Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You asserted Barr was putting his finger on the scale. I said I found that assertion a bit unhinged. I then saw Rosenstein second Barr's report. To assert that Barr is in a conspiracy now is to assert Rosenstein is also in the conspiracy. Or as Rosenstein put it, to raise a "bizarre" allegation.
I can't say Barr is up to something. I think he thinks there might have been improper surveillance, which is what he said. None of us knows what he knows, so I have no way of guessing the reason for what he said. And you have no evidence to assume he's "up to something."
But the lack of evidence has never stopped the Left or the Right in the past 30 years. Since the days of Clinton, each side believes it is right, goddamnit. They know in their bones that they are on the side of righteousness, justice (or in the case of many Right wingers, "preserving the character of the country"). So hey, even if you've no evidence, fuck it -- claim Barr is in league with Trump. Even if there's no evidence, fuck it -- Obama's a socialist, and Bill Clinton has committed everything from campaign violations to the murder of Vincent Foster. The FBI said it lacked basis to charge Hillary, but thought she grossly mishandled documents? Fuck it. She's guilty. Nevermind the difference between negligence and intent. That's too confusing.
The Left sees everything a GOP President does with an extremely jaundiced eye. Conclusion or suspicion first, facts second. The Right does exactly the same thing with Democrat presidents.
And both sides defend their Presidents on almost everything they do. It's teams, tribes, parties... And when they're sure they've got a win in their sights, as the GOP did with Starr, Benghazi, Hillary's emails, etc., and the Democrats have done with every investigation of Trump, and the win never materializes, they melt down.
The Mueller Report will come out Thursday and confirm what we all know: Trump is a lying, rotten shit. And the Left will then melt down. It will scream that justice has not been done. Just like the Right has screamed that justice has never been done in investigations of Democrats.
Thankfully, hopefully, as the NYTimes recently noted in its study comparing the loudest advocates on social and regular media to actual voters, nobody who matters will give a shit about the stupid spectacle.
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