The Hillary/Obama/Comey Russiagate Hoax is the worst, most-consequential dirty trick in American political history... But yeah, it's Trump who is the threat to "democracy"... the flipside of this skullduggery is to fervently accuse your political opponent of what you have yourself just done.
Will this sordid affair ever be remembered honestly? Wouldn't bet money on it.
This Comey case is where the rubber meets the road. Democracy is in the balance. Will we have our own secret police who crib tactics from the old Soviet play books? Or will criminals be called to justice and serve time for clearly criminal acts?
I looked it up for those of us who might not have the reference at the ready.
Ezekiel 25:17 is a verse from the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is part of a prophecy where God declares judgment against the Philistines for their actions against Israel.
In the King James Version (KJV), it reads:
"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."
Yes. You might ask why I referenced it. It was more due to Pulp Fiction and Jules Winnfield paraphrasing it in that classic scene (SLJ). I thought it fit, but decided to just mention the bible verse instead to save typing on my phone.. You probably think I'm silly for doing that :)
O, I see now. I live in the south and a fair number of people do ref. Bible verses. I have to look them up as I never know chapter and verse (Catholic, we hardly)....but if I needed a book title....
I read that Democrats are now hard at work threatening to disbar the attorney in charge of the Comey investigation, so who knows? These people just never stop.
And they very well may succeed. As we've discovered, they can do that on the flimsiest of pretexts. The government-in-exile has enormous resources (maybe less since DOGE and Rubio cut them off the taxpayer teat) and connections at every level of government. Nothing is too low for them.
The crime is in holding We the People in thrall to a two decade manufactured lie and pretending that doing so did not morally damage and wound our Republic. The DNC/Clinton/Obama grift sold the American future to the Wall Street/Davos/CCP Tech crowd and the GOP/Cheney/Bush Presidency laid the groundwork for the surveillance state. The two together are cooperating in installing the surveillance/managerial nightmare that is swallowing the free peoples of Europe. Trump is reprieve--not salvation. If the DNC machine gains control again We the People may not survive. People who smirk and lie in our faces are not friends of the Republic.
I continue to be amazed--easily done I suppose--at Press indifference to the DOGE USAID/CIA/State Department reveal and the transfer of billions in American tax treasure to billionaire NGO grifters and its creation of "rent-a-riot" operatives to create havoc in cities--our own included--across the world.
"..people goin' around in circles..don't know what they're headed for...every body cryin' peace on earth...just as soon as we win this war..." Mose Allison
The press is hopelessly complcit and involved in not only covering up for the IC but at times actually participating in the actual operations. We are in a really bad situation. Thank goodness Matt is reporting the truth.
They’re all married to each other. It’s incestuous and disgusting. Ancestry.com probably has this political class directly related to everyone on the MSM. They just don’t change their names to hide. The media, for the most part, is responsible for the civil unrest in this country and how they can lie without remorse, be deceitful without remorse is unconscionable. They must not have mirrors in their homes, because surely they wouldn’t be able to truly look at themselves with any self respect.
The msm can barely report on any story without twisting the truth, omitting a crucial aspect and just plain lying. I don't know how they live with themselves. It's truly remarkable and must be driven from pressure that to keep their jobs they must comply. Then it just becomes second nature.
I believe in the fair application of the law. I believe that everyone should be subject to the law. But the liberals and progressives are blinded by their hatred for Trump and anything against him is fair to them. I am tired of this crap. The only way for me to get away from this shit storm is to die. Maybe I should move to Canada and apply for MAID.
If I thought it was only Trump I could hold out until he passes the baton. But the shit storm will continue. Wonder what will happen at CBS, will coverage of stories like these be promoted?
The Comey, IC, MSM, prior presidential administrations Bush, Obama and current flouting/ignoring federal law, public officials in Portland, Chicago, NYC and elsewhere have all contributed to an evolving constitutional crisis. Some might call it a ‘soft civil war’! All this is leading to an ever increasing polarization that could end in outright kinetic Civil War if order is not returned and I mean ASAP! Complaining about a few hundred national guard as unprecedented by that corpulent moron Pritzger! Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne to Alabama in 1956 to a high school that wouldn’t admit a black student!! Kennedy sent 31,000 troops to Mississippi in 1962! Democrats at work! The Rule of Law and Federal Supremacy must be respected and re established in these lawless areas. Otherwise if it all continues something very bad is going to happen. Republicans, Independents, disaffected democrats must vote in 26/28 to keep a violent, seditious and increasingly Marxist democrat party away from the organs of power or they will destroy this country.
A good short history of federal civil rights enforcement via the military... Yes, today it is Brandon Johnson who, a la George Wallace, is standing in the jail house, proclaiming "sanctuary today, sanctuary tomorrow, sanctuary forever!"
I don’t know if you’re just a stupid attorney or you’re lying for the benefit of the ignorant lefties reading this to attempt to make republicans look bad? There’s State’s Rights 10th Amendment issues then there’s the Supremacy Clause. Did you read what I wrote?? Immigration Laws are FEDERAL Laws that have Supremacy over states!
Check out a little essay I wrote with a bit of help from AI. It's embarrassing to admit this, but I made a few prompts on Grok to generate the content, but then I spent several hours editing it and checking all the cites.
Actually, I did not read your justifiably angry post. I was responding to one of the responses. I absolutely agree with you. It is silly that the Dems are complaining so much. And you are right to cast blame at Bush as well as Obama.
So the Trump admin isn't selling the American future to the "Wall Street/Davos/CCP Tech crowd"? I sometimes wonder if you people know the meanings of the words you use. Do you really believe the billions in cuts to, e.g., Medicaid wrought by the admin's big ugly bill aren't going to find their way into billionaire's pockets? Do you really believe that the Trump admin is somehow a departure from the GOP norm of savagely taking money from the needy and giving it to the ultra-wealthy? And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously.
"savagely taking money from the needy"? By not vastly expanding the welfare state to include those making six figures? By weeding out fraud, waste, and abuse? By not borrowing another trillion dollars?
No — there’s no credible evidence that the Trump administration meaningfully “weeded out” waste, fraud, or abuse in federal spending.
In fact, most independent analyses and government watchdog reports (GAO, OIG, CRS, CRFB, etc.) conclude the opposite: that under Trump, waste and fraud increased, especially during the pandemic relief era. Here’s a breakdown:
🧾 1. Pandemic Relief Fraud and Oversight Failures
COVID relief programs (PPP, EIDL, unemployment aid) became the largest source of documented fraud in U.S. history.
The Secret Service, DOJ, and GAO have estimated total fraud in these programs at $200 billion+ (some estimates exceed $280 billion).
Most of that occurred during 2020, when Trump administration agencies (Treasury, SBA, Labor) rushed out trillions in aid with minimal oversight.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee and GAO repeatedly found poor internal controls and failure to vet applicants, which enabled organized crime and identity-theft rings to siphon billions.
“The administration prioritized speed over integrity, and failed to establish basic safeguards to prevent fraud and abuse.” — GAO, 2021 COVID Relief Oversight Report
🧮 2. Tax Cuts and Revenue Losses
Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) added about $1.9 trillion to the debt and contained no offsetting cuts to wasteful spending.
Independent reviews (e.g., Congressional Research Service, CBO) found no significant fraud-reduction, efficiency, or audit reform accompanying the law.
The TCJA reduced IRS enforcement capacity, making it easier for high-income tax cheats to avoid detection — a net increase in waste and abuse of the tax system.
💸 3. Federal Oversight and Inspectors General
The Trump administration removed or sidelined multiple Inspectors General — the very officials tasked with identifying waste, fraud, and abuse.
Examples: IGs at the State Department, Intelligence Community, and HHS were dismissed after raising oversight concerns.
The Office of Government Ethics and other watchdogs said this “weakened federal integrity mechanisms.”
🚜 4. Spending Patterns and Procurement
Trump pledged to cut “wasteful bureaucracy,” but federal spending rose dramatically, reaching record peacetime levels before the pandemic.
The administration did not implement major procurement or efficiency reforms.
The GAO’s annual “High-Risk List” (which tracks chronic waste areas) expanded, not shrank, during Trump’s term. No systemic waste area was removed from the list.
⚖️ 5. Summary
Category Trump Record (2017–2021) Outcome
Federal Spending Rose by ~40% ❌ Increased waste exposure
COVID Aid Fraud Hundreds of billions lost ❌ Historic levels of waste/fraud
Structural Reforms None passed or implemented ❌ No lasting anti-fraud policy
Regarding borrowing:
It depends on how you measure “borrow more,” but by most common metrics, yes — the Trump administration added more debt than President Biden has so far.
Here’s a breakdown:
Key figures & caveats
During Trump’s four years in office, the gross federal debt increased by about $7.8 trillion.
PolitiFact
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CRFB
+2
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), Trump “approved” about $8.4 trillion in new ten-year borrowing (i.e. projected costs of legislation & executive actions) during his term.
CRFB
+1
As of mid-2025, Biden’s approved new ten-year borrowing is estimated at $4.3 trillion via CRFB analysis.
CRFB
In terms of debt growth under Biden’s actual term (i.e. how much the national debt has increased while he’s been in office), various sources imply it is less than what Trump had accrued over his full term.
Fox Business
Interpretation & caveats
“Borrow more” can mean either (a) the increase in the national debt under a president’s watch or (b) the amount of new borrowing “approved” in their term (i.e. via legislation).
The context (e.g. special circumstances like COVID, recessions, tax cuts, emergencies) matters a lot. For example, part of Trump’s large debt increase was due to pandemic-related spending.
Biden’s term is still ongoing, so his total borrowing & debt growth will depend on what happens in his remaining time (if he remains in office).
So in summary: yes, under most standard measures, the Trump administration borrowed more (or increased the debt more) over its full term than Biden has so far. If you like, I can compare them in debt growth per year or as % of GDP to adjust for term length — would you like me to do that?
Always remember that half of all Democrats are idiots, and half are evil. I suppose those halves can overall, so there might be a handful of reasonable Democrats somewhere.
Less than a handful - the reasonable ones left in droves because of embarrassment. Who wants to be identified with a screeching middle-aged cat lady disguised as a gigantic vulva?
I dunno, Pacificus. "the worst, most-consequential dirty trick?" That title is hotly contested by the Politburo running the country while propping up and hiding behind a corrupt, senile, professional political mediocrity. Neither scandal should be allowed to stand because in the end: they both worked! And if something works, the Dems will do it again; you can count on it. Watch them deploy the National Guard the next time they're in power to lock us up in our homes because of the "climate crisis." Stay tuned.
Russiagate remains the dirtiest political trick because it made possible the installation of a senile, front man, facade of a president... Russiagate is the mother-of-all-turds that has been rolling down hill for almost ten years now... the need to cover up that initial dirty trick explains what has been happening,, and will continue to happen, since then.
The combination of ops against Trump, election interference, installing a senile president and running the government for him in the shadows, the pandemic, and Russiagate - never in my life have I seen such astounding corruption in our government. Maybe the JFK era equals it but we'll never know because almost everyone involved is dead and evidence presumably destroyed. But this one can still be revealed, maybe in full? An enormous task, especially given the army of lawyers, judges and bureaucrats trying to prevent that.
Bunk. The Republicans have done nothing to "threaten" democracy--unless of course you are still falling for the J6 lie--an "insurrection" that we now know was instigated y 300 FBI operatives who were in the crowd that day.
The $6.8 trillion figure doesn' tell us anything about federal spending except that it's a big number that you apparently don't have a framework for understanding. Context is provided by, among other things, looking at federal spending as a percentage of GDP.
In 2024, $6.8 trillion was approximately 23% of U.S. GDP. By historical standards, this is not an outlier. Federal spending was 22% of GDP in 1982; 21.5% in 1991; 24% in 2009; and 30.6% in 2020 (due to COVID).
Compared to other industrialized countries, U.S. spending as a percentage of GDP is small. France, the UK, China, Japan, etc., are all substantially higher.
Then there's the question of what the government is spending money on.
The vast majority of spending was on Social Security ($1.5 trillion or 5% of the GDP), Medicare ($865 billion or 3% of GDP), Medicaid ($618 billion or 2% of GDP), and "defense" ($850 billion or 2.9% of GDP). Social Security is of course paid for by a dedicated tax; the other programs aren't.
With that out of the way, as I suspect you know, by Trump's gutting of the federal government, I was referring to ad his hoc cuts to the federal workforce in essential departments and deregulation of industries that regularly break this country's laws.
It requires a well organized Watergate type hearings event in addition to indictments. It's long, tangled and complicated, so it also needs some well crafted documentary videos - some of them concise. Independent media has carried the full burden on the truth of the matter. I hope some of the best are able to produce more material with updated info
To the screaming blue hair cat lady claim that Trump and/or Republicans are going after Trump's political opponents...
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans raid Joe Biden’s home?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans try and bankrupt Joe Biden?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans weaponize every AG and DA against Joe Biden?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans do that against Hunter Biden, who had a laptop from hell, pictures of cocaine, illicit drug use, prostitution?
• Did the Trump Admin or the Republicans make up a dirty dossier about Joe Biden?
• Did the Trump Admin or the Republicans try and destroy Joe Biden’s marriage?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans make up stories that Joe Biden had secret servers in the basement of his home communicating with the Kremlin in Russia?
• Did the Trump Admin or the Republicans strip Joe Biden off the ballot of multiple states?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans strong arm tech companies to take Joe Biden off of Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and try and silence his voice so he couldn’t communicate?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans put Joe Biden in a courtroom every single day, 91 felony counts that have all been overturned for nonsense, to try and keep him off of a campaign trail and to try to destroy his life?
Great reporting on the heels of Dems wire tapping sitting US Rep Senators. No matter what level of corruption Americans are willing to swallow, there is always more in the glass.
Unfortunately many simply do not care because "Orange Man Bad" trumps everything else on earth.
More than a decade ago my husband and I sat in a London bar discussing the fact an English Judge had just refused to send the attacker of a 13 year old girl to prison, because her Muslim migrant rapist did not realize sex with children was crime. Dumbfounded, we wondered how it was possible that a country that once ran the world, could lose its' way so completely.
If it's late and no one at your party gets the hint that it's time to go home, no way to clear a room faster than to ask people to rank the crimes from least to most heinous:
1. rape of a child
2. rape of an adult
3. consensual sex with a minor (15-year-old girl and her 20-year-old boyfriend, or one of those Mary Kay LeTourneau situations)
To add to the intrigue, we could predict which friends rank them which way, because the feminist friends, evangelical friends, men's rights friends, etc. may have different viewpoints.
Who am I kidding? Hardly anyone in America is friends simultaneously with both liberals and conservatives. It's apparently not allowed anymore.
I am still confused about whether the 8 senators' metadata was surveilled or they were wire tapped. Sen Hawley keeps saying they were wiretapped, while everyone else reports surveillance of metadata. There's actually quite a difference.
The greatest joy for me is seeing Tulsi appointed DNI after she was put on the Quiet Skies list. I’m sure those idiots never saw that coming after Queen Hillary accused her a Russian spy. Sweet justice. I hope they are literally shitting their pants and I hope if not, she continues coming after them. Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned…
She is key to unraveling a whole lot of this awful mess. I've noticed Tulsi is laying low. I wonder if she is intensely working behind the scene and does not want to let anyone know what is going on for the future. The first big hurdle to jump is to get the case to an actual trial. Corporate media along with Comey's defense team are pushing hard to get it dismissed saying it is selective prosecution, vindictive prosecution and something about Halligan being put in the last minute. I am sure Comey et al shit a brick when they put Halligan in. He thought he had it all wrapped up with his family and friends in the Eastern District of VA in the DOJ.
I didn't have s*x*al relations with that woman and I didn't inhale. He stretch the meaning of those words. I believe phone tapping is a yes or no answer and that should be cleared up.
I believe it was metadata. Hawley keeps saying "wiretapped", but if they were listening to calls, that would be a very big deal -- direct violation of the Fourth Amendment -- and none of the other targets have claimed it.
Sounds right. I was wondering when they were briefed by Bongino if he might have had his phone tapped, and the others did not. I wish people would be more careful in how they choose their words.
Yes, there is always more in the glass, enough to make even "orange man" look good. Pretty much a steady flush down since 1961, with plenty of room left to go.
It is pretty hilarious watching American liberals become ardent supporters of the FBI, CIA and all the other agencies dedicated to unaccountable skullduggery, not to mention the MSM, the ultimate lie factory.
After all these decades listening to hippies rant about the Pentagon and the MIC wrapping its tentacles around the globe and destroying the true, good and beautiful. Those hippies could work up a good righteous rant!
It's amazing what happens if you live long enough: you either become all you claim to hate or lose your friends and family for refusing to become all you (and they) once claimed to hate. Social Justice is the new Moral Majority, the NYT is the new HUAC, and the Dems are the angry squares who live to tell everyone what they're allowed to say, think or write. The people who used to rant about The Man became The Man, or at least Big Brother's angry, screen-addled sexually confused child, Big They/Them.
"It's amazing what happens if you live long enough: you either become all you claim to hate or lose your friends and family for refusing to become all you (and they) once claimed to hate."
Well, if it helps, you are not alone. The family loss is difficult but I’m keeping faith they will come around but my anger gets increasingly difficult and I’m running out of duck tape.
"After all these decades listening to hippies rant about the Pentagon and the MIC wrapping its tentacles around the globe and destroying the true, good and beautiful. Those hippies could work up a good righteous rant!"
Whatever the US (CIA) does abroad ALWAYS comes home. "Modernizing" Smith Mundt to allow domestic propaganda is invaluable to our "government in exile".
I just want a trial where everything gets thrown at him and he has to answer every question. Establish a clear record that Comey is a complete demon without conscience. And my hope (I know . . . ) is that the sanctimony and lying doesn't play well with the jury. Courtrooms can be a bitch.
The picture you paint is appealing. But do you think Comey will take the stand? Will sanctimonious Comey overrule lawyer Comey?
And if he does, as Book Wench has pointed out, will a Biden appointed judge in Northern Virginia allow any questions to be asked or will the judge just grant every objection made by the defense?
Oh The Irony of how the news media and democrats have been so successful in convincing the public that Trump is a world class liar, laying the groundwork early so that Americans would naturally disregard anything Trump said, that by default them pointing it out gives them immunity from anyone questioning their honesty. But oh how the news media lies. How the democrats lie. And at the very top, the highest level of professionalism and expertise in lying, spinning the webs, we have the intelligence community.
Corporate media will be in over-drive pushing the narrative that its selective/vindictive prosecution. Never mind that he's a criminal and deserves to be prosecuted.
Comey will never flip, but someone else might. Someone younger, still on an upward career path, still aspiring to senior levels of income and prestige, who realizes Comey and his ilk will throw him under the bus without a second thought.
The worst that could happen to him is burning through some of his retirement paying legal fees. But i'm pretty sure some billionaire donor will take care of him and that is unlikely.
Maybe someone on the inside with less clout and support. It does not take long to go broke defending oneself against the government. Even if there's someone else paying the bill for you, the time, effort and threat of conviction my convince someone. Hope for the best.
Remember how the Clintons made sure their old friend Web Hubbell wouldn’t turn state’s evidence on them when he was going to prison for other offenses.
The year before his imprisonment was going to start, a Clinton White House aide (I forget which) called up some of Clinton’s billionaire supporters and asked them to throw some no-show jobs Hubbell’s way.
As a result, the year before he went to prison, Hubbell made a million dollars, more than he had ever made before in a year. His family’s economic security was guaranteed.
Of course, the White House aide said he was “just helping a friend”; you can’t be prosecuted for that, can you?
A reference to Washington should humble all of us and invite us to reflect. But we live in a culture that intends to destroy this nation. That is the truth, 249 years later. Shameful.
Not all of us live there. Most of the investment in the lie is to convince us that we do.---If We were that weak the perps wouldn't have to try so hard. (The LIBRARY OF AMERICA (thank you Walter) has Washington's writings on sale now.)
As kids we learned about trees chopped down and wooden teeth. But the noble thing he did was step aside. Now we have nitwits that cling to power for half a century. And a “democracy” that perpetuates their hold on the power. Time we had a birthday celebration.
"There are no consequences." That's been my statement in these comments before, and it remains. Comey will largely skate, and the half of America that screams "Trump is a convicted felon!" won't regard any prosecution by this administration as legitimate.
Even as no other administration would ever prosecute.
I fear you're correct. That said, Matt's piece is simply excellent and proves once more that the legacy media operates in lock-step with the security state. We're still only seeing part of the mess and the forces that are working to ensure Comey skates are still dedicated to crushing all dissent.
The bad news for the powers that be, however, is that Trump might just be so successful that the pricks don't actually return to power for a few more years. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, kudos to Matt and thanks for reminding us why he's one of the very best!
I do remember reading that Paul Singer was the original funder of the Steele dossier, but that he'd given up on the project and then the Clintonites took it over. If that theory of the dossier's origin has been disproved, I missed it. Can you tell me where I can read about this part of the story? Thanks!
Matt’s words here summarize exactly what’s at stake: “Anything you can get away with doing to an elected billionaire president can be done to everyone. If you get away with breaking attorney-client privilege for Trump, no conversation with any lawyer is safe; if you test-a-lie your way to Trump surveillance warrants, anyone can be spied on; if FBI goons can target the president for criminal investigation first and hunt for predication later, any FBI chief can cook up any case he or she pleases… ».
Please remind your liberal friends of the stakes here… for all of us.
Thank you Racket for re-focusing us on the matters at hand. BTW, did it take the death of C.Kirk to change the subject for a few days? How convenient.
This revelation about our certain Senators being “followed” is sickening. WHY is it only one side of the aisle was being “monitored? Oh yeah, Jan 6 Insurrection, filmed in Technicolor or whatever by whose kid was staged in advance with her film crew?
There is only one side here that needs to be exposed, and it doesn’t have to be interpreted for us, the rotten facts will speak for themselves.
That being said, as Maher said the other night, there appear to be 70million plus not interested in another POV. That, is bad.
The latest info reported by the Grassley committee shows that this onion has barely been peeled and the more they look the more layers keep peeling away. The Democrats are making Nixon’s Watergate look like child’s play. They have really acquired a high level of skill and practice in political skullduggery during the Obama/ Biden years with just a tad of help from Hillary. The more we discover the worse it looks but the most infuriating part of this is how the MSM has helped cover this up, ignored it, tried to table it and make it go away. This is the biggest political scandal in our history and we are just beginning to discover all the criminal behavior. How the alleged journalists out there are ignoring it is astounding. Aside from Matt maybe CBS News with Bari Weiss in charge will be among the first legacy news networks to pounce on this based on the latest criminal activity of the FBI under Comey.
Maybe Frank! They do seem to be sheep so wonder if say Bari Weiss gets CBS News to finally cover this just wondering if the legacy tv networks will then jump on the bandwagon. We shall see.
I'm sure all of these folks believe they're "Above The Law" too:
Mike Hayden, Jim Clapper, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, Thomas Fingar, Rick Ledgett,
John McLaughlin, Michael Morell, Mike Vickers, Doug Wise, Nick Rasmussen, Russ Travers, Andy Liepman, John Moseman, Larry Pfeiffer, Jeremy Bash, Rodney Snyder, Glenn Gerstell, David Priess, Pam Purcilly, Marc Polymeropoulos, Chris Savos, John Tullius, David A. Vanell, Kristin Wood, David Buckley, Nada Bakos, Patty Brandmaier, James B. Bruce, David Cariens, Janice Cariens, Paul Kolbe, Peter Corsell, Brett Davis, Roger Zane George, Steven L. Hall, Kent Harrington, Don Hepburn, Timothy D. Kilbourn, Ron Marks, Jonna Hiestand Mendez, Emile Nakhleh, Gerald A. O’Shea, Nick Shapiro, John Sipher, Stephen Slick, Cynthia Strand, Greg Tarbell, David Terry, Greg Treverton, Winston Wiley, including the 'Love Birds' ... Swalwell & Fang-Fang and Struck & Paige.
Apologies to my dear departed parents for the language, but I am beyond tired of the culture of unaccountability we've had to endure for at least the past decade. I'd like to see this arrogant, self-righteous prick convicted. In lieu of that, I'll settle for him having to spend a shit-ton of money on a defense team.
Are people’s hatred toward Trump so distorted that they can not see the abuse of power that erodes democracy? The narcissist hunts the narcissist . Dark forces at play here. At least Trump is transparent .
It’s all about power. Trump inhibits their exercise of power. That’s why he must be destroyed. Asswipes like McCain and Romney can be bought and co-opted. Trump doesn’t need the money nor does he need the sinecures. He scares them to death.
I try to digest a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints in today's modern media. One thing I've found particularly concerning is the number of media TODAY who characterize Comey's indictment and subsequent arraignment as "payback" by Trump against his political enemies. To make matters worse, most publish this with the assumption that it is common knowledge that this payback is coming. PLEASE! Certainly Trump is probably gloating about the situation Comey is in. Is there no reflection or attempt to glean the facts of the illegal activity Comey participated in? As Matt states, Comey has acted as if he is untouchable since his infamous reign, twisting the rules as he saw fit. What set me off wasn't MSNBC, which basically operates as an arm of the DNC. I read Bloomburg regularly, and their coverage started out with how Trump seeks to use the DOJ against his perceived enemies among which is Comey (I paraphrased this a bit) and then the reporter uses this entry to fortify Comey's claim he is being politically persecuted thus Comey's "not guilty" plea. I find their coverage appalling and far from being "neutral". It's as if anything concerning Trump or his actions must be attacked and destroyed because, why exactly?
Is Comey a wannabe secret policeman....or an actual secret policeman? The outcome of this trial may give the answer. I know you get to a mob boss by first nailing his underlings, but when innocent people, like Carter Page are threatened and run through, and the government has almost unlimited resources and power to ruin almost any target, we have to identify the corrupt for what they are.
Comey is too clever by half. He has been willing to destroy the innocent, lie and scam, pretend he wasn't doing what he so clearly WAS doing, and do violence to the law to pursue his targets.
The attorney-client privilege damage he did is one thing, the abuse of the FISA court another.
He IS a corrupt prosecutor. Not because he is being bribed by someone else to pervert the justice system, his own vanity, and contempt for those he believes are unworthy, is his own corruptor.
Defense attorneys have warned from time to time about prosecutors like him. Are we listening now?
The Hillary/Obama/Comey Russiagate Hoax is the worst, most-consequential dirty trick in American political history... But yeah, it's Trump who is the threat to "democracy"... the flipside of this skullduggery is to fervently accuse your political opponent of what you have yourself just done.
Will this sordid affair ever be remembered honestly? Wouldn't bet money on it.
This Comey case is where the rubber meets the road. Democracy is in the balance. Will we have our own secret police who crib tactics from the old Soviet play books? Or will criminals be called to justice and serve time for clearly criminal acts?
I suspect you know the answer. How wiil 'We the People' respond? I hope people remember Ezekiel 25:17.
I looked it up for those of us who might not have the reference at the ready.
Ezekiel 25:17 is a verse from the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is part of a prophecy where God declares judgment against the Philistines for their actions against Israel.
In the King James Version (KJV), it reads:
"And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."
hahahah i went to get the pulp fiction scene but "Nobody" beat me to it. Good to see you Nobody, my good old friend. :) :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zgXnSKgopY
Hi! I usually drop in outrage threads to predict the future: nothing will happen. Same as it ever was.
I feel like I shouldn't like Pulp Fiction, but I just do. Had to post the clip.
I feel like I shouldn't hate these people, but I just do.
You and Sam Jackson. :)
Yes. You might ask why I referenced it. It was more due to Pulp Fiction and Jules Winnfield paraphrasing it in that classic scene (SLJ). I thought it fit, but decided to just mention the bible verse instead to save typing on my phone.. You probably think I'm silly for doing that :)
O not at all--people ref. the Bible sometimes or cultural touchstones that do.
I had a course once in the Bible as literature and it's as if 20th century authors had no other source for their titles. To name a few:
*East of Eden (Steinbeck)| Genesis 4:16;
*The Violent Bear It Away (O'Connor) Matthew 11:12
*Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner) 2 Samuel 19:4
*Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein) Exodus 2:22
* The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) Revelation 14:18-20
-Pulp Fiction is right with them.
This is a perfect example of why I love your comments, Kathleen.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yO-z8vA5ReI
O, I see now. I live in the south and a fair number of people do ref. Bible verses. I have to look them up as I never know chapter and verse (Catholic, we hardly)....but if I needed a book title....
I figure anyone who is not presently in a deep religious discussion references Ezekiel, I just make the assumption it's a Jules reference :)
Maybe stop quoting a man who was thick as thieves with Harvey Weinstein, the Jew rapist.
Particularly when he mangles and misquotes the Holy Bible.
QT hates whites, did you see any of his movies where we always get killed in horrific fashion? By Jews?
Quentin Tarantino deliberately misled us with that Bible verse in his stupid movie.
He hates whites. The Jew rapist Harvey Weinstein produced his movies. QT knew.
They all knew!
Those damn Jew rapists!! ..Eh Harland?
I read that Democrats are now hard at work threatening to disbar the attorney in charge of the Comey investigation, so who knows? These people just never stop.
And they very well may succeed. As we've discovered, they can do that on the flimsiest of pretexts. The government-in-exile has enormous resources (maybe less since DOGE and Rubio cut them off the taxpayer teat) and connections at every level of government. Nothing is too low for them.
The crime is in holding We the People in thrall to a two decade manufactured lie and pretending that doing so did not morally damage and wound our Republic. The DNC/Clinton/Obama grift sold the American future to the Wall Street/Davos/CCP Tech crowd and the GOP/Cheney/Bush Presidency laid the groundwork for the surveillance state. The two together are cooperating in installing the surveillance/managerial nightmare that is swallowing the free peoples of Europe. Trump is reprieve--not salvation. If the DNC machine gains control again We the People may not survive. People who smirk and lie in our faces are not friends of the Republic.
I continue to be amazed--easily done I suppose--at Press indifference to the DOGE USAID/CIA/State Department reveal and the transfer of billions in American tax treasure to billionaire NGO grifters and its creation of "rent-a-riot" operatives to create havoc in cities--our own included--across the world.
"..people goin' around in circles..don't know what they're headed for...every body cryin' peace on earth...just as soon as we win this war..." Mose Allison
The press is hopelessly complcit and involved in not only covering up for the IC but at times actually participating in the actual operations. We are in a really bad situation. Thank goodness Matt is reporting the truth.
They’re all married to each other. It’s incestuous and disgusting. Ancestry.com probably has this political class directly related to everyone on the MSM. They just don’t change their names to hide. The media, for the most part, is responsible for the civil unrest in this country and how they can lie without remorse, be deceitful without remorse is unconscionable. They must not have mirrors in their homes, because surely they wouldn’t be able to truly look at themselves with any self respect.
The msm can barely report on any story without twisting the truth, omitting a crucial aspect and just plain lying. I don't know how they live with themselves. It's truly remarkable and must be driven from pressure that to keep their jobs they must comply. Then it just becomes second nature.
I believe in the fair application of the law. I believe that everyone should be subject to the law. But the liberals and progressives are blinded by their hatred for Trump and anything against him is fair to them. I am tired of this crap. The only way for me to get away from this shit storm is to die. Maybe I should move to Canada and apply for MAID.
Canada is worse
If I thought it was only Trump I could hold out until he passes the baton. But the shit storm will continue. Wonder what will happen at CBS, will coverage of stories like these be promoted?
Dems have called every GOP candidate Hitler or fascist since 1948.
You and half of America
Not just married. How many legacy and social media "reporters" are also activists, either in their spare time or as part of how they see their job?
The Comey, IC, MSM, prior presidential administrations Bush, Obama and current flouting/ignoring federal law, public officials in Portland, Chicago, NYC and elsewhere have all contributed to an evolving constitutional crisis. Some might call it a ‘soft civil war’! All this is leading to an ever increasing polarization that could end in outright kinetic Civil War if order is not returned and I mean ASAP! Complaining about a few hundred national guard as unprecedented by that corpulent moron Pritzger! Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne to Alabama in 1956 to a high school that wouldn’t admit a black student!! Kennedy sent 31,000 troops to Mississippi in 1962! Democrats at work! The Rule of Law and Federal Supremacy must be respected and re established in these lawless areas. Otherwise if it all continues something very bad is going to happen. Republicans, Independents, disaffected democrats must vote in 26/28 to keep a violent, seditious and increasingly Marxist democrat party away from the organs of power or they will destroy this country.
A good short history of federal civil rights enforcement via the military... Yes, today it is Brandon Johnson who, a la George Wallace, is standing in the jail house, proclaiming "sanctuary today, sanctuary tomorrow, sanctuary forever!"
Nailed it!
The Democrats were the ones protesting in favor of States' Rights; it was a Republican who sent in the military. The Democrats are true to form.
I don’t know if you’re just a stupid attorney or you’re lying for the benefit of the ignorant lefties reading this to attempt to make republicans look bad? There’s State’s Rights 10th Amendment issues then there’s the Supremacy Clause. Did you read what I wrote?? Immigration Laws are FEDERAL Laws that have Supremacy over states!
Check out a little essay I wrote with a bit of help from AI. It's embarrassing to admit this, but I made a few prompts on Grok to generate the content, but then I spent several hours editing it and checking all the cites.
https://open.substack.com/pub/checkbook/p/the-intelligence-communitys-partisan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=16kgq
Actually, I did not read your justifiably angry post. I was responding to one of the responses. I absolutely agree with you. It is silly that the Dems are complaining so much. And you are right to cast blame at Bush as well as Obama.
Thanks for the clarification.
Sometimes I feel like a heart isn't enough
The post WWII Trilateral Commission lives, in EU, UN, Davos, Aspen, and the Democratic Party is their tool in the US.
"Trump is reprieve--not salvation."
So the Trump admin isn't selling the American future to the "Wall Street/Davos/CCP Tech crowd"? I sometimes wonder if you people know the meanings of the words you use. Do you really believe the billions in cuts to, e.g., Medicaid wrought by the admin's big ugly bill aren't going to find their way into billionaire's pockets? Do you really believe that the Trump admin is somehow a departure from the GOP norm of savagely taking money from the needy and giving it to the ultra-wealthy? And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously.
"savagely taking money from the needy"? By not vastly expanding the welfare state to include those making six figures? By weeding out fraud, waste, and abuse? By not borrowing another trillion dollars?
Regarding waste, fraud, and abuse:
No — there’s no credible evidence that the Trump administration meaningfully “weeded out” waste, fraud, or abuse in federal spending.
In fact, most independent analyses and government watchdog reports (GAO, OIG, CRS, CRFB, etc.) conclude the opposite: that under Trump, waste and fraud increased, especially during the pandemic relief era. Here’s a breakdown:
🧾 1. Pandemic Relief Fraud and Oversight Failures
COVID relief programs (PPP, EIDL, unemployment aid) became the largest source of documented fraud in U.S. history.
The Secret Service, DOJ, and GAO have estimated total fraud in these programs at $200 billion+ (some estimates exceed $280 billion).
Most of that occurred during 2020, when Trump administration agencies (Treasury, SBA, Labor) rushed out trillions in aid with minimal oversight.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee and GAO repeatedly found poor internal controls and failure to vet applicants, which enabled organized crime and identity-theft rings to siphon billions.
“The administration prioritized speed over integrity, and failed to establish basic safeguards to prevent fraud and abuse.” — GAO, 2021 COVID Relief Oversight Report
🧮 2. Tax Cuts and Revenue Losses
Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) added about $1.9 trillion to the debt and contained no offsetting cuts to wasteful spending.
Independent reviews (e.g., Congressional Research Service, CBO) found no significant fraud-reduction, efficiency, or audit reform accompanying the law.
The TCJA reduced IRS enforcement capacity, making it easier for high-income tax cheats to avoid detection — a net increase in waste and abuse of the tax system.
💸 3. Federal Oversight and Inspectors General
The Trump administration removed or sidelined multiple Inspectors General — the very officials tasked with identifying waste, fraud, and abuse.
Examples: IGs at the State Department, Intelligence Community, and HHS were dismissed after raising oversight concerns.
The Office of Government Ethics and other watchdogs said this “weakened federal integrity mechanisms.”
🚜 4. Spending Patterns and Procurement
Trump pledged to cut “wasteful bureaucracy,” but federal spending rose dramatically, reaching record peacetime levels before the pandemic.
The administration did not implement major procurement or efficiency reforms.
The GAO’s annual “High-Risk List” (which tracks chronic waste areas) expanded, not shrank, during Trump’s term. No systemic waste area was removed from the list.
⚖️ 5. Summary
Category Trump Record (2017–2021) Outcome
Federal Spending Rose by ~40% ❌ Increased waste exposure
Oversight & IG Integrity Multiple firings, political interference ❌ Oversight weakened
Tax Enforcement IRS enforcement cut sharply ❌ Fraud risk increased
COVID Aid Fraud Hundreds of billions lost ❌ Historic levels of waste/fraud
Structural Reforms None passed or implemented ❌ No lasting anti-fraud policy
Regarding borrowing:
It depends on how you measure “borrow more,” but by most common metrics, yes — the Trump administration added more debt than President Biden has so far.
Here’s a breakdown:
Key figures & caveats
During Trump’s four years in office, the gross federal debt increased by about $7.8 trillion.
PolitiFact
+2
CRFB
+2
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), Trump “approved” about $8.4 trillion in new ten-year borrowing (i.e. projected costs of legislation & executive actions) during his term.
CRFB
+1
As of mid-2025, Biden’s approved new ten-year borrowing is estimated at $4.3 trillion via CRFB analysis.
CRFB
In terms of debt growth under Biden’s actual term (i.e. how much the national debt has increased while he’s been in office), various sources imply it is less than what Trump had accrued over his full term.
Fox Business
Interpretation & caveats
“Borrow more” can mean either (a) the increase in the national debt under a president’s watch or (b) the amount of new borrowing “approved” in their term (i.e. via legislation).
The context (e.g. special circumstances like COVID, recessions, tax cuts, emergencies) matters a lot. For example, part of Trump’s large debt increase was due to pandemic-related spending.
Biden’s term is still ongoing, so his total borrowing & debt growth will depend on what happens in his remaining time (if he remains in office).
So in summary: yes, under most standard measures, the Trump administration borrowed more (or increased the debt more) over its full term than Biden has so far. If you like, I can compare them in debt growth per year or as % of GDP to adjust for term length — would you like me to do that?
Remembered? 70 million Americans don’t even acknowledge it. Oh no. This isn’t even a thing to many Americans. That is a problem.
Always remember that half of all Democrats are idiots, and half are evil. I suppose those halves can overall, so there might be a handful of reasonable Democrats somewhere.
We reasonable Dems are Dems no more. This space is populated with we who do not recognize our former party.
A lot of other reasonable Dems simply trust the wrong news sources.
If so, are they still considered reasonable?
Thank the Lord for those of you who are awakening. Your countrymen need you to speak up. Please introduce other Democrats to alternate news sources.
I prefer the overlap of stupid and crazy. Stupidity and malice works too. Evil requires a degree of cunning.
Yes.Hanlon's Razor
Less than a handful - the reasonable ones left in droves because of embarrassment. Who wants to be identified with a screeching middle-aged cat lady disguised as a gigantic vulva?
I dunno, Pacificus. "the worst, most-consequential dirty trick?" That title is hotly contested by the Politburo running the country while propping up and hiding behind a corrupt, senile, professional political mediocrity. Neither scandal should be allowed to stand because in the end: they both worked! And if something works, the Dems will do it again; you can count on it. Watch them deploy the National Guard the next time they're in power to lock us up in our homes because of the "climate crisis." Stay tuned.
Russiagate remains the dirtiest political trick because it made possible the installation of a senile, front man, facade of a president... Russiagate is the mother-of-all-turds that has been rolling down hill for almost ten years now... the need to cover up that initial dirty trick explains what has been happening,, and will continue to happen, since then.
That or their newest "pandemic."
The combination of ops against Trump, election interference, installing a senile president and running the government for him in the shadows, the pandemic, and Russiagate - never in my life have I seen such astounding corruption in our government. Maybe the JFK era equals it but we'll never know because almost everyone involved is dead and evidence presumably destroyed. But this one can still be revealed, maybe in full? An enormous task, especially given the army of lawyers, judges and bureaucrats trying to prevent that.
Both parties are a threat to democracy. This isn’t an either/or situation, it’s yes/and.
Bunk. The Republicans have done nothing to "threaten" democracy--unless of course you are still falling for the J6 lie--an "insurrection" that we now know was instigated y 300 FBI operatives who were in the crowd that day.
Really? Nothing?
The Patriot Act and the War on terror. Mass surveillance.
Trump’s 9-month unrelenting attacks on free speech under the pretense of combating “antisemitism.”
The gutting of the federal government.
Sending the military to occupy cities and suggesting that the Insurrection Act is the next step.
Gerrymandering.
Repeatedly disobeying court orders and having an attorney general who refuses to say whether the DOJ will obey court orders.
Yeah, none of that has had any effect on undermining democracy.
LOL "gutting of the federal government." The US federal budget is approximately $6.8 trillion for Fiscal Year 2024.
The $6.8 trillion figure doesn' tell us anything about federal spending except that it's a big number that you apparently don't have a framework for understanding. Context is provided by, among other things, looking at federal spending as a percentage of GDP.
In 2024, $6.8 trillion was approximately 23% of U.S. GDP. By historical standards, this is not an outlier. Federal spending was 22% of GDP in 1982; 21.5% in 1991; 24% in 2009; and 30.6% in 2020 (due to COVID).
Compared to other industrialized countries, U.S. spending as a percentage of GDP is small. France, the UK, China, Japan, etc., are all substantially higher.
Then there's the question of what the government is spending money on.
The vast majority of spending was on Social Security ($1.5 trillion or 5% of the GDP), Medicare ($865 billion or 3% of GDP), Medicaid ($618 billion or 2% of GDP), and "defense" ($850 billion or 2.9% of GDP). Social Security is of course paid for by a dedicated tax; the other programs aren't.
With that out of the way, as I suspect you know, by Trump's gutting of the federal government, I was referring to ad his hoc cuts to the federal workforce in essential departments and deregulation of industries that regularly break this country's laws.
I'm glad you lost your federal job
Sometimes one has to make choice - while choice is still available.
Can you expound on that? What choice are you referring to?
Christopher Steele came out of MI6 which was also behind the WMD flawed intel used to invade Iraq so I'd like to see those two threads unraveled.
Yet the Dems and progressives ignore it. I have had enough. I am tired of being the reasonable one. I want out.
It requires a well organized Watergate type hearings event in addition to indictments. It's long, tangled and complicated, so it also needs some well crafted documentary videos - some of them concise. Independent media has carried the full burden on the truth of the matter. I hope some of the best are able to produce more material with updated info
To the screaming blue hair cat lady claim that Trump and/or Republicans are going after Trump's political opponents...
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans raid Joe Biden’s home?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans try and bankrupt Joe Biden?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans weaponize every AG and DA against Joe Biden?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans do that against Hunter Biden, who had a laptop from hell, pictures of cocaine, illicit drug use, prostitution?
• Did the Trump Admin or the Republicans make up a dirty dossier about Joe Biden?
• Did the Trump Admin or the Republicans try and destroy Joe Biden’s marriage?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans make up stories that Joe Biden had secret servers in the basement of his home communicating with the Kremlin in Russia?
• Did the Trump Admin or the Republicans strip Joe Biden off the ballot of multiple states?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans strong arm tech companies to take Joe Biden off of Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and try and silence his voice so he couldn’t communicate?
• Did the Trump Admin or Republicans put Joe Biden in a courtroom every single day, 91 felony counts that have all been overturned for nonsense, to try and keep him off of a campaign trail and to try to destroy his life?
That's pretty fucking good.
great list. We need more of these kinds of lists
I’d love to put your post on my FB page, with or without your name, but definitely with your permission.
Absolutely.
lol the brilliant Frank Lee! I so appreciate you letting me share your post.
I just hope they nail this evil man.
Great reporting on the heels of Dems wire tapping sitting US Rep Senators. No matter what level of corruption Americans are willing to swallow, there is always more in the glass.
Unfortunately many simply do not care because "Orange Man Bad" trumps everything else on earth.
More than a decade ago my husband and I sat in a London bar discussing the fact an English Judge had just refused to send the attacker of a 13 year old girl to prison, because her Muslim migrant rapist did not realize sex with children was crime. Dumbfounded, we wondered how it was possible that a country that once ran the world, could lose its' way so completely.
Evidently, the insanity is catchy.
Excellent work by Matt. As usual.
The power of SUBSCRIPTION JOURNALISM remains unrecognized. Don't let it be destroyed.
Did the judge also excuse the whole forced/uninvited/assaulted part of the crime? wow
I was just wondering that. . .
If it's late and no one at your party gets the hint that it's time to go home, no way to clear a room faster than to ask people to rank the crimes from least to most heinous:
1. rape of a child
2. rape of an adult
3. consensual sex with a minor (15-year-old girl and her 20-year-old boyfriend, or one of those Mary Kay LeTourneau situations)
To add to the intrigue, we could predict which friends rank them which way, because the feminist friends, evangelical friends, men's rights friends, etc. may have different viewpoints.
Who am I kidding? Hardly anyone in America is friends simultaneously with both liberals and conservatives. It's apparently not allowed anymore.
I am still confused about whether the 8 senators' metadata was surveilled or they were wire tapped. Sen Hawley keeps saying they were wiretapped, while everyone else reports surveillance of metadata. There's actually quite a difference.
Democrats love their fucking semantics. It depends on what the meaning of is is. It all started with that Clinton lie.
The greatest joy for me is seeing Tulsi appointed DNI after she was put on the Quiet Skies list. I’m sure those idiots never saw that coming after Queen Hillary accused her a Russian spy. Sweet justice. I hope they are literally shitting their pants and I hope if not, she continues coming after them. Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned…
She is key to unraveling a whole lot of this awful mess. I've noticed Tulsi is laying low. I wonder if she is intensely working behind the scene and does not want to let anyone know what is going on for the future. The first big hurdle to jump is to get the case to an actual trial. Corporate media along with Comey's defense team are pushing hard to get it dismissed saying it is selective prosecution, vindictive prosecution and something about Halligan being put in the last minute. I am sure Comey et al shit a brick when they put Halligan in. He thought he had it all wrapped up with his family and friends in the Eastern District of VA in the DOJ.
I didn't have s*x*al relations with that woman and I didn't inhale. He stretch the meaning of those words. I believe phone tapping is a yes or no answer and that should be cleared up.
I believe it was metadata. Hawley keeps saying "wiretapped", but if they were listening to calls, that would be a very big deal -- direct violation of the Fourth Amendment -- and none of the other targets have claimed it.
Sounds right. I was wondering when they were briefed by Bongino if he might have had his phone tapped, and the others did not. I wish people would be more careful in how they choose their words.
Oh they are careful, cleverly so. Both sides.
Indeed.
And how about the 8 year prison sentence for the man who planned and fully inteneded to kill Justice Kavanaugh and probably other justices.
Yes, there is always more in the glass, enough to make even "orange man" look good. Pretty much a steady flush down since 1961, with plenty of room left to go.
It is pretty hilarious watching American liberals become ardent supporters of the FBI, CIA and all the other agencies dedicated to unaccountable skullduggery, not to mention the MSM, the ultimate lie factory.
After all these decades listening to hippies rant about the Pentagon and the MIC wrapping its tentacles around the globe and destroying the true, good and beautiful. Those hippies could work up a good righteous rant!
It's amazing what happens if you live long enough: you either become all you claim to hate or lose your friends and family for refusing to become all you (and they) once claimed to hate. Social Justice is the new Moral Majority, the NYT is the new HUAC, and the Dems are the angry squares who live to tell everyone what they're allowed to say, think or write. The people who used to rant about The Man became The Man, or at least Big Brother's angry, screen-addled sexually confused child, Big They/Them.
"It's amazing what happens if you live long enough: you either become all you claim to hate or lose your friends and family for refusing to become all you (and they) once claimed to hate."
That's exactly where I find myself now.
same
welcome to the club!
Same
Well, if it helps, you are not alone. The family loss is difficult but I’m keeping faith they will come around but my anger gets increasingly difficult and I’m running out of duck tape.
" ...hippie..."? Wait a minute--I resemble that remark. :)
"After all these decades listening to hippies rant about the Pentagon and the MIC wrapping its tentacles around the globe and destroying the true, good and beautiful. Those hippies could work up a good righteous rant!"
Whatever the US (CIA) does abroad ALWAYS comes home. "Modernizing" Smith Mundt to allow domestic propaganda is invaluable to our "government in exile".
Hope Comey is the first domino. Maybe he will flip and testify against others. Let’s see how deep this swamp rabbit hole goes.
Comey flip?
Hahahahahahahahahaha
Ahhhhh……
Thanks man. I needed that.
Have you seen Comey testify?
This guy likely invented the George Costanza How to Beat a Lie Detector technique:
“Jerry, it’s not a lie if you really believe it.”
And that’s the point. He believes that everything he does is virtuous because he did it. If he did something, how can that thing be bad?
I just want a trial where everything gets thrown at him and he has to answer every question. Establish a clear record that Comey is a complete demon without conscience. And my hope (I know . . . ) is that the sanctimony and lying doesn't play well with the jury. Courtrooms can be a bitch.
But won't this be a VA jury -- primarily composed of government "workers"?
I put very little faith in a VA jury.
And therein lies the problem…
Fair point. The court is in Alexandria. Not exactly Maga Hat central.
The picture you paint is appealing. But do you think Comey will take the stand? Will sanctimonious Comey overrule lawyer Comey?
And if he does, as Book Wench has pointed out, will a Biden appointed judge in Northern Virginia allow any questions to be asked or will the judge just grant every objection made by the defense?
Oh The Irony of how the news media and democrats have been so successful in convincing the public that Trump is a world class liar, laying the groundwork early so that Americans would naturally disregard anything Trump said, that by default them pointing it out gives them immunity from anyone questioning their honesty. But oh how the news media lies. How the democrats lie. And at the very top, the highest level of professionalism and expertise in lying, spinning the webs, we have the intelligence community.
He also has that whole plausible deniability thing down as well.
Spot on. He’s a slippery one
He makes an eel look like Velcro!
Agree.
I'll be surprised if this even makes it to trial, and even more surprised if he's found guilty.
Corporate media will be in over-drive pushing the narrative that its selective/vindictive prosecution. Never mind that he's a criminal and deserves to be prosecuted.
He's never faced prison though.
Comey will never flip, but someone else might. Someone younger, still on an upward career path, still aspiring to senior levels of income and prestige, who realizes Comey and his ilk will throw him under the bus without a second thought.
Who am I kidding?
I have always thought that Clapper will be to one to flip. I wonder how much pressure has been put on him. If that happens, Brennan is gone as well.
I always mention that in my prayers
The worst that could happen to him is burning through some of his retirement paying legal fees. But i'm pretty sure some billionaire donor will take care of him and that is unlikely.
I read he's worth 14 million. You would think that could easily cover even very steep legal fees, but who am I to say.
Maybe someone on the inside with less clout and support. It does not take long to go broke defending oneself against the government. Even if there's someone else paying the bill for you, the time, effort and threat of conviction my convince someone. Hope for the best.
Remember how the Clintons made sure their old friend Web Hubbell wouldn’t turn state’s evidence on them when he was going to prison for other offenses.
The year before his imprisonment was going to start, a Clinton White House aide (I forget which) called up some of Clinton’s billionaire supporters and asked them to throw some no-show jobs Hubbell’s way.
As a result, the year before he went to prison, Hubbell made a million dollars, more than he had ever made before in a year. His family’s economic security was guaranteed.
Of course, the White House aide said he was “just helping a friend”; you can’t be prosecuted for that, can you?
Yes, makes me think of Hunter. Bet that well is drying up real quick
It's a nice thought. Probably not much more.
Are you high? Comey will never flip. He is above it all; he knew best and will be exonerated plus maybe nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Are you nuts? Guilty!
Of course he is guilty, and don’t call me Shirley.
Of course he's guilty -- but that doesn't guarantee that he'll ever see justice.
What would George Washington do?
A reference to Washington should humble all of us and invite us to reflect. But we live in a culture that intends to destroy this nation. That is the truth, 249 years later. Shameful.
Not all of us live there. Most of the investment in the lie is to convince us that we do.---If We were that weak the perps wouldn't have to try so hard. (The LIBRARY OF AMERICA (thank you Walter) has Washington's writings on sale now.)
As kids we learned about trees chopped down and wooden teeth. But the noble thing he did was step aside. Now we have nitwits that cling to power for half a century. And a “democracy” that perpetuates their hold on the power. Time we had a birthday celebration.
He'd row across river in the middle of the night, in a heavy snowstorm, and kill them in their sleep. He actually did that, and would do it again.
Let's hope it doesn't go there.---New Jersey is cold in the winter.
Chop down the tree of network news?
Our founders and those that fought for our freedom are doing cartwheels
I would gladly bet a large sum of money that absolutely that nothing will happen. Again.
The odds are that that is a good bet. However I hope you lose. One can hope.
No way does this royal bitch flip. His blood is purest blue. Evil fucker must be cousin to The Crown People.
"There are no consequences." That's been my statement in these comments before, and it remains. Comey will largely skate, and the half of America that screams "Trump is a convicted felon!" won't regard any prosecution by this administration as legitimate.
Even as no other administration would ever prosecute.
What a place to be.
https://principlesvstribes.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-law
Hope not true.
I fear you're correct. That said, Matt's piece is simply excellent and proves once more that the legacy media operates in lock-step with the security state. We're still only seeing part of the mess and the forces that are working to ensure Comey skates are still dedicated to crushing all dissent.
The bad news for the powers that be, however, is that Trump might just be so successful that the pricks don't actually return to power for a few more years. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, kudos to Matt and thanks for reminding us why he's one of the very best!
That clip of Comey suggesting Republicans initially funded the Steele dossier…. what an absolute scumbag.
I do remember reading that Paul Singer was the original funder of the Steele dossier, but that he'd given up on the project and then the Clintonites took it over. If that theory of the dossier's origin has been disproved, I missed it. Can you tell me where I can read about this part of the story? Thanks!
RACKET 'till the wheels come off!!
Matt has already been targeted. Kaitlyn Collins is trying not to be.
Matt’s words here summarize exactly what’s at stake: “Anything you can get away with doing to an elected billionaire president can be done to everyone. If you get away with breaking attorney-client privilege for Trump, no conversation with any lawyer is safe; if you test-a-lie your way to Trump surveillance warrants, anyone can be spied on; if FBI goons can target the president for criminal investigation first and hunt for predication later, any FBI chief can cook up any case he or she pleases… ».
Please remind your liberal friends of the stakes here… for all of us.
And what is so blindingly clear to many is recklessly ignored by others. Very effective brainwashing!
He ain't lyin'.
This is the "logic" sequence employed by DNC-media-D.C. establishment:
1. Declare Trump "literally Hitler, thus...
2. Rules of any kind do no apply, and now...
3. Any attempt to prosecute these champions of democracy are invalid, because...
4. See number 1.
100%. And most of the country is falling for it. Fucking idiots.
Thank you Racket for re-focusing us on the matters at hand. BTW, did it take the death of C.Kirk to change the subject for a few days? How convenient.
This revelation about our certain Senators being “followed” is sickening. WHY is it only one side of the aisle was being “monitored? Oh yeah, Jan 6 Insurrection, filmed in Technicolor or whatever by whose kid was staged in advance with her film crew?
There is only one side here that needs to be exposed, and it doesn’t have to be interpreted for us, the rotten facts will speak for themselves.
That being said, as Maher said the other night, there appear to be 70million plus not interested in another POV. That, is bad.
The latest info reported by the Grassley committee shows that this onion has barely been peeled and the more they look the more layers keep peeling away. The Democrats are making Nixon’s Watergate look like child’s play. They have really acquired a high level of skill and practice in political skullduggery during the Obama/ Biden years with just a tad of help from Hillary. The more we discover the worse it looks but the most infuriating part of this is how the MSM has helped cover this up, ignored it, tried to table it and make it go away. This is the biggest political scandal in our history and we are just beginning to discover all the criminal behavior. How the alleged journalists out there are ignoring it is astounding. Aside from Matt maybe CBS News with Bari Weiss in charge will be among the first legacy news networks to pounce on this based on the latest criminal activity of the FBI under Comey.
Maybe because the mainstream media and the puppet politicians are owned by the same global powers?
Maybe Frank! They do seem to be sheep so wonder if say Bari Weiss gets CBS News to finally cover this just wondering if the legacy tv networks will then jump on the bandwagon. We shall see.
I'm sure all of these folks believe they're "Above The Law" too:
Mike Hayden, Jim Clapper, Leon Panetta, John Brennan, Thomas Fingar, Rick Ledgett,
John McLaughlin, Michael Morell, Mike Vickers, Doug Wise, Nick Rasmussen, Russ Travers, Andy Liepman, John Moseman, Larry Pfeiffer, Jeremy Bash, Rodney Snyder, Glenn Gerstell, David Priess, Pam Purcilly, Marc Polymeropoulos, Chris Savos, John Tullius, David A. Vanell, Kristin Wood, David Buckley, Nada Bakos, Patty Brandmaier, James B. Bruce, David Cariens, Janice Cariens, Paul Kolbe, Peter Corsell, Brett Davis, Roger Zane George, Steven L. Hall, Kent Harrington, Don Hepburn, Timothy D. Kilbourn, Ron Marks, Jonna Hiestand Mendez, Emile Nakhleh, Gerald A. O’Shea, Nick Shapiro, John Sipher, Stephen Slick, Cynthia Strand, Greg Tarbell, David Terry, Greg Treverton, Winston Wiley, including the 'Love Birds' ... Swalwell & Fang-Fang and Struck & Paige.
If you ask them, 95% of them will say they never read what they signed. it was just a thing...
And none remember anything.
+ Hope and Change?
Tweet Jebus Rob---I'm sure they all have our best interest at heart.
Every. Single. One>
And most are not wrong
Apologies to my dear departed parents for the language, but I am beyond tired of the culture of unaccountability we've had to endure for at least the past decade. I'd like to see this arrogant, self-righteous prick convicted. In lieu of that, I'll settle for him having to spend a shit-ton of money on a defense team.
Are people’s hatred toward Trump so distorted that they can not see the abuse of power that erodes democracy? The narcissist hunts the narcissist . Dark forces at play here. At least Trump is transparent .
It’s all about power. Trump inhibits their exercise of power. That’s why he must be destroyed. Asswipes like McCain and Romney can be bought and co-opted. Trump doesn’t need the money nor does he need the sinecures. He scares them to death.
Hate can cause a very lasting and debilitating form of blindness
It is purely pathological--the term political implies moral reason.
That is Trump's saving grace, plus he's not afraid of the devil.
Comey and company believed it was an impossibility that Trump would be re-elected and assumed their criminality would be covered up in perpetuity.
As it undoubtedly will be...
The evidence is already out in the open. Whether or not he serves time is another matter, but it's no longer buried.
Buried is relative - and a lot will be determined by AI. For the moment, you're correct.
The future is very much open to question. I wouldn't count on any "fact" about politics surviving.
I try to digest a wide variety of opinions and viewpoints in today's modern media. One thing I've found particularly concerning is the number of media TODAY who characterize Comey's indictment and subsequent arraignment as "payback" by Trump against his political enemies. To make matters worse, most publish this with the assumption that it is common knowledge that this payback is coming. PLEASE! Certainly Trump is probably gloating about the situation Comey is in. Is there no reflection or attempt to glean the facts of the illegal activity Comey participated in? As Matt states, Comey has acted as if he is untouchable since his infamous reign, twisting the rules as he saw fit. What set me off wasn't MSNBC, which basically operates as an arm of the DNC. I read Bloomburg regularly, and their coverage started out with how Trump seeks to use the DOJ against his perceived enemies among which is Comey (I paraphrased this a bit) and then the reporter uses this entry to fortify Comey's claim he is being politically persecuted thus Comey's "not guilty" plea. I find their coverage appalling and far from being "neutral". It's as if anything concerning Trump or his actions must be attacked and destroyed because, why exactly?
The "payback" story is just a deflection, to keep people from looking at the fact of the matter.
Let me repeat myself--(with total respect): Depart the psyop and live.
Is Comey a wannabe secret policeman....or an actual secret policeman? The outcome of this trial may give the answer. I know you get to a mob boss by first nailing his underlings, but when innocent people, like Carter Page are threatened and run through, and the government has almost unlimited resources and power to ruin almost any target, we have to identify the corrupt for what they are.
Comey is too clever by half. He has been willing to destroy the innocent, lie and scam, pretend he wasn't doing what he so clearly WAS doing, and do violence to the law to pursue his targets.
The attorney-client privilege damage he did is one thing, the abuse of the FISA court another.
He IS a corrupt prosecutor. Not because he is being bribed by someone else to pervert the justice system, his own vanity, and contempt for those he believes are unworthy, is his own corruptor.
Defense attorneys have warned from time to time about prosecutors like him. Are we listening now?