To those of you who trashed Rachel Maddow and MSNBC on their coverage of the Mueller Investigation

Why?

Sure. If Rachel admits her virtue signal handling of Jussie Smollett was dishonest journalism.

OP, I’m watching MSNBC and I what I hear will not be useful at Easter with my Deplorable relatives. I long planed on asking them to avoid politics, but then my sister in law will yell “awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww” and I hate that. I just wish there was something that would keep them off the subject completely.

Did I miss something? Did she redeem herself?

Rachel Maddow is a lesbian who deserves to be abused. She is also dumb. I hate her.

From the NYT article:

"While the report does not find that the president or his campaign aides had committed any crimes in their contacts with Russians, it lays bare how Mr. Trump was elected with the help of a foreign power."

Still reading the report.

I'd trust your summary more than the NYT, r6. They have to save face.

^thanks, Boris.

OF COURSE a thread with this title will bring out the bots and loons (like charging R8) like flies to horse shit.

Listen up:

Rachel was right.

And Rachel is right.

About all of it. ALL of it.

I'm hardly a fan of Rachel, but she was not the only on-air personality on that network constantly saying the end is near for Trump. Ari Melber, Chris Matthews, Laurence O'Donnell, among others, were right along side Ms. Maddow's "Trump was heading for major, major problems with the law" screeds. Turns out none of them knew jack shit.

If I was head of Comcast/NBC Universal, I'd fire all their asses and reformat. 24/7 Looney Tunes might be an appropriate replacement.

The Mueller report is just one aspect of Trump’s legal problems.

I don’t get the question mark at the end, are we supposed to say it in upspeak and not be sure if we mean it or not?

HI RACHEL!

I think Trump is dirty and he’ll still face legal investigations for the remainder of his life, or until he’s locked up, as is proper.

I think understanding nuance, and an effort to read more than headlines is called for.

HI RACHEL!

Small consolation, r15, but I'll take it.

All I'm getting is "he's a shitbag."

We knew that, did he break any laws?

I don’t understand all the guys given immunity. All of Cohen’s tape recordings. All the work, how could they not nail this scumbag?

It's not that they all predicted the end of Trump. It's that the stories they reported, which Trump called "fake news," were confirmed to be true by the Mueller report.

Wait, Barr gave us a redacted report that at minimum tells us he won't indict a sitting president. He gives the facts, and concludes congress should investigate/ impeach.

We know we don't have the senate. So, the house is demanding to see the unredacted report and Muellers evidence.

Where in any of that is she wrong? None of us know what mueller has because no one, except Barr and the WH has seen the unredacted report.

By he, I mean Mueller, not Barr

That's correct, R21, but you're not talking to typical DLers in this thread.

Mostly, you're talking to a St. Petersburg troll farm hellbent on convincing you that the Mueller report was a big nothing and that Rachel was a hysterical Chicken Little.

Both ideas are the furthest from the truth.

Ok, thank you R23. I'm not too bright discerning trolls.

So, will Rachel ever apologize to Trump now that it's obvious that Mueller exonerated Trump totally on the Russian collusion? And will the taxpayers ever get their money back from the wasted investigation?

R25, you do realize that just the fines imposed on Paul Manafort more than cover the total cost of the Mueller investigation. It cost taxpayers nothing. NADA.

So he really didn't think it was a hoax and witch hunt.

R25 must watch only Fox News, the Mueller report did not exonerate Trump

LOL, Kelly Conway's husband has written an op ed for the WAPO saying Trump is a cancer who needs to be impeached.

[quote] And will the taxpayers ever get their money back from the wasted investigation?

You mean the ten or more Benghazi investigations? No, you’ll have to be satisfied with zero inditements from those investigations.

[quote] Conway: Trump is a cancer on the Presidency.

I wonder what Putin’s plans are for the next election? I don’t mean regarding election interference, I take that for granted. I mean, I wonder if Putin will strike in some way before the most incompetent and obsequious man in history leaves office? They might seize the Baltics. Or invade Ukraine, or whatever country is bugging them at the time.

In the movie “To Big to Fail”, it was revealed that during the financial crisis, the Russians asked the Chinese to coordinate the sale of all their mutual US bonds, which would have crippled the US economy. Maybe Putin has been coaching Trump in his trade war with China, for the purpose of driving the Chinese into an alliance with Russia? You would think that Russia must know that an economic collapse in the US will be awful for everybody, including them, but people don’t always think straight and instead overplay their hand.

Certainly Putin knows that a new Democratic President will be the worst thing that could happen for Russia.

R25...how is the weather in St. Petersburg?

Personally, I think the next President ought to completely reset our relations with Russia. Start with outlawing ownership of any US real estate valued over $2 by any Russian national. Then restrict travel. Then add tariffs. Label the Russian government a terrorist organization. Block any banks with a US presence from doing business with the Russian government, like we do with Iran. Just write them completely off.

We’re already at war with them, it’s time to recognize it, and defend ourselves.

I've had it so much with the Russia paranoia, I just want to throw up.

[quote] I've had it so much with the Russia paranoia, I just want to throw up.

We have heard endless cries of Russian "interference" and "meddling" for years now, without anything much more than Facebook (social media) presence activity as examples.

"Russia" is a symptom of denial in the (Clinton) stage of grief.

Wrong, R36. Mueller has plenty of evidence. Remember he indicted something like 40 Russians or Russian companies? Our intelligence services know they interfered. This is exactly why the Dems need to crack down on the Russians.

R34 is absolutely right

[quote]I think understanding nuance, and an effort to read more than headlines is called for.

Bless you heart, honey. You’re living in the wrong century.

[quote]And the whole notion that the Kremlin somehow nefariously 'interfered' with the US election via some second-rate troll farm and a few thousand tweets and Facebook posts is fucking laughable.

I know plenty of people who don’t even have Facebook or Twitter and voted for Trump, because they thought Hillary was a steaming pile of shit.

R36 = I didn't vote for Clinton and I sure won't fee bad about swallowing Russian propaganda.

fee = feel

R40, did they watch Fox news? In any event, anti-Hillary lies filtered throughout the population. Why?

Something about emails. She did nothing illegal; followed past, Republican precedence, and I still don’t know the problem.

Also, Benghazi. Incidentally, Benghazi was a CIA station, in a country in a civil war, and whose people aren’t fond of us. After a cartoon Mohammad was published. I’m sure Hillary wasn’t initially free to speak about it, as it was classified. Some people are upset that she allegedly lied about it afterwards. An inconsequential lie, if that, and yet Trump tells a dozen lies every day, but that’s ok?

And, she’s a women, and a Dem.

I’ve heard many people say they don’t trust Hillary, but can’t explain why.

Rachel Maddow can cry at the drop of a snatch.

Could you be very specific about what false information that was passed on about Hillary? What you probably mean is the real truth about Hillary that the legacy media was no longer able to filter for you. The real Hillary is bad enough. I can't imagine what fake stories they would have to make up to make her seem worse than she really was.

R45 = charter member of The He-Man Woman Haters Club

If it wasn’t reported on Clinton News Network, it’s obviously Russian lies.

I see by R46s response they wouldn't like the answer to my question.

Why are we still having fights from years ago? The New York primary was three years ago today.

[quote] R45: Could you be very specific about what false information that was passed on about Hillary?

Hillary murdered her friend Vince Foster!

Despicable.

So the Russians started that story in the 90s? Or something? LOL how many votes did that swing?

[quote][R45]: Could you be very specific about what false information that was passed on about Hillary?

She sold Uranium to Russia and then the Russian government gave $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

[quote][[R45]]: Could you be very specific about what false information that was passed on about Hillary?

Pizzagate

I said false.

R45 = Trumpster

- Trump Confirms WH Plan To Punish “Radical Left” By Dumping Captured Migrants On Democratic Districts

[quote]I thought immigrants and diversity were what makes this country GREAT! Why complain now?

[quote]Elections have consequences.

[quote]Well you can thank Obama for that pearl of wisdom. I love it. I hope he does it.

[quote][bold]Where were you when Obama was putting them in cages? Why so vocal now? You didn't give a shit before. What changed?[/bold]

[quote][bold]The Obama administration separated more families than Trump. Under him the cages were built. He deported more illegal immigrants than Trump. He sent the military to the border. Where was your righteous indignation then? What's changed you mendacious pieces of shit? You didn't give a fuck before about the little brown people. Why now?[/bold]

[quote]Tell me what my lies were? What did I type that is incorrect? What? You just can't face the truth. [bold]Gam Gam cankles lost and you enjoy being in the angry echo chamber. [/bold]There is absolutely nothing incorrect about what I typed. Especially the mendacious pieces of shit part. I'll wait though for you to tell me what is incorrect. You are so incoherent you can't even admit the truth. You are deranged.

[quote]It's no concern to anything where I live. You can put out duplicitous, self serving behavior wherever you are. Actually on the surface I'd appear to be an elitist. I live in New York city and work at one of the most prestigious research facilities in the world. I speak, socialize, work with, and live with more people of color than probably anyone in this thread. [bold]I'm just waiting for a link to their posts protesting the cages from the eight years before Trump.[/bold]

More than half the comments are trolls. I wonder why they're so afraid and out in such force when they keep bleating that the report exonerated him?

One can wonder at the obvious, it seems.

LOL I love a stalker....that's what you do when you have no argument. Go to the expensive lesbo dating thread and you can find some more nuggets from me.

R45 in action

R58 in action.

Rachel has had it right from the very beginning. She broke it down perfectly and methodically.

The Trumps need to apologize to the American public for their cheating, lying, and be jailed for treason. I'll spare them the firing squad on the condition that the GOP be disbanded and barred from further political campaigns or the right to organize.

I want a full apology to the American Public from Mitch McConnell and the hypochristians that elected Pence. I further want the complete dossier on Melanoma released for public scrutiny.

ALL the transcripts of the secret meetings between Putin and Trump must be released. Melanoma must be placed in Gitmo and tortured for the truth of her translating, Russian complicit ass.

Ivanka and Jared must be stripped and whipped in the public square, Times Square, preferably. Their children will be raised by wolves in Guatamala and turned back at the border if they dare to cross.

ALL of them must be stripped of citizenship after their dealings with Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, etc. come to light.

All profits from every deal made during their 'unofficial' tenure must be turned over the IRS and given to Flint, Michigan, to repair their water and sewer system.

Any illegal immigrant working for the Trump organization in the last 20 years will be granted immediate citizenship.

R55 in action

It was ripping great fun watching Rachel on Thursday night. Talk about a 7 yo kid on Christmas morning!

That report is the kind of detailed analysis that is catnip for her.

R62 W&W!

I agree. What kind of monster can a president be to have not done anything about Flint's water?

I love Rachel and she's been dead on since the very beginning, R65. The trolls can suck it.

No apologies for traitors.

Flint needs to get some celebrity millionaires/billionaires (like Oprah) involved with Flint. They each pledge to pay for a mile of pipe. Get it done!

That would rock, R68. Where are all those Michigan Magats like Kid Rock and his ilk?

Yeah, probably shooting up some shit somewhere with their stripper/hookers and pretending to give a shit.

Rachel and her cis-privilege.

Nice of you to notice, R70....don't you have a merkin to wash?

Love these bitches who want all the tolerance only for themselves. Someone, everyone, has got the goods but them. Boo the fuck hoo.

Obama is to blame for Flint? Not Rick Snyder? Not the "emergency managers" the state put in place?

Now that's some grade-A wingnutty Trumpanzee deflecting goodness.