So here’s the gist of what happened in the last couple of days, because I haven’t been able to do one of these in a while:
Paul Manafort, a long-time confidant of Lord Dampnut and one-time campaign manager (who worked for free??) got outed by an excellent, well-researched AP news article as taking $10 million annually from a Russian oligarch and friend of Putin to promote Russian interests politically and publically within the US. This started in 2005-2006, and we don’t know when this arrangement ended or even if it did. He did this without registering as a foreign agent, which you might remember being A Thing with Michael Flynn.
in 2006, he also moved into Trump Tower and became real good friends with the owner. And if you remember Spicy yammering something about how he was a minor volunteer to the campaign, remember he was the FUCKING CAMPAIGN MANAGER for several months, and even after his tenure WAS AND IS STILL FUCKING LIVING IN THAT TOWER. Oh and he just hired a crisis consultant team because he seems to think the worst that’s coming for him is some PR badness, despite the fact that failed Russian operatives are dropping like flies rn.
So, that put a beehive up the House intel committee’s ass, who had just had their public hearing the day before, where Comey just dropped his balls on the table in front of Schiff (D, successfully prosecuted a Russian intrusion as a lawyer ages ago) and Nunes (R and also a campaign hire with some amazing conflict of interest here) and said ‘yeah, so, there is actually an investigation of 45′s vodka-scented tracksuit wearing quisling campaign going on.’
so that happened. It was pretty cool.
Yesterday, apparently Nunes got some sort of word that was somehow magically both connected to the investigation and also Totes Not Russian Whatsoever, but also made it sound like 45 was in fact being monitored in a way that was totally legal... WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENS WITH A FISA WARRANT MEANT TO CATCH YOUR ASS. He bolted in front of a camera, yammered some absolutely amazing shit that made no sense whatsoever, and literally fucking RAN to the White House to tell his boss bud what was going down, REGARDING HIS OWN INVESTIGATION.
Then he ran out of the WH to talk about it again, sounding even more bizarre, nervous, and confused.
He did this without informing his own committee, who promptly shat bricks. Adam Schiff sent out a public ‘U WOT M8′ letter in perfect legal speak that carefully masked how pissed he is.
The Senate intel committeee shat bricks.
John McCain is building an igloo out of shit bricks, and Rep Cummings and several others are making statements about how Nunes has basically fucking dumpster-fire’d his own intelligence operation.
And then later last night Schiff, who had gone on record over the weekend saying he’d seen things that looked like circumstantial evidence regarding collusion between Dampnut’s team and the Russians decided to slap his own testicles onto the table and said ‘Yeah, it’s not circumstantial anymore.’
And the crowd sucked teeth. We don’t know what he means, but some shit has gone down. The Democrats have suddenly closed ranks and are going to try to filibuster Gorsuch because why the fuck should a president under investigation for collusion and possible treason get to pick a Supreme?
Meanwhile Nunes is still running around like his hair is on fire. He showed up in front of cameras again this morning, a few people have said he privately apologized, and frankly I’m a little concerned for his mental fucking health.
The best theory I have heard regarding his bizarre actions comes from a long-time white/grey hat hacker that’s been monitoring Russian interference who’s called JESTER ACTUAL. In short - if you were, say, FBI Director Comey, and you wanted to know where Nunes’s loyalties laid, you give him a nugget and you watch to see which direction he runs.
These people are too fucking stupid to last as long as Watergate did.
