Oh, yeah, Comey fucked up big time. He’s an idiot and I don’t get why he was so determined to put the investigation into “her emails” on blast while the investigation into tRump’s connection with Russia on the down low. Somehow it would “look political” for the FBI not to prosecute Hillary in the court of public opinion, but nobody worried at all how it would look to keep tRump’s issues secret.
I just thought it was interesting that he addressed how some of these people tRump surrounds himself even start to talk like he does. It made me think of Ronny Jackson, whose letter marveling at tRump’s extraordinary good health sounded as though it could have been written by The Cheeto himself.
I think so too. He has a way of finding these people. He doesn’t always get it right, because sometimes even shitty people like Jeff Sessions and James Mattis will not fully cooperate with what he wants. But he still finds lots of people who will just fall in line.
I know there’s got to be a lot of corruptible people, especially when it comes to the amounts of money that that exchange hands in Washington. But I guess I thought a few more of them would be willing to stand in the way of authoritarianism. I mean actual authoritarianism but they don’t mind. They love it.
Trust me, this isn’t the story; we’ve already known that somehow or another, Trump would eventually find a way to shut down the election. I will admit that I was wrong in the timing - I thought he’d fire Mueller much earlier than he did. As we found out, he would have if only people in his administration had actually obeyed his orders to do so, so I wasn’t really all that wrong to begin with as it turns out.
But now I’m tellin you all this, and listen up good: the real fun is about to begin. While everyone’s outraged over the fact that Mueller didn’t convince the entire congress or the American people to drive Trump out of office, it is clear that this has landed some blows to the body, which means that Trump will inevitably have to respond in kind.
Trump’s in political jeopardy. He is in legal jeopardy. Even worse than that, he and his children are in potential financial jeopardy if they end up on the wrong side of this. They’ve known this was coming and they’ve been preparing for it. All they needed were some authoritarian-minded brethren who were similarly corrupt, and they’ve found their partners in Mitch McConnell and now Bill Barr. And what I’m sayin is this: they’re about to go on the offensive. They’re not going to take this lying down. They know that the electoral math isn’t in their favor and that not everyone’s swallowing their bullshit, so their answer is to simply render democracy and democratic processes ineffectual, or at least less so. From Bill Barr’s point of view, it starts with not just avoiding subpoenas, but rather putting the Democrats on the defensive. The Department of Justice is going to start going to after its "enemies." Bank on it.
This is what I’ve been talking about. I know y’all thought I was nuts, but the moment is here. It’s coming. Get ready.
There was scuttlebutt not long ago (unsourced so far as I know at this point) that Barr has ties to Alfa Bank. I think a lot more Republicans have ties to Russians than we’re currently aware at this point. And I believe that’s why they are so malleable.
They are as scared as Trump, which makes them all dangerous as hell.
Barr also believes that a president can shut down any proceeding against them if they think it’s unfounded or if they’re being falsely accused. So, basically, corrupt presidents can never be investigated.
“In that call, Mueller said he was concerned that media coverage of the obstruction probe was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work, according to Justice Department officials. Mueller did not express similar concerns about the public discussion of the investigation of Russia’s election interference”
Mueller basically extinguished the Russia-hawk narrative, yet there are many who just can’t let go. I think these people are coming unhinged and I’m somewhat frightened that such a large group of otherwise intelligent people are so nuts.
“When Barr pressed Mueller on whether he thought Barr’s memo to Congress was inaccurate, Mueller said he did not but felt that the media coverage of it was misinterpreting the investigation, officials said.”
More dousing of the flames. Mueller said the media fucked up. Some disturbed individuals are having trouble with plain text.
24th March: Barr releases to Congress, and the public, his 4-page summary of the report’s principal conclusions.
25th March: Mueller sends Barr a letter enclosed with the introduction and executive summary for each volume of the report marked with redactions for public release.
27th March: Mueller sends Barr another letter telling him his summary letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the report, which has led to “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.” He says the release of the pre-prepared summaries would “alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen.”
Almost all the media, both Fox and the mainstream media, were going with the Trump has been exonerated narrative at this time. It took some days following the Barr summary for the idea that this was a whitewash to percolate through to the main news media.
Again, I could explain this to you if you’re genuinely not understanding what you see, but you would need to accept that I had explained to you in good faith and that what I have said is factually accurate, whether it comports with your beliefs or not.
We’ll have to see, I suppose. No great hopes, but it certainly sounds plausible.
I’d say that it seems like a patently dumb thing to do, except I do believe that we have reached the stage where the Republican Senate has made it clear that they’re going to defend Trump all the way through 2024 if it comes to it, regardless of whether he felches a live goat on TV or decides to take up a hobby of murdering peasants on the weekend. So, while impeachment isn’t only for Presidents, I’m not feeling like the Senate is going to let Barr go. So far as they’re liable to be concerned, if the man is willing to spend his days practicing the political coprophagia that it requires to try and hide Trump’s shit, well that just spares them from having to do it. If anything, they’re liable to be more protective of Barr than they have been of Trump.
“When Barr pressed Mueller on whether he thought Barr’s memo to Congress was inaccurate, Mueller said he did not but felt that the media coverage of it was misinterpreting the investigation, officials said."
At this point, there are two possibilities. First you can read the above and realize you fucked up and not respond. The other option is you really are that dumb, and you continue to trudge along with your complete stupidity.
“Officials said that Mueller said that what the officials said was fine.” Meanwhile, what Mueller actually said appears to have been something entirely different.