Aw, you make it sound like the racism was a bug, not a feature.
Dunno. How long is it going to be before Republicans take responsibility for electing and continuing to support said game show host, despite every warning sign before the election and afterwards?
Are you taking about the Mueller report?
Considering Mueller was appointed by Rosenstein, who was in turn appointed by Trump, I’d say that’s not who iiandyii is talking about. Please do try to keep up.
No kidding. Why is there this assumption that Democrats are responsible for the decisions Republicans make? Republican voters aren’t mindless drones that need to be steered by Democrats, their folly is their own responsibility.
Thank you! Thank you 1000x for this! (I would add: a narcissist, a bully, a con man, a cheat, a coward, a pathological LIAR, an ignoramus, a BSer of the highest degree, and an all-around horrible human being who possesses not even ONE iota of class, tact, morals, ethics, scruples, decorum, or decency)
You’re just saying that because Hillary lost; get over it.
Republicans deal with Trump’s impressive collection of flaws by declaring they don’t exist.
I think it’s deliberate. The Republicans are holding back the real report while they saturate the media and social media with their fake narrative. By the time the real report comes out, Trump’s supporters will be so wedded to the fake narrative they prefer that they’ll dismiss the real report as fake. The “walkback” is purely for plausible deniability. Now that their fake narrative is out, they can claim that what they said didn’t really contradict the real one because they can point to the walkback as what they had really meant in the first place, while simultaneously continuing to throw red meat to their followers. It’s brilliant, Machiavellian, and really fucking evil.
What’s your point? Mueller was a political appointee appointed for a political purpose and he turned in a political document.
We are to take his word as gospel though.
I certainly take Mueller’s report as “gospel” with regards to what is actually in Mueller’s report. I find it remarkable that someone as distrustful of government as you is so eager to accept Barr’s letter as a true, accurate, and complete representation of Mueller’s report.
I take the NYT line, bud.
I’m unaware that the NYT has seen the Mueller report.
They didn’t see the JFK assassination either. Believe it or not, they do this thing called journalism.
As far as I can tell by actually reading the article, the NYT summarized the Barr letter and included some language that presumed that the Barr letter was a true, accurate, and relatively complete summary of the Mueller report. Since the Mueller report is not publicly available, I see no reason to presume that this is true of the Barr letter.
YMMV, but I won’t be making (or accepting as “gospel”) any claims or conclusions about the content of the Mueller report unless and until the Mueller report is actually publicly available.
The poll at the top of this thread serves as a useful reminder of just how far off the SDMB’s predictions can be.
Just another reminder that the Mueller report hasn’t actually been released, and thus this poll doesn’t yet apply.
Ditka, quote for me four random sentences from pages 57-63 of the Mueller report. We’ll wait.
Can’t? Really? Why? ‘The Mueller report hasn’t been released’, you say?
Then the conditions needed to settle the poll has yet to be attained, itsm.
The last option of the poll doesn’t seem plausible given the mainstream press coverage of the report so far. There will some lost-causers who will doubt this, but if Mueller has “hard evidence” as described, it would be a total abortion of standards by the NYT.
The report will probably contain a few shreds of intentional inference and highly stylized narratives, similar to the indictments, but it will fall well short of “hard evidence”.
But you will accept the report itself as gospel? IOW you will pay deference to Mueller’s narratives even though they will be accompanied by no evidence.
I will accept it as “gospel” in terms of what the Mueller report says. The Mueller report is the gospel about the contents of the Mueller report.
More fake mind reading! You’re wrong, of course, as you almost always are in your attempts at mind reading, but it’s still funny.