Republicans Get Crazier
"...It gets crazier. Rush Limbaugh is now spouting the theory that the "Democrat Deep State" had a master plan to feed poor, gullible George W. Bush fake intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in order to embarrass Republicans, weaken the military and destroy Bush's second term.
No wait, it gets even crazier than that:
Sen Ron Johnson claims "informant" who has news about the FBI "Secret Society" working to overthrow President Trump. pic.twitter.com/QzGhXBEUYD
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 24, 2018
That's a very excited U.S. senator saying something that is Alex Jones-level bonkers on national television. The "secret society" conspiracy is more fully fleshed out in this screed from Lou Dobbs:
Drain the Swamp!- Our Justice Dept has been compromised, and it’s time to crush the corrupt secret society working against President @realDonaldTrump . @POTUS #MAGA #TrumpTrain #Dobbs #DTS pic.twitter.com/kNDWaDSw3S
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) January 24, 2018
One can imagine that sane people at the Department of Justice might just be getting a little bit concerned. We've had presidents investigated before. We've had them interfere with law enforcement and fire independent officials. But this level of flat-out lunacy from the party in power is something altogether different. Who knows where all this will end up? After all, Donald Trump became president. Anything can happen."
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/mueller-closes-paranoia-spreads-white-house
In other nutjob news, it was reported today that Alex Jones is claiming that President Trump calls him on the phone to keep him up to date on administration plans.
Alex Jones Claims Trump Keeps Calling Him During His ‘Executive Time’
If you were watching Fox News on Tuesday or Wednesday this week, you no doubt heard about the “explosive new claims” and “bombshell” revelations that there was an anti-Trump “secret society” in the FBI. In fact, the term “secret society” was aired on the network over 100 times during those two days. But if you tuned into Fox on Thursday, the morning after ABC News threw cold water on the “secret society” conspiracy theory, all you heard were crickets.
This new narrative began on Monday night when Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) claimed on Fox News that a post-election text message exchange between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page contained the line, “Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society.” Gowdy omitted any context to the message and offered no evidence to show that such a text, which has not been released, wouldn’t have been facetious.
Fox News went all in.
The following two days, the phrase “secret society” was aired on Fox over 100 times. The network repeatedly showed the video of Rep. Gowdy and another video of Rep. Ron Johnson (R-WI) as Fox anchors, hosts, and guests piled on.
On Wednesday night, ABC News published the text of the full, stand-alone “secret society” text message. The message, according to ABC, read: "Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society."
That’s it. People were less than impressed .
Fox News host Sean Hannity briefly mentioned ABC’s reporting Wednesday evening, saying “Really? Secret societies? You can’t make this stuff up,” adding, “ABC News, they have obtained this particular text message and they’re actually questioning if it was all a joke. We’ll let you decide.” After Hannity’s show, Fox host Laura Ingraham continued to hype the possibility of secret societies.
But now, after two days of breathlessly pushing the “bombshell” story about secret societies, Fox has decided to stop mentioning it at all. On Thursday, its executives apparently didn’t think it was important to even report on ABC News’ clarifying reporting on the “secret society” text message.
The network did not mention “secret society” even once on Thursday morning. There was no update, no clarification, no added context. Fox didn’t acknowledge that the so-called “secret society” was seemingly not a story at all.
There was nothing.
Tinfoil sales must be way up.
That and kool aid.
That too
Meanwhile photos of GOP "secret society" have been unearthed
On the local whine fest the other night (drive time radio), somebody stated that trump has the power to call the Army in to arrest all the higher ups at the FBI.
I don;t think he does, but let's not give him any ideas.
Who are the moonbats these days?
The closer Mueller comes to Trump, the crazier it will get. They need him to sign their ghastly legislation. If they could just have the arm and hand, without the mouth, they would be delighted.