The Most Plausible Explanation
I've been wading around in this "Deep State" muck for almost a year now. I still don't know what to think. Is Comey a good guy or a bad guy? How about Mueller, or Flynn?
Yesterday I stumbled across this Twitter account - the SIXTEENTH account this guy has had to create because twitter really does not like what he has to say - and he puts it all together so elegantly it's hard not to believe he's spot-on. He provides an explanation to factual events
https://twitter.com/nameredacted5/status/937831014965153792
Using an "unroll" application you can read the whole 50 tweet thread in order
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/937831014965153792
For example:
The Clintons, along with Terry McCauliff donated $700k to the campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, wife of then Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, giving her campaign nearly 3x more than that race usually sees. Despite this, he did not recuse himself from the investigation of her email server. The state of Virginia has unique campaign finance laws, allowing a former candidate to keep any leftover funds. It sure appears as if the Clinton donations were a payoff to McCabe. After McCabe was promoted to acting FBI Director, he instructed his underling Peter Strzok to purchase the "Steele Dossier" which was used to get FISA warrants on Trump.
I hope this guy writes a book.
Comments
This explains Sessions action/nonaction
if not what most here thought, a coup is/was/still being
attempted, amirite?
clintons ain't nothing but pure evil, but that's only the
top of the list.
EDIT: guy does a great job, and hopefully he lives long enough to write that book.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Calling this a coup is an overstatement,
especially when you consider the fact that the coup began under Nixon with the Powell Memo. The forced installation and eventual removal of Incompetent Puppet Trump is just the continuation.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Coup time started w/JFK
and trump wasn't forced upon us, he was/is a brutal
miscalculation by tptb that believed it was all set up for
here heinous. Pence was insurance not against but for tptb.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
@The Aspie Corner I would say--use of a
I would say--use of a legal case to create a cover story to oust an elected President.
That would make it a velvet coup of sorts--but only of the Trump administration; as you pointed out, the coup that took down the Republic began sometime between 1963 and 1973; by 1972 it had its plan; by 1982 it had scored its first major political victory en route to taking over the political system; by 1992 it had scored its second such victory; in 1994, it scored its third, and final victory necessary for complete control of American federal politics. All along there, from 1980 to, well, the present, it was corrupting the courts and placing its people in high positions; by 2000 they had already clearly gotten enough people in to control the Supreme Court; then came 9/11 (their "catalyzing event") and the Patriot Act, which they had all ready in a drawer, and the legal system fell.
I guess I left out economics, but you know the drill. They started destroying the economic prospects and survival of the bottom 90% of the economic ladder in the early seventies. Bill Clinton finished that job successfully. Good for him. That's how you earn his kind of cushy retirement.
I also left out the Drug War, but you can fill that in yourself--it was the older brother of the War on Terror, the one who was able to hide his bullying nature under a good, law-abiding mask for a while. Unlike his younger sibling, who had the personality of a rabid dog and didn't care who knew it. Oh, yeah, wait a minute--for a while people were fooled by him too.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
bing. Who knew we were
among the walking dead and just hadn't fallen yet?
At least we remained walking long enough to discover where the bullets were coming from.
Yes, way too late, but it's better to fall knowing than not.
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The Sessions Swiss Cheese Memory Defense
Atty. Gen. Sessions inspired a new defense for a homicidal cop:
But the pressure!
If it works for the Atty. General, who used the phrase "I do not recall 85 times in his Congressional testimony, it must be legal:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42784-jeff-sessions-constant-lying-is...
Did the Affluenza Defense set a precedent?
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
I think that every time...
I start thinking about not safe for the internet comments, I will instead post a clip to a British Comedy sketch which expresses my sentiments in a manner that has been approved by the PTB.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyF7YmHYhYc]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
DOJ worked hard NOT to make case against Clinton
The prosecutor who put away Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman provides some sorta insider details on how the DOJ treated the Clinton email investigation versus Trump. As he states, the Clinton DOJ worked hard not to make a case against Clinton.
The Trump Collusion Case Is Not Getting the Clinton Emails Treatment
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453659/mueller-paul-manafort-inves...
I respectfully suggest that it way to bet
is that they are all, if not evil, seriously corrupted. None in higher levels of govt. today can reasonably be considered good guys or gals. That the seriously wicked and their corrupted followers are fighting among themselves is to be welcomed, not deplored. Think of the damage they could do if they were united.
There may certainly still be lower level appointees and hires who are trying their best to serve the nation and its citizens while clinging to the shreds of their integrity, but we won't see their names in the Lamestream.
Mary Bennett
Posted to Reddit
Way of the Bern subredddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/7hqkdo/the_most_plausible...
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Fascinating/excellent work by the poster
Though it's hard for me to believe that the NSA still has somebody that high up in its ranks who cares about the country at all. Of course, maybe it wasn't that--maybe it was just loyalty to Trump.
The people commenting in that thread are really great, or they would be if they didn't trust Trump. I imagine a patriotic Republican might have said the same about me in 2008 when I was trusting Obama. I hate watching them make the same mistakes--esp. because that end of the political spectrum is habitually much more sure of their rightness than I ever am.
They get so much right, that part of the right--and then they get so much horribly wrong.
Drop the faith in Trump, and whatever racism might be there, and I could absolutely stand in solidarity with them as regards this corrupt, tyrannical system we live in. It's true that they don't seem to get the fact that private enterprise is also up to its greedy eyeballs in the same corruption, and, in fact, generally sponsors it, but since 2008 that has changed a bit. There are more anti-corporate rightists than there used to be--and even more of them despise Wall St.
But I can't stand with people who accept racism--and I can't stand with a movement that takes a DC politician as its leader, even a Johnny-come-lately. Been there, done that, the T-shirt sucks.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Sure, but the same could be said of Dems
What they get right: Anything to do with the issues/problems/corruption of the other party.
What they get wrong: Anything to do with the issues/problems/corruption of their own party.
What neither know: Gilens & Page.
That is the nature of the current propaganda regime. Saying that they get some of it right but they don't understand Gilens & Page really means they have none of it right.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
@SnappleBC I think the populist
I think the populist right gets Gilens and Page just fine--it's just that they think Trump is going to take DC by storm and reverse those conditions (drain the swamp). Drain the Swamp is their Hope and Change. I believed the same thing about Obama 9 years ago.
What they get right: their understanding of the corruption and tyranny of the government, and that the republic is dying or dead
What they sometimes get right: their understanding of the role Wall St/big banks play in this
What they occasionally get right: their understanding of the role big multinational corporations play in this
What they often get wrong: driven by their desire to believe in the virtue of the private sector, they place blame on government that belongs to big corporations or banks
What they often get wrong: in the same vein, they maintain the good guy/bad guy opposition between the public and private sectors, when any fool could see that distinction has long collapsed, and that, if anything, the public sector is like a chauffeur. Yeah, he's driving the car, but only where his boss tells him to.
What they very often get wrong: They indulge in racist and xenophobic scapegoating when, again, any fool could see that the majority of African Americans, and almost all new immigrants (especially the Latino south-of-the-border kind they object to most strenuously) have no power whatsoever over the direction of the country. I'm not sure how one could justify this mindless lashing-out at people as helpless as oneself, or more so, but I'm guessing Obama was like a big Christmas present for them as far as providing a vaguely plausible pretext for this violent nonsense (Hey look! A black man became President--and he was awful and betrayed everybody! See--we were right!) [sigh] No. No, you're not.
I say they "very often" get this wrong, not because the violent nonsense is ever right, but because I don't assume every individual on the right subscribes to the violent nonsense. In fact, I bet it would be very difficult to be a conservative who hates racism--just as difficult as it is to be a Democrat who believes in economic justice. But there probably are some out there, and I bet there are just as few places for them to express their beliefs as there are for members of the independent left (or whatever you want to call us).
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@SnappleBC I guess what I'm saying
I guess what I'm saying is that they know the U.S. government doesn't represent them, or, really, anybody in the bottom 90%. They just believe that can be changed by an election.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver