Will the Nunes memo matter?  Devin Nunes (seriously, what a stooge) issued his Republican-only, drafted-by-the-White-House memo. It’s an obvious sham.  Read it, and it’s painfully clear the Republican party of law and order released Top Secret information for what became, at best, a limp excuse.  Even so, it’s hard to know how much difference that’ll make.  Using their bespoke media, Republicans have been saturating their fans with hysteria and paranoia in anticipation of moving fast enough that most people won’t notice the facts.  They’ve been working on this same scam for decades.

Wasn’t Nunes (R-Stooge) forced to recuse himself from the White House scandal because of his massive conflicts of interest?  I vaguely remember that it was right after his famous “Lying through my teeth” press conference in front of the White House.  And there’s that whole issue about Nunes being part of the Trump transition team his committee is supposed to be investigating.  But here he is anyway, mouthing off.  I didn’t know conflicts of interest had expiration dates.

I’ve read all 3½ pages of the Nunes memo.  Big surprise: it’s ridiculous rubbish.  I’m not going to repeat the specifics because he’s a lying sack of shit we wouldn’t trust with used plastic bags.  And it doesn’t matter.  It’s a little crazy.  I mean, if you read it, even if you believe it’s holy writ and pretend the guy’s completely honest, the memo doesn’t back their claims.  They want the memo to show how the FBI investigation started from the Steele documents (‘dossier’) they’re screaming to discredit.  The funny part?  The staff who wrote the Nunes memo admitted in the memo that the FBI investigation was rolling before the Steele memos.  After all that Republican prep work to ‘prove’ that the CIA and FBI investigations into Russian interference were a complex Democratic plot, and now the Nunes memo admits the exact opposite.

Anyway, the truth won’t matter.  Republicans have converted so many boring events into action-packed political ‘scandals,’ they’ve got a full playbook for it.  How many people know or care that nothing happened in Whitewater?  Or that there wasn’t much bad stuff disclosed in Hillary’s emails?  Given enough volume, Americans don’t seem to slip past that question of what’s true in favor of what’s exciting.  “I don’t know about all that, but with all that smoke, there must be a fire somewhere.”

Look, I don’t mean to criticize people for consulting experts.  We all depend on them. How many of us can decide whether, say, global warming is a valid risk, or if immigrants do raise crime rates?  Few of us have the time or the background to look through the original sources.  We depend on other people, experts we trust, to do that for us.  That’s the brilliant part of Republican party plot.  They shiv’ed the real scientists and slipped in their dishonest hacks.

OK, back to the memo.  Will the truth of Nunes’ crappy forgery matter?  Probably not.  Be honest: how many of us do you think will read the damn thing before they make up their minds?  Ten, maybe fifteen percent?  I did, but I’m a politics geek.  Most real people don’t have the free time.  We have to depend on experts at a time when Republicans have carefully saturated the airwaves with their squawking harpies.  That’s all the faithful will hear.

We’ve made it too easy to lie to us.  And we’re so desperate to break up the old-boys network of do-nothings in our government, we’ve given these vile patriots a free ride.  We know Trump is lying to us, and yet half of us are still willing to give him a try, just in case he works out somehow anyway.  Talk about desperate.

Rep. Devin Nunes is a liar and a stooge.  Worse, it’s an obvious scam.  Is being Trump’s simpering minion really that promising a career choice?  I’d think not, given the dead bodies Trump already left in his wake, but Nunes must think it’s a bitchin’ deal.  I thought his ridiculous late-night White House run and press conference was humiliation enough, but now we get this Nunes pile of… um, stuff.  Has to be a sign of something when Aryan Youth poster-child Trey Gowdy decides hanging around is too dicey for him.

And again, it probably won’t matter.  Most people made up their minds before the memo was even released, egged on by fake Russian media trolls.  They won’t hear anything else.

No, I’m not impressed with America’s dedication to freedom and liberty right now.