Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

This fight is for everything.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I was promised a recession.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Second rate reporter says what?

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    It wasn’t a hug. It was a handshake and pat on the back of the shoulder. We used to call that the TRADOC handshake – you were checking for a good spot to stick the knife in.

    I am not going to even try to defend what Comey wound up doing with the letter at the end of October, but its important to remember that he’s kept the CI investigation compartmented and on track. And he’s now got two of Putin’s hackers for the CI investigators to interrogate. And remember, if Comey goes we’re likely to get Clarke as FBI Director.

  4. 4.

    sigaba

    Garrison Keillor, August 31, 2016:

    Meanwhile, you keep plugging away. It’s the hardest work you’ve ever done. You walk out in the white cap and you rant for an hour about stuff that means nothing and the fans scream and wave their signs and you wish you could level with them for once and say one true thing: ‘I love you to death and when this is over I will have nothing that I want.’

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    @Adam L Silverman: It was the body language. No feeling for his willingness to grovel?

    I agree that at this point we hope, like a ref, he pulls a make-up call against the Trump BS, but I don’t know what the incentive is. Ethics? #pullmyotherleg

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    Yarrow

    I don’t know what was going on in that clip, but it looked like a scene from The Bachelor, with Trump calling over one of the contestants. It was just missing him asking Comey if he would accept this rose.

    Just saw this and it seems like a good idea going forward:

    One lesson from this mess: Massive protests the day before the SOTU could drive Trump off whatever message he hoped to project into whining.— Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 23, 2017

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    its important to remember that he’s kept the CI investigation compartmented and on track.

    I would want a LOT more confirmation of that. Frankly, I’m expecting Comey to hold a press conference to announce that he’s pulling the plug on the investigation because there’s nothing there and Trump has been fully exonerated.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @BGinCHI: The CI investigation will run its course. It is a spy hunt. They are looking for spies, moles, and those working for and with them.

    Comey takes great pride in his reputation as the last/only honest and upright person in DC. Such great pride that it was possible to use it to manipulate him to do what he did last October. The one thing you can count on with him is he will do the right thing regardless of the cost.

    My preference, if President Obama absolutely had to appoint a senior Republican former DOJ official to run the FBI would have been for Patrick Fitzgerald. But we got Comey and for now we need to be thankful that his appointment runs for several more years and that firing him would not play well.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: Not with an active FISA warrant. And not now that his red notices to Interpol bagged two of the Russian hackers. At the end of this it could all come up as a bunch of coincidences creating a false pattern. But I don’t believe in coincidence. And if he tries to bury it the leaks will just get worse and worse and worse and then it won’t matter.

  15. 15.

    tobie

    @Adam L Silverman:

    And not now that his red notices to Interpol bagged two of the Russian hackers.

    I feel like I missed an important news item here. Did Interpol catch two Russian hackers??? Two we know to be involved with the hacking of the DNC???

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    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    The one thing you can count on with him is he will do the right thing regardless of the cost.

    The problem is that Comey’s idea of “the right thing” is not necessarily our idea of the right thing. He seems to think that having the United States be a puppet of Russia is a better outcome than having Hillary Clinton be president.

    And if he thinks he’s going to be able to clear the Russian influence out of the government and install the Christianist of his dreams with Mike Pence, he hasn’t paid enough attention to who Pence has been recommending for appointments, because they’re still rife with Russian connections.

    I know you want to be optimistic about our institutions, but I honestly think that’s a false hope. The Republicans burrowed in over the course of the last 30 years and hollowed them out.

  19. 19.

    eemom

    The one thing you can count on with him is he will do the right thing regardless of the cost.

    Holy shit, am I really seeing this? You are talking about COMEY here?

  22. 22.

    sukabi

    The tweet with Obama , drumpf and Melania that says “hands” ….someone has very small hands, and it ain’t Melania.

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