Do You Trust the U.S. Government?
American Greatness,
by
Roger Kimball
Original Article
Posted By: GustoGrabber,
2/6/2022 5:39:19 AM
Do you trust the U.S. government? I don’t recommend it.
Consider what John Kirby, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said a couple of days ago at a press briefing. “We believe,” Kirby said, that Russia is planning to stage a fake attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces against Russian sovereign territory, or against Russian speaking people,” in order to justify an invasion of Ukraine. Kirby had lots of details: “We believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations, as well as military equipment,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/6/2022 5:47:53 AM (No. 1063118)
No, what is this a trick question? That shameful State Dept 'briefing' the other day showed that the government and tne military industrial complex is trying to weasel their way into a war we have no business being in....and I 'm bloody tired of hearing all of the testosterone-challengened Neocons beating their sunken chests about saving 'democracy'.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/6/2022 6:18:38 AM (No. 1063128)
Do you trust THIS U.S. Government.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/6/2022 6:29:30 AM (No. 1063136)
How can one Trust this Administration?
This morning, I couldn't sleep a thought kept nagging at me. The Statement given by Morgan Ortagus upon her departure from the State Department wherein. she swore fealty to the Biden Administration, struck me as strange. The fealty was not to the Constitution, the Country nor the Flag... Fealty to a corrupt administration whose many dictats are unconstitutional at best, if not Criminal, is Treasonous, is it not! Your thoughts?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/6/2022 6:34:49 AM (No. 1063139)
Not any more.......
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 2/6/2022 6:46:15 AM (No. 1063147)
Anyone who trusts the federal government is too stupid for words. Almost every public statement from a Democrat federal politician (and every federal agency) is propaganda, intended to mislead or at least obfuscate. Once is a while we may hear a semi-truthful statement from the Supreme Court, but even such statements are self-serving. We are living is dangerous times. We have no President of the United States. Harris is dumber politically than Hillary Clinton. We don't know who in the White House is pulling Biden's strings. Our policies regarding Iran sound like Barack Obama. The Deep State's abuse of President Trump (which continues) is astonishing. The Jan 6 political prisoners are being abused in the DC jail and almost nothing is being done to stop it, including apparent appeasement by all but a handful of DC Republicans. The defendants' attorneys seem all but worthless, and only one federal judge seems to give a damn. These are a few telling examples.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jinx 2/6/2022 6:53:16 AM (No. 1063152)
Just look at his face. It shows that even he does not believe what he is saying. They lie with impunity. Maybe the Press will stop covering for them before we go to war and our young soldiers are killed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chumley 2/6/2022 6:59:18 AM (No. 1063154)
This government has done nothing but lie since day one. Both parties do it continuously. No matter what the subject, their first impulse is to cover up, embellish or flat out lie. Never once have I heard them tell the full truth about anything. They are no different than a large corporation.
Its safer to trust a known pedophile or a drug addict.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Osprey21 2/6/2022 7:04:53 AM (No. 1063160)
Bwahahahahahaa... I trust the dude in the alley running the three-card Monte game more than the .gov
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/6/2022 7:17:01 AM (No. 1063169)
Yes. I trust that the US government will always lie. This has been the case since Viet Nam and thus far I have not been proven wrong. Washington DC is the enemy, not Russia, not China
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/6/2022 7:29:14 AM (No. 1063179)
We no longer have a government as envisioned by our founders. It’s been taken over by globalist forces whose interests are personal and in no way support the goals of its people. Per the Declaration of Independence, it is our right and our duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for the future security of the nation. When do we start?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 2/6/2022 7:39:44 AM (No. 1063185)
NO! A thousand times NO!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 2/6/2022 7:44:23 AM (No. 1063191)
#6, this feckless and corrupt government is already killing our young soldiers by making them take the Fauci/Gates death shots. Whoever is now running the US government is doing Satan’s bidding.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rinktum 2/6/2022 8:25:08 AM (No. 1063222)
Corrupt. Lawless. Authoritarian. Dishonest. Arrogant. Self-serving. It is the antithesis of our founding principles. Evil men have created a system that is now self-perpetuating. The corruption runs so deep I honestly cannot see a way to undo it. Both sides of the aisle are complicit in their own ways. One is actively destroying the Republic, while the other is married to the status quo wherein wealth and privilege is their sole motivation. What few actual patriots that are there seem to be tilting at windmills. It is heartbreaking to witness. So many evil men with one thought and that is to destroy the greatest nation on this planet. I cannot wrap my brain around such evil.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LtE126 2/6/2022 8:31:46 AM (No. 1063233)
Nope.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Kafka2 2/6/2022 9:07:04 AM (No. 1063284)
In 1999,bombing attacks in Russia were widely attributed to Chechen terrorists. According to some historians and journalists, the bombings were false flag attacks coordinated by the Russian state security services to bring Putin into the presidency. Could history be repeating itself?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 2/6/2022 9:10:26 AM (No. 1063287)
Do I trust the government?? About as far as I could pick up Jerry Nadler and throw him!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/6/2022 9:28:56 AM (No. 1063298)
I don't trust this Biden Government as far as I could toss an elephant.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/6/2022 10:02:30 AM (No. 1063346)
Distrust in government - An American tradition since at least 1773.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 2/6/2022 10:20:06 AM (No. 1063371)
I knew better than to trust most Federal agencies, but I did have trust in the CDC, FDA, and ones that I thought were science-based. Not anymore. COVID showed me that all Federal agencies are staffed by dishonest, power-hungry bureaucrats. In addition, I no longer trust the medical establishment. They've also been lying through their teeth for the past two years.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
VietVet68 2/6/2022 10:20:52 AM (No. 1063373)
Hell no I don't trust the government! The irony is that liberals have created exactly the type of government they railed against in the 1960s. They complained about overreach, censorship, environment and racism among other things. Now we find out they're repeating the same mistakes the fought against now that they're in charge.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/6/2022 11:02:58 AM (No. 1063419)
Of course not. Why and what can ordinary citizens do about it realistically are more important questions.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 2/6/2022 11:25:29 AM (No. 1063467)
I haven't trusted the US government for many years. I trust them far, far less today than years ago.
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When government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear government, we have tyranny.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
deerejon 2/6/2022 8:50:54 PM (No. 1063921)
Does monkeys have wings,Hell no....
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
judy 2/7/2022 12:25:25 AM (No. 1064022)
Kirby, another creepy Obama holdover....he makes my skin crawl.....
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