Mueller’s report describes a President who goes
out of his way to prevent law enforcement from
investigating an enemy attack on the people of the
United States.
One can literally open the book to any page and find
a crime.
A page opened at random in the hard copy of #TheMuellerReport
Following the news this week was intellectually challenging and emotionally exhausting.
I’m not a lawyer or a trained journalist, I have problems with memory and concentration, but I am determined to decide what I think of The Mueller report by reading it.
The Mueller Report describes a lawless president intent on obstructing the the legitimate investigation of an attack on the people of the United States.
A section of Robert Mueller’s Report to Congress regarding trump’s attempts to obstruct his investigation.
The Report describes this attack as meticulous and psychological.
Russia used the personal data and psychological profiles of over 87 Million Americans to target specific groups of people with appeals to tribalism and fear.
The Internet Research Agency built Facebook communities across the political spectrum, but targeted Clinton in all of them. Mueller’s report lists conservative groups like “Being Patriotic,” “Stop All Immigrants,” “Secured Borders,” and “Tea Party News”; black social justice groups like “Black Matters,” “Blacktivist,” and “Don’t Shoot Us”; LGBTQ groups like “LGBT United”; and religious groups “United Muslims of America.”
“Main idea: Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary [Clinton] and the rest (except Sanders and Trump — we support them),” IRA operators told specialists. BuzzFeed.News
According to the University of Oxford’s Computational Propaganda Research Project the Russian attack began in 2013:
What kind of President blocks his government’s investigation of an enemy attack?
Based on the emerging evidence, Trump is an idiot if he genuinely believes he’s a legitimate president with a mandate, and if he’s one of Putin’s useful idiots, my guess is his strategist is the Kremlin’s top handler.
The House and Senate GOP know what Trump is, but they’re useful idiots too.
What comes next is up to us, I don’t like it, I’d rather think about and do other things, but I won’t belong to the generation that killed American Democracy.
This moment is not about winning a game.
This is moment is not about our feelings.
This moment is a reckoning with the facts and history will damn those who choose to ignore them.
I believe in a God that expects humanity to use reason and science to nurture and fully inhabit creation.
To do this we need a civilized world order governed by leaders who respect and protect the rule of law regardless of political and religious affiliation.
With Trump as President, Russia is free to continue to attack our minds, and the gaslighting will only get worse as we head into the 2020 campaign.
Here is a link to the Mueller Report, please read it and pass it on. Below are a few the videos I liked this week
Know your first amendment rights on the internet:
Learn lateral reading, use multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking can help you figure out what’s real and what’s not on the internet.
Ageism: Why do we treat old people like babies?
A History of LGBT rights at the UN
The Creative Process: Leonard Nimoy on developing “Star Trek’s” Spock character
#TheMuellerReport is a page-turner with every line based on physical evidence.
Trump Junior’s contacts with Wikileaks
Above is a section of the report about an exchange between Don Jr. and WikiLeaks about spreading the lie that Hillary Clinton ordered a drone strike on Julian Assange.
Wikileaks asks Trump Jr. to spread that lie and Trump Jr. replies he already has.
The Mueller Report is a free must read.
You can download the report from me, or use the following links.
This week opened with violence in Venezuela and more stories of wealth and corruption as we learned how wealthy people paid ‘consultants’ to scam their kids into ivy league schools. President Trump produced a budget that cuts Medicare and social security to pay for the wall Mexico will pay for and the courts sentenced Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to seven years in prison in two separate trials.
Prosecutors in New York indicted Manafort on state crimes immediately after the second hearing: Trump can’t pardon state crimes. The House and Senate vetoed Trump’s emergency declaration and in New Zealand a white supremacist murdered 43 Muslims as they prayed in their Mosque: his manifesto touted America’s 45th president as inspiration. America’s white supremacists immediately denounced the horrific tragedy as a false flag operation.
As comic relief, old tapes exposed a racist homophobe on Fox as a racist homophobe. I’m still not sure why this is news:
Nancy Pelosi says it’s not worth impeaching trump if she can’t get a bipartisan consensus. I think she is right. Democrats can’t do this alone: the GOP House and Senate will either do its job or go down for not doing it. What do you think?
The UK is in chaos after the vote on Brexit:
As a FYI, if you’ve heard about the Green New Deal but don’t think you understand what it does, this video offers a possible explanation.
On a personal note, spring arrived; it was a glorious week in San Francisco.
Yesterday a headache became a migraine. I’m still not at 100%, and I made the mistake of trying the new WordPress editor mid-post and it screwed everything up. I apologize for any mistakes in this post. I’m going to close comments use the rest of the weekend to learn the new editor and fix the post.
