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Government Corruption
Liberals' FBI trust is a real gut buster
2022-08-19
[NYPOST] It is curious that the biggest fans of the FBI today are liberals. You hear them on MSNBC, singing from the same song sheet as former disgraced CIA and FBI operatives who have been transformed into esteemed and well-paid TV experts, shilling for whatever unseen forces motivate them, or creating confusing narratives to cover their tracks.

At the same time, a majority of Americans, 53%, view the FBI as "Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
’s personal Gestapo," according to a new Rasmussen poll out Thursday.

The agency’s standing is at rock bottom among Republicans and conservatives, and not too healthy with independents and moderates.

The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, one week after the extraordinary FBI raid on former President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s Florida mansion, shows just 50% of all voters hold a favorable view of the federal law-enforcement agency, down from 60% in May 2020.

But while just 30% of Republicans and 45% of independents feel positive about the FBI, 75% of Democrats and 81% of liberals are big fans.

Since the Mar-a-Lago raid, 70% of Republicans say they have less trust in the FBI than they used to, while 50% of Democrats trust it more.

’POLITICIZED THUGS’
Among Republicans, a staggering 76% agree with the Roger Stone quote that there is "a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI . . . as Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo." About half (49%) of independents and a sizable 37% of Democrats also view the FBI as Biden’s Gestapo, while 72% of liberals disagree.

Liberals are happy because a politicized agency is coming after their ideological enemies, particularly their bête noire, Trump. It’s a stark turnaround from the days of decrying the FBI’s efforts to target Martin Luther King. The left has discarded any pretense of caring about civil liberties or injustice and instead sneers at conservatives who they claim are the ones who have jettisoned their core principles and now are "anti-cop."

Posted by:Fred

#9  Liberals love the FBI like they love Liz Cheney and like they loved John McCain. As soon as they aren't useful they'll be nazi's again.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-08-19 17:24  

#8  Liberals are the biggest fans of the FBI and CIA. It figures, they have the Federal police at their beckon call and they get a pass for their own crimes. Similarly, they have their own spook agency.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-08-19 16:43  

#7  You know what it reminded me of, it reminded me when Blamtifa was like, "Hey flyover dudes, come join us!
We have the same goals!"

And everyone was like, nah bro, we're good.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-19 14:25  

#6  I like how they have spent some 3 years intensely punching down on the law and order people, and some wacko with a nail gun knocks on their door and they are like, "Help Help we're being victimized!"

Not sure what is going on there rank and file, but leadership and marketing are absolute garbage, and the ones playing their game seem dangerously incompetent.

And its all going to get good people hurt, or worse, while executive sessions between the two groups try to figure how to out-do the latest IRS Video like count.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-19 14:22  

#5  Lenin, Moa and Castro were not big proponents of civil liberties. They were also not a concern for Idi Amin - he cared mostly about seasoning.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-08-19 12:57  

#4  There was an attempt at a Muddle, saying a person cannot be both pro-law and against the FBI.

It is a Muddle, because it asserts that the FBI is the law. It is not.

In reality, if the FBI is acting outside of the law, it is indeed obligatory for those supporting law to have issues with the FBI.

The real issue here is the Defund the Police movement, whose charter is local police were acting outside of the law and should be disbanded, are now pro-FBI, who are themselves acting outside of the law. It is they who are breaking the logic train.

Hence, the Muddle.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-19 12:25  

#3  Gestapo, Stasi, KGB...those terms are all too respectable for the FBI. I prefer to refer to them as a goon squad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-08-19 11:53  

#2  The purpose of "defend the police" was to replace state and local law enforcement with a federal force, likely built from the FBI.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-08-19 06:21  

#1  Remaking the image of the Democrats. Supports of law enforcement. GOP the problem. IRS training.
Posted by: Dale   2022-08-19 01:07  

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