I'm Assuming this Plays Well for Q-Anon

Kennedy isn't even pretending to give Sally Yates a chance to answer his questions. He's just blatantly going for the 20-second Hannity soundbite. pic.twitter.com/vVNXh8bBnW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 5, 2020

Because all I see is an old man playing "Sen. Cornpone" to an audience of (maybe) one, and complaining about a document with information nobody is even talking about anymore.

I mean, what with the economy and covid and all.  Even Cruz got on local NPR headlines, but what they quoted him saying made no sense at all and the announcer pointed out there was no evidence for it (Cruz was complaining to Yates about taking information to the White House on Jan. 5 to "spy" on their opponents).

Again, not really top-of-mind for people outside the conspiracy bubble.  Besides, I understand Yates left all the GOP conspiracy theories on the cutting room floor where they belong:

General Flynn had had conversations with the Russian ambassador, back-channel secret conversations neutering the sanctions to the U.S. government and had been covering it up, had been providing false information to the Vice President and others to put out publicly. We, we being the government, needed to know what was going on here. Was General Flynn acting on his own or was he working with others? Because the investigators needed to be able to figure out what the relationship was between the campaign and the Russians. Had General Flynn been honest, had he told them the truth in this interview, then the agents would have learned then what they only learned much, much later after he finally told the truth and that is that these were not off-the-cuff conversations that he was having with the Russian ambassador. But rather, that these were conversations that were carefully organized and planned with other members of the Trump transition. And that he had also been very careful to lie about and cover up even to the point of sending his deputy out when the news first broke of this to call the Washington Post and to give them false information, and to say that he had never discussed sanctions at all. The cover-up continued after that as he told lies to more and more people.

No wonder Sen. Cornpone thought she thought he was stupid; he is.  As Jennifer Rubin puts it:

The next attorney general will need to rebuild the Justice Department’s credibility, enact some barriers to political interference by political players and scrub the department of those who have violated their oaths of office and professional obligations. If we are looking for the antithesis of Barr, we need look no further than Sally Yates.

Yes, they will.  And we'll need to purge the body politic of conspiracy theories, or at least push them back to the fringes where they belong.  Conspiracy theories from any quarter.  Sorta like this:

“[AG Barr]has two goals here, one is fairly obvious,” said Miller. “One is he intends to try to smear Joe Biden. Not because Joe Biden did anything but to just try and tar the entire Obama administration by claiming there was this plot to get Donald Trump. By the way, it was a point that Sally Yates debunked pretty effectively today. But then I also worry that there’s a second goal and that’s if Russia or any other country interferes in the election again or if Trump is caught soliciting help from a foreign government again, which he has with Russia, Ukraine and China that Barr is able to release this report that attacks what happened in 2016. And put out this fog that says, ‘all of these deep-staters that have made claims about foreign interference in the past you can’t believe. You can’t believe what they said about 2016 and you can’t believe what’s going on right now.”

A)  Old news.  Been there, done that, no longer interested.  It might persuade the "base" that "all of these deep-staters... have made claims about foreign interference in the past you can’t believe," but those people don't believe them anyway.  Again:  IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!  And that's in the crapper.  Trump won't even address it.  He won't even talk about it.  He does talk about the "China virus," which is "gonna just go away."  He imagines the economy is going to come back, too, as soon as schools open.  But schools will close again, almost immediately after opening, because jamming all those kids together who've been home for 6 months, is going to be tossing a match onto dry kindling.  And when Jr. is getting sick or schools are closing because the janitor was hospitalized, nobody's gonna give a wet snap for some "report" that talks about things we pretty much settled in January and by gawd who remembers January anymore?  That was a faraway time when we were employed and schools were open and life was normal and the only question voters have on their minds is:  WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT THIS?  Do they give a rat's ass what Joe Biden's son may or may not have been doing in some foreign country 5 (or was it 6) years ago?

Shit, no.

The conspiracy theories are as bad on one side as they are on the other.