Robert Mueller was a good man and he sure didn’t deserve this from Trump:

So, RIP Mueller, but I hope that the self-loathing, weak need of Democrats to get credibility by putting a Republican in charge of important tasks dies with him. Here’s the tweet that I think we should all be paying attention to:

This is not just Trump’s opinion. It’s the opinion of the 30% or 40% or whatever percent of the population is MAGA. Democrats are an enemy of America on Fox News, NewsMax, right wing Twitter and every other place where Republicans hang out. That makes it the opinion of the Republican Party. Which means that our leadership shouldn’t just be attacking Trump — they should be attacking Republicans. Without qualifiers like “MAGA Republicans” or “extreme Republicans.” They’re just fucking “Republicans”, period, and they’re destroying the country.

I don’t begrudge people their hobbies or obsessions, but I don’t sit around hoping for Trump’s death. Because when he dies, another Republican will take his place. That Republican probably won’t have the strange mix of feral cunning, total lack of principle, and ability to charm the rubes that Trump has. But that person will still be a Republican, and they will still want to have storm troopers in the streets who will kill Democrats, they’ll still want women to bleed out in hospital parking lots rather than having “abortions” and they’ll still want to hate anyone whose skin color isn’t white enough for them.

One more thing about Mueller. It’s admirable that even though he was very privileged, he served in the Vietnam War. I believe there are more than a few Democrats who did that, including a guy named John Kerry. This is how Republicans treated his service:

Mueller just got the treatment that Republicans give any person who served our country honorably, if that person is a convenient target of hatred to serve their short-term political ends.

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Marmot Pimpernel 8 months ago

Paying Attention to the Wrong Tweet

Damn! I thought you were going to the link Peter Baker’s NYT exclusive “A cloud over Trump‘s presidency is lifted.”

I went looking for the Bluesky post where I saw it earlier today, but I can’t find it anymore. Maybe they took it down. So I got it from the diseased horse’s mouth (NYT link):

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/trump-robert-mueller.html

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Marmot Pimpernel 8 months ago

Goddamn speech to text!

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Kay W.8 months ago

I don’t blame Mueller specifically. I don’t blame Garland either. We’ve created a culture of elite impunity in the US basically since Enron and it’s just gotten worse and worse. Mueller and Garland were (are) institutionalists. They followed the US norm of elite impunity. It’s going to be really hard to break the pattern and establish a genuine a rule of law that is applied equitably. I think we need new people who are less concerned with how things look and more concerned with how things really are.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

Good eye with that Enron reference. Smartass guys in the room should still be in prison.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

I was unable to corner & confront my Hitler Yute neighbor who works for Rep. Randy Fine about "dogs or mooslims" yet. He scurries so quickly.

But he'll be back for Easter.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

Ill be asking him when he's volunteering for military service too.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

I'm a big fan of 'watch what they do, not what they say.' But since neighbor is "comms director" I watch what he says.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

Today I learned that, beginning in December of this year, all of our young men (I have 3 young, eligible nephews) will be automatically registered for the draft. Of course, that won't require the I.D. these fucks want with the SAVE Act.

I unabashedly hope for Dotard's painful demise frequently (not daily...yet). He's got a certain something, a combination of faulty traits unfathomably collected into one person, that I doubt will be easily replaced by his successor. I could be wrong.

In 2016, my own dear mother, in the middle of raging, severe dementia, saw a chyron cross the TV screen with the word "president" in front of his name. She shouted out "NOW THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!" It took me and staff at the new-to-mom care facility twenty minutes to calm her down. Imagine being a former New Yorker in the middle of all of that disorienting stimuli and still remembering to yell like that!

Yes, I do hope for his death and I'm unashamed of it.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

That bellowing echoes across my life since, and the look on her face is seared into my memory.

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mister mixAuthor8 months ago

This will hurt the incel red pill vote they've been courting.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

Yesterday our local Hitler Yute were doing a car wash group in MAGA neighbors ' driveway in front of my big picture windows. A small horde of 16-18 y.o. males. A really big military helicopter flew over our neighborhood, very low and very loud. They all cheered, the poor dumb bastards.

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TBone Dinosaur8 months ago

They really do think it's a game. Hagueseth & Co. propaganda videos are working on the evangeluglicans

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Scott H8 months ago

The GOP has worked for decades on on a steady erosion of norms in advance of partisan advantage.

Trump didn't happen in a vacuum, he is in fact just a logical projection of the trend towards corrupt, partisan, and autocratic government that has defined the Republican party.

Mitch McConnell stealing a supreme court seat, freezing Obama's judicial appointments, and then stuffing the courts with young loyal Republican ideologues is a huge norm breaker.

Bush V. Gore is another one.

These didn't happen out of the blue, they happened to advanced the partisan future of the Republican party.

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r po8 months ago

There are no norms left. Any D who cites norms as a reason for their behavior, especially now, is a straight up capitulator. We're in an governance emergency because of this.

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Scott H8 months ago

Any such Dem will also probably be of the "look forward, not backward" kind.

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r po8 months ago

And reality is Bruce Lee in the hall of mirrors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBnIbqW6ZhM

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Sepideh M8 months ago

Well, they have let institutional norms supersede their commitment to things like democracy.