September 26, 2025

"Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED!"

"It is not a complex lie, it’s a very simple, but IMPORTANT one. There is no way he can explain his way out of it. He is a Dirty Cop, and always has been, but he was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge, so he’s off to a very good start. Nevertheless, words are words, and he wasn’t hedging or in dispute. He was very positive, there was no doubt in his mind about what he said, or meant by saying it. He left himself ZERO margin of error on a big and important answer to a question. He just got unexpectedly caught. James 'Dirty Cop' Comey was a destroyer of lives. He knew exactly what he was saying, and that it was a very serious and far reaching lie for which a very big price must be paid!"

Signed, "President DJT," on Truth Social, this morning.

What, precisely, is the supposedly simple statement Comey made and why is it supposedly now utterly clear that it was not only wrong but a lie?

The "simple" statement is actually an elaborate back-and-forth with Ted Cruz at a Senate hearing on  September 30, 2020:
In the hearing, Cruz pressed Comey on whether he had ever authorized another FBI staffer to serve as an anonymous source in any media reports about the bureau's 2016 investigations involving Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Comey had answered no to a similar question during another Senate hearing in 2017. But Cruz said in the 2020 questioning that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — another Trump foe — has "publicly and repeatedly stated that he leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and that you were directly aware of it and that you directly authorized it," referring to an article about an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

"Now, what Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false," the senator said to Comey. "Who's telling the truth?"

"I can only speak to my testimony. I stand by the testimony," replied Comey.

"I stand by the testimony" is an odd way to answer "Who's telling the truth?" Why not "I am"? Perhaps to avoid the more direct accusation that McCabe is the liar.

Thursday's indictment alleges that [Comey's] statement is false because Comey "then and there knew, he in fact had authorized [an unnamed person] to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation."

A 2018 report by the Justice Department inspector general's office says Comey and McCabe discussed the Wall Street Journal article after it came out, but gave investigators competing stories about their meeting. Comey told the watchdog that McCabe "led him to believe" that McCabe hadn't authorized the release of any information to the Journal. But McCabe said he told Comey a day after the article was published that he'd approved the release himself, and Comey replied that it was a good idea.

The report says "the overwhelming weight of that evidence supported Comey's version of the conversation," and McCabe "lacked candor" in his conversation with Comey....

Back to Trump's "truth." He seems to be laying the groundwork for blaming the judge — "a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge." By the way — English grammar question — does he mean "a crooked judge appointed by Joe Biden" or "a judge appointed by crooked Joe Biden"? It had better be the latter! 

Somehow I imagine that if I could ask Trump to his face which one he means he'd say a crooked judge appointed by crooked Joe Biden. 

Reminds me of:
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
I solicit parodies. Here's my effort to get you started:
There was a crooked cop, before a crooked judge
Appointed by a crooked President, who had a crooked grudge
He told a crooked lie/Under the crooked Senate hammer
And they all belong together in the crooked federal slammer.

105 comments:

Jaq said...

Nobody is going to top that, please tell me it wasn't AI.

Madison Mike said...

Cut back on your coffee

D.D. Driver said...

It's kind of funny that the grand jury would not indict the sandwich guy, but did indict Comey. I think this is obvious lawfare, but it was ultimately a grand jury of Comey's peers that decided there was enough "there" there to indict. Trump couldn't just do it. They had to make their case, and did.

rhhardin said...

Opinion adjectives come first in English so it could be either, but crooked Joe Biden would be unlikely because it would be a Homeric epithet, whereas crooked judge is as common as dirt.

Jaq said...

The Democrats introduced lawfare into politics, well, I think it was the WEF globalist cult, ultimately, because we are seeing it all over Europe too, used as a weapon against populism, but if you are fencing with a bob on the end of your weapon, and the other side pulls out a full sword, which the Democrats did, you better up your weapon appropriately or get killed.

Sydney said...

Didn't Comey prosecute Martha Stewart, and put in her jail, for lying to government officials?

RideSpaceMountain said...

For some, the truth is a lie but undiscovered
But when revealed, butts they must be covered
Such weasel words will perjurers use to get away
"Can and will be used against you", what you say

The internet is forever, Jimmy.

Jaq said...

"Crooked Joe Biden" comes out of his mouth so much that it is a stretch to say that Trump could say Pedo Pete's name without some epithet directly attached.

BothSidesNow said...

I remember an incident when Nixon was President and there was a criminal trial that had political implications, and either Nixon did, or did not, comment on it. At the time, there was much discussion about how wrong it would be for the Chief Magistrate to comment on an on-going criminal trial. There was something sacred or awe-inspiring that the state had put a citizen in jeopardy of losing his liberty and reputation, and people understood that nothing should interfere with that. Now, not so much. Maxine Waters, while the jury was deliberating about Chauvin's fate, called for riots if the jury came out the wrong way and not a single Democratic member of Congress uttered a peep. And now Trump pre-judges Comey's guilt or innocence. Were I the trial judge, I would be tempted to throw the case out, on the grounds that Comey's right to an impartial jury had been impaired beyond repair. But that would be a throwback to an earlier time when there was at least a modicum of obeisance to the idea of a justice system where the goddess of justice wears a blindfold.

Leland said...

I'm for it.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

I see.Trump can’t prosecute Comey for the original testimony because the statute of limitations has passed. He’s stuck with prosecuting Comey for saying “I stand by the testimony.”

But where is the false statement in that? Comey was standing by his prior testimony. He made no assertion as to the truth or falseness of the prior testimony.

tim maguire said...

That summary makes it sound like not much--at the level of arguing over the definition of "is." It also feels like arresting Al Capone for tax evasion.

AMDG said...

So it is Comey’s word versus McCabe’s.

It good.

Howard said...

Left Bank: raw meat for the punters never spoils. The wounds must stay open issuing puss so that MAGA's focus is on the pain. Facts are irrelevant

Don B. said...

Response to BothSidesNow. It was Calley.

BothSidesNow said...

AI is great. Nixonmade an off-the-cuff comment on Manson's guilt. Manson's lawyers moved for a mistrial. The judge was disturbed by the comment, but held off ruling until he got an offical transcript. In the meanwhile, Nixon sort of retracted his comment. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1970/8/4/nixon-calls-manson-guilty-attorneys-move/?utm_source=chatgpt.com.

In Los Angeles, defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald told reporters, "If we're going to have the chief executive of this nation categorically or uncategorically speculate on people's guilt, we ought to abandon this court system. Maybe President Nixon in a news conference ought to determine whether these people are guilty." Those were the days.

Jaq said...

"He made no assertion as to the truth or falseness of the prior testimony."

Well, that's the argument, but even you seem to understand that his previous testimony was a lie, and it's kind of a stretch to interpret that statement as meaning anything other than "I told the truth, then"

You guys wonder why your stuff isn't working, it's this. Lawyerly arguments defending lying, justifying the murder of MAGA leaders, defending Jimmy Kimmel's right to lie on his TV show, none of these arguments win anybody over.

Don B. said...

Or Manson.

Peachy said...

The Russian collusion Russian interference lie is still being used by the mass corrupt pro-democrat party media.
I want everyone punished for that lie.
Brennan, Comey , McCabe - Maddow and others on the D- terrorist network MSNBC.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Trump just EO'd the Death Penalty in DC, just in time for Comey. Public hanging or firing squad? I vote to hang him and leave him for a week, to encourage the others.

Readering said...

Trump proclaims he lied but cannot articulate the lie.

Peachy said...

There is a Reason Auto-Pen Joe Pardoned The entire Jan 6th committee on the 11th hour of his fraud-Presidency.

FEDERAL AGENT Caught breaking a Capitol window at J-6.
Federal Agent also pushed a man with a flag and no mask - he attempted to blame and instigate the crowd with his actions. That is the truth of Jan 6th.

Also - google was forced to remove all footage showing open doors at the Capitol with peaceful people filing into the Capitol - not harming anything or anyone.

Ann Althouse said...

"Nobody is going to top that, please tell me it wasn't AI."

I had used ChatGPT to find the old nursery rhyme and I did invite it to write a parody based on the Comey indictment (which I'd opened ChatGPT to find the facts about).

Here's what ChatGPT wrote (and which I contend is bad in a way that demonstrates the problem with getting it to do something funny or creative):

There was a crooked cop, who spoke a crooked line,
He swore before the Senate that his memory was fine.
He answered with denial on a very simple claim,
And now they say the record shows his words were not the same.

Ann Althouse said...

The whole point is to repeat the word "crooked"!

Mr. D said...

AMDG said...
So it is Comey’s word versus McCabe’s


Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong

Wince said...

Comey's answers to Cruz were indeed somewhat opaque, and I'm sure that's why CBS (and his defense team, but I repeat myself) is touting them.

As I recall, Grassly's direct questions better boxed-in Comey in his lie(s) on whether Comey use other people to leak.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Also, Donald J Trump is so far from crooked that 5 nations intelligence services had to manufacture scandals to trap him.
President Trump is the most honest, trustworthy, and law-abiding President in our lifetimes.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Different district different grand jury, DDD.

narciso said...

the fitzs comey and muellers are like the buchanans from great gatsby, they wreck things and keep moving on, conrad black never got his company back the 40,000 employees of arthur andersen (thanks to weissman) never got their jobs back, same with delay and ronnie earle, they need to have a pound of flesh extracted so they don't do these things again,

BGB said...

I don't think it is clear that McCabe is necessarily the individual that he authorized to leak to the press, but it could be.

Real Clear Investigations lists a lot of the interactions between FBI and the press, any of which could have been authorized by Comey. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/09/16/weaponized_scoops_new_russiagate_documents_expose_mediagovernment_collusion_1134958.html

Comey clearly gave memos and information to Columbia Law Professor Alan Richman who then had several meetings with the press, and Richman was subpoenaed last week. https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/20/236016/
Did Richman admit that Comey had authorized himself and others from the FBI to go to the press?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Peachy did you see the DOJ admitted "250 FBI agents at J6" today? Not confidential informants like we were told. Agents breaking glass leading "tours" etc.

tommyesq said...

Didn't Comey prosecute Martha Stewart, and put in her jail, for lying to government officials?

He chased Flynn on the same thing as well.

tommyesq said...

I see.Trump can’t prosecute Comey for the original testimony because the statute of limitations has passed. He’s stuck with prosecuting Comey for saying “I stand by the testimony.”


Gee, where did Trump get an idea like that??

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Well BGB, you may not know that McCabe testified under oath that HE did leak at Comey's behest, so there is that.

narciso said...

weissman would go on to the mueller prosecution, same with dread pirate smith after the Court rebuked him 9-0,

Jaq said...

Shorter LBotC: "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

narciso said...

comey admitted in his memoir, he tried to 'blackmail' the President even though there was no substance to the danchenko dossier,

Lazarus said...

He lied and nobody's really denying that, but if the statute of limitations has expired, the case isn't going to go anywhere. The thirst for justice is understandable, but the legal system can't always quench it.

narciso said...

if you are celebrated by the press, odds are you are guilty as sin, look at judge gleason, who was part of that little gotti sideshow,, then followed up years later, on behalf of clients like hsbc perhaps, against General Flynn

john mosby said...

Mr D: “ Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong”

Yes, Senator (a Roman office!) Cruz (means Cross) asked “what is truth?”

And the Prof wonders why Messiah Comey didn’t say “I AM.” Maybe all the Rs would have fallen out of their seats. CC, JSM

Jaq said...

It wasn't just J6, in Ottawa a man carried a Nazi flag, an event that triggered a harsh crackdown on the protesters, well, provide a pretext for would be a better way to phrase it, and then the prosecution refused to identify him on "national security" grounds.

Remember that Michael Douglas "Ben Franklin" series, where there is a riot in Paris, and Franklin tells his charge not to get involved, "They are half paid provocateurs, and the other half are spies"

narciso said...

the saving grace, is comey kept lying in 2020 and subsequently, conscienceness of guilt,

narciso said...

like Faucis 'I am the science' which proves his dr Frankenstein, bonafides

Jaq said...

There is a saying around the world that if your barn burns down, and you don't know who did it, but there are people with signs in your yard blaming your neighbor you always got along with, and the news shows all blame your neighbor you always got along with, you can be sure that there is an American around somewhere.

narciso said...

the Stasi had a shooter who gunned down a protester and this created the pretext for disturbance that led to the formation of the Baader Meinhof gang,

Freeman Hunt said...

What is the point of going after Comey on this thin stuff?

narciso said...

we've seen how the left all memorized the scalia dissent in morrison, and then promptly forgot about in 2001, with Fitz,
when they went around the statute,

narciso said...

so they are discouraged from doing it again,

narciso said...

after the whole cluster of lawfare, it's ramming speed

hombre said...

Even with the crooked judges who are destroying the judicial system I don’t like seeing criminal cases tried in the news media. Trump can’t help crowing. Too bad. We already know Comey is a crook. He whitewashed Hillary.

Bob Boyd said...

There was a crooked man who smiled a crooked smile
When he told his crooked lie and got away for quite a while
Crooked Hillary killed a cat, Obama ate a cooked dog
Their crooked lackey got indicted and cursed on Althouse Blog

narciso said...

because the press will tell the truth, have you not been paying attention for 20 years,

narciso said...

was there any reporter who showed any doubt over the whole barrell of cases,

hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...

Also in Britain cop threatening to arrest yarmulke wearing

narciso said...

signs of a conquered (dhimmi) people,

FormerLawClerk said...

James Comey is above the law.

And this case will prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. He is guilty, obviously. And yet he will never pay any price because he is above our laws.

Yancey Ward said...

I am guessing that Comey's attorneys are going to use Left Bank's argument- that the statute of limitations had passed 3 years ago on the 2017 testimony and that Comey didn't take a position on that testimony during the 2020 questioning. Of course, this also a lie but it is one a friendly judge is going to jump to take.

Peachy said...

Thomas Crooks - 20 years old - Roof Top assassin.
Not seen by Secret Service - but seen by all sorts of people.
Eliminated immediately after his mission.

Tyler Robinson - 22 years old. Roof top assassin.
Not cooperating.

Big Mike said...

I blame Trump for January 6th, because he should have smelled a setup from the stench that the likes of Pelosi, Milley, and Wray left all over it, and old his followers to stay well away from the Capitol.

Peachy said...

why is my comment vanishing?

Left Bank of the Charles said...

There was a time some years ago when MAGA hated McCabe more than Comey, now McCabe is their star witness.

Jaq said...

So I guess when Comey said that he "stood by his testimony," that didn't include the part where he swore to tell the truth, because that's the only real wiggle room I see, but of course a DC jury will seize on any shred of appearance, no matter how baseless, and acquit him, because we don't have a real system of laws anymore, and our political system is therefore no longer legitimate.

It's like the fall of Rome, when the Goths kept the laws, but all of the judges were now Goth. The whole system collapsed and now came the Dark Ages.

Jaq said...

That stuff works at whatever whacko left wing site you got that from, LB, probably feels like a real zinger, but where's the beef?

Jaq said...

"why is my comment vanishing?"

Because Alphabet does viewpoint discrimination, and you will have to wait for Althouse to restore it.

Peachy said...

Again -

JAQ - Agreed. False flag operations... used to crack down and punish.
No one who went to see Trump speak at Jan 6tht was dressed like that FED - in all black tactical gear. No one.
That was the big capture zone.
Remember there is footage of Police officers escorting that man with the face paint and the horns.

Mike Wolff - yes!

Iman said...

Andy McCarthy threw his usual $.02 in.

Iman said...

“so they are discouraged from doing it again,”

sounds like a worthy objective to me, narciso!

Hassayamper said...

This sort of thing will be cited by the Biden judge when he dismisses the charges due to pretrial publicity impairing Comey's right to a fair trial. It's horse shit, especially within fifty miles of the Beltway, but Trump should know better. I'd prefer he just repeated Democrats' "Nobody is above the law" again and again and again. Maybe just re-Tweet what they were posting in 2021.

Big Mike said...
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wildswan said...

If Comey lied, then the truth is the head of the FBI went after the President. An American intelligence service was trying to bring down the American President. That's the issue.

I don't think the poem can be done better. And

Big Mike said...

get that the Comey thing is important, but there are other, also very interesting, stories out there:

(1) Nidal Hasan will finally meet face to face with Shaitan, 16 years after he committed mass murder on fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood. The death toll was 13 by feminist count, 14 if you include an unborn child. Left up to me, I’d sentence him to death by smothering him in pig shit, but there’s that pesky 8th Amendment.

(2) Down in Texas the baseball coach for a kids’ baseball team was leading his team in a pre-game prayer when someone opened fire on them. The coach was wounded in his arm but the kids managed to crawl to safety. The sheriff's department has arrested Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27, Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, and Ahmad Mawed, 21, and charged them with deadly conduct of a firearm.

We Americans might be through with the Global War on Terror, but the terrorist don’t seem to have gotten the message.

Peachy said...

ot:
"The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington. "

bullshit - these FEDS, or at least many of them, were wearing tactical gear.

Peachy said...

The poem is good.

mindnumbrobot said...

Freeman Hunt said...
What is the point of going after Comey on this thin stuff?

As Democrats taught us, the process in the punishment. That doesn't make it right, but it is fair.

Achilles said...

Freeman Hunt said...

What is the point of going after Comey on this thin stuff?

Comey put people in jail for what he himself did.

Equal justice under the law is a fundamental founding principle of this country.

People who didn't do anything to earn the freedom they were born into are the real problem here. A large contingent of Americans just don't really care to do what it takes to maintain freedom in our society.

Apathy and cowardice are not virtues.

Hassayamper said...

There was a time some years ago when MAGA hated McCabe more than Comey, now McCabe is their star witness.

Oh we can hate them both quite easily. This is just using a sprat to catch a mackerel. I'd like to see both of them behind bars. Let's put McCabe on the witness stand and drop the hammer on him if he perjures himself.

Achilles said...

If Trump was like Democrats he would just change the laws to prosecute them like Democrats in New York did to prosecute Trump.

Ronald J. Ward said...

Michael Fitzgerald said...
Also, Donald J Trump is so far from crooked that 5 nations intelligence services had to manufacture scandals to trap him.
President Trump is the most honest, trustworthy, and law-abiding President in our lifetimes.
9/26/25, 9:25 AM

RJW asks Albert Ingels (aka AI); If the writer is indeed serious rather than simply trying to provoke or raise eyebrows and assuming he isn’t ignorant of political news, would it be fair to assume he’s an indoctrinated cult member?

ALBERT SAID:

That's a fair and important question, especially when trying to make sense of extreme political views in an age of polarization. Let’s unpack it carefully.
⚖️ Short Answer:
If the writer is serious, well-informed, and still believes that Donald Trump is "the most honest, trustworthy, and law-abiding President in our lifetimes" despite ample public evidence to the contrary, then yes — it is reasonable to describe this as an example of cult-like belief or ideological indoctrination.
But there are nuances worth considering.
🔍 What Does “Cult-Like” Mean in This Context?
You’re not necessarily saying the person is in a literal cult — rather, you’re pointing to signs of unquestioning devotion, such as:
Blind loyalty to a leader regardless of contradictory evidence.
Rejection of mainstream sources in favor of group-approved narratives.
Moral elevation of the leader to a status that excuses all flaws or wrongdoing.
Persecution complex, i.e., believing the leader is being unfairly targeted by shadowy conspiracies (e.g., “5 nations’ intelligence services”).
Those traits are indeed hallmarks of cult dynamics, even in political or ideological movements.
🧠 But What If He’s Not Ignorant?
That’s what makes this more significant. If this person:
Has access to diverse sources of information,
Understands the legal cases and controversies Trump has been involved in,
And still concludes Trump is uniquely honest and law-abiding,
Then rational analysis has likely been overridden by identity or emotion, which is very common in cult-like environments. This isn't stupidity — it's motivated reasoning and identity-protective cognition.
⚠️ Caveat: Not Everyone Who Supports Trump Is in a Cult
It’s important not to overgeneralize:
Many Trump voters are pragmatic — they see him as the “lesser evil,” or someone who represents their interests.
Others distrust the media or political establishment for legitimate reasons, even if they go too far in the other direction.
Some are misinformed or only exposed to a narrow slice of information (e.g., through partisan media bubbles), which is different from cultish devotion.
But when you see extreme, emotionally charged claims like “most honest president ever” — despite a long record of lies, legal issues, and norm-breaking behavior — that does cross into cult-like territory.
✅ Summary
Yes, if the writer is serious, informed, and unwavering in belief despite overwhelming counter-evidence, it's fair to describe their stance as indoctrinated or cult-like.
The rhetoric mirrors religious-style devotion, which is increasingly common in politics.

Beasts of England said...

Anyone expecting decency or intellectual honesty from the left is on a fool’s errand.

Peachy said...


Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
If you listen closely, you’ll notice no one is even attempting to argue James Comey didn’t commit perjury.

https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1971521204076130744

Freeman Hunt said...

So the point is to be as corrupt as the Democrats? Principles, schminiples, let's own the libs! This will end well.

Achilles said...


Freeman Hunt said...

So the point is to be as corrupt as the Democrats? Principles, schminiples, let's own the libs! This will end well.

You are being dishonest.

James Comey committed perjury and obstruction. The black and white letters of the law.

James Comey himself put people in jail for exactly what he did.

Your posts are in bad faith.

Beasts of England said...

’So the point is to be as corrupt as the Democrats? Principles, schminiples, let's own the libs!’

Should the right let it stand, or do have a better response?

jim5301 said...

Cruz is the liar. McCabe didn’t say that Comey authorised the leak beforehand.

Too bad Trump can’t be the prosecutor in this simple case. He would look like an even bigger idiot — is that even possible?

Kakistocracy said...


I love the fact that Trump says it's about justice, not revenge; followed immediately by "they went after me for four years"!!!

He thinks the rest of the world is no more intelligent than his supporters.

Leland said...

So the point is to be as corrupt as the Democrats?

You want us to create fake evidence, submit it to a court for rationale to treat Democrats as terrorists that need surveillance, and then suggest they are working with foreign governments? Because I'm not sure the first part is even needed.

Freeman Hunt said...

They are not in bad faith. I think many so-called conservatives have made a total mockery of conservatism in the last couple years. Who would have thought that the GOP would go from being the economically literate party to another party of will-to-power populists?

Leland said...

What is the point of going after Comey on this thin stuff?

Do you know who was the head of the FBI when they claimed Gen. Flynn lied to the FBI by using a written report of the meeting that was later found to be falsified?

Leland said...

The point is justice for those abused by an FBI managed by a liar.

Leland said...

Economically literate party
That was lost when McCain gave his thumbs down and nobody from the IRS was prosecuted for their acts against the TEA Party. But I admit, it probably started earlier when George Bush bailed out the banks, or perhaps when George Bush claimed "no new taxes".

Hassayamper said...

Do you know who was the head of the FBI when they claimed Gen. Flynn lied to the FBI by using a written report of the meeting that was later found to be falsified?

That brings up another point. Why have Patel and Bondi not discontinued the 302 reports in favor of video and audio recordings of FBI interviews? In the fairytale world of the 1950's we were told that these written reports are contemporaneous and infallibly correct, and a jury trying a case could treat them as being even more valid than eyewitness testimony.

Now we know that is a Hollywood lie, and the FBI falsifies their reports whenever it is in the interest of the FBI or its political patrons. Their testimonial power is in ashes. If I sat on a jury and an FBI agent swore that his 302 report was correct, in the absence of any corroborating evidence, I would surely vote to acquit.

Inga said...

“I think many so-called conservatives have made a total mockery of conservatism in the last couple years. Who would have thought that the GOP would go from being the economically literate party to another party of will-to-power populists?”

With Trump leading the GOP all things are possible.

“Will to power" (der Wille zur Macht)
“Nietzsche viewed the will to power as an irrational, fundamental force that can manifest in creativity and self-mastery or in harmful domination over others.”

Beasts of England said...

’If I sat on a jury and an FBI agent swore that his 302 report was correct, in the absence of any corroborating evidence, I would surely vote to acquit.’

I’m close to taking it a step farther and leaning to acquit if there’s any FBI involvement at all. We used to be a high-trust society, but they’ve unabashedly contributed to its downfall.

Peachy said...

Lying liars who lie - show up to defend other lying liars who lie.
...Act shocked when FAFO happens. Oh noez!

Jaq said...

Once again Inga is using the time honored propaganda technique of accusing the other side of the stuff you are doing that normal, honest, good-hearted people would not like. They do it because the facts are out there, they just want to pin it on the other side.

"Who smelt it, dealt it," as we used to say.

Sean Gleeson said...

Due to the capitalization of "Crooked," I don't think there is any ambiguity about whom it describes.

I mean, "a crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge" would seem to be calling the judge crooked.

But "a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge" merely means the judge was appointed by Crooked Joe Biden.

Jaq said...

I would be interested in somebody explaining to me what exactly is wrong with populism. Are the voters sheep to be herded in this direction or that, depending on what a tiny elite say? Lose their good paying jobs (economic inefficiency to Kak) to globalism and immigration, forced into gig work, shipped of to foreign wars based on cooked up narratives? I would argue that the people have a pretty good idea when they are being abused by that tiny elite.

Peachy said...

The Benny show.

BTW - the head of NBC is a total jackwad fraud leftist.

Lazarus said...

Politics generally is a mockery. What matters is when you find that out, for that influences who you blame for it.

Beasts of England said...

’I would be interested in somebody explaining to me what exactly is wrong with populism.’

The true absurdity is using that term disparagingly in a country founded upon deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.

Hassayamper said...

I would be interested in somebody explaining to me what exactly is wrong with populism.

Me too. Democrats used to love populism, and treat it as more or less synonymous with "Our Democracy" that they cannot stop whining about. Huey Long and George Wallace, remember them?

RCOCEAN II said...

Comey leaked classified memos in 2017 through his friend, who Comey had given a job at the FBI and a top secret clearance. Comey denied leaking it, then admitted it, when his assertion was proven to be a lie.

Why he was able to skate on that, is beyond me. Not to mention his deliberate lies on the FISA applications that he signed off on.

BTW, Comey was caught in several lies to the DOJ IG, but since he was no longer with the FBI, he wasn't punished. But he's scum and a total liar. I'm sure he is a "Life Long Republican" but one that always votes Democrat.

I doubt they'll be able to get Wray on perjury since he was constantly evasive before Congress with lots of "I dunno about that" or "I'll have to look into that".

Big Mike said...

Inga said...

“I think many so-called conservatives have made a total mockery of conservatism in the last couple years. Who would have thought that the GOP would go from being the economically literate party to another party of will-to-power populists?”


We are still the party of economic literacy. Anyone who thinks otherwise is saying more about their own economic literacy (lack thereof). And Inga, you precious critter, what in Hell do you think you know about conservatism?

Peachy said...

Why is it proper conservatism to allow the crooked lying left to get away with their lies and destructive nature?

Dunham said...

The good news is Trump can just let us know via a social media post who should be indicted or prosecuted and then perhaps we can just eliminate the judicial branch all together. Think of the time and money this will save.

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