Time for a new term - Russiagate Dead-Enders

We might all be about to see the most epic partisan political meltdown in American history. How much damage this will do to the Democratic Party is beyond my ability to predict.

Two days ago we saw this.

After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee.

This prompted a disingenuous pushback from Rachel Maddow.
Based on this reaction, we need to create a new term - Russiagate Dead-Enders.
In case you need some help picturing a Russiagate Dead-Ender, just think of a Hillary Dead-Ender.

Then today NBC, the same people who employ Maddow, posted this headline.

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Millions of Americans may be sorely disappointed.

Unless Mueller files a detailed indictment charging members of the Trump campaign with conspiring with Russia, the public may never learn the full scope of what Mueller and his team has found — including potentially scandalous behavior that doesn't amount to a provable crime.

The reason: The special counsel operates under rules that severely constrain how much information can be made public.

Happy Fitzmas, Everyone!

Fitzmas
"Fitzmas" is the atmosphere of excitement and anticipation preceding the conclusion of Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation into the Bush regime's treason and perjury.

Wow. Who could have saw this one coming?
Oh wait, anyone with critical thinking skills. Hell, doubting Russiagate was the primary reason I got bojo'd from Dkos.
The GOS will likely be the most entertaining center of the meltdown. Who's got the popcorn?

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Amanda Matthews's picture

and choke. Farking morons.

EDIT: deleted ‘like’

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

@Amanda Matthews
Might change their tune-a-bit

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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@Amanda Matthews

for something that makes World War III less likely is unbelievable.

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"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

Raggedy Ann's picture

pals are sending me anymore breaking news! I kept telling them it was created by the dims and they were aghast!

Aghast this! Pleasantry

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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

@Raggedy Ann
that Trump is a traitor because of a pee tape.
Who could possibly doubt logic like that?

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The Liberal Moonbat's picture

@gjohnsit I stopped watching Noah and Colbert sometime in mid-2016 (after the primaries, before the general), partly because it was all just gratuitous depression-fodder by that point, but primarily because I'm just not a "watch a show that's on 4 days a week" kind of person.

It was kind of like in middle-school when, after reading the comics every day basically ever since I was first able to read them on my own, I realized one morning that I wasn't really doing it because I wanted to. I put them down and never looked back. The story of how/when I finally quit World of Warcraft in 2009 was not identical, but similar.

Jon Stewart and progeny were never perfect, and that's okay - but I should at least hope that Stephen Colbert is still the same guy who ripped Dubya a new one in 2006.

What about Jordan Klepper and The Opposition Report? That sounded clever, but I never got around to watching it (because again, even a good TV show 4 nights a week most weeks of the year is too much for me). Anyone?

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@Raggedy Ann

Smile

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"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

JekyllnHyde's picture

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A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

enhydra lutris's picture

Collusion is real. The Dems have been colluding with the GOP on endless war and many, many other things.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

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"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

Pricknick's picture

"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude,'" one Democratic aide said.

They'll be just as convinced as madcow.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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@Pricknick

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Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.

@GreatLakeSailor

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WaterLily's picture

@gjohnsit But this is an account I need to follow. Lol

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@Pricknick evidence is all microscopy and everything.

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dfarrah

Anja Geitz's picture

Hell, doubting Russiagate was the primary reason I got bojo'd from Dkos.

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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

the russians did it
or
BIOTR -- blame it on the russians
or
HLCR -- Hillary lost cuz russians
or
RBCG --russians bad clinton good

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detroitmechworks's picture

Hillary Did Nothing Wrong...

Their eternal refrain...

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

Bollox Ref's picture

At this point, these people are beyond help.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

earthling1's picture

Push Mueller to open an investigation into Israeli collusion in the 2016 election favoring Trump.
God damnit, somebodys gotta pay for this jerk of a POTUS.
Throw Israel under the bus.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

One question I's like to get answered by all the fans of his 'investigation' is why will he not take an interview with Julian Assange? The offer has been made but the answer from Rep. Adam 'I see Russians everywhere' Shiff was that his committee would love to interview the person they attack the most, Julian Assange, but only "after he was cuffed and in custody". What a judge he'd make,'sentence first, trial later' in true Alice in Wonderland style.

But what is Mueller's excuse, here you have what you feel is major player in what you claim to be investigating and you don't want to hear from him? What real investigator wouldn't jump at the chance to get to interview a suspect before any trial to look for statements to use in Court against the suspect? Like hey we know who was the driver of the getaway car at the robbery that is willing to talk to us whaddya think? No were busy with our investigation.

There is a lot to dislike and distrust about Mueller beyond his role in promoting the Iraq war which was/is a 'war of aggression' (aka the worst war crime) and not sanctioned by the UN and bringing hundreds of thousands of deaths and many million refugees while destroying another Country.
That's bad enough by itself but his history is something which everyone should acquaint themselves if they want to know who he is and what he represents.

"...Long before he became FBI Director, serious questions existed about Mueller’s role as Acting U.S. Attorney in Boston in effectively enabling decades of corruption and covering up of the FBI’s illicit deals with mobster Whitey Bulger and other “top echelon” informants who committed numerous murders and crimes.

When the truth was finally uncovered through intrepid investigative reporting and persistent, honest judges, U.S. taxpayers footed a $100 million court award to the four men framed for murders committed by (the FBI-operated) Bulger gang.

Current media applause omits the fact that former FBI Director Mueller was the top official in charge of the Anthrax terror fiasco investigation into those 2001 murders, which targeted an innocent man (Steven Hatfill) whose lawsuit eventually forced the FBI to pay $5 million in compensation.

Mueller’s FBI was also severely criticized by Department of Justice Inspector Generals finding the FBI overstepped the law improperly serving hundreds of thousands of “national security letters” to obtain private (and irrelevant) metadata on citizens, and for infiltrating nonviolent anti-war groups under the guise of investigating “terrorism.” (…)

Mueller was even okay with the CIA conducting torture programs after his own agents warned against participation. Agents were simply instructed not to document such torture, and any “war crimes files” were made to disappear. Not only did “collect it all” surveillance and torture programs continue, but Mueller’s (and then Comey’s) FBI later worked to prosecute NSA and CIA whistleblowers who revealed these illegalities..."

https://gosint.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/the-dark-past-of-special-prosecu...

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Pluto's Republic's picture

@aliasalias

...and use them to distract the public from the truth and radicalize them against Russia. The Democrats were instrumental in helping Mueller cover up the crimes of the US and UK intelligence agencies and operatives within the Obama Administration. They illegally conspired to orchestrate a victory for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election. Mueller and his fellow Intelligence and DOJ co-conspirators knew from the beginning that there was no collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. UK operative Christopher Steele wrote the fake dossier for the FBI to prove otherwise. Steele, CrowdStrike, and Maddow were the big money-makers on this venture. It's estimated that Mueller will bill taxpayers $40 million for his part in bamboozling the American public.

Cover-ups and screw-ups is what Mueller specializes in. For everyone who didn't pick up on the Russia Hoax almost immediately, the DOJ hiring of Robert Mueller to drag it out with irrelevant distractions and ham-sandwich indictments should have tipped them off to the Hoax.

The Bad News: The real traitors and co-conspirators will simply walk away from their crimes; some quite a bit richer.

The Good News: Americans will never again trust the manipulative corporate news-media liars OR the American technology and social media sell-outs, thanks to Mueller & Friends. There, lies some hope....

Summary Date Source
Robert Muellers FBI protected mobster Whitey Bulger and thwarted investigations into his activities. 03/01/2011 New American
Mueller sought and received funds from a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, to oversee an FBI effort to retrieve an American in Iran (Deripaska has since turned up in the Trump probe) 09/01/2009 The Hill
Despite knowing who leaked Valerie Plame's identity to a reporter, Mueller tasked a special counsel to investigate the Bush Administration for years, eventually ensnaring a non-leaker with a process charge 04/19/2018 The Federalist
When a Clinton White House official, Sandy Berger, was caught destroying and removing classified material, Mueller's FBI gave him a slap on the wrist 04/19/2018 The Federalist
Mueller's point man on the anthrax investigation was accused of misconduct in the Ruby Ridge standoff; was accused of leaking information about the anthrax probe to help the FBI politically 08/24/2002 The Washington Post
Despite personally authorizing the mass surveillance of innocent Americans, Mueller told the Senate no such surveillance occurred 01/29/2018 The Hill
At the FBI, Mueller repeatedly signed Foreign Intel Surveillance Court orders demanding phone companies turn over records on all Americans 01/29/2018 The Hill
The Electronic Freedom Foundation found that under Mueller, the FBI committee "tens of thousands of violations of federal law, regulations, or executive orders" 01/29/2018 The Hill
Under Mueller, the FBI inspector general said agents abused the PATRIOT Act to unconstitutionally spy on thousands of innocent Americans 01/29/2018 The Hill
Under Mueller, the FBI concealed evidence showing FBI agents warned headquarters pre-9/11 about suspicious Arabs in flight school (which went unheeded) 01/29/2018 The Hill
Mueller is accused of using the Russia probe to cover up FISA abuse in the Obama Administration 03/13/2018 Tablet
Mueller's chief investigator in the Russia probe, Andrew Weissmann, was frequently accused of bending the law to win convictions (which are often overturned) 10/19/2017 The Hill
When Mueller served in the DoJ's criminal division, he quashed an investigation showing FBI agents framed an innocent man with murdering his family 10/17/2017 Harvey Silverglate
Mueller, while serving as a U.S. attorney in Boston, once tried to entrap a defense attorney 10/17/2017 Harvey Silverglate
Mueller was tasked with negotiating the release of Edward Snowden from Russia; he made no progress 11/24/2017 The Los Angeles Times
When an internal FBI investigation into the counterterrorism unit Mueller created was effectively worthless, his associates had it buried 11/24/2017 The Los Angles Times
In 1979, Mueller bungled and ultimately lost the feds' case against 33 Hells Angels 11/24/2017 LA Times
Mueller bungled the FBI's high-profile anthrax investigation, spying on and falsely accusing two innocent Americans and ultimately refused to apologize 02/08/2018 The Federalist
Mueller conspired with Comey to help the latter assume the role of attorney general while John Ashcroft was hospitalized so they could help obstruct an anti-terrorism domestic surveillance program 05/21/2017 RealClearPolitics
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Amanda Matthews's picture

@Pluto's Republic
links!

Thank you.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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@Amanda Matthews For early, often, and easy reference!

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@WaterLily

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

@Pluto's Republic he's been good.

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

@Pluto's Republic
just add in a video or two like this

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@Pluto's Republic

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@aliasalias Mueller has been CIA since before he went into the army back in the sixties. He fixed the Iran-contra trials. In case you missed it:

https://caucus99percent.com/content/what-mueller-wont-find

Also, going back a couple of years:

https://caucus99percent.com/content/okeydoke-americans-were-supposed-get

But, for the Russiagate deadenders, remember that he played lacrosse with John Kerry in school.

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@Pluto's Republic

He ran the investigation into Noriega.

He's a fixer for the Bush faction. Always has been. Now that faction is the Bush/Clinton faction, but his loyalty remains.

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"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

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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

He can churn more chaos and unintended outcomes than any lawyer I've seen in DC.

If you know how to read source code, I deposit a lot of research under some of my comments, that I can access later to elaborate. This comment is rich with hidden text. He cocks-up and buries just about everything he touches. That's why those corrupt Deep State bastards love him so much.

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dervish's picture

and certain activists and officials, but common people don't give a shit about it.

While the donor class is busy building and selling new tropes for why we need wars, average people are tuning out to the point of being dangerous. Look at what happened in France.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

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@jim p
Mueller from the very beginning. One only needs to look at the tremendous damage done to America's democracy during the last two years with this highly divisive investigation.

Trump could have shut it down but Vlad convinced him to let it continue because the fallout will almost guarantee him a second term.

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Russia, Russia, Russia parade.
I have gladly gone from supporting Bernie to Tulsi with my $27/mo.
Bernie was always weak on our regime change wars. Tulsi is not.
Tulsi quit her DNC post to support Bernie. Bernie caved to support HRC.
The list goes on, but I need not belabor the point.

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chuck utzman

TULSI 2020