News bits: Recalling James Comey and the 2016 election, Christian nationalist rage, etc.

Lest we forget, Comey really screwed Clinton’s candidacy and gave us Trump: Comey publicly announced two FBI investigations into Clinton’s unsecured e-mail server in 2016. The second announcement that new documents had been found. That happened on Oct. 28, just a few days before the election. On Nov. 7, one day before the election, Comey announced there was nothing new and ended the investigation.

So, while Comey crapped all over Clinton's election twice at critical times, once when people were already involved in early voting, he never announced that Trump was also under a criminal investigation about Trump’s Russia-related crimes. 

So, why treat Clinton like garbage and leave Trump untouched by the same kind of damaging revelations? The FBI and Comey chose not to announce any FBI investigation into Trump and his sleaze in 2016 because the crimes and stakes were far higher to the FBI. Raw Story writes:

But one thing is certain: when voters went to the polls on Election Day, they did so under the false narrative that only one of the candidates had been the subject of a criminal investigation. In fact, in July 2016, around the same time that Comey originally declined to bring charges against Clinton, the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign’s connection to Russian operatives actively trying to influence the U.S. election. 

.... the FBI declined to inform the U.S. public about ties between Trump and the Russian government for fear of exposing informants and “[jeopardizing] a long-running, ultra-sensitive operation targeting mobsters tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin — and to Trump.”

A two month-long investigation by the publication revealed that FBI agents likely feared exposing an ongoing operation against “an organized crime network headquartered in the former Soviet Union.” This Russian mob “is one of the Bureau’s top priorities,” spans several decades, and is intricately linked with associates of Trump and businesses the president owns.

There we have it, with Trump the FBI acted to protect the FBI’s priority, but in the case of Hillary, Comey claims to have wanted to protect the public. That trashed Hillary’s campaign for president. Comey did not want to see a bad Hillary elected without public knowledge of all her possible horrible crimes. But at the same time, he did not care enough to let the public know about Trump's far worse possible treason and crimes. 

Opinions will differ on this, but in my sincere opinion, Comey should be jailed for the rest of his rotten, Republican partisan hack life. His decisions were not rationally coherent or defensible. He acted as a partisan hack working for the Republican Party by publicly attacking Hillary but not Trump. In view of information like this, one can reasonably conclude like I did long ago that Trump never was a legitimate president. For four years, America had an illegitimate president and all of his official acts in office were illegitimate.

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Republican Christofascist attacks on the LGBQT community continue: A central dogma of Christian nationalism is hate of the LGBQT community. Christian nationalist leaders and elites want unfettered power to discriminate and oppress this group who sacred God condemns to hell forever. LGBTQ Nation writes about how this enraged hate movement wrapped in sanctimonious Christianty is lashing out in Arizona:

Republicans say they’ll sue Arizona’s governor 

because she protected LGBTQ+ people

They promise to obstruct her “in every step of the process” because she banned job discrimination against some LGBTQ+ workers

Arizona Republicans have voiced plans to sue newly elected Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs after she signed an executive order protecting LGBTQ+ state employees from discrimination.

Vitriol over the order (and others) is coming from the far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus. The Caucus Chairman, Republican state Rep. Jake Hoffman – a 2020 election denier – recently told reporters the group will work to obstruct Hobbs “in every step of the process” if she “continues to utilize executive orders.”

“If Katie Hobbs wants to legislate, she needs to get her butt out of the Governor’s Office and run for the legislature and come back and join us and do that job,” he said, according to the Arizona Mirror.  

Hoffman called Hobbs’ executive orders “illegal” and said she was using them to advance her “radical woke agenda.” He did not, however, provide details about the timeline of the Freedom Caucus’s lawsuit or who would file it.

Once again, the seething rage, hate, bigotry and intolerance of the Christian nationalist movement is right out in the open. This savagery is what the elites demand. No one can honestly deny the hate and bigotry that animates anti-democratic American Christian nationalism.

As usual, a question or two come to mind. What responsibility, if any, do Arizona voters and non-voters, (or any other voters or non-voters in America) have in empowering bigoted Republican Christian Sharia theocracy? And, is protecting rights of LGBQT people radical wokeness or radical Christian Sharia bigotry? Does the saying, hate the sin, love the sinner have any remaining validity for the Christian nationalist movement?

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According to the ex-president, it was very sexy for the woman he raped: An unsealed transcript shows how Trump saw it while he was raping E. Jean Carroll. Get a load of this slime:

Trump: “She fainted with great emotion. She actually indicated that she loved it. Okay? She loved it until commercial break. In fact, I think she said it was sexy, didn’t she? She said it was very sexy to be raped. Didn’t she say that?”

Question: So sir, I just want to confirm. It’s your testimony that E. Jean Carroll said that she loved being sexually assaulted by you?

Trump: Well, based on her interview with Anderson Cooper, I believe that’s what took place. ....

Honestly folks, who can make this stuff up? It has to be true. Right?

One can only wonder what “until commercial break” means. Once again, my ignorance is showing. I suspect it’s something nasty or creepy. But I am not among the cognoscenti when it comes to topics like commercial breaks during rape. Are there any experts in the house?

Given his apparent admission of sexual assault and rape, I think the chances of Trump being found liable are about 0.1%. After all, Trump’s victim liked it. That’s not rape. It’s . . . . . whatever it is between consenting adults before commercial breaks, whatever they are.