Hi everyone, Firstly, thank you all for being here, and thank you, Jeanne, for providing a forum where we can openly express ourselves. Despite being very connected on social media, it's rare for me to say what I think, and I'm grateful to be able to do it here.
Secondly, I just saw an interview on YouTube that featured Lamar Waldron, an investigative researcher who's been following Barr's shennanigans since Barr got involved in the DC political scene about 45 years ago. He basically describes Barr as the GOP's go-to "cleaner" and "fixer" guy. In one way or another, Barr's job has been to clean up and cover up presidential scandals for every GOP president in recent history including Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43 (particularly Cheney and Rumsfeidld) and now T***p. The current GOP brass recruited Barr out of obscurity and retirement to save Trump from being impeached and to keep the GOP in power. Barr's strategy is always the same: delay, deny and distract. Waldron says the reason immigration and the dismantling of O-care are front and center now, is because they're monumental distractors that can't be ignored. The good news is that Barr's Houdini act isn't going to work this time. We all know what he's doing. There's too much toothpaste already out of the tube. Trump is a reckless wild card who doesn't do what he's told. And just wait until those leaks start coming.
Feeling undaunted and up for it.
We all seem to have pinned our hopes for 'indictments' to be brought against the Tp Familia by Mueller & team, and when that didn't happen (as yet) everyone lost faith in him. However it was never Mueller's 'job' to bring those indictments, but the investigation via the Report.
Everyone associated with Mr. Robert Mueller has stated that he is a 'straight-shooter' and the most trustworthy man of integrity that they have known throughout his long career in following the law totally by the book.
I do feel that he was very much pressured (threatened?) to quit the investigation when of course, the circle started to tighten at the top on Tp and his complicit family members. When he is called to testify before Congress, that is after they get some version of the report (lols), I really see Pelosi and Schiff and others going for the full truth. And I do see Mueller substantiating all the evidence to the best of his unbiased ability, regardless of Barr or anyone else trying to subvert him.
Much of his testimony may be private and not open to the public view, but the results will be the same. The most difficult part of this whole process is the...waiting.
The T***p regime exacts more destruction with each day, and that is the hard part.
In respond to 5LeafClover- I have been watching on the American Hero Channel, The Evolution of Evil. The picked several dictators and went thru the rise and fall of each and everyone. I have come to the conclusion that United States has never learned anything from past history and we were bound to have our own little dictator at home and here we have is T***p. All we did was write about it and teach it but never safeguarded our own country against this ever happening to us.
All of these dictators apparently follow the same script from the beginning to their demise. The one I think that Tr**p resembles the most is obviously Mussollini. Mussollini like Tr**p was an arrogant, narcissist and a bully. Mussollini appealed to the disillusioned war veterans who were angry at the old liberal parliament party, just like Tp who appeals to his base their common anger with immigrants and obviously anyone non white and the liberals and Democrats. Mussollini believed that extreme nationalism and a one-party government would make Italy great again. Is this not what Tp and his base think? Mussollini had his enemies beat and humiliated and destroyed their public image and even mocked them. Tr**p again. Just like Tr**p Mussollini bluffed and bullied his way to the top and then when he got power he used it to inflict pain to anyone who stood in his way. Mussollini was a showmanship always taking pictures doing something great. And photo ops at the oval office whenever he signed one of his executive orders and just like Tr**p Mussollini was unstable and had violent mood swings and later on he developed Manic Depressive behaviors and was self obsessed. Mussollini thought he was the most intelligent man that ever existed. His real down fall was when he aligned himself with Hitler (hopefully this is Tr**p and Stephen Miller) and just like Mussollini blaming everyone but himself for the down fall of Italy. Eventually his own political allies turned on him and his own son in law goes after him to remove him from power, maybe this will also happen to T***p.
I wonder if Tr**p is the reincarnation of Mussollini. Mussollini death is 4/28/1945 and Tr**p birth is 6/14/1946. They have so many similar traits or does watch not read on Dictators. Cause he said somethings like Papa Doc of Haiti on wanting to be President for ever. Papa Doc actually had the constitution via referendum which obviously was rigged. DT has talked about this before. I wonder if he would try it?
Jeanne, yes I think you are right about the leaks, and that the full report was distributed to at least a few sources before it was submitted to Barr... and that the 'dacted' version will come out somehow.
I am no political 'analyst', but am under the impression that the Mueller offices will be closed very soon. It points to the fact that Mueller will no longer be under the jurisdiction of (acting) AG Barr, and can testify freely. I have heard that Speaker Pelosi and the House could even hire him to 'investigate the investigation' ( lol...?
I suppose the reason that Tp hasn't confirmed Barr yet is because as 'acting' AG, he can't be impeached. Stephen Miller & Tp are playing what some term 'dimensional chess', but it will all backfire on them when all of their insidious moves run. out.
Ugh, I just woke up and had a dream last night about Mueller being sandwiched between two heavy blocks (bars) and unable to move. I guess that is pretty representative of the current situation.
Also, I was reading the earlier posts and just wanted to mention that Barr was confirmed back in February, so he is one of the few confirmed cabinet members currently. I have been occasionally throwing cards for him and it always looks to me like he will realize the damage being done to his reputation at some point is great and he will seek to distance himself from them. His tenure will ultimately result in him tarnishing his “legacy”.
Hi baba... yeah, me still awake too, lol. I had thought that Barr was still 'acting', but if he's actually confirmed (!) then he can be impeached. ?
T***p has a habit of not 'confirming' his sparsely cabinet members (like the creep David Bernhardt...Major Swamp Thang - DOI) for exactly that reason. Ugh-ugh-ugh. He wants them to get the agenda embedded before anyone can do anything about it, i.e. take 'em down.
I am so sick of all of their outrageous toxicity. Time to go take a cleansing herb shower.
Someone wrote that Mueller will be free of the AG soon. I don’t sense he feels free to speak openly. But he will speak and it could be a moment of free will on his part.
Full disclosure: I’m not reading the news Except what people post here. My insights are coming from reading the person and the collective. The feeling is darkness. A storm.
The executive branch is watching him. I feel They have threatened him. They know that he is the one person with credibility on both sides of the aisle.
Before he even gets to speak I feel he’s been threatened that he will be investigated, and will need body guards to protect from the T*p base —as will his family, for years to come.
They are I feel putting this threat in terms of legality, that he would be breaking the law if he speaks out, jeopardizing classified information and over reaching what he is allowed to say. He knows the law but there are shades of grey. I can’t tell what he will do but I feel he needs to rest for a while. He can’t wait to be really free of all this.
I threw cards and saw he will speak. I asked how the House felt about his words. They felt he was carrying a heavy load and it was almost too much for one person. He regresses to a difficult childhood event when he carried a heavy load. But he will do his best. I asked about the Rethugs. They were happy.
BTW Lynn called them insurgents, not conservatives. I agree. They are not from the right. They are from Hell.
That doesn’t mean Mueller won’t speak out, but I feel he is exhausted and has much to lose. Once he leaves office he also loses protection. I throw cards and get conflict.
Yes there will be leaks and there will be litigation in state courts. The truth will come out. I don’t wish it but an economic downturn will help turn the tide emotionally in the American collective. Climate Change will also drive the changing tide.
I see a monsoon of public castigation coming from the Tp camp towards him and any investigators and critics.
It is a blinding storm, raining vitriol using social media, the press and the tweeter himself. I actually see in my minds eye this driving thick hard rain slanted from the right coming down. It is an obfuscation of the facts and the truth although I am not blinded by it.
They succeeded in demonizing Hillary this way. Even liberals hate her now. They haven’t been able to demonize Obama however. They intend to do the same to him.
And the press passes it along. I actually stopped my subscript to the Washington Post and The NY Times because even they are showing mixed messages with opinion pieces from the insurgents.
Time to shift my reliance on new sources from outside this country. During the Iraq War I switched to BBC. The Intercept? Any ideas for a major flow of news?
We need a blue wave next year in the senate. Then they need to replace all the insurgents That are being brought into the judiciary. That will blow the top off the dark lid they have placed on the truth.
Jeanne - re: where to get news - I like BBC World News, but I especially like the English language news on NHK, the Japanese International channel. It's a "just the facts" presentation with no opinionating. Japan is the majority of it, but they do a great job covering the world in a way where the US is NOT the center.
You can either get NHK through cable, or just watch online HERE . I also love other NHK programs for calming shows NOT about the news. I especially love At Home With Venetia . Venetia is a British woman married to a Japanese artist, they are older, they have a very serene life in Kyoto Prefecture. It's the most calming show on the planet - rather than spoil it I recommend everyone give it a try. There are also a lot of lovely travel-based shows... there's one about trains in Japan that is also quite soothing (can't remember what it's called).
Other people I know like to watch Al-Jazeera news. It gives me anxiety, but maybe your experience would be different.
Everyone here - let me know if you like NHK and if it helps! Peace.
The ABC of Australia is pretty good for basic news: https://www.abc.net.au/news/world/
It is the government funded news channel and has good basic reporting. At least it isn’t owned by the Murdoch’s!
Wow, Jeanne, thank you for your insights. They're sobering. I, too, am sensing very strongly this is going to be the hill we (meaning we the people of the United States) live or die on. Until you wrote about it, I didn't realize the burden and s*** storm Mueller will be taking on for us. He's brave, indeed, but a patriot in the truest sense of the word. The GOP set-up and playbook is pretty clear, and of course, we've seen Hillary's public crucifixion. It would be easy for me to indulge my horror, but I'm choosing, instead, to zoom in on my equally strong sense there's enough of us in the collective to take on the GOP corruption beast, expose it and eventually stop it.
We the people SEE what's going on. We're not asleep anymore, and that's a monumental difference from when Bush 43 was in office. Even during the 7-8 year period when McConnell corrupted the legislative process and stopped our government so he could thwart Obama and load the couarts, we were still half asleep and quietly willing to let it be. No more.
Also, you-know-who is too arrogant and too lazy to cover-up his treachery. In the past, our politicians had the basic decency and cleverness to cover up their corruption, which made it possible to fool ourselves into thinking everything was OK. You-know-who is vile, has no decency, and doesn't care about being openly lawless. He's daring us to stop him, and betting we won't. Bad bet. Totally agree the economy, climate, and maybe a foreign predator who sees our chaos and weakness is going to make an aggressive move of some kind.
Jeanne, it's way better to be prepared for the winter that's coming than to pretend the weather's going to be bright and sunny. Thanks again for prompting us to put on our coats, gather up a supply of wood, and get ready.