In all seriousness, this is evidence of the problem of inherited wealth and status in this country. It is pretty fucking obvious that Jacob Wohl is not qualified, based on merit, to do much of anything. He started a conspiracy that fell apart within minutes in absolutely laughable fashion. He thought he was qualified to do this, and he had no idea that he was way, way over his head. Because he’s been a “success” in life. But, that’s only because of his parents and his parents’ parents, that put him in positions to start hedge funds (which turned out to be frauds) and have the ear of the president of the United States. He didn’t build that. But he thinks he did.
Imagine what this country could be with a true meritocracy.
This is one problem with internet detectives. A gym on the 19th floor doesn’t mean it takes up the whole floor. I mean, there’s no doubt the whole story is bullshit but this is a silly piece of proof.
LOL, MSNBC just reported that the time frame during which Mueller was supposed to have committed sexual assault/harassment on one of the women, he was… serving on jury duty.
Bit of a problem, that. Talk about your iron (butt)-clad alibi!!
So this particular October Surprise was intended to win the Republicans some pity votes …???
Please, won’t you consider voting Republican? These people have no hope of getting through life without your support–please give them a regular paycheck by sending them to Congress. It’s their only chance!
Maddow’s show interviewed Natasha Bertrand, who broke the story with The Atlantic. There were some graphics of the documents that were supposedly gleaned from the “intelligence operation.” It was hard not to notice how they had been styled after a certain… dossier.
Disturbing, pathetic and hilarious all at the same time.
Politico has an interesting story that makes the circumstantial case that Mueller has subpoenaed the president, and that that subpoena is being fought over in federal court.
JW is around 20 years old, meaning he grew up in a Fox News environment. His Dad, being older, probably understands (or understood) that there are two worlds - Fox World and the Real World, and that when you deal with the Real World you are operating under a different sort of standards and rules than you do under Fox World, and you must behave differently.
Jacob, being raised exclusively in the RW ecosystem, likely does not understand this. He has grown up in an environment where Hillary Clinton, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi… all those people do is break the rules and have the MSM cover it up (Thank GOD for Limbaugh, Savage, Fox, etc!) He very truly believes that women are being paid gobs of money to say nasty things, and poor young Jacob has had enough: He is going to do to Robert Mueller what the Dems are doing to upstanding GOPers like Moore and Kavanaugh, what they’ve always done - he is going to pay women to make accusations.
But the thing here is that when we think about “Fox News” viewers, we always picture older white guys. But there’s a subset of the current generation of kids who know very little other than the FN view of the world, and Jacob Wohl is exhibit A.
Wow, that’s some old fashioned reporting based on camping out at the clerk’s office and overhearing shit and putting stuff together. And, then not overselling it by acknowledging that it is simply a strong circumstantial case.
Interesting observation. I suspect you are probably right. At least about some younger people.
I have two nephews. age 30 and 32. Their parents are trump supporters and the only thing I have ever seen on TV in their house is FOX news (well, and college football).
One nephew is a trump supporter, the other hates trump perhaps as much as I do. So one nephew did manage to get some actual news, while the other put blinders on.