“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that, then I realized I was somebody.” Lily Tomlin
March 27, 2024, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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Joe’s Reign in Office hasn’t been so good.
Doors are falling off airplanes. Trains are falling off their tracks. Cargo ships are crashing into bridges.
There is war. Threats of war. Illegal immigrants being treated like kings.
All on the taxpayers’ dime.
Why doesn’t somebody do something?
Probably because when somebody does something, it ends up like what happens when somebody does something.
If you’re a whistleblower, or Donald Trump, you’re signing on for a dangerous ride.
John Barnett was a quality control engineer at Boeing for more than 30 years. He filed a whistleblower complaint over safety flaws he had detected at Boeing.
On March 9, Barnett was found dead in his truck. He was in the midst of depositions in his whistleblower retaliation case, Barnett’s attorneys said.
It’s being called suicide. But a friend of Barnett’s says no.
“Jennifer,” said he told her that he might end up dead after speaking publicly about Boeing.
“He wasn’t concerned about his own safety, because I asked him,” she said. “I said, ‘Aren’t you scared?’ And he said, ‘No, I ain’t scared, but if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.”
It’s hard when the odds are stacked against you. When there’s no one to turn to.
And there is no one left to help.
It used to be there were courts to protect. The Department of Justice to right wrongs. Homeland Security to secure our security. The Department of Transportation to make the skies, rails, waterways and roads safe. The FBI.
But that’s all changed.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress on March 11.
“We have had dangerous individuals entering the United States…We are seeing a wide array of very dangerous threats that emanated from the border.”
You think?
Wray has never told us something we didn’t already know. And he's busy, at Mar-a-Lago with classified documents, tracking parents at school board meetings, and monitoring Catholics in their churches.
Nonetheless and despite that "busywork," now he is saying there is “no doubt” criminals have entered the U.S. at the southern border, but says there is no specific plot.
He didn’t say the flow of unvetted illegals into our country must stop. But then neither did Secretary Mayorkas.
It's probably that Chris just doesn't want us to worry. Just as Joe pooh-poohed the idea that the Chinese “weather balloons” could ever be a security threat.
Joe boasts that his Cabinet is the most diverse in history. What he forgot to say is that it is also the least qualified.
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg had no idea what to do, or when to go to East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment devastated the town.
“I felt strongly about this, and could have expressed that sooner,” he told the people who were living in the midst of a toxic environment.
“Again, I was taking pains to respect the role that I have, the role that I don’t have – but that should not have stopped me from weighing in about how I felt about what was happening.”
Like Joe, it was all about Pete.
And Pete’s not going to do any better with the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse. If he was, he would investigate it as a possible terrorist threat.
War correspondent Lara Logan, who gained national acclaim for her coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said yesterday that inside sources told her the Baltimore bridge collapse was a terrorist attack.
A congressional investigation reported by the Wall Street Journal found that Chinese cargo cranes, built by manufacturer ZPMC and operating at U.S. ports, have been found to contain communications equipment.
These sensors can track the destination of containers, being shipped in and out of the U.S., causing lawmakers to worry about espionage and possible planned disruptions.
But once again, why doesn’t somebody do something?
Joe has made it clear, he won’t.
Let's face it. He doesn’t need any of us. Not as much as he needs China. And when it comes to a choice between the two, guess who Joe will choose.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots