Should We Be Re-Posting This in Solidarity?
crossposted from: https://50501.chat/post/226793
Here is a video for anyone without context. I'm not on Twitter but I can re-post on Instagram.
Originally Posted By
u/F0rtysxityAt2025-05-16 05:25:16 PM| Source
No because Comey is still a piece of shit. He is not suddenly a good guy because of this. Frenemy at best.
Critical support for...
...James Comey? 🫠
You don’t win by hating everyone that doesn’t agree with you on 100% of everything. Problem with the left actually are these fucking purity tests. It’s why the left is weak as fuck. We could build a coalition, but no that guy one time did or said something I don’t like, so therefore I’d rather let evil win instead. Exactly what happened when it comes to Biden and Gaza.
The left fails to understand that power is incremental. On day one, you don’t get 100% of what you want. If you’re lucky you get 1% of it and you shift the Overton window. You just gotta keep pulling people your way and shifting the Overton window. You get a little more of what you want overtime, but the most important thing is that you’re moving in a direction that is where you want to go. But, everyone down voting me wants everything their way right fucking now, or they don’t want any of it. Well, I can tell you, you’re getting nothing that you want right now. Learn to work together.
I'd normally agree, but fuck Comey. His choice to reopen the investigation into Clinton and loudly announce it two days before the election is why we're in the situation we're in. He blatantly used his position to help Trump win. Just because he has buyer's remorse doesn't mean he's not a traitorous piece of shit.
If you look at the details, he wasn’t doing it to tip the scales, he was doing it because he was trying to be TOO ethical without looking at the political context of everything. Comeys crime has always been being too fixated on smaller ethical issues to understand the impact of his role in the wider political picture. In essence, he resists playing politics and instead gets drawn in to them. Trump tried to get him to pledge loyalty, but when he resisted, Trump fired him. Remember that?
Comey is a certified Lockheed shill. His uncanny ability to get right in the cross fire of left right conflict is disruptive at best.
Comey is part of the reason we're here. He put his thumb on the scale a week before the election causing the dipshit to win.
Comey just followed what he felt was ethical to a fault without looking at the wider picture. He was too fixated on the minute details to see the bigger political picture. And, when Trump tried to get him to pledge loyalty, he refused and was instead fired. Comey’s crime was resisting political pressure from both sides. Either way, that’s over and he thinks Trump is horrendous and wants to get rid of him. You ever hear the phrase “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?
He fucked the country. The problem is see with a. Lot of liberals is that anyone who remotely has a correct take on standing up to a terrible piece of shit, suddenly redeems all their past crimes against humanity. Him posting a cheesy photo to get attention before his book release doesn't undo the fact that he cause this shit.
This photo isn't an alliance.
This blows my mind..
"His crime was resisting political pressure from both sides.'
His crime was trying to be objective and impartial?
That's not what he did. At all. There was plenty of evidence on Trump's Russian compromise. No investigation. But reopening a random investigation into emails, which had already been closed...which was something the entire bush administration did, the entire trump admin later did...one week before the election and immediately closing it is fucking bullshit. There was zero point to that other than influencing the election
I'm just pointing out the wording there. I'm not at all saying comey didn't botch it, but on its face we WANT prosecutors to ignore both sides and focus on what the facts.
I was trying to say its a crazy bonkers world when judicial isnt expected to ignore political parties.
Sorry for the confusion, i am not talker good
And, like I just said but you ignored, he did not pay used to both sides. He ignored the one and attacked the other.
Dude, what is it that you arent understanding here.
I quoted and am talking about one specific sentence YOU said. That taken on its own, are mind blowing words, even if only in isolation.
"His crime was resisting political pressure from both sides"
That sentence on its own, taken as is, is bonkers crazy to think that we would ever want judicial to bow to political pressure when it is prosecuting someone.
Normally, that is exactly what we hope happens in a judicial setting, isn't it?
So if we are in a place where YOU claim it was a crime, that is absolutely wild and mind blowing to be experiencing that situation.
Thats it man, thats all im saying.
Im not arguing about what comey actually did or didnt do, im commenting on the situation as YOU presented it.
The part YOU'RE not getting is that you are actively wrong. He bored too political pressure within his own agency to reopen an already closed case. Which directly affected the outcome of the election.
You keep trying to pretend he did this for apolitical reasons, but that is false. This is the prosecutor, that after failing to convict for insider trading the first female billionaire, made up some idiotic charges to get her anyway on "obstruction" of the non crime... Years later kneecapped the would be first female president, and you're defending his actions as not bowing to political pressure.
lol…are you seriously getting mad at dems for being too democratic?
You talk like people would just suddenly stop saving the world just because a person, who forgot to recycle that one time, agreed.
You don’t require to be all in the same car to drive to the same destination. Not all things must be a partisan.
Partisanship and coalitions are too black and white. It’s all based on agreeing 100% of the time. Just look at the right: Kissing the ring is a purity test. That is the opposite of democracy. It’s bound to failure for every reason you just pointed out: it overlooks way too much just to serve the most powerful few to keep it all in one party.
In fact if anything: this whole ‘everything needs to be a coalition and partisan’ is where a lot of the main issues started. People are way more complicated than that. You will never ever have everyone agree to all things all the time. In democracy disagreement is a feature. Not a bug. Dems are not wrong for breaking off and fracture. that is what democracy is. They can agree on some things and keep checks on other things. The meaning behind checks and balances. That’s by design.