Somehow Orange Idiot and his apparatchiks don’t seem to realize that witch hunts invariably are always about partisanship.
Unfortunately, we will soon see more desperate attempts at raising the hysteria to a much more lethal political economy of violence. As the LA Times notes in an editorial, “nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck”.
The first instances of such a political economy have come as GOP crazies are now trying to further exploit the strategy of tension by making Iowa women carry dead fetuses primarily to ritualize the inevitable trauma. Fetal funeral industries will thrive. This follows more of the other personhood status conferrals upon fetuses that make mothers’ rights more second class in a quasi-religious State. Because, ironically, First Amendment ...
But that’s not important compared to an attempt to cover-up an awful, leaking crack in WH security. Desperate Don continues to attempt a diversion even as the #TrumpRussia noose tightens.
That’s what Nixon said, but one piece of duct tape and a Watergate security guard turned “observe and report” into a precedent for today’s Constitutional crisis. Then and now it wasn’t about leaks to the media so much as it was criminal activities, in this case, Paul Manafort and Mike Flynn are much further along than Bebe Rebozo.
BREAKING LAST NIGHT: “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is seeking ‘assurances against unfair prosecution’ in order to provide interviews to congressional panels investigating possible collusion between Trump aides and Moscow, his lawyer said in a written statement. The statement came after a report in The Wall Street Journal that Flynn has told the FBI and congressional committees he is willing to testify in exchange for immunity from prosecution,” write POLITICO’s Austin Wright, Josh Meyer and Martin Matishak.
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