Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
The Narrative is dead! Long live The Narrative!
That’s what played on CNN, NBC, and The New York Times yesterday as they struggled to digest the parting meal Robert Mueller served to the RussiaGate lynch mob: a nothingburger with a side of crow-flavored fries. Mr. Mueller was careful, though, to leave a nice red poison cherry on top with his statement that “…while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Mr. Mueller, who ought to know better, could not be more in error on that too-fine-a-point. The official finding that no crime was committed is, ipso facto, an exoneration, and to impute otherwise is a serious breach of his role in this legal melodrama. Prosecutors are expressly forbidden to traffic in defamation, aspersion, and innuendo in the absence of formal charges. So, it will be interesting to hear what Mr. Mueller has to say when Jerrold Nadler reels him into the House Judiciary Committee, as inevitably he will, to do to some ‘splainin.’
What actually happened with RussiaGate? A cabal of government officials colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign to interfere in the 2016 election and, failing to achieve their desired outcome, engineered a two-years-plus formal inquisition to deflect attention from their own misconduct and attempt to overthrow the election result.
The Cable News characters, quite a few of them lawyers, were litigating the living shit out of the story on Sunday night in their usual spirit of obdurate rank dishonesty. For instance, Jeffrey Toobin, who plays Attorney General on CNN, went off on the infamous 2016 Trump Tower Meeting in which the president’s son, Donald, Jr., met with Russian lawyer Natalia V. Veselnitskaya. Toobin omitted to mention that Ms. Veselnitskaya was, at that very time, on the payroll of Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton’s “oppo” research contractor. In other words, Trump Junior was set up.
That was characteristic of the collusion that actually occurred between the Hillary campaign, the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA, the UK’s MI6 intel agency, and the Obama White House, striving to prevent the election of a TV reality show star, and to disable him afterwards — also of the news media’s role in the whole interminable scam of RussiaGate. Their fury and despair were as vivid the night of March 24, 2019, as on November 8, 2016. And now they will attempt to spark off a sequel.
Rachel Maddow, for instance, struggling to maintain her dignity after two years playing Madame DeFarge on MSNBC, tried to console her fans with the prospect of Mr. Trump getting raked over the coals by the DOJ’s Southern District prosecutors for crimes as yet unpredicted — really, whatever they might find if they turn over enough rocks in Manhattan. Perhaps she doesn’t know how the justice system actually works in this country: we prosecute crimes not persons. In places like Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Germany, you first choose a person to eliminate and then fit them to a crime. If no crime can be found, one is easily manufactured. In the USA, a predicate crime is required before you can launch a prosecution. Perhaps the actual Attorney General, Mr. Barr, will advise the avid staff of the Southern District of NY how this works.
There remains also, the rather sweeping panorama of misconduct and probable crime among the government (and former government) players in the agencies mentioned above. Does the full Mueller Report mention, for instance, that the animating document claiming that Trump colluded with Russia was manufactured by Mrs. Clinton’s employees? And that this document was used time and again improperly and illegally to prolong the inquisition? How could Mr. Mueller not acknowledge that? And if not, what sort of investigation was this?
You are forced to ask: did Mr. Mueller play an honorable role in this epic, multilayered scandal? And is Mr. Mueller himself an honorable character, or something less than that? I believe we’ll find out. The other team is coming to bat now — and just in time for MLB’s opening day, too. The Mueller report has been a shocking disappointment to the so-called “resistance,” but what about the as-yet-unreleased DOJ Inspector General’s report on these very matters? Or the parallel investigation of federal prosecutor John Huber, who is charged specifically with looking into the malfeasance of the RussiaGate investigators? Or whatever action the Attorney General himself launches in the wake of all this? Or whether Mr. Trump finally declassifies the mountains of documents behind the simple failure to find him guilty of any crime?
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We twiddled our cigarettes and pulled our chins.
“Because he was just that pissed,” he said.
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“And now they will attempt to spark off a sequel.”
This ^ because they have nothing else to offer. Nothing positive of constructive. Just lies.
Sarah Sanders owned Savanna Guthrie this morning on NBC. You can easily see why Savanna didn’t make it as an attorney.
Harry- I’ll bet you really believed all those wrestlers in WWE really beat the hell out of each other, folding chairs and all. The carnival side show has been replaced by cable news outlets .
“Say it ain’t so Joe.”
Yep.
It will be called “Trump’s Attorney General is a Bad Man Too!”:
Will someone please tell these clowns that prosecutors don’t exonerate jack shit?
The clown show continues…
Hillary reacts to the Mueller report.
“Mr. Mueller, who ought to know better, could not be more in error on that too-fine-a-point. The official finding that no crime was committed is, ipso facto, an exoneration, and to impute otherwise is a serious breach of his role.” That right there tells you everything you need to know about Mueller
I have very little interest in these political shit storms as they are usually part of the bread and circus narratives that serves our owner’s aims-the bright shiny object to snow the rabble. I did however enjoy watching the Morning Jokers contort themselves around the bullshit positions they shoveled for the past 2 years. Mika was especially fun to watch. I doubt joe is getting much poon this week, from her anyway. And I will be spot welded to the madcow tonight to glory in her agony. Hey, maybe mika and madcow can get together for a little lesbo grief lap-a-thon. But it’s all worthless horseshit that will come to nothing.
What I do find worthy of interest and potentially terrifying is how the Russians have been backed into the corner and put on the defensive with all this bullshit (could that have been the real objective with all this Kabuki theatre?) I read today Vlad has sent troops into Venezuela on the back page of Breitbart. Fuck muller-he’s just another globalist operative, this shit is real. But not worth a mention by the ‘news’ media of course.
I predict this will be like the JFK assassination – it will never fucking stop.
They’re still talking about the Colosio assasination
I believe I would take a different legal approach. They executed 500 search warrants, 2,500 interviews and caused obviously hundreds to spend millions on attorney fees etc. I would organize a massive legal assault beginning with filing multiple law suits by multiple plaintiffs against all the fuqueres but largely at the deep pockets of the Clinton Foundation, Tom Steyer and people like that.
How do you pronounce ‘fuqueres’ – does it rhyme with grey poupon?
From my careful study of Tommy Chong in “The Corsican Brothers” I conclude it is to be pronounced “foo-cares.” You may of course continue to call them los chingadores.
Never heard that term – los chingadores. You are trying to convert the verb ‘chinga’ (to fuck or fuck up somebody) into a noun. There is no need for that; a popular term for ‘fuckers’ is putos (considered offensive by gays). Mexican soccer fans love to harass the opposition by chanting that word. It’s a great term but use it safely, you could get your ass kicked for free.
Pay attention to the word they are using today.
Exonerate.
That word hasn’t been used once at any point in the past 50 years.
Today they are in complete lockstep with its usage. Someone from above has passed down the talking points and for some reason that word is very important to them.
HF- Why do you think the word exonerate is so important in their narrative?
Because the point they want to make is that he is not off the hook. somebody said this is simply the end of the beginning.
Geez EC, I get that…. I want HF to give his two cents what the next go-round will be about. There is always this back and forth BS before they actually lower the boom. Keeps the sheep busy til they get down to the later part of the president’s term. High drama could be afoot El.
BL, the Farmer may be at lunch, deeply thinking how to answer your question.
Exonerate: a $29 word lawyers use at times to claim justice has been done-until some other lawyer comes along to suggest otherwise.
Exonerate means the person accused has been found free of guilt, or, not guilty. The word gets used quite often, perhaps not coming out of the mouths of the ‘orange man bad’ clique, but Trump was exonerated of the charges of colluding with Russia to influence the election. The clique is always in complete lockstep, the media is nothing but propaganda and the agenda must be repeated and pushed over and over and over……..
Just to get a sense of the massive scope of this cluster fuck coup attempt, and yes indeed, it starts right at the top of the former administration: this schematic is offered: (it can be enlarged one time by clicking the schematic)
That’s one heck of an infographic. Thanks for posting, Taras
I always heard in grade school that 9/11 was not possibly an inside operation because it would be impossible for that many people to keep their mouth shut. Therefore, it is impossible that the above infographic is realistic or even true. If the nine one one don’t fit, you must acquit.
Is it foggy where coyotes hang out today?
Look, if a guy named hussein can get elected president then anything is possible.
Your conclusion is half baked. You owe Taras a big one.
I’ll let you give Taras Bulby the ‘big one’ since you are unable to recognize snark.
Okay dog, give him a snarky apology.
Taras, if you can, please forgive Gypsum Woman, she’s dense.
Dog, that is Gypsy to you. Please honor my heritage.
You got it!
With 50% of the country yearning for free stuff and the same percentage already deciding that Trump should be locked up and the key thrown away because… well, just because. I find it highly likely that many mouths will continue to be shut, until they can find the way to erase him, one way or another.
The idea here was just the opposite. Get as many people repeating the propaganda as possible. It was assumed by those involved there could be no consequence. It wasn’t a scenario under which you could be executed or imprisoned-as long as they held the levers of power, and failing that, controlled the narrative. Now both are gone and I venture there may be a few new residents in some of the federal “country club prisons.”
Stop making sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHNwBbkSj4
The stark choice before the American people, and its always the people themselves that matter, in the end, is whether they want an actual justice system in this country or whether tolerating a deep state oligarchy is acceptable. Failure to fully prosecute the obvious grotesque malfeasance from Obama/Clinton/Clapper/Brennan/Comey and their various minions for a coup against the legitimate government of the United States of America will result in the end of America on an accelerated timeline. Yes, these folks need to be tried and if found guilty of a capital crime executed. If found guilty of other crimes then maximum sentences should be imposed to deter future crimes against the people of the United States. Obama/Hillary weaponized government for their own political power and must now be held accountable in a public, open and deadly serious prosecution. It was a coup.
I agree with my self.
However, I do realize that we live in a system where fair play is only considered when children are playing board games like Monopoly or Risk. Once you get to the level of corporations and politics, the idea a fair play is simply not an option. (I did love that game of Risk)
These ‘fuqueres’ will kill or imprison a person, like you or I would swat a fly, and they do it as a group think exercise, so no one has to feel guilty when the wet work is completed.
Crap, they need to be busy boiling the rope…
Great graphic, ties all the loose ends together….makes you wonder what will happen to all the criminals. Let’s take a vote….how many think nothing will happen to the likes of Obama, Hillary, Brennan, et al. Methinks nothing will happen to these malicious assholes.
Very good, someone send this to Howie Carr. He did a great bit today on setting up a March madness bracket with all the culpable actors.
Worthwhile notes on the Con.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar19/democratization3-19.html
Never forget:
Wow, that is some graphic. Kathie Lee Gifford must just then be posing as a good Christian to throw us off the scent.
Born Kathryn Epstein, Jewish father, raised Jewish. So, yeah, it’s a con.
https://forward.com/schmooze/182574/kathie-lee-giffords-secret-jewish-ambition/
There are more stars in the media than there are in the sky. One could become an astronomer by watching the news.
One does not prove one’s innocence. One is not exonerated. By the evidence, you are found guilty, or the evidence supports a verdict of not guilty. But it does not prove not guilty, or exonerated. You are deemed innocent until proven otherwise. But not Trump, I guess, and not by the idiot left.
It is difficult to prove a negative. That is not the US system. The system is that the accused must be proven guilty.
The entire narrative about exonerated is bullshit. Mueller was not there to exonerate, but to see if evidence of guilt existed. Of course, it did not. The fact that he found no evidence of guilt is now being twisted to say that he did not exonerate Trump. He never tried to do that, as it is impossible. Exonerate means Mueller could prove there was no collusion, no interference. The Dems know that, and so are clinging to the bullshit.
Look at all the fucking Jews that work at the ” news networks ” and you now know why Trump ( white man ) has been through hell and back over the last two years. If Trump were Jewish you would have never heard a word from these ” people “. It’s always Jews . Every fucking time ! Now you know why Hitler and then Stalin turned on these vile bastards. They got Affirmative action alright. You notice the niggers never say a word about so many Jews working in Entertainment and yes “news” is Entertainment.
Mueller was there solely to apply pressure to Trump, for as long as Trump was attempting to do the things which he said he would do during the election campaign – the things which got him elected.
As soon as Trump betrayed his base, and abandoned the positions which got him elected, the Mueller probe abruptly ended.
If you think Mueller had any interest in a legitimate investigation, you are naive.
If Mueller had said Trump is as pure as the driven snow ,it would make no difference. The media would simply not report what he said. Perception is the only thing that matters to Boobus Americanus and the media creates the perceptions.
Accuses Trump of being a Nazi, then finds out her grandfather was a Nazi. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2385798/Tough-talking-Chelsea-Handler-breaks-discovers-grandfathers-Nazi-past-new-episode-Who-Do-You-Think-You-Are.html
I hope Chuy doesn’t turn out to have Nazi grandparents.
That might be sedition, rather than collusion, in some of those instances.
They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast…
I suppose Avenette’s arrest will now overshadow Trump’s personal Lawyers, Michael Cohen, arrest, even though each were involved with basically the same crime-attempting to extract money from corporations and hush money transactions. What a shit show watching both sides of this.
So, when one is talking about draining the swamp are we only talking about the people who went after Trump? How about the ones that are going after us? When do we get them or is Trump the center of the universe? This is a victory for Trump and you are not included. And by the looks of it, the Israeli’s are once again dancing in the streets. Funny how every country in the world got the shaft from Trump, except Israel. Israel gets all the goodies and the rest of them get crumbs. Perhaps the investigation into collusion came up empty because they had the wrong country.
Nevertheless, out of all this we get to witness a miracle happen. Watch as the irreconcilable difference between the left and the right are suspended over any issue involving Israel. Apparently only Israel can bring Americans into harmony. Watch as both sides fall over each other trying to proclaim their unwavering loyalty to our good friend Israel. Bibi is now sitting at home with his uncontrollable erection pointing east towards Iran.
So now that Trump has cleared his name and drained “his swamp problems”, it is time to get you children enlisted in the army to protect Israels interest. More swamp cleaning for Trump.
The biggest enemy’s of critical thinking is bias and premature conclusions. No one is on your side except you.
“Rachel Maddow, for instance, struggling to maintain her dignity after two years playing Madame DeFarge on MSNBC”
Oh_snap, Mr. Kunstler. Well played.