I wish James Comey would take his sanctimonious hypocrisy and self-aggrandizement and clueless feelings of moral rectitude and hole up in some private fantasy land, never to be heard of in public life, ever again. I know his type, the type who can always twist and bend scruples and moral conventions to serve their preferences and their own advantage while pretending they hold up a far different morality that serves another end. He is a Republican-conservative version of what finds its counterpart in what I've called "process liberalism" a very popular series of alleged principles aimed at "leveling the playing field" but which focuses on such a narrow range of things that they inevitably end up benefitting the same people the likes of Comey do, the rich. That they tend to come from backgrounds of privilege or venues of education that give them an entree into privilege doesn't strike me as surprising.
Why I bring this up is Comey's veiled threat to the opponents of Trumpian fascism contained in his New York Times editorial of yesterday. It's a veiled threat issued in the language of the "reasonable man" that Comey plays in life as he has served Republican fascism and Republican political ends.
I do have one hope that I should confess. I hope that Mr. Trump is not impeached and removed from office before the end of his term. I don’t mean that Congress shouldn’t move ahead with the process of impeachment governed by our Constitution, if Congress thinks the provable facts are there. I just hope it doesn’t. Because if Mr. Trump were removed from office by Congress, a significant portion of this country would see this as a coup, and it would drive those people farther from the common center of American life, more deeply fracturing our country.
In other words, the racists, the paranoids, the fascists who support Trump, armed with automatic weaponry by the Supreme Court, might turn massively violent. Oddly, enough, if the orderly, Constitutional means of removing a criminal, treasonous president doesn't work, Comey isn't worried about the feelings and actions of the majority of the country who just might get pissed off over that, certainly the difference in arms stockpiles owned by the two groups has nothing to do with that.
If you failed to get the implied threat in that, Comey embeds as a somewhat less than subliminal message in the next paragraph.
Critics of Mr. Trump should hope for something much harder to distort, or to nurse as a grievance, than an impeachment. We need a resounding election result in 2020, where Americans of all stripes, divided as they may be about important policy issues — immigration, guns, abortion, climate change, regulation, taxes — take a moment from their busy lives to show that they are united by something even more important: the belief that the president of the United States cannot be a chronic liar who repeatedly attacks the rule of law. Then we can get back to policy disagreements.
Notice the mention of "guns" in that, just in case you missed the only thing that his tender care for the feelings of Trump supporters could possibly give their opponents something to care about. Thanks to Republicans on the Court our most fascism prone citizens are extremely dangerous. They prove that with almost every mass shooting, every terror incident, they've been doing it for decades now, and yet the former Director of the friggin FBI is telling the rest of the population that they shouldn't upset them by removing an illegitimate, treasonous, fascistic president from office BY LEGAL CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS. Perhaps if the FBI under James Comey had spent more of its resources investigating fascist and neo-Nazi activity, they wouldn't have gotten quite so out of hand.
For Comey, the man who sandbagged Hillary Clinton right before the last election by violating the FBI and Department of Justice rules on releasing not only information BUT HIS OWN OPINION about a woman they have chosen not to prosecute TWICE to call for " a resounding election result in 2020" is too rich and too hypocritical and too sanctimonious to be tolerated. For him to be doing so in the New York Times which spent a quarter of a century sandbagging her, including publishing lies about her allleged impending indictment, lies reportedly spread out of the New York field office of the FBI UNDER JAMES COMEY'S DIRECTION, only puts the crap on the bullshit cake which has been James Comey's public discourse.
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