{"id":156,"date":"2025-05-17T04:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/comey-trump-and-8647\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T04:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:33:06","slug":"comey-trump-and-8647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/comey-trump-and-8647\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey, Trump, and 8647"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump Derangement Syndrome continues to drive our political enemies to show their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3413767\/byron-york-james-comey-trump-8647\/\">true colors<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Of course, former FBI director James Comey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2025\/05\/16\/james-comey-8647-post-trump-assassination\/83667708007\/\">knows<\/a> what &#39;86&#39; means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Should Comey spend some time in the slammer? Tulsi Gabbard <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/5303482-tulsi-gabbard-james-comey-instagram-post\/\">thinks so<\/a>.&#0160; I&#39;m with Tulsi.&#0160; The right to free speech does not extend to the inciting of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And you thought politics was a gentle(wo)manly debate conducted according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2016\/12\/07\/sanctuary-cities-and-marquess-of-queensberry-rules\/\">political equivalent<\/a> of the Marquess of Queensberry rules?&#0160; It was never quite like that in these United States, but lately things have become positively Schmittian, to borrow an adjective from Malcolm Pollack: it is time for a frank admission that our political opponents are <em>enemies<\/em>. Indeed, they are <em>enemies<\/em> who want to see us <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/16\/the-left-ultimately-just-wants-to-throw-conservatives-in-prison\/\">in prison<\/a>.&#0160; Pollack and I serve up some quotations from Carl Schmitt and commentary thereupon; please do poke around in our archives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Our enemies are well-advised to consider Hosea 8:7: &quot;Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Derangement Syndrome continues to drive our political enemies to show their true colors. Of course, former FBI director James Comey knows what &#39;86&#39; means. Should Comey spend some time in the slammer? Tulsi Gabbard thinks so.&#0160; I&#39;m with Tulsi.&#0160; The right to free speech does not extend to the inciting of violence. And you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/comey-trump-and-8647\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comey, Trump, and 8647&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ponerology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}