It’s kind of fun watching FOX these days. It’s gratifying to have every prejudice about conservatives I’ve ever had vindicated by watching them jettison every principle they’ve ever had. Watching people like Sean Hannity shamelessly betraying all their convictions and utterly abasing themselves for the sake of Donald Trump, while pleasurable in some ways, is also dreadful in its implications. And the ability of Republicans to so easily find innocent offenses they’d literally demand Democrats be put to death for, is ultimately nothing to laugh at. Seeing people so normally quick to condemn proving there’s nothing at all they won’t stoop to is a warning we ignore at our peril.
I’m not sure what we can do about this, but if anyone knows how to deliver this to the appropriate people at FOX, please do. Courtesy of some posters on Reddit, here are some of the ingredients of what Sean Hannity calls a “Nothingburger.” Some are more important than others, and there are more that need to be added, especially towards at the end, but lately it’s been kind of hard to keep up…
- the Flynn thing
- the Manafort thing
- the Tillerson thing
- the Sessions thing
- the Kushner thing
- the Wray thing
- the Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius “Russian Law Firm of the Year” thing
- the Carter Page thing
- the Roger Stone thing
- the 198 Million voter records thing
- the Felix Sater thing
- the Boris Ephsteyn thing
- the Rosneft thing
- the Gazprom thing
- the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
- the Azerbajain thing
- the “I love Putin” thing
- the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
- the Lavrov thing
- the Sergey Kislyak thing
- the Oval Office thing
- the Gingrich/Kislyak phone calls thing
- the Russian Business Interests thing
- the Emoluments Clause thing
- the Alex Schnaider thing
- the hack of the DNC thing
- the Guccifer 2.0 thing
- the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
- the Russians mysteriously dying thing
- Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
- the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
- the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing
- the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
- the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
- the Cyprus bank thing and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
- the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
- the election hacking thing
- the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing
- the Steele Dossier thing
- the Sally Yates can’t testify thing
- the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
- the Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing
- the Chaffetz not willing to start an investigation thing
- the Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation thing
- the appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by Trump in the Trump University scandal appointed to head the investigation thing
- the The White House going into full-on cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and subsequent firing of Flynn thing
- the Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama thing
- the Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn't do anything thing
- the Agent M16 following the money thing
- the Trump team KNEW about Flynn's involvement but hired him anyway thing
- the let’s fire Comey thing
- the Mueller let’s fire him too thing
- the Election night Russian trademark gifts thing
- the Russian diplomatic compound electronic equipment destruction thing
- the let’s give the diplomatic compounds back to the Russians thing
- the let’s back away from Cuba thing
- the Donny Jr met with Russians thing
- and now Trump's secret second meeting with his boss Putin.
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