You do have to hand it to Republicans how, what in 2017 was pretty much conventional wisdom, that now-convicted felon President Trump had in his first campaign been aware that his minions were in a mutually beneficial relationship with the propaganda and hacking operations of the Russian state and had at the very least entertained dirt offered by their agents during a meeting at the Trump Tower, have in the years since obfuscated what was already a pretty complex timeline – with different gaps filled in at different times, involving the actions of hundreds of players, conflicting accounts – has been obfuscated and over-complicated into utter meaninglessness. Screaming “RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA” and “HOAX HOAX HOAX!” despite there being like a shit ton of circumstantial evidence that the basic contours of what was alleged were largely true also helped.

The problem is that nearly a decade of this shit means that stupid cocksuckers like this Congressman Rick Crawford from Oxycontin Holler, Arklatucky or wherever kind of lost the plot and is now asserting that Putin had no preference in the 2016 election and you can tell because he was keeping the powder dry on her use of horse tranquilizers to calm her fits of Caligulan rage.

Maria Bartiromo in a later bit was at least straightforward with her grievances over the investigation, talking at RonAnon about how it was the Russia collusion saga but not like the fact that he’s a miserable fucking asshole and a racist degenerate abuser of women that made her Orange Allah so radioactive to mainstream cultural sensibilities during his first failed administration:

That he’s well on his way back to that place and will definitely be there within a year or less does not at all seem to be lost on the pharma-brained shell of the formerly respected CNBC anchor.