COMEY SO WHAT IS HE UP TO NOW?
TURNS OUT HE JUST GOT HIRED AS A CHAIR AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
THAT'S VERY NICE.
I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE TO GOOFY THINGS.
ONE, THAT NAME OF THE CHAIR IS WAY TOO LONG.
FOR REAL.
I THINK FIRST SURE THEY CALLED THE KING CHAIR FOR
PUBLIC POLICY.
THAT SOMETHING ABOUT ASKED THAT
I LIKE THAT THE
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
YOU SAID SOMETHING LIKE HE GOT A CHAIR THAT YOU MEAN THE POSITION
OF THE CHAIR BUT AS YOU WERE SAYING IT I WAS LIKE
CONGRATULATIONS JAMES,, YOU'VE BEEN FIRED AS FBI DIRECTOR
BUT YOU DO HAVE A CHAIR.
IS LIKE A MODERN VERSION OF GAME OF THRONES.
AND SELL OF IN-SERVICE THRONE YOU GET A CHAIR.
HE'S THE KING OF THE NORTH.
OR AT LEAST HOWARD.
HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW EXCITING HIS LIFE IS ABOUT
TO BE.
REALLY?
NEITHER DO I.
Y?
BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME TO TEACH.
OF THE PROFESSOR OVER HERE.
HE'S GOING A GOOD TIME, I KNOW HE IS, UNLESS HE DOESN'T
LIKE DISEASE AND THEN HE IS GOING TO HAVE A MISERABLE TIME.
IT IS GREAT TO BE ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT IT AND YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT IT, YOU
GET TO HAVE A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON THEIR LIVES.
YOU CAN SEE CHANGE HAPPEN RIGHT BEFORE YOU.
YOU KNOW WHAT, I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING THE
RIGHT WING IS DEFINITELY GOING TO GET TRIGGERED BY THIS
BECAUSE HOWARD IS A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY SO THEY
WILL BE LIKE THEY WON'T EVEN ALLOW WHITES, BECAUSE WHY PEOPLE
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH UNIVERSITIES TO GO TO IN AMERICA.
I'M PRETTY SURE THEY ADMIT WHITE PEOPLE.
ITíS JUST FOR BLACK PEOPLE.
OF COURSE JAMES COMEY WOULD GO THERE.
ISN'T JAMES COMEY A REPUBLICAN?
YES, DEEPLY.
HE WAS THE NUMBER TWO GUY IN JOHN ASHCROFT'S JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT UNDER GEORGE W.
BUSH AND JOHN ASHCROFT IS CRIMINALLY REPUBLICAN.
HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING CRIMINAL KIND OF, BUT HE'S A MASSIVE
RIGHT-WINGER.
HE HAS A SET OF PRINCIPLES THAT WHETHER YOU THINK HE HAS
APPLIED THEM RIGHT OR NOT, HE DEEPLY BELIEVES IN THOSE
PRINCIPLES.
THAT'S WHY I RESPECT HIM EVEN THOUGH I THINK WE PROBABLY
DISAGREE ON A LOT OF ISSUES, I RESPECT HIM BECAUSE HE IS
PRINCIPALED.
HE DOESN'T STRIKE ME AS A BAD PERSON.
I THINK HE LIKES A SPOTLIGHT AND I THINK THAT'S WHY HE
DID THE PRESS CONFERENCE WHEN HE ANNOUNCED PEOPLE AND WAS
NOT GOING TO BE CHARGED.
THAT WAS ACTUALLY NOT HIS ROLE.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS SUPPOSED TO DECIDE WHETHER HE IS
CHARGED OR NOT.
THAT THE I JUST MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION.
HE WAS OUT OF BOUNDS THERE.
ON THE OTHER HAND, LOOK, HE DIDN'T CHARGE HER AND HE MADE
THAT CRAZY STATEMENT RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION SAYING I AM
REOPENING THE INVESTIGATION OF ANTHONY WEINER BUT LOOK,
REPUBLICANS WILL LOOK AT THAT AND GO YES, HE SHOULD'VE DONE
ALL THAT AND IT IS DEBATABLE AND THEN OF COURSE DURING THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION HE MOST FAMOUSLY WOULDN'T ALLOW WARRANTLESS
WIRETAPPING.
FOR THAT I WILL ALWAYS RESPECT HIM.
THAT IS NOT A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT THING BECAUSE
LATER A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MADE
EXCLUSIVES FOR WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING BUT, HE WAS RIGHT ON
THAT AND THAT IS A CONSERVATIVE AND A PROGRESSIVE POSITION.
BOTH SIDES ACTUALLY GREATER THAT IF THEY HAD PRINCIPLES SO
NOW HE IS GOING TO TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCITED
ABOUT THE LAW AND FOR GOING A SALARY SO NICELY DONE.
HE IS BACK TO BEING MY COMEY.
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