I have to admit that when I read Charles Dickens' account of the government's Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit I understood completely that many of the employees at that excellent government office would be Barnacles. Of course. The average bureaucrat will hang on like living death to his job and his pension. But I was not so sure about the other race of bureaucrats circumlocuting themselves about their bureaucratic offices: the Stiltstockings. What exactly did Dickens mean by that?
Today, thanks to the FBI and the Inspector General report on the FBI's handling of the Clinton Email Matter, I now understand. A Stiltstocking is the kind of person that would text the following.
And they are living proof of the law of bureaucracy, which progressively does less and less as the years pass until it is just working to ensure its survival and continuance. As Kimberly Strassel writes of the FBI:
Actually, you can't really fault the FBI Barnacles and Stiltstockings too much. What do you expect, given the clear message from the top during the Obama administration that the fix was in? On everything.
If Hillary Clinton had half a brain she would never have set up a private email server. Because suppose the Russkies found out about it; suppose its existence became public, etc.? What is the point of being Secretary of State if the Russkies are reading your emails before you do. If President Obama had half a brain he would have insisted: No Private Email Server in my administration, not no how. If Hillary Clinton had an ounce of honor she would have backed out of the presidential race when her private email server became public knowledge in 2015, because she would have understood what a huge liability such a scandal would be going into the election. Then she wouldn't have needed a weenie like James Comey to kick dust all over the FBI's pro-forma investigation of her private email server and "exonerate" her. Then the angry rank-and-file FBI agents wouldn't have stampeded James Comey into reopening the private email investigation just days before the election.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is right. Did the FBI investigate Clinton's private email server? "Of course not." So therefore:
It's like the House Bank Scandal of 1992. Your average smelly Walmart shopper may not understand high politics, but they do understand about Congresscritters bouncing checks without penalty.
Only you chaps aren't that smart, and aren't that honest, and generally you chaps can get away with it, because mainstream media.
Yeah. Mainstream media. You guys would be doing your side a real favor if you insisted on your side playing by the rules, and shaming it when it doesn't. If you had then your chap would likely be in the White House today instead of Donald Trump.
As usual,Shakespeare Scott has the last word:
Thank goodness all these Barnacles and Stiltstockings at the Circumlocution Office are all idiots. Otherwise this country would be in a world of hurt.
So back to the real question. Is Trump an idiot?
Probably, the answer is Yes. But not as much of an idiot as his political opponents and their bribed apologists in the Circumlocution Office and the media.
Today, thanks to the FBI and the Inspector General report on the FBI's handling of the Clinton Email Matter, I now understand. A Stiltstocking is the kind of person that would text the following.
Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support . . .The Stiltstockings are utterly unremarkable bureaucratic worms that think they are a cut above. But they are not. They are Barnacles with attitude, bumbling idiots doing nothing in particular except sending each other memos and texts while banking their government checks every month.
And they are living proof of the law of bureaucracy, which progressively does less and less as the years pass until it is just working to ensure its survival and continuance. As Kimberly Strassel writes of the FBI:
A neutral arbiter has found they made a hash of the Clinton investigation, and it is reasonable to assume that those same players made a hash of the Trump probe.Of course the FBIers made a hash of things. That is what long-established bureaucracies do. They stumble and bumble around pretending to do serious work. But serious work means taking serious action, and serious action is dangerous: someone powerful might take exception to a serious action, and then what would happen to the Barnacle's job and pension?
Actually, you can't really fault the FBI Barnacles and Stiltstockings too much. What do you expect, given the clear message from the top during the Obama administration that the fix was in? On everything.
If Hillary Clinton had half a brain she would never have set up a private email server. Because suppose the Russkies found out about it; suppose its existence became public, etc.? What is the point of being Secretary of State if the Russkies are reading your emails before you do. If President Obama had half a brain he would have insisted: No Private Email Server in my administration, not no how. If Hillary Clinton had an ounce of honor she would have backed out of the presidential race when her private email server became public knowledge in 2015, because she would have understood what a huge liability such a scandal would be going into the election. Then she wouldn't have needed a weenie like James Comey to kick dust all over the FBI's pro-forma investigation of her private email server and "exonerate" her. Then the angry rank-and-file FBI agents wouldn't have stampeded James Comey into reopening the private email investigation just days before the election.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is right. Did the FBI investigate Clinton's private email server? "Of course not." So therefore:
At the end of the day, the actions reviewed in this report helped Donald Trump win the election, not the other way around.Right Chuck. So the right thing for Democrats to do would have been to insist that the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton follow the law and not try to stonewall and make excuses for an act -- transmitting classified material over an unsecured email system -- that would have put anyone else in jail.
It's like the House Bank Scandal of 1992. Your average smelly Walmart shopper may not understand high politics, but they do understand about Congresscritters bouncing checks without penalty.
Only you chaps aren't that smart, and aren't that honest, and generally you chaps can get away with it, because mainstream media.
Yeah. Mainstream media. You guys would be doing your side a real favor if you insisted on your side playing by the rules, and shaming it when it doesn't. If you had then your chap would likely be in the White House today instead of Donald Trump.
As usual,
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.But look on the bright side. The intelligence community tried to wrong-foot Candidate Trump by colluding with the Clinton campaign to convert ordinary oppo. research into a government intelligence product and failed. The FBI tried to whitewash Hillary Clinton on the private email server and failed. Probably the Mueller investigation is going to fail as well.
Thank goodness all these Barnacles and Stiltstockings at the Circumlocution Office are all idiots. Otherwise this country would be in a world of hurt.
So back to the real question. Is Trump an idiot?
Probably, the answer is Yes. But not as much of an idiot as his political opponents and their bribed apologists in the Circumlocution Office and the media.
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