Just The News is reporting that “Person 3” in the Comey indictment is not former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe but rather Columbia Professor Daniel Richman. According to the outlet, Richman is the former FBI employee in the indictment who allegedly leaked information about “Person 1,” who is believed to be Hillary Clinton. The report continues the long uncertainty over Richman’s role in these controversies. Richman has described himself as a friend, an FBI special employee, and the lawyer representing Comey at different times. He has also been a columnist and commentator, including for the site Lawfare run by Comey’s friend Ben Wittes. What Richman was doing at any given time remains strikingly uncertain. Professor Richman is not himself charged with any crime.
Richman’s fluid and changing roles are reminiscent of the debate over the role of Hunter Biden’s friend/lawyer/patron Kevin Morris. There was an evolution in the roles that Richman played over the years that left some of us confused as to his specific status at certain times.
At various points in the investigation, Richman alludes to being Comey’s lawyer, as well as a former aide and a friend. Comey used Richman as a conduit to the press and admitted that he was the means by which Comey leaked the contents of a memo that Comey improperly removed from the FBI after being fired.
The respected veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge reported on a June 2017 memorandum that documented a phone call with Richman and the so-called “Comey memos,” which detailed his conversations with President Trump.
According to sources, five days earlier, on June 8, 2017, Comey “asked Professor Richman to disclose the content of at least one of those memoranda to the press…”
In interviews, sources said that Richman was dismissive over the violation of federal rules stating “something to the effect of, ‘You do things by your rules’ and ‘I do things by my rules.’” Richman seemed to claim that he was serving as counsel and allegedly insisted that “there is a substantial extent to which I would raise attorney-client issues.” The suggestion was that, after leaving his position as a Justice Department adviser to Comey, he may have assumed the role as private counsel to Comey.
Richman admitted to media contacts but reportedly said that he did not think that he confirmed classified material from Comey to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt.
Comey designated Richman as a Special Government Employee (SGE) at the FBI and subsequently utilized him as a conduit to the media. He gave him access to top-secret information, and Richman seems to have floated between Comey and other offices, such as the FBI’s General Counsel’s office.
The FBI said that “Comey instructed the FBI to hire Richman as a Special Government Employee” in 2015 and “to grant him a Top Secret clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information.” It also said its investigation “revealed Comey also hired Richman, so Comey could discuss sensitive matters, including classified information, with someone outside of the FBI’s regular leadership. Comey also used Richman as a liaison to the media.”
Comey’s use of Richman shows how obsessed he was with his image and framing news stories about his tenure as director. Richman would serve as both an unnamed source and a named source in articles.
Richman admitted to agents that he routinely communicated on behalf of Comey with Times reporter Michael Schmidt, who published some of the non-public information that was the subject of past investigations.
According to FBI memos, Richman explained that his role was “to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI and to shape future press coverage” outside the bureau’s official press office.
The different roles eventually seemed to cause Richman to resign. He sent an email to FBI officials in early February 2017 saying that “I am resigning my SGE status, and will thus not, as of today, be formally working for the Bureau in the immediate future.” He added that “my SGE status is limiting what I can do in my extracurricular life.”
Richman later joined Wittes, who has described himself as a friend of Comey as well as figures like Peter Strzok, at Lawfare. With Wittes, Richman has written highly critical columns of the Trump Administration.
Comey admitted to being a leaker through Richman. He was accused of being a leaker in other stories through other individuals. Andrew McCabe said that he leaked information on behalf of Comey. Likewise, an FBI memo said that a prior investigation “revealed [FBI General Counsel James] Baker to be one of the two sources” in a leak and “revealed Baker disclosed USG classified information to the NYT under the belief he was ultimately instructed and authorized to do so by then FBI Director James Comey.”
Just in the News reported that a “newly-unredacted portion [of a report] added that ‘Baker indicated FBI chief of staff James Rybicki instructed him (Baker) to disclose the information to the NYT, and Baker understood Rybicki was conveying this instruction and authorization from Comey.’”
The question is what Richman was at any given time in this scandal. Ethics rules tend to reinforce clear lines in the roles played by lawyers. Richman has been described as a “friend” by Comey, but Richman has suggested that he was at times serving as his personal lawyer. During his time as an SGE, Richman also seemed to shift in his focus. Richman’s first term as an SGE ended in 2016 and then Comey brought him back to work as a “consultant” for the FBI’s Office of General Counsel. A good portion of his portfolio at times seemed to be running interference for Comey with the media and protecting his image in the press.
Richman has not been charged with any crime or accused of any ethics violation in any of these dealings or positions. Some of us, however, are concerned by the fluidity of these roles over the years as government employee, private counsel, and friend.
Comey appeared to select Richman in part for his loyalty and Richman has continued to defend Comey. Now, Richman has a new role as the main witness in a criminal prosecution against Comey. It may be the only time in this scandal that his role as been singular and clear.
Witness, by Whittaker Chambers.
Daniel Richman, another Convenient Chameleon operative and contractor of the DeepState
Frankly speaking, we would probably be better off with Hitler running the country. Not the Jew-killing Hitler, but more like the Nice Nazis who run things in Starship Troopers. But let’s take the Jew-killing off the table, and ask what a Hitler 2.0 could do for the country:
First, we would start seeing criminals executed in large numbers. No more BTK serial killers dying of old age in prison. Nope, you murder someone, you get executed. Period. Habitual criminal, two strikes and you’re out. Off with your head. Streets become safe again.
Second, I bet Hitler 2.0 could get a real quick reduction in drug use. Sell drugs, you get executed. Period. If you use drugs, you get one chance at rehab. Relapse, and you get executed.
Third, no more women in politics. Nope. Your job as a woman is to be a good wife and a good mother. No more women voting. No more abortion, unless your life is in danger. No more birth control pills until you have produced three children. No more insane divorce laws that permit crazy middle-age women to divorce because “he doesn’t talk to me anymore.” No more women taking the kids and getting massive child support. Unless there is a good reason for the divorce, such as your husband has decided to be a woman. Which, divorce probably not necessary because see below.
Fourth, no more fat-a$$ screwed up kids. Hitlerjugen programs with plenty out-door exercise. No more truancy and screwing up in school. Misbehave, and you get physical punishment. Still don’t reform, off to the military with you. Screw up there, and you get executed. No more SSRI and ADHD medications.
No more welfare/food stamps except for old and disabled. No more government housing unless old or disabled. If you cheat on disability, then prison. No more race-based whining – don’t like America? Think America is racist? Here is your deportation order to Africa, and your Lufthansa ticket! For blacks and whites, alike.
No more baby mommas and baby daddies. Shotgun marriages and forced labor camps, if necessary. Sterilization of the slow and ignorant.
Forced religion. Christianity, Islam. Judaism, or the Oriental religions. The Great Spirit, if you are a native American. Whichever, Atheism is prohibited. If you profess atheism, then you get deported. Christianity becomes the State religion, and the preferred religion. The Lord’s Prayer is recited daily in schools, and blessings before lunch.
Homosexuality becomes the stuff of second-class citizenship. Transexualism is prohibited, and either doing it, or promoting it becomes a deportable offense. No more non-binary crap, nose-rings, face tattoos, weird colored hair. No more homosexuals running big companies, or holding any position in the media, except being the make-up artists. No more gay marriage – but civil unions instead. No more adoptions by homosexuals. Get too weird, and you get executed for gross degeneracy, or deported. No more homosexuals teaching in K-12 grades. Back in the closet, or deportation. No more HIV meds. You rolls the dice and you takes your chances. You infect someone after a date certain, you get executed.
The liberal intelligentsia class gets sent to agricultural work farms for 10 years, to re-educate them. Or deported.
Finally, Hitler 2.0 would put an end to the financial classes screwing over the rest of the population. The actual Hitler recognized the benefits of “big business”, but was also very much aware of their shenanigans. He had some good speeches on this, particularly the Rheinmetal speech of 1940, where he said,
“It is self-evident that where this democracy rules, the people as such are not taken into consideration at
all. The only thing that matters is the existence of a few hundred gigantic capitalists who own all the
factories and their stock and, through them, control the people. The masses of the people do not interest
them in the least. They are interested in them just as were our bourgeois parties in former times – only
when elections are being held, when they need votes. Otherwise, the life of the masses is a matter of
complete indifference to them. ”
see, here at, starting at page 99 — https://identityhunters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/the-speeches-of-adolf-hitler-1921-1941.pdf
(This is actually a fascinating speech, and I wonder when it will be resurrected, along with what I predict will be the refurbishing of Hitler’s image. There is also a youtube audio of the speech, with translation. It was a 2 hour plus speech)
I think that would be a good start. But’s here the thing – it’s gonna happen one day, here and everywhere else in the world. Because most elements of this have to happen for there to be a human civilization. We can not, as a species, maintain medical facilities, airline traffic, bridges, power plants, manufacturing, mining, farming, asteroid collision preparation – any of this with the trajectory of our current culture – ala – drug addicts, delusional twits, emotional wrecks, criminals, uneducated idiots, sexual dysfunctionates, There has to be order, there has to be stability, and there has to be an effective education system, and some common purpose of the society.
For any civilization to maintain itself, the people have to behave. They have to follow the laws. They can not go around doing whatever they want. And that is not going to end voluntarily.
Heil Hitler 2.0!
Heil Floyd the american nazi king.
@Anonymous
Ugh. I am loathe to agree with you, but as I have said in the past, yes, Floyd is clearly a prejudiced person, and it is not cool, at all. Salience dissolves in the face of prejudice, whatever its face may be, and Floyd is and has always been that. Please, let us throw the Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter Conservatives or anyone else that continues to put entire swaths of people into tiny little boxes on the fire, forever. None of that is useful today. We do not want it, and it does not help.
Not just prejudiced, but proudly prejudiced! Here, watch the first few minutes of this, and see which “girl” you are:
Alternatively, we should stand idly by as our once-great country is invaded and its population replaced—as it is overrun by foreigners and our women refuse to repopulate.
Of course, the “fundamental transformation” of America began with Lincoln’s deployment of a foreign, four-million-man, standing army on U.S. soil, under an immigration law that denied those “soldiers” admission and required compassionate repatriation, for which plans had been made.
Also, I don’t see “Thou Shalt Give Your Country Away” in the Ten Commandments or a “Surrender to Foreign Invaders Clause” in the U.S. Constitution.
Actually I do see admonitions to people to stop being jealous of American prosperity, stop lying to get in, and stop trying to confiscate the country: “Thou Shalt Not Covet,” “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness” (i.e. “fake” asylum), and “Thou Shalt Not Steal.”
Basically, your position is that Americans should not be “too” patriotic and Americans should never love their country.
Kluxxer George: pretending that his Confederate State slave owners were just about to “repatriate” black Americans born on American soil. Repatriate them to countries they had never been in – and then that evil Lincoln fought back when the Confederate Kluxxers started shooting because they wanted to see what FAFO meant.
Well, George’s Confederate mentors and heroes certainly learned what FAFO means… But still, George pines for the days when he as a Confederate Democrat could treat black Americans or trash – or valuable property – at his choice.
I don’t find it odd that there is no mention in historical records of where George’s defeated Confederates wrote something like “Honest – I was just about to repatriate all my slaves that I felt were valuable property, and then Lincoln fighting back stopped me from doing that. Honest!”
“Constitutionalist” is what you mean to say.
Lincoln never met a fundamental or statutory law he liked, and he was the most insidious and lethal high criminal in American history.
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“Congress Votes Funds for Resettlement”
“In 1860, the 3,185 slaves in the District of Columbia were owned by just two percent of the District’s residents. In April 1862, Lincoln arranged to have a bill introduced in Congress that would compensate District slave-holders an average of $300 for each slave. An additional $100,000 was appropriated 55
“to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, to aid in the colonization and settlement of such free persons of African descent now residing in said District, including those to be liberated by this act, as may desire to emigrate to the Republic of Haiti or Liberia, or such other country beyond the limits of the United States as the President may determine.
“When he signed the bill into law on April 16, Lincoln stated: “I am gratified that the two principles of compensation, and colonization, are both recognized, and practically applied in the act.”56
“Two months later, as part of the (second) Confiscation Act of July 1862, Congress appropriated an additional half-million dollars for the President’s use in resettling blacks who came under Union military control. Rejecting criticism from prominent “radicals” such as Senator Charles Sumner, most Senators and Representatives expressed support for the bold project in a joint resolution declaring57
“that the President is hereby authorized to make provision for the transportation, colonization and settlement in some tropical country beyond the limits of the United States, of such persons of African race, made free by the provisions of this act, as may be willing to emigrate …
“Lincoln now had Congressional authority and $600,000 in authorized funds to proceed with his plan for resettlement.”
– Institute For Historical Review
Sadly, Poor Blacks are still starving today, in 2025.
Floyd, read Churchill when the fascists first appeared. Churchill had a fondness for them and, how quickly things could be managed. I am sure, as time progressed, he became more and more disillusioned with fascism.
Every system seems to degenerate over time, which is why I think a non-systemic approach is the only thing that can save our country from collapsing, or rebuild it when it does collapse. Like it or not, a tyrant is often necessary. Our Constitution has become a Mutual Suicide Pact, IMHO.
No!
The Constitution is perfect; it provides individuals the most important right and singular salient power in the universe: Freedom.
The Constitution was stolen, shredded, and rewritten as the Communist Manifesto, according to the outcome we see before us.
America should be returned to and placed squarely back on the verbatim Constitution, not the arbitrary mutation of unintended parasitic “one man, one vote” voters—the very “dictatorship of the proletariat”—and illegitimate “interpretation,” nay, amendment, by black-robed communists.
To wit,
“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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You couldn’t.
Floyd, there are women tougher than you, who could beat your balls off.
It’s fine to demand meritocracy. But, stereotyping the 2 sexes as one strong in public life and one weak? What planet have you been living on these past 40 years? Young males are clearly weaker right now. We’re not going to fix it by artificially weakening young women (i.e., putting them in their place).
We’re going to fix it by raising expectations for young men, not accepting excuses, and supporting their worthwhile ambitions (not to include video gaming skill).
It’s not about “putting” women in their place, as much as it is “returning” them to their place. Because facts are facts, and math is math. Currently, it takes 2.2 babies per woman to keep population stable. Babies take about 20 years to raise, and we know that two-parent male/female homes are the best way to do that. If two children, say 3 or 4 years apart, you are looking at about 24 years of child-raising. More if they go to college for 4 years. Assume your female has her first child at age 20, she will be 44 by the time the kids are out of the home. Make her have the child later in life, and she will be older, maybe 50 years old. That is most of her “productive” life, and if she gets a job, and retires at 65, there is only 15 years of full-time work life left.
Sure, she can work part-time at least, while children are growing up, but everybody suffers. More take out food, less attention, more worn out at 6:00PM, when it is time to help with homework. Clothes to fold, floors to vacuum, etc. Raising children is a job, and it should be viewed as such, and women are the best suited to do it. Without a husband, it becomes even more exhausting.
Do young men need to man up? Sure, but if I was 20 years old now, no way I would get married, knowing that it would subject me to the sort of crap I have already experienced in this current existence. It starts with women knowing their place, and then young men can go back to being husbands and fathers, without viewing it as walking the plank.
“It’s not about “putting” women in their place, as much as it is “returning” them to their place.”
Women’s liberation in the 1960s went down a path that led the nation into the weeds. I have no problem with women doing what they wish, like a man, but the 1960s pushed women in the direction of having to work because if they didn’t, they were not considered liberated.
And the result is, that women are not as happy as they used to be. I know marriage sucks, for the woman and for the man, too, and life in general is hard. Raising kids is hard. You have to work to survive, and in the end, you wind up dead, hopefully before your children do. But if we follow a certain path, things are better, and we have civilization. If we all do whatever we want, it all goes to pieces.
With technology, women have it better than ever in history. Labor saving devices, and the internet. The ability to get an education online, and to work online. But the home has to come first, IMHO.
It wasn’t about liberation. It was about utilizing an untapped workforce. Double employees means growth without immigration. Of course it destroyed the family but look at the inflation it created. Now women must work in the bottom half.
Then at the very bottom are single mothers with 5 children or 12 children on public assistance with multiple fathers. She’s acquired nothing in retirement etc. Yippee
floyd has a thing for boys
Sounds like ANON does!!!
Is it a woman’s sacred duty to her God, family, and country to bear children sufficient to grow and defend the nation?
The American fertility rate is in a “death spiral.”
The population of Americans is in a “death spiral.”
The “Population Replacement” program is succeeding beyond the communist’s wildest dreams.
Forced religion. Christianity, Islam. Judaism, or the Oriental religions
Glad to see you’re alive and kicking. I have thought of you often during your absent periods, prayed for you, hoping you weren’t suffering for lack of food, water and basic necessities.
I used to tell fundamentalist Christians that Jesus Christ never hit people over the head with a 2 x 4, as evangelicals do. Free will is paramount in the Way. Read St. Augustine’s On Grace and Free Will. It’s all there, 4th century AD. Free will is perfectly consistent with science: prey, predator, survival of the fittest, evolutionary pressures, natural selection. You are either equipped or you are not. Given that our society is showing clear signs of not being equipped vis a vis not having a Venite, exultemus attitude, Psalm 95 , society suffers. That is their choice.
We all do not have to suffer the consequences of others, but a quick read of the comments by most on here shows how the Conservatives are no better than the Progressives. As I told an atheist friend of mine recently, I expect atheists to act like heathens, and they have not disappointed. Conservatives who say they are Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, are worse than atheists. Again, read Psalm 95. If those sacred words are not on your lips daily, then you’re as empty as atheists, but worse. Atheists do not know any better. Christians who are millstones, do know better, and it shall be worse for them in the end (i.e. to him whom much is given, much shall be expected). Give it a few generations, and it will, to paraphrase Anthony Fauci, flatten the curve. Our society will cease to exist soon enough, and it will be because of free will.
Otherwise, let society pursue entropy, conservatives be millstones, and atheists be heathens. You should just focus on doing your part, e.g. Venite, exultemus. It’s all part of the plan. We have all (?) read the Good Book, and know how it ends, right?
Today is the feast day of St. Jerome. Today’s reading in the Liturgy of the Hours is on point regarding what I wrote. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear……or not! Your choice.
From the prologue of the commentary on Isaiah by St Jerome, Priest
Hi Estovir!
Doing fine, I guess. Currently sick, and feeling like crap. But life goes on. Hope the meds do their job in the next few days.
I am not sure about 2×4’s. If I were Tyrant of the Country, I would deport anyone publically professing Atheism, or Satanism, or Feminism, or Communism, etc. Because those ideas and concepts are civilization-destroying in the long run. I would indoctrinate children in schools with Americanism and Christianity and the necessity of a patriarchy. I would forbid “activism”, and channel instead into actual work, not words. You want to help feed the poor, head your buns to the soup kitchen and grab a ladle.
Like the Founding Fathers said, the Constitution is made for a good, moral people. Our system is not capable of repairing itself within the constraints of the law. IMHO
” I would indoctrinate children in schools with Americanism and Christianity”
Floyd, that sounds like you want to make me into a Christian and a mirror image of what is in your mind. With that type of attitude, it won’t take long for you to require martial law or lose your head.
No. People can still be Jewish, or Islamic. Or worship the Great Spirit. Just not atheists, and the recognition that Christianity is the state religion, or preferred religion of New America. Remember, this is a hypothetical under Hitler 2.0, and I think the imagined new Hitler would want a preferred state religion.
FWIW, I think that I could still get Israeli Citizenship. May have to renounce being a Southern Baptist, but I have the lineage. Maybe should have done it when I was much younger.
Floyd, you said you would indoctrinate children in schools with Christianity. What do you think that means? What do you mean by a state religion? Are you planning on getting rid of the First Amendment?
First, that is Hypothetical Hitler 2.0, not me. Second, we used to have prayer in public schools, and the Ten Commandments, and we said the blessing before lunch. We also said the Pledge every morning, and sang O Beautiful for specious gays, or something like that. Never hurt us none, and I can not see how stopping that in school did anything positive, except promote some theoretical adherence to a flawed vision of the First Amendment.
” I would indoctrinate children”
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Those are your words. I will accept them as overreach and delete them for the present. “we used to have prayer in public schools.” I have no problem with the recognition that there is something greater than us to start the day. For me, it would represent my religion. For you, whatever you desire.
“We also said the Pledge”
That is ritual. Some say hogwash, but what keeps a people together during good and bad times; ritual. Passover is when most Jewish men and women, religious and non-religious, reacquaint themselves with their religion. Yes, the Pledge is unifying and has to do with the country we live in, so it is appropriate.
It was wrong to end them and doing so caused harm to the nation.
Floyd, though the Constitution may be tomorrow’s suicide, a strongman is today’s.
We need to anchor our Constitution because the Supreme Court loosened too many anchor lines. We are drifing and If we drift too far we loose our Republic. That should cause one to look back at history to note thousands of years of Torah from which people can learn what makes a piece of parchment survive so long; longer than the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Persians, and the Romans all who destroyed the center of Judaism or ruled over it.
I pray that you are right, but I think the Barbarians are already inside the gate. We may end up outvoting them, but I do not think that we can overcome them, nor can we overcome the expenses that they inflict on the country. Ironically, the Chinese may have done us a solid, but sending copious amounts of Fentanyl over here, helping to reduce the drug addict population. The sexually perverse and the pro-abortion crowd are self-selecting to not repopulate, and that is good. But still, 75 million Americans voted for Kamala. NYC is poised to elect a commie as mayor (and they deserve it!)
Things can be done to correct the problem, but working within the law is slow, and while the wheels turn, the country continues to go downhill in so many ways. How bad does it have to get before Americans have finally been hurt enough? Here, look at this, and see if it disgusts you as much as it does me:
Professor Turley… another column with the subject one of your equally ethical members of the Washington DC Bar Association! Do you get any heat from any of them when you all belly up to the liquor bar after Bar meetings?
Sir, you do not damn with faint praise as you do with Trump. With your brother members Merrick Garland, Richman et al you save with faint criticism.
Has your Washington DC bar association disbarred any of your members who violated the code of conduct as Comey, Richman, Mueller, Lynch, Yates, etc did?
Until recently, the penalty for High Treason was to be Drawn and Quartered.
Sorry, but in 2025, it isn’t curious at all. When even state colleges somewhere like Bakersfield have been captured – pfft. Our university system is currently captured and broken beyond repair, and if you are sending your kids, you are the fool, and your kids will be the ones to suffer the consequences. There is nothing to reclaim. We need a razing to the ground and starting over, and yes, it is absolutely *that bad*. But by all means, keep lighting your dollars on fire if you refuse to see. Your conscience may be assuaged, it won’t make one whit of difference to the world we are creating through it, and we ALL have to live in that world. You can’t be that close to death, for this to not be a concern, modern parents of student age kids.
Did George Washington ever meet with his generals?
Try a book…
Jezzzzzzz
Thanks, Einstein!
Whatever the meeting in Quantico is about, I’m sure we’ll hear about it in a leaked group chat.
It was on TV you fool.. Jezzzzzzzzz
The “Trump is Hitler” rage rhetoric by leftist cult members has worked in the past to incite violence against conservatives, up to and including murder. So they are continuing with it, in hopes of inciting more violence. Just look at what the leftist cult member trolls are posting in this comment section.
No one is coercing you to read it.
omfk
Whine, whine, whine.
Complain, complain, complain.
Anonymous leftist trolls are polluting our little fantasy world.
All you ever do is whine and complain.
Whining complainer ^^^^
SAME replier over and over! Com[lain to your buddies on Bluesky!! ha ha ha
You’re all full of crap. You are not the least bit committed to free expression.
Rabble:
“free expression” denotes the speaker has something of value to say. You, obfuscator, do not.
Stupid comment Ano
OldManFromKS,
Well, when they are failing all around, break glass, trot out the old “HE IS HITLER!!!” crap again. What else do they have? Good policies people would vote for?
Stopping a Hitlerian president is a good policy.
Any proof ANO???
Can you debate this? Of course not. If you want to try, we can make it easy by comparing Hitler to Biden and Trump. You can’t because you are ignorant.
Well he certainly is an anti-free market oligopolist.
Trump’s administration creates barriers to the free market like tariffs and media speech controls and then picks winners and losers based on which corporations pay fealty to him. The latest example is Pfizer with TrumpRx.
There are parallels to the system of mandatory cartels created in Germany in the 1930s to decrease competition and favor the existing economic elites. In 1933, the Ministry of Economic Affairs granted itself the authority to impose compulsory cartels and power to oversee those cartels. The cartels themselves were allowed to “control investment in their sector and to rationalize the existing structure of the industry through systematic ‘buyouts’.” As the state aimed to control the economy through government oversight of cartels, it created institutional environments which favored existing large concentrations of capital by granting them a state-sanctioned organization and ability to force out competition through state institutions.
https://democratic-erosion.org/2022/11/27/economic-elite-cooptation-in-authoritarianization-the-case-of-nazi-germany/#:~:text=Business%20groups%2C%20institutions%20that%20go,out%20competition%20through%20state%20institutions.
Trump’s control of the economy has a similar effect, though I think the better comparison is Maoist China.
Forget ideology and just look at the anti-free market moves he continues to make:
– Tariffs
– Taking government stakes in private companies like Intel.
– Government intervention in the labor supply, like the ridiculous fee for H1B Visas
– Trump’s attacks on individual business leaders like Lip-Bu Tan of Intel, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, Jamie Dimon of JPM, etc.
– Suppressing business freedom of expression in favor of political obedience (FCC and Carr for example)
– Seizing control of strategic investment and private enterprise decision making (i.e., ordering Coca-Cola to replace cane sugar with other sweeteners; granting chipmaker Nvidia and AMD export licenses to sell in China if they agreed to funnel 15% of China sales to the US government’; making a precondition to approving Japanese takeover of US Steel a “golden share” for US government with veto power)
– weaponization of executive powers – (targeting ATT with antitrust suite to pressure CNN to provide more friendly coverage)
– extortion and bribery – (Skydance acquisition of Paramount, control over law firms, etc.)
Do you realize that free markets require laws? Your basic premise, if I read you correctly, is that you want anarchy in the marketplace. The creation of a list without understanding doesn’t demonstrate a person who knows what he is talking about, but rather it demonstrates a person able to search for lists. That is low-level thinking.
You do not read (me) correctly. Or, you don’t know what “anarchy” means.
If you think putting tariffs on import and then funneling the tariff revenue to farmers, whose business was artificially killed due to such tariffs, is necessary but for “anarchy,” then I’d love to know what you think anarchy means.
Ok, you wish to discuss tariffs in relation to free market theory and how markets become distorted. Let’s hear it. American businessmen misuse free enterprise when they sell their companies to China. The businessman might benefit, but the country doesn’t, and that type of process can cause the free marketplace injury and death. Thus, Trump places tariffs on China.
Let’s hear what you have to say. Remember, free markets depend on low barriers and low concentration of the specific marketplace. There are other things but I want to keep things simple.
Just great, Another left-wing paper talking about Hitler…
Boooooooooooooooing
OldManFromKS,
Ahh! Now I see why our leftist friends are trotting out the old and worn “He’s Hitler!!!” crap again. Trump just may be on the cusp of securing a historic peace deal in the Mid-East, Historic peace deal: What it means if Hamas and Israel agree
“The State of Palestine welcomes the sincere and determined efforts of President Donald J. Trump to end the war on Gaza and affirms its confidence in his ability to find a path toward peace,” the statement said. “We have affirmed our desire for a modern, democratic, and non-militarized Palestinian state, committed to pluralism and the peaceful transfer of power.”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/historic-hamas-peace-deal-what-it-means-region-and-us
When the enemy within dig into the depths of hell, the people realize that the tide is turning to revive our constitutional republic.
It is futile to present evidence when people are willfully blind to it.
It is a waste of time and energy.
Wait for it. Wait for it. Andrew McCabe will soon be testifying that he did it under orders. The Nuremberg defense will be revisited with heartfelt contrition and the dabbing of the eyes with the best lace handkerchiefs that money can by provided without charge by CNN and MSNBC. The devil made them do it and they will be so sorry that they succumbed to the temptation. Have mercy oh members of the jury for we knew not what we were doing. We were only following orders.
Will also need at least one case of strong moisture wipes.
So true and double layer depends.
Why has nobody been spotlighting religious and Christian leaders bearing false witness on Trump?
Trump made a promise to GOD to follow and defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies to the U.S. Constitution – including domestic enemies to the U.S. Constitution.
Less than 24 hours after being inaugurated and taking the oath of office, Trump tried to illegally overturn the 14th Amendment illegally bypassing the constitutional-amendment process. He then hinted at violating the 22nd Amendment to run for a third term. Trump made a promise to GOD not to do this.
Religious and Christian leaders were totally silent. To the best of my knowledge, no denouncement by any Christian colleges, 700 Club or the Falwell family.
These religious and Christian leaders did loudly denounce real Christians like Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Why would any religious leader be so silent about this?
Hinted at running for 3rd term means he was JOKING!! WOW ANON!!
How would you know that, a Hitler Fascist always does crazy things. Remember he was impeached for being facist – twice!
No he wasn’t.. Try again.
“real Christians like Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”
Aside from Democrat trolls proclaiming they can interpret the Constitution using the Obama/Biden guidelines, we have their claim that Obama and Biden are devout Christians.
That shows us REAL Democrats believe REAL Catholics like Biden do everything they can to force elective birth control abortions right up to the moment the umbilical cord cut on every state in the USA. Now there’s Biden’s showing real adherence with Catholic faith.
And then there’s REAL Baptist Barack – spending 20 years devoutly listening to his pastor Jeremiah Wright – the loud racist and anti-Semitic who displayed to the world the Democrat version of REAL Baptist Christian faith. Can we get Barack’s version of Baptist theology in any Baptist church in America?
Y’all wanna see what a deer in the headlights looks like? Here, try this on – Chris Wallace interviewing James Comey, five years ago. Look how clueless Comey looks. Look at the deflections. I think there is something wrong with Comey, where he lives inside his own head to some degree. I think Comey cost Hillary the election, when he called what she did with her email as “criminal.” But that was maybe him living in his own head space and running his mouth just to hear the sound of his own voice. Anyway –
The problem with Hillary’s email was that she violated the Espionage Act by copying classified documents to the hard drive of the private server she kept in a Chappaqua bathroom.
I think Trump’s storage of classified documents in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom was just another way to tweak Hillary, to point out that he was being prosecuted for something she got away with.
If Comey had indicted Hillary, Comey would have convicted Obama, who was mishandling classified material with Hillary using a pseudonymous email account.
There is no one on this blog who has seen the entirety of the evidence. A Virginia grand jury that has been chosen at random has seen the evidence and has decided that the issuance of an indictment is justified.
We know that the D.C. area residents are ninety five percent Democratic. Even with the odds of an indictment being so slanted in one direction, the grand jury came to a conclusion of probable cause to indict. How hard do you think it was for the left wing jurors after seeing the evidence that we have not seen to change their minds and vote to indict? Are these jurors now being questioned by their family members as to how they could possibly vote to indict James Comey the Trump giant killer? The pressure must have been intense but after seeing the evidence they did what they felt they had to do.
The leftist pontificators on this forum have once again shown us that they are experts on both the law and MS-13 tattoos. These same experts have told us that 8647 doesn’t mean what it means. There statements must be viewed with their former disproven positions in mind. Shills.
The irony of 21st Century America:
Government officials swear a constitutional Oath of Office to follow the U.S. Constitution [a wartime governing charter].
Then disloyal officials violate their Oath of Office.
Subordinate government employees (supposedly protected under Nuremberg precedent from WW2) are loyal to their Oath of Office. Subordinates disobeying blatantly illegal orders.
The loyal government subordinates go to prison or have their careers destroyed (for being loyal). Absolutely nothing happens to the disloyal superiors violating their Oath of Office.
This is precisely what General Mark Milley was warning us about in his retirement speech accurately explaining the American loyalty oath, which prevents dictatorships.
Bottom Line: we are seeing the result of rewarding disloyal superiors and punishing loyal subordinates – foreign style dictatorship.
Slate Magazine (online) this week published a great article that using the Hitler comparison was inaccurate and counterproductive.
A more accurate comparison is Spain’s former dictator Franco or Italy’s dictator Mussolini. Using Hitler is too extreme and highly inaccurate.
For Republicans. Even if Trump has some good ideas and good policies, Republicans control both houses of Congress, Executive Branch agencies and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Let’s say Trump is correct on some issues, why do it illegally in violation of his Oath of Office. Trump could implement them constitutionally and legally since Republicans control the entire federal government.
Why is Trump following foreign dictators like Franco and Mussolini when he can do it legally? Doing it illegally costs taxpayers billions of dollars in frivolous lawsuits.
What has Trump done “illegally” and what court decision has he not followed. The hyperbole and hypocrisy is why the Dems are failing. Oh, and the far left radical ideas that nobody likes and that they cannot defend.
Trump illegally amended the 14th Amendment through Executive Order. Trump disobeyed past laws passed by previous Congress and previous presidents. Trump defied court orders by federal judges. Trump appropriated money without Congress. To name a few!
That’s the kind of comment that reveals you are not a commenter to be taken seriously. Trump did not “amend” 14A. He took action consistent with his understanding of 14A, leaving it ultimately to Scotus to say if his understanding is or isn’t correct. Only a leftist cult member would cast that as Trump “illegally amending” 14A.
No one is coercing you to take it seriously. Others can if they want to, though.
No one will
Wait, you oldman are to be taken seriously? Your gibberish is laughable.
What is wrong with his comment? “He took action consistent with his understanding of 14A, leaving it ultimately to Scotus to say if his understanding is or isn’t correct.”
OPINION Ano.. show facts
Did you clean your hands after offing?
Typical libs. You will never leave the sewer.
Court decisions “Carpenter v. United States” and “United States v. Jones” defining 4th Amendment law in the entire United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in “Carpenter” that any surveillance of any person exceeding 2 weeks is a “search” and governed by the 4th Amendment. The surveillance itself requires a judicial warrant.
Pam Bondi under “Carpenter” and “Jones” is required to enforce warrantless-surveillance perpetrated by about 100% of local police-chiefs in the United States. Everybody is doing it in 2025 and Pam Bondi is the check & balance on these illegal practices. Under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution.
Gone to court? Nothing
YAWN, keep crying… The polling for you fools is just getting worse.
Wait… Slate magazine – the ones who told you Democrats for years that the Trump-Russia Dossier was clear evidence Trump stole the election with Putin – is now convincing you Trump is like Franco and Mossolini?
For you Democrat apparatchiks, did Slate ever run a similar article on Obama/Biden creating a felonious Trump-Russia Dossier and then ordering their AGs and FBI Directors to take it to Judge Boasberg’s FISA courts and perjure themselves to allow the FBI to act as their personal Lavarentiy Beria?
Still stuck on the Hitler thing. It’s no-wonder the dem party has hit 30% it the latest polling, Please keep it up
A more in depth report than the good professor’s, Comey’s indictment centers on truth of authorizing his friend & advisor to leak to media: Sources
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/comey-indicted-lying-about-authorizing-friend-advisor-dan-richman-leak
This was surprising, Michael Cohen predicts ex-FBI Director James Comey will be found guilty
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5527803-cohen-evidence-comey-guilt/?tbref=hp
The Oath Of Allegiance (1934)
HAHAHAHA, this proves how much the libs loved Hitler. It’s all they talk about.
Dickwad, hahahahaha
Many of us in legal circles have known of Professor Turley’s aspirational love of Roy Cohn, and here he pays homage to his mentor yet again.
“Many of us in legal circle
sjerks have known…”FTFY
As I have opined for years, the tangled knot of corruption runs deep and wide in the various federal and state swamps. We have allowed corruption to flourish in its most pure form within our government because why?
We didn’t want to heed people such as Joe McCarthy or all the others who have come after him?
We couldn’t believe (much to our ignorance of the heart of many within positions of power within and without of the government) that corruption was always a part of large government systems?
We naively believed our national and local media?
We trusted that those in positions of authority (such as educators, religious leaders, heads of NGOs) were as honorable as they claimed?
Let’s just realize that the rot today goes so deep that to untangle and root out its branches would destabilize our entire nation. Imagine what would happen tomorrow if we could, with the snap of a finger, legally process, prosecute, find guilty and sentence each and every corrupt official in the blink of an eye and have them all, magically, appear in orange jumpsuits at the gates of Leavenworth.
I would say that many a department and most of the congress would be empty and we would be enflamed by the level of dirt exposed and outraged at the gross waste/loss of our tax dollars.
This is why nothing ever gets done but a slap on the wrist and a sweep under the rug….