I'm guessing I have the most consistent far-left voting record of anyone on this thread. But I do hate American leftists.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
I'm guessing I have the most consistent far-left voting record of anyone on this thread
lmao never change
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
LOL Fred.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
sorry, that was a trolly post.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
but I'm glad it provoked that classic fred
I still don't know why I should be expecting the full report to be significantly more interesting or damming than the summary suggests
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
because that's all there is to hold on to?
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
and barr is a republican baddy (but mueller is not)
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Yes Fred show us yr US votimg history
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
xp. n.b. i am not calling barr a "baddy" in the parlance of our times
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Again, the "baddie" is an old friend of Mueller's.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
Also, Mueller is a registered Republican iirc
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
But..you don't have to be a baddie to move faster to 'tip' the scale slightly into the direction he and Rosenstein landed on.
If they had charged him with obstruction Trump would have fired both and made it easy for us.
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
Mueller i think did a good job
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
i know morbs is incapable of relinquishing his faves
i will not litigate yr 5-star review of Jacob's fucking Ladder
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
The summary suggests the report to be plenty damning and embarrassing? It explicitly says it's not exonerating. It's just not incriminating either, which might be surprising to some, but ok.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:36 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's a fucking politics thread morbs, i continue to not give a shit what you think about my taste in movies
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
https://thenib.imgix.net/usq/4ca76840-4ade-48a7-a96f-1d43944a59d7/the-collusion-delusion-2-0c6.png
me itt
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
oh lol i forgot the nib treats their comic panels as separate pngs, anyway that's not me
Lol
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
― Simon H.,
This is what I don't get. Mueller writes a report, then Barr misrepresents the contents, and Mueller just goes sure dog whatever?
― anvil, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
There surely can't be people who still think there is anything of consequence in that report or that anything is going to result from it idgi
― anvil, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
how big is Maddow's cult?
i don't give a shit what you think my poli-pundit "faves" are, Braddykins
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Is Mueller even allowed to publicly dispute that
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Hang in there, patriots. Let the process play out. :-)
The process is a lengthy frustrating mess, constantly manipulated or delayed, with no guarantee the results will resemble anything like truth or justice. But the only alterative to the current process** that I can see is rioting in the streets and I am too old for that.
**nb: the current process includes vigorously browbeating a reluctant Congress into activity and working to dominate the next election cycle.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
Re: "Maddow's cult", viewership supposedly plunged half a mil this week
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Like the point isn't that Mueller's report was "lol perpwalk these motherbitches" and Barr put whiteout all over it. But that perhaps the body of data was more like "some very concerning things were found but it is impossible to prove intentional collusion" or "there could have been obstruction but it's difficult to prove intent" vs "nothing to see here"
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:48 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cool, maybe next time don't bring up my letterboxd reviews here bc you're incapable of having a discussion where you're not convinced of your own superiority
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:48 PM (three minutes ago)
congress can call on him to testify, can't they?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
Yeah absolutely...and probably will be called. I just don't think right now he can call NYT and say "about that report...."
But idk for sure
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
Damn! Ok fair enough so there have been some consequences
― anvil, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
afaik Mueller no longer holds any defined position in government and therefore is free to publically discuss anything not officially classified as secret by law or by the courts. But he's not going to go out of his way to make any public statements unless he is asked to testify before Congress. He will do everything by the book.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
Why didn’t mueller subpoena trump?
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
yeah, that I don't understand
― Dan S, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
This is the issue where I am frustrated with my uncle, Robert Swan Mueller.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
But I do hate American leftists.
all of them? like, every community activist and union organizer and...?
well, something good came out of this at least...
He will do everything by the book.
the mueller whisperer....
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
yeah it's absolutely nuts that Trump was never asked for an interview, the only explanations I can think of are 1) Republicans don't have to play by those rules or 2) they figured he was just going to lie his ass off anyway so what's the point?? idk man this is just weird. what the hell was Mueller even investigating??
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
Before this whole situation, Rachel Maddow always seemed kinda chill, like someone who I’d want for my trivia team.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
She can still be on it if she wants
def into trivia
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
i'd bet she would be amazing
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
i could see us winning the league if she was on the team. but alas
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
there were 340 boxes on the upper house ballot last weekend. aiui you only get to number one (1) box?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
tbh americans seldom really have an opportunity to vote for "far left" candidates.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
i mean my mom voted for dick gregory once upon a time...
I am the most “out there” probably—a true firebrand
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
yeah but how many of you have a rosa luxemburg tattoo on the small of your back?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
It's true that the far left in the US does not enjoy the widespread popularity, and electoral success, it does in The People's Republic of Denmark.
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
political parties and electoralism are reactionary
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
come into my eco-libertarian-communist yurt and find the true meaning of the left
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link