(07-12-2017 12:32 PM)Barrett Wrote:  Well, the "individual accusations" that you are supposedly looking at and dismissing as nonsensical aren't necessarily the accusations or concerns that most are raising. If you're going to load the dice by saying, "I know this is a witch hunt because the accusation that Donald Trump himself had a secret meeting with Putin in Antarctica to coordinate spying on U.S. citizens makes no sense and there's no record that even suggests that Trump has been to Antarctica," then you're setting up the answer by framing a very specific question. But that's your right, I suppose.

I can respect that people can look at the record and say, "I think this doesn't rise to the level of anything nefarious or bad." But the position of "I don't think anyone should even look at this at all because I've already prejudged this as a nothing burger" is a bit goofy to me.

If somebody came to me and said 'We need to investigate Barrett for dealing dope", which response do you think I should give: "That's stupid, what a waste", or" sure, we will never know for sure unless we check it out."

Do you think it is a nothing burger? why or why not? And please don't do the cop out of saying we won't know until the investigation is complete. That could be used to justify any investigation into anything. We won't know for sure if there really was a moon landing until we investigate, right?

Do you think we need an investigation? Why?

What is it that we are looking for? Evidence of what exactly? At least when the cops investigate a crime, they start with a crime. Here, we are investigating to see if there is a crime. That's why I ask for a narrative. when the cops investigate a crime, they start with a theory of what happened: She let her killer in, there was a struggle, he brought a gun, he pulled, it was probably a he. further investigation may cause these assumptions to change. But at least they start with a story. what is the story here, and does it make any sense?

Do you think that whatever we are looking for influenced the election to the point of changing the outcome? I don't. I think the publication of the emails had little or no effect. Hillary blamed her loss on that. she also blamed her loss on Comey and misogyny. perhaps Coney should take the blame. I know, let's investigate him. Was he really doing Trump's bidding when he reopened the investigation? We won't know for sure unless we do.

I never get answers to these types of questions, just dismissal.

If you don't want to answer, just call them straw men. Good way to avoid having to put your thoughts into words.

I think in a year or so, this will rattle to a halt, with little to show for it. Probably around January of 2019. If that happens, who here will apologize to me? My guess is Zip. I will gladly apologize to y'all if Trump or Trump Jr or the campaign as a whole is indicted for collusion. I'll say i had an opinion, and it turned out to be wrong.

At least I articulate why I think this is a useless sham. Nobody has yet been able to articulate to me why they think it is not. I give Lad some credit for trying. He stands alone in that respect, though.