re: Rolling Stone is skeptical of Whistleblower: "The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t"

It's Matt Taibbi and they're not firing him.

Here's based Matt Taibbi with based Jimmy Dore on why everybody hates the lugenpresse

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Matt Taibbi is doing something clever in that article.

I don’t even know if he hates Trump if you read it closely.

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Trump almost certainly is not going to do that, however, as the man is too dumb to realize he’s the titular commander of an executive branch that has been jailing people for talking too much for over a decade. On the off chance that he does try it, don’t hold your breath waiting for news networks to tell you he’s just following an established pattern.


I have a lot of qualms about impeachment/“Ukrainegate,” beginning with this headline premise of the lone, conscience-stricken defender of democracy arrayed against the mighty Trump.

I don’t see it. Donald Trump is a jackass who got elected basically by accident, campaigning against a political establishment too blind to its own unpopularity to see what was coming.

In 2016 we saw a pair of electoral revolts, one on the right and one on the left, against the cratering popularity of our political elite. The rightist populist revolt succeeded, the Sanders movement did not. Ukrainegate to me looks like a continuation of Russiagate, which was a reaction of that defeated political elite to the rightists. I don’t feel solidarity with either group. The argument that’s supposed to be galvanizing everyone right now is the idea that we need to “stand up and be counted,” because failing to rally to the cause is effectively advocacy for Trump.

This line of thinking is based on the presumption that Trump is clearly worse than the people opposing him. That might prove to be true, but if we’re talking about the treatment of whistleblowers, Trump has a long way to go before he approaches the brutal record of the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, as well as the cheerleading Washington political establishment. Forgetting this is likely just the first in what will prove to be many deceptions about a hardcore insider political battle whose subtext is a lot more shadowy and ambiguous than news audiences are being led to believe.

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nah.

i did like that section though. he's basically saying i hate that stupid OMB, but he's not done anything as bad as Obama led intelligence agencies did.

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Rolling Stone is skeptical of Whistleblower

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This doesn't make him not a whistleblower.

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If there are multiple people involved this is not a "whistle blower" thing.....it's a set up....especially reading the "complaint" they were busy trying to create something out of nothing starting in February because the IC KNEW that the Mueller Report was going to be a dud.

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It also has no bearing whatsoever on whether Trump acted corruptly or not.

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Just because a bunch of partisan types mounting a PR campaign in an aggressive manner does not make what the President did corrupt....unseemly maybe, but not corrupt. You may want to read the law and understand process. As POTUS doing official POTUS things in the White House Trump can do exactly what he did..... I don't know why people don't understand this

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is because this is a coordinated op

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Yep. read the "complaint" watch the extent to which the IC is trying to hide the identity of the operative.....behind a screen, voice distorted. Even if Trump had done something inappropriate what the IC is doing with the help of House Democrats IS sedition.