Our dumb Senator keeps deflecting for his buddy Vlad

With all that's going on, this absurdity may have slipped by your notice.

'This is an outside insurgency': Ron Johnson suggests CARES Act may be funding Kenosha instigators https://t.co/OTBKGL80kX — via ⁦@MollyBeck⁩

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) September 9, 2020

Johnson in the interview contended the people who have participated in violence and destruction in the wake of police shootings of Black men have continued such actions in an effort to exploit difficult situations.

"You can’t continue to riot for 100 days without having some sort of financial support," he said. "Possibly, some of our unemployment insurance in the CARES Act might be funding some of these people...

"I don't know what extent individuals are being funded but we also found out some of these protesters were staying in pretty swanky hotels in Washington, D.C.," Johnson also said.

Um, is Ron Johnson saying that forcing people into low-income work is a way to keep them occupied and in line? That's an interesting reason to cut benefits.

Also, if Ron Johnson is worried about jobless losers renting hotel rooms to cause trouble and racial violence, he should take a look at what these guys did back home.

Federal agents this week arrested two southwest Missouri men suspected of planning to shoot people in Kenosha, Wisconsin.https://t.co/Ljp5Jt63jy

— KRCG 13 (@KRCG13) September 6, 2020

These guys were allegedly members of the "417 Second Amendment Militia", and this ties back to Johnson in a couple of ways.

The first is obvious - as chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, you'd think Johnson might care about people traveling across state lines to cause violence and mayhem.

The second is because of who Johnson was talking to when he gave his theory about CARES money allowing for protests.

Johnson made his comments in a Thursday appearance on a conservative talk radio show hosted by Vicki McKenna.

That's THIS Icki McKenna.

Pouring gas on fire: Right-wing radio talker McKenna urges 'militia' and 'patriots' to use guns to fight Kenosha protests, asking, 'Do you have enough ammo?'; she joins commentators Carlson and Coulter in glorifying accused killer of 2: @DanielBice. https://t.co/osfBQ7XgUv

— Larry Sandler (@larrysandler) August 28, 2020

Sounds like the 417 Militia took Icki up on her offer. And a sitting US Senator was still buddying up to her on the air 10 days later.

But Ron Johnson has interests beyond giving winks and nods to gun nuts. He's got other important business to attend to in DC.

Senate panel to vote next week on authorizing subpoenas for Biden, Obama-era probes. via @thehill https://t.co/54YzRsQW5D

— The Wheeler Report (@WheelerReports) September 9, 2020

Johnson previously subpoenaed the FBI for documents, and has been holding closed-door depositions with former Obama administration and current Trump officials.

He previously told The Hill that he wanted to release an interim report on the Biden-Ukraine investigation by mid-September. But he indicated this week that the timeline had slipped slightly, and that the interim report would now likely be released in late September.

Because wasting taxpayer dollars to launder Russian propaganda about a nothingburger is absolutely more important than getting to the bottom of why the President lied to Americans about how severe COVID 19 was going to be, which has led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, with many more to come.

Well, spewing misdirections are the priority of the people who Russian Ronnie Johnson really works for, anyway. And that's all you need to when you're trying to figure out why Our Dumb Senator is being even more ridiculous than normal these days.