I don't care who Warren's VP pick is as long as they change their last name to "Peace"
And they aren't egotistical childrenI appreciate that I don't know Warren's staff's names. That means they're doing just fine.
But see he should have let Barr overrule him. Let it play in public opinion and see how Barr is being a garbage goon. Everyone trusted Mueller.You missed something very, very important about how the DOJ procedures interacted here and why Mueller did that. Had Mueller come to a hard conclusion about Trump declaring they believed him guilty, Barr could have overruled him. Not coming to an active conclusion on anything was a deliberate choice here because of that. His stated rationale had the "accidental" side effect of preventing Barr from just overriding his opinion, which is why Barr had to put out the bullshit summary letter instead of an actual formal override.
I don't care who Warren's VP pick is as long as they change their last name to "Peace"
He did. That tweet is easily Scavino's.
You missed something very, very important about how the DOJ procedures interacted here and why Mueller did that. Had Mueller come to a hard conclusion about Trump declaring they believed him guilty, Barr could have overruled him. Not coming to an active conclusion on anything was a deliberate choice here because of that. His stated rationale had the "accidental" side effect of preventing Barr from just overriding his opinion, which is why Barr had to put out the bullshit summary letter instead of an actual formal override.
My go-to strategy.
Yep. Trump's style is so limited even a phrase as pedestrian as "he may seem a little rough around the edges" is obviously not from him.
Yep, dead giveaway. Trump doesn't use grammar correctly like that.Yep. Trump's style is so limited even a phrase as pedestrian as "he may seem a little rough around the edges" is obviously not from him.
It's funny that demographically Booker is an amazing VP choice, but ideologically he's an anchor.
Impeachment is a political game.I'm aware, I just don't care about these political games being played at the highest level that make a mockery of the law in the process.
Meaning I care less about Mueller's overall decision to not indict Trump (from the beginning I knew that wasn't an option) than I do about the absolute bullshit justifications used not to indict.
We're talking a 2 year investigation that concerned not only Trump but a whole host of assholes including everybody from Erik Prince to Don Jr. And justice was not mete out proportionally to the severity of literal treason found by the characters involved.
And again, his plea deals handed out were egregiously horrific. I'm not surprised he got bit in the ass on at least 2 of them (Manafort and Flynn) and has had to rescind them.
So yeah, I have significant problems with the process itself from the jump, and less so his decision to not indict Trump. Honestly, Trump is a speed bump to me. I will always be more concerned about the fact that half of our government (GOP) is criminally complicit in the destruction of rule and law.
The problem is that Mueller needs to keep his nonpartisan credentials while Trump & co had been working to actively discredit him for years at that point. A problem in politics is that people see truth telling against political opponents as just "lies", which is why the GOP works to frame people telling the truth as hardcore partisans.Here's the thing though: if we give Mueller the benefit of the doubt like this, it doesn't change the fact that his decision was a tactical draw and strategic defeat. Perhaps he was trying to out maneuver Barr, but he still lost. Perhaps he was right to change strategies, but the one he chose led to a public relations defeat.
The frustrating thing was that Mueller was in a unique position where he had the clout to release his findings in any way he wanted. If he had wanted he could have gone to the mattresses to release the report he wanted. This would have required that he had strong convictions, and I do think it's reasonable to question if he did.
Crime buster? No, I said, crime, buster!That's gonna be a fun tweet to bring up a month from now when he is throwing Rudy under the bus when it turns out that "crime buster" Rudy is up to his eyeballs in crimes.
Any Louisiana-goers have opinions about the 4 constitutional amendments up for vote today? I'm struggling with whether I think the New Orleans one is a good thing or not, could use some takes besides the PAR site's breakdown of it
Same. Thought this with Harris for awhile, too. But yeah Warren has dramatically stood out for this role. I'm 100% behind her at this point.I feel like the movement candidate I wanted beto to be is becoming warren.
Mueller is so 2018
I agree that on the whole Mueller's team conducted a solid investigation but there were still some strategic errors. Those strategic errors can be excused when you think about the enormous pressure that Trump and his allies were putting on DoJ, the FBI, and Special Council office itself. Most of the strategic errors were due to being overly cautious and not having the investigation immediately blown-up with aggressive actions like indicting Don Jr.
That said, what frustrates me the most is everything that happened after the Mueller Report was released. After 2 years of hard work and no leaks, he just let Barr (and therefore Trump) completely mislead the public about the contents of the report and irreversibly shape public opinion. And because Mueller was so skittish about being perceived as being "partisan" or on a "witch hunt", he couldn't just call a Spade a Spade. He and his office did not strongly or clearly push back on what Barr was doing, instead their displeasure was wrapped in obtuse legal language and letters. Also if Mueller was too past his prime to deliver clear strong public statements, then they should have just had a "deputy" speak with Mueller standing next to him. Mueller with all respect was a PR disaster and they should have anticipated that.
And finally, even with Mueller's poor PR performance, he still gift wrapped a roadmap for obstruction of justice to Democrats. Yet they were just as skittish as Mueller and "blinked" at every key flashpoint to escalate things to the next level.They basically invalidated the report by saying "we still need to gather more information", which implicitly means to the public that the Mueller Report must not have enough information.
As others pointed out, Pelosi and others simply got lucky that Trump still decided to drop a tactical nuke on himself and then gave a transcript of said explosion, which no one could ignore. It looks like it may work out in the end but it's just a shame there's literally no one who will fight for the rule of law unless they have a smoking gun neatly on their plate with maximum political cover. The Mueller Report even with the strategic errors around it, should have been enough. The fact that it wasn't, scares me.
I think with Mueller we got Commissioner Gordon when we really needed Batman.
Turkey's conflict in Syria took a major turn today. First alleged atrocities by Turkish-backed Arab militias, executing Kurds. US military officials tell me it's true, and they are DEEPLY concerned it opens the door to BOTH ethnic cleansing of Kurds and return of ISIS/Al-Qaeda
And finally, even with Mueller's poor PR performance, he still gift wrapped a roadmap for obstruction of justice to Democrats. Yet they were just as skittish as Mueller and "blinked" at every key flashpoint to escalate things to the next level.They basically invalidated the report by saying "we still need to gather more information", which implicitly means to the public that the Mueller Report must not have enough information.
National Democratic Primary:
Warren 36%
Biden 23%
Sanders 15%
Buttigieg 6%
Harris 5%
Yang 3%
Booker 2%
O'Rourke 2%
Gabbard 1%
Klobuchar 1%
Delaney 1%@YouGov / @DataProgress
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2019/10/11/the-role-of-news-interest-in-candidate-evaluation
National Democratic Primary:
Warren 36%
Biden 23%
Sanders 15%
Buttigieg 6%
Harris 5%
Yang 3%
Booker 2%
O'Rourke 2%
Gabbard 1%
Klobuchar 1%
Delaney 1%@YouGov / @DataProgress
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2019/10/11/the-role-of-news-interest-in-candidate-evaluation