Trump’s approval rating is showing the beginning of a dip. Will be interesting to see over coming days and weeks whether it will be a meaningful or significant one.
Nope. I still think Trump and his entire family and administration are worthless pieces of shit, and nothing in the Mueller report makes a compelling argument that they’re not.
In fact, it pretty much entirely confirms it.
Not exactly “changed” but convinced me we need to work for impeachment instead of “letting the voters decide”.
Frankly, they decided in 2018.
How about you? Did it change your mind? For example, do you now agree that there was collusion between the campaign and Russia using the definition of “collusion” that you provided in the other thread? Did you think there was collusion before?
I haven’t finished reading the whole report yet, but the short answers are “no”, “no”, and “no”.
I’m pretty surprised, given your definition and all the evidence provided in the other thread. I’d love to hear your reasoning, but not here, since it would be a hijack. I’d rather see it over there – maybe respond to some of the posters who laid out what they saw was the case for collusion from your definition.
Sorry about the hijack. I’ll drop it now.
As to the OP, I’d say that my mind is not changed, because much of what was in the report was already out there. The report mostly just confirmed facts that had been anonymously sourced rumors before.
Oh, one place where it was changed by the report – I thought the president had “one of the great memories of all time”, since has stated such. However, in his response to Mueller’s questions, he repeatedly stated that he couldn’t recall or couldn’t remember. So, now, I may be doubting that he has one of the great memories. However, I’m sure he’s still a stable genius.
Sure, but it’ll probably be a lengthy post that will take me some time to compose. Maybe I’ll have time for it this evening.
The report hardened my opinion. Before the report, I felt that there was little chance of reconciliation in American politics. The report confirmed for me that there is not a chance of reconciliation. Trumpists collaborated with an authoritarian regime to attack our democracy and continue to do so, in fact, when confronted with that fact, the Trumpists on this board pretty much shrug and say it’s no big deal. There is no hope that we will be a single country again and our future is bleak.
Trump annoys, embarrasses, and alienates about 10% of Republicans. Neither party can afford to do that to 10% of its voters. It causes them to stay home on Election Day, and it causes a few of them to vote for Dems. On top of that, all the demographic trends are going against the Republicans. I see a bright future ahead, and Trump is making it happen sooner.
Another way to read that is that 90% of Republicans are ok with white nationalism, authoritarianism, collaborating with hostile nations to attack our country, children in cages and voter suppression. Never mind the fact that we are about ten years out from climate changes’s tipping point and have completely disassembled our environmental protections and given the permanent and catastrophic polarization of our politics, even if we can Trump, out of office the next president will be seen as illegitimate no matter who s/he is by half the country, which means that we will almost certainly spend 2020-2024 not doing anything about climate change. So be the time we have finally got Trump out of our system, we will have about one year to come up with a global action plan on climate change and realize it. So yeah the future is super bright.
I’m so glad I didn’t have kids.
Well, I’ve read it, and Trump should absolutely be impeached based on the evidence presented in the report. I figured that would be the case, so technically I haven’t changed my mind, but now I know in more detail why he should be impeached.
That’s exactly my position. It removes all doubt as to whether there is a case for impeachment.