2020 presidential election
Senator Ron Johnson Determined To Make 2020 Election As Stupid As He Is
He's gonna get answers on this Biden Ukraine thing! And if he doesn't get answers, he's gonna make some up!
March 05, 2020 11:11 AM
IT'S DUMB TIME! Now that Joe Biden has a real shot of becoming the Democratic nominee, and possibly reaching the delegate threshold before the convention, Republicans are really starting their engines against the candidate Trump has feared the most the entire time, the one he got himself impeached trying to eliminate from contention.
The other day, we had an update on the Senate's Dumbest Republican, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who on Sunday sent a letter to his colleagues on the Homeland Security Committee about some subpoenas he wants to send next week, to get to the bottom of the very obviously real Burisma Biden scandal. Because clearly voters are really concerned with whether Hunter Biden worked at a gas station in Ukraine one time. And because Republicans have invented out of whole cloth a lie that Joe Biden corruptly withheld money from Ukraine, while forcing them to fire a (corrupt) Ukrainian prosecutor.
And they know it's a lie, because Ron Johnson was one of the senators who signed a letter back in 2016 pushing then-president Petro Poroshenko to reform that corrupt prosecutor's office, and he is fully aware that when Biden told Ukraine to fire that guy, he was representing the foreign policy of the United States, in agreement with the EU and the IMF and the entire rest of the western world.
Johnson knows this. Johnson is stupid — the Senate's dumbest Republican, according to Wonkette's Scientific Department Of Testing Which Republican Senator Is The Dumbest! — but he's not that stupid.
Anyway, he is mouth-talking more about his Biden investigation, because Trump's only hope in November, besides Russian help, is to try to make "BUT HIS BURISMA!111!1!!!" into this year's BUT HER EMAILS!!11!!!"
Politico reported Wednesday that Johnson is planning to have an "interim report" ready in just a month or two, on that most pressing concern for American households, Hunter Biden's time on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Why "a month or two"? No reason. Definitely not because of the Democratic primary.
<p>Tell us how it's not about the Democratic primary, Senator Mister Wizard!</p><blockquote>"These are questions that Joe Biden has not adequately answered," Johnson said. "And if I were a Democrat primary voter, I'd want these questions satisfactorily answered before I cast my final vote."</blockquote><p>Oh we guess it is about the Democratic primary. Way to say the quiet part out loud, MENSA boy. </p><p>Ron Johnson just knows, if he was a "Democrat primary voter," not only would he stupidly say "Democrat primary," but he would also be obsessed with Hunter Biden's Dirty Burismas. Ron Johnson really knows what Democrats care about, you bet.</p><p>We must, as ever, remind you that Johnson <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senates-dumbest-republican-up-to-ass-in-trump-ukraine-scandal" target="_blank">was up to his ass</a> in Trump's Ukraine scandal, and appears to be a fact witness to some of the crimes Trump committed against Ukraine, for which Trump was impeached. Unfortunately, Johnson also may be too stupid to realize he was witnessing crimes, because when Trump told him "NO QUID PRO QUO!" Johnson, like a stupid dumb idiot, <em>believed Trump</em>.</p><p>Or at least he pretended to believe Trump. Look, either Johnson is carrying water and doing cover-ups to hide his Dear Orange Shitlord's crimes, or he's too stupid to understand what he saw. We guess it could be both.</p><p>Trump is also ready to tell us more about Hunter Biden's Dirty Burismas, as if Trump wasn't just impeached for demanding the Ukrainian president announce fake investigations into fake scandals about Hunter Biden's Dirty Burismas. He admits it's all he has:</p><blockquote>Trump on Wednesday night on Fox said that the investigation into Biden and Ukraine "will be a major issue in the campaign, I will bring that up all the time because I don't see any way out."</blockquote><p>Trump was trying to say he just doesn't have any choice here, but it came out as "I don't see any way out," which is probably more honest.</p><p>Hey pop quiz, are Trump and Ron Johnson <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/russian-senators-spreading-republican-propaganda-wait-thats-backwards" target="_blank">doing Russia's work for them,</a> like old hairy pool boys working at a Russian bathhouse, waiting on Russians named Igor and Boris, sucking their toes when requested? Well, we don't know if they are <em>literally</em> doing that, but on top of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/there-s-no-evidence-trump-s-biden-ukraine-accusations-what-n1057851" target="_blank">all the bullshit</a> about the Bidens and Burisma being <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/business/media/fact-check-biden-ukraine-burisma-china-hunter.html" target="_blank">debunked ages ago,</a> it's definitely part of the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/russia-trying-to-re-elect-trump-and-he-is-mad-that-democrats-found-out" target="_blank">Russian propaganda campaign</a> in support of Trump, and against Biden. What did the Russians try to hack a couple months back? <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/lets-play-russia-if-youre-listening-mad-libs-come-on-itll-be-fun" target="_blank">Burisma, of course.</a></p><blockquote>"I am concerned to see that in the Senate there seems to be a renewed interest in furthering these bogus Russian narratives through the use of their investigative powers," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). "I just think it's so deeply destructive to be effectively working in a concert with Russian propaganda artists."</blockquote><p>But Johnson says NO HE NEVER, this isn't even about the Bidens, and if the Bidens just happen to be in his made-up fiction story about the Bidens, well then so be it, they should blame themselves!</p><blockquote>"My investigations are not focused on the Bidens. They're just not. But I can't ignore them because they're part of the story. They made themselves part of the story," Johnson said. "If there's wrongdoing, the American people need to know it. If there is no wrongdoing or nothing significant, the American people need to understand that as well."</blockquote><p>Again, the "wrongdoing" Johnson is concerned with, that he thinks is top of mind for Americans, is the machinations of an Ukrainian energy company nobody had ever heard of before Trump started committing impeachable crimes demanding investigations of it, and investigations of fake debunked Russian disinformation allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, in order to help him steal an(other) election.</p><p>The next eight months are going to be so fucking stupid, like a common Ron Johnson. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/joe-biden-probe-2020-election-120924" target="_blank">Politico</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. 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2020 presidential election
Senate's Dumbest Republican: DURRRRRRR TIME FOR INVESTIGATE BIDEN NOW?
Right on schedule!
March 02, 2020 05:17 PM
On Saturday, Joe Biden cleaned the fuck up in the South Carolina primary, which suggests his campaign was for real when it said screw those white people states, you'll see what happens when we hit the South. With Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar pulling out of the race in response, this weekend might end up being the turning point for this year's Democratic primary.
On Sunday, United States Senator Ron Johnson (R-The Dumbest One) sent his colleagues on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, a letter announcing that he's got some subpoenas he wants to send, related to his VERY 'PORTANT 'VESTIGATION into that thing America can't stop thinking about, by which we mean that time Hunter Biden worked at a gas station in Ukraine.
What, you are not obsessed with that? Well, you must not be a REG'LAR AMERICAN like Ron Johnson (R-Up To His Ass In This Ukraine Shit.)
Anyway, this is all right on schedule!
Here is the letter from Ron Johnson (R-I Eat Russian Propaganda For Breakfast) to his colleagues. You shouldn't read it, it's too stupid:
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</p><p>You see, there is this Ukrainian scammer named Andrii Telizhenko. He is one of the assholes who <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rudy-giuliani-actually-thinks-hes-helping" target="_blank">has seen an easy mark</a> in Rudy Giuliani, and has been spreading bullshit -- the kind that's <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senate-intel-committee-knows-gop-ukraine-conspiracy-theories-are-horsesh-t-but-shhhhhhhh-its-a-secret" target="_blank">already been debunked</a> by the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee -- about how UKRAINE WAS TEH REAL COLLUSIO!11!N!!</p><p>You know, the Kremlin conspiracy theory Ron Johnson has gone on your TV to spout off about like a common Igor.</p><p>Clearly Telizhenko sees an easy mark in Johnson too, because look at that stupid fucking face up there. He was able to <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/senates-dumbest-republican-up-to-ass-in-trump-ukraine-scandal" target="_blank">score a very long meeting</a> last summer with Johnson's staff, so he could whisper sweet nothings to them about how the DNC and Ukraine worked together to FRAAAAAAME Paul Manafort, and probably to bury the DNC's cloud server in the cloud backyard in cloud Ukraine. (It is a cloud server.)</p><p>Also an easy mark? <em>New York Times</em> reporter Ken Vogel, probably the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/bombshell-congressional-testimony-gently-suggests-ken-vogel-is-bad-reporter" target="_blank">worst investigative reporter in America,</a> and we are including high school newspapers. When Vogel was at Politico, Telizhenko <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/ukraine-whistleblower-politico-story-dnc-telizhenko" target="_blank">was his source</a> for his <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446" target="_blank">hilariously debunked article</a> about UKRAINE WAS TEH REAL COLLUSIO1!1!N1^%%%%%n! You know, the article that gives all the Republican senators and congressmen paper cuts in their pants, because of how they jerk off with it constantly.</p><p>So yeah, that is what Ron Johnson's Sunday subpoena letter is about. He wants to subpoena an American consulting firm, Blue Star Strategies, where Telizhenko once worked, and which once represented Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company upon whose board Hunter Biden sat. Johnson is just pretty sure, according to his letter, that, while Blue Star repped Burisma, it did the #BadThings and used Hunter Biden's name to get some kind of goodies from the State Department or something, nobody fucking knows or cares. </p><p>Hey! Know who <em>else</em> wants documents from Burisma? <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/lets-play-russia-if-youre-listening-mad-libs-come-on-itll-be-fun" target="_blank">NO, YOU GUESS!</a></p><p>While insisting that this IS TOO RELEVANT to the work of the American people, Johnson bitches and moans that Committee ranking member Gary Peters (D-MI) is saying mean things about how Johnson is literally buying into Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns, arguing that the only way to find out for sure is to do all these hot sexxxy Biden investigations, especially right now, as it looks like Biden may very well end up being the Democratic nominee. </p><p>Johnson is also super-mad somebody <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/27/richard-burr-joe-biden-probe-russia-118025" target="_blank">leaked to Politico</a> on Friday that back in December, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr had cornered Johnson and Chuck Grassley in the men's room during a traditional Midwestern Iowa vs. Wisconsin stream-crossing contest and told them their dumbfuck Russian propaganda investigations into Russian propaganda about the Bidens. (WONKETTE INSTANT FACTCHECK: We don't know if Johnson and Grassley were literally peeing at the time.)</p><p>In other words, fuckin' cool it, Senator Johnson.</p><p>But in Johnson's estimation, the REAL Russian propaganda-doers are the ones who are leaking details of Burr telling him and Grassley to stop fucking this butter cow.</p><p>Look at this whining:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><blockquote>This Committee has been investigating matters related to Burisma for nearly a year. [<em>You know, the important stuff! About Burisma!</em>] Throughout, we have sought to keep the Committee's information gathering on these matters largely outside the public spotlight, allowing us to first carefully review information to determine its authenticity and potential confidentiality. [...]<br><br>For these reasons, it is impossible not to question the motivations behind, and the timing of, Politico's inaccurate article regarding my meeting in a classified setting with Senator Burr and his staff -- which "coincidentally" was published on the same day as the Ranking Member's letter disapproving of this subpoena.</blockquote><p>Johnson writes that he "remains convinced" that they just really need these documents from this Blue Star company the Ukrainian scammer worked for, because it is "an important part of this investigation" into completely debunked and made-up claims that originated in the dank butthole of the Kremlin. </p><p><span></span>As Johnson's letter draws to its braindead conclusion, he asserts that despite all the people trying to stop him from pursuing the Russian propaganda stories he hears from Rudy Giuliani and Ukrainian scammers and also probably people who call him on the phone and ask for his Social Security Number with funny accents, he is "not deterred." To which we reply, <em>we know, Senator Johnson</em>. <em>We don't call you the stupidest member of the United States Senate, perpetually depriving Rand Paul and Marsha Blackburn of a title they surely covet, for nothing. </em><br></p><p>Sorry, Rand 'n' Marsha, the Wisconsin fuckhead still wins.</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, SUPPORT WONKETTE FINANCIALLY.</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Russia
Trump Officials Say They Have 'No Intelligence' ... Stop Laughing, They Are Serious!
It's the Sunday Shows Rundown!
February 24, 2020 11:28 AM
A few days ago, it was reported that it seems the Russians are meddling in the 2020 elections, like they did in 2016, favoring Donald Trump. This (of course) pissed off our Authoritarian-In-Chief and he fired acting (aren't they all) Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire and replaced him with an idiot loyalist, Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell. Trump also did one of his White House lawn presser shout interviews denying the intelligence while blaming Democrats like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who rightfully criticized him. So this week on the Sunday shows, we got multiple appearances from Trump officials Robert O'Brien and Marc Short, telling America what they really want us to hear about that so-called intelligence.
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We begin with evil <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mark+harmon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJmt7EournAhUR16wKHe3DAIYQ_AUoAnoECA8QBA&biw=2133&bih=1029">Mark Harmon</a> and national security advisor Robert O'Brien. Appearing on both ABC's "This Week" and CBS's "Face The Nation," it appears O'Brien wanted to have some of column A and some of column B with the report about Russian meddling. On ABC, O'Brien began with some good ole Reagan-era Cold War fearmongering:</p>
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<strong>GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: How is Russia interfering in the 2020 election? <br><br><strong>
O'BRIEN</strong>: Well, there are these reports that they want Bernie Sanders to get elected president. That's no surprise. He honeymooned in Moscow.
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So by stating this, since the intel suggests Russia favors Trump while also trying to help Bernie Sanders in the primaries, O'Brien confirmed it as true. </p><p>But when pressed again by Stephanopoulos, O'Brien went with ignorance:
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<strong>O'BRIEN</strong>: Yeah, I have not seen that, and I get pretty good access. As you know from your time in the White House, the national security advisor gets pretty good access to our intelligence. I haven't seen any intelligence that Russia is doing anything to attempt to get President Trump reelected. I think this is the same old story that we've heard before. I've seen the reports from that briefing at the Intel Committee. I wasn't there, but I've seen no intelligence that suggests that.
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This might be more believable if the Trump administration had ANY credibility or if Trump officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hadn't
<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/mike-pompeo-just-forgot-he-was-on-that-ukraine-shakedown-call-totally">said similar things only for it later to be confirmed</a> they were lying. Stephanopoulos, for his part, tried several times to get an answer from O'Brien.
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<strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: I have to press you on this. Are you really saying you've seen absolutely no intel analysis from the intelligence community showing that one of Russia's aims, just one of Russia's aims, is to favor President Trump? No analysis at all? <br>
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<strong>O'BRIEN</strong>: No, what I'm talking about, I've seen no intelligence, the -- and I haven't seen that analysis. The only analysis I heard was reported second-hand from leaks from the House Intelligence Committee that purport to claim that the woman who briefed them said that. But I've seen zero intelligence that Russia is doing anything to help, to help, to help President Trump get reelected. And I don't think it makes any sense -- it doesn't make common sense.
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Are you serious, O'Brien? Why would the Russians want to get Trump reelected? Not that we are keeping score (but we totally are), there are
<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/the-top-768-796-reasons-putin-wants-trump-re-elected-for-gop-rep-chris-stewart-and-idiots-like-him">768,796 reasons why Russian prefers Trump</a> as their useful puppet/idiot! </p><p>Stephanopoulos tried one last time, after reading a portion of an <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-william-mcraven-if-good-men-like-joe-maguire-cant-speak-the-truth-we-should-be-deeply-afraid/ar-BB10fVNL?ocid=spartandhp">Admiral William McRaven op-ed</a>, and it was then that O'Brien may have accidentally admitted his future alibi.
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<strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: One final time Ambassador O'Brien. You're flatly denying that the intelligence community has analysis that Russia is trying to favor President Trump in the 2020 election. <br><br>
<strong>O'BRIEN</strong>: What I'm saying is I have not seen that analysis, George. No one's briefed me on it, including the leadership of the IC. <br><br>
<strong>STEPHANOPOULOS</strong>: So, after these reports came out, you didn't ask to see this analysis?
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So when we later find out that O'Brien DID know, he'll say he found out after this interview. It's "plausible deniability" by way of "ignorance is bliss."<br>
</p><p>NBC's "Meet The Press" and "Fox News Sunday" featured appearances by Mike Pence's chief of staff and less creepy Carter Page lookalike Marc Short. Here is the full interview (if you can stomach that much lying):<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Short tried to deny the Russian interference reports just as O'Brien did but, for his part, went with the "All Lives Matter" approach to election interference with Chuck Todd:
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<strong>TODD</strong>:
Just a basic question. Does the president believe that Russia's trying to interfere in the 2020 election?<br><br>
<strong>SHORT</strong>:
I think that Russia and other nations have consistently tried to interfere in American elections. The question that I think is out in some of the fake news media was an assertion that Russia was intentionally trying to help Donald Trump. That's different than four nations consistently looking to undermine America's democracy. They always try to do that.
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It's the old 2016 "It could be Russia but it could be China, could also be lots of other people. It could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds" defense. The one that allowed ghouls like Rudy Giuliani to so fully convince Trump thatUkraine meddled in 2016, he <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/its-impeachment-eve-thirty-motherf-ckers-heres-what-this-trump-ukraine-scandal-is-really-all-about">committed impeachable offenses to blackmail</a> them into taking credit for it.
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Chuck Todd then asked why Trump is calling this report "disinformation," and it was then that Short might have let on why they are trying to ignore this:
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<strong>SHORT</strong>:
No, Chuck. What he believes is that the people leading the House Intelligence Committee, particularly Chairman Schiff, intentionally distort information and leak information that is false. These briefings – <br>
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<strong>TODD</strong>:
This information didn't come from them though. This information came from the intel officials.
</blockquote><p>Chuck Todd tried numerous times to get a straight answer from Short but, as with all Trump officials, it was lies and obfuscation. Todd then finally just asked the common sense question:</p><blockquote><strong>TODD</strong>:
Why can't the president say he wants to deter Russia from interfering in the election? His first reaction was, "It's made up. It's Democrat disinformation."
<br><br> <strong>SHORT</strong>:
He does want to stop foreign interference in our election -- <br><br> <strong>TODD</strong>:
He never says it. <br><br><strong>SHORT</strong>:
-- He has taken multiple steps at the Department of Homeland Security. [...]</blockquote><p>Right, because the Trump Administration cares so much about Russian meddling in 2020 that "acting" Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney (no such thing as an "acting" chief of staff) told the last Senate confirmed Department of Homeland Security secretary that we had (Kirstjen Nielsen) that she <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-super-sensitive-about-russia-ratf-cking-2020-election-for-him-shhhhhh-dont-talk-about-it">could not bring up efforts to deter election interference</a>. Hell, Republicans care so much about election integrity that Mitch McConnell <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-three-election-security-bills?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf">blocked THREE election security bills</a> just two weeks ago!</p><p>Maybe if this is how the Trump Administration is gonna "help" stop election security, they should stop helping.<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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Trump Taps Nunes Lackey Kash Patel To Run Nation's Intelligence, If Any
NOW it's time to panic.
February 21, 2020 04:15 PM
Okay, Purity Ponies, this one's for YOU!
Guess which lunatic fox just got put in charge of the Intelligence henhouse? Hooray, it is Devin Nunes's lackey Kash Patel, who spent the past three years flogging the lie that the Intel Community made up the Russian interference story just to hurt Donald Trump. The president just promoted the guy who thinks the FBI and CIA lied about Russian hacking to cover up the fact that HILLARY CLINTON IS THE REAL COLLUSION to senior advisor at the Office of Director of National Intelligence. But please, tell us more about how you'll be staying home if your candidate doesn't win!
After shoving aside (acting) Director of National Intelligence Joe Maguire for the grievous sin of acknowledging Russian ratfucking, Trump named Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, a man with zero national security experience, as nominal (acting) DNI until he can pick a permanent successor. Grenell will retain his ambassadorship, and tend to the SEVENTEEN AGENCIES which constitute our the Intelligence Community in his spare time. But it's okay, because that should leave him plenty of time to zero out any projects focusing on Russian interference with the 2020 election. And if there's an issue with the time-zone or something, he's always got Kash Patel to lean on.
If the past three years have blurred together into one long nightmare for you, let's review who Kash Patel is, shall we?
<p>As a Justice Department lawyer In 2016, Patel was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/you-dont-add-a-bit-of-value-do-you-texas-judge-berates-government-lawyers/2016/02/11/0b3a181c-d006-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html?postshare=6841455215557640" target="_blank">issued</a> a rare Order on Ineptitude — yes it's really called that! — by a federal judge in Houston after he spectacularly botched the mundane task of ordering a transcript, and then showed up in casual clothes to defend his conduct in in court. And it was <em>all downhill from there.</em></p><p>Patel authored the famous <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/thats-it-really-really-devin-nunes-for-real" target="_blank">Nunes Memo</a> which proved Barack Obama weaponized the FBI against Carter Page to murder Donald Trump's campaign. Just kidding, it proved fuck-all except that Nunes and Patel are hacks who'd burn down the entire Intelligence Community if they thought it would help Donald Trump get reelected.</p><p>Patel, WHO IS A LAWYER, is also the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/more-bullshit-from-fucking-devin-nunes" target="_self">whiny-ass little flopper</a> who pretended that Rod Rosenstein had threatened to murder him with subpoenas after Rosenstein responded to Nunes's threat to impeach him by reminding the chairman that Rosenstein would be able to defend himself in such an impeachment by subpoenaing the relevant emails.</p><p>But failing up in Trump's DC is the norm, not the exception. So Patel soon found himself promoted to a position staffing the National Security Council, despite side-eye from his colleagues, who told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/politics/kash-patel-ukraine.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> that Patel "took few notes in meetings and had little expertise for his initial portfolio, which covered the United Nations."</p><p>What our Kash lacked in actual knowledge, though, he made up for in the only currency that really matters in the current White House — the ability to tell Donald Trump what he wants to hear. And what Donald Trump wanted to hear was that, if he leaned on Ukraine hard enough, they would give up the goods on Joe Biden and damage the Democratic frontrunner for 2020. Call logs show that Patel was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/devin-nunes-just-met-you-and-this-is-crazy-but-heres-his-number-call-him-maybe" target="_blank">in contact</a> with Rudy Giuliani in May, when he was traveling back and forth to Ukraine trying to gin up the Biden smear. And both Fiona Hill and Alexander Vindman testified that people in the West Wing were <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/but-trump-thought-devin-nuness-idiot-was-ukraine-expert-unfair" target="_blank">under the impression</a> that Patel was the resident Ukraine expert. Which is <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/nunes-conspiracy-stooge-kash-patel-is-back-to-work-his-magic-on-ukraine" target="_blank">allegedly </a>how he got promoted again to a counterterrorism desk where he could do less harm. Ain't DC great!</p><p>In November, Patel, WHO IS A LAWYER, hired wack-ass libelslander lawyer Steven Biss to <a href="%22Schiff%20conducted%20the%20interviews%20like%20a%20Star%20Chamber%20or%20Kangaroo%20Court,%20and,%20in%20so%20doing,%20stripped%20the%20witnesses%20of%20any%20privilege%20or%20immunity%20from%20defamation%20that%20they%20may%20have%20enjoyed.%22" target="_blank">sue Politico and Natasha Bertrand</a> for accurately reporting Hill and Vindman's testimony, arguing, "Schiff conducted the interviews like a Star Chamber or Kangaroo Court, and, in so doing, stripped the witnesses of any privilege or immunity from defamation that they may have enjoyed." Much normal! Totally law!</p><p>And now, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/kash-patel-odni-post-116546" target="_blank">Politico</a> reports that the White House is shoving aside Deputy DNI Andrew Hallman, who has 30 years experience in the Intelligence Community, and replacing him with THIS DUMB FUCKING HACK. Because Hallman, who's only been in that job for four months, is insufficiently loyal to the president. So when DEVIN FUCKING NUNES told President Putin Grabber that DNI Maguire had failed to suppress evidence of Russian preference for Donald Trump, Hallman's head was second to roll after Maguire's. </p><p>So you'll forgive me for being blunt here. But if you think that there is any Democrat in this race who is as bad as Trump and doesn't deserve your vote in November, <em>you are simply wrong. </em></p><p>This is a crisis. 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