May 03, 2026
Thom Tillis Defends Comey's Use of "86"
Timothy Birdnow
I wish he would return to the restaurant industry where he belongs. I'm sure he makes a much better dishwasher or busboy than a Senator.
The expression may or may not have come from the restaurant industry, but it is urban slang for murdering someone and Tillis knows it - as did everyone else, which is why Comey did it in the first place.
I doubt Comey will be convicted on this but it will force him to either admit he lied about "finding" the shells or he will have to committ perjury. The more we can get him to talk the more likely it is he will dig a hole for himself.
OH, and he has to spend money and waste time defending himself. The process is the punishment.
In a gentler time I would abhor such tactics but now we have little choice. The aggressors set the rules of engagement in any war, and they have made it plain as day we are in a war. They chose to go here; we need to adapt their tactics. For decades we said we wanted to "be the bigger man" and avoided a tit-for-tat because we didn't want it to come to this. But it vame to this years ago and we are only fighting back now in kind.
Comey is guilty, even if it isn't much of a crime, and Comey was guilty of some really bad crimes he's never had to pay for. So I have no problem with going after him here. I just wish we would have gone after him much harder earlier.
The guy needs to go to prison. Until we start handing out long prison sentences to these people they will keep doing this sort of thing.
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Certainly Comey is guilty of much more than "he sells sea shells by the sea shore." I can't figure why they're going after him for this penny-ante stuff. From the start, he was a lousy FBI head, and as soon as Trump showed up, Comey had it in for him. I'm sure they could find twenty things to indict Comey on.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at May 03, 2026 09:13 PM (+uala)
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They are probably working on it right now. But you know Dana they want to get started with SOMETHING. I agree; this will go nowhere. But hopefully it will shake some things loose.
If Pam Bondi had done her job properly charges over more serious things would have come before the statute of limitations ran out.
If Pam Bondi had done her job properly charges over more serious things would have come before the statute of limitations ran out.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at May 04, 2026 05:46 AM (oflqW)
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When, indeed -- leaving aside the current Mr. Patel -- was there a decent head of the FIB... er, excuse me, the FBI? I'm trying to think. Certainly not Fay Wray. And certainly not anybody appointed by a Democrat.
And because this is a "family blog," we'll refrain from discussing the original director, "Jedgar" Hoover, as Lily Tomlin used to call him in her hilarious telephone operator skit. My wife and I have been reading an absorbing book about code breaking during WW II and how the FBI did its best to butt into it, and caused a lot of trouble in the process. Martha's been reading the book aloud to me and always calls him Jedgar.
And because this is a "family blog," we'll refrain from discussing the original director, "Jedgar" Hoover, as Lily Tomlin used to call him in her hilarious telephone operator skit. My wife and I have been reading an absorbing book about code breaking during WW II and how the FBI did its best to butt into it, and caused a lot of trouble in the process. Martha's been reading the book aloud to me and always calls him Jedgar.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at May 04, 2026 07:28 PM (/xiww)
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Agreed Dana. I honestly can't think of a decent FBI director. Not one.
The FBI has been corrupt and ineffectual for it's entire history and I have zero respect for it. Hoover was a classic case in point; a he/she pervert who stayed in office year after year because he could blackmail every President. And the FBI was terrible in terms of actually stopping crime too. Case in point; they went after John Dillinger and he ran rings around them for years. Eventually Hoover gave the order - shoot to kill first and then ask questions later. They basically assassinated Dillinger; they didn't even try to capture him. They were trying to make themselves look good and hated him for embarrassing them.
The FBI has been corrupt and ineffectual for it's entire history and I have zero respect for it. Hoover was a classic case in point; a he/she pervert who stayed in office year after year because he could blackmail every President. And the FBI was terrible in terms of actually stopping crime too. Case in point; they went after John Dillinger and he ran rings around them for years. Eventually Hoover gave the order - shoot to kill first and then ask questions later. They basically assassinated Dillinger; they didn't even try to capture him. They were trying to make themselves look good and hated him for embarrassing them.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at May 06, 2026 08:20 AM (oflqW)
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