What happened to the Mueller scandal???

[billvon 3,131]

A lot of Republicans were salivating over this November surprise:

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Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and
grace and strength of my client. - Jack Burkman

Several media sources tell me that a scandalous story about Mueller is breaking tomorrow. Should be interesting. Stay tuned! - Jacob Wohl

Spoke to a prominent DC insider today who told me there are several women prepared to make credible allegations against Dirty Cop Robert Mueller - Jacob Wohl
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And here it is, after Noon EST on Nov 1st and . . . . nothing! They held a meeting, but there was no reveal, no accusation, no firsthand evidence of any kind. You can just feel the GOP wilt.

Perhaps Burkman's check to her bounced? Or perhaps $20K isn't the going rate any more. Or perhaps Wohl's mom told him he couldn't use her voicemail any more.

(I can only imagine that discussion at the dinner table. "Jakee, are you using my voicemail to try to frame a special prosecutor investigating the president?" "Geez, ma, why do you have to ruin EVERYTHING? I hate you!")

This is a tactic that the right wing uses with great frequency. When evolution began displacing creationism as the commonly accepted reason for humanity's existence, the religious right first reacted angrily, with threats of damnation, hellfire, the usual. When that didn't seem to make a dent in rebutting the scientific arguments against creationism, they decided to try a different angle. "Hey, why don't we use their science-y language against them? Yeah, that's it! They use all those science-y words to convince people they are right, we will do the exact same thing, and convince them that WE are right instead." And the "wedge strategy" - intelligent design - was born. A quote from its creator, Phillip Johnson:

"Get the Bible and the Book of Genesis out of the debate because you do not want to raise the so-called Bible-science dichotomy. Phrase the argument in such a way that you can get it heard in the secular academy and in a way that tends to unify the religious dissenters."

So they figured that this time they would use the same strategy with the #metoo movement. By copying the language and the accusations, they could make as much trouble for Mueller as women made for Weinstein.

And who knows? It might have worked if Burkman hadn't spammed women with his offer to pay them to lie (and if Wohl hadn't used his Mom's voicemail for the deception.)

[SkyDekker 1,465]

And if Wohl hadn't set up a whole company with instagram model pictures. He tried to hide it and google image search wasn't catching it. Wohl didn't realize there are other search engines that do reverse image searches than Google.

The whole things was laughingly amateurish. But, certainly telling of the mindset on the right. They are convinced any accusations of sexual impropriety against Rs are fake, so they figured they were free to do the same thing.

[billvon 3,131]

Yep. I am waiting for the claim that the whole exercise was a left wing "false flag" operation to make the right look like angry, impotent fools.

[jakee 1,608]

Err, whut?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[gowlerk 2,283]

billvon

Yep. I am waiting for the claim that the whole exercise was a left wing "false flag" operation to make the right look like angry, impotent fools.

Are they actually impotent? That explains a lot.

Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

[billvon 3,131]

>Err, whut?

It's a common reaction any time something bad happens that's associated with Republicans. The "false flag" claim effectively claims "the other guys did it just to make us look bad!" This works very well for some Republicans, because if a plan succeeds, they take credit for it. If it fails, they can claim "false flag" afterwards to blame someone else.

Some examples related to the recent terror attacks:

Bill Mitchell, pro-Trump media personality, claimed Cesar Sayoc sent "hoax bombs" to people, and “wanted to be caught.” Thus planting the idea that this was a left wing PR stunt.

Rush Limbaugh - “Republicans just don’t do this kind of thing. You’ve got people trying to harm CNN and Obama and Hillary and Bill Clinton and Debbie ‘Blabbermouth’ Schultz and, you know, just, it might serve a purpose here.” It might be, he suggested, a “Democratic operative.”

Michael Savage, conservative radio personality - there was a “high probability that the whole thing had been set up as a false flag to gain sympathy for the Democrats.” He later tweeted “MAN AND VAN LOOK LIKE CREATED BY HOLLYWOOD.”

Lou Dobbs, FOX News - “Fake News — Fake Bombs. Who could possibly benefit by so much fakery?”

Geraldo Rivera, FOX News - “I believe that those bombs were never intended to explode. I think those bombs were intended to further divide the American people. Maybe it was a wretchedly incompetent bomber who didn’t know how to make a bomb, that never studied the Internet . . . someone who wanted to embarrass President Trump, somebody who wanted to affect American political life. It could have been a Russian invention."

Trump himself reinforced this - "Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this ‘Bomb' stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows." Suggesting the 'bomb' wasn't real and it's all political.

[jakee 1,608]

Oh yeah, I know those cynical bastards don't have a shred of honesty between them.

I meant what am I doing in there?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[billvon 3,131]

Oh, sorry. I just figured that Jacob Wohl's mom called him Jakee (or Little Jake, or something.)