Discussion: Nunes Announces Probe With Gowdy Into Obama-Era Russian Uranium Deal

This is obviously not an investigation, it is not even politics as usual, it is agitprop designed to reinforce the “both sides do it” propaganda line. That line is essential to the task of blunting any false equivalence critique: the essential point that what Republicans and their enablers are doing is very different from what Democrats and progressive supporters do.

As TPM alum, Brian Beutler, comments in a recent article:

Lumping the methods of Trump apologists into the same critical framework as “classic politics” creates a parity between agitprop and honest discourse that propagandists will exploit until most people can’t tell the difference. It will allow insidious disinformation to chew away at the institutions of journalism and academic expertise, until the enlightened foundations of an informed citizenry collapse.

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American, you’ve officially been abducted by Aliens… Prepare to be probed…

Ruskies tried to compromise HRC/ US Sec State? Shocked! Friggin? shocked I tell you.
Bet same Ruskies had Orange Pustule Hitler’s balls in a sack before this.
Like the risible “un-masking” fake news, this will all lead to Michael Cohen, Sader and Trump Tower. Keep digging Trey! Keep digging!

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Go for it Devin, you Trump cocksucker you. Give it your best shot. Hell, subpoena witnesses. Have more hearings. Hold a press conference or two or five hundred. Get your dwindling pool of supporters to shout “Lock her up”.

I don’t give a fuck what you anti-Americans do, because we’re coming for the House and the Senate in '18 and your anti-American leader is clearing the way.

History won’t be kind to you assholes and there are tens of millions of us that will ensure that is the case.

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