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Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:17 pm
by defixione
Can you throw us a bone?

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:22 pm
by defixione
dolomite wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:27 am So is it really "illegal" to try and get dirt on your political opponent? Clinton and the DNC paid for a fake Russian dossier, guess that's OK. Haven't heard a peep from Clinton about it. Just a "nothing burger" say the demonrats.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that getting dirt on a political opponent through legal channels is okay. However, I'm not sure that arranging to buy or being in possession of stolen property, i.e. hacked emails, is a legit route to take.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:41 pm
by Deleted User 89
defixione wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:17 pm Can you throw us a bone?
we’re supposed to read his mind

if i knew the answer, i wouldn’t have asked the question...shame on me for trying to actually have a conversation

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:11 pm
by DCHawk1
defixione wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:17 pm Can you throw us a bone?
It's actually quite literal this time. Trad said he was trying to find information about the origin of the dossier, etc., and I told him to try harder.

No hidden meaning.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:53 pm
by Shirley
William Barr and situational executive privilege.

i.e., it was different when a democrat was president:

1994 video of William Barr talking about executive privilege

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:55 pm
by Shirley

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:25 am
by Shirley

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:51 am
by ousdahl
Feral wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:53 pm William Barr and situational executive privilege.

i.e., it was different when a democrat was president:

1994 video of William Barr talking about executive privilege
make sure there's no political fixing

ask the president to come before a grand jury

lulz

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 10:11 am
by dolomite
“Passive” collusion not as bad as “active” collusion? Ask Brennan or Clapper.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 11:55 am
by Shirley
This, no doubt, should be on the "Dumbshit" thread, but...

Thanks republicans, for subjecting our nation to this ignorant, incurious, piece of shit.

Trump says he would ask Supreme Court to intervene if Democrats move to impeach him

President Trump suggested Wednesday that he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene if Democrats move to impeach him — a notion that legal experts said showed a misunderstanding of the Constitution...

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:28 pm
by dolomite
Is it the Republicans fault for what many think this is the “fiasco of a presidency” ? Maybe the blame should fall to the Dems for not getting more voters to the polls. Laziness, incompetence, overly confident, Dems, you can only blame yourselves.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:27 am
by jhawks99
That's pro-level Twister right there.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:38 pm
by Shirley
Republican senators are paying a political price

The latest Politico-Morning Consult poll suggests that GOP senators, especially those vulnerable in 2020, who are bent on accommodating President Trump and his noxious nominees, policy stances and behavior are paying a political price.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has always pitched herself as a pro-choice moderate, has nosedived in the polls since voting to pass Trump’s tax plan and to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. From a 67 percent/27 percent favorable/unfavorable rating in the first quarter of 2017, she has sunk to 52 percent/39 percent. She’s 25 net points underwater with Democrats. She might (or might not) have staved off a primary challenge, but she’s setting herself up for her first competitive Senate race since 1996, with an army of pro-choice voters looking to knock her out of the Senate. For a pro-life moderate in a purplish-blue state, sticking by Trump has not worked to her advantage.

...Then there is Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), who won in 2014 by presenting himself as an advocate for women (e.g. stressing access to over-the-counter contraception). In 2017, he started with a 49/30 favorable margin. Now he is at 35/35...

...Go down the list of 2020 GOP incumbents on the ballot, and you see a similar pattern. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has slid from a 39/30 approval/disapproval split to 34/33; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tumbled from 44/47 to 36/50; and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) fell from 47/37 to 40/37. These politicians’ Trump sycophancy could well cost them their seats.

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Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:42 pm
by Shirley
dolomite wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:28 pm Is it the Republicans fault for what many think this is the “fiasco of a presidency” ? Maybe the blame should fall to the Dems for not getting more voters to the polls. Laziness, incompetence, overly confident, Dems, you can only blame yourselves.
jhawks99 wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:27 am That's pro-level Twister right there.
^^^

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Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:52 pm
by DCHawk1
Feral wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:38 pm Republican senators are paying a political price

The latest Politico-Morning Consult poll suggests that GOP senators, especially those vulnerable in 2020, who are bent on accommodating President Trump and his noxious nominees, policy stances and behavior are paying a political price.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has always pitched herself as a pro-choice moderate, has nosedived in the polls since voting to pass Trump’s tax plan and to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. From a 67 percent/27 percent favorable/unfavorable rating in the first quarter of 2017, she has sunk to 52 percent/39 percent. She’s 25 net points underwater with Democrats. She might (or might not) have staved off a primary challenge, but she’s setting herself up for her first competitive Senate race since 1996, with an army of pro-choice voters looking to knock her out of the Senate. For a pro-life moderate in a purplish-blue state, sticking by Trump has not worked to her advantage.

...Then there is Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), who won in 2014 by presenting himself as an advocate for women (e.g. stressing access to over-the-counter contraception). In 2017, he started with a 49/30 favorable margin. Now he is at 35/35...

...Go down the list of 2020 GOP incumbents on the ballot, and you see a similar pattern. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has slid from a 39/30 approval/disapproval split to 34/33; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tumbled from 44/47 to 36/50; and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) fell from 47/37 to 40/37. These politicians’ Trump sycophancy could well cost them their seats.

[...]
lulz@jenrubin

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:27 pm
by Geezer
What have you published?

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:30 pm
by DCHawk1
Quite a bit, actually.

Thanks for asking?

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2019 10:55 pm
by ousdahl
Feral wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:42 pm
dolomite wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:28 pm Is it the Republicans fault for what many think this is the “fiasco of a presidency” ? Maybe the blame should fall to the Dems for not getting more voters to the polls. Laziness, incompetence, overly confident, Dems, you can only blame yourselves.
jhawks99 wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:27 am That's pro-level Twister right there.
^^^

Image
that rug really ties the room together.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 6:54 am
by defixione
DCHawk1 wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:30 pm Quite a bit, actually.

Thanks for asking?
Your thoughts on gun control were enlightening. Solid essays.

Re: i wonder what Robert Mueller is thinking

Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:07 am
by Shirley