We've entered the five stages of Russiagate Grief

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 12:43pm

Stage One: Denial

Let me be clear, I CONCEDE NOTHING! If #MuellerReport didn’t look into Trump’s business ties with the Russians before the elections and didn’t look into his secret meetings with them after the election, then this is an epic debacle that looked into the exact wrong things.

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 24, 2019

In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future.

— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019

Stage Two: Anger (mostly reserved for leftists)

Greenwald vs. Uygur

Government: Hussein has WMD's, here's a summary intel report

Greenwald: I DONT BELIEVE IT, SHOW ME HARD EVIDENCE

Government: Trump didn't collude/obstruct, here's 4pg summary

Greenwald: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AGREEING WITH MY NARRATIVE

— College Briber (@PutinPowershell) March 27, 2019

Can we focus on the Golan Heights, Venezuela and Yemen? Or are we gonna waste more time on victory laps?

— self-proclaimed jai (@quinticfunction) March 27, 2019

I can summarize GG’s world view in one tweet: “US bad, Putin good, Hillary bad, Bernie good, Fox good, MSNBC bad, Trump Presidency not dangerous, Brazilian Presidency very dangerous and dogs are more important than people”. Did I miss anything?

— Michael Knittel (@MPK67) March 27, 2019

Stage Three: Bargaining

Possible that Mueller is preparing to hand dozens to a hundred sealed indictments to regular offices when he unseals; the Attorneys on his team are appellate specialists, I believe. E.G. Dana Boente at EDVA obtained the sealed indictment on @Trump (covering @realDonaldTrump)

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) February 21, 2019

Stage Four: Depression

NYTimes

A popular podcast called “Mueller, She Wrote,” which is streamed up to 200,000 times a week, calls its Russia-obsessed fans Muellerites. One of the three hosts, a California comedian who goes by A. G. and has a tattoo of Mr. Mueller’s silhouette on her arm, said the community was in what could only be described as a collective state of muted shock.
“I’ve had to talk a couple people off the ledge,” she said.

One fan of the podcast, Anne Craig-Tillmond, said she wants to see the full report before she’s “completely deflated.”

“I’ve been emotionally invested from the start, and was I let down by what Barr said? Absolutely,” Ms. Craig-Tillmond said. “Was I let down by what Mueller said? I don’t know what he said.”

The Facebook page of the Robert Mueller Fan Club says on its “About” page, “All hail Robert Mueller — through his work we shall be delivered from this ignorance and evil we suffer.” Barbara Llewellyn, a retired real estate agent from Naperville, Ill., had written “Hallelujah” on the page. But by Monday, she had changed her tune.

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 12:59pm

Fantastic piece!

I know many people going through these stages as I write! LOL! Thank you!

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 1:09pm

You know Acceptance is NEVER going to happen

As long as there's a dime to be squeezed out of this...

Honestly, I'm shocked how long they're staying in that Egyptian River...

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Z3lmidmrY]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 2:22pm

MSNBC in a bind

@detroitmechworks what now?

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 1:51pm

I'm sure Bill and Hillary would agree...

:eyeroll:

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 2:19pm

Isn't that what they call a

@Dr. John Carpenter

Fellatious argument?

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 2:44pm

Hmm...

@Anja Geitz maybe we need a new "Deep Throat" to get to the bottom of it?

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 2:48pm

I can't think of anything more appropriate

@Dr. John Carpenter

When talking about OJ, Trump, and Clinton.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 2:16pm

Neurological effects of media saturation

While some people are more susceptible than others, the willing participant of the media's "shaping the narrative" can actually experience having their brain patterns "shaped" as well, which then manifests itself in behavior not characteristic in that person prior to the persistent participation in media saturation.

Exhibit A:

One of the three hosts, a California comedian who goes by A. G. and has a tattoo of Mr. Mueller’s silhouette on her arm,

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by ZimInSeattle on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 3:15pm

Well done gjohnsit.

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 4:04pm

Excellent essay, gjohnsit

I am so angry that this charade has been perpetuated upon the American people for over two years with the net effect of sucking all the air out of real and meaningful issues. It has also brought the US and Russia into a new Cold War and closer to nuclear annihilation than ever.

If it is really about Trump's business dealings, then they should have made it about that. But they chose to make it about Russia which was a dangerous game of chicken being played between two nuclear powers. These people should be publicly shamed and banned forever from calling themselves journalists. And they refuse to give it up. Rachel Maddow has proven that $10 million per year is all she needed to become the foremost propagandist on television. And she is still peddling that sh*t.

IMHO, this is and never really was about Trump as their primary purpose for launching this dangerous plan. It began as a coverup for Her Heinous losing the easiest Presidential election in history to an orange carnival barker and con man. The book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign recounts how the night of Clinton's defeat, Robbie Mook and John Podesta concocted the plan to blame it on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

That strategy had been set within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.

Meanwhile all this air time has been wasted while our planet is rapidly becoming inhabitable for living things and the country is being bankrupted by endless wars and massive tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and corporations among us.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 5:39pm

Rachel did such a great job she got a raise

@gulfgal98

Didn't she used to only make $7 million a year before she became obsessed with Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia? Why yes I think she did.

Boy am I glad that iPads remember what I type so I rarely have to type many words because my iPad knows what I'm going to say.... Russia Russia.. see? I just have to hit the R and Russia comes up.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by Shahryar on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 4:03pm

I've seen this today

the new line is that Mueller has outsourced the indictments!

from a good friend of mine who shared this:

Mueller is playing a much smarter game than Trump will ever know. Saw this posted earlier. According to a new report from the New York Times. Mueller has farmed out federal indictments to 1) the SDNY, in Manhattan, 2) the EDNY, in Brooklyn, 3) the EDVA in Virginia, 4) the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles, 5) the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington DC, 6) the DOJ National Security Division, and 7) the DOJ Criminal Division.

I love the guy but uh....

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 5:14pm