Oh, my God, what a f******g nightmare!

This is the second instance I have noticed of this.  

If you listen closely, you’ll notice no one is even attempting to argue James Comey didn’t commit perjury. https://t.co/olthDgKc6X

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 26, 2025

A month or two ago, Trump initiated an effort to fire Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve when it transpired that she had committed mortgage fraud.  Within a couple of weeks of each other, she had purchased two properties, claiming both of them as a primary residence in order to obtain beneficial tax and rate treatment.  You can only have one primary residence.  

When she got around to lodging an lawsuit against Trump's action, it echoed Comey's situation.  Nowhere in her suit did she dispute that she had committed mortgage fraud.  Her entire case was around whether Trump had the authority to fire her.

I suspect we might see a lot more of this over the next couple of years.  It seems to me that a lot of senior establishment people, in government and the private sector, have become accustomed to breaking the law and not being held accountable.  Universities are an obvious example.  It has always been clear that discriminating based on race is illegal and the Supreme Court has become ever more explicit that IT IS ILLEGAL TO DISCRIMINATE BASED ON RACE.  But universities, because they think it is morally right to discriminate based on race, have gone ahead, blithely discriminating to their heart's content.

Except now they are beginning to have to settled federal lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars for illegally discriminating.

Everyone in power got used to breaking the law and are slowly, for now in ones and twos, being held to the same standard as everyone else.  Rule of law and equality before the law is a much harsher environment than they have been accustomed to.

No wonder there is so much wailing and gnashing of teeth.  Sinecures are disappearing, free federal money is drying up, and the law is being applied to everyone.  Reminds me of Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinney.

Mona Lisa Vito: You know, this could be a sign of things to come. You win all your cases, but with somebody else's help, right? You win case after case, and then afterwards you have to go up to somebody and you have to say, "Thank you."

[pause]

Mona Lisa Vito: Oh, my God, what a fucking nightmare!