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Ocelot II

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8. No matter what you might think of Comey, this is *not* OK.
Sat May 17, 2025, 02:31 PM
May 17

If you want to call it karma, fine; but as far as law and justice are concerned it's not OK; it's retributive fascism. It's weaponizing a harmless, common expression to persecute a political adversary for no good reason. Maybe he helped Trump get where he got in 2016, but there's still no reasonable or rational excuse for *this* - and they can and will do it to anybody. Maybe someone we like. Maybe even one of us. Have you ever used the expression "86" in a political context? I have, and with respect to 47. I am not a high-profile person like Comey, not someone to be bothered with - maybe. But if you think this kind of harassment is OK because it's Comey, you'd better think again. It's not. Not for him, not for anybody.

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