Leave it to liberals to pick a former FBI director who lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction to be their savior. Another strategic win for toothless proceduralism. Reminds me of a satirical headline: Area liberal wonders why the authorities won't do something about what the authorities are doing.

A\_Man\_Who\_Tries wrote:He's done everything asked of him, and made it crystal clear that it's all there for impeachment proceedings to take place.Why the fuck that hasn't happened is at least saddening, at most bewildering, but it has ball-all to do with the Mueller report itself.My only personal gripe, though I can see the underlying logic, was in his not wrestling with the Trump subpeona. Given his reasoning then fair enough as it gives more legroom for impeachment to take place. I can only assume he expected the relevant people to pull their fingers out on that score, once they were given all they needed.This all was my first impression. One thing that seems consistent is that the democrats seem constitutionally incapable of seizing narrative, pulling thumbs out of their asses, whatever you want to call it.

With apologies for consulting Twitter for anything, I find Teri Kanefield (@Teri\_Kanefield) to be most forensic on answering such questions. A rare case of someone whose work is emboldened by the limitations of the platform.

There's an aspect here that doesn't seem to be getting discussed much. Everyone's too focused on whether or not there was collusion - never mind that, how about the fact that Russia wants him to be president? That's not even up for debate. I feel there could be mileage in this.Remember the 1960 campaign?Well, in the same spirit, how about this?or this:or this:

And there it is, active measures in action.

It s embarrassing to recall just how absurdly some people elevated Mueller, and how much faith was placed in him. Memes compared Mueller to Superman, or portrayed him as a top cop who was secretly fitting Trump for an orange jumpsuit. He appeared on votive candles and earrings. SNL sang him a Christmas carol. There was an action figure.But faith in Mueller was born of desperation. He was an ageing Republican bureaucrat, with no track record of seriously challenging people in power. He had been an apologist for the Iraq war and mass surveillance, and a reliable servant of the DC establishment. It took a great deal of wishful thinking to envision Mueller as a caped crusader. Looking back, it s quite obvious that people were simply seeing something that wasn t there: œMueller projects a pragmatism “ a political strain of normcore ¦ that has come to suggest ¦ a veiled promise: that shady facts will find their light. There was no such promise, veiled or otherwise. Like the idea that Barack Obama harbored a secret radical socialist deep within, this was simply imaginative fancy. Mueller was a cautious centrist through and through.[...]The Russia scandal was the fruit of a badly flawed political ideology. It is a kind of West Wing view of political power that believes change happens behind closed doors in Washington, rather than as the result of mass mobilization. You don t need to go out and convince new voters to join your party, or offer them a clear policy agenda. Instead, smart, highly credentialed lawyers will save the day. And Donald Trump didn t win because he tapped in to an authentic popular anger that needs to be addressed, but because dastardly foreign agents rigged the game.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nt-fantasy

Andrew. wrote:It s embarrassing to recall just how absurdly some people elevated Mueller, and how much faith was placed in him. [..]Like the idea that Barack Obama harbored a secret radical socialist deep within, this was simply imaginative fancy. Mueller was a cautious centrist through and through.[...]The Russia scandal was the fruit of a badly flawed political ideology. [...]And Donald Trump didn t win because he tapped in to an authentic popular anger that needs to be addressed, but because dastardly foreign agents rigged the game.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nt-fantasyI'm very much in agreement w/ this analysis, though it's worth noting that the bizarro-world "Obama is a socialist" fantasy was a product of the right-wing fever swamp, whereas the Saint Mueller narrative has been pushed by mainstream Dems and media to a left-of-center audience desperate to both explain and end this horrorshow.If we were going to impeach the motherfucker (which we're not), it ought to be over any of the bazillions of publicly documented high crimes and misdemeanors that directly falsify his fake-populist, white-working-class appeal, and thus play directly into the Dems' strongest electoral argument. But that'd mean Pelosi would have to embrace that argument. Instead, as Mehdi Hasan put it, she has chosen her war and it is against her party's future.

Seems like a reasonable analysis.Highlights:Mueller, as a matter of determined policy, omitted key steps which any honest investigator would undertake. He did not commission any forensic examination of the DNC servers. He did not interview Bill Binney. He did not interview Julian Assange. His failure to do any of those obvious things renders his report worthless....Bill Binney is an acknowledged world leader in cyber surveillance, and is infinitely more qualified than Crowdstrike. Bill states that the download rates for the œhack given by Crowdstrike are at a speed “ 41 Megabytes per second “ that could not even nearly be attained remotely at the location: thus the information must have been downloaded to a local device, eg a memory stick. Binney has further evidence regarding formatting which supports this. ...Inexplicably, for example, the Mueller Report quotes a media report of Assange stating he had œphysical proof the material did not come from Russia, but Mueller simply dismisses this without having made any attempt at all to ask Assange himself.

If you're knocking around with anyone who's been shepherded down the nonsense of 'but THE OPTICS', Mariotti's interview on the most-recent MSW draws focus on what matters.http://podplayer.net/?id=77082956Kicks off about half an hour in.