Hamlet at the Bureau

Thinking about what comes next in this most bizarre of campaign seasons, it occurs to me that this is a good lesson in how nothing exists in isolation. Every decision has consequences. Those consequences may not be obvious and they may not show up until much later, but no action exists without a reaction. It’s the old gag about the time traveler going into the past, stepping on a spider, only to return to a world ruled by super intelligent insects. It is formally known as the Butterfly Effect.

In the early days of the Clinton administration, Team Clinton hoped to put a fellow crook in the job of attorney general. That way, they could make sure they had a member of the family blocking the inevitable criminal probes that follow the Clintons around like an odor.They tried Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, but both failed to get confirmed. They settled on Janet Reno, a dull-witted bureaucrat just happy to have the work. They put her in the job for the same reason crooked southern politicians install their retarded brother in-law as sheriff. She was too dumb to get curious.

It mostly worked, but her stupidity also kept her from blocking cases that would prove to be embarrassing to the family. A real pro in the job would have headed off the intern problem, for example, before that got to Ken Starr. In fact, Kimba Wood is clever enough to have quashed the whole special prosecutor thing entirely. In other words, putting a stupid person in the job worked up until they needed a clever person in the job. You can be sure that Janet Reno does not get Solstice cards from the Clinton family.

Team Obama tabbed James Comey to the job of Director of the FBI primarily because he was harmless. Republicans had no problems with him and Democrats were not afraid of him. That’s not to say he is a crook. He’s just one of those careerists, who make a point of doing no more than the job requires. You run into thee guys all over government because they never get curious and ask too many questions. Politicians love these guys because they look like Boy Scouts, but they never cause any trouble.

For most of what the FBI does, having a straitlaced guy like Comey at the top works just fine. He’s an able administrator, who will be respected by his staff for being fair and sticking to the rules. His lack of political ambition means he can get along with the rank and file. So much of what the FBI does is just process, they need process guys to make sure the processes are followed. The Bureau has not been the swashbuckling crime fighters we see in TV for generations. It’s mostly bureaucrats processing paper.

The decision to put him in the top job looked like a genius move until last week. Having a go-along-to-get-a-long guy handling the Clinton problem made it easy to push him into a favorable decision. The trouble is, he is an honest guy with a conscience and apparently his conscience finally got the better of him. The same qualities that made it easy for the politicians to push him around, made it easy for his subordinates to push him to take on the Clinton Crime Family in the most spectacular way imaginable.

My bet is more than a few people in the Obama White House are thinking they should have found a crook to put into that job. If not a crook, at least someone with ambition for a life in DC after his term at the Bureau was up. That’s the kind of guy who would look for a way to make everyone happy, because he wants friends in town, not enemies. Comey is looking a lot like a guy who will be happy to retire to some small college job teaching law, after he finishes up his public service at the Bureau.

Now the Democrats have the worst possible problem. When they want to train all of their weapons on Trump and his defects, they now have to peel off a few divisions to attack Comey and the FBI. The trouble with that is it means this story stays on the front page. The Clinton campaign is about focusing everyone’s attention on Trump’s flaws so people don’t notice her corruption and unpleasantness. Now they have to choice but to talk about her corruption and everyone gets reminded of her unpleasantness.

What makes this even worse for Clinton is the subtext of this election is the systemic rot in the form of lying and rule breaking. The reason Trump’s line about the system being rigged resonates is most people think the pols are lying and the media is covering for them. This is the sort of story that presses on that wound. In the fullness of time, the face of this era of corruption will be Hillary Clinton. She is everything that is wrong with politics. This e-mail caper and the current drama over it just reminds everyone of why they’re pissed off.

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Fuel Filter
Fuel Filter
7 years ago

The *ONLY* reason Comey rolled over is because the rank and file FBI Agents were gonna blow the whistle on the Lizard Queen and him. (It should be remembered that Comey was never a line agent, which also fueld the dissent within the ranks.)

I’m actually suprised it took so long.

The bitch is going down on 11/8.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

Their a savage hord of usurpers and destroyers. It is what they do. Just look what they have done with our wonderful country. Nothing elite about them. They will destroy each other to save their own worthless hides.
They know what they have done. It is why they despise us dirt people, why we are called a basket of deplorables, incorrigible.
Because under the oligarchy swag, they are afraid of what us dirt people could do to them for what they have done to us.

Notsothoreau
Notsothoreau
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

All the Sunday political shows started out talking about how much the Dems loved Comey until Friday.

james wilson
james wilson
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

They’ve been shoveling it so long they didn’t quite recognize the smell because it is their own. It reminds of the Sheriff in Unforgiven who looks up at William Munny before he gets the final bullet and says “I didn’t deserve this, I was building a house!”.

Member
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

It looks to me like all of the Huma/Hilary emails are on the computer Huma shared with Little Dickie. Also that she was copied not only on all of Hilary’s other emails but on everyone else’s on the team, including the Clinton Foundation people, as well. 650k is a lot of emails. Team Hilary knows Comey can’t release them as they surely contain classified info, which means he’d be indicted. It must be tempting for him though to say OK Hilary, here they are, and simply let the chips fall. There are enough angry Dirt People out there that within… Read more »

Member
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

It’s not uncommon for senior executives to have every email they send or receive automatically copied to their executive assistant. I don’t think the FBI worries about this if they do a scan and notice it’s all the emails the FBI already had. Sounds like they found a new stash.

A lot of those 650,000 emails might not be Abedin’s, but I bet a shitload of them are those mysteriously deleted 30,000 emails from Hillary’s illegal private server.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

The Shakespeare correlation is pretty good. Who drinks the Hemlock?
That all you wrote got me thinking. There is another parable that correlates.
Wiener is Gollum in the Lord of The Emails:
One Email To Rule Them
One Email To Find Them
One Email To Bring Them
And In The Darkness Bind Them

SteveF
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

In the consultant’s bathroom, where the server lies.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  SteveF
7 years ago

…”mumsy where the burro groves”?

Doug
Doug
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

What if Huma was hacking all those emails for nefarious purposes, maybe even Wiener copied them as either standard backing up their computers as a lot of people do, and Huma didn’t know it. It wouldn’t be a great leap in deduction by a trained computer forensic specialist to figure the sequences of events. I kind of keep asking myself why Wiener has 650,000 emails related to this whole scandal to begin with on his computer. That alone would be an answer that tells a tale.

ChiefIlliniCake
ChiefIlliniCake
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

Let’s look to the depressing reality that the only real journalism regarding American politics is in the foreign press:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3886942/Resignation-letters-piling-disaffected-FBI-agents-wife-urging-admit-wrong-Director-Comey-jumped-chance-reopen-Hillary-investigation.html

Seems old Jim has been sleeping on the couch since this past July.

Member
Reply to  ChiefIlliniCake
7 years ago

“The Couch and ragging wife that may have saved America.”

Member
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

Wouldn’t they need the DOJ to go along with a grand jury and subpoenas? Can the FBI do that by themselves?

Member
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

He has enough “new” information thanks to Weiner and Wikileaks to recommend charges on Huma “How is this not classified?” Abedin and Cheryl “We need to clean this up.” Mills. It’s a felony to not report security breeches, and a felony to cover it up. That would have the added benefit of letting the White House know what he thinks of their and Lynch’s meddling in an FBI criminal investigation. If they fire him, he’ll be on every TV channel on the planet claiming that they fired him because he wanted to press charges last summer but was ordered not… Read more »

Ironsun
Ironsun
Reply to  Fuel Filter
7 years ago

Maybe. Depends on how much Obama is tied up in this mess. A lot, pardons for all, to protect himself. Not much, then maybe a Clinton will be behind bars.

Kathy
7 years ago

Once again, we have to rely on a British news source to get the news we can’t get from our own sold-out media. It’s not like Britain isn’t socialist as hell, but at least they get a kick out of watching OUR politics, and since they have no dog in OUR race, they can be as honest as they want about OUR politicians. I started keeping track of British, Canadian and New Zealand sources back in 2008. They reported on stuff we never heard about in U.S. media.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Kathy
7 years ago

How’s this strike you Kathy. Posted over at WRSA, https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com
If it’s accurate the entire federal government right down to those remotely tied to the Clintons are toast.

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Solomon Honeypickle IV
Solomon Honeypickle IV
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

now that’s a comment! syphilis used to be called the “great impostor”, what is hillary’s mystery malady is just tertiary syph?!

Drake
Drake
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

Holy crap! If she was on those Lolita Express flights…

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Drake
7 years ago

Remains to be seen. Extrapolate out from the dynamics on this for the sake of what if. If the revelation is from credible sources, why it is exposed is the real question. Last go around, from all indications, a huge plurality of FBI agents advocated criminal investigation into Hillary’s activities, that was squashed by Lynch and Comey. Hundreds of Agents have tended resignations as a result. Now all of the “missing” link emails show up, in a collection of 650,000 on Wieners computer, Huma’s devices have been confiscated as a result also. Now if I was an FBI agent, and… Read more »

jack
jack
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

Highly unlikely. It’s difficult to imagine a context in which any of these actors would be discussing details of such purported trips between themselves by email

Doug
Doug
Reply to  jack
7 years ago

Highly unlikely? Are you trolling this or something? After the trail of dead bodies, influence peddling, billions skimmed from the proceeds, the lies, felonies, treason, phedophelia and sex junkets are not only small potatoes, they should be par for the course for these hedonistic tyrants.

Crispin
Crispin
Reply to  jack
7 years ago

Yet…
they were able to imagine sending classified information, debate rigging tasks & information, and comments insulting to their constituents, etc.
Given that, it is all to easy to imagine detailed travel itineraries to lolita island. Including a pre-landing menu selection for the child of your choice upon landing would be emailed on these open servers.

Most people would like a chocolate on their pillow. Clintons like a fresh, young child.

Forget the election. These people should be burned at the stake.

Member
Reply to  jack
7 years ago

It’s definitely “National Enquirer” territory. However, based on the Wikileaks…it’s no longer all that far fetched to assume so really, really, illegal and unethical shit was going down.

Karl Hungus
Karl Hungus
Reply to  hokkoda
7 years ago

Well their is documentary evidence that Raper Bill visited Lolita Island at least 23 times. He didn’t go there for the ocean views…

LetsPlay
LetsPlay
Member
7 years ago

You are absolute correct Z. Comey is not from the FBI ranks or law enforcement at all. He was a corporate lawyer and on the board of the Clinton Foundation, or what that the CGI, whatever. They thought they had him bought off. But he was a naive fool regarding DC blood sport and didn’t like the way he was being treated by his “staff.” As for Hillary being the “face” of corruption, I would amend that to include BJ. What he wrought to the nation with his Oval Orafice antics began a significant downward shift in this country’s morals… Read more »

King George III
King George III
Reply to  LetsPlay
7 years ago

“Just like the Germans who denied knowing what happened at the death camps”

Yes, the death camps. Never mind the precipitously declining death tolls:

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Holocoasters:

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Masturbating machines:

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Jew soap, lampshades, and shrunken heads:

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“It was real in my mind”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MqZho90c0

Bears and eagles:

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Who wouldn’t believe it?

Only a raving antisemite, obviously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30sWIOMIak

Hush now, go back to sleep, goy.

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teapartydoc
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Reply to  King George III
7 years ago

A cage with a bear and an eagle? Hard to believe. The penalty for parricides in Rome was to be placed in a bag containing a dog, a cat, a monkey, a rooster and a viper, which was then thrown into the Tiber. I have yet to read where this sentence was actually carried out.

King George III
King George III
Reply to  teapartydoc
7 years ago

What, don’t you know? The cremation chambers were really mass ovens and the showers were really secret gas chambers. That’s why nobody ever made it out of the showers alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLkKCZ_x-9Y

Don’t question any part of the official narrative, however, especially if you’re in Germany—it’s illegal there.

Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai
Reply to  teapartydoc
7 years ago

The Germans were fighting a massive two-front war against the gigantic American and Soviet war machines, but they somehow found the time to capture an eagle and a bear and stick them in a cage in order to torture a few Jews. I’d say you couldn’t make this shit up, but obviously, you can.

Promachos
Promachos
Reply to  King George III
7 years ago

What are you getting at? Are you a holocaust denier, or is this just a pointless attempt to show some memories of the holocaust are questionable?

Paul Bonneau
Reply to  Promachos
7 years ago

This must be the government provocateur section of the comments. 🙂

el_baboso
Member
7 years ago

I’d like to get some sleep before I travel, but if you’ve got a warrant, I guess you’re gonna come in.

Doug
Doug
7 years ago

Comey is a wealthy corporate slave class federal Bunny Inspector in so over his head so deep he looks like a shell shocked deer in the headlights between a rock and a runaway regime train.
He might be trying out of conscience to do the right thing after really screwing the pooch, but in reality he might as well be trying to stuff spaghetti up a wild cats arse inside a phone booth.

Bet it sucks to be Comey.

trangbang68
Member
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

I think the proper expression is “jack off a mountain lion in a telephone booth with a handful of cockleburrs” At least that’s the way I heard it from Sam Hurt in War Zone C

Dingo Brown
Dingo Brown
Reply to  trangbang68
7 years ago

My ole man always said ” like trying to stick a wet noodle up a wildcats ass ” heard it in WW 2.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Dingo Brown
7 years ago

Forget Comey, he’s a foregone conclusion if rumor has it some NYC cops close to the FBI agents involved in the re-opened investigation, let it slip on Anthony Wiener’s laptop he saved a variety of incriminating evidence of not only Bill Clinton being involved in a phedophile sex ring, but Hillary accompanied Bill, with a number of other people and participated in the sex ring.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  trangbang68
7 years ago

Sometimes crude but effective suits the moment. Tell you one thing, if our comments are any indication, I think we all had enough of these oligarchs. This crap has to end, in no uncertain terms. They’ve created an unmitigated disaster, the entire federal government destroys everything it touches, it’s meddling in our affairs, in every facet of the sphere of our lives, is totally unacceptable, the political class is completely out of fucking control, they have destroyed entire sovereign nations, precipitated the deaths of millions in the span of a decade all over the world, they are committing offensive gun… Read more »

Paul Bonneau
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

Seems like it’s time to become an apostate from the Government Religion.
http://strike-the-root.com/apostate-from-government-religion

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Paul Bonneau
7 years ago

Abolition of and secession from the State. A return of republican government of will of the governed. Or revolution, orange, peaceful, or violent. Take your pick. We are being dragged as dirt people into something beyond our control unless we defy and resist. Something has to give here. This path this government is foisting on us is in no uncertain terms a path we have been deliberately, consciously, with malice and forethought, excluded from having a voice in, and to add insult to that tyranny, we are classified as domestic terrorists, deplorables, radical right wing extremists, if we protest our… Read more »

Larry Darrell
Larry Darrell
7 years ago

As McCain said, Chelsea looks like she does because Janet Reno is her father.

firefirefire
firefirefire
Reply to  Larry Darrell
7 years ago

Webb Hubble

Yankee Girl
Yankee Girl
Reply to  firefirefire
7 years ago

I love to study faces and believe that Chelsea really is the daughter of Bill Clinton. Her face, especially the bulbous nose, which has been “tweaked” by a NY plastic surgeon a couple of times I would guess, as has her receding chin, and the masses of curly hair, although Hillary has “good” hair for someone her age (probably enhanced with extensions) undeniably spell Bill’s input. Webster has a very different nose. I realize he has those strange lips, but . . . . Her legs, also, are decent — no kankles — more like Bill’s.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Yankee Girl
7 years ago

I have to say it, she has the look of inbred royalty of old for some reason.
Maybe that is my prejudice speaking.

Deana
Deana
7 years ago

Still, when I think of what is going on, not just inside the Clinton campaign but also in the minds of her supporters, not all of them but the ones who DO or should know what is going on and still are choosing to ignore the lies and corruption, I can’t help it. I just keep chuckling. The schadenfraude, it runs deep tonight.

joe
joe
Reply to  Deana
7 years ago

I hope they find some dirt on sotamayer and ginsberg, too – so that Trump can appoint about 7 SC justices. And Trump’s education policy includes alot of school vouchers, I believe. Start emptying that govt. trough and deporting illegals, maybe this country can be turned around.

Paul Bonneau
Reply to  joe
7 years ago

Trump will not fix anything. Stop believing in the Government Religion.

Dan Kurt
Dan Kurt
Member
Reply to  Paul Bonneau
7 years ago

Ever hear or read about the Saul of Tarsus story. Epiphanies happen for time to time. Give Trump a chance to show his hand.

Dan Kurt

Member
7 years ago

Incredible. The tail rotor just failed on the Democrats helo in a high hover under torque with a huge , heavy pallet of deception slung load and they can’t cut it loose…. it’s coming down and mostly uncontrolled now… Comey lost the ability to control this. His #2 is corrupted by political donations to campaign AND then making curious decisions regarding the Clinton Foundation investigation. THEN, the REAL cops a layer or two down in OTHER divisions of the FBI ( not the public disclosure limited email team) working with the NYPD got the gold mine. Weiner’s ” Insurance Policy”.… Read more »

Drake
Drake
Reply to  Uncle_Max
7 years ago

Yep – I think it became irresistible. The NYPD expected a flood of kiddie porn when they cracked his open PC. Instead they got a giant pile of classified documents and Clinton dirt. I find this absolutely hilarious.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Drake
7 years ago

What’s more entertaining and gratifying, the auto-deligitimization, or watching them scurry like cockroaches?
There are some pretty sharp characters out there with a bone inter teeth gas lighting these crooked perfumed mandarin’s with a vengeance. Look at the scale of hacked emails, agitprop from Pepe to what Trumps puts out, Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, True the vote, I mean the range of pushback and payback is mind-blowing.

teapartydoc
Member
7 years ago

Geraint Parry (Political Elites): “The appearance of democratic majority control over the minority [the elites] is deceptive.The minority is in a position to manipulate the electoral process to its own ends by means of a range of measures from sheer coercion of voters, through bribery or the skilled use of propaganda to the selection of candidates. The sovereign electorate will ‘choose’ its leaders from those acceptable to the elite… the dominant minority cannot be controlled by the majority, whatever democratic mechanisms are used.” Maybe not this time. The elites wanted to cash in on the desire of the commoners to… Read more »

UKer
UKer
7 years ago

Allegations that there is damaging — perhaps criminal — information on a laptop, allegedly used by Weiner and perhaps his wife, which will hurt HRC raises four questions for me: 1) How much does (or did) the media which supports HRC know generally, if not specifically, of these alleged crimes yet still continues to unreservedly support their preferred candidate? If the answer is they knew some of it then they are guilty of dereliction of duty as watchdogs, deceit at the very least and even being an accessory in some way. In which case there are hacks sweating a lot… Read more »

Montefrío
Member
Reply to  UKer
7 years ago

Living as I do (like you) on another continent, it’s difficult for me to gauge the mood of the American people, but I suspect that there’s an ever-growing frustration, dissatisfaction and anger beginning to build. If after all these revelations HRC is still “elected” president, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the first stirrings of civil unrest by the Silent (and heretofore somnolent) Majority. Wrath of the Awakened Saxon and all that.

Yankee Girl
Yankee Girl
Reply to  Montefrío
7 years ago

Let’s hope. The rot has infected the institutions that were established by the “Saxons.” Look at the Ivy League universities for starters. . . .

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
Reply to  Montefrío
7 years ago

There is a growing cohort that is 1) ripshit in a very different way than the past and 2) will probably form a large “je refuse” core if Hillary is elected. This is a dangerous thing, not really seen since the 1856 and 60 elections.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Saml Adams
7 years ago

Your on to something there Sam. I suspect if Hillary is installed this country will become ungovernable. And she has the potential to double down in a very very nasty fashion. I think to she will not tolerate any form of defiance or resistance to her diktat, in particular from her stated avowed enemies, like “militias”, Alt-Right, any “right wing” or Christain’s. Never mind her basket of deplorables. Then there is her avowed gun confiscation agenda she shrills on about throughout her political career. That alone will be her Dunkirk. She will become intolerable, her administration will become universally reviled… Read more »

King George III
King George III
Reply to  UKer
7 years ago

“then they have no right to be part of a decent, strong nation” This is why democracy is poison. It deludes people into thinking that they have any authority over their politicians and any control over the course charted by their government. “If you don’t like them, just vote them out,” they say. Oh, they aren’t being voted out? Well, why aren’t they being voted out? Why haven’t they ever been voted out? Evidently, “the people” must not have wanted them out. No! The game is rigged. There is no way for “the people” to win it. There has never… Read more »

notsothoreau
notsothoreau
Reply to  King George III
7 years ago

That is because no matter who gets elected, the bureaucrats never change. I now believe the spoils system was better. When the politicians changed, so did the bureaucrats.

joe
joe
Reply to  notsothoreau
7 years ago

I agree. Imagine if every change of president included many of the managers being replaced with hostile partisans of the opposite party. They would have access to all the records and the power to fire those who obstructed them. The only safety from those hostile partisans would be to do a scrupulously non-partisan job, and hope they keep you around because you are useful. The Pendleton act of 1883 is one of the main roots of the evil that afflicts us. Instead of clearing out the partisan hacks, it has made all of the bureaucrats partisans of the big govt… Read more »

King George III
King George III
Reply to  joe
7 years ago

If you were to successfully warp the space-time continuum and roll back the Pendleton Act, would the chaos created by the entire government being hired and fired every four years not provide the partisan hacks with a persuasive argument to pass a Pendleton Act to “de-politicize the government”? Bureaucrats are always looking for better job security, and sooner or later they’re going to make themselves fireproof. If you could make yourself fireproof, wouldn’t you? I would. It’s the only sensible thing to do.

fred z
Member
Reply to  notsothoreau
7 years ago

Term limits for bureaucrats are much more important than for politicians.

King George III
King George III
Reply to  notsothoreau
7 years ago

If you have a spoils system, sooner or later, probably sooner, the spoils bureaucrats currently occupying office will figure out that they can make themselves fireproof, and then those spoils bureaucrats will forever be fireproof and will forever be your ruling class.

Member
Reply to  King George III
7 years ago

to paraphrase P.T. Barnum – “There’s one cloned every minute”.

Solomon Honeypickle IV
Solomon Honeypickle IV
7 years ago

All of the pressure is on hillary now. Even the friendly press is being forced to abandon her. This is the week we get her final meltdown, and epic unhinged foul mouthed rant — live on the air! Or she actually goes into a coma or something. And DJT just keeps on takin’ care of business while the Clinton dumpster fire burns on,,,

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
Reply to  Solomon Honeypickle IV
7 years ago

Not sure the media will abandon. The remind me of “Vito the Killer Pimp” from Risk Business. Trump seriously fucks with their livelihood. They don’t like that and will fight like badgers to prevent it.

LetsPlay
LetsPlay
Member
Reply to  Saml Adams
7 years ago

The Clinton Crime Syndicate is a fried goose. All Hillary is doing is crying “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!” The death screams of the biggest family of whores this country has ever known. Supported by the dumbest and most complicit of populations. What a joke of a “progressive” citizenry we have. Shameful and shameless. And while I am at it, I would like to point out that many in the media have taken to calling Hillary Pigpen. I cringe at that because it 1. attacks a much loved Peanuts character which is a part of our culture, and 2. Hillary may… Read more »

Doug
Doug
Reply to  LetsPlay
7 years ago

From the way she behaves, it’s Alt-Right, and Pepe she will try to hunt down and exterminate. Remember how they both where pluperfex deranged about “The Militia’s” in the 90’s.

Drake
Drake
7 years ago

I still find it hard to believe that a major party nominated a candidate so completely corrupt – and that people are willing to ignore it. If she wins, a Constitutional crisis begins the day after she’s elected. Does Obama pardon her? Does she pardon herself the day she’s inaugurated?

Is it even a question that Congress will have to investigate and ultimately impeach her (if she doesn’t croak)?

notsothoreau
notsothoreau
Reply to  Drake
7 years ago

Not only willing to ignore it. They believe that Trump would be more dangerous in office than her.

Saml Adams
Saml Adams
7 years ago

Pretty dead on. Reno was pretty witless down in Miami in the early part of her career (I grew up there). Baird actually doesn’t strike me as that political a player, though only knew her well in a business context. Simplest explanation with Comey is he went along to get along using the “non-interference” in elections as his ethical justification. Then the guys on the Wiener case present him with clear cut evidence of just how badly the Clinton’s schlonged him, despite bending over backwards on immunities, interviews and everything else. Sic semper Clintonis strikes again. Comey got pissed, the… Read more »

Al from da Nort
Al from da Nort
7 years ago

Two important points: 1. Since nobody knows which way this thing is going to evolve, prudence requires that nobody should make SPECIFIC threats about insurrection, assassination or vigilante action, etc. on the web. The web is forever (for now) and they could be used later to establish criminal intent should the HildaBeast from the Abyss prevail. Consider what’s happening in Turkey right now with mass purges and incarceration of regime critics. Sad to say that might happen here, but we know what we’re dealing with here, don’t we. 2. Under normal investigations, somebody lower is squeezed to roll over on… Read more »

firefirefire
firefirefire
Reply to  Al from da Nort
7 years ago

The framework to right the Ship of State is already in place.
All it will take is for Honest law enforcement/FBI/DOJ/Criminal Courts people to do their job.
The Clinton’s or the Obama’s or Mr&Mrs John Q Public are all protected by and must adhere to the same rule of Law that all Americans must or be brought before the Bar of Justice.
Once the rule of Law is Lost, the People must seek new gov’t to protect their Rights.
At some point the politicians and bureaucrats began to believe they were Above the Law. They Are Not.

Paul Bonneau
Reply to  firefirefire
7 years ago

“All it will take is for Honest law enforcement/FBI/DOJ/Criminal Courts people to do their job.”

What a dreamer.

Paul Bonneau
Reply to  Al from da Nort
7 years ago

“mass purges and incarceration of regime critics”

If that happens here, the war is on. Anyway I’m in my 60s, already lived my life. I’m hardly going to change now what I have always done my whole life – spoken my mind. Fuck ’em.

james wilson
james wilson
7 years ago

I can’t imaging Comey had an attack of conscience, Z. He was maneuvered into an embarrassing corner by his rank and file. Thing is, if Hillary makes it across the finish line, I don’t think she can suddenly stop her inner beast from feeding. It will probably get worse. This is a good thing from my point of view. I hate to be optimistic, but this 24 hours has been more fun than stealing.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  thezman
7 years ago

A whole lot of FBI career agents, tending their resignations who been around and came up through the ranks the honorable way through a long career can exert some serious peer pressure. I worked on a project back in the 80’s at the NYC FBI, as a contractor they assign 2 personal agents to accompany you everywhere. It was a lot of fun and I was highly impressed with how professional and courteous these fellows where. They put on a laid back front with Hawaiian shirts and Khaki’s, underneath it was a quiet reserve of seriousness that was not to… Read more »

firefirefire
firefirefire
7 years ago

“It seems that Fate has taken a hand” -Richard Blaine-

Karl Hungus
Karl Hungus
7 years ago

Hillary’s campaign has entered the Melville stage, where she thrashes around with a harpoon stuck in her flank, dragging a boatload of others down with her. Man, I hope we learn the real story behind all these election shenanigans, one day. If Trump were behind any of this, he has left no “prints” behind at all. Maybe his son in law had some Mosssad contacts (no one tell King George, he is already frothing) 😛

joe
joe
Reply to  Karl Hungus
7 years ago

The Clintons must have a large collection of dirt they could trade for immunity. If they could rat out Soros, the (D)irtbag machine and all the (D)irtbag appointees in Washington, this show could get really good.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  joe
7 years ago

Hey, don’t discount who has been “assisting” all the “suicidal” bankers dropping out of windows, er I mean like flies. Somebody higher up the transnationalist food chain is cleaning up loose ends and possible lips. Soro’s has been instrumental, or rather the fundamental agent of the destruction for profit of how many sovereign economies? This is a megalomaniac who was raised by Nazi’s running a concentration camp. They guy is is beyond insane. His States Attourneys General project has been a brilliant insurgency to undermine the rule of law and implement the marxist ideology of usurpation via the “Top Down,… Read more »

King George III
King George III
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

Nobody really in charge ever gets their hands dirty, they hire people to employ people to get their hands dirty. Soros is a hired gun or possibly a hired gun’s hired gun, and the minions he employs are the hired gun’s hired guns or possible the hired gun’s hired gun’s hired guns.

King George III
King George III
Reply to  Karl Hungus
7 years ago

If Trump were not running for God-Emperor, would Clinton be going down in flames? If the answer is no, it’s because he is ultimately responsible. The big man does not need to order the ship to change course by one degree starboard, nor does he need to order the taking of a beach, only does he need to give the order to conquer a country. The general takes the order and every man down the line receives an order and translates it into the order he needs to give to his subordinates in order for that invasion to be achieved.… Read more »

Member
7 years ago

Hamlet? I was thinking more of Bartleby the Scrivener. Perhaps the heretofore “industrious” Comey has reached the point where “he would prefer not to” continue to be a corrupted cog in the Clintonworld machinery. In his now depressed, delusional state he has decided he would rather be one of the FBI gang than the Clinton gang. He has not thought through what happens to people who are corrupted by and then try to leave the Clinton crime family. Comey also apparently never learned an important lesson in life: If you try to make everyone happy you make no one happy.… Read more »

Alex
Alex
Reply to  dissonant1
7 years ago

The threat to leak whatever was found on Weiner’s computer to the media or wikileaks is probably enough on all counts to make Comey want to get out in front of this. Perhaps it has already been leaked.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Alex
7 years ago

Federal carreer exécutive’s don’t take a leak outside the status quo without a government memo.
Something pretty profound had to have happened.

A.T. Tapman (Merica)
A.T. Tapman (Merica)
Member
7 years ago

I think Comey is living out a fantasy of challenging the most deadly political team on the planet where he is the little guy who has seen too much and will take it no longer. This doesn’t usually end well in the real world. Comey will be crushed like a wormy apple. I hope he shakes his fists in fury before the deathblow is launched.

Paul Bonneau
7 years ago

It just can’t get any better than this. It can’t, can it? No movie director with a script about government corruption would think up anything this wild, because the viewers would not be able to suspend their disbelief.

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Paul Bonneau
7 years ago

Truth is stranger than fiction.
Through history, it seems it is some unsuspected innocuous seeming person or source that is the catalyst which brings down dictatorships.

Dorf
Dorf
7 years ago

All the clamor for ‘Release Everything’ is just an effort to overwhelm the poor news nerds with extraneous information, some relevant and most not. By the time they resolve it all the election will be over and the next one started.

On another note our pet agent 35 years ago was only interested in one thing. I honestly think he would have ignored a bank robbery next door or even a good ole shoot out because Washington wasn’t interested. If they aren’t tasked to find you or whatever you are doing, hiding in plain sight is your best option

teapartydoc
Member
7 years ago

Again I was off the grid when something big happens. Already voted early. Maybe I should go off again right before the election.

Kinch
Kinch
Reply to  teapartydoc
7 years ago

Treat our enemies with the respect they deserve. Do unto them as they have done unto us: vote again several times 😀

jack
jack
Reply to  teapartydoc
7 years ago

Go vote again instead.

michael martin
7 years ago

This is a long running war of information. It is a war that the common man won only to lose later. The introduction of the internet has created a much faster moving information war that we are witnessing today. It is nuts and dangerous, but we live it every day. I write about it in http://www.michaelfmartin.com/the-information-revolution-rolls-on-and-the-establishment-and-their-minions-are-in-panic/

Christopher S. Johns
Christopher S. Johns
7 years ago

0bama just threw Hillary under the bus: “White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the the Administration will neither defend nor criticize Comey’s decision to inform Congress about the new Hillary Clinton-related emails. He added that the White House has no recommendations for Comey over what information to give to the public, regarding the Clinton-related email probe. Earnest said the White House has no independent knowledge as to why Comey decided to send Congress a letter about the emails. He added that the president believes the FBI director is a man of integrity and good character.” http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/31/white-house-will-not-defend-criticize-fbis-decision-to-tell-congress-about-clinton-email-decision.html Translation: the president has… Read more »

Doug
Doug
Reply to  Christopher S. Johns
7 years ago

Smells like cover your ass time. There is no unrelated, isolated, singular people or events in obama land. Every consequential politically powerful or influential executive, judicial, and political position in this government is occupied by a complicit member or actor in the regime. It is how they have the power of the federal government to do as they please as we see every day to begin with. No position has been left to chance some outsider or rouge could upset their rice bowl and power.

Member
Reply to  Doug
7 years ago

The mess they are all in is, they have no idea what’s been hacked or what is the next email to come out. The upper echelons of this administration seemingly used personal email for all sorts of communication and collusion. They’ve all got to be a little circumspect just because the jig may very well be up for scores of them….including Obama. ( legacy… not jail time…. he’ll skate free )