old salt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:23 pm
What has pushed you over the edge?
I've had the same views since day one. I've been over the edge this whole time.
1. I never thought Trump colluded with anyone, until shown otherwise. We still have zero evidence he did anything of the sort.
2. Trump has a whole mess of business conflicts that any rational person would like him to have taken care of before taking office. He didn't, and that has led to a whole mess of tinfoil hat stuff. Trump's fault, and he gets a pass.
3.The hotel meeting. This USED to be a disqualifying event for a Presidential hopeful. I'm livid about this.
4. All the lies by Trump and his crew about Russian contacts. First of all, the lies aren't ok, and second of all, it's fanned the tin foil hat flames. You guys keep acting like people are nuts for wanting Mueller to look into this, and for the life of me, I don't get how you can be that far down the partisan rabbit hole to not say "yeah, we have no choice but to investigate this crap when everything these guys say about Russia turns out to be a lie".
5. Multiple felony indictments and convictions are treated like they're parking tickets.
There's more, but those are the highlights.
You and others either don't care about #2-#5, or do everything you can to diminish them, and it's clear it's partisanship at work. "That's not illegal" isn't a rational response by an adult American citizen. Why bother following what our leaders do if that's the only criteria for evaluation? Just read the police blotter, and ignore all else.
It bothers me.
The McCabe thing annoys me because if he's telling the truth (can't imagine he'd lie about meeting 8 freaking Congressmen and briefing them), then there's no FBI Deep State. They just did their jobs--told McConnell what they were doing---- and everyone hung them out to dry for doing what we pay them to do.