Predisent Donald J. Skroob: Episode VIII: I'm Surrounded By Hamberders

[Patriarch]

Mostly center, right leaning

[Tyrath]

When the guy you fired the AG to install writes a sparknotes version of the Mueller report that exonerates you and the media runs with it

[Fiye]

When the guy you fired the AG to install writes a sparknotes version of the Mueller report that exonerates you and the media runs with it

The best part is Barr said this shit in no way exonerates him.

[Tyrath]

The best part is Barr said this shit in no way exonerates him.

Yeah but BS narrative is out there and will be repeated ad nauseum so that his base will lap it up. And even others will have doubts.

[Tyrath]

https://www.axios.com/mcconnnell-blo...c6122c44b.html

McConnell blocks resolution to release full Mueller report

Also if it's such a good supporting report, why is Turtle McTurtleface blocking the resolution to release it publicly that passed the house 420-0?

I'm tired of 1 guy having the power to block something that passes one chamber unanimously.

[Zealot]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/polit...ion/index.html

No conclusion on the issue was reached and Barr knew about it 3 weeks ago and has had that time to compose his response.

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[archibaldcrane]

The best argument for the "Barr is being shady as fuck and covering shit up" thesis (I don't know if I believe that but if so this is it) thread:

https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/st...104073216?s=19

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[Niiro]

I'm tired of 1 guy having the power to block something that passes one chamber unanimously.

He's just fulfilling the function of the Senate as it was conceived: as a bulwark against democracy.

[Niiro]

Also the full report ain't gonna change shit.

[Tyrath]

It probably won't. But it should still be public.

[Tymon]

This is playing politics. Turtleface is saying Schumer is implying the unredacted report should be released, which anyone with a brain larger than a raisin knows isn't the case.

Schumer and Pelosi on the other hand probably proposed this legislation expecting McConnell to do this, in which case, checkmate.

[Niiro]

It probably won't. But it should still be public.

It should, but too many people look to the Russia bullshit as some silver bullet that's going to take Trump down and it's a delusion.

[Niiro]

Alternatively:

[Tyrath]

It should, but too many people look to the Russia bullshit as some silver bullet that's going to take Trump down and it's a delusion.

Trump is bulletproof with the GOP holding the senate. I have no such delusions of Mueller taking him down.

[Uzor]

just out of curiosity, you vote Moderata samlingspartiet ?

No, Moderaterna (which is what we call them in Sweden) is too far right for my taste, I lean closer towards the Centre party and Liberals. It depends on whether we're voting for EU issues, domestic issues or local issues, and varies from election to election depending on their stances.

[Byrthnoth]

The version of the Mueller report we saw, which was equivalent to it being fully redacted minus a few key sentences, neither makes a judgement on obstruction of justice (explicitly not exonerating him) nor establishes probable cause (or perhaps likely conviction, unclear what evidentiary hurdle he was aiming at) for whatever "collusion" is. Our understanding of it is clear as mud.

That said, I don't think Democrats should spend much more time focused on this. At best, the full report would be released, it would say "black is white and I was misquoted by Barr," and we would have a lot of evidence of only two more crimes being committed by Trump. If blatant evidence of two crimes was all we needed to sink Trump, he would have never been elected. Impeachment was never on the table. If Democrats ever take enough of the Senate to impeach a president again, they can easily make the report public for the historians.

No, from here on out I want a weekly drip of committee exposes on Trump's various, public forms of corruption, picked from the headlines of major news organizations over the last few years.

[Fiye]

No, from here on out I want a weekly drip of committee exposes on Trump's various, public forms of corruption, picked from the headlines of major news organizations over the last few years.

Nah they need to hold this shit until October 2020 and drop something every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47702152

Pentagon approves to divert $1B (57 miles) for the wall.

Trump's "Forgotten People" Cheer his "Exoneration"

Joyce Smith, a retired nurse, heard about the findings on Sunday while she was driving across Oklahoma. A friend texted her the news, and she told her husband, Walter, who was in the driver's seat. They were both delighted by Mueller's conclusion.

Congressional Democrats, liberals and others in Washington may be clamouring for more investigations. Yet she and her husband reflect the views of many if not most of those who live in Arkansas, "flyover people", she describes them, "the people in the middle who get skipped", or as Trump says: "the forgotten people".

They make up the bedrock of support for the president and on Sunday they celebrated since, as Mr Smith says: "Trump was exonerated."

Here in Russellville (population of 29,000), the place where the Smiths stopped before leaving on their trip, one can see vacant buildings in the downtown area and a gigantic American flag that whips back and forth in the wind.

In 2016 Trump won more than 70% of the vote in Pope County, where Russellville is located, and people here remain firmly behind him (and proud that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who lived in nearby Pulaski County, is working at the White House).

For many in Russellville, their enthusiasm for the president has not dimmed despite the fact that their own economic prospects may not any better than before he was elected. The median household income in town, $35,000 (£26,500), remains significantly below the national average of $56,000.

Some people have high-paying jobs in manufacturing (Grace, which makes kitchen products, is based here) or at a nearby chicken-processing plant. But a lot of people work at Burger King or in other fast-food restaurants, and some - like the Smiths' son - end up moving to Oklahoma or other states to find a decent job.

Mr Trump has not fixed the problems faced by many people in Russellville, but at least he has stood up for them and fought back against their common enemy, Washington.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47698812

[Dantrag]

Sad.

edit: This is the epitome of voting against your own interest. Voting for Republicans just to "own libs".

[kuronosan]

Morons.

"THIS IS A HIGHLY SYMBOLIC VICTORY I WILL LATER SUFFER FROM LOL"