US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/politics/mueller-report-release.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

The House voted unanimously in March on a nonbinding resolution to make public the report’s findings, an indication of the deep support within both parties to air whatever evidence prosecutors uncovered.

yeah... that's not my read on that. "non-binding" is a key phrase.

Barr statement: anticipates making principal conclusions public as soon as this weekend

i mean that supposition ("deep support within both parties") goes against literally everything the GOP has done for the past 2 years.

the usual NYT credulity

has to be extremely calculated, willful credulity at this point

basically Barr's going home, mixing a cocktail, and settling by the fire with a copy of the report.

and feeding certain pages into it

aimless, where i come from that's called "jinxing" and it's illegal xp

Barr is going to make a statement like "while there are circumstances and incidents that are troubling... fuck all you bitches who said I look like John Goodman on the toilet."

Report delivered earlier this afternoon per Justice official, delivered to DAG’s office and then within minutes to AG Barr; report described to me as “comprehensive”

— Laura Jarrett (@LauraAJarrett) March 22, 2019

Wow, comprehensive!!!

good luck usa

how did you pay for those extra exclamation points???

it's, freakign mueller time

https://www.madsenworld.dk/anigif/light/siren.gif

can’t wait for mueller to lock up hillary for doing pizzagate

Well, I'm gonna mix a cocktail and re-watch High and Low. Y'all notify me when Barr's ready.

part of our heritage requires a 3 yr shambolic brexit style shitshow amirite

Breaking: Mueller is not recommending any further indictments, says a Sr. Justice Department official.

— Del Quentin Wilber (@DelWilber) March 22, 2019

Mueller is not recommending any further indictments

That's pretty obvious even without someone telling it to Del Quentin Wilber.

Further indictments not under seal?

Barr statement: anticipates making principal conclusions public as soon as this weekend

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, March 22, 2019 4:20 PM

Barr: “I am reviewing that report and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.”

The "you" is Congressional leaders, not the public. I assume those congresspeople will drop some bombs and spin some spin, but Barr didn't say he was making anything public.

xxp ok write it up for lawfare

holy shit it’s leaked already

https://www.scribd.com/document/402800029/Report-from-the-Special-Counsel-Investigation-into-Russian-Interference-During-and-Before-the-2016-Presidential-Election

ah yes ok xxp

Oh my god, this is earthshattering stuff. I had a suspicion about how the mold got broken, but to see it spelled out in black and white...wow.

wow, it starts coming and doesn't stop

Oooh. LXVIII, damning stuff.

smash mouth was right xp

well, i definitely wrote that before clicking the link

At least it gets O'Rourke out of the news.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) March 22, 2019

holy shit that report

rip trump family

Can’t believe they didn’t censor exhibit D

Ilxors have connections though, you guys write for rolling stone and stuff. Plz discretely ilxmail me the report thank you

In other news which now seems entirely inconsequential, Lachlan Murdoch officially succeeded his pop as the head of Fox News this week. It remains to be seen whether that means a goddamn thing, but I'll take whatever slim chance there is that he sees the power he now wields and decides that he'd prefer to go down in history as maybe just a medium-grade POS rather than the hardcore + unalloyed variety favored by so many of late.

gonna rank the ten most delicious findings in the Mueller report brb

Poppy Trump Interzone

If I wanted to write a review of the mueller report for pitchfork, who should I pitch that to?

Pitchfork?

I'll take whatever slim chance there is that he sees the power he now wields and decides that he'd prefer to go down in history as maybe just a medium-grade POS rather than the hardcore + unalloyed variety favored by so many of late

No one actually cares where they'll "go down in history."

i have not clicked the link so i have no idea if any of you are taking the piss

Yeah, they are rick rolling. sigh.

Time to shift our hopes and dreams to the House Oversight Committee's investigations Bernie-Oprah.

To Mueller Forever

No one actually cares where they'll "go down in history."

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, March 22, 2019 5:54 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not everyone is faced with the decision of whether to tap the brakes on a media outlet that's been actively leading the POTUS by the shorthairs towards his worst impulses or whether to say 'fuck it' and snap off the steering wheel as we hurtle towards the abyss. I can see where someone in that situation might ponder how their choices will be viewed in the future (either by subsequent generations or whichever intergalactic travellers happen upon the desiccated husk of what was once a life-giving world, depending).

man sure enjoying all the civilians who became political analysts overnight (not itt, elsewhere)

Does the office of Special Counsel dissolve on the presentation of the report, think I heard a presenter say that this week.
So does that mean that Mueller is totally through and anything else in the hands of the other law departments he's handed findings over to.

JUst read comment that Ecuador are expelling Assange from the embassy.

JUst keeping fingers crossed that something more comes of this and Barr can't get away with simply suppressing everything

it doesn't dissolve, it melts