Tag Archives: Devin Nunes

Devin Nunes vs. His Cow

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Devin Nunes, Republican Senator from California and all around lunatic blowhard has decided to sue Twitter and certain Twitter users because he thinks people are just too mean to him.  I mean, sure, it’s not problem for him to spearhead harassment campaigns to obstruct investigations and keep people from looking too hard at his fellow politicians, but as soon as someone who self identifies as Devin Nunes’s Cow starts pointing out his verbal garbage, that’s just a step too far!  The whole thing feels like a sham, and frankly, I think it’s all going to blow back in his face, but the man’s lack of grasp on hypocrisy is frankly alarming.  But given the administration he’s serving, I guess it’s not all that surprising.

Double Standards

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So, the Dems released a memo of their own.  And despite having some redactions, it’s a pretty comprehensive rebuttal to the one Nunes released a few weeks back.  It has several more detailed pages regarding the FISA requests and the evidence regarding it, and just all the things that took place behind the scenes of the surveillance of Carter Page and the early investigation into Russia’s interference.  Trump of course is leading the charge of the pushback, saying that the whole thing nothing, fraudulent, and suggesting that Adam Schiff broke the law.  Basically all the same things the Dems said when Nune’s memo came out. It’s the political Circle of Life.

Nothing Burger

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So a fun political buzzword we keep hearing lately is “Nothing Burger.”  I mean, It’s a term that’s been around for like 70 years, but in the age of “fake news” and non-stop information flooding every aspect of our existence, parsing the things that have real significance from the things that don’t is tangible problem. Take the infamous memo released this weekend.  While Trump claims it completely vindicates him, eagle eyed viewers would recognize that it’s mostly just an accusatory document attacking the quality of evidence used to secure a surveillance warrant.  In political terms, it can, and probably should be argued that it is the dictionary definition of a Nothing Burger.  While I don’t think the Republicans are the only people in government utilizing the concept, they are certainly turning it into an art.