Time well spent everybody...

A shit-show? Uh...like this, but with shit.

Well that was a shit show. What was a shit show? Why the Peter Strzok hearing Yesterday. He's an FBI agent who was assigned to look into the Hillary Clinton email thing and later the possible collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, but was kicked off Mueller's investigation when text messages came to light in which he expressed an anti-Trump bias which Republicans in Congress insist proves that this whole thing is just one big witch hunt and remember that time Crooked Hillary did the emails?

Since when do Republicans hold
people accountable for ill-advised
messages sent from a phone?

Strzok says that he never let his personal feelings interfere with work, because you know, professionalism, despite a text exchange between him and a lawyer named Lisa Page. She texted 'Trump's not ever going to become President, right?' to which Strok replied: 'No. No he's not, we'll stop it.' Which admittedly looks pretty bad, so bad that Congressional Republicans spent like ten whole hours today asking him questions about an ongoing investigation which he can't answer. Because you know, ongoing investigations.

According to Strzok, he sent the texts in a fit of anger and disgust towards Trump at the then candidates attack on parents of a U.S. service member killed in Iraq. Trump mocked their grief, saying that he's made sacrifices too. Because he's classy.

Like one time he had pizza with a contestant from The Apprentice, and
she's allergic to olives, so they got olives on half. See? Sacrifices. 

Above: Republicans using Strzok's
texts to discredit Mueller's-wait, holy
shit, is Robert Mueller a psychic?

Also, Strzok said that 'we'll stop it' referred to we, as in Americans, couldn't be so short-sighted and ignorant as to actually elect him. And technically he was right, it was the electoral college that fucked us. But whatever, he, like most Americans, didn't like Trump. And whether or not that's a reason to remove him from the collusion investigation is immaterial since Mueller did so anyway citing what would prove to be pretty valid concerns about Republicans using them to try and discredit the probe which...well, here we are.

So the hearing gets heated, congresspeople throw around a lot of 'point of order' and 'objections.' basically it's that shit show I described earlier. Mostly there's a lot of confusion over the rules of a congressional hearing.

Should we be concerned that a room full of
congresspeople can't agree on how congress works?

"I talked to the other FBI agents, and they all
say you're stupid and they don't like you."

-Gohmert, contributing

 to the conversation

But then Representative Louis Gohmert from Texas brought up Strzok's affair. Yup.

"I've talked to FBI agents around the country. You've embarrassed them. You've embarrassed yourself. And I can't help but wonder when I see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eye and lie to her about Lisa Page?"

-Rep. Louie Gohmert, shortly before the room 

erupted into a chorus of 'oh no he didn't!'s 

"Point of order! The gentleman from Texas
has invoked the Gingrich rule, which states
that it's only cheating when Democrats do it."

Yes, the same Lisa page. But apart from this having nothing to do with the hearing, and just being an all around dick move, does a member of the House, particularly a Republican member of the House, really want to get on a high horse about marital fidelity? Like, Gohmert insisted that his question goes to Strzok's character, but you kind of have to wonder if he's got the same moral outrage when it comes to Donald Trump and the eleven women who've accused him of sexual assault. But yeah, I mean, let's go all in on character...

Well, investigations into things
Republicans might have done anyway...

Speaking of, why is Gohmert taken at all seriously given that he once accused the Obama administration of being in cahoots with the Muslim Brotherhood. Huh? Weren't we speaking of...oh, well he also once tried to get Robert Mueller's investigation canned saying that he can't be impartial because he was the former head of the FBI, an agency with Investigation right there in the name. You know, maybe Republicans shouldn't be in on the investigation into the investigation since they seem to have a bias against investigations.

Hey, at least they're not throwing punches
like some other legislative bodies I could
name. Taiwan, I'm looking at you...

Just to be clear, today's hearing was an attempt to establish whether or not Peter Strzok had an anti-Trump bias that would make him unfit for the investigation into the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia. An investigation he was already fired from because of the possibility that his texts could suggest an anti-Trump bias. So Congress spent ten hours questioning an FBI agent to see if he's fit for a job he no longer has. Time well spent everybody. Time well spent.

Anyway, this. What's that? Why that's a link to the list of the criminal proceedings initiated by Robert Mueller in his inquiry into those crimes the Trump campaign totally didn't commit because witch hunt...or whatever. 

Well, whatta ya know...