in favor of a Republican president and against a Democratic president than on the court's usual docket, than on its Merits Docket. And one example of why this is so and why people, when they're acting fast, might rely on their partisan impulses is in the Biden years, the court voted against Biden on three different emergency applications.”

“General Milley defended his collusion with CCP officials, which he says was to cool down tensions with China. He claims he spoke with his Chinese counterpart amid rumors of a forthcoming military attack, but we still don't know who Mark Milley actually works for.”

“We are literally transferring trillions of dollars from young people to old people. And we wonder why young men feel anxious when they are disparate. But 75% of women say economic viability is key to a mate. It's only 25% of men.”

“Everyone you admire, everyone you think has killed it, the only thing I can guarantee you is there were a ton of nos in getting to one of the top 10 podcasts in the world, getting to a person as a partner who's higher character and hotter than you, getting to make more money than you would have ever guessed that person would have made. The only thing that got them there was the willingness and the endurance to to anticipate no.”

“It’s about, at some point, can you honestly look in the mirror and say, I add surplus value. I create more tax revenue and jobs than I absorb. Everyone absorbs tax revenue if you're in America. I listen to more people complain than I complain. Right? I love more people than love me.”

“America isn't about identifying a superclass of rich kids and the freakishly remarkable. It's about betting on unremarkable kids. So, this is what we need to do. We need if you're a university and you have more than a billion dollar endowment and you're not growing your freshman class faster than population, you're a hedge fund with classes and you should lose your tax free status.”

“Economic hypergamy is still an absolutely full, full force. So if we don't figure out a way to level up all young people economically such that there's more pass for economic viability for young men, I think it's just gonna tear at our society.”

“The only apparent consultation that was taking place was with the Israelis. And the Israelis really, really wanted this to get done. So why would you, as a practical matter, need to consult other countries? Because there is this sense, like, as an exceptional nation, we don't need anyone's permission to act. At the very least, you're gonna want political cover. You're also gonna wanna give them an opportunity to come up with plan b for their, let's say, oil or gas needs or transportation issues.”

“If I could have one policy, one blanket, if I had a magic wand, one policy, it'd be mandatory national service. If you look at the lowest levels of young adult depression in the West, it's two countries. It's Israel and Singapore. And despite all the existential threats facing Israel, they what does mandatory national service do? It gives you the sense that you're serving the agency of something bigger than yourself.”

“The MEK hires some of the most high powered lobbyists in Washington to get them off the terrorism list. And they engaged with both Democrats and Republicans. I mean, everybody from from Howard Dean to Rudy Giuliani. Howard Dean was lobbying for MEK? Oh, yeah. And Rudy Giuliani. That's pathetic. You should see the pictures of them together. It's sickening. At these big banquets in Washington to raise money for the the people who tried to kill the US ambassador? Mhmm. But they're the good guys now.”

“The former CIA Director and former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Wednesday, called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency in 2017 to abduct WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He wanted to kidnap or assassinate Assange, not because of the Russiagate story that the Democrats and the left wanted to brainwash everyone into believing, but because of the Vault 7 dumps.”

“But here's what really pisses me off. Of course, the Republicans are going to vote for it. But 100 Democrats voted for it as well, including Chuck Schumer, including Hakeem Jeffries, including my congressman, Dan Goldman, who is a rich dude who inherited a lot of money and certainly should know better.”

“The CIA doesn't care about stopping the flow of drugs. They just don't care. You know, this this wonderful show on Netflix, Narcos? Yes. So in seasons one and two, just as the DEA is gonna go in and grab Pablo Escobar or grab the gentleman of Cali, the CIA station chief comes in and just screws the whole thing up. That's in that show because that's what happens in real life. The CIA at the time cared only about communism and stopping communism. And if the drug cartels were gonna tell the CIA where the communists were hiding, then the CIA was a okay with drug cartels.”

“The Clarity Act is going to put crypto under the supervision of the CFTC. This weak agency that has historically been much more favorable to crypto. It's going to treat it as a commodity rather than a security. The reason that crypto doesn't want to be treated like a security is that securities laws are predicated on disclosure.”

“The Shadow Docket short circuits all of that. It happens in a very brief period of time on thin briefs, no arguments, no in-person deliberations. It gives rise to rulings with scant or no reasoning at all. And over the past ten years, this has really become a major part of the court's business, including in some decisions over the past year or so that have awarded President Trump enormous leeway and power.”

“Julian Assange dumped Vault 7, which revealed that the CIA can hack in anywhere, connect it to the internet, make it seem like Russia or China or whoever did it. The CIA can have the capability to go into any system, cyberattack, and have it ready when it's revealed who done it; they can paint it like Russia or China did it with Chinese characters.”