AdamSmith

Look, you were there. Watergate ground on for like TWO YEARS. But it ultimately took Milhous down. The Framers designed our systems to work not FAST, but instead INEXORABLY.

The small intense SECRET AND SHIELDED group of just NINETEEN investigators buried deep inside the FBI who are doing this Russia investigation are LIVID WITH ANGER AND RAGE at this firing, my inside sources report. Trump just sealed his own fate. Within two years (the justice system grinds slow, but EXCEEDING FINE) he will be clapped in irons, for the Rest of His Natural Life. What an idiot.

LMMFAO!!!

I take care of this by literally never turning the TV on.

YES Oz, why do you CARE or PAY ATTENTION to what this twat says or pretends to think? Life is too short!

WOW

Be assured Mr Comey is not dithering, but being thorough. The FBI doesn't rush, it gets it right.

'Murrican invasion & ruination?

Exactly like that Of course doing at least a tiny gaydar sweep beforehand is advisable.

Easy enough to do! Actually Bruges is possibly the loveliest city I've ever visited. The architecture, the unsurpassed art museums, even the Basilica of the Holy Blood...

The Pulitzers have some professional standards that the Nobels do not always.

I'm always under control. Too dangerous to fool around like that any other way!

Or just slip your hand into his shorts. It works, even if it comes with the occasional risk of personal violence. Believe me.

I don't think Comey is a man easily distracted. He is a bulldog whose fangs are already firmly embedded in Trump's ankle. Don't worry about our intelligence agencies. They are the hardest asses in the government. Even harder-assed than the military in some ways. As I've said, I know a few personally professionally. I would not like to be in a knife fight against them in a dark alley. Or anywhere.

A nine-month-long and still-ongoing collection by five U.S. intelligence agencies of the mountains of evidence of Trump's collusion with Russia to throw the election is a Hail Mary? Comey's report is going to send Trump and many of his lieutenants to this nice federal resort for the rest of their lives... The FBI does not squander its resources on wild goose chases. Once Comey diverges from the normal protocol of not commenting on investigations until they are concluded, and tells Congress what he did, it means: This one IS concluded, and everyone involved is GUILTY AS SIN. We are just now taking the time to be sure we understand everything Russia did to meddle in our elections, so we can fight it in future. We already have all our guilty guys IN THE CAN, AND READY TO THROW THE BOOK AT as soon as we finish looking into all of Russia's funny business against us. BYE-BYE, DONALD.

@Darkseraphim, here is a qualification that some may take as offensive, but in my experience (as a white middle-class male) is accurate, not only in NYC but also here in Raleigh, NC where I live now, and in many other cities: That 20% applies if you exclude the "Caucasian" population. Black and brown ethnicities today, judging by my firsthand experiences in Manhattan and also here in RDU, simply don't have the hangups. They are open (even historical black prejudice against same-sex doings have simply vanished over the past decade, with generational change) to it all. White kids have undergone the same change. There simply appear to be fewer who need to do sex work for economic reasons, not moral disapprobrium.

I don't know. That seems about right for any major world city even today. Certainly today in Manhattan, easily 20% of everybody is for sale sexually. And gladly so, no under- or overlay of tragic desperation or any of the usual tropes that linger still from late Victorian times.

Aw, let's blame everything on Trump! He'll be in the federal pokey soon enough, so what can he do about it?

He colluded with Putin & Co to throw the election. You approve? Then you deserve the same life prison term that Trump is headed for.

I sprang!

Let's see. Canada, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Belgium, China, Japan. In the Carribean, St Martin, St Barths, Martinique. So basically a homebody. Spectacularly missing from the list is Thailand, which omission shall one day be remedied. In spades!

What you say here ignores what Comey plainly said outright: Everything the Russians did, especially dumping those billions in oil money into the campaign through all those people connected with it now under investigation, was "unusually loud," and "designed to be detected." With the clear intent of visibly degrading and destroying public confidence, here and in Europe and Asia, in American democratic process. To weaken our ability to oppose Russia on the world stage. Comey said the exact opposite of your conclusions here.