Tiny Violins

Did someone ask my opinion of Rep Jim Jordan? Take a deep breath. I will tell.

Yes, of course I watch this shit! Jim Jordan’s Thing today.

Jordan Committee today is not about whistle blowers. The Red Party’s Coloring Book Club, the House Judiciary.

No, today’s meeting on the weaponization of govt is not courageous whistleblowers, it’s just more people with personal grievances.

A lone voice against the FBI? Oh brother. Please. Stop it.

These people aren’t taking about Countelpro, or illegal surveillance, or Earth First environmental attacks on activists. No.

The FBI sucks, but these guys practically volunteered to be dumped on. Their allegations may be serious, but they have more than a hint of the spurious.

The witnesses supposedly exposing FBI malfeasance did not act on duty. They did not expose facts. No. They actually withheld facts today!

They made a pretense, before the Judiciary Committee, of non-disclosure of their super-secret whistle-blowers activity.

Well, that’s unhelpful, and actually the exact opposite of what blowing the whistle is.

No: When they took actions that befell harshly upon them, they were acting on mood-altering Donald Trumpism , leveled against their superiors at the Bureau. Not much more.

There are facts to bear that out. But why bother? No minds to change.

When you elevate a grievance in a work situation it often does not work out well. Because it’s a form of insubordination. You are free to do so, but there are consequences to one’s own actions.

(That is the most conservative sentence I’ve ever written, right there. And here am I, a Far Left proponent of Democratic Socialism, preaching personal responsibility to Republicans.)

So: Tiny violin, for pathetic tea party Freedom Caucus minions.

Sadly, without exception, today’s witnesses before the Judiciary Committee on Weaponization, these capable Americans, are being used as political theater by Jim Jordan. They look like idiots, just by proximity to this doofus from Norwalk Ohio.

I find today’s witnesses credible, and pathetic. Much to admire, as long as they keep hidden their deep antagonism to American democracy. Which I believe they picked up listening to buttheads on right wing networks. Or from the pulpit on Sunday.

And, by the way, these ranking senior FBI employees, these guys, did not take their claims to the proper authorities.

They took their claims to Mark Meadows, who plausibly and even perhaps unwitting nearly destroyed the entire Federal Govt on Jan 6! Hoping for a loophole in the Constitutional Order the Red Party could exploit.

Oopsie! (And that gives Meadows huge undeserved benefit of a doubt , in terms of actual seditious conspiracy, components of which have already been found guilty and are facing decades in prison.)

Fortunately this letter includes the statutes required to make determinations, even if one distrusts Libtards.

And ps the Republicans were told exactly what to do and how to behave on January 6, 2020. The Constitution is crystal clear about the peaceful transition of power.

Actually Republicans also blew off the actual election results after many recounts and legal cases; they ignored the obligations of the General Service Administration to fund and support the transition to the Biden Administration after the the Electoral College determined the outcome; and in so so doing they increased vulnerabilities in terms of national security.

Who cares? We lost the election! We can’t lose an election! We are God’s Americans!

They disregarded every law and norm and guideline in their pathetic zeal to hold power indefinitely.

And now they are what we used to call wankers. Not whistle-blowers.