Mueller report thread - Mueller testimony July 24

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this will reinforce everyone's prior beliefs and change very little.

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We are currently in a state of Shrodingers Report: it has both been finalized but not released. So everyone and their Grandma has a theory of what is in the thing. I would treat all takes and information as suspicious until we actually see if the cat is alive or dead.

But hot takes about how this spells doom for Dems in 2020 are much more fun

DEMS IN DISARRAY

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You know, the worst part of the whole Trump/Mueller/Barr/Russia kabuki play is that a discussion about possible rapprochement with Russia would be one well worth having if this were a sane political environment domestically. I wouldn't necessarily support such a rapprochement, but it's a legitimate issue with serious implications for the United States and our alliances either way. But it can't be discussed, because neither party can touch it without being seen to be covering for a grotesque con man who's surrounded himself with loathsome sycophants.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

You know, the worst part of the whole Trump/Mueller/Barr/Russia kabuki play is that a discussion about possible rapprochement with Russia would be one well worth having if this were a sane political environment domestically. I wouldn't necessarily support such a rapprochement, but it's a legitimate issue with serious implications for the United States and our alliances either way. But it can't be discussed, because neither party can touch it without being seen to be covering for a grotesque con man who's surrounded himself with loathsome sycophants.

How on earth can we even begin to consider rapprochment with Russia after it was just confirmed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that their government had interfered in the 2016 election, and tried to do so again last year?  You don't reward such behavior by reaching out to them.  If relations between Russia and the United States are the worst they have been since the darkest days of the Cold War, they have themselves to blame. 

I said that it would in a sane political environment (implicit in which concept, in my opinion, is more or less honest and transparent elections) be a debate worth having, not that it would be a good idea.

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the Democrats outdid them with their Russian nonsense.

No, they really didn't.

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How do you have time for this, Hollywood?