"You're watching the biggest political and criminal scandal in history unford."

[triron]

Link to tweet

[vi5]

1. Is that someone with any actual knowledge and/or information?

Or just another in a long line of twitter speculators with zero facts to back up their claim?

[demmiblue]

2. No, it's #TeamPillowForts. n/t

[vi5]

10. Uh.....can someone explain that to me?

I looked it up and I'm still not any more informed than I was before.

[demmiblue]

12. It is a hashtag/nickname that Malcolm Nance gave Mensch and her ilk...

Counterchekist is one of them. Some on DU seem to love them, though.

[groundloop]

4. My thought exactly..... a lot of 'expert' speculation but not much else

I'll admit to being impatient as hell to find out what's going on and to see Spanky led out in handcuffs, but until that point all this speculation is doing nobody any good.

[Ellipsis]

16. He's the real deal... I've followed him for some time.

I'm not on Twitter. I just pull him up from time to time. He does seem to have his finger on the pulse.

[trof]

3. unfold

[yuiyoshida]

5. I frankly, hope it has sufficient

steam to run over Trump and his family, and the Republicans as well.

[blue-wave]

6. K&R Spot On

I've been saying all along, this goes deep, really deep. And I don't mean just deep into congress. I believe it's tentacles reach to many local governments and organizations. Mueller could likely use 10,000 more people working for him. Every last traitor needs to be exposed.

[PatrickforO]

7. Whether this is merely someone's speculation or the tweet comes

from someone who actually knows something, I'm thinking that ultimately 'Kremlingate' will pull down the GOP, which will cease as a viable political party.

[populistdriven]

14. The Solution to Collusion is Dissolution nt

[Initech]

8. The whole damn party is in on it!!!!

And I swear Mueller is going to find it was a setup from the get go.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I hope this person is correct

but, is this somebody that is known to have accurately predicted other aspects of #TrumpRussia before?

[Ellipsis]

17. Yes sir. He has.

Knows his history. He's got cred from my reads. He was right there when the original indictments went out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism


That's why he's the Counterchekist.

[JHB]

11. unfold, not unford

Y'know, were going to have to find a new word for "spelling nazi" and related terms, because the real ones are back.

[Bob Loblaw]

31. we're, not were

nt

[Ponietz]

13. FBI seems to be implying the same

[link:http://

Link to tweet

?s=21|

[Ahpook]

15. And the skeptic in me says nothing will happen

The Bush years horrified me. Nothing.

We keep hearing what needs to be done. Nothing happens

[BlueJac]

18. K&R 10000 times

[marieo1]

19. Good to get an update

Good news. I totally believe Mueller is doing a great job!!

[DesertRat]

20. Who is this Counterchekist?

Lots of anonymous accounts on Twitter.

[Downtown Hound]

21. For all those expressing skepticism, I give you this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/lawyers-robert-mueller-hired-for-the-trump-russia-investigation-2017-6#kyle-freeny-9

You don't bring in 16 veteran top gun prosecutors to prosecute only Paul Manafort and a handful of Russians that they all know will never see the inside of an American jail cell. Mueller is onto something big. And yes, it will break one day. But it's probably going to still be awhile. These things take time. Our job is to resist with everything we have in the meantime and let them do their jobs behind the scenes.

[ladjf]

29. I hope there is some way Mueller is able to make copies of ALL of his

findings and stash them in locations out of reach of the criminal Republicans. How that could be done, I don't know. But, if he simply turns everything over to Congress, it will suffer an immediate "death".

[Downtown Hound]

30. I'm sure that Mueller has already thought that through.

He's been doing this for a LONG time. He's way smarter than team Chump could ever hope to be.

[dlk]

22. It's Beginning to Look that Way

Is there any part of the GOP that's not infected by "Russiagate"?

[Vinca]

23. It's starting to make Watergate look like a prank.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. It may be deemed too disruptive to the system to unfold fully

It may be sufficient to eject the top 3 or 4 layers and let the system reset itself by elections. Society depends upon structure, businesses, political leaders, payrolls, banks for example.

[RainCaster]

25. I have no problem with the entire GOP being taken down by this

This is not the party that Abe Lincoln started. This is a pack of self serving jackals that have no care for the citizens they should be serving. The last truly weak president was Millord Fillmore who took down the Whigs. Now history will record that Donald Trump took down the Republican party by repeated acts of treason, while his party stood by and did nothing.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. A case study in party discipline

Some are hoping to squeak through in November, many are in on the campaign cash that a handful know all about, some are hiding secrets that keep them quiet. Leadership can emerge from competence, money, discipline, ideology, or knowing everyone's secrets. Or some combo. In an era of the surveillance society, there's a lot of information that can be used for control: where one travels, eats, sleeps, who they sleep with, how much they spend. Add in Citizens United cash, and all the other PACs and political organizations. The common good, America, has become irrelevant to political decision-making. We are strong from our military spending and superior technology. The will of much of our citizenry to put country first is not very much. Consumerism yes, America, not so much.

Interesting case you mention, Millard Fillmore. Off to YouTube to catch a video on him tonight. Thanks for mentioning.

[empedocles]

27. 'too distruptive' was a theme underneath the 'nation needs to heal' excuse

that helped coverup the many broad tangles of Watergate corruption, that would have helped root out so much further corruption - that kept 'business as usual' going.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Yes, true

but weakening our country through dirty laundry in the short run is not always possible, there are foreign superpowers to compete with, or a Cold War to be won, and there are consequences to total transparency of information and political process. People will be wary of running for office, for example, or foreign governments won't trust us. It's like allowing deposed dictators to retire peacefully. We do it and everyone complains. If we don't do it, no dictators will support us in regions of conflict. There are not always perfect choices or even good ones. There is the lesser of several evils, and tradeoffs to balance those.