Defiant. Knowledgeable. Unrehearsed. Intense.
THAT'S A ROCK STAR!
I don't care which side of the aisle you're on, whether you're a Trumpster or not, one thing is clear, you weren't gonna mess with Peter Strzok.
For far too long the government has been demonized. Taxes. Unions too. Inept people sucking at the tit of the American economy. The right has defined the debate, the left has remained silent, or played into the right's trap. To the point where people believe government doesn't work and all politicians are bad and the best idea is to put the government in a tub and drown it.
BUT I'M GLAD PETER STRZOK IS ON OUR SIDE!
This is the guy who captured the illegals. This is the guy who inspired "The Americans." This is a patriot. This is someone who takes his job seriously. While you're posting to Instagram, he's saving your ability to do so. WHAT AN INSPIRATION!
That's right, I grew up in the sixties, when government was good and you admired the G-Men, I remember buying a book about the Secret Service from the Arrow Book Club, we went to D.C. and marveled at the institutions.
And then Kennedy was shot and hope went out the window.
It hasn't been the same since.
A worthless war, with too many innocent people killed.
Then a decade of licking our wounds.
And then, starting in the eighties, an endless dash for cash, you've got to unfetter the people, RIGHT? You've got to take the chains off the corporations, the job-creators, RIGHT? And those job-creators who just got such a big tax cut, who got to repatriate their foreign assets, did they create jobs? NO! They just gave the money back to stockholders, leaving the little man out.
The little man has been left out for far too long.
We venerate the techies, who contributed to this problem. Strzok was concerned about Russian interference in the election, geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg didn't think it existed.
Thank god there was someone looking at the problem.
We venerate entertainers, whose goal is to become a corporation themselves, when they're not sucking at the tit of companies, looking for sponsorships. It's hard to believe in someone who flies private and gets paid by the man, ever hear of a CHILLING EFFECT?
Probably not, you didn't go to law school, but you consider yourself an expert on the Constitution, after all, you hear about it on Fox News every night, the Founding Fathers, as if they could see the future when you couldn't even see streaming when it was already HERE!
So Strzok is OFFENDED! You're not gonna mess with him, he's gonna PUSH BACK! DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES!
Two can play this game, not only Trump and his cronies.
This guy dedicates his life to the system and now they want to crap all over him?
NO WAY!
This is inspirational, he's Tom Cruise in "Risky Business."
Like every antihero in the movie business. American heroes.
Only they weren't real, Strzok is.
And this game of GOTCHA!
He doesn't deny he texted, like Trump denying stuff he says which is actually on tape. Rather he owns it. Because he's HUMAN! We're all imperfect, you and me especially. Sure, we make mistakes, we are not choirboys, toeing the line 24/7. And don't we want these nuanced people? You've got to cross the line every once in a while to uncover where it's actually located.
So this guy dedicated his life to the government. He believes in his job. Even though he can't fly private and can't sit in the front row. Even though he's faceless. The work is enough. The penumbra is irrelevant.
But in America at large it's all about the penumbra, the trappings, fame, the machine needs it, ever more so in this constant news cycle.
But then someone with character and backbone stands up after being picked upon and we experience a reset, we're reminded what life is all about.
You've got to have principles.
You've got to believe in your work.
You've got to stand up for your beliefs, you can't just be an obsequious hanger-on.
You've got to have character.
That's right, America has a crisis of character.
And no one expected an FBI agent to point this out, re-center our attention, just by being himself.
We're used to overprepared weasels who sit there like we're all friends, like we all get along, when the truth is behind your back they'll stab you.
With Strzok what you see is what you get.
And not only is that a relief, THAT'S INSPIRING!
P.S. If you're one of the right wing idiots too dumb to cogitate, who responds with politics, you're missing the point. That's like saying you hate pop music so you can't see the excellence in Adele. An educated person can distance themselves, analyze a situation, acknowledge greatness. But when it's all about us versus them, it's no different from the Hatfields and the McCoys. You laughed at them, I hope you're laughing at yourself now.
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