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Journal by fustakrakich

My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.

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Here's looking at you, DNC!

When is she going to announce?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @06:15PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @06:15PM (#907070)
  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:40AM (5 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:40AM (#907283) Journal
    Glancing at the linked stories from that website, is there any evidence to support their assertions? I found it remarkable how little evidence there was to support the assertions made in the two links. The claim that Eric Ciaramella is the "whistleblower" is based on unfounded blog and tweet assertions about what the whistleblower supposedly has done or is.

    Similarly, from the other post [soylentnews.org] citing this particular blog, we have bald assertions that Ciaramella may have run a meeting which they might not have attended or the meeting might not even exist. And there's the claim of "secret impeachment proceedings" by the Democrats of the House. What's the basis for that claim?

    There's way too many lazy claims without evidence. The final question from that blog bears mentioning:

    Is Mr. Eric Ciaramella the now-infamous “whistleblower” (spy/traitor)?

    This crosses the line to an attack, particularly disturbing since it's an attack on career bureaucrats who normally would be invisible. Who is painting the target?

    Here's my take. We're seeing someone from the Trump leadership using bloggers to take out bureaucrats who aren't Trump supporters. Given how flimsy the evidence has been to this point, I imagine one or more of the bloggers mentioned gets inside dope and then coming up with a secondary excuse for why the laser targeting beam is focused on Ciaramella. This story above about Ciaramella and his purported motives may well be true, but let's remember who has inside knowledge and can most easily direct others to the attack.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:37AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:37AM (#907304)

      Could be, or just conspiracy theorists "connecting the dots", right or wrong. One thng is for sure after reading the transcript though, whoever was visibly shaken must have been involved in the corruption.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 15 2019, @02:51PM (3 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 15 2019, @02:51PM (#907384) Journal
        My take still is that they're getting help connecting those dots in a way that is convenient to the Trump administration. I've seen propaganda spin like that before. And every time I tried to drill down to facts and evidence, I got links to other bloggers/twitters who just said stuff. That's the sort of murk that tells me that this story is far from mature enough to discuss. We need actual evidence of something. Not just "X tweeted" kind of stuff.
        • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:18PM (2 children)

          by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:18PM (#907454) Journal

          You're not seeing any evidence yet. (aside from the ongoing obstruction right now, no law breaking has been proven.) These "transcripts" are written by dime store novelists. I stated in another post, a real whistleblower will go in with a wire, camera, whatever, not write notes while getting the vapors over the content. Real evidence will implicate all the beautiful people. Neither side wants that. It just can't happen. Prosecution would turn into a confession, self incrimination.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:19PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:19PM (#907521)

            These "transcripts" are written by dime store novelists

            What makes you say that?

            • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:43PM

              by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:43PM (#907530) Journal

              All the scene setting , it's irrelevant. "visibly shaken", WTF? Another *dark and stormy night*? We need tapes, not drama. Doesn't help the cause, which I expect to be about rooting out corruption, not just the president. Yeah, right!

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