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Truth is stranger than fiction they say and I suspect that is true. These days I read the news and think, I could not have imagined that if I tried.
Reality Winner is the young gal working for the NSA, recently arrested for leaking a document to the media. Can anybody tell me why I am cleaning toilets while the young-uns are working for the NSA? Than again, I’m not entirely sure I could respect myself in the morning, so perhaps my career as a spy is not such a good idea. But I digress…
Let’s just start with her name, Reality Winner. That name alone pretty much sums up all that ails us. Reality is not something you “win.” That has become the very nature of the beast. Today people seem to believe truth is like a game of capture the flag. Social media, politics, fake news, reality is now whatever we want it to be. You “win” reality by whacking people over the head until they just comply with the mutually agreed upon delusion of the day. It’s like mass hysteria or something.
I don’t mean to pick on 25 year olds, or perhaps I do, it is just that they are often very young, inexperienced, having come up within this post-modern culture where authority doesn’t even exist and truth is totally subjective.
Going up the chain of command with your complaints today is not even understood. That’s an old-fashioned, quaint idea. The chain of command is now, contact the media first, notify your desired political party, launch a protest, break some stuff, and perhaps get yourself arrested. The only authority people seem aware of is the alleged authority of public outrage.
Anyway, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but this gal is alleged to have simply printed off a document and sent it to the media, a paper indicating Russians had been trying to hack voting machines. Like, duh? Does anyone not know that foreign entities are always trying to one up each other, engage in espionage, steal and manipulate data? I mean, Reality Winner works for the NSA, for crying out loud. Surely someone told her why we might need National Security Agency?
I’m a nobody. 15 years ago, back when this gal was like 10 years old, I realized hackers were going after our voting machine software and the Russians, Chinese, etc, were all going to try to get in on the deal. Diebold delivers, right? Where has this child been?? This is not breaking news.
Anyway, she’s promptly arrested about an hour after the article is published, cluelessly coming from yoga class or bringing in some groceries or some such thing. I don’t know what bothers me more, the fact that she took it upon herself to leak a classified document or that she seems to have had no awareness that there might be repercussions coming her way.
I honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when she said something to the effect of, There are all these men surrounding me, so many men, and they all have guns. Said with some indignation and surprise, as if she had no idea such things even existed in the world and she is now being victimized by this “new” thing. Keep in mind this gal is alleged to be a veteran and she now works for the NSA. Maybe they should have trained her by making her watch Men in Black movies? Apparently she didn’t get the memo. Not sure about the aliens, but the Men in Black are real enough.
To make matters worse, she is alleged to have said she is scared they are going to make her disappear. While I am quite sure that happens sometimes, it is not the norm in America. It is not standard operating procedure. We don’t have a “disappear protocol.” Also, you have to actually be a threat to someone, pose a danger. Being a danger to your own self just doesn’t count.
Which brings up another point. If you believe we’re living in a fascist country, so full of corruption, so eager to disappear people, why are you working for them in the first place? Wut, it’s okay to spy on, persecute, and perhaps “disappear,” your fellow Americans…as long as their politics are different from yours? As long as they’re on the wrong team? It’s okay to break laws, violate rights, release classified data, disappear people even, when those you disagree with refuse to comply with your particular version of what it means to be a Reality Winner?
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Geezo, some people’s kids. Other than that, no further comment msb.
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“Other than that, no further comment msb.”
HA! Reminds me of that old cop joke, “you have the right to remain silent…..not that anyone ever has the common decency to avail themselves of that right….”
But you, Colorstorm are always delightful to listen too. 🙂
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Ok fine, l’ll accept your sweet baited biscuit to add:
It all went south the day she was named; her destiny was sealed……… 😉 She could probably sue her parents for cruel and unusual……..
See, I failed to avail myself of that right! haha
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When I read this story, I was shacking my head. She obviously committed a crime and didn’t do a good job at covering her tracks.
Also, as you said in the post there is a chain of command that can deal with problem areas. There is also a whistle blower law that protects people that try to raise an alarm about wrong doing and it protects them if they follow proper protocol.
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Good point about the whistle blower law. I read several versions of this tale, but for the life of me, I could not even figure out what she was blowing the whistle on. Or where the alleged wrong doing was? It is not as if there is some massive cover up and nobody knows who the Russians are.
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That age old comment, “What is truth,” has taken on a whole new meaning. I’m beginning to wonder what’s happening to the America I used to know and love.
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“Fantasy Loser”? 😏
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It seems strange that she was hired after the election. I suppose the inference is that she got the job with the express intent of attacking the Trump presidency from within. If this is true, maybe sedition is the better criminal charge against her, and anyone else that does this.
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The whole thing is just weird! That puzzled me too, according to her tweets she is not a fan of the president and seems to think he is up to no good. So then I wonder, did she go get the job for the sole purpose of hoping to make the president look bad? If so, you’re right, that’s more like sedition.
Parents can be forgiven for saying you’re a good person, but I was also left scratching my head when mom said, “she’s a patriot, she loves animals.” So I guess it really is all about the cat pictures now? 🙂
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All of it in recent years, now and as we go forward, is just part of the prophesied plan written extensively in the Word of God, beginning with great lies and deception. I don’t buy into the Reality Winner story or anything else the msm pumps out as anything but kabuki theater. Keeping the lost sheeple occupied from salvation. But Christ is the good Shepard. He will find His elect and bring them home.
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this whole thing smells of the stuff of utter fictional nonsense—yet it does seem to be our “reality” does it not—oh if there is not poetic justice I suppose….
A 25 year old kid—there in itself is problematic.
And I think if any superior or commander read any one of her blatant anti Trump, anti Government, anti this and that posts should have maybe stopped to think that perhaps this young gal doesn’t need high level clearance, doesn’t need to have access to things that are, shall we say, governmentally important….
When the likes of Julian Aussange jumps to ones defense, perhaps we need to do a double take…
There was a time that this young lady would have been tried for treason—we use to hang or shoot traitors—but we don’t do those sorts of things anymore—we just put them in prison for a bit where they can undergo a sex change if they’d like on taxpayer dollars for God forbid we hamper the wants and desires of traitors….
Oh let me get back to cleaning out the cat box because that is my important role in life here at 57….
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I so hear you, Julie. To add to the crazy, apparently one of the London attackers actually starred in a documentary called, “I want to be a jihadi.” I shouldn’t be surprised, but that’s just a whole new level of stupid. Maybe if we stopped trying to tear down our own government and just sat back and watched some documentaries, we could wrap this whole thing up pretty quickly?
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And I hear you as I second the notion of a while nuther level of stupid!!!!!
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Seems like all of us got away from cleaning toilets for a while to do something a little more like cleaning diapers! Honestly haven’t you noticed the trend it toward knowing that the “youth” thing is where it’s at. When I was 60, I was out and the 40’s were in; when I was 70, I found the 30’s were in; now in my 80’s, I’m no longer surprised that the 20’s are in. What happened to the wisdom of the aged? Or the wisdom of the ages?
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I suppose she got her 15 minutes of fame.
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OK, there are several things in that article I want to comment on. First, the mother has made the judgment that her daughter wouldn’t hurt anyone. So she is now the judge of what is safe behavior–not the authority that classified the leaked document. They don’t know anything, apparently, because the mother has determined the daughter wouldn’t hurt anyone. That’s an example of how our culture has adopted the “every man [and woman] did what was right in his [or her] own eyes” philosophy.
Second, the girl obviously was allowed to communicate with her mother, so why was she afraid she would “disappear”? I mean, entities who disappear people don’t usually let you make a call to tell someone who they are and what they’re about to do. She’s creating fake news!!
Becky
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LOL! Well said, Becky. I always cut mom’s slack because, “she’s a good person” is a perfectly ordinary thing to say. We really don’t want mom’s saying things like, “yep, I always knew that kid would wind up surrounded by the FBI someday.” 🙂
But this mom just didn’t sit right with me, this one is saying something more like, she is the right kind of person, so she is excused, in fact, what she’s done is patriotic. It was all implied, but that is the tone I got. Kid should be perceived as above the law because she’s the right kind of person.
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I got to work my way up to fixing broken toilets! 🙂
And why am I reading this story and getting the scene from Caddyshack where Rodney Dangerfield said, “Now I know why tigers eat their young.”
Too stupid for comment.
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Hilarious! Sarcasm at its best.
Especially poignant is your last paragraph – A really concise expression of the current liberal mantra. Open the dictionary to ‘snowflake’ and her picture should be posted.
Sadly (and quite seriously) she seems to be the poster-child of the future – naive to real American values (not her fault, because they stopped teaching them in schools to her generation), amoral (because any professed morality qualifies these days), justified (because someone actually agrees with her), righteous (because good is evil and right is wrong), a true patriot (because Trump is a Russian puppet).
Too many similar gators in the swamp!
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Thanks,MJ. Glad I can make you laugh. Sometimes sarcasm is the only healthy response. 🙂
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She is addicted to social media. This fact isn’t hidden.
Whoever hired her and whoever vetted her should also be going to jail as they were criminally negligent in their duties.
She probably wanted the few seconds of fame she perceives other “whistle blowers” get.
And the leaked document is just the source for the information that federal officials already briefed the media.
So Ms Whinner has likely thrown her life away for providing information anyone (who takes and interest and is capable of reading) already knows.
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Corruption? We revel in it. We roll in it. Making war on abused children for profit ring a bell?
https://acestoohigh.com/2017/05/02/addiction-doc-says-stop-chasing-the-drug-focus-on-aces-people-can-recover/
Addiction doc says: It’s not the drugs. It’s the ACEs – adverse childhood experiences
14-Year Veteran Undercover Cop Exposes Truth About The Drug War: “I Used To Believe I Was Doing Good”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/14-year-veteran-undercover-cop-exposes-truth-about-drug-war-i-used-believe-i-was-doi
If you read the article the cop says he figured out that he was making war on abused children.
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Wow, thanks for both of those links, MSimon. Those are things that are often on my mind, so much appreciated. I like to heal social problems, if only in my own imagination, and I’ve long known that what we are doing is only perpetuating them, increasing them, and yes there’s a whole profit motive going on.
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Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
insanitybytes22’s post considers the problem of Reality Winner from a human perspective. Who is Reality Winner? My sneaking suspicion she is a product of our Lord’s sense of humor. We cannot make this stuff up, but He can.
Why the joke? Why the absurdity of Reality Winner? What does our Lord want us to see? Let’s consider how this happened. Why do we give people security clearances to people who (1) don’t need them, and (2) should not be given a clearance?
Sounds like easy problems to solve, right? Well, there are understandable reasons why these problems exist.
(1) We are not a serious people. Look who we elect. Consider what we expect our government to do. Doesn’t our government exist to protect our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Because we live in a dangerous world, shouldn’t we be seriously concerned about protecting the rights of our family, friends, and neighbors? Instead, we elect people who make promises to give us other people’s things. Most of us have to know the people we are electing either can’t or won’t keep those promises, but we vote for those people anyway.
(2) Technical innovation has made our societies far more complex and war an engineering operation. Since no one by him or herself has the expertise to plan a large scale operation, leaders have to consult multiple experts. Think not? Then put yourself in the position of a leader who makes an important decision and that decision in hindsight proves to be a costly failure, many people die. Imagine your boss asking you this question: why didn’t you ask so an so? If you say because so and so did not have a clearance, do you really think that is going to satisfy your boss? It won’t. Because we the people too readily form lynch mobs, his boss is looking for someone to hang the blame upon. As a result lots of people have clearances that give them access to information they don’t need.
(3) Technical innovation has also made the exchange of information quite easy. Computer security, on the other hand, is quite complicated. Once we put information on a network of computers, it takes considerable effort (expense $$$$) to make certain only cleared people have access.
Of course, these questions and issues only addresses a small part of the problem. We protect lots of information that doesn’t even need to be protected. Why do we classify information that doesn’t need to be classified? How does stuff that does not need to be classified get classified?
We could go on, but the point is that to even get start on solving such a problem we need to be serious about who we elect. When our elected officials look ridiculous, it is because of the clowns who voted for them. It is because of us.
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“Today people seem to believe truth is like a game of capture the flag. Social media, politics, fake news, reality is now whatever we want it to be. You “win” reality by whacking people over the head until they just comply with the mutually agreed upon delusion of the day.” One of the MAIN THEMES of our modern cultural problems!!!!!! Hey, I have an idea. Quite your job, and go clean toilets for the NSA. Just think of all the good inside stuff for your blog!
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LOL! Great idea, I could go clean toilets for the NSA. That would certainly make for good blog fodder 🙂
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Hi IB: I liked the little quote at the end about anger and
stupidity. Quite good.
I will not comment on American politics etc., because
we have enough of our own problems.
Keep on keeping on. God Bless.
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The intel community have too many youngsters IMO…and immature ones
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Exactly! 100% hit on the target as usual and wonderful traces of humor guiding the bullet! Thanks.
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