Down in the Swamp with the Brennans and the McCabes

As Vox Day reminds us, the job of Donald Trump is to Build the Wall and Drain the Swamp. And so it is a problem that the monster omnibus spending bill for the next six months (!) builds Chuck Schumer's tunnel under the Hudson but doesn't Build the Wall.

We deplorables ain't happy about that.

This omnibus bill is a problem, everyone seems to say, if Republicans want to win the midterms. Because if Republicans can't figure out that their job is to build the wall and stop Chuck's tunnel, they have, as the Brits say, lost the plot.

But enough of Build the Wall. What about the Dreaded Swamp?

I am coming to think that the Swamp is in Deep Doodoo over their corrupt effort to mess up Donald Trump during the election and drive him from office after the election.

And my feeling, from reading a piece about "John Brennan, Obama's Head of the Innuendo Community," and a piece about "The Real Andrew McCabe," both in the American Spectator, is that there's a little problem out there in Swampland. And that is that swamp creatures like Brennan and McCabe are not that good at what they do.

Hey, you expect that, what with Versailles and silken courtiers and mature and corrupt dynasties in general. Their functionaries really are not as smart and tough as the revolutionaries they oppose. Because they are soft. And they are stupid.

What courtiers do is sit around in the king's court and stab each other in the back. And they get chatting to their pals in the foreign king's intelligence service, and use the completely unbiased information from their pals in the foreign king's intelligence service to play their own little power games in their own king's court.

A member of the intelligence community tells TAS that he was approached by FBI investigators inquiring about Brennan’s improprieties at the CIA. He was startled to hear them venting aloud about Brennan’s practice of using British intelligence officials to spy on the Trump campaign.

As the saying goes: "what could go wrong?" Because, you see, getting info from British intelligence on the Trump campaign would be an act of "collusion" if Trump's people did it. Every MSM journalist knows that.

Rule 1: Republicans and conservatives know that they have to play by the rules otherwise the Swamp will eat them for breakfast, vide Watergate.

Rule 2: Even though Democrats and liberals expect to get away with everything, there are "little people" down in the bureaucracy, deplorables, if you like, that hate them for it. Particularly in the FBI.

We see this with the fired Andrew McCabe. Apparently he had it in for Special Agent Robyn Gritz. She'd had a great career at the FBI in the years after 9/11, working with the CIA and under Michael Flynn at the Defense Intelligence Agency. But then she went to work for Andrew McCabe.

All of a sudden she started getting bad work reviews, and in the end had to resign from the FBI. Not surprisingly straight arrow Gen. Flynn went to bat for her.

In 2015, Flynn publicly supported Gritz in an NPR broadcast in which he questioned why Gritz had been driven out of the FBI. Citing her years of valuable national security experience, he praised her as one of the “bright lights and shining stars” in the intelligence community.

Golly! Can you connect the dots here? You think that maybe Andrew McCabe was pissed off with Flynn for backing Gritz? You think that maybe the Flynn indictment was a setup by McCabe to teach Flynn a lesson?

You may think that; I couldn't possibly comment.

But the thing is that these senior Swamp Creatures aren't all that good at what they do. And I blame the Fake Media.

You see, if the Fake Media did its job, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable instead of toadying to liberal power, then the Brennans of the world would think twice before dancing the tango with Brit intelligence guys as a way to launder Russian Kompromat (компромат, I expect, but you  never know with Russian). He would think, wow, I better keep my hands clean, just in case.

You see, if the Fake Media did its job, then weenies like AndrewMcCabe wouldn't try underhanded stuff on employees they didn't like, because the weenies would be afraid it would all come out in the wash, and then what about the weenies' pensions?

You see, if the Fake Media did its job and rooted out government and political malfeasance wherever it was found, then these Brennans and McCabes would do their jobs and stop playing courtier politics and stabbing decent people in the back.

OK, but who cares? It looks to me, what with all the firings of the McCabes and the demotions of the Strzoks and Pages and Ohrs, that things are not going all that well in the Swamp right now.

They say that the Trump Surveillance is worse than Watergate, but they don't know what they are talking about. There could be 20,000 Swamp Creatures fired, demoted or reassigned over the monstrous and unjust surveillance and calumnification of the Trump campaign by the "intelligence community," but it will all just disappear into the ether. There will be no bringing up of "Brennanism" comparable to McCarthyism for the next 60 years, no bringing up of  "FISA-Gate" comparable to Watergate for the next 40 years. Because our noble journalistic crusaders jihadists in the media just don't think that what good old Brennan and McCabe do is in the same league as the vile actions of the tail-gunner anti-Communists and the hated red-baiting Nixon. Yeah! Jerry Voorhis and Helen Gahagan Douglas!

And that's a shame, because if there is one thing our rulers need to understand, it is that their glorious century-long Whig ascendancy of the liberally educated and the progressively evolved is coming to an end in the way that all things come to an end, in flaccidity and corruption and injustice.

Because, as I keep saying, every government official should have on their desk not "the buck stops here," but "there is no such thing as justice, only injustice."

My point is that when you have the power of government, which is force, then you should assume that your every action has the potential for injustice, and that knowledge should keep you awake at night.

Or, as Jordan B. Peterson writes, the male principle operates on an axis of Order <-> Tyranny. But how do you tell the difference?