In an interesting interview between Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson, Tucker suggested that essentially members of Congress are terrified of the intelligence community because they either got dirt on them or they're willing to plant dirt on them in order to influence their decisions.

And knowing a little something about legislatures, I can tell you this much, it's not like you have to bribe or threaten every single member of Congress.

You just need to go after the appropriate committee chairs in order to get what you want.

The question is, is this plausible?

And by plausible, I don't mean we can all imagine a scenario where maybe it happens or maybe it's possible or maybe it's happened in the past.

I'm talking about like right now, do we honestly believe that what Tucker is suggesting is accurate? And that's that we're not really

being governed by the people that we elect. We're being governed by the bureaucracy.

What's crazy is how Mike Pompeo is treated. He's treated as like a Republican Puba in good

standing. He fully expects to become the Secretary of

Defense in a Trump administration, which is like completely insane. Why would you get criminal and give him

nuclear weapons? Okay, that's my view. I think it's a common sense view. And like he goes to

fundraisers and dinners and everyone's like, hey, Mike Pompeo. It's like, no, you're the guy who kept information.

The public has a right to no secret. You're the guy who plotted the murder of someone who committed

no crime. You are the outlaw. You are the bad guy. But no, he's treated as like, you know,

like a pillar of Republican Washington. I think that's, I think it's mind bending to watch that. And by the way,

you know, whatever, that's all I'll say. By the way. No, I mean, you know, people don't say

that because they're worried about getting punished. They're worried about someone putting kitty porn

on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the Intel agencies.

I'm not guessing at that.

They've told me that, including people on the Intel Committee, including people who run the Intel Committee, the people whose job it is to oversee and keep in line these enormous

secretive agencies whose budgets we can't even know, they're black budgets.

They're the parents, the agencies

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