If there’s one group who must be silenced for the common good, it’s those who keep yelling “Trump and his goons will get away with it no matter what.” These defeatist morons are just creating the public expectation for Trump getting away with it, which lets him get away with it.
The people who yell this defeatist stuff are, consciously or subconsciously, ROOTING for Trump to get away with it all. They only care about getting to feel the most outrage possible, which REQUIRES LOSING. They need Trump to get away with it all, to satisfy their mental defect.
These untreated mental patients, disguised as political activists, aren’t just trying to lose. They see you as a THREAT if you’re trying to fight and win, because their outrage-addicted psychosis means they NEED to lose. Their defeatist rhetoric is aimed at wearing YOU down.
Whether it’s left, right, or center, large chunks of political “activism” in the internet / cable news era are just a psych ward. Mentally unwell rage addicts trying to use political outrage as self-medication, in place of the professional psychological help they need instead.
If you want to actually win and actually make anything better, you have to 1) acknowledge you’re navigating a defeatist psych ward on here, and 2) push back against the mentally broken defeatists at every turn. They’re by far your biggest obstacle to delivering positive change.
If you want to pretend that the defeatist mental patients on your own side don’t exist, or are mere bots, or are harmless, then you’re never going to be able to deliver any actual political change. If you’re not willing to take on the defeatists, your “activism” is going nowhere.
Every single time you speak on social media about fighting for political wins and progress, you’re directly competing with the defeatists on your “side” who spend 24/7 telling everyone on your side to give up and lose and succumb to outrage addiction instead. That’s the battle.

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10 Jan
The Fulton County District Attorney, who has empaneled a special grand jury against Donald Trump and others for election tampering, now says that a charging decision will likely be made in the first half of this year. We’re now likely looking at Trump in handcuffs within months.
To the defeatists who are replying with generic gibberish like “I’ll believe it when I see it” or “it’ll never happen no matter what” – go to hell. Your toxic,pathetic defeatism has done more harm to our cause than any right winger ever has. Defeatist babies get blocked.
Imagine being so mentally unhinged that you hate Trump but you literally spend your day yelling “he’ll get away with it all no matter what” at anyone who will listen. That’s mental ward behavior. These defeatist psychos belong in a rubber room.
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All of the wins that the 1/6 committee has achieved thus far – from uncovering key evidence to landing major cooperating witnesses and so on – has been a result of smart savvy STRATEGY, not the foot stomping “aggression” and “urgency” that the pundits on here keep calling for.
There will certainly be a theatrical aspect to the upcoming 1/6 public hearings. But this is still about winning, which means crafting the messaging for viewers in the middle, not based on what makes YOUR socks roll up and down. If you want a reality show, watch the Kardashians.
If the committee publicly takes the position that Trump is guilty and belongs in a cage before it even rolls out its witnesses and evidence, average viewers will just say “well this is partisan” and tune it all out. Which would mean the hearings would be for nothing.
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The media and the pundits all spent months chasing ratings by insisting these sham audits would do huge unspecified "damage." Palmer Report predicted the audits would fail to change a single mind and would fade away. Sure enough, Cyber Ninjas just quietly went out of business.
Of all the doomsday storylines that are being hyped for ratings on Twitter or MSNBC at any given time, at least 90% of them are non-stories or sideshows that aren't going anywhere. You're not being "vigilant" by staying glued to this ratings driven doom. You're being gullible.
There's a reason Palmer Report is nearly always proven right about this stuff, and nearly everyone else is nearly always proven wrong. It's not that Palmer Report is uniquely insightful. It's that other folks are usually just making shit up to scare you into staying tuned in.
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"If the DOJ were investigating Trump world we'd know it because it would leak. No leaks means there's no probe!"

This is an increasingly common narrative from legal experts who are trying to convince us that the DOJ is doing "nothing." But it's actually a pretty silly rationale.
Look at the moves the DOJ has taken against Trump world.

No one even knew there was a probe into Trump money man Tom Barrack until he was indicted.

The Gaetz probe didn't become public until someone tried to extort Gaetz over it, and then Gaetz himself went public with it.
No one knew the DOJ's case against Rudy Giuliani had been restored to active status until the Feds showed up at his door and raided his home. All that grand jury activity against Rudy, leading up to the raid, never leaked.
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You can agree or disagree with the approach, but this is always the approach. Just look at every federal prosecution of every mafia-style criminal conspiracy, you know, EVER.
The notion that the DOJ would decide at the outset, whether or not to prosecute the kingpin, before building up the criminal cases through the hierarchy and seeing who flips upward, is LAUGHABLE. No legal expert with any experience could ever think anything works this way.
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Audiences think the media is just confused about how unpopular and irrelevant someone like Pompeo is, as if the media is just hyping him by mistake. This stuff is never a mistake. The career hype is what the media has to give someone like Pompeo in exchange for what he gives it.
Usually you have to leak inside info about your own administration or side, because you don’t have inside info about the other side. So you stab your own allies in the back by giving up their secrets to the media, just to get the media to write puff pieces about you in return.
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