Politics

Mueller Charges

Posted on by Tom

People are pretty excited this weekend about Mueller filing charges.

I saw someone on Twitter who actually thought the president would be arrested on Monday.

Now I haven’t read the story so I don’t know what it’s all about, but I would be amazed to see anyone around Trump (today) get arrested. The only people to get arrested are going to low-level nobodys that we’ve never heard of.

But I want to go back to the dream that “the resistance” is going to see the president leaving the Oval Office in handcuffs.

Why exactly are we hoping for that? What exactly do we expect to happen *after* that?

I touched on this before the election, and it’s still a concern. We know there is a whole slew of people in this country (polls suggest 30%) who will explode if their candidate is removed, right? I thought it might be bad if their candidate didn’t win, but imagine if their candidate is arrested. From their point-of-view, it will be a coup against their government by a bunch of radical leftists and the media establishment. What do we think their reaction will be?

“Oh good show! Well played, sir! We’ll get you next time!”

No, probably not.

What will happen is angry mobs in the streets. Possibly in *your* town. Police will eventually have to start shooting and people will get killed. We think things are bad in this country now? It could get a lot worse if We The People keep acting dumb.

The smart course of action is to wait patiently and elect someone else in 2020.

UPDATE 10/30/2017

I was partially right. A low-level nobody + Paul Manafort. (The smart money has always been on Manafort so no surprise there.)

Here is the text of the indictment. It’s legit as far as I can tell. Trusted site, etc. (I did check multiple sources.)

UPDATE 10/31/2017

The biggest news on #MuellerMonday – it was revealed that a low-level nobody named George Popadapolous had already been arrested and pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents.

Tom