I don’t know what to make of Rod Rosenstein. Did he just tip his hand, telegraphing that his response to anything negative Robert Mueller III might come up with in his investigation doesn’t matter because Americans are geniuses? Or is he so stupid that when he bought his $1,000,000 lottery ticket from a guy on a street corner that he didn’t realize that if he won he got a dollar a year for a million years? Or mebbe he’s just tired of Don of the Dread getting all of the face time.
I had to reread the following quote when it presented itself before my wondering eyes, simply because it seemed rather implausible that a man who ultimately oversees an investigation into the possibility of collusion between one of the 2016 Presidential candidates and Russian intelligence assets. But that’s what he said. As reported by The Washington Post;
I think one of our responsibilities is to make sure that people understand, you know, what the risks are, but also that they make their own determinations. You know, American citizens are pretty savvy, and they decide who to vote for. I don’t think they’d be influenced by ads posted by foreign governments.
No shit, he really said that. American voters are savvy? Savvy is not a word I would have chosen to describe the American electorate. Nor do I know anybody else who woyld. The bumper sticker is the most popular form of communication for a reason. Most people have too short of an attention span for anything longer than about 6 words when it comes to politics. There would be no negative ads in a country with an informed, savvy electorate, simply because they would not have the desired effect.
But the investigation itself is the simplest rebuttal to Rosenstein’s contention. If American oters are so goddamn savvy, then why did those Russian generated and inspired tweets and Facebook links generate so many millions of retweets and shares? Were all these savvy voters forwarding them to their friends so they could all laugh their asses off at how stupid foreigners looked when they were trying to fuck with our election? How savvy was the voter who strolled into a suburban Washington pizza place and shot it up in order to free all the child sex slaves Hillary was secretly financing her campaign with?
Obviously Rod Rosenstein was too busy polishing the glass over his framed law degree from MCU (Matchbook Cover University) to sit back and enjoy the inner wisdom of Agent K in Men In Black;
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
Let’s remember, it was Hair Furor who nominated Rod Rosenstein in the first place. And, according to popular wisdom, it was His Lowness that may well have led Rosenstein to appoint Mueller in order to save face after Trump pointed to Rosenstein as the reason he fired Comey in the first place. So far, reporting seems to show that Rosebstein has pretty much let Mueller do his thing. But Rosenstein serves at the pleasure of his President, and he has a very narrow tightrope to walk if he doesn’t want to go the way of Sally Yates.
So, is Rosenstein trying to follow the script, giving FOX news talking points about how Russian interference is a dead issue since voters are too smart to fall for a ball fake like that? Come on, how smart can they be, they’re watching freakin’ FOX fer Gods sake! Or is Rosenstein simply trying to buy both himself and Mueller some breathing room by giving the impression to der dumscheisse that it doesn’t matter what the probe finally determines? If it’s the latter, it might not hold much water, depending on whom gets perp walked in the next day or so, and what the charges are.
I will give Rod Rosenstein this much credit. At least he didn’t humiliate himself any further by saying anything about funding Mueller’s investigation. After all, does anybody honestly think that either Mueller, or any of the other lawyers working for him who gave up high six and seven digit annual salaries in the private sector are going to pack up and go home if congress tells them they’re gonna have to work for minimum wages? Yeah, sure. Just keep telling yourselves that.