2. According to the report, James Comey is unbiased, but insubordinate. Were this true, I would be required by my personal code of morality to bow down before him in awe. I detest bias, and applaud insubordination in all its forms. I'm still not convinced. See my previous posts on Comey.
3. Peter Strzok. In all semi-not-kinda-whatever seriousness, where were you when we needed you? You didn't stop that motherfucker from winning. (OK, the real blame goes to the dumbasses who voted for Trump, but still. Peter! If you could have done something...)
4. That leads me to the "we'll stop it" text. What does this mean? Was it bluster? Did he know something? Did he have a plan that didn't go into action? What's the deal here? The meaning of that text is a legitimate question. Yes, Democrats, that's a legitimate question.
5. What every single Republican in the country is required under pain of Trump-tweet to ignore*, though, is the fact that Strzok didn't do anything to stop Trump from winning. Instead, the FBI helped Trump. Comey, in particular, but the New York field office too. The text is a legitimate question, but actions matter more. Fuck words. "Fuck," by the way, is a word. A wonderful and glorious word! What matters, though, is what people do. Actions. What did Strzok, or the FBI do during the campaign? They helped Trump.
6. Now, what about... now? Investigations. Is there an anti-Trump bias? The fact that Strzok and Page haven't been a part of the investigation for a long time matters, but here's an important twist. In general, investigations should be conducted by people who don't have a predetermined opinion of the person being investigated. The problem is... Trump. He's a sociopath, out of the closet, and living his truth. He doesn't hide the fact that he is a sociopath. He is openly racist, misogynistic, he brags about his ability to get away with sexual assault, lusts after his own daughter, lies more than any human being in history, and his lies are so transparently stupid that you have to be brain-dead not to see through them... He treats everyone like shit unless they kiss his ass, fawns over psychopathically evil, totalitarian dictators because he clearly wants to be one... Anyone who looks at Donald Trump without total revulsion... there's something deeply wrong with such people. I don't write this about other politicians. I'll bash politicians for their flaws, call them assholes, etc., but only in the case of Donald Trump will I say that you must be repulsed in order to pass a basic test of humanity. Do I have to link back to the Access Hollywood tape again? What does that mean for anyone charged with investigating Donald Trump, then? They must either a) fail my test of basic humanity in order to be neutral towards him for the purposes of the investigation, or b) pass my basic test of humanity, thereby disqualifying themselves from the investigation. This is a unique problem for someone so openly sociopathic.
7. At the end of the investigation, though, what should matter are facts, not the preferences of the people who do the investigation. Who gives a shit what Strzok or Page thought of Trump, particularly since they have been off the case for so long? Flynn, Page, Manafort, Don Jr. and plenty of others were in contact with Russia in order to set up mutual arrangements during the campaign because Russia was meddling for the purposes of helping Trump win. It is uncertain how much Trump knew about the contacts between Russia and his own campaign, but he admitted on national tv that he fired the FBI Director to shut down the investigation of that matter, and I'm only scratching the surface. In the end, it is the facts that should matter.
8. Even if you have any confidence in the legal system, though, remember that the only thing that matters is Congress, and specifically, the Republican congressional delegation, who will seize on any shred of evidence as an excuse to defend Trump. To them, the report has a total of three words in it: "we'll stop it." That's it. Does it matter that neither Strzok nor the FBI did anything to stop Trump's election, and in fact, helped him win in 2016? Not to congressional Republicans. That would be called, "context," and they hate context. They just want excuses to defend Trump, and they'll find that, no matter what. Facts don't matter to congressional Republicans. The only thing that matters to them is preventing a replay of 1974/1976, and that means defending Trump against any and all accusations, regardless of what lies they have to tell, or what facts they have to deny. And they'll do anything. Anything.
Remember, Trump has already gotten away with everything. The FBI doesn't matter. Mueller doesn't matter. Rosenstein doesn't matter. None of this matters. And, if the economy doesn't turn south, Trump gets reelected.
The rule of law in this country is dead, dead, dead. I, for one, do not welcome our new Russian overlords.
