The FBI was never going to ride to the rescue

[Va Lefty]

Why would you trust an Organization that calls it's Headquarters "The J. Edgar Hoover Building"?

"The FBI is fucking evil. To the extent that its investigation into ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government actually existed and may eventually have uncovered something that could be pinned to the president himself, yes, sure, okay, that probably is the reason Comey got shitcanned last night. It would also be a complete anomaly in the history of an organization that only ever has taken a break from bootlicking and propping up entrenched power in the moments when J. Edgar Hoover felt obliged to blackmail somebody. If Trump decommissioned the entire bureau tomorrow it would be the first good thing he ever did in his entire goddamn life. He probably won’t. It’s too useful to him. Being useful to the powerful is what it’s for."

"That James Comey is a moron and should not be trusted to run a shoeshine stand, much less a federal agency with the power to wiretap my phone, does not mean that Donald Trump—a moron who should not be trusted to run a shoeshine stand, much less all the federal agencies with the power to wiretap my phone—fired him for being a moron who should not be trusted to run a shoeshine stand, much less a federal agency with the power to wiretap my phone. In fact, that is not why Donald Trump fired him, and everyone knows it"

"When he won the election, was your fear that he might fire James Comey? No. It was not. It was that he is a nightmare person, a horrible radioactive taunting mockery of humanity, who might do anything, including things much worse than firing a moron bureaucrat whom everybody wanted fired. "

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-fbi-was-never-going-to-save-the-republic-you-dolt-1795093830

[bettyellen]

1. Wow, someone's a huge defeatist / CT fan, eh? Doom doom

[Va Lefty]

4. No someone lives in the real world

I'm 55 years old and don't see things getting much better in my lifetime. If I could I'd leave this country I would, but I have two parents in their late seventies who I can't abandon. I will continue to fight, but don't expect much.

[Squinch]

2. I think the odds are about even that this is correct.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Regardless, the FBI did not name its own HQ.

Nixon and Congress did.

[tirebiter]

5. The White House was built by slaves

Why would a black man live there?

That was then and this is now.

[MedusaX]

6. The most significant point made is towards the end of the piece:

It’s bad because, for whatever reason or impulse made him do it, he either did not anticipate or
did not care about either the political shitstorm it would cause or
the legitimate fear it would engender among regular people that we might be watching the United States slip into out-and-out autocracy before our eyes.
It’s bad for precisely the same reasons that having Donald fucking Trump as the president of the United States is bad:

The problem is that the president is
an incompetent fucking maniac
who might take a blowtorch to any particular longstanding norm of the
American political system
for any reason at any time,
including, by implication,
the ones that offer some hope
we might eventually elect someone better or at least other than him to run the country.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-fbi-was-never-going-to-save-the-republic-you-dolt-1795093830

That is a point with which I must concur !!

[ucrdem]

7. yeah the blowtorch is good.

[BannonsLiver]

8. Alas, we'll never know