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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis 2017 article predicted what's happening today
I figure a repeat of this article to be wholly appropriate today. This Vox article is from 2017 and it pertains to the Russia investigation, but it is still eerily prophetic for whats going on now.
The gist of the article is this: what happens if prosecutors prove their case against Donald Trump, and it still doesnt matter?
Say Mueller reveals hard proof that the Trump campaign knowingly colluded with Russia, strategically using leaked emails to hurt Clintons campaign. Say the president backed by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Fox News, Breitbart, most of the US Cabinet, half the panelists on CNN, most of the radio talk show hosts in the country, and an enormous network of Russian-paid hackers and volunteer shitposters working through social media rejects the evidence.
They might say Mueller is compromised. Its a Hillary/Deep State plot. Theres nothing wrong with colluding with Russia in this particular way. Dems did it first. All of the above. Whatever.
Say the entire right-wing media machine kicks to life and dismisses the whole thing as a scam and conservatives believe them. The conservative base remains committed to Trump, politicians remain scared to cross the base, and US politics remains stuck in partisan paralysis, unable to act on what Mueller discovers.
In short, what if Mueller proves the case and its not enough? What if there is no longer any evidentiary standard that could overcome the influence of right-wing media?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)with his "I could shoot someone on 5th Ave" comment. Perhaps there is no crime that could bring him down, though I think he could end up imploding before the election - perhaps a mental and physical breakdown.
Wednesdays
(17,331 posts)I've been reading those threads with interest about how he's deteriorating.
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)I don't see how he is functioning at all. Someone said that there were three unplanned trips to Walter Reed Hospital, seemingly because of his drug use. Physically and mentally he is a mess.
Jedi Guy
(3,178 posts)I've read before that he's a teetotaler because of his brother Fred's alcoholism, an attitude that he also extended to drug use.
Drug use would most certainly explain... well, not everything, but a hell of a lot.
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)been known, but people who have worked with him in the past, have mentioned cocaine and diet drugs as well. I'll try and find the most recent article that referenced the Walter Reed visits.
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)recently brought up the drug use on his Twitter account. I can't pull up his Twitter account, wonder if he got banned.
Here is an article from a few weeks ago though:
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I know what thats about. Hes a 73-year-old drug addict. It takes him three hours to get going in the morning. Now he has degenerated to the point where he doesnt leave the residence. Hes taking most of those meetings when hes at the White House in his private quarters, Casler claimed.
https://www.inquisitr.com/5824081/donald-trump-drug-user/
I think the Tweet or article about the three visits to Walter Reed were from someone else though, someone close to those involved. My mind is fuzzy right now, I'm on overload. Maybe someone here remembers it.
Jedi Guy
(3,178 posts)Let's hope he doesn't go into withdrawal. Sad days when the government is probably maintaining a stockpile of Adderall to keep the President on an even keel in the event of a shortage...
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)or maybe a bad mix of drugs.
H2O Man
(73,524 posts)Thank you!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)we can only hope that a huge turnout in November can get the job done
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Suspected there would be a all out Propaganda Blitz with the cooperation of Right wing Media to discredit any one whom might challenge the Orange Anus.
Al Franken was the first victim via Roger Stone and a ABC Radio Station set up. The GRU/Putin Bot network is alive and well and is in full speed ahead mode to reelect the Orange Turd.