September 28, 2025
Blithering Blumenthal
Timothy Birdnow
Not sure if he's this self-unaware or if he's just this hypocritical.
Who crossed the line? It wasn't the Republicans, or Trump. It was the Democrats who started by spying on Trump and fostering a lie about how Trump was a traitor to America by working for the Russians in order to achieve power. It was the endless innvestigations into things they knew were not crimes. It was the twisting of Trump's words to gin up fury. It was the endless rage, the rage that led to two assassination attempts on trump and assassination attempts on Republicans across the country.
And who changed the norms? Trump merely fought back.
Now the cowards are trying to hide behind norms, and the presupposition of Blumenthal's argument is that Trump is coming for Comey personally in retribution. NOT that Comey committed a crrime, oh no! Comey was personally involved in the attempt to take Trump out yet Blumenthal says it's TRUMP who is the bad guy here. (BTW Trump did not indict Comey; he was indicted by ajury of his own peers in a Democratic area.)
Where was Blumenthal's concern for norms when the FBI planted spies in the Trump campaign? When they entrapped his people (like Popodopoulis, or Mike Flynn)? Where was he when Obama ordered the creation of a new threat assessment after one came out saying Russians hadn't interfered in the election? Where was he during the many hearings when Democrats wouldn't allow Trump's defense to call witnesses? Where was he when they lied about what Trump said to the Ukrainians (for which they impeached him) or for what he said about Charlottesville, or when he asked protesters on J6 to peacefully protest? Where was he they broke every rule by which politics operated to get Trump out of office?
So now the wheels of justice are starting to turn and he calls that a breech of norms, because he knows trials will bring out exactly what he and his cohorts have been doing.
For eight years now people like Blumenthal have argued nobody is above the law (after years of making the Clintons and Obamas and just about every other Democrat above the law). Now he doesn't like the law being applied to his side.
There will be a special place in Hell for guys like this.
Not sure if he's this self-unaware or if he's just this hypocritical.
"My colleagues have to draw a line. My Republican colleagues have to grow a spine here. For a decade, I have been waiting time after time, the Mueller Report, the impeachment trial, again and again, for Republicans to say it is a bridge too far,And, in effect, to say, we need to reserve basic norms, essential rules that protect all of us. And the old saying, what comes around, goes around. Today it’s a Republican president, but degrading the democracy and ruining, literally perverting the great ethos and tradition of the Department of Justice.”
Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal.
Who crossed the line? It wasn't the Republicans, or Trump. It was the Democrats who started by spying on Trump and fostering a lie about how Trump was a traitor to America by working for the Russians in order to achieve power. It was the endless innvestigations into things they knew were not crimes. It was the twisting of Trump's words to gin up fury. It was the endless rage, the rage that led to two assassination attempts on trump and assassination attempts on Republicans across the country.
And who changed the norms? Trump merely fought back.
Now the cowards are trying to hide behind norms, and the presupposition of Blumenthal's argument is that Trump is coming for Comey personally in retribution. NOT that Comey committed a crrime, oh no! Comey was personally involved in the attempt to take Trump out yet Blumenthal says it's TRUMP who is the bad guy here. (BTW Trump did not indict Comey; he was indicted by ajury of his own peers in a Democratic area.)
Where was Blumenthal's concern for norms when the FBI planted spies in the Trump campaign? When they entrapped his people (like Popodopoulis, or Mike Flynn)? Where was he when Obama ordered the creation of a new threat assessment after one came out saying Russians hadn't interfered in the election? Where was he during the many hearings when Democrats wouldn't allow Trump's defense to call witnesses? Where was he when they lied about what Trump said to the Ukrainians (for which they impeached him) or for what he said about Charlottesville, or when he asked protesters on J6 to peacefully protest? Where was he they broke every rule by which politics operated to get Trump out of office?
So now the wheels of justice are starting to turn and he calls that a breech of norms, because he knows trials will bring out exactly what he and his cohorts have been doing.
For eight years now people like Blumenthal have argued nobody is above the law (after years of making the Clintons and Obamas and just about every other Democrat above the law). Now he doesn't like the law being applied to his side.
There will be a special place in Hell for guys like this.
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Well, I am not in sympathy with the policy that you win a battle legitimately by descending to the evil tactics of your opponent.
Posted by: Bill H at September 28, 2025 11:33 PM (FRG6e)
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I'm not trying to start an argument here, but Bill, just how would you suggest we go about dealing with the Donkeys then, since it's obvious that they don't understand any other way of dealing with them? The only other thing I can think of is just ignoring them and continuing to do what we are doing now (thankfully).
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 28, 2025 11:45 PM (gqxru)
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Bill, if you look at history the Communists always won when the other side refused to use the same dirty tactics. It's ugly but it's what unfortunately must be done sometimes. The aggressor sets the rules of engagement, alas.
The places that successfully resisted rising Communism didn't do it with kind words and a strict adherence to the norms of society.
You must remember this isn't a political debate or even fight - it's a war, a war they have declared.
While we must remember who and what we are we mustn't let them use our own decencies to destroy us.
The places that successfully resisted rising Communism didn't do it with kind words and a strict adherence to the norms of society.
You must remember this isn't a political debate or even fight - it's a war, a war they have declared.
While we must remember who and what we are we mustn't let them use our own decencies to destroy us.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 29, 2025 06:30 AM (6RSuG)
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I'm living under the oppression of a Democrat who denies me the right to free speech. So some Republican decides the only way he can defeat this oppressive Democrat is to shut him up and anyone who supports him. He does so and wins. Am I any happier living under the oppression of a Republican who denies me the right to free speech than I was under the oppression of a Democrat who did so?
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Are you forgetting this is a democracy? If the voters want to listen to lies and elect the liars, then we must allow the voters to do precisely that. This is not an "us against them" war. This is two sides, each presenting their case, with the voting public making their choice. The argument of one side beating the other is an argument of which side gets to silence the other and to command the public's vote.the public vote. That, my friend, is not democracy.
Posted by: Bill H at September 29, 2025 08:48 AM (FRG6e)
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