look, I hear what you're all saying about Comey, and I have slightly rewritten the following passage, from
"I detest this guy for what he did to the email lady in 2016 — but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all stand with Comey when he’s the victim of fucked-up fascism on steroids."
to
"I detest this guy for what he did to the email lady in 2016. James Comey is not our friend — but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all stand with Comey when he’s the victim of fucked-up fascism on steroids. let Comey find his comeuppance in a way that doesn’t shred our system of justice."
He had previously said his wife and daughters voted for Hillary in 2016, so I assume they have never let him forget how his actions not only torpedoed her but led to this. At least I hope they have. Repeatedly.
IIRC, Comey got caught between a rock and a hard place. He could disclose the new findings, or be accused later of concealing it. It was a no-win situation for him.
No, it wasn't. The FBI has repeatedly said they don't talk about ongoing investigations. Comey shattered protocol and put Trump in the White House over something that just days after he revealed it turned out to be nothing. But it was too late. The NY Times had already run dozens of front-page stories, driving national coverage so that going into Election Day, the only "issue" anyone was talking about was "her emails." He could have just gone what the FBI always did—nothing.
No it wasn't. The rule is that the FBI is not supposed to reveal any information regarding the Presidential election for THIRTY DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION!! He flagrantly broke that rule, and WE, THE PEOPLE, lost our candidate. I hold Comey completely responsible for that.
We again see the danger of collaborating with or enabling Trumpolini...eventually he will turn on you, and continue to pound you into his dirt. I hope all MAGAts are watching this unfold, and maybe understand what is coming for them from their "dear leader"
Let’s hope his wife and daughters are cut from the same cloth as my first wife: NEVER forget a thing you didn’t like that a person did and - more importantly - NEVER let them forget that they fucked up and you will never forgive them, nor forget. Comey’s hell may be a never ending, awkward Thanksgiving Dinner with his wife and daughters. (If there were such a thing as hell…)
Methinks just a WEE spot of, ahem, 'sarcasm' here, Dave? ;) For MY part, I distinctly remember being SO PISSED at him, using a lot of WTF'S but also then being SO pleased that Hillary STILL WON the popular vote (even though WE lost her from the WH) but which has stuck like a thorn in frump's side ever since. Of course his magats refuse to accept that We The People chose her to this day. I honestly don't believe hComey truly meant what happened to happen - just blundered into doing what he thought was 'the right thing' out of a sense of duty, although now seeing what Anastasia and kd have written causes some confusion as his behaviour since (and that of Maureen) has more than proven they're not in league with the orange moron.
In a way, that seems worse. "Helping establish a major threat to our democracy was an oopsie!" I hope his daughter makes sure to teach any children she may end up having that Grandpa is an idiot.
'an idiot' - Seriously? The man whom everyone IN office both before and after knew and described as the epitome of a 'boy scout' and who 'always believed in doing the right thing' you call 'an idiot' and then attack me because I DARE agree with MzNicky in not condemning the man to 'burning forever in hell' because of what YOU refer to as 'an oopsie' (not MY term at all). Could he POSSIBLY know that frump WOULD become this much of a 'major threat to our democracy? Even I who grew up knowing what a fuckwit he always was couldn't see THAT coming... OR is it even just a TINY BIT POSSIBLE that he believed the voting populace would go ahead and vote as they'd already planned to and his belief in 'doing the right thing' wouldn't do any harm whatsoever? I've already written that I was mightily pissed AT the time but when Hillary STILL won the popular vote it proved to ME that sufficient people were NOT spooked by her 'emails'. Has everyone fucking forgotten 'Russia, if you're listening. blabbity, blah, blah'? SINCE then I've rethought thoroughly - my anger towards him, and the very LAST THING I'd do is bring his deliberately fired Prosecutor DAUGHTER into this anymore than she's been DRAGGED - let alone dictating how she should love her father! A bridge TOO fucking far.
“This isn’t really about Comey, it’s about the cost of defiance. Sooner or later, they will try to claim us all. No one is immune. The regime lies, defies court orders, and wields power through a corrupt Supreme Court. Thinking you’re safe from the power grab is naïve. People like Trump have no allies, only subjects and enemies.“
I"m just surprised it hasn't happened sooner. For example, look at how easy it would be for that ass kisser Zuck to ban my snarky lib ass on Facebook. Doesn't have to be a violation of the TOS. Just ban me. Gone forever. Easy peasey. Do it for Daddy.
BEcause - WE can still fully express DEMOCRATIC thoughts and principles ON these sites, despite what some think. I DO! Tbh I rarely post on FB any longer - currently have nearly 600 'notices' (mostly family and musician friends) BUT a huge number of those musician friends are, like me - now freely expressing their extreme distaste for frump and some of them are quite well-known in the NY music community. When we interact it fucks with their algorithms - same as on twitter (I refuse to call it 'x'), even though musk himself actually follows me. Is it to intimidate or did he really 'like' some of what I wrote? Who knows. I don't soft pedal anything there. Perhaps in some perverse way he enjoys seeing women describe the orange shitler for exactly the racist pig he is. I have 2000+ followers on twitter, a mere drop in the bucket by their standards - 'harmless'. However, we share, and spread facts and information. EVERY Democratic Politician is there as well as those running in 2026 so of course I repost their info. To my mind we can't allow ourselves to be overwhelmed or outshouted by magats and frump's batshit crazy bullshit.
Yes. This. I scorch Trump and his minions and the clueless MAGAts several times a day on my FB page on a "public" setting. I want to make sure his crimes are receiving the attention they deserve. Haven't received more than a token pushback every once in awhile. Several of my FB friends follow my posts every day.
Exactly. For my part I believe those sites NEED us to speak the hell up and get others to blast off far more often than even we do. Some of us never were afraid but they managed to scare some good voices away. My reason for not being on FB too much lately is partly due to what shee-rah describes: spending far more time on substack & Bluesky AND when I do go to FB am immediately 'private messaged' (I despise that feature) by family members who then take up far too much of my precious time on what I now view as inane matters. These are mostly extended family and I do care about them - but none are politically involved so right now silliness must take a back seat.
Since I started subscribing to various Substack authors, I have no time for Facebook, and I don’t have an X account. I also read several online news sites, and we still get home delivery of our city’s newspaper. And oh yes, I read books too!
Ahh - the books, the books, the books. Definitely. I try to fit about 15-20 in over a 2-week period as well. I'm a fast reader who MUST have something to read available at all times.
'I' haven't been - yet. And I DO say some pretty incendiary things, no holds barred. I do. not. give. one. flying. FUCK. if frump and his band of jackazzes like it or not and basically DARE them to come for me. Of course, I use my real name and photos on both sites, so there's that. ;) Maybe I intimidate them - they're not used to women using 'their' language? I refuse to be cowed.
I am ANTIFA. An anti fascist like my father who fought against fascism fro 1939 to 1985. First as an agent in the British (multinational) SOE (Strategic Operations Executive, the forerunner to so many Western Secret services...including the CIA), then in the Canadian Forces Intelligence Services until 1948, then in the Canadian Secret Service and Foreign Service until 1985. My Grandfather fought against the Bolsheviks (1919-1922) and fled to Canada (Thank you Opa and Oma!). And millions of other men and women of what were the Allied forces in 1939 through 1945 and then NATO forces. All of those heroes have been designated, post Mortem as Terrorists by the Trumphole (Who is a coward). There is much more than 'shame' in that. And, I am not ashamed in the least, bring em on!
So that's what tanked her election? Oh, 'plain and simple'; that ends any argument.
I both-sides nothing. Her Ladyship was next in rotation so they put her on the stage. That was our foretaste of how fucked up the Dems were. The country didn't want her, least of all the racist, misogynistic rubes who now rule it. The country wanted Trump. The country got Trump. I sort of doubt that anything the Dems did one way or the other would have mattered.
I voted for her because I had no other choice. But here's the thing, citizens: that whole 'choice' thing is coming full circle. The Dems hardly exist anymore. There's the reeking mass with the name GOP, and then there's the Opposition. The opposition is messy, unstructured, and has no leadership. Yet. It's not like this thing is at all ambiguous, and most (not all) of our talking heads are catching up with this fact. Trump wants a totalitarian police state because that's what he wants. The way he acts, it appears to be personal. He's a frightened little weasel, lashing out at forces he barely understands. His remarkable setting up of this, right in front of God and Country, by berating Bondi indicates to me there is no larger goal here. He just wants to be safe, so feels he can't stop, because the whole planet hates his guts (except for a handful of dictators who find him useful and 77M mentally-challenged rubes).
So the choice? Fight. Or not. Comey's treatment of the "Server Lady" is not what Trump is persecuting him for. His guilt in that matter, and in any sense, is irrelevant.
George: did you forget she beat him by nearly THREE MILLION MORE popular votes? To me, that indicates that a HELLUVA lot more of We The People wanted HER over the conman grifter. Murdoch, Pecker (he of the fake-ass stories ginned up in his National Enquirer JUST FOR frump) to make it seem she was A) a pedophile (my, how the worm has turned) B) dying Oops! C) suffering from a non-functioning brain Ta-DA! - all played a part, BUT she still got more of 'the people's' votes! If anyone should be held criminally liable, it should be Murdoch and Pecker, along with always-cheating frump and nosferatu/miller.
No, I didn't forget that. It was an interesting number that was ultimately irrelevant. That's because the structure has been in place since 1787 to ensure that low-population rural states had an outsized influence on the elections. It was a compromise, because there was clearly an opposition to it that understood that the results of listening too closely to the poorly-educated could produce poor results. As it has. Trump rode this imbalance to victory. He's the one now sitting in the Oval Office.
All of the other points you make are, while true, also irrelevant. Are he and all his minions corrupt, immoral, amoral, and evil? Sure they are. And we're talking about them because they won.
The point I've tried to make is that, somewhere along the way, this whole fight became asymmetrical. The only question remaining for me is whether or not there is still a fight at all. If everybody just keeps going to work like there's nothing to see, then no. And if no, then all the grousing we do about Hillary's loss, Trump's corruption, or how compromised the Supreme Court is will amount to nothing.
And we should keep pointing out that Trump is never grateful for what anyone does for him. He keeps demanding more until he sucks your soul dry and discards your withered husk.
Yeah it does, karma is karma well deserved no matter the reason. Cause and effect. He deserves everything that happens. Bullshit on these false equivalences.
Is Pee Wee Herman responsible for the eruption of Mt. St Helens? WTF are you talking about?
Comey totally blew it on Hillary. I wonder if he did it to sabotage the election in Trump’s favor. The answer is definitely no. It was a HUGE and harmful blunder. And as for me James Comey is still my friend. Can we move on?
This whole era with the dirty politics was new to most of us as we have never been confronted with such un-American people especially ones that lie repeatedly to our face without any consequences. The instant internet access created a whole new territory to push poisonous propaganda. I don't think we've yet accepted the power of such evil targeted propaganda. Remember when "they" told us we were exceptional???
And let us not forget that Hillary did in fact violate the law; by conducting the people's business on her own server. All her official communications are property of the US government just like the classified documents Trump took.
Actually, she didn't; There was no "law" when she did it. A standard was put in place after John Kerry became Secretary of State. In addition, Colin Powell did exactly the same thing and was never shredded for it. (Condi Rice didn't use email). And with a month of the election, Jared and Ivanka were using private emails to do government business. The NY Times never made that a weeks-long front page story.
Thank you! Facts are important to point out. They (the investigating man, forget his name now) added a snide personal rebuke to muddy the waters, but it had no basis in reality.
Since Comey was involved in the Russian interference scandal, maybe he felt it was necessary to also be transparent on the other side. Fair and balanced, you know? Lest it come back to bite him later. I think he was a by-the-book FBI guy.
That was pretty much my take on it as well. Oh, I was PISSED at the time, but knew that he was a straight shooter and hadn't intended to derail Hillary's campaign. I honestly don't believe he fully comprehended the political ramifications as we do now since THEN the DOJ and FBI were all supposed to be far removed from 'politics' and so many of the top guys worked hard to keep themselves separate. Brennan (CIA Head then during Comey's time) spoke today at length on MSNBC and vouched for Comey's 'boy-scout' character. Said there was NO WAY he would have done anything remotely wrong, dishonest or criminal. Even through my own pissed-offness, I understood that much about him even to having a grudging respect for his belief in 'doing the right thing'. He does NOT 'deserve' what's being done to him now by that petty, spiteful fucking orange toddler, and if I was still in Law I'd volunteer to help his case. Look at what's been done to his daughter Maureen who was trashed JUST because he's her Dad/she carries his name. Ugh!
However you say it, indictments are for crimes, not for revenge, and not for dirty campaign tricks that don't actually violate the law. It's hard for Donny to grasp that the justice system isn't playground tit-for-tat. "Aw, why can't I indict Comey?" "Because he's not a real crook, like you."
Jeff, just gotta pause a second and say how great it feels to know you care about how your readers feel. Thank you for caring enough to edit your words for our sake.
this was SUPPOSED to be a post about Donny's oval office antics yesterday, ending with a mention of the Comey indictment, but the Comey part kind of took over
The Comey indictment is almost certainly more threatening than what's-his-name's antics. That may be why it took over, and why you may have accidentally written from the top down after all.
Wait till you see the Hegseth video from last night, in which he decrees the brave cavalry officers who slaughtered Lakota Sioux with howitzers at Wounded Knee won’t be stripped of their Medals of Honor.
Whatever you think of Hegseth is now 10 times worse than you thought.
I want to hear more about Hogsbreath summoning generals and admirals from around the World to convene at Quantico Marine base outside Washington in the coming days. What is the purpose of this and does it not leave us vulnerable to have our entire military top command away from their posts at the same time?
My immediate thought it is going to be some kind of collective ring kissing ceremony for trump and those who don’t bend the knee will be seeing involuntary retirement in their immediate future. This will strip the ranks of all who might object when the Military is turned loose for live fire action against any protesting citizens.
The thought of that drunken slimy greaseball television host giving orders to career soldiers who have dedicated their lives to protecting us turns my stomach!
I am really curious about what he is calling them all in for, but also wondering, how much is that costing us? Not to be snarky, but could it have been done via zoom? Or an email? Probably would save us a bunch of money, although they really don't care about that.
kegstand loves strutting around (after his makeup and hair are done first, of course) like the puffed-up little tin soldier he actually is. desperately needing a captive audience. Reminds me of another magat moron AND a little mustachioed fella from Germany.
My gut tells me this will be a call to pledge loyalty or be fired. When he calls for the national emergency to stop further elections his goons will be in place to give orders and create martial law too.
That very well may happen. After all these Generals took an oath to defend this great nation against "enemies domestic". They'll be looking right at the "enemy domestic".
Since Kegsbreath has just required journalists to publish only what he allows, I think it's going to be a loyalty oath. And then I think/hope 790 generals are going to flip him the bird.
Most likely, although Hogsbreath needs to feel he’s part of the team, that nobody wants to have him as a member! Or…Trump’s about to propose martial law, sending the drunken derp to find out what side they’ll be on!
800 generals, US and foreign, in one big ballroom? Why am I seeing flashes of Red Wedding from Game of Thrones? The sweaty marinated hamhock from Fox & Friends is declaring WWIII? My goblet of loathing for them all overfloweth.
I sincerely doubt that he gets anything but the tiniest tickle in his frozen zone. I suppose that's enough to remind him of his days of glory with Epstein. Oh, and RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
From what I remember about being in a war zone for 2 years is you don't bunch up. # 2 and #4 would be my guess. Especially if corporals end up in charge. They're young and impressionable much like the goons in ICE.
Sadly, Jeff is probably correct. Whatever it is will be a huge distraction from the Epstein files at a time when they might be released. I just hope these military leaders remember their oath.
Goddamn don't I want it to be The Purge insomuch as Dem governors counter by authorizing The Purge, all crime including murder being legal...Blessed be our Democratic Governors and America. A Nation Reborn.
I think he’s referring to that time he LOST the 2020 election and retreated to Merde-a-Lardo to wage his insurrection, until such time as Elon fucked with the 2024 vote and restored the Traitor to the throne.
The Comey part needs to take over, as this is Phase One of testing how far decency and legality can be pushed (again....). Success means immediate action on Schiff, James, etc., etc. Failure means break whatever stopped the illegal action and try again.
"President Rottinghands McRagebaby" Anyone keeping track of all this brilliance? 😂😂
All I can say here is how much I appreciate the reminder that this will eventually be over. Eric Swalwell and Jeff are right...and I hope I live long enough to see the day when these evil assholes are tried and put away.
Hey, Gina and longtimebirdwatcher, don't let it get to you. We're so glad you're here and with us fighting. Don't let the fascists get you down!
My dad is 86 and has finally gone back to seeing the doctor regularly, no matter how much he hates it, because he intends to live long enough to spit on the Orange Obscenity's grave.
But will they be tried and put away? Or will the DEMs do another Nancy Pelosi after the Bush/Cheney regime, "Oh no, no. We won't be looking into anything. We're looking forward now."
I read someone this morning speculating that this Conclave of Generals was to get them all together and force them to sign new oaths specifically to Dear Leader...
If they"re generals, they all have enough time in to RETIRE, which as a retired Air Force officer, I would recommend if this meeting is about some loyalty test. Retire and then tell a reliable, unbiased reporter what really was going on.
I’m hoping a lot of them are communicating with each other right now over whether they will uphold their oath to the Constitution and tell this loathsome regime to go fuck itself. And then they tar&feather Hegseth and run him out of town on a rail, and keep going from there. I think a military coup at this point might not be a bad idea.
I too, have been thinking that Milley and others have been contacting their generals as to what to expect and what to do about it. Oh how I wish that many would revolt and physically go after Hegseth…and be successful. Sigh…
One frightening theory: this night of the generals thing is happening at the same time NATO is meeting to deal with the threat of Putin. Are they connected? Kegsbreath sure likes to spend our money on spectacles.
Tess, merde is shit in French. Everything sounds better in French. Except bullshit. I believe bullshit is bullshit in any language. The same with fuck.
Maybe Trump should start speaking in French. The majority of Americans still wouldn't understand what he is saying, and he would mispronounce every word he says, but no one would really know.
While I feel HORRIBLE about what's happened to the rule of law in this country, I can't help but feel a bit of glee at watching Comey's chickens come home to roost. Why?
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If it weren't for him deliberately sabotaging Hillary Clinton's campaign with disproven bullshit right before the election, COMEY WOULD STILL BE IN THE DOJ and Trump WOULD BE IN PRISON. But Hillary wasn't elected, Trump is our Fuehrer, and Comey can go FUCK HIMSELF.
Comey supposedly was trying to be thorough, just in case. Even though Hillary's email server issue had been completed with no evidence of malfeasance, when some info pertaining to her cropped up on Anthony Weiner's (remember him?) laptop just before the election, Comey decided to re-open the closed investigation. That, of course, put his thumb on the scale big time. What was his motivation? I cannot say, although he was or is a registered Repub. He did say his wife and daughters were Hillary supporters, so I hope they've been giving him shit all this time.
I don't care about his motivations; the results stand.
And I don't care about him either. He took the United States and deliberately FUCKED IT UP THE ASS. I hope he beats the charges, for the sake of America and the rule of law, but I also hope it bankrupts him.
I am so conflicted because I loathe Comey. He's an arrogant misogynist who let his bias against women in power hand the election to Trump the first time around. Notably, he was the lead prosecutor in the case that sent Martha Stewart to prison. He was searching for a high profile prosecution and salivated at taking down an incredibly rich and powerful woman. He sucks in the worst ways possible. That said, Trump is a far greater enemy and this needs to stop. I know someone is cataloging all of these tweets that will eventually be used against the current administration. Dreaming about the Pam Bondi perp walk now....
I think Martha Stewart did commit insider trading. That being said, there have been many many worse and more blatant cases since then, especially since Mr. Tariffs Are Good for America has created so many opportunities for MAGAts to profit from his wildly inconsistent and stupid reversals, pauses, and reinstatements. If Martha went to the pokey, all of these others should too, and for longer.
The graft opportunities of starting and stopping the stupid tariffs, resulting in thousand point swings in the stock market, were incredible.
An now the crypto scam he’s running May dwarf even that collosal swindle!
But the biggest grift of all is yet to come- All the stored dollars in the Federal system will be converted to crypto using trump’s own Bitcoin companies for the transactions. His ownership will be well hidden but All the graft will funnel into his pocket. G
Even idiot Margarine Traitor Greene made a killing with that whole tariff pause bullshit. Criminal. Yep and you're right about the crypto grift. And his dumbass followers don't care
Trump's DOJ was admonished and threatened with sanctions this week by the judge in the Luigi Mangione case for violations. If he walked, I'd be ok with that at this point.
The Comey indictment is Disney 2.0, just another Epstein file reality TV distraction that will blow up in the administration's face. I'm not a fan of Comey, but I'll enjoy watching him make Orangeina The Biggest Loser.
His defense attorney Pat Fitzgerald (and Comey himself) will be mowing down the prosecutorial real estate and parking garage lawyers like McDonalds Fish Sandwiches in a barrel. Complete waste of taxpayer money.
Anybody remember when we focused on the fucking GDP instead of flooding the courts and filling the coffers of roadside ambulance chasers like Blanche, Halligan, Blondie, Bove, et al?
I think you mixed your metaphors there but I get your drift. The graft is their reason for being, Joe. At least the few on the inside who are taking it in. The rest are just court jesters trotted out for the kings amusement and to provide circuses for the mouth breathing minions.
I’m wondering how/why the grand jury indicted him in the first place. They’ve been rather willing lately to decline to indict in some of these bullshit cases.
only a majority vote (12 out of 23) is needed, and the standard is whether there is any evidence at all, not whether it is convincing beyond a reasonable doubt. 14 voted for one charge, 12 for another, and the third count failed to get enough.
It of course has no bearing on this entire regime of clownfucking dumbasses that they try to pull this vendetta bullshit using the legal system just as Kenneth Chesebro, previously disbarred in NY now got suspended from law practice in DC. Look into yer future, Bondi, Halligan, and all you lying, asskissing trumphumpers.
Being disbarred does not matter to them. Sucking Trump's evil ass has made them unbelievable rich. They will not need to work when this is over. Hopefully, they will have to spend a lot hiring defense lawyers when they are indicted.
look, I hear what you're all saying about Comey, and I have slightly rewritten the following passage, from
"I detest this guy for what he did to the email lady in 2016 — but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all stand with Comey when he’s the victim of fucked-up fascism on steroids."
to
"I detest this guy for what he did to the email lady in 2016. James Comey is not our friend — but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t all stand with Comey when he’s the victim of fucked-up fascism on steroids. let Comey find his comeuppance in a way that doesn’t shred our system of justice."
He had previously said his wife and daughters voted for Hillary in 2016, so I assume they have never let him forget how his actions not only torpedoed her but led to this. At least I hope they have. Repeatedly.
IIRC, Comey got caught between a rock and a hard place. He could disclose the new findings, or be accused later of concealing it. It was a no-win situation for him.
No, it wasn't. The FBI has repeatedly said they don't talk about ongoing investigations. Comey shattered protocol and put Trump in the White House over something that just days after he revealed it turned out to be nothing. But it was too late. The NY Times had already run dozens of front-page stories, driving national coverage so that going into Election Day, the only "issue" anyone was talking about was "her emails." He could have just gone what the FBI always did—nothing.
This, this, and 100 times this.
No it wasn't. The rule is that the FBI is not supposed to reveal any information regarding the Presidential election for THIRTY DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION!! He flagrantly broke that rule, and WE, THE PEOPLE, lost our candidate. I hold Comey completely responsible for that.
We again see the danger of collaborating with or enabling Trumpolini...eventually he will turn on you, and continue to pound you into his dirt. I hope all MAGAts are watching this unfold, and maybe understand what is coming for them from their "dear leader"
Oh, they definitely don't, they always seem shocked when he turns on them.
Oh bullshit. You do not remember correctly. DOJ policy is to NEVER comment on ongoing investigations, NEVER.
So let's save that simpering crap for those dumb enough to believe that horse pucky.
IIRC Mz, you’re right!
Sadly yes, he had rogue agents that leaked to Ghouliani. It still sucks though.
Let’s hope his wife and daughters are cut from the same cloth as my first wife: NEVER forget a thing you didn’t like that a person did and - more importantly - NEVER let them forget that they fucked up and you will never forgive them, nor forget. Comey’s hell may be a never ending, awkward Thanksgiving Dinner with his wife and daughters. (If there were such a thing as hell…)
Methinks just a WEE spot of, ahem, 'sarcasm' here, Dave? ;) For MY part, I distinctly remember being SO PISSED at him, using a lot of WTF'S but also then being SO pleased that Hillary STILL WON the popular vote (even though WE lost her from the WH) but which has stuck like a thorn in frump's side ever since. Of course his magats refuse to accept that We The People chose her to this day. I honestly don't believe hComey truly meant what happened to happen - just blundered into doing what he thought was 'the right thing' out of a sense of duty, although now seeing what Anastasia and kd have written causes some confusion as his behaviour since (and that of Maureen) has more than proven they're not in league with the orange moron.
In a way, that seems worse. "Helping establish a major threat to our democracy was an oopsie!" I hope his daughter makes sure to teach any children she may end up having that Grandpa is an idiot.
'an idiot' - Seriously? The man whom everyone IN office both before and after knew and described as the epitome of a 'boy scout' and who 'always believed in doing the right thing' you call 'an idiot' and then attack me because I DARE agree with MzNicky in not condemning the man to 'burning forever in hell' because of what YOU refer to as 'an oopsie' (not MY term at all). Could he POSSIBLY know that frump WOULD become this much of a 'major threat to our democracy? Even I who grew up knowing what a fuckwit he always was couldn't see THAT coming... OR is it even just a TINY BIT POSSIBLE that he believed the voting populace would go ahead and vote as they'd already planned to and his belief in 'doing the right thing' wouldn't do any harm whatsoever? I've already written that I was mightily pissed AT the time but when Hillary STILL won the popular vote it proved to ME that sufficient people were NOT spooked by her 'emails'. Has everyone fucking forgotten 'Russia, if you're listening. blabbity, blah, blah'? SINCE then I've rethought thoroughly - my anger towards him, and the very LAST THING I'd do is bring his deliberately fired Prosecutor DAUGHTER into this anymore than she's been DRAGGED - let alone dictating how she should love her father! A bridge TOO fucking far.
On one hand, yes, and on the second hand,, sorry you gotta endure such unrelenting vitriol
Alt National Park Service said it best for me:
“This isn’t really about Comey, it’s about the cost of defiance. Sooner or later, they will try to claim us all. No one is immune. The regime lies, defies court orders, and wields power through a corrupt Supreme Court. Thinking you’re safe from the power grab is naïve. People like Trump have no allies, only subjects and enemies.“
I"m just surprised it hasn't happened sooner. For example, look at how easy it would be for that ass kisser Zuck to ban my snarky lib ass on Facebook. Doesn't have to be a violation of the TOS. Just ban me. Gone forever. Easy peasey. Do it for Daddy.
Why isn't everyone boycotting these sights? Cut off the money spigot.
BEcause - WE can still fully express DEMOCRATIC thoughts and principles ON these sites, despite what some think. I DO! Tbh I rarely post on FB any longer - currently have nearly 600 'notices' (mostly family and musician friends) BUT a huge number of those musician friends are, like me - now freely expressing their extreme distaste for frump and some of them are quite well-known in the NY music community. When we interact it fucks with their algorithms - same as on twitter (I refuse to call it 'x'), even though musk himself actually follows me. Is it to intimidate or did he really 'like' some of what I wrote? Who knows. I don't soft pedal anything there. Perhaps in some perverse way he enjoys seeing women describe the orange shitler for exactly the racist pig he is. I have 2000+ followers on twitter, a mere drop in the bucket by their standards - 'harmless'. However, we share, and spread facts and information. EVERY Democratic Politician is there as well as those running in 2026 so of course I repost their info. To my mind we can't allow ourselves to be overwhelmed or outshouted by magats and frump's batshit crazy bullshit.
Yes. This. I scorch Trump and his minions and the clueless MAGAts several times a day on my FB page on a "public" setting. I want to make sure his crimes are receiving the attention they deserve. Haven't received more than a token pushback every once in awhile. Several of my FB friends follow my posts every day.
Exactly. For my part I believe those sites NEED us to speak the hell up and get others to blast off far more often than even we do. Some of us never were afraid but they managed to scare some good voices away. My reason for not being on FB too much lately is partly due to what shee-rah describes: spending far more time on substack & Bluesky AND when I do go to FB am immediately 'private messaged' (I despise that feature) by family members who then take up far too much of my precious time on what I now view as inane matters. These are mostly extended family and I do care about them - but none are politically involved so right now silliness must take a back seat.
Since I started subscribing to various Substack authors, I have no time for Facebook, and I don’t have an X account. I also read several online news sites, and we still get home delivery of our city’s newspaper. And oh yes, I read books too!
Ahh - the books, the books, the books. Definitely. I try to fit about 15-20 in over a 2-week period as well. I'm a fast reader who MUST have something to read available at all times.
I’m with you, Shee-rah, except for the newspaper. 😊
They'll just shadowban your comments and report you to der fuhrer
'I' haven't been - yet. And I DO say some pretty incendiary things, no holds barred. I do. not. give. one. flying. FUCK. if frump and his band of jackazzes like it or not and basically DARE them to come for me. Of course, I use my real name and photos on both sites, so there's that. ;) Maybe I intimidate them - they're not used to women using 'their' language? I refuse to be cowed.
I am ANTIFA. An anti fascist like my father who fought against fascism fro 1939 to 1985. First as an agent in the British (multinational) SOE (Strategic Operations Executive, the forerunner to so many Western Secret services...including the CIA), then in the Canadian Forces Intelligence Services until 1948, then in the Canadian Secret Service and Foreign Service until 1985. My Grandfather fought against the Bolsheviks (1919-1922) and fled to Canada (Thank you Opa and Oma!). And millions of other men and women of what were the Allied forces in 1939 through 1945 and then NATO forces. All of those heroes have been designated, post Mortem as Terrorists by the Trumphole (Who is a coward). There is much more than 'shame' in that. And, I am not ashamed in the least, bring em on!
That is well said and true, Linda. But we were speaking about Comey’s possible guilt on a former boo-boo.
"Possible guilt?" Comey tanked Hilary's election, plain and simple. I can't believe the both-sidesing here by too many people.
So that's what tanked her election? Oh, 'plain and simple'; that ends any argument.
I both-sides nothing. Her Ladyship was next in rotation so they put her on the stage. That was our foretaste of how fucked up the Dems were. The country didn't want her, least of all the racist, misogynistic rubes who now rule it. The country wanted Trump. The country got Trump. I sort of doubt that anything the Dems did one way or the other would have mattered.
I voted for her because I had no other choice. But here's the thing, citizens: that whole 'choice' thing is coming full circle. The Dems hardly exist anymore. There's the reeking mass with the name GOP, and then there's the Opposition. The opposition is messy, unstructured, and has no leadership. Yet. It's not like this thing is at all ambiguous, and most (not all) of our talking heads are catching up with this fact. Trump wants a totalitarian police state because that's what he wants. The way he acts, it appears to be personal. He's a frightened little weasel, lashing out at forces he barely understands. His remarkable setting up of this, right in front of God and Country, by berating Bondi indicates to me there is no larger goal here. He just wants to be safe, so feels he can't stop, because the whole planet hates his guts (except for a handful of dictators who find him useful and 77M mentally-challenged rubes).
So the choice? Fight. Or not. Comey's treatment of the "Server Lady" is not what Trump is persecuting him for. His guilt in that matter, and in any sense, is irrelevant.
George: did you forget she beat him by nearly THREE MILLION MORE popular votes? To me, that indicates that a HELLUVA lot more of We The People wanted HER over the conman grifter. Murdoch, Pecker (he of the fake-ass stories ginned up in his National Enquirer JUST FOR frump) to make it seem she was A) a pedophile (my, how the worm has turned) B) dying Oops! C) suffering from a non-functioning brain Ta-DA! - all played a part, BUT she still got more of 'the people's' votes! If anyone should be held criminally liable, it should be Murdoch and Pecker, along with always-cheating frump and nosferatu/miller.
No, I didn't forget that. It was an interesting number that was ultimately irrelevant. That's because the structure has been in place since 1787 to ensure that low-population rural states had an outsized influence on the elections. It was a compromise, because there was clearly an opposition to it that understood that the results of listening too closely to the poorly-educated could produce poor results. As it has. Trump rode this imbalance to victory. He's the one now sitting in the Oval Office.
All of the other points you make are, while true, also irrelevant. Are he and all his minions corrupt, immoral, amoral, and evil? Sure they are. And we're talking about them because they won.
The point I've tried to make is that, somewhere along the way, this whole fight became asymmetrical. The only question remaining for me is whether or not there is still a fight at all. If everybody just keeps going to work like there's nothing to see, then no. And if no, then all the grousing we do about Hillary's loss, Trump's corruption, or how compromised the Supreme Court is will amount to nothing.
Fucking thank you, I hate when our side buys into the obvious Russian troll propaganda.
We can’t be sure that Trump wouldn’t have won anyway.
That's accurate.
And we should keep pointing out that Trump is never grateful for what anyone does for him. He keeps demanding more until he sucks your soul dry and discards your withered husk.
So true.
The song of our people: Comey fucked up and likely hand-delivered Trump a victory. Does that mean he deserves to be indicted on phony charges? No.
Them: An escalator broke, so the UN should be bombed!
The media: There are compelling arguments on both sides.
Well wrought.
Not.
Yeah it does, karma is karma well deserved no matter the reason. Cause and effect. He deserves everything that happens. Bullshit on these false equivalences.
Is Pee Wee Herman responsible for the eruption of Mt. St Helens? WTF are you talking about?
Comey totally blew it on Hillary. I wonder if he did it to sabotage the election in Trump’s favor. The answer is definitely no. It was a HUGE and harmful blunder. And as for me James Comey is still my friend. Can we move on?
As I recall there was pressure involved, threats from MAGA FBI agents to "leak" what turned out to be a non-story. I think he panicked.
This whole era with the dirty politics was new to most of us as we have never been confronted with such un-American people especially ones that lie repeatedly to our face without any consequences. The instant internet access created a whole new territory to push poisonous propaganda. I don't think we've yet accepted the power of such evil targeted propaganda. Remember when "they" told us we were exceptional???
Re dirty politics: Don’t forget Tricky Dick and the Watergate scandal.
Ghouliani had his tentacles in that with leaks reporting to him.
Odd ‘blunder’ just sayin… maybe a cya move, but failed to mention the continuing trumpF investigation? yeah
Do you think he is a foreign agent, or similar?
Not Comey - no
Probably not. Just hates women, especially women with power.
He doesn’t LOOK like a guy who hates women, and even if he was, do you think he would hate women more than he hates Trump?
Maybe he just hated Hilary for reasons we don't know about. He definitely blew her out of the water.
And what does a "guy who hates women" look like?
Agreed Susan…Comey isn’t one of the bad apples, full stop!
And let us not forget that Hillary did in fact violate the law; by conducting the people's business on her own server. All her official communications are property of the US government just like the classified documents Trump took.
Actually, she didn't; There was no "law" when she did it. A standard was put in place after John Kerry became Secretary of State. In addition, Colin Powell did exactly the same thing and was never shredded for it. (Condi Rice didn't use email). And with a month of the election, Jared and Ivanka were using private emails to do government business. The NY Times never made that a weeks-long front page story.
Also, the felon uses a hackable phone for everything he does.
Thank you! Facts are important to point out. They (the investigating man, forget his name now) added a snide personal rebuke to muddy the waters, but it had no basis in reality.
Isn't that so funny and old-fashioned now? Every decision by this regime is posted online for the world to see. We live in horrible times.
At this point, Watergate looks positively quaint and wholesome.
Not everything. I am certain they are using back channel methods like Signal to communicate their most nefarious thoughts and schemes.
Those never see the light of day. At least until Lard Ass accidentally posts internal comms to Bondi by his gross stupidity.
Both-siderism must be used with caution when one side is emulating Nazis.
A slight correction if I may, Anthony? Not 'emulating', they're FULL-ON Nazis with their own Gestapo thugs to boot.
Since Comey was involved in the Russian interference scandal, maybe he felt it was necessary to also be transparent on the other side. Fair and balanced, you know? Lest it come back to bite him later. I think he was a by-the-book FBI guy.
That was pretty much my take on it as well. Oh, I was PISSED at the time, but knew that he was a straight shooter and hadn't intended to derail Hillary's campaign. I honestly don't believe he fully comprehended the political ramifications as we do now since THEN the DOJ and FBI were all supposed to be far removed from 'politics' and so many of the top guys worked hard to keep themselves separate. Brennan (CIA Head then during Comey's time) spoke today at length on MSNBC and vouched for Comey's 'boy-scout' character. Said there was NO WAY he would have done anything remotely wrong, dishonest or criminal. Even through my own pissed-offness, I understood that much about him even to having a grudging respect for his belief in 'doing the right thing'. He does NOT 'deserve' what's being done to him now by that petty, spiteful fucking orange toddler, and if I was still in Law I'd volunteer to help his case. Look at what's been done to his daughter Maureen who was trashed JUST because he's her Dad/she carries his name. Ugh!
HELLO! SIGNAL - GATE.
Not everything. I am certain they are using back channel methods like Signal to communicate their most nefarious thoughts and schemes.
Those never see the light of day. At least until Lard Ass accidentally posts internal comms to Bondi on line by his gross stupidity.
Yes. That's my opinion.
However you say it, indictments are for crimes, not for revenge, and not for dirty campaign tricks that don't actually violate the law. It's hard for Donny to grasp that the justice system isn't playground tit-for-tat. "Aw, why can't I indict Comey?" "Because he's not a real crook, like you."
But it is his playground. No one is willing to tell him "NO".
Sad!
The only thing we need to understand about the Comey indictment is that Donald Trump is on every page of the Epstein files.
👆👆👆👆🎯
Jeff late breaking news , https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-trump-rot-beneath-elon-musk-steve
Musk , bannnon , theil and prince andrew are in the files.
Musk was even scheduled to go to Epsteins island
Jeff, just gotta pause a second and say how great it feels to know you care about how your readers feel. Thank you for caring enough to edit your words for our sake.
Where you stand Vis a vis their politics, career, and history are meaningless
Rule of law is rule of law for EVERYONE.
this was SUPPOSED to be a post about Donny's oval office antics yesterday, ending with a mention of the Comey indictment, but the Comey part kind of took over
that's what happens when I write from the bottom up, which I often do
Time is coming to talk back !!! Make your voice heard!!!
JOIN THE ROAR!!!
There will be a No Kings demonstration on October 18. Spread the word! 👑👑👑👑👑
To find a location, follow this link--
https://www.nokings.org/
Absolutely will be there for No Kings day on October 18th. I have to paint the back of my sign before then...any suggestions?
The front says "Stop Kidnapping Our Neighbors!!!"
Release the Epstein files!
Maybe in honor of Jeff, I'll write: "Release the f---ing Epstein files, you SOB!!" I need to spice it up!
I just take my doormat with me. It says "I.C.E. Not Welcome". See my profile shot.
Love your profile pic. You are stronger than I am...those doormats are heavy!
'NO GESTAPO THUGS IN THE USA' ?
On it Kathleen, thanks!!
I wrote todays TOTALLY FROM THE BOTTOM ASS END UP.
Write from the bottom up? With these clusterfuckers it’s more like start at the bottom, and then go lower than seems humanly possible.
The Comey indictment is almost certainly more threatening than what's-his-name's antics. That may be why it took over, and why you may have accidentally written from the top down after all.
whatever you write is always great, Jeff - in case you need reminding, there’s many, many of us who love, respect and rely on you
Yes!!👏🏼
Wait till you see the Hegseth video from last night, in which he decrees the brave cavalry officers who slaughtered Lakota Sioux with howitzers at Wounded Knee won’t be stripped of their Medals of Honor.
Whatever you think of Hegseth is now 10 times worse than you thought.
I want to hear more about Hogsbreath summoning generals and admirals from around the World to convene at Quantico Marine base outside Washington in the coming days. What is the purpose of this and does it not leave us vulnerable to have our entire military top command away from their posts at the same time?
My immediate thought it is going to be some kind of collective ring kissing ceremony for trump and those who don’t bend the knee will be seeing involuntary retirement in their immediate future. This will strip the ranks of all who might object when the Military is turned loose for live fire action against any protesting citizens.
The thought of that drunken slimy greaseball television host giving orders to career soldiers who have dedicated their lives to protecting us turns my stomach!
I am really curious about what he is calling them all in for, but also wondering, how much is that costing us? Not to be snarky, but could it have been done via zoom? Or an email? Probably would save us a bunch of money, although they really don't care about that.
kegstand loves strutting around (after his makeup and hair are done first, of course) like the puffed-up little tin soldier he actually is. desperately needing a captive audience. Reminds me of another magat moron AND a little mustachioed fella from Germany.
If there isn’t a critical reason for hauling all these commanders away from their posts, there will be blowback.
My gut tells me this will be a call to pledge loyalty or be fired. When he calls for the national emergency to stop further elections his goons will be in place to give orders and create martial law too.
Jeezus, I’m grateful we retired from the service years ago.
von Stauffenberg, anyone?
So Jeff, I gotta ask, what is your take on the Kegseth meeting?
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/all-the-presidents-men-hegseths-military
1. Invade Greenland?
2. Loyalty Oath?
3. The Purge?
4. Boots on the ground in the US to jail dissents, liberals, and immigrants?
I don't want to believe it's #4, but I'm going with #4
whatever it is, it's going to blow up in Kegstand's face, because he's an incompetent fool
Maybe they will take the opportunity to run Hegseth up the flagpole. 🤞
That very well may happen. After all these Generals took an oath to defend this great nation against "enemies domestic". They'll be looking right at the "enemy domestic".
I suspect they know more than most what an idiot he is. And an embarrassment.
Since Kegsbreath has just required journalists to publish only what he allows, I think it's going to be a loyalty oath. And then I think/hope 790 generals are going to flip him the bird.
I'm making an allowance for the 10 generals who are going to say "Yes sir! Where do I sign?"
In unison! I’d love to see a video of that!
I sure hope so. Let's give him a Margarita or 2 and something to immobilize him before he decapitates the military.
None of us do Jeff , we just don’t , but it’s gonna suck
Most likely, although Hogsbreath needs to feel he’s part of the team, that nobody wants to have him as a member! Or…Trump’s about to propose martial law, sending the drunken derp to find out what side they’ll be on!
Time for a von Stauffenberg moment.
Same here
MY first thought too, fwiw.
800 generals, US and foreign, in one big ballroom? Why am I seeing flashes of Red Wedding from Game of Thrones? The sweaty marinated hamhock from Fox & Friends is declaring WWIII? My goblet of loathing for them all overfloweth.
This horrid reality is REALLY rump getting a hard on play acting his childish dreams of being a SOMEBODY.
FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT.
💩
I sincerely doubt that he gets anything but the tiniest tickle in his frozen zone. I suppose that's enough to remind him of his days of glory with Epstein. Oh, and RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
👍
And Holman Files while you're at it.
From what I remember about being in a war zone for 2 years is you don't bunch up. # 2 and #4 would be my guess. Especially if corporals end up in charge. They're young and impressionable much like the goons in ICE.
OMG--"sweaty marinated hamhock": this....this............perfection of phrasing.
I was kind of partial to Goblet of Loathing.
When you put it that way I'm thinking this is cosplay done to build up his ego and it will turn out to e a nothing burger.
You forgot *intervention for his alcoholism*
That whole mysterious meeting is very ominous. Very fascistic. We shall see.
Probably less so than we're imagining. I mean, how many "Reichstag fires" have we screeched about in the last eight months? A dozen at least?
Just a little boy calling wolf....until it really is a wolf. All orchestrated I think.
Sadly, Jeff is probably correct. Whatever it is will be a huge distraction from the Epstein files at a time when they might be released. I just hope these military leaders remember their oath.
I believe anyone listening to that failed GQ model would not be able to contain their vomit throughout the whole unserious "meeting". derp
Goddamn don't I want it to be The Purge insomuch as Dem governors counter by authorizing The Purge, all crime including murder being legal...Blessed be our Democratic Governors and America. A Nation Reborn.
I don’t want to say this but it’s going to be #4.
Remember how quickly everything has occurred since 1/20/25?
It will keep doubling in size until the ‘26 elections.
It’s a thing I thought would happen but KegStand will get the ducks in a disarray then start with the Fascist bs.
Enough
Loyalty oath
All of the above?
https://bsky.app/profile/danlamothe.bsky.social/post/3lzqdjls2y22x
Lord Fucking Rottinghand.
It's laughable how he carefully covers his hand now. Also, he always sits behind the desk and tries not to walk anywhere. God bless the elevator guy.
Asswipe Rotting Hand.
I was hoping someone could explain to me Preznut's declaration "of being inEXILE" in yesterdays tarted up Oval office apperance.
I think he’s referring to that time he LOST the 2020 election and retreated to Merde-a-Lardo to wage his insurrection, until such time as Elon fucked with the 2024 vote and restored the Traitor to the throne.
The Comey part needs to take over, as this is Phase One of testing how far decency and legality can be pushed (again....). Success means immediate action on Schiff, James, etc., etc. Failure means break whatever stopped the illegal action and try again.
Finally got a birds eye view of the tacky supposedly new design of the Oval
It's gagorific! Not to mention pathetic.
Well that’s sad because I missed the Oval Office antics. I’ll be a grownup and find them for myself.
"President Rottinghands McRagebaby" Anyone keeping track of all this brilliance? 😂😂
All I can say here is how much I appreciate the reminder that this will eventually be over. Eric Swalwell and Jeff are right...and I hope I live long enough to see the day when these evil assholes are tried and put away.
#TGIF, all you fine people in this community. 💙💙
I am determined to outlive this fascist regime. I hope I don't have to live to 110 to do it.
Personally, I vacillate between more ice cream or more exercise. Depending on the news.
I vote for Ice Cream!
Me too, Crystal.
I'm 89 - I despair
Yes, but at least you're 89. I'm only 75.
point - have fun
There's so little I look forward to...
Hey, Gina and longtimebirdwatcher, don't let it get to you. We're so glad you're here and with us fighting. Don't let the fascists get you down!
My dad is 86 and has finally gone back to seeing the doctor regularly, no matter how much he hates it, because he intends to live long enough to spit on the Orange Obscenity's grave.
We are winning. We will be victorious.
I hear ya, bird. He has stolen any joy we might once have had.
Dumbass’ funeral
Same here Arne...I guess I better start taking better care of myself. 😂😂😂
me too ! I'm 82 already, so let's go !
All of them
But will they be tried and put away? Or will the DEMs do another Nancy Pelosi after the Bush/Cheney regime, "Oh no, no. We won't be looking into anything. We're looking forward now."
🤦♀️. Who knows?
Reinterpreted by MAGA as “The Gospel is Fascism”
Playing at the JFK Center. lol
If you have read any of Rachel Maddows books we have survived up to John Birch Society any way.
And her podcasts.
I haven’t… but I should!
Bon Weekend to all!!
This too shall pass
Hey Blondi! If no one is above the law, Trump would be in prison. Your flip-flops are falling apart. JFC, I loathe these assholes
A-Fucking-Men! Never used the words, fuck and hate, so much as I have in the 21st Century.
Epstein Files. Now. Then the Continuing Resolution.
There’s so much shit going on (pardon my french)…how can you even know where to start writing?!! Plus…the Hegseth/general thing…WTF!
"which of this hideous bullshit is easiest to mock without wanting to open a vein" is the general calculation
I read someone this morning speculating that this Conclave of Generals was to get them all together and force them to sign new oaths specifically to Dear Leader...
If they"re generals, they all have enough time in to RETIRE, which as a retired Air Force officer, I would recommend if this meeting is about some loyalty test. Retire and then tell a reliable, unbiased reporter what really was going on.
It would be a noble gesture but the less experienced and more compliant would be promoted up the ranks. Maybe that's the tactic.
Probably. Get rid of the resistance. I have been gobsmacked by some of my brothers & sisters in arms that would go along with this sh*t.
It absolutely is their tactic., Sharon Gonna be a Lot of forced retirements of talented military leaders after this confab at Quanticoc
I’m hoping a lot of them are communicating with each other right now over whether they will uphold their oath to the Constitution and tell this loathsome regime to go fuck itself. And then they tar&feather Hegseth and run him out of town on a rail, and keep going from there. I think a military coup at this point might not be a bad idea.
I too, have been thinking that Milley and others have been contacting their generals as to what to expect and what to do about it. Oh how I wish that many would revolt and physically go after Hegseth…and be successful. Sigh…
I don't doubt that for a minute
This sounds like another of our hysterical, panicked fantasies. If you know that personal please tell them to chill.
No, it sounds like the most reasonable expectation.
Lolololololololololololololololol
It’s been said so many times, but thank you again, Jeff, for keeping us sane thru all this batshittery
Your writing saves many lives, Jeff. If not for you many of us would give up and we can't do that. The fight continues.
Gawd, that is a bleak but oh so fitting remark, Jeff.
I concur, but Don’t let the bastards get you down
One frightening theory: this night of the generals thing is happening at the same time NATO is meeting to deal with the threat of Putin. Are they connected? Kegsbreath sure likes to spend our money on spectacles.
Leaving our military stripped of all its top commanders at the same time. Dangerous and foolish.
But that’s greaseball Pete
https://bsky.app/profile/danlamothe.bsky.social/post/3lzqdjls2y22x
Ok. that is scary
Thanks for that, Sunny. If that guy is a current General I would say his retirement is imminent.
Tess, merde is shit in French. Everything sounds better in French. Except bullshit. I believe bullshit is bullshit in any language. The same with fuck.
Maybe Trump should start speaking in French. The majority of Americans still wouldn't understand what he is saying, and he would mispronounce every word he says, but no one would really know.
He can’t speak English , no less French
I wish that I could pronounce merde in the lovely French accent that it deserves.
While I feel HORRIBLE about what's happened to the rule of law in this country, I can't help but feel a bit of glee at watching Comey's chickens come home to roost. Why?
.....
If it weren't for him deliberately sabotaging Hillary Clinton's campaign with disproven bullshit right before the election, COMEY WOULD STILL BE IN THE DOJ and Trump WOULD BE IN PRISON. But Hillary wasn't elected, Trump is our Fuehrer, and Comey can go FUCK HIMSELF.
I can’t disagree. I think these are probably TRUMPed up charges, but there’s a part of me that thinks Comey deserves a wee bit of karma.
"TRUMPed up charges..."
Nice!
Comey supposedly was trying to be thorough, just in case. Even though Hillary's email server issue had been completed with no evidence of malfeasance, when some info pertaining to her cropped up on Anthony Weiner's (remember him?) laptop just before the election, Comey decided to re-open the closed investigation. That, of course, put his thumb on the scale big time. What was his motivation? I cannot say, although he was or is a registered Repub. He did say his wife and daughters were Hillary supporters, so I hope they've been giving him shit all this time.
I don't care about his motivations; the results stand.
And I don't care about him either. He took the United States and deliberately FUCKED IT UP THE ASS. I hope he beats the charges, for the sake of America and the rule of law, but I also hope it bankrupts him.
Agreed. He helped to royally fuck America.
yes yes
... "be thorough, just in case"
In other words, cover your ass, just in case. Lie about everything, and whichever lie you are caught in, your ass is covered.
This is also true
*what rule of law?
I am so conflicted because I loathe Comey. He's an arrogant misogynist who let his bias against women in power hand the election to Trump the first time around. Notably, he was the lead prosecutor in the case that sent Martha Stewart to prison. He was searching for a high profile prosecution and salivated at taking down an incredibly rich and powerful woman. He sucks in the worst ways possible. That said, Trump is a far greater enemy and this needs to stop. I know someone is cataloging all of these tweets that will eventually be used against the current administration. Dreaming about the Pam Bondi perp walk now....
I think Martha Stewart did commit insider trading. That being said, there have been many many worse and more blatant cases since then, especially since Mr. Tariffs Are Good for America has created so many opportunities for MAGAts to profit from his wildly inconsistent and stupid reversals, pauses, and reinstatements. If Martha went to the pokey, all of these others should too, and for longer.
The graft opportunities of starting and stopping the stupid tariffs, resulting in thousand point swings in the stock market, were incredible.
An now the crypto scam he’s running May dwarf even that collosal swindle!
But the biggest grift of all is yet to come- All the stored dollars in the Federal system will be converted to crypto using trump’s own Bitcoin companies for the transactions. His ownership will be well hidden but All the graft will funnel into his pocket. G
Even idiot Margarine Traitor Greene made a killing with that whole tariff pause bullshit. Criminal. Yep and you're right about the crypto grift. And his dumbass followers don't care
Couldn’t care Less! They don’t realize it’s all coming out of their pockets too.
right?
Trump has already tainted the case by shooting his mouth off. Keep talking, asshole.
Trump's DOJ was admonished and threatened with sanctions this week by the judge in the Luigi Mangione case for violations. If he walked, I'd be ok with that at this point.
Trump is a non-human taint
The smegma of humanity.
Well said. Make Afterbirth Gourmet Apostasy
He should demand a change of venue to, say, New York or DC.
Should be NY
All of this is VERY important - but, the EPSTEIN files...
personally I find it amusing as hell. Comey is gop through and through and he helped get tangeranus elected the first time. fuck him.
I truly get "fuck Comey" — but not at the expense of justice
I mean has there ever really been justice in this country?
Not really. Nor in the world actually. Humans are one step above bonobos and think we're privileged gods. Our flaws outweigh our advances.
We are a virus busy consuming and laying waste to our host.
I don’t see Homo sapiens being around for all that much longer. Good news for the planet.
We will have exercised Dominion of earth for the equivalent of the blink of an eye in the eons of time.
If there’s still a Planet Earth.
Answer: No. Never. Not for dark skinned people or women.
Yes.
IN ALL THE DIVERSIONARY TACTICS THE BLOB IS USING, DON'T FORGET THE EPSTEIN FILES
The Comey indictment is Disney 2.0, just another Epstein file reality TV distraction that will blow up in the administration's face. I'm not a fan of Comey, but I'll enjoy watching him make Orangeina The Biggest Loser.
His defense attorney Pat Fitzgerald (and Comey himself) will be mowing down the prosecutorial real estate and parking garage lawyers like McDonalds Fish Sandwiches in a barrel. Complete waste of taxpayer money.
Anybody remember when we focused on the fucking GDP instead of flooding the courts and filling the coffers of roadside ambulance chasers like Blanche, Halligan, Blondie, Bove, et al?
I think you mixed your metaphors there but I get your drift. The graft is their reason for being, Joe. At least the few on the inside who are taking it in. The rest are just court jesters trotted out for the kings amusement and to provide circuses for the mouth breathing minions.
We need to set the ship of state back on its feet before we drive into a trainwreck.
If the judge doesn't toss this ridiculous nonsense, it will blow up in Trump's face when discovery gets rolling.
The point was (trumPF getting) the indictment headline (and he GOT IT)… a conviction - not as important :/
*remember he wrote his PR headlines with DPecker @The National Enquirer for a decade or 2… helluva internship:/ PLUS RCohn… PLUS WWE😒
Optics, right? That's all that matters to this shallow man.
Appearances & perception are really important to the news cycle…?!
I’m wondering how/why the grand jury indicted him in the first place. They’ve been rather willing lately to decline to indict in some of these bullshit cases.
only a majority vote (12 out of 23) is needed, and the standard is whether there is any evidence at all, not whether it is convincing beyond a reasonable doubt. 14 voted for one charge, 12 for another, and the third count failed to get enough.
Fear?
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"Oh, lordy--I hope there are tapes."
It of course has no bearing on this entire regime of clownfucking dumbasses that they try to pull this vendetta bullshit using the legal system just as Kenneth Chesebro, previously disbarred in NY now got suspended from law practice in DC. Look into yer future, Bondi, Halligan, and all you lying, asskissing trumphumpers.
Being disbarred does not matter to them. Sucking Trump's evil ass has made them unbelievable rich. They will not need to work when this is over. Hopefully, they will have to spend a lot hiring defense lawyers when they are indicted.
Yep, I hope they spend all their ill gotten gains on defense lawyers.
I don’t believe they’re dumb. They are useful.
Cult suckups
Put the Homan Tape on pay per view. I'll pay!
I bet Homan will be in a future episode of South Park. That will be way better than the actual footage.