For political-narrative purposes, there is an obvious utility in casting the end of the Mueller probe as a new low point in America’s slide toward autocracy. It has a kind of alchemic quality, allowing liberal audiences to transmute their disappointment into outrage—without forcing them to abandon their darkest notions of the Trump regime.
It also opens up the possibility for new and exciting story lines. Leah McElrath, a liberal writer and activist, speculated Sunday night that Republicans would now use investigations into the Russia-collusion “hoax” to put Hillary Clinton behind bars. “They really DO want her imprisoned,” she tweeted.
Such is the burden of a certain kind of resistance-media star today. After years of accruing followers, retweets, and Patreon donations with fevered speculation about the Mueller probe, they are facing the end of a gold rush—and they’re looking for their next opportunity.
Of course, not everyone in the left-of-center media universe has met the Mueller news with such weeping and gnashing of teeth. For years, leftists such as The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald have accused Democrats of deploying Russia conspiracy theories to cover up for the failures of Clintonite liberalism in 2016. Now claiming vindication, Greenwald and his ilk have been beating their chests in triumph alongside the #MAGA crowd.
“I’m genuinely sorry if you spent the last 3 years believing a blatantly stupid partisan fairy tale ripped out of the pages of a primitive Tom Clancy novel & made it central to your worldview,” Greenwald tweeted, sounding less than genuinely sorry. “I get that it’s upsetting & disorienting when it got revealed as a hoax. Look inward.”
The rare liberal with integrity, you don’t see those too often anymore in the wild, their sightings are relegated almost entirely to the stuffed variety in museums and to the pages of history books
Add Jimmy Dore to that short list.
There are a few, but as you can see here on this board, it’s very few
Watched the podcast you linked of him above. Never heard of him. Does he identify as a liberal? Maybe I don't know what that is because he sounded like no other liberal I've listened to before.
Never seen so many people pissed off that the President isn't a spy and America won.
Dems are the sorest losers in the world. Do they want a better turnout and strong candidates? Of course not! They need to remove the president for bullshit reasons and get rid of the electoral college to rig elections in their favor!
Never seen so many people pissed off that the President isn't a spy and America won.
Dems are the sorest losers in the world. Do they want a better turnout and strong candidates? Of course not! They need to remove the president for bullshit reasons and get rid of the electoral college to rig elections in their favor!
El oh El. People still are bitter about Obama and Hillary.
Never seen so many people pissed off that the President isn't a spy and America won.
Dems are the sorest losers in the world. Do they want a better turnout and strong candidates? Of course not! They need to remove the president for bullshit reasons and get rid of the electoral college to rig elections in their favor!
El oh El. People still are bitter about Obama and Hillary.
Never seen so many people pissed off that the President isn't a spy and America won.
Dems are the sorest losers in the world. Do they want a better turnout and strong candidates? Of course not! They need to remove the president for bullshit reasons and get rid of the electoral college to rig elections in their favor!
El oh El. People still are bitter about Obama and Hillary.
Only because they were crooks and need to be in jail. May happen yet!
Never seen so many people pissed off that the President isn't a spy and America won.
Dems are the sorest losers in the world. Do they want a better turnout and strong candidates? Of course not! They need to remove the president for bullshit reasons and get rid of the electoral college to rig elections in their favor!
El oh El. People still are bitter about Obama and Hillary.
Only because they were crooks and need to be in jail. May happen yet!
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Actually, yes we? did. #thescript
I just read the head, delicious enough.
And exonerated
amirite, @GrandpaSankey ?
It also opens up the possibility for new and exciting story lines. Leah McElrath, a liberal writer and activist, speculated Sunday night that Republicans would now use investigations into the Russia-collusion “hoax” to put Hillary Clinton behind bars. “They really DO want her imprisoned,” she tweeted.
Such is the burden of a certain kind of resistance-media star today. After years of accruing followers, retweets, and Patreon donations with fevered speculation about the Mueller probe, they are facing the end of a gold rush—and they’re looking for their next opportunity.
“I’m genuinely sorry if you spent the last 3 years believing a blatantly stupid partisan fairy tale ripped out of the pages of a primitive Tom Clancy novel & made it central to your worldview,” Greenwald tweeted, sounding less than genuinely sorry. “I get that it’s upsetting & disorienting when it got revealed as a hoax. Look inward.”
Oops that was for PAWS in regard to Jimmy Dore.
Of course not! They need to remove the president for bullshit reasons and get rid of the electoral college to rig elections in their favor!
Rite?