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I think there’s been a few updates but author’s point is we’re socialized to be a bunch of greedy, win at all costs phucks.
But it’s been a few years since I read it.
And they’ll be laughed out of court. It’s just a silly argument because if you read the order installing the Special Counsel, it clearly states that Mueller can investigate other crimes discovered in the process. And Mueller also has to report to and seek approval from Rosenstein for any expansion of his probe. I can’t imagine he didn’t do that. Beyond that, it’s just laughable to suggest that investigators should just ignore felonies because it’s not part of their scope. If a cop pulls someone over for a suspected DUI, the bloody butcher knife sitting in the floorboard isn’t just tossed aside because the cop was only supposed to investigate the DUI.
Barack Obama (on TV): …to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one…
Driver: You hear that line? Line’s for you.
Jackie Cogan: Don’t make me laugh. One people. It’s a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.
Driver: Oh, so now you’re going to have a go at Jefferson, huh?
Jackie Cogan: My friend, Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words ‘All men are created equal’, words he clearly didn’t believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He’s a rich white snob who’s sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we’re living in a community? Don’t make me laugh. I’m living in America, and in America you’re on your own. America’s not a country. It’s just a business. Now fuckin’ pay me.
Ripe for a “Downfall” Parody
I see your Brad Pitt, and raise you a Hunter S. Thompson
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
I would. They’re investigating a crime involving a possible conspiracy to manipulate US elections. The most common motive in conspiracies involves money. It’s the first place you’d look for motive, particularly considering Manafort’s well known ties to Russian oligarchs.
I thnk rather than nitpick the scope of the Special Counsel’s orders we’ll see defendants assert the very appointment of the counsel itself was flawed. Thus EVERYTHING flowing forward from Mueller’s installation must be tossed. Yes, a bold gambit, yet one possibly ripe to climb the ladder all the way to SCOTUS, and as we all know once in their hands who knows what the ruling might be. Some of these people are desperate and facing jail terms and financial ruin. Giving their lawyers the green light to do everything they can to have all this land in the lap of SCOTUS makes sense, at least from their perspective.
“Manafort Spox ‘Confident That He Will Be Acquitted’ Of All New Charges”
Uhm…that’s a lot of confidence.
He’s facing a max of over 170 years. For a 68 year old man who has spent his life steeped in luxury and the best life has to offer, 10% of that time is likely a death sentence. The only real hope he has is working with Mueller and getting some sort of protection and a new identity. The Russians would probably have a much easier time killing him in prison than trying to find him on some remote island somewhere.
They were of the opinion they could bend rules and become wealthy. They are only a few of the greed motivated. I hope Mueller’s indictments trickle in for at least four years.
His future is nothing but a litany of bad options and bad outcomes. I imagine gaming out all his scenarios and trying to navigate in the direction of the best of the worst is difficult at best.
Yes, he most certainly did.
Plus he sought and received approval to investigate certain matters the FBI was investigating before he was appointed Special Counsel.
Plus he sought and received approval to investigate certain matters that certain US Attorneys were investigating before Trump fired them last year.
And so on.
Unlike most of the people he has had to investigate, Bob Mueller takes rules seriously.
Exactly! Which reminds me, where is our foaming-at-the-mouth Princess of American Exceptionalism Liz Cheney these days to decry how some people “just don’t love America”?
We used to not be able to avoid her flapping yap for love or money, and now…silence! I guess she approves of Trump’s efforts!
FBI would have to protect not only Paulie-walnutz but the rest of his family as well.That’s a daunting proposition and he may take one for the family-team and simply clam up.
I’m not sure they’d have any standing to argue that the Special Counsel should’ve never been impaneled. It’s like arguing that the cop who pulled you over for a DUI and found the bloody knife should’ve never been hired in the first place because the city didn’t need more cops at the time he was hired on. I’m not sure how the appeals process works, but I’m doubtful a court would even be willing to take up such a case. It would jeopardize every conviction born from evidence collected by a cop who didn’t include his first job at McDonald’s on his application.
It’s salutary always to remember that roughly one third of all American colonists opposed the Revolution. Another third was indifferent.
Yes. If you have to look for it, then it isn’t in plain sight.
It’s easier to pretend that you deserve a presidential pardon if first you have fought hard against the charges leveled against you.
A stupefying amount, even!
