"HERE THERE BE DRAGONS"

Friday night, FBI agents who investigated President Cletus J. Motherfuck, who were fired by the bureau earlier Friday were “escorted out” of the Washington field office, according to reports in The Hill.

Think about that. Think hard about that.

This. Is. Unprecedented.

Tell me we are not witnessing The Night of the Long Knives; perhaps missing all the blood and gore, but the result will not be that different among the survivors.

Among those who were axed was David Sundberg, who former FBI Director Christopher Wray appointed to head the D.C. field office in 2022. The Special Agents in Charge of the Washington, D.C., Miami, Seattle, New Orleans and Las Vegas field offices were removed and told to resign by Monday or be fired. The Las Vegas SAC said, “I was given no rationale for this decision, which, as you might imagine, has come as a shock.”

These FBI employees are career. They have civil service protections; although they can be demoted, they cannot be fired without cause. While lawsuits might expose that, so far most of the impacted FBI executives seem to be taking the option of retiring ahead of their firing date, which preserves their pensions and other retirement benefits. Several of them had under two years to their retirement.

Agents who were involved in investigating the Traitor’s classified documents case as well as his January 6 election interference case were told to leave. Acting Attorney General James McHenry told the agents their role in investigating the White House occupier was the reason for their dismissals.

During an Oval Office press conference Friday afternoon, The Criminal-in-Chief denied that he ordered the firings.

The image showed an official covering a wall with gray paint, which had previously been a mural of words espousing values FBI agents are meant to embody, like "Fairness," "Diversity," "Integrity," "Respect," and "Compassion."

The FBI told The Washington Post in a statement that all visual and informational materials promoting diversity as a core value were being removed.

“The FBI is fully complying with the executive order regarding DEI programs,” the statement said. “While diversity is no longer an organizational core value for our employees, the FBI continues its work to serve and protect all Americans.”

The DEI wall at FBI headquarters being painted over

Commenters on social media exploded over the image.

"FBI academy, Quantico, VA, 2025," wrote Trump University prosecutor Tristan Snell. "Donald Trump, literally graywashing the values out of America."

"This photograph was taken two days ago at the FBI Academy in Quantico and submitted to the NYT under the condition of anonymity," wrote Texas pastor Zach W. Lambert. "If a picture is usually worth a thousand words, this one is worth millions."

"Literally white washing the FBI," wrote reporter Jennifer Schulze. "Out: integrity, stability, respect, leadership, fairness, diversity; In: revenge, enemies lists, prosecuting the prosecutors, lawlessness, chaos."

"Overheard from LGBT servicemember: 'If only it had occurred to us to paint diversity, equity, inclusion word clouds onto the sides of our rusting warships in December, this administration might actually be accomplishing something useful right now,'" wrote Duffel Blog writer and satirist "Dark Laughter."

"Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era," wrote historian Nicholas Guyatt.

Saturday morning, the FBI headquarters issued a statement regarding a senior official media reports say "forcefully resisted" the Trump administration's firings. NBC News reported that the purported official, Brian Driscoll, the acting FBI director and head of the bureau's Newark field office, "pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed." On Friday, he refused a Justice Department order that he assist in the firing of agents involved in the January 6 seditious riot cases, pushing back so forcefully that some FBI officials feared he would be dismissed, multiple current and former FBI officials told NBC News.

NBC further notes, "The Justice Department ultimately did not dismiss Driscoll, the head of the bureau’s Newark field office who is temporarily serving as its acting director."The FBI acknowledged the "rumors," according to Josh Gerstein, Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter at Politico.

In the statement provided by Gerstein, the FBI says, "We understand there are rumors circulating about FBI leadership, to include the acting director. We're providing the below to help clarify any questions."

"A/D Driscoll continues to serve in his role as Acting Director and remains committed to supporting the administration and ensuring a smooth transition to the incoming Director."

Do you start to see what Orwell meant when he talked about “political language”? What he mant when he said “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”??

This is not a Friday Night Massacre; it is not a replay of the famous 1973 Saturday Night Massacre. This is The Night of the Long Knives, when Hitler rid himself of all competition with the Nazi Party and made certain he would have the support of the German oligarchs. It is that, minus the gunfire and the bodies in the streets and the blood on the walls.

As Joyce Vance put it, “Donald Trump... is an anti-president who does not uphold the law, and there is no telling where it will end.”

We are now officially in Uncharted Territory. “Here There Be Dragons,” as the ancient cartographers wrote.

And no one who had any authority seems to know what to do to oppose this.

That’s what happened in Germany after the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934.

The following week, the German officer corps was made to forswear their oath to protect and defend the Republic. Some were forced, some gladly cooperated, but all in the end took an oath of personal allegiance to Adolf Hitler. It’s why there was no “revolt of the Generals” when the Munich Crisis came, or the Austrian Anschluss, or the takeover of all of Czechoslovakia as Hitler had promised Chamberlain he would not do, or at any other inflection point between that night and the night Alfred Jodl signed the papers of unconditional surrender in the schoolhouse in Rheims on May 6, 1945.

It’s why nothing happened in the next 11 years that might have stopped the worldwide bloodbath.

James Romoser, Politico’s legal editor, wrote yesterday, “when rulers consolidate power through a cult of personality, they do not tend to surrender it willingly, even in the face of constitutional limits. And Trump, of course, already has a track record of trying to remain in office beyond his lawful tenure.”

This weekend is important in American History. It’s the weekend a human being so bad a worse one could not have been created in a lab (as his niece wrote tonight) who is running things now with a coterie of people who share his dark vision, his cruelty, and his insatiable need for more, took a shit on the graves of our ancestors. Remember this.

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