Thread by @PalmerReport

This is so ugly, but here are the salient points:

- Judge Jackson will give Roger Stone the same sentence she was always going to give him

- William Barr will likely be impeached now

- Trump may be impeached again too

- None of this magically helps Trump's weak 2020 prospects

This isn't "optimism." This isn't trying to make you "feel good." This is just reality, based on the available facts, logic, and evidence.

If any of this sounds "optimistic" it you, it's only because you're accustomed to ratings-driven pundits who feed you doomsday hysteria.

You'd have to be almost literally insane to think that Judge Jackson is going to give Stone a shorter sentence to appease Trump, or that this stunt somehow magically helps Trump's 2020 prospects. That's how severely the doomsday pundits can brainwash you with their hysteria.

Stop trying to figure out Trump's evil genius strategy. He doesn't have one. He's just flailing.

Stop painting Barr as having a magic wand. He's just a flailing guy who's desperately trying to convince Trump to pardon him. Barr knows he's going to prison without a pardon.

When bumbling crooks like Trump and Barr do brazenly corrupt things that are stupid and self defeating, it's an outrage and it's bad for democracy – but it doesn't somehow magically help them. Dumb criminals brazenly screw themselves over all the time. These two are no different.

But if you really want to help Trump and Barr out of the corner they're backed into, just keep yelling around about how they're going to magically get away with it all. Keep demotivating those on your on side who are fighting and winning. Keep being a stupid asshole like that.

And I'm going to keep blocking the hysterical fatalists who try to hijack my replies in the name of spreading their doomsday fantasies and demotivating everyone. These fatalists are dangerous. They are our enemy. It's time we stand up to them, and shout down their bullshit.

So many of you have spent so much time listening to the fictional pardon hysteria on MSNBC, you're under the illusion that a pardon is a magic wand.

For too many legal reasons to list, Trump pardoning Stone wouldn't keep Stone out of prison, and could blow up in Trump's face.