Memento Mori

Translation from the Latin: “Remember that you have to die.”

All this “Nunes Memo” ragtime somehow brought that phrase into my consciousness and it is somehow apropos to the poisonous and treasonous actions of Trump et al, especially that snake Paul Ryan and the stunted moral dwarf, Jeff Sessions, along with John Kelly, a lying disgrace to the uniform he once proudly wore. Devin Nunes himself is certainly included. His hometown newspaper ran a headline calling him “Trump’s Stooge” – and that’s in the Republican stronghold of Sacramento.

They will all die politically and hopefully be hanged in reality for the treason they are committing against the republic with every lying breath they take.

The Nunes Memo – at four and a half pages, three too long for Trump to read – was a Hail Mary that went about 14 feet before falling to the ground like a ruptured duck. Whoever dreamt it up would have been better off with insomnia.

Trump thought it was going to be the silver bullet to get rid of Rod Rosenstein and then Bob Mueller. It was a blank.

Anyhow, they used to say about newspapers that you shouldn’t argue with a guy who buys his ink by the gallon. That’s sort of like Trump taking on the FBI. Nixon tried to fire his way out of the goods the Feds had on him and even the surreal so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” didn’t get Tricky Dick anything but a one-way ride on a helicopter.

Bolstered by the sham adoration of the cowardly Republican party and the blind obeisance of his base, who thinks he is the reincarnation of Elvis Presley, Trump might even give Rosenstein the hook. That’s probably when his legal team gets their hats and leaves him to his fate. Rats, sinking ships, etc. He’ll just turn on Fox News and mourn for “my Roy Cohn.” And wish for the simpler days of Stormy.

And all the while, the FBI will we digging quietly like mad badgers and Mueller and his manhunters will be flipping whoever is flippable and that number will be steadily growing as the petrified Trumpsters stampede to save their worthless skins. There will be hand-to-hand combat for a place in the lifeboats.

Does anybody know what FISA means? I didn’t, so I looked it up: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Nunes Memo was mainly about the Feds surveilling a wimp – and Russian spy – with the ruling class name of Carter Page and Nunes and his accomplices moaned that Page had been unfairly surveilled by the Democrat-backed FBI. They just forgot to include any evidence.

And, of course, there’s always the chance that a supremely frustrated and enraged Trump will fire Mueller, precipitating the fabled “constitutional crisis” that to me will be the endgame because it will be tantamount to an admission of collusion with the Russians. That will be too much even for the Republicans – I hope.

Hey, Trump – memento mori – and I’ll make a special trip to piss on your grave.