An extraordinary escalation
Busy day in Trump world. Summoning all the military top brass for a meeting, and now indicting Comey.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury, an extraordinary escalation in President Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies.
Comey, a longtime adversary of the president, is now the first senior government official to face federal charges in one of Trump’s largest grievances: the 2016 investigation into whether his first presidential campaign colluded with Russia. He has been charged with giving false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X, “No one is above the law.”
Oh really? Your boss is.
At the White House Thursday, Trump said, “They’re going to make a determination. I’m not making that determination. I think I’d be allowed to get involved if I want, but I don’t really choose to do so.”
He’s not “allowed to get involved” in the sense that the norms and rules and laws permit him to get involved, but of course he means no one would have the guts to stop him, so if he decides to, he will. That’s where we are. He does whatever he can get away with, and that means pretty much anything he decides to do, because nobody who can stop him is willing to stop him.
Let’s hope a jury has more sense.
He’s already too f’ing involved. It’s because of his direct involvement and manipulation that this indictment even exists.
There were several judges who could have stopped Trump during the years 2020 to 2024. Every single one of them chickened out. Journalists put out mealy-mouthed pieces that argued giving Trump as much legal leeway as possible — vastly more than anyone else with such a criminal disposition — was actually good for democracy, that everything would work out in the end, kumbaya. I screamed as loud as I could that those lawmakers were chickenshits, repeating the same mistakes the Germans made in 1932.
Hate to say “I told you so”, but I was right.
The rot has only gotten worse over the past year, with corporate CEOs bending the knee to Trump. I’d say something here about university boardrooms, but they lost their credibility sooner than the rest, when they bowed to transgender horseshit. Now those chickens have come home to roost. Harvard and Columbia in particular are learning their lessons the hard way.
Turns out our society’s supposed elder class — the senators and congressmen and the military generals and the courtroom judges and boardroom CEOs and newsroom Editors-in-Chief and classroom deans — are a bunch of comically overpaid, utterly useless phonies. A do-nothing rich white men club. They exist solely to pamper themselves and their families in Malibu and the Hamptons. Now that the alarms are going off and we actually need them to act, they’re panicking, because they’re nothing but overpaid impostors, the whole lot of them.
Fuck them all.
Artymorty, only one social class shows solidarity, and that’s the rich. They’ve always known the truth of what Ben Franklin said, “we must all hang together or we will all hang separately.”
By now, I’m beyond giving the rich boys club the benefit of the doubt by assuming negligence. The Congress critters and Supreme Court justices are bought and paid for.
The homeless crisis shows the oligarchs have sucked all the wealth they can out of the poor. They’re coming for the middle class now with precarious work, and the professional class knows AI is aimed at them. We’re now beyond the wealth inequality of the Guilded Age. We know what comes next.