"First he came for Comey..." (read the thread)

[nolabear]

Link to tweet

[marble falls]

1. The tweet itself ....

Benjamin Wittes
@benjaminwittes
First he came for @comey
, and I said nothing because I was mad at @comey
because of the Clinton email investigation and I blamed him for Trump’s election.
8:22 AM · Feb 9, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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Then he came for Andy McCabe and I said nothing because there was this inspector general report that said McCabe lacked candor.
Benjamin Wittes
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Then he came for Jim Baker and I said nothing because I had never heard of Jim Baker and the FBI director is entitled to his own leadership team anyway.
Benjamin Wittes
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Then he came for @NatSecLisa
and @petestrzok
and I said nothing because they sent text messages and the president and Fox News kept reminding me that they had an affair.
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Then he came for Bruce Ohr and I said nothing because that one was so deep in the weeds that it made my head hurt and maybe Bruce Ohr shouldn’t have been doing what he was doing anyway.
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Then he came for Jeff Sessions and I said nothing because, shit, he was Jeff Fucking Sessions and it actually took Donald Trump to discover the one or two honorable bones in his body.
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Then he came for Sir @KimDarroch
, and I said nothing because he’s a British government official and I have no dog in a fight over how the UK staffs its embassies.
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Then he came for Masha Yovanovich and I said nothing because ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president and he can remove ambassadors for any reason or no reason at all.
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And then he came for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and his brother, Evgeny Vindman, and I said nothing—because I was used to it.

[hlthe2b]

2. Ben Wittes has it absolutely right. K&R

[VOX]

5. Thank you for making the tweets seamless! n/t

[chia]

3. Read this on Twitter earlier this morning. The tweet re: Comey hit me hard...

[dweller]

4. here's the Atlantic article he points to

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/doing-the-right-thing-was-vindmans-only-crime/606292/

✌🏼

[Hekate]

6. Kick

[certainot]

7. and all this shit started on the radio through his friend and neighbor limbaaugh

and that included many many good people (including chriistine blasey ford to get kavenaugh passed)

there's a reason he 'got' a medal

now the radio ad industry is figuring out how to adjust to the possiblilty limbaugh is going to croak soon and progressives would be truly and epically stupid not to use this opportunity to destroy trump's only real advantage

[PatSeg]

8. K&R

[PatrickforO]

9. Got some right wing trolls on that twitter thread. But they don't get to spout talking points

and talk over us any more.

By the way - Etta James 'At Last' - one of our very favorite songs!

[nolabear]

10. Etta's a goddess. And yes, ignoring trolls is the only way.

Well, that and reporting bots and blocking them.