Exactly this. The point of the FBI Director having a ten-year term was so that it would cut across presidential terms. "Trump announces FBI pick" is not a normal thing.
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This is what has me so crazy about Kash Patel. Everyone has jumped right to the merits of Patel and no one has even paused to say, “Presidents don’t get to fire the FBI director without paying a huge political price.”
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…Is only a “thing” in democracy that it here to the rule of law.
That’s not America. Not anymore.
Trump is a disrupter. That's what his base voted for. Business as usual would have a political price.
Using the words Trump and normal in the same paragraph can no longer be allowed. Please replace normal with usual and carry on.
James Comey & Christopher Wray
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I think it has already been stipulated that "normal" is an irrelevant idea.
The US govt is poised to be decapitated (see Timothy Snyder's piece) and we are standing around watching it about to happen.
Trump paid no political price for that and even got Rod Rosenstein to lie about it.
It's normal for Trump.
A bull stomping through a china shop and Tom is pointing, "Well, that's not normal", then gets kicked in the face.
Why pretend it would be an issue now to fire this one?
I think you’re trying to live in a world that doesn’t exist anymore.
Impeached. Twice. Nope.
Sexual Assault/Rape? Nope.
Seditionist? Nope.
Convicted Felon? Nope.
This time around there are no guardrails. Enjoy the ride.
Trump’s decades long friendship with Epstein proved that.
Imagine how giddy the MSM would’ve been to hang Epstein around a Dem politician’s head?
He isn’t bound by anything. Our fragile minds need to stiffen.
Of course it’s not normal, neither was firing Comey. But the GOP accepted it then & applauds this now.
Has anyone actually asked Wray if he plans to resign or will wait till he’s fired?
Just my 2 cents. 🤷♂️
Trump just has that weird impossible-to-explain hold on idiots the way Jim Jones and Hitler did. It's a mystery for the ages.
These are perilous times.
It's over
Trump is the unapproachable lazy fat orange cat that caught the mouse & instead of killing it, has decided to playfully torcher until the creature succumbs to the cruelty. He 🖤 to watch, all for show🐁
Every single Trump appointee anywhere in the federal government who could be fired should have been.
If Trump hadn't paid the price by now, was there ever a price at all?
Seems like he did alright!
He caused an insurrection that got people killed .
He was found to have raped a woman .
I’m sorry, but the fact that the matter is Trump will never pay a political price for anything .
No, everything is not hopeless. Yes, we can be an opposition.