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“Eurasia Has Never…No, Has Always…er…LINE!”

Steven Colbert went in front of his audience on Tuesday afternoon and broke the news that Comey had been fired.

That’s where it got interesting:

Colbert’s audience roared their approval…

…having not yet been told that Democrats never wanted Comey fired for never ever blaming him for Hillary’s campaign collapse, and weren’t, nosirreebob, demanding his ouster mere moments before Trump whacked him.

Further proof that badly-trained apes that make up the audience at shows like Colbert, Bill Maher, Samantha Bee and The Daily Show are  actually as dumb and manipulable as the left thinks the right’s audience is.

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42 responses to ““Eurasia Has Never…No, Has Always…er…LINE!””

  1. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    I love that. Standard Leftist dimbulb mob-ism reveals it’s self in micro-time.

    Mises.org Is The Solution To All Problems.

  2. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Those are the same morons that show up at GOP town halls and whine about free stuff (free insurance) as they don’t have the slightest idea of how free stuff (free insurance) can be provided without imploding the bond market.

    When the electorate it this stupid, you are better off with a monarchy.

  3. TheFedSucks Avatar
    TheFedSucks

    Hey Emery: Why is Medicare underfunded? Why is effectively every single government and union actuarial system underfunded?

    Who knows everything?

  4. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Audience member “Comey turned me into a newt!”

  5. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Further proof that badly-trained apes that make up the audience at shows like Colbert, Bill Maher, Samantha Bee and The Daily Show are actually as dumb and manipulable as the left thinks the right’s audience is.

    Yet another validation of Berg’s 7th Law.

  6. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Trump appears to have a fundamental misunderstanding of his job. Comey and all others are not employees of Trump LLC, subject to the whim and dictate of Trump. He can fire the FBI Director, but that decision is subject to public scrutiny, something he clearly is not accustomed to. Trump’s decisions are subject to questioning, repeatedly and for reasons that may not be to his liking. An explanation will always be necessary.

  7. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    The Department of Justice is denying a New York Times report that James Comey requested additional money for the investigation into Russian election meddling just days before he was fired by President Trump.
    “The story is totally false,” DOJ spokeswoman Isgur Flores told The Daily Caller.
    The NYT cited three unnamed officials with knowledge as saying that Comey had asked for a significant increase in funding and personnel for the probe shortly before his firing. (RELATED: ‘It’s A Coup’ — Media Meltdown Over Trump Firing Comey)
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/10/comey-requested-money-for-russia-probe-before-firing/

    So you’ve got the NY Times citing unnamed sources vs. The Daily Caller using an official, named source. Who do you think the readers of the HuffPo and the producers of the network news are going to find more authoritative?

  8. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    This issue is the best example I’ve seen yet of the left-ward bias in the media. The issue isn’t people in the media asking questions, the issue is the unfair standard they use to ask them. If firing Comey did nothing else, it made clear to everybody on the street that Trump is entirely correct about the media being untrustworthy.

    When Bill Clinton fired every United States attorney, his reason was essentially “they’re not Democrats.” That’s a legally sufficient reason and nobody in the media called him out for it.

    When George Bush fired several United States attorneys, his reason could have been “they’re not Republicans” and that also would have been a legally sufficient reason. But the media screamed about it. Same appointees, same reason, different reaction because different political party committing the act.

    For the media, Democrat = good; Republican = bad; no further analysis required. That’s especially clear now that Trump did as Democrats demanded and fired Comey. Before, when Trump refused to fire the guy, Democrats and the media were outraged. Now that he’s fired the guy, Democrats and the media are outraged. Plainly, the firing itself has nothing to do with the outrage: that’s simply partisan politics being practiced by people honest enough to admit they’re Democrats, and by people willing to lie about it.

    Note in passing, the ultimate buffoonery award has yet to be given but Al Franken is strongly in the running with his concern that the chief of the executive branch firing a department head causes a Constitutional Crisis.

  9. Penigma Avatar
    Penigma

    Right Mitch, the fact that a TV studio audience applauded the firing of someone they think interfered in the election MEANS it was a good idea. Obviously you don’t think so, so does that mean you think firing Comey was wrong? God I hope so. Comey may have behaved badly in July, but allowing the President to squelch an investigation into his own conduct is FAR more important than what the “apes” think. BTW, do you think calling people apes is better than calling people deplorables?

  10. Penigma Avatar
    Penigma

    Put differently Mitch, friend to friend, do you really think focusing on Stephen Colbert’s audience is the where you should be centering your efforts right now? What do YOU think of Jim Comey’s firing? That should be your next post rather than mocking the eminently mockable herd.

  11. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    The Trump administration has demonstrated that its major failing is incompetence, rather than evil intent (the intent fluctuates from day to day). So I doubt that Trump and his cronies were actually conspiring with the Russians, because that would require a level of organization and planning that we have seen no sign of.

    I also dislike special prosecutors and special committees, as they tend to go on forever, are used as a political stage, and are a distraction for all involved. But at this point, with Comey fired, what are the options?

    This administration is quickly becoming like those of Berlusconi, spending most of its time and energy protecting itself from the ramifications of its rash and poorly-thought-out actions, and from the dubiously legal actions of its senior members, now and in the past.

  12. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    OK, Emery, so you’re agitating for a special prosecutor you admit would be a disaster, and who would be investigating nothing in particular?

    And with that kind of thinking, you dare to accuse President Trump of being an intellectual lightweight? And Reagan and Bush?

    The option here is an honest prosecutor who will pick up the investigations Comey bobbled, starting with the IRS assaults on taxpayer organizations and continuing to Hilliary’s obvious criminality. And then we’ll see what the piglets there do when poked–who do they squeal about? I’m guessing it’s a guy who hasn’t left DC after leaving office if they do it right.

  13. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    BB, investigating demoncrats = bad, investigating rethuglicans = good. You would never do anything bad, so we must forgive and forget everything and anything demoncrats do and demonize rethuglicans.

    There, I just summarized SFB’s logic behind his every post.

  14. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Trump is in trouble when the vast majority of people put more credibility in the fired Comey to tell us the truth than whatever Trump is telling us.

  15. Penigma Avatar
    Penigma

    BB, Emory said pretty clearly he doesn’t really like the idea of a special prosecutor. I agree until there is a sign of criminal conduct which can’t be objectively handled by the DOJ. Senate/House investigations are about handling process, not prosecutions. I would be satisfied with a separate, entirely bi-partisan commission. Given the special prosecutors repeatedly demanded Republicans and then put in place by Clinton, what exactly is the objection given the clear lack of objectivity by Jeff Sessions and a “stacked by party” congressional committees?

  16. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    “Vast majority” means the talking heads, not necessarily the public. There may just be a few shades of difference there, as we learned in November.

  17. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Another win for Trump.

    Every reprobate leftist that you always knew was a reprobate leftist, but that tried to fly under the radar has gone full on, bat shit crazy.

    And the ones that never tried to hide their illness are auditioning for a spot on the FBI watchlist. They are not merely expressing their objections, they are spewing their hate in the foulest terms possible.

    Have any of you seen the all caps tirades Keith Olbermann has been amusing twitterdom with lately? I expect he will be found dead any time now, having swallowed his tongue.

    I’m enjoying every minute of it.

  18. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    There’s only room for one ‘showboat” and “grand-stander” in this town”.

  19. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    I will defend Trump against unhinged, baseless charges. I will not defend Trump against the charge that he is a showboater and a grand-stander 🙂

  20. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Speaking of unhinged and baseless: Trump and his company were laundering money over an extensive period of time for various Russian, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other quasi-governmental/crime operations, utilizing their real estate and hotel businesses as the front. Just before he was fired it has been reported that Comey had asked for assistance from the US Department of the Treasury’s money laundering investigative unit for help. The moment that Trump got a whiff of this inquiry the axe had to fall. The rest is history.
    https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923

  21. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Yes, Emery, I’m sure that if the Financial Times’ sources have any merit, that the firing of Mr. Comey will prevent that from coming to light and being acted on. No way that the 4th Estate will raise Hell about such things until the clamor becomes too much to ignore.

  22. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Someone should explain to Trump the rule of holes: “when you find yourself in a hole quit digging”.

  23. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Is this your playbook now, Emery? Some journalist (not a law enforcement official) says that Russian mobsters bought Trump condos and this could be a money laundering technique, and you write “Trump and his company were laundering money over an extensive period of time for various Russian, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and other quasi-governmental/crime operations, utilizing their real estate and hotel businesses as the front.”

    Unhinged. Completely unhinged. Get help.

  24. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Au contraire my friend. I was simply dovetailing and citing an example based on your riff: “I will defend Trump against unhinged, baseless charges”. 😏

  25. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Strassel (my emboldening):
    Which leads us to Mr. Comey’s most recent and obvious conflict of all — likely a primary reason he was fired: the leaks investigation (or rather non-investigation). So far the only crime that has come to light from this Russia probe is the rampant and felonious leaking of classified information to the press. Mr. Trump and the GOP rightly see this as a major risk to national security. While the National Security Agency has been cooperating with the House Intelligence Committee and allowing lawmakers to review documents that might show the source of the leaks, Mr. Comey’s FBI has resolutely refused to do the same.
    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/264730/

  26. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Any thoughts that Trump knows anything (never mind history) goes out the window if you read this article from The Economist. Trump’s incoherence something to behold.
    http://www.economist.com/Trumptranscript

  27. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    The Economist…………pfft !!

  28. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    If you go back and look at clips of Trump speaking from 15-20 years ago he had a much larger vocabulary, could construct coherent sentences and carry a train of thought. All those seem beyond him now.

  29. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Emery, did you know that until 2013, Trump was on the board of HSBC Holdings, a banking and financial services company (the largest in Europe)? It was created by the Chinese and has huge holdings in Russia . . .
    Oh, wait, I meant Comey, not Trump. Nevermind.

  30. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Right, back when HSBC was known as ‘Holy Shit Bad Credit”.

  31. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Go read the transcript of the interview and tell me if you still have confidence in Trump’s “plans”. The man is frighteningly incoherent. There is no plan, just a grab-bag of ideas without a strategy or direction.

  32. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Trump doesn’t have to be a Russian stooge to have bad plans.
    I didn’t vote for Trump, remember?
    You need to develop a Trump theory that accounts for his ability to destroy the Clinton and Bush political dynasties and make billions in real estate. The same electorate that voted Obama voted Trump. Were they geniuses in 2008 and 2012 and idiots in 2016?

  33. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    There is a theory that Trump used laundered Russian money for his LLC’s (post-bankruptcy) in order to fund his real estate acquisitions.

  34. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    There is a theory that Trump used laundered Russian money for his LLC’s (post-bankruptcy) in order to fund his real estate acquisitions.
    There is also a theory that Obama’s real father is Frank Marshall Davis, and that he is a secret Muslim.

  35. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Perhaps when the FBI, NSA and both Houses of Congress finish their investigations of Trump and his campaign they’ll find time for Clinton and Obama. As I mentioned before, I doubt that Trump and his cronies were actually conspiring with the Russians, because that would require a level of organization and planning that we have seen no sign of.

  36. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    I doubt that Trump and his cronies were actually conspiring with the Russians, because that would require a level of organization and planning that we have seen no sign of.
    Trump destroyed the Clinton and Bush political dynasties, and won the presidency despite losing the popular vote. If Trump had followed Hillary’s strategy in the presidential election, he would have lost, just like Hillary lost.
    And you think Trump lacks planning and organization abilities?
    When your model doesn’t match the facts, do you change your model or come up with new facts, Emery? From what I can see, it’s the latter.

  37. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    I am not sure whether Sanders could have defeated Trump. But I think Biden would have. Clinton had the union bosses but lost the men on the factory floor. Biden would have had both, and when combined with the Democratic machine, that would have been enough.

  38. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Regarding investigating Trump vs. investigating Clinton and Obama, it strikes me that improprieties for the latter two predate the alleged improprieties of the first.

    Seems that getting rid of a politically driven FBI director was a good idea.

  39. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    This should be reality check to all the Trump supporters who thought they could upend the establishment by voting for chaos.

  40. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Emery, I suggest listening to the first 24 minutes of this podcast:
    https://www.firstthings.com/media/conservatisms-new-terms
    It’s from First Things, and the interviewee is R.R. Reno, a prof of theology and ethics. He describes how the terms of the American (and Western) political debate have shifted. I’m not sure that Reno ever mentions Trump by name. First Things calls itself the magazine of religion and public life. Its outlook is mostly lay Catholic. It is less in love with laissez faire capitalism than most Republicans, more socially conservative, but suspicious of populism.

  41. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    This should be reality check to all the Trump supporters who thought they could upend the establishment by voting for chaos.

    If we assume that the establishment is protecting Clinton and Obama in some pretty base criminality, we must simultaneously assume that the same establishment is willing to screw the rest of us to preserve whatever is in it for them.

    What is our alternative, then, besides this chaos?

  42. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Next challenge for Trump: try to squeeze two public outcries in a single day.

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