Rentahamster
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It goes well with your C- misrepresentation.
Guardian source: "They now have specific concrete... evidence of collusion"
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It goes well with your C- misrepresentation.
I honestly don't understand how you can come to this conclusion, especially if you're looking at it from a group-political perspective. You're talking about a President who said all that he did during the campaign, to come out swinging as President in his innauguration speech and actions in the first months of his presidency. To now reversing on a portion of that bullshit in the span of one week and influenced by just one meeting. What country is looking at the US and the President now with confidence in anything? Hell NATO must be terrified knowing any given moment he could hop back in Twitter and blast them again. Trump's flip flopping is worse for them than him holding steadfast to his awful views.
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This will be the smoking gun that sinks the Trump administration, says increasingly nervous man for seventh time this year.
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Nah. This "guys, don't get too excited, don't jump to conclusions!" handwringing is, like, the dictionary definition of concern trolling.
Rentahamster
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I don't see how accusing the president of treason without hard evidence is not something to be worried about.
yanipheonu
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I suspect we get months of stories like this. If something comes of it, it'll be sudden with little warning.
Maybe they can do it within one year...
Maybe they can do it within one year...
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Because we're not lawyers or law enforcement or congresspeople. We're people on the internet playing detective with an incomplete puzzle. You're handwringing to shut down discussion just for the sake of doing it. That is concern trolling. You are concern trolling.
Escape Goat
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Do you think Paul Ryan has a shadow transition team formed yet
Worst approval rating of any POTUS at this point in their term. I seriously doubt he gets re-elected if he even makes it through his first term.
Nah...they're focused on repeal and replace. He's confident in the job Nunez is doing.
Fantastapotamus
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No, it's preventing people from expecting Trump to be impeached next week.
Constantly posting that "It's happening" gif leads to people getting impatient and losing hope because "nothing is happening". "Don't get too excited yet" is a perfectly valid response to this news, not because nothing will happen but because this doesn't mean that Trump will be in a jail cell come June.
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I don't think that anyone actually believes that he's going to be in jail by June.
God, nofunallowed.jpg in full force right now.
hendersonhank
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You've been stridently insisting Trump and his campaign have no meaningful Russian links, which even Fox has the common sense to dance around. And as each aspect of the dossier continues to hold water you've decided the real scandal is the peepee tape despite that being the only legal thing described in the dossier.
Trump's campaign is bizarrely connected to an ever widening set of banks, spies and oligarchs- something that isn't even contested at this point. He's lost four senior staffers over their links to Russian shenanigans. Sessions and Nunes recused themselves from their own investigations.
But you for some reason are convinced his "suspicious" activity is purely financial.
It's not purely financial. What was the single GOP platform element the Trump campaign asked to be changed?
Just answer the above question. Just that single question.
jellies_two
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The last well connected journalist on the hill said privately senate republicans are taking bets on how long trump will last.
Every week another unresolved issue gets added to the pile and nothing gets resolved - either way - from prior revelations. There is a growing black hole or blind spot covering more and more stuff. it has to break sooner or later, or Comey will be fired by Trump which will precipitate something else.
I just hope that if the plan is to lasso a bunch of trump people after a case is made, that there are a few adults in the loop that will render harmless any stupid distraction attempts by a cornered White House.
Every week another unresolved issue gets added to the pile and nothing gets resolved - either way - from prior revelations. There is a growing black hole or blind spot covering more and more stuff. it has to break sooner or later, or Comey will be fired by Trump which will precipitate something else.
I just hope that if the plan is to lasso a bunch of trump people after a case is made, that there are a few adults in the loop that will render harmless any stupid distraction attempts by a cornered White House.
Rentahamster
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1. I'm not trying to shut down the discussion. I'm adding to the discussion, or should I mischaracterize your post like you did mine and accuse you of concern trolling me?
2. I'm adding in my 2 cents not for the sake of doing it. It's for the sake of adding an unrepresented opinion and analysis to the overall discussion to see what other think about it.
I think that they're probably desperate to formulate some kind of strategy but have no idea who or what will be left after it all craters. Like, mcconnell and cruz even Ryan have all covered for some pretty bizarre aspects of Trump's presidency. Their own reputations are going to need careful ministrations.
There is hard evidence you are just claiming it doesn't count.
So you're being an armchair psychologist to justify concern trolling.
It's still concern trolling.
Your argument was well represented when there was a lack of evidence to go against it. Knowing what we know... not to mention what we don't.... it just comes off like you are shutting it down.
Rentahamster
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Maybe you're making a semantic argument that is irrelevant.
That is?
Rentahamster
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Well, take it for what it's worth, but my intention isn't to shut it down. If the media want to continue in a path that is good for their pocketbooks, but bad for the Democrats, then I can't really do much else to convince them to change their minds. (on this forum anyway).
Trump says NATO is obsolete, NATO general talks with Trump, Trump says NATO is not obsolete.
Again, we're talking Realpolitik. This is not ideal or great or good. The US is not the trusted partner it once was. All I'm saying is that he did change his tune. That's something.
Germany isn't buddy buddy with Trump all of a sudden. Every move he makes has the potential to be a desaster. But at last the political/diplomatic establishment has pushed him in the direction of making concessions. If those concessions are worth a damn is anybody's guess. Trump is unpredictable. But again, he did change his tune.
And just to make it clear yet another time before people who don't know what Realpolitik means jump on me, Trump is an idiot and should be impeached ASAP.
This will be the smoking gun that sinks the Trump administration, says increasingly nervous man for seventh time this year.
I hate this meme, because it implies only megatons should be news.
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You're dominating the discussion, which is shutting down the discussion otherwise. The last, like, three pages of this thread are mostly filled with people just arguing with you along the same few lines of reasoning and logic. What makes you think that your opinion -- which you've admitted is tainted by confirmation bias -- is so important that it should become the focus of the discussion here?
I'm gonna back out now because I know that this conversation is going to head down the path towards bansville real fast if I don't, but damn dude.
I know. It could all mean nothing in the end. We're talking Trump here after all.
The dossier, and several pieces of that being confirmed. The contacts between his campaign and Russian officials. Carter Page. Paul Manaforts confirmed payments from Russian-backed ukrainians just prior to the campaign. Trumps public statements and action on russia prior to the Syria bombing. Leaked statements from American and foreign intelligence agencies. Kushner purposefully omitting meetings with Russians from Security clearance paper work. Ditto for both Sessions and Flynn. Multiple instances of Russian Agents being documented as being in the same physical location as Trump, his sons, and his son-in-law during the campaign.
None of that is 100% proof of collusion, but it is all evidence. Much of it is in fact proven facts. Understand that it is unlikely that there is like a recording of Trump holding Putins dick saying "you're my huckleberry I can't quit you." But there is a lot of currently public evidence, and potentially proof elsewhere.
Fantastapotamus
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Thanks for the armchair analysis.
IIRC concern trolling means I'm pro Trump but act like I'm not right? Cause lol if that's the case
Trump's time in office being besieged by scandal is not bad for Democrats.
Rentahamster
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Misunderstanding #1 - I haven't said that. I've said there are lots of links, lots of smoke, but none that suggest anything treasonous.
Misrepresentation #2 - I've stated that any bombshell revelations in the dossier (including peepee tape) that might directly link Trump to collusion, have not been verified yet. A lot of other things have, but those are relatively minor things that aren't evidence of Trump being a Manchurian Candidate.
I don't believe I ever denied these things have happened. They could be part of a huge case against Trump, or mostly coincidences, or something in between. But it's not hard evidence of collusion of the kind that a lot of Democrats seem to be pushing.
Misunderstanding #3 - I didn't say they're purely financial. I said that it looks to me like it's financial, because that seems the most plausible at this juncture. It is less clear to me currently that it is more than that, but I leave open the possibility that it is.
You don't know that for sure either, and there's as of yet not enough evidence to show it wasn't.
If you're talking about taking out the part about supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry, and making it more like President Obama's position, then I don't see what is supposed to be so nefarious about that.
Oh... this is hurting the dems. Ok.
Rentahamster
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I'm responding to people not understanding what I'm saying, like you are doing in this post.
I didn't admit my opinions are tainted by confirmation bias. I stated that I realize that I am human, and all humans are susceptible to it.
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Watch the smoking gun go public the day of the 40th anniversary, followed by gifs of the torpedo going in.
Glorious.
Rentahamster
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It's not enough to claim that we know Trump colluded with Russia to be a Manchurian Candidate. It might be for you, but it isn't for me. There's a lot of connections to other foreign nations too.
If they keep pushing this too hard at the expense of advocating for progressive policies, then it will hurt them. Especially if it actually does turn out to be overblown. We'll see in 2020 how it turns out.
My god. Right down to the squirrelly obama talking point detail.
Rentahamster
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De-escalation of tensions. The horror! Are you in favor of escalating a proxy war with Russia?
Prof. Bathtub
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Did you just come out of Finding Dory?
He won't be re-elected. People who didn't vote this time will be damn sure to vote this time.
That he colluded with Russia isn't even up for debate. He did it in the open. He called on them to hack his opponent, and release the information. He actively used information produced by their intelligenxe agencies as talking points in their campaign. Some of which was true but hacked, some of which was specifically false. In response he played nice and spoke nicely of them.
That he colluded is 100% proven fact. I think what you mean is that we can't prove he conspired
Rentahamster
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Are you calling me a sea creature? I'm not sure what this means.
Oh....you're moving goals again by bringing the dems into it. I'm out. I should've been out a few responses ago.
"At the expense of advocating for progressive policies"? What the fuck are you talking about? Do you have even the foggiest idea of what the party has been doing lately?
Also, you're shifting goalposts and not doing a good job of obfuscating the transparent (and bannable) shitposting you're doing in this thread.
Rentahamster
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I don't believe the evidence for Russia being behind the hacking is as strong as you think it is.
How is that moving goalposts? I've always said that.
Did you see the Maddow stuff I linked earlier? This is taking up a lot of airtime. I'm not shifting any goalposts.
A few examples - I saw a Medicare for all bill be introduced by Conyers that hardly anyone talks about. I saw a town hall by Nancy Pelosi where she doesn't give straight answers about universal coverage. I saw a bipartisan marijuana bill that isn't getting much coverage. The discussion of the fact that we're still in Iraq and Afghanistan after 16 years is low. The only reason we've even been talking about Afghanistan recently is because we dropped a huge ass bomb on it.
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Trump was watching the movie in the WH before leaving partway through to tweet that McCain and Graham wanted to start WWIII because they were asking about his Russian connections. They're on board now that he's discovered bombs though, so courageous.
I'm not sure how electing a president who refused to share his taxes for completely bogus reasons, readily equates minorities with rapists, terrorists and worse, was caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women, and casually suggested Russian hackers and "2nd Amendment People" should go after his opponent, isn't something to be worried about either; but we seemed to clear that hurdle just fine.
Trump has happily run every principle and ideal that this country was founded on through the muck. What makes treason so special? What harder evidence do you need?
You are actually giving more credence to the idea that this is all just a big coincidence or a frame up? I'm sure you'll stick around after it all goes down to discuss how wrong or right you were huh?
It isn't even disputable anymore, unless you're Alex Jones or Julian Assange. The entire intel committee said they were behind it.
Keep digging that hole you're making for yourself.
Yes. The Russian government is vile and the country should be fucking bankrupted.
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