Perhaps the most bemusing twist of the election season

[anghraine]

...is that I find myself feeling sorry for lifelong establishment Republicans on a regular basis.

And yes, I know that many of them are horrible in their own right, and there are people more deserving of sympathy, they brought this on themselves, and and and—but still, my first thought when I looked at the news today was "poor Comey." If the far left and far right have anything in common, it's eating their own.

He seems honestly so bewildered. He's like "I hope I'm a normal person...?" and "poor decisions =/= criminally poor decisions???" and "you're questioning my integrity? for real? wtf tinhat conspiracy are you talking about" and "we didn't go witch hunting BECAUSE we're trying to be impartial" and "no, I was a Republican all my life, but......not now."

(Not that I'm above thinking that when he was up to his ears in pushing Whitewater, he probably never imagined that twenty years later, he'd be the one getting shredded by the GOP over Hillary Clinton.)

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[sathari]

This. Just... this. Also, your current music is sort of oddly appropriate.

[anghraine]

*depressing empathy fistbump*

Heh, right?

[sathari]

Yeah, I have a weird sort of respect for Comey at this point, in that "Wow, here is someone in a political job who has just put doing his job qua his job ahead of party politics, how sad is it that that basically makes him unelectable in this country?"

Yeah... an imperfect but awesome character's noble end, sigh. (I keep threatening to make T-shirts with something like "Vader/Ren 2016: The Family Values Ticket", just because. Sadly, though, I have no graphic-arts skillz.)