Posted on 12/10/2017 5:09:36 PM PST by spintreebob
I’ve written a lot of controversial things in my young career here, and as a natural consequence of this I’ve had to learn how to deal with the surreal experience of receiving truckloads of angry comments, private messages and emails on a daily basis while still keeping my skin thin enough to be able to write poetry. It comes with the territory, and I hurl my own share of insults, so I am not complaining when I say that I have never, ever written anything that has drawn nearly as much widespread vitriol as my last few Russiagate articles.
I guess people had a lot riding on the Flynn thing. They know that this campaign they’re all engaged in needs to be fed with continuous momentum, and if that momentum ever dissipates the whole thing will vanish like smoke into the news churn. There’s an awareness that the enthusiasm and energy behind Russiagate is manipulating public opinion in a certain direction that fear of Trump makes them desire, so any suggestion that the Flynn plea isn’t what they were hoping it would be is met with a catastrophic reaction since it risks killing that needed momentum.
I noted all the way back in July that when Russiagaters run out of arguments their bold, certain statements about Trump being Putin’s [insert your prefered homophobic slur here] are always replaced by “Well you don’t know! Mueller’s going through a whole investigation and he could still totally find proof of collusion!” This has overwhelmingly been the case with the arguments I’ve received over the last few days as well. Mueller has access to all kinds of secret evidence that nobody else is allowed to see, so I should stop acting so confident that he’ll never find evidence that Trump and Russia colluded to steal the 2016 election until his investigation is over.
“Stop insisting they’ll never find anything and just let Mueller do his job!” goes the common refrain. “Just let the investigation run its course and see what happens!”
Well to tell you the truth I’d be happy to do exactly that. I’d be delighted if we could all just let this Russiagate thing go and let the investigation run its course. But that isn’t what’s been happening, is it? The frenzied campaign to keep this hysterical narrative front and center of all Trump-related conversations at all times drives Russiagaters to dominate political discourse with each new “bombshell” update that never leads to anything remotely resembling proof of their pet conspiracy theory. This behavior has helped manufacture support for internet censorship and continuing escalations in tensions with a nuclear superpower while sucking all oxygen out of the room for any progressive agendas as the entirety of what remains of America’s political left is drawn into collaboration with the neoconservative, neoliberal center against Trump.
I’ll tell you what, Russiagaters: how about you let Mueller do his job? Stop actively working to dominate the narrative with assertions that Trump is “in bed with Russia” based on this and that extremely thin layer of circumstantial evidence, and I’ll stop saying you’re helping the US intelligence community manufacture support for a geopolitical power grab based on lies and psyops. I wouldn’t have to keep talking about this thing if you guys would stop endangering our entire planet by acting as pro-bono propagandists for America’s unelected power establishment, putting us all at increasing risk of nuclear annihilation while making it impossible to focus on the actual, real dangerous things that Trump is doing.
As it is, these nonstop demands that I shut up and let Mueller do his job are actually just Russiagaters saying they want to be able to continue dominating American political discourse with their unsubstantiated claims without anyone pointing out how unsubstantiated they are. That’s not a thing, guys. We’re not doing that. I’m not going to shut up while you go around promulgating your entirely faith-based narrative that Mueller’s secret, invisible evidence is going to prove you right any minute now.
Russiagate only looks legitimate from inside a particular echo chamber, and even then you have to do a lot of mental contortions to make it look like a compelling narrative. As long as this pernicious narrative is neutering the political left and endangering our world with senseless cold war escalations, you can bet that I and others like me will keep pointing out the gaping plot holes in your story. If you ever get tired of that and decide that you really do want to just let the investigation take its course, none will be happier than I. Until then, don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
“...the surreal experience of receiving truckloads of angry comments...”
EVERYTHING is SO SURREAL to these youngsters. I’m not really convinced they even know what that means.
Mueller? Mueller?
Has anyone see Ferris Mueller?
A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack
Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact
Bombshell Report on the DNC Hack by Forensic Experts Claims It Was an Inside Job, Not the Russians
I think Meuller is just keeping a lid on the Uranium One situation.
Tell me that’s photoshopped.
This Mueller investigation is just an official sounding, government funded Hillary hatchet job.
Good grief!
That outfit could scare a maggot off a gut wagon
Nonetheless, the story we now see about HDK and Bork Obunga taking bribes to allow Russian control of a major share of US uranium production certainly seems to be real enough.
Also seemingly real are the claims of Russian spetznaz groups rounding up democrats in democrat-controlled US cities for some sort of a scientific study of primitive people at the University of Moscow. As one of those spetznaz officers explained to me, the thing is similar to the "Naked and Afraid" show which has been seen on television. They're putting the democrats in some sort of a rock quarry with bananas to eat and water to drink and just their hands to see if they're capable of fashioning stone tools on their own.
Now she knows the reality of liberals vs. the virtue-signalling lie.
The frenzied campaign to keep this hysterical narrative front and center of all Trump-related conversations at all times drives Russiagaters to dominate political discourse with each new “bombshell” update that never leads to anything remotely resembling proof of their pet conspiracy theory.It's much bigger even than the 9/11"Truther" bull****, and I suspect it will trickle on down their incontinent legs until they all drown in it. Thanks spintreebob.
None of this nonsense would have been possible if Seth Rich had not been killed in the nick of time...which raises the question of who ordered his death.
Others are noticing as well...
>>as the entirety of what remains of America’s political left is drawn into collaboration with the neoconservative, neoliberal center
Ringing the bell right down the pipe...
Really?
The deep state is so arrogant I wouldn’t put anything past them.
Both botched jobs are obvious.
I’d say the jumpsuit is a masterpiece compared to the birth certificate.
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