They are authoritarians. The first rule of authoritarianism is never give up even the tiniest morsel your authority.

Trump’s base still loves him. I just heard today from a co-worker about how great Trump is because he’s not corrupt and he wants to drain the swamp. He gets pushback from the Republicans and “especially” the Democrats, but he’s going to do what’s right for the American people. He represents the little guy.

Well, there’s this

There still some environment left to destroy? And some insufficiently terrified non-white people?

They’re thinking that they need to genuflect before Trump in order to maintain favor with his stupid, fearful, racist base. As for the so-called “principled conservatives” that are bailing instead of running for re-election, I think they’re trying to keep their options open for a cushy job as a cable news pundit or…

i think they just really like having the distraction in chief

Because half their slimy asses are complicit in it.

The republicans got their awful tax law and pleased their billionaire overlords, so I don’t get why they’re still carrying water for trump to the point where nothing else matters. It’s not surprising they’re putting party over country but to what end?

Oh man, after finally reading it it’s even dumber than we’d imagined. What a wet fart Nunes has produced here.

Ironically, the X-Files gave us the answer to that question.

exactly.

There are objectively some things taht are worse right now than they were before, in the recent past. Large-scale climate change caused by humans is definitely something that is a recent phenomenon...the resurgence in popularity of openly and extremely racist beliefs in the US is a recent phenomenon from a period when…

The reason why they’re focusing on the renewal of the warrant is because Rosenstein was the one who signed off on it. The entire point of the memo is to force Rosenstein out with cause so that Trump can install a crony to oversee (read: smother/de-fund) the Mueller investigation.

*And* the dossier only confirmed shit they already knew. All these investigations already had their ducks in a row.

This is a tangent, but where does Devin lie on the most insufferable names list? Is it top five? I’d argue top ten at least - here’s my personal top 3:

I’m sure that the memo will conveniently omit that this was just a renewal of the FISA warrant on Page. He was already under surveillance, due to his contact with Russian operatives going back to at least 2013. Information on this came from the intelligence agencies of multiple countries.

Republicans and far-right-wingers of the internet alike clamoring to #ReleaseTheMemo have worked themselves into a lather over the secret document

I’m sure they’re pleasantly surprised at how utterly effective it has been. I could never have imagined of all the shit the GOP has done, doing Russia a solid would be one of them.

“Me saying ‘we’re hood forever’ is funny!” — James Corden, and nobody else.