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kpete's JournalRep Maxine Waters: "This is not the end of anything!"
Rep. Waters: I want to tell you that this president has a way of trying to get into people's heads. He has been saying no collusion, no collusion, no collusion, over and over again for a long time. He's going try to conclude that this report has proven that there is no collusion and you have a lot of his sycophants who'll take the nod from him and they'll say the same thing. We cannot allow them to get away with this. He does this all the time. This is not the end of anything!
VIDEO & MORE::
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/25/1845087/-Rep-Waters-isn-t-letting-Barr-whitewash-Mueller-investigation-This-is-not-the-end-of-anything?utm_campaign=trending
Wonderful cartoon by the New Yorker's Barry Blitt: "If a mic drops & no one hears it..."
https://twitter.com/wuerker/status/1110169388995481600
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Barr&Rosenstein believe there is insufficient evidence to establish that there was a crime
On obstruction, Barr says Mueller laid out evidence rather than coming to a conclusion on the "difficult" question, leaving it to DOJ to determine if there was a crime. Barr says that he and Rosenstein believe there is insufficient evidence to establish that there was a crime
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1109904568866037766
A WAPO cartoon from May 31, 1974
"Listen, are you going to be loyal to me or to that(expletive deleted) Constitution?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/cartoon17.html
RUDE PUNDIT: How to Survive the Next Few Days Until We Know What's in the Mueller Report
3/22/2019
How to Survive the Next Few Days Until We Know What's in the Mueller Report
I know. I know you're sitting there with "It's Mueller Time" memes popping up all over your Twinstaface feeds. You're watching Rachel parse every word in Attorney General William Barr's memo informing us that he's received Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and other assorted matters. You're listening to every panelist from every administration since Nixon tell you what might be in there, what might get released, what Congress might get to see, what the White House might try to stop, and on. And on. And on.
And you're wondering, "How in the fucking fuck am I going to survive waiting until something definite is released or leaked?"
Lemme give you some tips.
1. Turn off the fuckin' news networks. Or turn it to the Weather Channel, where you can get news on the catastrophic floods in the Upper Midwest. Or watch BBC News, where you can realize that even people with posh accents can bumblefuck around like brain-damaged gibbons when it comes to Brexit.
2. But, no, seriously, turn off CNN and MSNBC (and if you're hate-watching Fox "news," the fuck is wrong with you? And if you're seriously watching Fox, fuck you). Most of the pundits and analysts are reading tea leaves in the dark, whether they say the report exonerates Trump or condemns Trump. They have a couple of vague ideas of what's in there (like explanations of the indictments Mueller has gotten, which mostly include lying to investigators for Mueller). But otherwise? They don't know a goddamn thing, and those channels have got 24 hours to fill with walking around while wearing blindfolds. It'll drive you nutzoid to stay tuned in.
3. Turn your hopes down for the report. It might be explosive. It might be disappointing. It might be frustratingly opaque. It might be brutally definitive. But if you've been fantasizing about Mueller arresting Trump and frog-marching him out of the White House, well, you're gonna need to pull that back a bit because he didn't. In fact, there won't be any more indictments coming because that wasn't Mueller's job. That's for others to decide based on the report. And there is every chance in the world that we might not learn everything that's in the report.
4. Concentrate on the shit we do know that we didn't even need Mueller for. Every day, Trump is doing something impeachable or demonstrating that he's unfit for office. Democrats need to talk about the shady business deals (which, yes, do cross over with Russia matters) and witness intimidation and erratic policy decisions and self-enriching and refusal to condemn white nationalism and hush money and more, far more than enough to impeach any president. If we put too much into the Mueller report (as too many Democrats have), then we lose the chance to convince people on the other shit.
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THE REST:
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-to-survive-next-few-days-until-we.html
ttps://twitter.com/rudepundit/status/1109288453198483456
"I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the 5th, cover-up or anything else, if it'll save it
@BeschlossDC
Mueller Report has been delivered on the 46th anniversary of the secret Watergate tape in which Nixon tells John Mitchell, "I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up or anything else, if it'll save it--save the plan."
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1109207873928814594
John and Cindy McCain's daughter Bridget, who never speaks out....until now.
John and Cindy McCain’s daughter Bridget, who never speaks out....until now.
(A reminder that Bridget was the subject of a racist whisper campaign engineered by Karl Rove during the 2000 election)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2Lkf5TUgAAieqE?format=jpg&name=360x360
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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1108699698007699456
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