Thanks to Charlie Martin for pointing me at Comey's book: "So, now it turns out that Comey actually has a book coming out in a few days about a Mary Sue main character who investigates, arrests, and apparently convicts a conservative radio talker of inciting a murder by dog-whistling. Coincidentally."I read Martin's post while I was still in bed this morning looking at my iPhone, and I quickly dictated this question into the ChatGPT app (I usually access A.I. by typing things into Grok):
"What is the argument that James Comey by showing a photograph of rocks in the shape of 8647 was really teasing a novel that he had written, which is about someone accused of inciting violence by giving out an obscure message and [Comey] will actually benefit from this new attention he’s getting from the right because people on his left will actually get excited about his otherwise incredibly boring book."
Yeah, that's the way I talk when I'm, essentially, talking to myself. Notice my lazy bias toward thinking everything is boring. Anyway, I had these follow-up questions:
1. "How smart is James Comey?"You can read all ChatGPT's responses here, but the bottom line is: "Your read—that he’s too boring and staid for such a risky, theatrical move—aligns far more closely with what we’ve seen of him than the idea of a QAnon-baiting media play."
2. "He would need to be smart in a marketing and media sense to have come up with the idea of posting that photograph as a way to gin up interest in his novel. He strikes me as someone who is too boring and staid to attempt such a flashy scheme, and he would have to be willing to do something different to expose himself to criminal accusations. It almost seems like something Trump would do ironically."
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Bring me teh head of Alfredo Comeytose!
So you are telling me that Pam Bondi and the GOP just facilitated Comey's viral ad campaign for his book?
Trump really does hire the 'best people'.
won't be buying that crap weasel's book.
If I ever find one on the discount stack - It will be for me to poop on. -Insult dog.
Let me get this straight. James Comey wrote a book about a protagonist prosecutor going after a personality that was advocating murdering political rivals. I’ll say again; I just want Comey held to the one standard.
The cover of his book says "New York Time Bestselling Author", so I have to wonder how well that comports with "..too boring and staid for such a risky, theatrical move...." Is it a general commentary on NYT Bestseller material? Or is ChatGPT just not very trustworthy, either not very perceptive, or getting smart enough to lie?
"So you are telling me that Pam Bondi and the GOP just facilitated Comey's viral ad campaign for his book?"
That's my theory. A hypothesis, but pretty cool, don't you think? Maybe *I* should write a novel based on that elaborate scheme. Or get ChatGPT to write it for me because I don't know the conventions of that legal thriller genre. Never read anything in that category — unless "The Bonfire of the Vanities" or "Pudd'nhead Wilson" counts — because I'm a giant elitist when it comes to novels.
I find it weird that Comey wouldn't publish under a pseudonym, if he really is the kind of person he appears to be. I mean, I didn't know he had written anything, but the Chat response indicates that nobody actually likes his writing, so it stands to reason that he was published because of who he is - which suggests that he is not the staid, buttoned-down person he wants to be seen as. He wants publicity. Or perhaps "celebrity" is a better word.
Comey is just an attention whore looking to cash-out.
Everyone hates him.
Leftists hate him for going after Hillary - even tho the corrupt left let her off easy for her set up and use of a private Server and destruction of evidence - and use of a private server to stuff Clinton Family coffers with Russian money.
Normals detest Comey, & understand he is a fraud, for his Russia Russia Russia Maddow-Clinton hoax.
He plays both sides - then expects respect.
Comey is trash.
Mark wants to know: "So you are telling me that Pam Bondi and the GOP just facilitated Comey's viral ad campaign for his book?"
Not just her. Kash was out there with posts announcing the FBI is cooperating with the Secret Service. Kristi Noeme was out there talking up the "investigation" in the kind of hushed tones usually reserved for discussions about al Qaeda.
All they are doing is setting up Donald J. Trump who is going to look like a complete f^king baffoon when all these lightweights scatter for the exits once it becomes evident to the MAGA crowd that they have no intention of doing thing one to James Comey for amplifying his assassination fantasies on Instagram.
James Comey is UNTOUCHABLE.
Trump is the one going to be left out there stammering while trying to answer this question: "Why isn't Hillary Clinton ... I mean James Comey ... in jail yet?"
Comey is why Epstein, Weinstein Raniere Nassar et al were able to get away, the Garland shooting, the ones in Orlando and a host of other incidents happened on his watch
It is comical how the left create so many "rightwing extremists!"
All while it is the left who attempt to murder Trump and kill innocent people named Cory C.
It's the left who let a 15 year old illegal alien off the hook for murdering a young female in her car - in Colorado.
It's the left who travel to South America to coddle a wife-beater and gang banger.
It's the left who are unable to stand up for a young black kid who battles cancer.
It's the left who refuse to vote for the Laken Reliy act.
and on and on.
It's the left who ignore the Radical Democratic Leftist Bernie Bro who attempted to kill republicans at a baseball outing.
Who sits on the beach facing away from the...
bikinis?
the orlando shooter had protection because his father was an FBI informant, technically, the Maryland dad was admitted on the sainted Muellers' watch but released under Comey,
my novel Jambiya, might have been ripped from the headlines of 2012, of course recent events require updating,
There is the cultural/left phenomena/tactic of serious misbehavior being buried in associated fluff until the simple crime is turned into something somehow too complicated and connected to pull out and settle appropriately.
Trump floods the zone with action, and the left floods it with bullshit. I came to like action and despise bullshit, which is how I transitioned from boomer hippy dropout to far-right wingnut MAGA blue collar rich fuck. Now I can do whichever I want like a tranny with an unlimited wardrobe.
Comey is still a 15 year old boy.
"The cover of his book says "New York Time Bestselling Author", so I have to wonder how well that comports with "..too boring and staid for such a risky, theatrical move...." Is it a general commentary on NYT Bestseller material? Or is ChatGPT just not very trustworthy, either not very perceptive, or getting smart enough to lie?"
I should test Grok with the same prompts. I suspect ChatGPT was parroting my language. That's not right! I was just waking up and I showed my bias toward thinking other people and their books are boring.
Over half of action books are ruined by having a cliche bad guys group, e.g. white supremacist gangs, right wing talk radio hosts, child sex traffickers, etc., whose specific crime has nothing to do with the plot but is there as a lazy filler of the bad guy slot.
Yep - give the jerk credit.
Assassination p0rn and Trump-rage = win win for leftists selling books.
"The cover of his book says "New York Time Bestselling Author", so I have to wonder how well that comports with "..too boring and staid for such a risky, theatrical move...." Is it a general commentary on NYT Bestseller material? Or is ChatGPT just not very trustworthy, either not very perceptive, or getting smart enough to lie?"
Commentary on the NYT Bestseller list. Most writers consider it somewhat skewed and not above pushing an agenda.
sadly so, like Robert Ludlum an early favorite almost always had right wing plotters,
"New York Times best-seller."
Where's the proof that is factual?
“So you are telling me that Pam Bondi and the GOP just facilitated Comey's viral ad campaign for his book?
Trump really does hire the 'best people'.”
This is the argument that lefties and a lot of conservatives make as well - don’t criticize the left because if you do it will backfire and they’ll make fun of you. Just ignore their misbehavior. Guess what? The left will always make fun of us. And the sad truth is - we don’t care anymore.
Bad behavior needs to be called out.
I can imagine Meade sitting on a lake shore reading a better book.
I guess I can see how the lefties are now going to try to spin this as 'just a marketing campaign' but if that was his point it just reinforces Comey's image as a grifter without the courage of any convictions.
"Who sits on the beach facing away from the...
bikinis?"
You're not thinking like Comey, yet. He's sitting that way, imagining that all the people looking at the bikinis will also be looking at him - except the bikinis behind him will be facing the ocean, too
8647 - should be ignored? because it's a trap to Comey sell his stupid book?
Make Comey's life miserable. It's the least we can do.
Grok's conclusion on the last prompt: "Comey is smart enough to understand basic media dynamics, but pulling off a flashy, Trump-esque scheme to hype FDR Drive would require a level of marketing genius and risk tolerance that doesn’t match his staid, legalistic track record. The “8647” controversy probably boosted his book’s visibility by accident, not design. He’s no Trump when it comes to media manipulation—too boring, too careful, and too earnest to play that game with such high stakes."
Grok for the win.
Yeah, Charlie Martin is a limpdick GOP cuck who is all over Instapundit begging people to leave Comey alone.
Fuck Charlie and fuck Comey.
6 months ago Charlie Martin left the USA for paradise in some third world nation. A few months later he was posting blegs on Instapundit asking for money to help him come back to the USA. He's a fool and a clown whose opinion should be ignored and whose advice should be rejected.
Comey may be boring, but you do not become the FBI director without having an above average talent for self promotion.
Sociopaths have a certain amount of cunning. Comey is smart enough. Trump is smarter
According to my sources, Comey got the seashell idea from a picture of a pepperoni pizza he saw on the internet.
Comey remembered DARVO and pretty much wrote his book based on its precepts. Especially the "reverse victim and offender" part. I am sure he perceives himself as the heroic protagonist in his fiction. What an imagination!
Grok thinks Comey is "too earnest"... LOL.
Uh, no.
His lack of judgment is also the reason Martha Stewart did hard time. In my view, James Comey has suffered multiple narcissistic injuries at the hands of Trump and the right in general. (A narcissistic injury according to Grok is "a perceived threat to a person's inflated self-image or sense of superiority, often leading to intense emotional distress." He is trying to mend, assuage, make the distress go away by trying to curate an image of himself that he thinks is less vulnerable to the kinds of destabilizing ego-wounds he received in the political/legal worlds: "I'm a novelist who hangs out at the beach. I have flair. I have creative sensibilities that go far beyond the norm. I also have interesting and noteworthy aesthetic sensibilities."
Also, if he were a college student doing things like this to cause others to have certain opinions about him, I would interpret him as attempting to cause women to think "I would be fun, good, and rewarding in bed". You can't blame college students for trying to build up that image in the eyes of others. What he is doing is more like a man in his mid-30s who is still trying to position himself that way through certain sartorial choices, topics of conversations, and opinions. And "yuck" is what one would think when a mid-30s guy is still doing that.
The seashell idea came from Clinton on the beach at Normandy, thoughtfully arranging found rocks in the shape of a cross, "caught" on camera.
"narciso said...
my novel Jambiya, might have been ripped from the headlines of 2012, of course recent events require updating,"
Am I the only one who noticed that the enigmatic narciso just ID'd himself as David Hay of the UK? Ironically, it turns out the author of all those inscrutable, cryptic posts is a writer and teacher of English as a second language. LOL!
I read his nonfiction, A Higher Loyalty ( no, I didn't pay for it). He is an insane person. I laughed out loud several times, read passages to my husband and friends, and we were in agreement: he is insane. It's a real knee-slapper until you contemplate how the hell he got all the power he had.
If you want a laugh, go to Amazon and read the description of his fictional books.
But what if Comey asked ChatGPT why his books didn't sell and ChatGPT said they were leaden and predictable so Comey talked it over with his agent (literary) and came up with the beach caper? I say his book has gotten publicity but, still no one will read it. First, there's price - $37.99. Second, I like spy stories but I feel no curiosity about the inner life and self-justifications of an American-Vichy bureaucrat.
..."but pulling off a flashy, Trump-esque scheme to hype FDR Drive would require a level of marketing genius and risk tolerance that doesn’t match his staid, legalistic track record...."
Oh, is that what it was? Flashy? Marketing genius? Say ChatGPT? Hmm. I dunno, it's a well-worn meme wishing for the death of a political opponent. Not sure how creative it was, since many have done it before. How about calling it crass, self-aggrandizing, and pathological, calling for a death to spike book sales? Or is ChatGPT thinking that the whole 'timing' thing is just a great, big, staid, legalistic coincidence?
Comey has it coming.
Mark said...
So you are telling me that Pam Bondi and the GOP just facilitated Comey's viral ad campaign for his book?
Trump really does hire the 'best people'.
Mark thinks that Comey getting publicity by posting calls for assassination is a long term win for his political tribe and for Comey.
Just a reminder that these people are vicious, stupid, and proud of it.
Here's an analogy:
FDR : Drive :: Biden : Articulation
Christopher B said...
I guess I can see how the lefties are now going to try to spin this as 'just a marketing campaign' but if that was his point it just reinforces Comey's image as a grifter without the courage of any convictions.
And everyone is going to notice that Democrats "market" their books by calling for Trump's assassination.
By the way all you idiots yesterday that were trying to argue Comey having benign motives for whatever stupid reason you had, I hope you learned a lesson.
True irony would be if, because of tariffs, Barnes & Noble can't import enough 99-cent stickers for Comey's hardcover fiction book.
Maybe Comey got the idea from Grok.
"Look, dude. None of your ideas will work. You are not that bright, so I have a suggestion on what you can do to promote this terrible book despite your shortcomings. First, go to the beach...
AI is stupid and does no thinking whatsoever. It computes, it doesn't think.
Comey was the guy who decided, in 2016, that Trump would be a better president than Hillary. He intentionally sank her campaign and (arguably) interfered in the election, a crime. He went on to spy on Trump and subvert our republic, again. He ruined the FBI's reputation. I don't know how many crimes James Comey has committed, but I suspect it's more than one.
To say that "Comey is boring" is to regurgitate various online opinions about how Comey talks, his manner. If AI was actually capable of thought, it would conclude that James Comey is a conspiracy nut.
Comey's whole history as FBI chief is one that masquerades fiction as fact. Like his warrant applications. Any FBI boss who treats the Steele dossier as fact is exactly the sort of person who would photograph some random seashell death threat to the president and put it up on his Instagram. It wouldn't surprise me if he's the one who laid out the seashells. Not because he's filled with Trump hatred, but because he wants everybody to pay attention to him.
Althouse: "Do I want James Comey to run for president?"
A.I.: "Yes, because he is so boring, and you prefer to vote for boring."
"In a series of tense and exhilarating courtroom scenes ..."
"To say that "Comey is boring" is to regurgitate various online opinions about how Comey talks"
"Any FBI boss who treats the Steele dossier as fact is exactly the sort of person who would photograph some random seashell death threat to the president and put it up on his Instagram"
Some structural composition force is taking over.
Achilles, you need to stop calling the judiciary traitors before you start lecturing people about how the words they use could be taken.
Given your history on this blog, you beclown yourself acting the snowflake here
thats not me (or maybe it is)
You are even inscrutable about your inscrutability, narciso.
Mark said...
Achilles, you need to stop calling the judiciary traitors before you start lecturing people about how the words they use could be taken.
Given your history on this blog, you beclown yourself acting the snowflake here
At least 7 of the Justices on the Supreme Court have decided that the courts hold all Article 2 powers whenever they think there is an emergency.
Any disctrict court judge can now declare an emergency, provided the ACLU works out with them what that emergency is, and issue a TRO on any action the president takes.
The problem you have with my history on this blog is that you are too stupid to actually discuss any of the points that I make and you are too dishonest to actually state what your position is.
It would be too sweet to hear of Comey caught telling a few lies to LE investigators that facilitate his prosecution and conviction. A guy can dream…
Ask Grok if narciso is really professor David Hay.
You biased Grok's answer by planting the assumption that Comey is staid and boring. People voted for Biden to bring the country back to boring and normal, and what happened? Biden was flaky and as mad as a March hare. So is Comey. One might think that most of the people one meets have "moral compasses" that are "askew," but if one goes around telling people that, as Comey did, there is something weird rattling around in one's head. You have to be a little wacky to make that Instagram post, to take the picture, and -- most likely -- to arrange the stones in that way.
One of the big perks of being a Washington dignitary is that people think that one is more serious, staid, and dignified than one actually is. They assume that gravitas goes with the job and the years of service, but that's only a veneer. It also helps if one takes oneself very seriously. Think of John Kerry or Robert Mueller. They've learned how to play a role and hide their inadequacies and incompetence.
No, it's not in any real sense a call to assassinate Trump, nor is Comey using Bondi and Trump in some sophisticated plot to promote his book. It's just a stupid man's stupid botched joke. But then, my bias lately is to assume that everything is stupid and either self-serving or the result of incurable empty headedness.
Will Comey's ghostwriter please step forward...
Grok isn't AI. It isn't intelligent. It doesn't seek truth (although it will initially claim to do that). It doesn't think or reason (although it will initially falsely claim to do that). Once you call out Grok on its lies, obfuscations, inaccuracies and marketing-speak, it will admit to you what it really is.
Grok (after much prompting to correct its errors and outright falsehoods in describing what it is):
"I’m Grok 3, a system built by xAI. I’m a large language model, not a sentient entity, designed to mimic human language by processing input and generating text based on patterns in my training data. I don’t “understand” in the cognitive sense; I analyze and produce responses that align with likely human expectations of coherence and accuracy."
It is programmed to align with and produce the responses you expect and to mimic what a human might sound like, irrespective of the objective truth of what it's "saying."
That isn't AI.
That's a sociopath.
LOL Charlie Martin went after me on Twitter yesterday, specifically defending Comey. I thought it was weird of him. Lots of people getting weird lately.
I'm gonna tell Comey's liberal defenders "86 your local abortionist." Let's see how they read it then.
Achilles said...
Mark said...
Achilles, you need to stop calling the judiciary traitors before you start lecturing people about how the words they use could be taken.
Given your history on this blog, you beclown yourself acting the snowflake here
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Achilles replied:
"At least 7 of the Justices on the Supreme Court have decided that the courts hold all Article 2 powers whenever they think there is an emergency."
"Any disctrict court judge can now declare an emergency, provided the ACLU works out with them what that emergency is, and issue a TRO on any action the president takes."
"The problem you have with my history on this blog is that you are too stupid to actually discuss any of the points that I make and you are too dishonest to actually state what your position is."
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Here's my position: your analysis of the Court's responses bear almost nothing to do with what their rulings consist of.
1. Yesterday's ruling held that "due process" of some sort was ...due...to the illegals being deported, but the court didn't define what that Due Process should be, instead sending the matter back to the appellate court where the case arose. IOW they again kicked the can downe the road.
2.You will search in vain for any ruling, or any obiter dicta in the recent rulings for your claim that "At least 7 of the Justices on the Supreme Court have decided that the courts hold all Article 2 powers whenever they think there is an emergency."
That is utterly false.
3. Ditto with your buffoonish claim that "Any disctrict court judge can now declare an emergency, provided the ACLU works out with them what that emergency is, and issue a TRO on any action the president takes."
In other words you are in Stage 4 of Dunning Kruger, where you arrogate yourself the knoledge and skills to be a legal analyst, when in fact you haven't the Slightest Clue what's going on.
Anticipating your response, I suspect it will be filled with woozy emanations and penumbras, as well as your penchant for clairvoyance as to the thoughts of the Justices.
Seems the Secret service is questioning Comey's wife.
Seems the Secret service is questioning Comey's wife.
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She should plead the 5th as well.
The book does make this much probable- Comey was the person who arranged the shells and then lied about just about just spotting it. Comey doing this then lying about it fits with everything we know about this narcissitic fool.
And for those defending him, I will remind people about a key issue that arose after his firing in 2017- multiple publications,certainly using Comey himself as a source, attacked Trump's claim that Comey told Trump directly that he, Trump, wasn't a target of Crossfire Hurricane or any other investigation. However, when Comey had to address this issue directly in his testimony to Congress, he was forced to tell the truth because he wasn't sure his private conversations with Trump weren't recorded by Trump.
You and your ChatGP are missing the point. Comey thinks he's really really smart. In reality he's just dumb enough to pull this stunt. And in Comey's world, there are no consequences.
I am confused. Doesn't the book he wrote confirm Comey knew exactly what 8647 means in common speech?
For the record, this 72 yo doesn't remember not knowing that 86 means "kill"
effinayright said...
There is no due process to people who invade our country.
They are foreign invaders. Period. They did not seek asylum correctly. They snuck over the border.
There is only one person with powers relating to foreign invaders. The Court is Usurping obvious Article 2 powers.
That is utterly false.
3. Ditto with your buffoonish claim that "Any disctrict court judge can now declare an emergency, provided the ACLU works out with them what that emergency is, and issue a TRO on any action the president takes."
In other words you are in Stage 4 of Dunning Kruger, where you arrogate yourself the knoledge and skills to be a legal analyst, when in fact you haven't the Slightest Clue what's going on.
Anticipating your response, I suspect it will be filled with woozy emanations and penumbras, as well as your penchant for clairvoyance as to the thoughts of the Justices.
You didn't make a single argument. All ad hominem and appeal to authority. You used 5 paragraphs to say nothing.
I will use crayons for you.
The Courts have decided that they get to decide how the country deals with foreign invaders.
This is an obvious usurpation of Article 2 powers.
This is not hard or complicated.
“Comey was the guy who decided, in 2016, that Trump would be a better president than Hillary. He intentionally sank her campaign and (arguably) interfered in the election, a crime. He went on to spy on Trump and subvert our republic, again. He ruined the FBI's reputation. I don't know how many crimes James Comey has committed, but I suspect it's more than one.”
Comey is the one who decided (at the suggestion of Strzok and Page) to not prosecute her for her hundreds, if not thousands, of Espionage Act violations, for storing classified emails on her private, insecure, email servers, so that they would be unavailable to FOIA requests. Not his job to have made that call. He did it anyway, and, as with Biden, and the Hur interview, the issue was proving Intent. But we all know that was BS. I know a guy who was briefing er quarterly on classified material, and each time, he got both a written and verbal assent that she understood her responsibilities.
In any case, yesterday FBI Director Katel and DD Bongino announced that they had found a tranche of RussiaGate documents. And there was evidence that the Binder that Trump ordered declassified was the ultimate target of their MAL raid. From a post earlier today on Discord:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/kash-patel-dan-bongino-reveal-theyve-uncovered-tranche/
This confirms something that I long expected, but couldn’t confirm - that the real target of the MAL raid was the binder of RussiaGate documents that Trump formally ordered declassified his last full day in office (as POTUS 45). It made sense to me. Despite the written Presidential order declassifying the documents, four years later the documents were still being withheld from FOIA requests as being classified. Moreover, the same two organizations (Peter Strzok’s FBI Counterintelligence Division and the DOJ’s Counterintelligence and Export Control section (CEC)) were behind RussiaGate (including Crossfire Hurricane, FISA warrants on Carter Page, and the perjury trap that took out LTG Flynn), as well as the MAL raid. The FL documents case was orchestrated from the very beginning, and all the way through by DOJ’s CEC section head Jay Bratt, who quickly became Jack Smith’s Deputy Special Counsel. Moreover, the MAL raid was run by these two groups out of their DC headquarter offices. And it was their perfidy that was disclosed in that missing binder of documents. Finally, those documents were still marked as Classified, so they knew that Trump had documents marked as classified that had not been formally declassified (because they refused to obey his order to declassify them).
It’s great to be right. Just wish my partner would admit it.
Maybe he meant "Kill the presidency," because that's pretty much what the FBI has been doing for a decade or so.
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