“Do we have a right to judge the values of Islamic communities?”

I’m suspecting I’m alone in thinking he’s lying about not having tapes.

Wbat fucking “non-activity”? And again, what did you do?

My point is that Perez has spent his entire career fighting for progressive causes. Lots of people put in a lot of effort in the GA-06 and damn near won a seat carried by 30 points by a Republican 8 months ago. You’re claiming that the problem is those people not wanting it enough. So far from looking to criticize,…

Yes, Trump voters want full-on Democratic party policies. Like building a wall on the Mexican border, and using opposition to Roe as a litmus test for judges 🤣

OOC, what have you done to help win elections recently?

“If you want to make a difference, push for Socialism like the rest of the developed world has done.

“Stop attacking the left. Attack the right.” Why don’t you fucking do that?

Seems plenty rational

But why don’t you think he’s actually acting inappropriately with Russia in the first place?

You made me extra sad. The fact that it is accurate to describe our diplomats to the UK being diplomatic as being “renegade” is heavy.

In addition to the rampant sexism, the “waiting for Gadot” pun was just fucking bad.

Of course we’d be screaming. But that Fox host would keep their job. The difference is baked in and it’s not worth us freaking out about someone on our side when they’ll already be held accountable. This is a distraction, and fuck Trump and his whole family anyway.

He has publicly admitted to worrying that he might influence the election. And yeah, I’m speaking in hindsight, but the people who made the protocols made them beforehand. Comey could have done better by following those.

A lot of Russians who were connected to the Steele dossier are dead. So helping Trump win, in violation of protocol, seems to have backfired by that metric.

I’m not assuming either of those things. The FBI has a widely-reported protocol of not commenting on investigations in which they do not bring charges. And I wouldn’t be even a little surprised if they’d have burned sources. But if the goal was to protect intelligence sources and methods, then Comey fucked up royally.

Maybe. Or maybe, as a Republican, he wanted the Republican to win and tilted the playing field. Either way, he definitely made this worse. The right-wing echo chamber was convinced of a conspiracy anyway. By throwing the clout of the FBI behind accusations of Clinton’s wrongdoing, Comey created the biggest story of…

Except that there was a fucking protocol. And Comey violating that protocol allowed the Russian active measures to be effective. And now all of the at-risk sources and methods w.r.t. Russia are at risk, because a guy who benefited from those actions and is a counterintelligence risk is president. Fuck Comey. I hope…

If that was the calculus, it didn’t work out. Many of the U.S. intelligence assets in Russia are now dead, and a man under counterintelligence investigation is POTUS.

That was a potential risk. Given the trail of dead Russian officials that followed Trump’s win, I would say those sources probably died after the actions Comey did take, though. Because taking actions which support Russian active measures which also helped a person under active counterintelligence investigation become…