{"id":400692,"date":"2019-03-21T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-dammerung\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:01:56","slug":"mueller-dammerung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-dammerung\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller-D\u00e4mmerung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">If Nietzsche was right, and what doesn\u2019t kill us only makes us stronger, we can thank the global capitalist ruling classes, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media for four more years of Donald Trump. The long-awaited Mueller report is due any day now, or so they keep telling us. Once it is delivered, and does not prove that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset, or that he personally conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton, well, things are liable to get a bit awkward. Given the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenDilanianNBC\/status\/1101826537291165696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">goalpost-moving<\/a> and focus-shifting that has been going on, clearly, this is what everyone\u2019s expecting.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">Honestly, I\u2019m a bit surprised. I was sure they were going to go ahead and fabricate some kind of \u201csmoking gun\u201d evidence (like the pee-stained sheets from that Moscow hotel), or coerce one of his sleazy minions into testifying that he personally saw Trump down on his knees \u201ccolluding\u201d Putin in the back room of a Russian sauna. After all, if you\u2019re going to accuse a sitting president of being a Russian intelligence asset, you kind of need to be able to prove it, or (a) you defeat the whole purpose of the exercise, (b) you destroy your own credibility, and (c) you present that sitting president with a powerful weapon he can use to bury you.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\">This is not exactly rocket science. As any seasoned badass will tell you, when you\u2019re resolving a conflict with another seasoned badass, you don\u2019t take out a gun unless you\u2019re going to use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/mueller-dammerung\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Nietzsche was right, and what doesn\u2019t kill us only makes us stronger, we can thank the global capitalist ruling classes, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media for four more years of Donald Trump. The long-awaited Mueller report is due any day now, or so they keep telling us. Once it is delivered, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}