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The Left’s Presumption of Their Own Bias
As time passed, and months and years went by, it became increasingly obvious that Mueller had found no collusion. And it seemed obvious from the beginning that there would be no collusion, because why on earth would the Russians want Trump in the White House when they could have had Hillary Clinton? But despite the lack of evidence, progressives really believed that there would be collusion discovered. Somehow.
This tweet is from a year ago, so I suppose it may not be fair to bring it up a year later. But what the heck was this guy thinking? How could he be so confident? He wrote this last April, a year after the investigation started. Wasn’t he starting to wonder by then?
At that time, there was no evidence of any wrongdoing on Trump’s behalf. And after the release of the report a year later, there still isn’t.
With no evidence to support his opinion, how could he be so sure that he was right? He couldn’t be. Unless he presumed that the overwhelming bias of Mueller and his hand-selected team of Democrat activists would lead them to follow the law just like liberal Supreme Court justices follow the Constitution.
The only explanation I can come up with for the certainty of the left on the eventual findings of Mueller’s team was the presumption of their own bias and disregard for the law.
And that says a lot more about the left than it does about Trump.
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The thing that is so amazing is that as much as the Trump industry is an obvious train wreck it is that after 2 years of searching Mueller and clan can not find anything to nail Trump on. Are these guys not trying? I thought they were pros.
This is part of the reason that I’ve stopped referring to the Trump administration as “an obvious train wreck.”
Just on the left? We have several who claim the mantle of conservatism or libertarianism who were also very, very certain. They’re not taking it well.
I don’t know who these Krassensteins are, but they’ve gained a sort of notoriety for their Trump-hate. And also for their public (inasmuch as Twitter is public) face-plantings.
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1036062235695755264
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1109413039600820224
More here.
Twitter is a strange, strange place…
I think he might have done better to put his money (of which he apparently has more than sense) towards a good spel checkr.
By concocting such an unfair colossal lie and with Trump being so publicly exonerated, the anti-Trumps(Lefties & NT’s) have all but guaranteed this “unqualified cheeto dusted loon”, who was extraordinarily lucky to win in 2016, is now the heavy favorite to win in 2020.
Weirdest and most insane political dirty trick I’ve ever seen in my life …. if stupid could be monetized the anti-Trumps would be bathing in money.
Hollywood has built a very successful industry by doing exactly that.
That’s a keeper.
In fairness Hollywood has built an industry on creative accounting that screws just the right people and a few very broadly appealing products.
There wasn’t evidence to support the allegations to begin with. This investigation was launched without a predicate. They had their conclusion, all that was left was to gin up the justification.
The left was counting on Bobby Three-Sticks acting as their own Beria.
The case was so bad that the best Mueller came up with for the Dems was the “not exonerated” for annoying but not illegal behavior. But from the Dems perspective he left them in the best posture available: After all if forced to actually defend allegations in a structured setting the perfidy of the Dems might not be able to be swept under the rug. This way they have a chance. I hope they don’t succeed.
I am happy to report I took Krassenstein’s challenge and did the opposite. I did not wager $10k on the outcome of the Mueller Report exonerating (or convicting) Trump.
I’d like to name my charity now: Little Sisters of the Poor.
Thank you Mr. Krassenstein. Your donation will probably do more good than you’ve ever done in your life or are likely to do going forward!
The Mueller investigation was nonsense but think this part of the OP is an overstatement:
One can draw plausible scenarios under which Putin preferred Clinton, or preferred Trump, or saw the election outcome as a win-win for him regardless of who was the victor (the scenario I lean towards).
I think Putin would have preferred Hillary “Overcharge” Clinton for the reason her administration would likely have been a continuation of Barack “I’ll have more flexibility after the election” Obama’s relationship with Russia. Democrats are weak before their ideological (commie) counterparts in the world. Trump was a wildcard.
Unfortunately, the idiots in the Obama DOJ/FBI/IC as well as the MSM gave Putin exactly what he wanted regardless of who won … ongoing political turmoil and dissension.
I think this is 100% on point. My assessment is Putin’s goal was to exploit existing political tensions in America regardless of who won in order to weaken our country. Since the election, the media and the Democrats have effectively acted as paid agents of the Kremlin in helping Putin attain that goal.
My only edit would be to change “insane political dirty trick” into “insane soft political coup”. Carry on.
The left believes Socialism is a viable and fair system of government. So we already know they live in a fantasy world of their own imagination.
It makes perfect sense that they believe in the core of their being that Trump will be frog marched to hell. They believe it because they want to believe it. Demanding evidence based on facts is just a form of repression.
Every once in a while I think I should sign up for Twitter or Facebook to keep track of what is going on. But then a spate of examples of the badness of either will surface, and I realize that I am healthier for not following.
I keep coming back in my mind to a comment that Chris Christy made.
About 2 months before the election Donald Jr called Christy up and asked him “How many operatives should we put in Pennsylvania?” Christy asked him “How many do you have now?” The answer: none. Two months before the election, none.
Christy said that, all due respect to the campaign, they just weren’t competent enough to collude with Russia.
Trump did, in fact, win PA. Incompetent to the point of victory?
Open up a FARA investigation on the DNC, Nancy, Chuck, et al.!
Correct, he did win PA. Christy’s point about the campaign was is still valid. Trumps campaign was unconventional in every way and in some cases won in spite of itself. I personally believe that Christy is correct.
As Jim Geraghty points out, the investigation consisted of “the work of 19 lawyers, approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff, more than 2,800 subpoenas, nearly 500 search warrants, more than 230 orders for communication records, almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewing approximately 500 witnesses…”.
I think that it stretches the mind to incredulity to take the position that a campaign the didn’t know if it should place operatives in PA two months before the election could be so profoundly competent as to hide a collusion from the above. The reason the above resources didn’t find collusion is because it didn’t exist, not that his campaign was so good that they hide it. And that was Christy’s point: there was no collusion because no one could hide it from that massive assault, if they haven’t found it now its because it doesn’t exist.
Good points, but Christie isn’t the politician who should be questioning political IQs.
The guy has gone from a top choice (don’t know why…) Presidential contender to a nobody in just 3 years. Here’s how stupid Christie is -or maybe he’s just an operative for the other side – He happens for some odd reason to be a Cowboys fan, who are the team most hated by the Eagles fans and hated somewhat less by the Giants. They all share the NFC East division. I guarantee you have a better chance of not being assaulted wearing a MAGA hat in a North Philly slum than a Cowboy hat anywhere in Philly.
Crispy went to the Eagles nationally televised game in Philadelphia as guest of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones (who himself is hated by many) and jumped up and down, hugging and high five-ing Jerry, giggling with every Dallas touchdown. South Jersey is 3 miles away from Philadelphia and they are all Eagles fans.
Oh I’ll give you all of that.
I think the perspective that Christy had was not as a politician but as a lawyer. As a former prosecutor he probably looked at the army that have been built and deployed and thought himself “hmm…..over a year into this and the only indictments are for process crimes, there’s probably no collusion because I know this campaigni wasn’t swift enough to hide it from all of those guys“.
He’ll write that check when Cher and Whoopie and all the rest leave the US in protest. Being a Democrat means never having to say your sorry or never having any consequences.
The investigation got the dems in control of the House. It doesn’t matter what anyone said or predicted or what happened in the investigation. They didn’t get a home run with bases loaded, but they didn’t come away with nothing.