Now that Mueller has turned in his final report, but without indictments, it's time to acknowledge that Russiagate has now matured into a fully developed konspiracy theory.
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.
The U.S. prepared to apply more sanctions on Russia this week. After years of increasing sanctions, it might be difficult to find anything in Russia that hasn't already been sanctioned.
The important thing is that the sanctions are working, right?
Yes, we are back there again. With corporate Democrats back to smearing everyone to their left as working for Putin.
We were already there in The Great Post-2016 Election Meltdown of 2017.
Russiagate has jumped a lot of sharks, but this latest shark is the size of a whale.
I've been thinking about doing an essay of all the false Russiagate "bombshells" (over 50 now), but then I figured that eventually someone would do the work for me.
I'll start a thread here to count them (I had started one for a CounterPunch article more than a year ago, but gave up partly because the list just kept growing as I tied to write). So:
Over the past few months, the table has slowly turned. Now the clues are taking us back to the corrupt nest where this plot to destroy the 2016 election and sabotage American democracy began. Who will be the Insider who turns on all the rest of the vipers in the Greatest Crime Against American People in US History?
Just how dirty was that Dossier?
Russian trolls are back in the news. Not because of any new election meddling, but because of a new Senate report based on a research team led by the New Knowledge cybersecurity firm.
Nate Silver is a loyal establishment Dem, BUT he can also do simple math.
What set off Silver was articles like this:
Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say
That’s how editor, Sam Thielman, is describing Congress at NBC News after watching the House Judiciary Committee grilling Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, and questioning him about who was responsible for the media bias against conservatives on the Internet. On Tuesday, Republican ignorance was front and center by virtue of the fact that they head the committee and they are calling the shots. The Democratic brain-trust will be on display in January 2019, if this committee reforms.
The technical illiteracy in both parties is a danger to the nation. Their inquiry strategy is reminiscent a blindfolded man with a long stick trying to land a blow on a pinata that he cannot see. The current Congress simply does not fully grasp the technology enough to see where it is headed in order to ask a competent question. The spectacle is at once humorous and terrifying. Any attempt to regulate or legislate the technologies involved is beyond their comprehension. They are clearly unable to judge the meaning and proper context of the information they were handed by their "advisors" in preparation for this hearing.
