So, to consider the release of the Nunes Memo that supposedly would reveal that the FBI investigation into trump's dealing with Russia during the 2016 elections was an anti-trump hit job?
Yeah, big huge nothingburger... Again.
This is never about the Republicans' actually wanting government to work properly. If you're thinking Nunes and his Congresscritters will use this as a starting point to reform FISA's warrant process, you're wrong.
This isn't about the civil rights of every trump campaigner - Manafort, Carter, Kushner, trump junior, and trump himself - getting trampled on, because that doesn't show up in the memo at all. If it's in the actual warrants, that's all still hidden from view.
This isn't about the facts of the matter, which all point to the FBI and Mueller both going by the book and getting their warrants done proper and legal.
This is about the Republicans wanting to retain their tenuous hold on power. This is about the Republicans looking to dismantle every last aspect of effective government in order to secure their own one-party rule at the expense of everyone else's rights.
This is about giving trump a weapon he can use to shut down a legitimate investigation into his (possible) misdeeds ranging from Obstruction (which he's ADMITTED to and has been caught doing over and over) to criminal interference with our elections with the aid of a foreign power (bordering on treason). Not against Mueller, but against the Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein who is the one person standing in trump's way.
This is about giving the talking heads on Fox Not-News - in particular Sean Hannity - a way to compare this to Watergate but in reverse, where the FBI is illegal and the poor president a victim of partisan librul hacks (?!) inside the Bureau.
This is about giving the conspiracy-driven GOP voting base their red meat, to keep feeding them the fiction that Hillary/Obama are the heads of a vast librul criminal enterprise to ruin 'Murrika. And to fuel the growing anti-government hysteria the Far Right's had for decades.
This is about driving the rest of America crazy. As Nunes and Hannity and the wingnuts collectively aim middle fingers in every direction, the rest of us are clinging onto the twin pillars of Despair And Satire.
It's not that Humor is the only defense we've got left - we still have the Rule Of Law no matter how hard trump and co. are trying to break it - but it's the best weapon we have to let the Far Right know we view them as the hapless clowns they truly are.
So, tweet away every #YoMemoJoke you've got.
And keep fighting to get every Democratic candidate elected to office this 2018. Start making the Republicans feel the despair they've earned.
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This is also yet another window into the thought processes of the Republicans who now run (if you can call it that) our government.
What's the first thing that occurs to them when something goes wrong? Corruption.
That's the first thing they think of because it's what they would do.
Kind of like the way Cheney believes torture works as an interrogation method because he knows it would work on him.
And also, that's what they have? Really?
I guess the scary part about that is that so many of them still believe the memo is some earth shattering revelation that proves something that helps their side, when if they actually, you know, READ the damn thing they would know that it undermines the main part of the case Fergus has been trying to make; that the investigation is the result of the Steele dossier.
Nope. It says right there in their memo that it was Papadopoulos running his mouth to an Australian about the Russians having the stolen DNC emails that started the investigation, before Steele had even come back with the reports that would turn into his "dossier".
-Doug in Oakland
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