Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is facing a potentially serious challenge to his hold on power as momentum builds behind Chris Van Hollen, with the Maryland senator now reportedly open to a run for majority leader.
A movement to draft Van Hollen to challenge Schumer is gaining steam, according to Politico Playbook, which reported Monday that two people close to the effort said it was underway.
A person familiar with Van Hollen’s thinking told the outlet that the senator has “received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode.”
Most people rejected his message. They hated WoodScientist because he told the truth.
To be honest, I think there’s a serious possibility, if a president attempted to dismantle the “national security” apparatus, the NSA would stage a false flag attack themselves to discredit them and protect their positions. Even if the president had hard evidence that they had done so, it’s doubtful that Americans would believe it or care. There’d be back to back media coverage talking about how the move puts Americans at risk and warning of an attack, then an attack happens, people’s minds would be made up in an instant, and any pushback would be seen as both treasonous and blindly loyal to the president.
Look at the Cold War and how many times the CIA manipulated elections or overthrew democratically elected leaders, just for the sake of bananas being a little cheaper from a minor country half the world away. Do people really think they didn’t have contingencies in place for the possibility of a socialist president being elected, or just one who interfered with their aims? Why? Did they just have so much respect for democracy? Or did they somehow lack the capability to interfere, when they so easily did so abroad? And if they had contingencies then, what happened when to actually break that power?
The last time a president really acted against the aims of the intelligence community was when JFK fired Alan Dulles, months before he was assassinated. Dulles somehow ended up on the investigative committee into the assassination. Whether he was behind it or not, he was treated as above suspicion despite having the clearest motive.
Even if you somehow avoid getting assassinated and stop them from orchestrating a false flag, it’s likely they have connections in the media they can use against you. Try to suppress that, and you’re an evil authoritarian tankie. Basically any tool that the president, or that any head of state around the world, can use to survive when US spies are trying to get rid of them, is “authoritarian,” which in turn can be used to justify acting against them more openly.