New Revelations About Stone And Wikileaks Cast Mueller As ‘Hamlet’ | Talking Points Memo

Everyone’s mad at Bolton. Why does Mueller get a pass?

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There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

He better make a deal first because otherwise I want him tried for genocide.

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“he’s so conflicted and he respects the presidency so much.”

If Mueller really respected the presidency, he’d have tried to do something about the shitstain currently despoiling the office.

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What would Mueller possibly have to “lament”? He proceeded with complete impunity to bury Trump and his crime family’s treasonous conspiracies beneath a pile of hairspliting legal obfuscations and then kept his ratfucking mouth shut while Barr locked up and misrepresented his whitewashed report. Mueller stands exposed as no less a Republican crony as Barr or Rosenstein, who was the inside man that conveyed Trump’s demands to Mueller.

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“Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go, when things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get.”

The Player - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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What?

Remember: Trump was trained to

  • bluster
  • get his minions to lie for him
  • lie himself
  • project

so that this act of his will seem (for people on the left side of the I.Q. curve) the actions of someone “in control”…the same way four months from removal, four weeks, four days.

Four Hours.

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History may judge Mueller’s punting just as harshly if not more harshly than the GOP’s sham impeachment trial.

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Sessions and Whitaker

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So, Epstein, and one other. Maybe this guy is a candidate?

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Time to send Stone to break rocks at Sing Sing.

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Let’s just say that Mueller was handed a very big responsibility, entailing an extremely difficult task. There are textbook ways of handling such matters, and for reasons which are yet unstated, Mueller chose not to follow them. Instead, he chose, for example, not to follow the money, inexplicably. He also chose not to even interview Trump or his spawn, or to try to, seriously. And the upshot is that Mueller failed, not just his own immediate task (which he re-defined, in a ridiculously narrow way), but he also failed America. In summary, Mueller is a good man, who has offered much to his country over the course of his lifetime, but his legacy will be this investigation, for which he chose to fail, utterly and spectacularly. Much was riding on him, and he failed, without having tried very hard to succeed, and then when William Barr made a mockery of all of the lesser things that he had actually accomplished, Mueller failed abjectly, yet again, perhaps out of a misguided belief that a fellow life-long Republican with an apparently impeccable reputation could not possibly be so utterly corrupt. And when Mueller found out otherwise, he then chose mostly silence, and gamesmanship in his testimony, still further failing his nation and his fellow citizens. Clearly, we need better heroes than Mueller proved capable of being. Or better citizens willing to do their job, and by “job” I do not mean as ridiculously narrowly re-defined.

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The “Mad Hatter” consistently makes a joke of everything. Served him well while the Joker occupies the White House. It will be fun to see how well that works against the big guy in the prison yard. He’ll end up as a tall drink of water with that silver spoon up his ass.

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“President Trump agreed to answer a series of questions submitted by the special counsel, in which he claimed to have no recollection of discussing Wikileaks with Stone during the campaign.”

If a person has no recollection of sending a dick pick, they sent a dick pick, Bill Maher.

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wow.

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Trump will pardon everyone before he leaves office just like the last president Bill Barr served as AG.

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“Stone and Flynn”

“But they’re not dead.”

“Yet.”

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Cotter described Mueller as “Hamlet,” noting that “he’s so conflicted and he respects the presidency so much.”

Nothing says respect like avoiding interviewing the person who is completely disrespecting the office of the Presidency. Mueller had a chance and he blew it, blew it through ineptness, timidness or on purpose we’ll likely never know.

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I would suggest changing the headline, as it appears the writer “cast” Mueller as “Hamlet” not the unnamed former prosecutor. I know Hamlet is in quotes, but not everyone will realize what that implies. And the comparison does a disservice to Hamlet.

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