(04-01-2019 09:04 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(04-01-2019 08:09 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-01-2019 07:33 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(04-01-2019 04:51 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Wait, you've seen the Mueller report? Because based on what you're writing, it sure seems like you're certain of its contents.

Being that the Mueller investigation has results in the indictment of foreign nationals for the issues you bring up, I would guess that some of the 300+ pages are dedicated to dissecting the how question you bring up. It would be very odd if it did not. That's why, in response to your question about why the Mueller team didn't investigate "servers and email accounts and Facebook trolling" I said that he indicted numerous individuals for those crimes. The indictments make it clear they did investigate those activities.

Mueller's team investigated a lot of different angles that fell under the purview granted to him - how the Russians attempted to influence the elections, potential Trump campaign coordination, shady Trump business dealings, etc. And I would assume we'll hear about them all in the report.

How many times are you going to deflect from what I said?

First, you point out that people have been indicted all along throughout the investigation.... and now you claim that we have to wait for the report to be assured that we've taken steps to improve our security against them?

I'm sure such things WILL be in the report... but if we didn't have to wait for the report to file charges against people and set court dates, I'm certain that we wouldn't have to wait to address the security risk... or at least to say that we've addressed them.

No deflection - your first comment was asking why there hadn't been an investigation, and I clearly showed that there was...

Now that the Mueller report is out, I've seen a shift in tone from the right, that matches what you want. We've now stopped hearing them question if hacking happened, to talking about what we can do to address the issue going forward.

We had to wait until the report came out for the right to jump on board, because the right needed to wait until Mueller cleared Trump of charges before they were willing to admit that the Russian government did what Comey et al accused them of doing.

Let me get this straight.

The right would never accept that there was interference *unless* Trump was cleared. Is this really what you say and believe? Seriously? Wow, if so the kool-aid runs deep......

Why dont you slow down, take a hit of vodka, and say that three times. And then ponder that comment above with all your protestations of how 'open-minded' you are.....

Dude, we have people on this very board suggesting Russia may not have behind the email hacks (I keep seeing talk about download speeds). The right often puppeted Trump about how the hackers could have been some fat dude in a basement and how it wasn’t Russia.

But now that Barr has summarized that Trump and Co did not conspire, tunes are changing to actually caring about the election interference because Cheeto-Bandito is in the clear for collusion. People all over the right would have kept peddling conspiracy theories about Seth Rich if Mueller had found Trump and Co guilty because they would t have wanted to believe that Trump was guilty. The only way they could have cared was if they didn’t have to worry about their Orange savior being in bed with the Russians.