Comey threw the election to Trump, that’s why Trump should be impeached for firing Comey. Wait that doesn’t make sense, does it? Whatever, the Dems are gonna run with it.

Comey had to go after his shenanigans over the last 12 months. The only thing Trump should be blamed for is that he didn’t fire Comey earlier. Though a firing this prominent requires political capital – it’s not an easy thing to do.

The Democrats, by the way, are now deeply divided. Half of them think that Trump is profoundly disloyal for firing the man who put him in the White House. And the other half think that Trump is trying to cover up the nefarious and so far invisible Russian intervention. They are, however, united in having forgotten that they all called for Comey’s head last November.

Goodbye, Comey, you freak! I wonder if we will ever know what the hell you were doing. I personally think you didn’t know, either.

Made more sense when Trump fired Gilbert Gottfried. Funnier too.

This season’s been great.

Steve, your reaction was almost identical to mine. I immediately posted something on Facebook snarkily asking my friends to remind me where the Comey Conventional Wisdom ping-pong was at when it stopped so I could figure out whether I was supposed to cheer or boo.

Hi Steve: Why no cable news? You are not a TV watcher? You sure seem familiar with the Simpsons..

I really don’t know what’s going on.

Here’s the “Comey dangerously close to uncover Russia links so got fired” spin (I think), which is possibly the retarderest you can get:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/09/trump_fires_fbi_boss_comey/

Sane stuff from the ABC. Democrats cry, revealing unsuspected Kung-Fu style 180° turn capabilities:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-james-comey-fired/story?id=47309009

Reminder that Comey is the guy that says “we need an adult conversation about encryption” by which he means “you are all dumb kids to be controlled and I want Clinton-era Clipper-chip-style access to all your data.” (http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/293786-comey-targets-2017-for-less-emotional-adult-conversation-on-encryption)

Normal stuff from RT:

https://www.rt.com/usa/387794-fbi-director-comey-fired/

In which it is said: “The only other time in US history an FBI director has been dismissed was in 1993, when President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno pushed out William Sessions amid ethical concerns.” Didn’t know that. The resulting run of Janet Reno Control Productions sure were ethically much successful as I remember.

FYI, Mr. Sailer, in regards to the discussion in one of your other comment threads… I just recently found out that James Comey is 6 feet 8 inches tall:

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/09/tallest-famous-men-not-famous-for-being.html

– http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-flynn-effect-for-height/#comment-1854211

I just wanted to add one little caveat. During a mass Australian IQ test back in 2002, the results actually showed, that the people in the 180cm-200cm height range had the highest average scores, whereas the more than 201cm tall group only came in third place.

Height
181-200cm – 113
161-180cm – 110
More than 201cm – 108
141-160cm – 105
Less than 140cm – 104

– http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-flynn-effect-for-height/#comment-1855060

“Are You Glad He Got Fired Or Not??” Tucker Debates James Comey Firing

Published on May 9, 2017

5-9-17: Tucker Carlson debates James Comey firing with Democratic strategist.

This literally happened at the taping of Colbert’s show tonight.

When Colbert led his monologue with the breaking news that Comey was fired, his liberal audience burst out into cheers and applause, much to his consternation.

The crowd only understood it was supposed to boo when Colbert informed them that the firing came at the recommendation of AG Sessions.

http://freebeacon.com/culture/colbert-audience-cheers-news-james-comeys-firing/

Since you don’t have cable news, you missed Tucker IRL “subtweeting” David Frum, referring to him only as “my neighbor,” mocking him for declaring the firing ” a coup.”

I’m confused. I thought I was suppose to hate Comey for costing America’s greatest leader, Hillary Clinton, the election. Now, I’m supposed to see Comey as a good guy, a martyr for American democracy, who was fired before he could tell us how Trump and Putin stole the election from Hillary. There’s nothing Orwellian about that…

Comey covered for Lynch and Obama in his July 2016 press conference by making the Hillary classified-emails-on-a-private-server problem go away for them, and in a way that allowed Lynch and Obama not to have to personally expose themselves by directly and openly tilting the scales of justice in Hillary’s favor.

He probably figured it was making the best of a bad situation.

It must have occurred to him that resigning in protest rather than participate in the corruption wouldn’t have helped anybody, since anyway there was no way Trump could win the election, right? Right?

Why should he damage his own career for a hopeless cause?

But the changing expression on Comey’s face as the election results came in over the course of the night must have been something to see!

From the NY Times:

Many [Democrats] had hoped that Mrs. Clinton would fire Mr. Comey soon after taking office, and blamed him as costing her the election. But under Mr. Trump, Mr. Comey was seen as an important check on the new administration.

Checks and balances are only important during Republican administrations. When Democrats are in office, not only are they unnecessary, they are wrong. All branches of government (including the press) must all row together in the direction of Progress.

Good riddance to the treasonous piece of s**t. He deserved being kicked to the curb like this and more.

When he gave a pass to Hillary and her cronies over that personal server and private computers used to handle classified info including SAP level stuff. That was a giant FU to every American who handles classified info.

He showed America that there are two sets of rules. One for the little people and none for the elite.

If I or any other person who held a high level clearance pulled what she, we would be in Federal lockup inside a day. It’s that serious. No and if or buts. And SAP level, god almighty. Half of her staff should right now be sitting in federal pen. That includes Huma, the IT staff at state dept and the nimrods handling black IT side who sneaker netted all the classified stuff to her private server.

Jesus H. Christ, Hillary and her staff broke so many COMSEC rules it’s nuts and Comey did nothing but roll over.

Oh expect a lot of GOPers to be sweating over Comey’s firing. The last thing they want is a honest FBI director who enforces the law. This is why Grahm and insane McCain are angry.

The Dems are angry because they just lost a Blackhat that worked for them and who they could rely on to block investigations.

Clearly, Trump fired Comey because he wasn’t happy with his performance on the Russia investigation since the inauguration. Otherwise, why didn’t he fire him on day one? It certainly doesn’t look good. Oh, and the reason why Sailer hasn’t been “keeping up” with the Comey news is that he is a Trump fan, and isn’t that interested in talking about things when Trump looks stupid; it goes against the alt-right grain of the website.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NolteNC/status/862073874023895042

I’ve long since held any government bureaucrat in any sort of esteem so the political shenanigans of last year didn’t surprise me.

Comey should have resigned after the muslim terrorist attacks in San Bernadino (if not then, certainly after Orlando) and issued a public apology for his agency’s failures. His posturing as Mr. Good Public Servant sickened me after all those poor non-whites and gays were slaughtered.

the corrupt media pushed the fake Russia story so the Dems could bug Trump legally

watergate 2

imo this is the first stage of Trump getting revenge for the bugging

will Hilary go to jail before the Parkinsons gets her?

You really have to read Trump’s nasty letter to Comey. It is so bad I had to double check it wasn’t a fake.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-letter-to-james-comey-telling-him-he-is-fired-read-the-full-letter/article/2622610

I don’t think what appears to be the gratuitous humiliation of an FBI director is good politics. I know a lot of presidents found it prudent to keep Hoover in office.

What is most crazy, is that Comey’s recent scandal is that he seems to have publicly lied about Hillary’s dear Huma regularly emailing confidential government docs to print to her Wiener. This was to Trump’s benefit, before the election.

The mental image of Comey’s lie was awfully plausible too, Huma the #2 to the President-in-waiting, telling her unemployed husband to “plz print” random e-mails like a baby-boomer boss to his underlings.

So this is either erratic behavior by Trump, a touching act of probity by Trump, or both. Trump keeps me guessing! He did purge Christie for sleazy acts against Democrats, so maybe he just is really concerned about running a clean White House.

This season’s been great.

Yeah, okay – that was funny.

I know a lot of presidents found it prudent to keep Hoover in office.

Only because he threatened to blackmail them.

Comey earned his firing on July 5th of last year, when he went along with Loretta Lynch’s fiction that it was up to him to decide whether or not to seek prosecution of Hillary Clinton. That wasn’t his job, and it is not within the scope of the AGs powers to delegate her powers to the FBI director. He was providing political cover for the Obama administration and the Democratic party. Trump was right to fire him. He would have been right to fire him on January 20th.

I dunno, every couple of weeks this #RussiaGate story re-emerges and it’s like a DEFCON 3 level situation for people like David Frum on twitter. It’s kinda hard to take any of this seriously after all the (((MSM))) freakouts of the past two years.

There are plenty of patriots in the FBI, expect it to start leaking like a sieve now

My sense is that Comey was increasingly erratic and playing both sides of the street, leading Trump and his, team to conclude he had to go. The testimony to Congress, about Huma and her Weiner, quickly walked back, seemed to be the last straw.

Which was correct, the initial testimony or the hurried retraction the next day? My guess is knowing the Clintons (and Weiner) is that the former was correct, and Comey was trying to appease the Clintons who he figures will be back in power soon.

Trump has not been feared by the Establishment for some time, so its good for him to create some fear, and remind people that he can fire them at will.

Steve you can watch cable news on Youtube. People stream cable news on youtube all the time. Just type in (fox news live, cnn live, msnbc live) on youtube search bar.

48 hours ago: Comey is a misogynist because he pointed out Hillary Clinton was sharing classified info on an unclassified email server. You can’t expect women to keep classified information secure, even if the FBI doesn’t bring charges! Comey is a hater!

As of 8 hours ago, he’s a victim of that hater Trump.

This season’s been great.

LOL!

Comey is an incompetent who was fired because his continuing in the job was unnecessarily costly when (1) he was tainted by various dislikes on all sides of the political spectrum and (2) he was terrible.

Yesterday I wrote that Comey was fired for being too tall. That was joke but there is something to it – strangely enough.

iSteve is six four. I’m six four and my father was six four. Good solid stature you might say. But Comey is six eight – a whole different thing entirely.

My father went to law school so he could be an FBI agent. But he never was an FBI agent. He was too tall – or at least that was the story I was always told while I was growing up. There was a persistent rumor in the sixties that J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t hire guys who were taller than he was.

If you saw the James Coburn comedy “The President’s Analyst” you might remember the scenes where the Hoover character sat on a box and was surrounded by all these tiny agents. The producers seemed to believe that Hoover preferred short agents.

So maybe there is some kind of karma rebound effect operating.

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Unfortunately, the Democrats and their supporters have control of the narrative, allowing them to “forget” about their previous hatred of Comey. It’s like 1984, where the Ministry of Truth can tell people that they’ve always been at war with Eurasia, when Eurasia was their ally the week before.

From the Atlantic,

Perhaps Anglo-America still has a chance……

Evidence suggests financially troubled voters in the white working class were more likely to prefer Clinton over Trump. Besides partisan affiliation, it was cultural anxiety—feeling like a stranger in America, supporting the deportation of immigrants, and hesitating about educational investment—that best predicted support for Trump.

This data adds to the public’s mosaic-like understanding of the 2016 election. It suggests Trump’s most powerful message, at least among some Americans, was about defending the country’s putative culture. Because this message seems to have resonated so deeply with voters, Trump’s policies, speeches, and eventual reelection may depend on their perception of how well he fulfills it.

Researchers found that partisanship is most pronounced among the young: Among white working-class Americans under 30, 57 percent identified as Republican or Republican-leaning, compared to 29 percent who identified as Democratic or Democratic-leaning. By comparison, only slightly more than half of seniors 65 and over were Republicans or Republican-leaning, compared to over one-third who were Democrats or Democratic-leaning.

Controlling for other demographic variables, three factors stood out as strong independent predictors of how white working-class people would vote. The first was anxiety about cultural change. Sixty-eight percent of white working-class voters said the American way of life needs to be protected from foreign influence. And nearly half agreed with the statement, “things have changed so much that I often feel like a stranger in my own country.” Together, these variables were strong indictors of support for Trump: 79 percent of white working-class voters who had these anxieties chose Trump, while only 43 percent of white working-class voters who did not share one or both of these fears cast their vote the same way.

Nearly two-thirds of the white working class say American culture has gotten worse since the 1950s. Sixty-eight percent say the U.S. is in danger of losing its identity, and 62 percent say America’s growing number of immigrants threaten the country’s culture.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/white-working-class-trump-cultural-anxiety/525771/

Hey, according to the Atlantic, Hoover’s 50 years as director weren’t so bad……

Other U.S. presidents have often clashed with the FBI—J. Edgar Hoover was infamous among presidents and the public—yet many chief executives have favored a grin-and-bear-it approach. Bill Clinton had moments of heightened tension with Louis Freeh, the FBI director he appointed after Sessions, for example, but tensions never escalated as publicly as those between Trump and Comey.

“The first 50 years or so of the FBI was all J. Edgar Hoover, and there was a very special relationship between him and all these presidents who were in a way quite deferential to him,” Greenberg said. “There were always conflicts and tensions. They sometimes had to rein him in and he sometimes pushed them around. So this is striking to see, post-Nixon, it really is a crisis.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/an-act-of-presidential-imperialism/526053/

You’ve got Twitter, Steve, which is even better. Here’s a fun exercise for you:

Search for “Comey” to get the most popular outraged tweets about his firing. Then do another search with “Comey” plus that tweeter’s handle, and see if you can find one from the same person praising Comey last July.

This is about Trump getting bad press not some giant coverup. Dems and a few GOPe types can be so dumb sometimes.

Weiner’s laptop.

Weiner’s. Laptop.

Don’t forget. Don’t let them get away with it.

I figure that Comey has to pretty much know nothing harmful to Trump, otherwise being drop-kicked this unceremoniously is a very risky move. I honestly wonder if Trump is just still trolling the Democrats: tying them into knots between hating Comey for costing Hillary the election and now calling him the victim of Trump’s “Saturday night massacre.” Pollak on Breitbart is saying, for what it’s worth, that the anticlimactic Senate hearing yesterday, where Clapper admitted again that there’s no evidence of Russia collusion, finally gave Trump the leeway to can Comey.

Or maybe he was just mad at Comey for the leaks and bad press. Who knows? We’re still back to the n-dimensional chess master or the intemperate loon.

I think it is very good for Trump that he is willing to fire and replace top officials. That is definitely a way to get the attention of the deep state.

If so, the karma needs its targeting guidance system recalibrated. Comey was never a special agent, nor was he ever an LEO of any kind. He is a loiyuh.

OT

The family of the doctor murdered in Boston by an African immigrant have asked that donations in his memory go to open-borders outfit Medicins Sans Frontieres. I guess misery loves company.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/10/overwhelmed-families-british-doctor-fiancee-killed-boston-penthouse/

I just realized that Rodrigo “You lookin’ at me?” Duterte will be visiting DC soon. As an experienced and enthusiastic swamp drainer, he would be just what Antifa, BLM, Sanctuary Shitties, and the rest of The Resistance ordered as the new FBI Director.

Say hello to my leetle fren’!

I must be an extraordinarily cold-hearted bastard, because I don’t think it’s “nasty” at all. In fact, I think it’s hilarious. Long overdue. Welcome to Washington, Director Clarke.

What is most crazy, is that Comey’s recent scandal is that he seems to have publicly lied about Hillary’s dear Huma regularly emailing confidential government docs to print to her Wiener. This was to Trump’s benefit, before the election.

News reports say Jeff Sessions wanted James Comey out. Trump and others in his administration had no use for him, too erratic. Last week Comey gave Trump good reasons (good cover) to fire him so he did. Now fire that sleazy number two FBI guy also. Force him out and bring in your own people.

As I posted before, Comey fired himself and has been trying to get himself fired for a while. The least stable FBI chief I have seen in my lifetime. Bill Clinton fired his FBI chief which also gives Trump cover. So did Hillary and Mook endless beyotching about him.

Not many are saying this for some reason, but Trump is about to get a user-friendly FBI director.

If I were Hillary, I’d be quite concerned about a whole new hell heading my way. Obama might have reason for concern also.

Can’t help but notice the timing. Hillary and Bones reemerge like Glen Close in the last scene of “Fatal Attraction,” and the Keeper of the Shit gets canned soon after.

Like a royal courtesy shot across a scurvy pirate’s bow. As if Trump is saying, “You can leave the media spotlight, or you can stay. Your call.”

If it is like as it looks, Trump… is fucking awesome!!

Trump should have been fired Comey when he removed his hand from the bible. Along with many others. He would have spared himself and more importantly the country from much of the bullshit over the last three months.

Should read Trump should have fired comey…

Would the outcome of a Trump-Russia probe have been more or less credible with Comey at the helm of the FBI?

While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation..

Huh? What does that even mean?

“Thanks for tipping me off three times—you’re a real pal—but I’m going to spill the beans and tell the whole world you did”?

hesitating about educational investment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

It suggests Trump’s most powerful message, at least among some Americans, was about defending the country’s putative culture.

It’s like they’re trying to be deliberately offensive. I’ve got your putative right here, hot shot.

Comey put himself into the lines of crossfire. To all sides, to all parties, he’d made himself a liability, not an asset.

The fun will begin afresh when the President announces his nominee to take up the FBI directorship, so get ready for a kabuki extravaganza from the likes of Schumer and his ilk.

In Comey’s firing the best sign is of Jeff Sessions taking increasingly strong hand at DOJ. That’s what’s actually got the Dem-Proglodytes apoplectic.

y- mouse
Buddy, you win the comments thread!

It’s tragic-comic that govt is now exactly a reality TV show….,

@Mr Blank.
When you say “ping-pong”, are you referencing that Washington pizza establishment?
Where is Weiners laptop? And what’s happening with the 650,000 emails?

I love being right:

http://www.unz.com/isteve/trump-open-thread-2/#comment-1864271

I also love the sounds of hysteria emanating from the Liberal-Neocon Ummah and they haven’t been this loud since November 8th. Twitter is a sight to behold as globalist imams compete in which one will cast a more damning fatwa on The Don. Churcill described it brilliantly:”…as dangerous and sensible as rabid dogs, fit to be treated only as such.”

@pat Boyle.
Re the height thing. Tall men stand out. Are noticed. An agent often just wants to be in the background, a “nobody”… If you’re 6-4, you’re going to be seen.

The two best tweets on this have been Coulter’s: “Trump should check with a federal judge in Hawaii to make sure he can fire Comey” and Grant Bosse saying “Trump’s greatest strength is causing his critics to lose their ever loving minds.”

I’d also like to hear from the eeyore blackpill crowd how this is the machination of Jared and Ivanka, since a significant amount of you believe they’re somehow running the administration, all evidence to the contrary.

My understanding is that Comey was at an FBI recruiting event when he got the news.

AG Sessions is a savage. When you see a memo with the subject of RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE (in your agency), you’re going to have a bad day.

Also Comey is nowhere near the player of the game that Hoover was, alleged cross dressing aside or no.

How different from the days of J Edgar Poofter.

“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation.”

What that means is that it is contemptible that an investigation was considered in the first place, and the smarmy clown who permitted that circus to survive for a single further breath can now choke on it.
FBI agents were in revolt over Comey’s stonewalling the Hilary investigation. Trump’s confidence is due to a preview of the shit that is coming back up that sewer with Comey out of the picture. Drain the FBI, then Justice, then CIA. Put them on their heels and keep them there.

I don’t think you’re a child molester.

I don’t think you’re a child molester.

I don’t think you’re a child molester.

Considering that Comey was reappointed over the restrictions of a law designed to prevent the rise of another entrenched over-reaching FBI director, we should be grateful that someone pulled the plug on him before we actually had to discuss whether or not he had become another Hoover.

Lot wrote:

I don’t think what appears to be the gratuitous humiliation of an FBI director is good politics. I know a lot of presidents found it prudent to keep Hoover in office.

Yeah, because Hoover had dossiers on all of them, their families, their associates, etc.

Hoover was not a nice man.

Dave

syonredux quoted Greenberg in The Atlantic as saying:

They [Presidents] sometimes had to rein him [Hoover] in and he sometimes pushed them around.

Just maybe, in a republic, the head of the national police should not “push around” the democratically elected head of state.

In a republic.

Dave

There Is No Deep State | The New Yorker by David Remnick the well known Trump hater and despiser
There Is No Deep State … David Remnick. … Was Deep Throat part of an American Deep State? Some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters …

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/there-is-no-deep-state

In Comey’s firing the best sign is of Jeff Sessions taking increasingly strong hand at DOJ. That’s what’s actually got the Dem-Proglodytes apoplectic.

Jeff Sessions is silent running off the news pages. Very smart. I am sure he is looking for immigration solutions that will work around Obama judges.
The beauty of it is that Dems cannot effectively complain about the James Comey firing. They have been ragging-raging on Comey for months. This Trump strike is a bit like hitting Syria, an all around crowd pleaser.

Steve, what’s the point of pretending that you don’t understand a position that’s obviously perfectly straightforward and consistent (whether or not you agree with that position)? The Democrats are saying that Comey sent his letter to try to avoid getting mau-maued by Republicans after the election, which he shouldn’t have done, but that it’s not the sort of transgression (like breaking the law would be) where morally you have to urge that he be dismissed. You’re allowed to take into account whether he’s the lesser of two evils. And from their point of view that’s what he was, even aside from the investigation of links to Russia, because he’d likely be replaced by someone more nakedly partisan. What clinches it is that dismissing him when he’s investigating Trump over Russia works against the independence of the FBI.

While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation.

Huh? What does that even mean?

Really, you don’t understand what that means? He’s being accused of colluding with Russia. He’s being accused of firing James Comey because Comey was investigating him for his collusion with Russia. He mentioned in the termination letter that Comey had stated on at least three occasions that he was not actually under investigation for ties to Russia. Who wouldn’t put that fact in a letter?

Is he doubting the existence of an American culture through the word putative?

donations… go to open-borders outfit

Wow. It’s like after a drug overdose, you suggest a remembrance by consuming more of the substance.

Is he doubting the existence of an American culture…

The culture a Trump voter wants to protect is not the culture an Atlantic writer wants to protect.

Exactly right. Almost everyone is missing the most important point. You nailed it.

For some reason we are supposed to think that the FBI or its director is the fourth branch of government. The FBI director is not elected and he is not appointed for life/good behavior like a federal judge. The FBI is not mentioned in the Constitution. It is just a subordinate agency of the Justice Department. No one expected Trump to keep Obama’s Attorney General and no one would expect a Democrat to keep Sessions. When their cabinet level bosses are unceremoniously dumped at the change of an administration, why are FBI directors untouchable?

Perhaps Trump wants an FBI director who will investigate the improper surveillance, unmasking and leaks during the the campaign and transition. You know, the real crimes. Comey, obviously, would not do that.

Jack D has already been notified by my attorney. He simply cannot go on plagiarizing my thoughts with impunity before I even think them!

Ooh-did you do condensed matter theory?

J. Edgar Hoover was a horrible little man, but that was his job. You don’t want nice guys as your *de facto* secret police chief, you want mean, workaholic bastards with a nagging, obsessive, detail-oriented personality. Also, I guarantee that all the bien-pensants lionizing FBI power right now would have been decrying Hoover as a crypto-Nazi two years ago, ditto the security state in general. Trump is very lucky to have such obviously stupid/hypocritical opponents-not that he won’t find a way to piss that advantage away, granted, but still.

Maybe now Maxine Waters will get enough votes for her Bill of Impeachment against Trump to pass the House. Didn’t she say Trump was a scumbag? Firing Comey just proved what Maxine knew in her dry bones all along!

To be fair, for FDR and LBJ, it genuinely was a special relationship-Hoover even babysat Johnson’s daughters when they were living in close proximity to each other in the 1950s. Hoover strongly respected those two, to the point that he was willing to crack down on the KKK for Johnson, in spite of his own rampant distaste for the Civil Rights Movement. The rest of them, though… had an “understanding” with him, if you catch my drift. Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and Nixon all wanted to fire Hoover at one point or another, but they all chickened out. Among other things, Hoover also played a key role in helping further sink Stevenson’s campaign in 1952 via rumors of his homosexuality, and had incriminating material on the sexual proclivities of both Eleanor Roosevelt and Joe McCarthy.

Interestingly, I’ve often posited that had J. Edgar Hoover lived a year longer, Watergate would have become a historical footnote, and Nixon would have had a normal second term. A cooperating post-Hoover FBI was absolutely essential to the Congressional investigations of early 1973, and there’s absolutely no way Hoover would have tolerated moves by the Boys on the Hill to dismantle the Imperial Presidency, and by extension, his own authority. There would have been no Gray hearings but for Hoover’s death, nor would Mark Felt have been leaking because Nixon refused to make him Director.

I think that observation would dampen The Atlantic’s nostalgia for Hoover somewhat.

Comey is bad. Comey prevented Queen Hillary from taking her rightful place as president. Queen Hillary says so herself. Therefore all Clinton worshippers should be glad.

Re our “putative culture”: He’s just denying the existence of any culture associated with the illusory, socially constructed “white race”. Beyond the necessary role in creating the otherwise non-existent race, such culture does not exist. I think I got that right …

Comey has been in the news so much lately that he seems to have been around forever, but he actually has only been in office for three and a half years. (Which is not to say he didn’t deserve his fate – he seems to have been rather incompetent – but he was pretty far from “FBI director for life.”)

Yes.

I don’t have cable TV so I’m really out of touch.

Do not worry, do not fret. Cable TV hasn’t got it right yet! It is as ‘out of touch’ as any of us.

The Dems apparently are going to try to ride “Russia collusion” back into power.

The trouble for them is that many of the grown-ups, the people in charge, actually believe it. It can’t be good to have your best minds in the grip of growing incoherence and delusion. And you know, I think Trump recognizes this on an intuitive level; he antagonizes them so they can never get back to being mentally sound.

It’s like they’re trying to be deliberately offensive. I’ve got your putative right here, hot shot.

Ha. I was thinking the same thing. That was really gratuitously insulting. I wonder what putative culture Emma Green belongs to? (just kidding, it’s pretty obvious)

Just maybe, in a republic, the head of the national police should not “push around” the democratically elected head of state.

In a republic.

Just maybe, in a republic, there ought not to be a “national police”. At least not one like we have.

The FBI has been rotten from the start.

That was funny.

Inside the Democratic Party, the establishment is willing to follow the Russia conspiracy lunacy not matter how stupid it gets.

They’re not true believers, but it serves a purpose for them, a purpose far more important than any one election or any one presidency.

To maintain control of the Democratic Party when the majority of its voters are infuriated by globalism and endless stupid wars, they need to discredit the pro-working families, anti-American empire liberals. Since those are exactly the people that are skeptical of Syrian war, opposed Iraq and Libya, and oppose oil companies and defense contractors running the party, they have to be positioned as tools for Trump or naïve fools.

By focusing foreign policy on Russian conspiracies, Bernie and Tulsi Gabbard and the entire patriotic wing of the Democratic Party can be impeached. No one with integrity that isn’t in the pockets of empire will harp on blaming Russia. Anyone that wanted to stay out of Syria’s civil war can be tarred as Russia apologists.

And the Democratic establishment can keep the party in the hands of warmongers because they’re trained the base to hate Russia above all else. That’s the point here: If you aren’t a base Democrat, you aren’t the audience. They’re not trying to beat Trump with the Russia story. They’re trying to keep control of a party that is made up of the very people they want to betray most.

Of course he is. To these people, common law, bicameral legislatures, individualism, separation of church and state, an armed citizenry, technological innovation, and such isn’t culture- fancy tribal clothes and spicy dishes are. And he’s right. The former isn’t culture, it’s civilization. People from “cultures” come to “enrich” civilization.

This dichotomy cannot be stressed enough.

Trump is proving to be an entertaining politician. He is not necessarily good for my issues, but he is a different breed of cat than we have been seeing for 30 years. Last week all the fake news outlets were saying how Trump probably should have canned Comey, but now it was too late. Then Trump fires Comey.

I’ve been calling Trump the Mule for almost two years now. He is not a a reformer or another guy with a vision that looks like the status quo. He is the destroyer of worlds.

The whole of the Federal Goverment seems to revolve around the idea of “classified” information and leaks thereof.

Most nations do not have much classified information and the individual states don’t seem to have it at all. Obviously there needs to be some method of sharing information about private conversations with world leaders and important military secrets among top government officials, but people like Huma Abedin should not even have access to such information.

Nothing has been or can be revealed about the nature of the “classified” information that Huma Abedin allowed to reach the laptop of her husband, known to the press as “disgraced sex-pervert Anthony Weiner”, but it can probably be assumed that this information is in the hands of Israel,or potentially so.

Comey’s revelations about the Huma Abedin emails just before the election were just innuendo, revealing absolutely nothing about what secrets had been given away, but implying that vast tranches of top secret information were involved, when probably the information was nothing more than Hillary Clinton’s pantie size.

This may or may not have influenced the result of the election. Nobody can really tell, but Comey should have known that potentially it could influence some voters.

In spite of an FBI investigation, Comey was apparently unable to determine whether anyone had ever told Mrs. Clinton she was supposed to use a State Department email server and email address for official communications. He apparently believed that Mrs. Clinton probably spent most of her taxpayer-paid time at State dashing off 30,00 now deleted emails planning Chelsea’s wedding.

Comey needed to be fired, as he is a complete dick, as evidence by his ludicrous testimony to the Senate Oversight Committee explaining how he makes decisions in terms of “seeing open gates”.

They should go to Africa and get murder themselves, instead of unleashing the savages on the rest of us.

October 31st, 2016 Comey’s Coup

FBI Director James Comey’s letter to Congress on new evidence in the Clinton email scandal represents interference in the presidential campaign commensurate to his failure to indict candidate Hillary Clinton for crimes greater than those committed by citizens that are now serving time.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2016/10/31/comey-s-coup#more44513

Jul 7, 2016 Justice Vs. “Just Us”: Of Course the FBI Let Hillary off the Hook

The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised by this.

Well, I guess one of the shortest books ever written was “The American Culture” or something…

Isn’t it pretty well understood the only reason Hoover was able to remain FBI director that long was that he had dirt on everyone and threatened to make it public if anyone ever tried to force him out of the FBI?

revenge – the dems bugged him – comey protected the buggers

Clapper didn’t say that much. Rather than “there is no evidence” he was careful to only say “no evidence was shown to me” which is of course a much weaker statement.

Also isn’t Clapper a known liar and enemy of democracy?

Phrases like “dark day for our democracy” will have lost all meaning from overuse by halfway through the first term. The hysterics coming from the dems on this are, well, hilarious.

The family of the doctor murdered in Boston by an African immigrant have asked that donations in his memory go to open-borders outfit Medicins Sans Frontieres. I guess misery loves company.

Two more Poetic Justice Warriors.

This is an almost perfect modern world story. African immigrant murderer. Why is he in the country? Bolanos was born in Colombia and working here as an anesthesiologist. Why is she in the country? Field was a doctor from the UK. Why is he in the country?

Not one of these three people should have been here, much less living and working in the United States. The two doctors should never have been killed, of course, but a sensible immigration policy would have had all three back in their nations of origin. Or maybe “doctor” is now a job “Americans won’t do.”

alternatively, if the russia story involved collusion between the dnc and the media to invent a probable cause to allow state surveillance which was then used politically then some of them are going to be worrying about jail

watergate 2

Re: Atlantic thumbsucker on white working-class support for Trump

Author Emma Green can take comfort in the fact that some sectors of the white working class are vehemently in favor of the Democratic/Progressive platform. Middlebury students, for instance.

Finally Trump the sleep-deprived jackass makes a ballsy move.

Now watch him replace Comey with a democrat.

BTW Trump didn’t postpone the announcement on the co2 Paris treaty because he’s pulling out of it. He’s obviously keeping us in.

Trump sucks. It’s gonna get worse.

Doctors Without Borders is not an open border organization. It’s just that the doctors go treat the sick regardless of political situation around the globe.

Comey fell on the knife to protect HRC back in July 2016, so there should be no surprise that it would eventually penetrate the flesh.

Drudge ran with something like this yesterday:

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article149309469.html

Scares me to death.

I think we should look to the example of Castro or Lenin to see how Leaders reward their political backers.

There is no wall happening. No deportations to speak of. No workplace enforcement. No end to the document/ID/tax fraud by illegals.

But the bogus refugee program remains fully funded.

HB visas increasing in various categories.

HE’S SETTING THE STAGE FOR AMNESTY.

Trump threw Assange and wikileaks under the bus. SICK.

Trump loves big surveillance! Gonna send a message to any potential whistleblowers out there!

Oh yeah, 5000 more troops to Crapghanistan because the Taliban is starting to threaten the CIA’s poppy harvest.

Trump = sellout

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-09/obamacare-taxes-aren-t-necessarily-going-away-gop-senators-say

The fix is in and Trump will sign whatever they send to his desk.

Trump, Mister Softee, won’t veto anything.

Ray Dalio, head of Bridgewater, on Comey. Comey used to work there.

I would not feel good about myself if I did not make clear that I have come to know and admire James Comey as a man of integrity and a hero pic.twitter.com/i4SSnqVdlD

— Ray Dalio (@RayDalio) May 10, 2017

The trouble for them is that many of the grown-ups, the people in charge, actually believe it. It can’t be good to have your best minds in the grip of growing incoherence and delusion. And you know, I think Trump recognizes this on an intuitive level; he antagonizes them so they can never get back to being mentally sound.

This is something I kind of figured too. On the (qualified) assumption that there isn’t actually anything there of substance to find, it’s possible that Trump or his people have seen some interest in dragging this out, forcing the Democrats to waste months, maybe the better part of the first half of his first term, talking about a story that is going to evaporate, and which is going to make them and the media look stupid and crazy. Assuming he didn’t actually do anything wrong, he has an information advantage here (he knows that they’re not going to find anything under all of the smoke).

Remember how last September during the campaign he suddenly declared the Obama birth certificate a closed issue, after having made it an issue for five years, which both let him assume the position of deciding when it was and wasn’t an issue and left the Democrats sputtering with rage. I could see that here sometime next year, during the midterms, maybe: “oh, the Russia thing? Here’s everything that shows there’s nothing to it. Sorry you wasted your time the last two years.” Feminist-types would call this “gaslighting.”

As things stand, right now, it’s already happening Democrats (and, to a lesser extent, Republican #NeverTrumpers) are getting all publicly lathered up over hearing the same stories that have already been known for months confirmed by new people with no new additional information, in a way that makes them look kind of dumb and desperate (Comey confirming that there’s been an investigation which has been known at least since Heat Street broke it last November; Clapper confirming no evidence existed of collusion to his knowledge as of January; Sally Yates basically saying she told Don McGahn what everyone already knows: that Michael Flynn mislead Mike Pence). It’s sort of like hearing a story told by someone who has no sense of dramatic timing: they miss all of the cues as to what actually holds an audience’s interest.

My guess has been that the probable worst-case scenario for Trump is that one or a few figures associated with him either during the campaign or the first hundred days wind up getting prosecuted but there aren’t any hard and fast links to him, basically Scooter Libby or the Watergate burglars. I wouldn’t be hugely surprised if Mike Flynn, Carter Page, or maybe Lewandoski gets charged with something. What the Democrats want though is a full-on revival of Watergate or Whitewater, where they can get a special prosecutor to dig into Trump’s affairs far and wide (like his tax returns) and fish for dirt completely unrelated to Russia.

Here’s a question though that I’ve posed to a couple of people: assume that the Trump campaign actually did “coordinate” with Russia in some way during the campaign, say, by having knowledge that Russia had hacked materials from Clinton and was releasing them through Wikileaks and timing it’s communications around those releases. Would that actually be a crime (as opposed to a political scandal)? It’s highly questionable, at best. It’s not treason, defined in the Constitution as “levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” and Russia technically wasn’t an “enemy” of the United States. The most I could maybe potentially see is being an accessory after the fact to something Russia may have done (e.g., hacking crimes or espionage) if they did something, say, like help conceal it, or some abstruse Logan Act-type accusation. It’s hardly as if foreign countries (e.g., Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mexico, China, etc., etc., etc.) haven’t played games in our domestic politics with the tacit and often not-so-tacit knowledge and cooperation of political campaigns and parties here for a long time. (It’s also worth asking: what is the plausible factual “theory of the case” to claim that Trump somehow “colluded” with Russia? What would he or his campaign be factually accused of doing? I’m assuming Trump didn’t have an army of black-hat hackers in the basement of Trump Tower sending phishing emails to John Podesta.)

I’m guessing the legal technicalities might not matter if the political and media outrage is that bad and both the Democrats and Congressional Republicans figure they ought to sign off on articles of impeachment (assuming the Republicans want to be rid of Trump, and obviously the neocons want a new Cold War with Russia). But it’s worth pondering what exactly the accusations are and the charges would be.

Trump’s first foreign trip was to pledge fealty to his masters in Israel and Saudi Arabia.

But his minders realized that the optics on that were a problem.

So they added the Vatican and called it the Three Great Religions tour.

Isn’t that clever?

Apparently his staff guys are extremely tall as well. I’m 6’2 like DJT, and having 3 or 4 cops half a foot taller than me walk in to my office might make me a little nervous.

Probably the only way that anyone gets prosecuted is for lying to the FBI so anyone with half a brain has already lawyered up and taken the 5th. In terms of underlying crimes, I really doubt that there were any that can be proved. So far it has all been Democrats blowing smoke. Even if some of the Trump guys once spoke to a Russian at some point in their lives, speaking to a Russian is not a crime unless you can prove what was said involved planning some illegal activity. If there was any discussion of illegal matters picked up by the NSA it would have leaked a thousand times by now and is probably not admissible in court anyway unless there was a warrant.

Trump is not in a position to declare the Russia matter dead the way he declared the Obama birth certificate dead because he is not the one who brought the Russians up to begin with. The analogy would be for Schumer or Clinton to declare it dead and that’s never going to happen.

That little passage ensured it was the evening’s lead-in lead material. Even Trump partisans would have to admit it’s a bald-faced lie …maybe this is a signature Trump manœuvre from his previous world. A type of rubbing it in.

If collusion between the DNC and the media was a crime, then every MSM reporter in Washington would be in jail already.

It’s a wild ass bet but it’s all they got at this point. Sure they could play “loyal opposition” as is the norm in democratic societies, but where’s the fun in that?

Chucky Schumer is a lot of things but crazy isn’t one of them. What’s the downside in this for him? At best, he gets real lucky and fans the embers into a real fire (he would be as surprised as anyone). At worst, he weakens Trump and puts him on the defensive. Instead of implementing his agenda, Trump spends all his time fending off investigations. Meanwhile, the DNC gets to fire up the base and has lots of material for fund raising campaigns. All the female Hillary believers are already disposed to think that Her Highness lost only because Trump conspired with the Russians.

Big if true.

I say this one is a good candidate for a gold box, Steve

Remember that if Hillary had gotten in, she would have fired Comey in a New York minute for almost costing her the election (and she would have been right). But now Comey is suddenly the untouchable Guardian of the Republic.

I THINK YOUR CAPS KEY IS STUCK.

Setting the stage? Wake us when the curtain lifts.

I think Democrats are upset for a reason they’re trying to cover up. With the Justice Department in Republican hands and the last big Obama holdover gone from the FBI, it’s possible to start investigating and prosecuting Democratic public officials for stealing from the public till and for various other wrongdoings that they’ve been committing with a free hand for the last 8 years. The Obama administration winked at everything their own pols did with the mentality of a third-world government.

The Democrats are terrified. We can starting going after them in their strongholds and weaken them there. Big city Democratic officials are usually insanely corrupt, and both they and we know it. Their yammering mouthpieces in the press are trying to prevent this.

Right, it’s just a bunch of doctors wanting to do some good In the world. It’s just a coincidence that all the doctors and all the staff of the organization and really the organization itself (see public statements RE refugee ban) are all pro open borders.

As others have noted, the Left’s reaction on cable news has been at DEFCON 1 in terms of sheer hysteria and sputtering rage. The term “constitutional crises” and “Nixonian” has been bandied about a good deal; so have comparisons to Nixon’s so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” back in 1973, when he fired the hyper-partisan Archibald Cox as Watergate special prosecutor – whom Nixon had been foolish to allow to be appointed in the first place.

But the real question now is whether Trump truly will be “Nixonian,” in the sense that he will allow himself to be bullied and cowed into going down the foolish “special prosecutor” route, just as he allowed himself to be talked into withdrawing Travel Ban #1 for a watered down Travel Ban #2, only to see the second one also corralled by liberal federal judges with ideological axes to grind.

What brought Nixon down was not what G. Gordon Liddy cooked up in 1972, but how the president handled it all in 1973. Had Nixon simply come out and said “no special prosecutor; no cooperation from my administration with anybody on some waste-of-time investigation over some silly political prank; no tapes for no one, period; and pardons for all involved in the silly thing just because I want to,” there would have been a lot of temporary hysteria from the liberal media and the Democrats just like we’re seeing now over Trump’s firing of Comey, but Watergate would have sunk into an asterisk to the history of the Nixon administration, instead of the debacle it became.

Instead, Nixon’s otherwise-sharp political survival instincts abandoned him just at the time in his career he needed them the most: he became racked with hesitancy, indecision, and fumbling attempts to contain the scandal, rather than just contemptuously dismiss it as the partisan exercise it most certainly was in the beginning. Richard Nixon himself fed that exercise the fuel that turned it into a criminal matter, and that ultimately consumed his presidency. Why Nixon EVER consented to being a party in federal court over the possession of his tapes when he could have simply brushed any judicial order regarding them aside with a constitutionally compelling separation of powers claim – just like the 35 presidents* before him, starting with George Washington, would have and in some cases HAD done – remains an astonishing example of his bizarre consent to his own political ruin.

In any event, the bottom line is that this will only become Watergate II if Trump allows it to become Watergate II. Whether a special prosecutor – if Trump is foolish enough to allow one to be appointed – finds any “smoking gun” evidence that the 2016 campaign colluded in some way with the Russians is really irrelevant: what Democrats are really salivating about now on cable news – openly! – is the chance for a special prosecutor to get his or her hands on Trump’s tax returns.

And the Grand Old Party? Per usual, about half of them are wringing their wrists, sniveling about how this all just gives them a tummy ache. There should be a new medical requirement that local Republican state conventions should impose on aspiring office-holders: before any candidate for any office in the land can run in a GOP primary, they should be required to undergo an x-ray at a medical clinic certifying the presence of a spinal column, and, for male candidates, a scrotum sack with all the expected contents therein accounted for. Because a good half of the current crop seem to lack that equipment.

*Grover Cleveland messes up the number of presidencies versus the number of men who have been president mathematical tidiness.

^ Always misses the point that if Russia hacked everything to help Trump they did us a favor in letting us know how awful Hillary is

So in acknowledging that Hillary is not fit to be President and that Democrats want low information voters, we are left with the wafer thin position that Trump is somehow a Russian puppet

Which there is no evidence of and is vague and unprovable, and is still better than Clinton the Soros puppet

The whole of the Federal Gover[n]ment seems to revolve around the idea of “classified” information and leaks thereof.

Excessive secrecy is the the natural outcome of any bureaucratic state. Knowledge is power. In the Soviet Union even street maps and the phone book were state secrets.

The difference in America is that the government leaks like a sieve in the interest of politics. The bureaucracy (the “Deep State”) is supposed to be neutral but it isn’t. (DC voted 93% for Hillary – better than Fidel Castro could have done in a fair election). As the rest of the country shifts toward being more and more “red” the blue bureaucracy is forced to wage a anti-democratic rear guard action through selective leaking, judges blocking Presidential decrees, blue local governments ignoring Federal mandates, etc. It’s really a recipe for civil war, unfortunately.

common law, bicameral legislatures, individualism, separation of church and state, an armed citizenry, technological innovation

We got those from the Romans, who stole them from the Greeks, who stole them from the Egyptians, who were really black anyway. And anything we didn’t get from the Romans we got from the medieval Muslims who saved civilization. So, you see, white people are parasites whose only culture had to be taken from others.

/sarcasm

And the Democratic establishment can keep the party in the hands of warmongers because they’re trained the base to hate Russia above all else.

Yes, the left is famous for its hatred of Russia and all things Soviet. The US has always been at war with Putinstan. That thing with Hillary and the RESET button never happened.

Democrats never had anything against the Russians until they (supposedly) interfered with Hillary’s coronation. Stalin killing millions – crickets. But messin’ with Hill – them’s fightin’ words.

What 27 year old said. It is in practice an open-the-borders organisation. They are, for example, prominent in the Calais “refugee” camps – as we know, the French don’t have any doctors of their own.

http://www.msf.org/en/article/france-calais-%E2%80%98jungle%E2%80%99-about-be-dismantled-what-will-become-unaccompanied-minors

They also have the largest “rescue ship” picking up illegal immigrants a few miles off the Libyan coast and ferrying them to Europe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-msf-syria-mediterranean-sea-deaths-rescue-ships-bourbon-argos-libya-operation-sophia-a7394021.html

https://www.msf.org.uk/country/mediterranean-search-and-rescue

I read an article in “Psychology Today” about forty years ago that claimed that the optimum height for a man was six two. That’s not much of an authoritative source but ever since I’ve used 6’2″ as my estimate for the ‘best’ height. It sounds about right.

I’m not extremely tall but I have trouble with airline seating and Italian cars. Industrial designers , I’m told, build their products for the 99th man. I’m near the edge.

Yesterday when Comey got run out of town and was shipped out on a private jet back to DC, he looked very awkward getting up the ladder and through the little hatch. I used to fly around the country on business a lot. I used to say – ‘I’m not afraid of flying – I’m afraid of flying coach’.

It’s true that the Founding Fathers thought that law enforcement was largely a state matter and that we lived without a national police force* for the 1st 150 years of the Republic, but what did they know about fighting tyranny?

*Other than the highly decentralized US Marshals.

Of course. That was why Sean Connery was such an improbable ‘Secret Agent’. Tall, and incredibly handsome. Daniel Craig is much more plausible.

Who could be a better judge of Trump going insane due to untreated venereal disease, than this bona fide leg- spreading author of “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands” ?

Donald Trump definitely has syphillis!! Who would act like this? Nixon must have had syphillis too! @MitchMcConnell you better wake up

— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) May 9, 2017

I dislike calling Trump “the Mule” because it relies on mapping the globalist ruling class to the Second Foundation. Which is far more credit than they deserve; they have proven incapable of any planning beyond grabbing what they can and hoping the insoluble problems will somehow go away.

This is the real battle. A good FBI head will focus the organization on investigating governmental corruption; other crimes should be the jurisdiction of State or local police.

Right, it’s just a bunch of doctors wanting to do some good In the world. It’s just a coincidence that all the doctors and all the staff of the organization and really the organization itself (see public statements RE refugee ban) are all pro open borders.

LOL are you serious man?? It’s Doctors Without Borders not some communist conspiracy. Get a grip.

OT, but sort of related……

What’s happening with #MacronLeaks? Haven’t seen anything on it in the MSM since the election. Was it all just a damp squib?

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

Well, they still do things like

Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy.
MSF singled out the EU’s deal with Turkey under which Turkey agreed to take back any migrants who crossed the sea to Greece in smugglers’ boats.
…
“MSF announces today that we will no longer take funds from the EU and its Member States in protest at their shameful deterrence policies and their intensification of efforts to push people back from European shores,” the group said in a statement.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36558694

So I don’t consider them to be on our side. My side.

Comey fired himself. I am not technically savey enough to find it but during comeys most recent testimony he essentially stated he would prefer being home with his family than working for the FBI. I remember thinking, then go be with your family. A statement like this to a business minded Trump leaves no dilemma. If you don’t want to work for me OK you don’t have to, go home.

There are about 10% of the people expressing opinions who actually have principles, and oppose the surveillance state, the latest war, the next bailout of oligarchs, deficit spending, obstructionism in congress, etc., as a matter of principle. The other 90% hate those things when it’s the other side doing them, but favor them when it’s their side.

It’s worth noticing which people have principles, and which ones just have a side. The ones with principles are often worth listening to even when you disagree with them, because they’re their own men and say what they believe; the others are not worth your time.

Newsflash: much of the alt-right has more or less abandoned Trump since his Syria strikes. It includes the majority of the commenters on the Syria strikes thread a month ago.

Excessive secrecy is the the natural outcome of any bureaucratic state. Knowledge is power.

Well, yes of course. None of we the peons have any knowledge at all of what this classified information sent by Huma Abedin was. Perhaps a link to a web site that allows the user to re-rout in-flight Tomahawk missiles to strike the silo from which they were launched. Or probably not.

So this classified game of 3-D chess can only be played by those who have clearance to classify information and see information classified by others.

However, as others have hinted here, I believe Comey may have been playing a different game. Perhaps he assumed that the election was a foregone conclusion. After all, Irish bookmakers had already paid out on an assumed victory for Hillary, and if you can’t trust an Irish bookmaker, whom can you trust? Rather than make a statement to Congress when President Clinton II had already taken office, it would be neat to do it just before the election when it would quickly be forgotten by nearly everyone, then, if necessary, Hillary could later issue pardons to all concerned and still appoint Huma Abedin as White House Chief of Staff.

It may have been nasty but it gave me a frisson of…je ne sais quoi.

Such uncertainty could provide a resonant Zen slap right into the realm of Stoic nonreaction.

Steve, what’s the point of pretending that you don’t understand a position that’s obviously perfectly straightforward and consistent …
The Democrats are saying that Comey sent his letter to try to avoid getting mau-maued by Republicans after the election, which he shouldn’t have done, but that it’s not the sort of transgression (like breaking the law would be) where morally you have to urge that he be dismissed.

– Just to be clear, the standard for firing someone from top management is not “breaking the law” but something akin to “this guy’s performance is definitely below the mean/median value of the expected performance of the best person i could replace him with.” Comey’s not a school teacher or paper pusher in the city planning office. He’s the FBI director. This is a county of 320 million people, many of them–including many in the FBI ranks–highly competent. If Comey’s not doing a superior job, he should go. He’s not entitled to just take up space.

Now given that, your “perfectly straightforward and consistent” just means the Democrats’ howling and mewling is perfectly consistent with their political interests –Trump bashing. Well Duh. But it’s not consistent in terms of any sort of disinterested standard like “highest quality performance from FBI director”.

Sounds like SS is mentioning his lack of cable because, to be fair, we should be giving him a bit more money.

The ideal height of a soldier or fighter is said to be significantly lower than that.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-10/regaled-hockey-attire-vladimir-putin-comments-firing-james-comey

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-10/real-reason-trump-fired-james-comey-according-politico

As one of the commentators says, If Politico and the WaPo are both pushing the same story you know it’s a lie.

Firing Comey is just one more instance in which Trump surprises people because they think the President can’t do a certain thing because the “right time” has already passed. He did this with the health care bill also: supposedly the initial failure to pass legislation meant he couldn’t do it at all, or at least not before the 2018 elections.

I don’t think Trump pays these supposed restrictions any mind.

My guess is that this is his attitude about many other issues — such as, say, The Wall. I think he believes he can just come back to these issues when he happens to think the time is ripe.

Now probably the timing of some things really aren’t up to him, not least because others will not grant him enough political capital to do them if he isn’t successful enough earlier on.

But I would expect that Trump, being perhaps the most resilient politician and certainly President we have known, does not lack any confidence in his ability to go after any issue he wants, any time he wants, if the time otherwise seems ripe.

Thanks for noticing, i-Steve style.

Comey’s firing was forthcoming. Trump waited until it was tenable. Regardless, his removal does not stop the investigation. There are two federal grand juries underway, one focused on a RICO case and the other focused on a FARA case. The prosecutors are getting their ducks in a row…they know if they shoot and miss, it makes even more likely Trump will get a second term.

Are the Clintons crooks? Yes. Throw them in jail.

Has Trump engaged in similar shady business practices to enrich himself? Yes.

So, to me, let’s find out Trump, the “God-Emperor”, is pulling the wool over people’s eyes by touting populist while securing his own business dealings post-president. What are y’all afraid of?

This may have been the funniest comment on this so far:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-10/caught-video-hockey-playing-putin-reacts-comey-termination

Anyway, can we have Chris Christie as the replacement now? The lulz will never end.

“The Bourbon Argos is journeying towards what has become the deadliest sea crossing in the world, on a mission to save the lives of some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees continuing to risk their lives in desperate attempts to reach safety in Europe. The ship, run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is the largest humanitarian vessel patrolling the Mediterranean Sea, rescuing or transporting 8,534 migrants in the past six months alone.”

They pick them up a mile or two off the Libyan coast and, rather than take them the few miles back to where they sailed from, ferry them hundreds of miles to Europe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-msf-syria-mediterranean-sea-deaths-rescue-ships-bourbon-argos-libya-operation-sophia-a7394021.html

There are no quote marks around God Emperor of Man.

I wonder what Roy Cohn would have done

“There are no quote marks around God Emperor of Man.”

Trump is not a God Emperor. There are those on the Alt Right who call him by that title. The only God Emperor is God Himself in His glory.

Didn’t Trump say something similar about himself in a recent Reuters interview?

He should have been fired for this

http://nypost.com/2017/05/03/huma-wont-be-charged-for-hillarys-emails-on-anthony-weiners-laptop/

Well, I guess one of the shortest books ever written was “The American Culture” or something…

I always recommend Albion’s Seed as a good place to start

https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-Cultural/dp/1522668314

Sure, humiliating public firings are entertaining for third parties. They also make enemies in a way that saying “Please tender me your resignation” does not. This is why this method of firing people is far more common.