1) And the buzzword of the day from the left is 'Obstruction!' Wait, haven't they tried this one before?
2) Oh, yep, they have. washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
3) Repeatedly politico.com/magazine/story…
4) Almost like the entire left in academia, politics, and the media have been trying to build an obstruction of justice case against Trump FOR Mueller. brookings.edu/wp-content/upl…
5) So, let us get back to the article at hand: ERMAGERD MUELLER IS GOING TO CHARGE TRUMP WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE! finance.yahoo.com/news/mueller-s…
6) One of the writers: Shannon Pettypiece. Petty. Piece. I'm not fucking kidding, that's her name. I cannot make this shit up. We are living in a goddamn computer simulation, I swear to Christ.
7) "Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice is said to be close to completion, but he may set it aside while he finishes other key parts of his probe, such as possible collusion and the hacking of Dems, according to current and former U.S. officials."
8) First paragraph: Wait hold up hold up hold up. First off, hooray anonymous sources who have no apparent connection TO the Mueller office. Second, so, not only is there no confirmation the investigation is close to completion, but that he may not do it anyways?
9) So, basically, "We don't actually know if he's investigation obstruction of justice, but if he doesn't issue that charge it means we weren't lying out our asses, he just didn't press that charge!" Yyyyyyup.
10) "That’s because Mueller may calculate that if he tries to bring charges in the obstruction case -- the part that may hit closest to Trump personally -- witnesses may become less cooperative in other parts of the probe, or the president may move to shut it down altogether."
11) So, the first sin of this article was anonymous sources. The second? MIND READING!!! Also, LOL, 'If Mueller tries to charge Trump with obstruction of justice, Trump may obstruct justice!' Really? That's the line of reasoning you're going down?
12) "But even if Trump testifies in the coming weeks, Mueller may make a strategic calculation to keep his findings on obstruction secret, according to the current and former U.S. officials, who discussed the strategy on condition of anonymity."
13) "The obstruction portion of the probe could likely be completed after several key outstanding interviews, including with the president and his son, Donald Trump Jr." Ok, so, lets just demolish those two parts of the paragraph.
14) "Could likely" "discussed the strategy on condition of anonymity" "Even if" There are so many hypotheticals, hedges, and qualifiers here it is blatantly obvious that THE WRITERS HAVE NO IDEA WTF IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE MUELLER PROBE!
15) "Any clear outcome of the obstruction inquiry could be used against Mueller: Filing charges against Trump or his family could prompt the president to take action to fire him." Again, apparently Trump will obstruct justice if he's charged with obstruction of justice? Lolwut?
16) "Trump, who has branded the probe a “witch hunt,” is growing increasingly frustrated as Mueller’s work continues" MORE MIND READING!!!! Yahoo writers are psychic, obviously. I have no doubts Ishikoff obtained the Steele dossier for HIS article via seance.
17) "Other key matters under investigation by Mueller’s team, with its 17 career prosecutors, include whether Trump or any of his associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 campaign." MUHHHHH RUSSSIAAAAAAA
18) But, wait, hasn't Mueller already cleared the Trump campaign? cbsnews.com/news/russian-i…
19) "Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities." OH RIGHT MUELLER DID!!!
20) Let it be known (this is my offer of appeasement to @DropTha_Mic25) that I think Mueller and his team need to BURN for what they've done to @GenFlynn and his eventual exoneration should be etched into the tombstones of the careers of all the monsters involved in that travesty
21) But at this point, I'm reasonably certain its become clear that Mueller's team really ISN'T investigating Trump. What is occurring is a conflux of several important and equally shitty/underhanded methods and factors.
22) First, the Special Counsel's office CAN'T respond in the affirmative or negative to ANYTHING BEING WRITTEN ABOUT THEM BY THESE JOURNOPERATIVE HACKS. "The special counsel’s office declined to comment for this story." EVERY. TIME.
23) Second, by reaching a state where anonymous sources are the ONLY bits of information these journoperative hacks are required to have in order to run with a story, which may have no basis in reality as it devolves into mind reading and random guesses.
24) Has anyone ever heard of a Potemkin construct? It is, to keep it simple, something constructed and carefully designed to create the illusion that it is more complete and better/more dangerous/more effective than it actually is.
25) In the cold war, Potemkin towns were built along the borders between the Soviets and the West so the Soviets could make their communist system look better to anyone peering across the border than they actually were.
26) In the book series The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell (absolutely FANTASTIC series if you like sci fi and epic space conflicts, highly recommended), there is what is called a 'Potemkin Fleet'
27) Wherein the high command issues a fleet thousands of light-years away absurdly micromanaging orders about duty rosters and bunking arrangements, often for ships that were destroyed or decommissioned years ago and personnel who retired or were killed in battle.
28) The solution? Fake following the orders, sending back an acknowledgement that makes everything looks like the fleet is following orders exactly, while in reality they're jury rigging and managing the ever-dwindling crews as actual needs dictate.
29) So the FUCK does that have to do with Mueller? Well, to put it bluntly, the Democrats in politics, the media, and academia have realized that Mueller ISN'T going to give them what they want, a reason to impeach Trump. But they need SOMETHING to justify the hype to their base.
30) So, they have created in effect a Potemkin Special Counsel's Office. The ACTUAL Special Counsel's office can't officially counter anything that is said, so while Mueller the man sits in his office with a glass of shitty scotch realizing his career is stuck in a shit sandwich
31) A mythical Potemkin Mueller is being the Democrats' dream prosecutor 'zeroing in' on @realDonaldTrump, @DonaldJTrumpJr, and anyone else that didn't actually do anything wrong but Democrats have torches and pitchforks out for anyways.
32) Evidence? Who needs it! Sources? Its actually just Democrats in politics, the media, and academia whispering anonymously to each other and then broadcasting those whispers for the world to see. Who's going to tell them they're wrong? The ACTUAL Mueller?
33) Harkening back to my OTHER thread threadreaderapp.com/thread/9725718…, when conservatives see this, the goal is to cause FEAR. They want us AFRAID of this mythical Potemkin Mueller, they want us to SCREAM for Trump to fire him so Trump can be made to look bad.
34) So, what do you do? You laugh. LAUGH at those dumbfucks. LAUGH at their shadowpuppets. Tell them that we're not afraid of the Big Bad Mueller. That Mueller is just a scooby doo villain in a shitty costume of a Special Counsel. Take off the mask and what do you get?
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