[TheRealThing]

At times, TRT, as a way of cowardly debate, you act as if the common citizen dare not express an opinion on a POLITICAL forum because the opinion expressed is of absolutely no importance or relevance to the real "somebodys" of the existing power structure. In such moments, you reveal an actual contempt either for opinions not your own or actual free-speech democracy. A sitting President accused his predecessor of committing a felony. The Director of the FBI, corroborated by the Justice Department, asserted the allegation was unfounded. President Trump, in a midnight oil tweet, repeated a scurrilous accusation that is false. Period.

I understand your frustration. When DNC inspired hip shots fail, and when words like zeitgeist or indentured servitude don't impress, one is left with actually substantiating his argument with logic and fact. When in such case one's opinion has been given him by others, defense of that opinion can be a daunting task. My condolences.

MonitorGate will at some point soon get all sorted out, of that I have no doubt. We do disagree however on whether you rise to the level of commonness. True believer liberals, of which you are no doubt one, number only 20% of this nation's voting public. And owing to their intolerance of other views, have therefore stratified beneath the remaining 80% within a dense (pun intended) 20% members only Democratic base. The term 'Wiretap' refers to an outdated method of surveillance, but the term lingers in common use because people understand what it means. But in the technical oblivion which exists between the literal application of the term, and the technologically advanced methods used to 'gather' information in this day, the Democrats have found all the room they need in which to wax ridiculous.

The House Intelligence Committee Chair has said that members of the Trump transition team were surveilled. He knows this because the names of the transition team members were not masked, nor was the text or audio of the conversations in any way redacted. And he knows much, much more.