Cont: Mueller Investigation pt3

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The Great Zaganza said:
What Trump apologists don't get is that Mueller's goal isn't to send Manafort, Gates, the Russian trolls and GRU officers to prison: they are all part of the investigation, not the aim of it.
Mueller is preparing a comprehensive report on the Russian interference in the election and their connection to the campaigns. The fact that Trump and his family haven't been directly implicated is actually a very bad sign for the President. Mueller could have made his life a whole lot easier if he had given Trump a slap on the wrist but blamed everything on Russia.
The fact that he still wants an interview with Trump means that Trump is a key focus of the investigation.
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Exactly. And the fact that his lawyers are fighting so hard to prevent or severely control that interview is very telling. I believe one lawyer came right out and told Mueller Trump couldn't testify because he can't NOT lie.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
That's a 'but her emails' GOP trait. It's not confined to Trump.

It's probably a human nature thing connected to confirmation bias. Pick out the one thing that fits your argument as if that thing existed in isolation.
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It is a human nature thing connected to confirmation bias. To go a little further, like most human nature things, different general types of people exhibit behaviors at different rates and furthermore, the rate of various behaviors occurring can be altered with social engineering projects, both in positive ways and in negative ways.

In this case, I would dare to say that conservatives are more... close-minded and fearful of change in general (hence why they qualify as conservative in the first place), which translates to making it more difficult to break their confirmation bias. In addition to that, conservatives tend to "respect" authority more, and when "authorities" like Limbaugh and Fox News are slipped into their trusted sources, that social engineering has managed to show its effects quite powerfully.
 
The thing about Confirmation Bias is that it only applies if there is not enough data to make accurate inferences.
We could guess that the Stormy Daniels story was accurate, because Trump has a proud history of infidelity.
It is much harder to come to the conclusion that Clinton is running a pedophile ring.
 
Trump Tweeted

“These law enforcement people took the law into their own hands when it came to President Trump.” @LindseyGrahamSC"
 
smartcooky said:
There is someone who was on the news a lot a few weeks ago, who seems who have fallen off the radar recently, and that's Maria Butina. IIRC her alleged business was funnelling money through the NRA to GOP candidates.

I am sure that she is an important line in this game of political "join the dots". I wonder why we're not hearing much about her?

I am expecting that the Special Counsel will be digging into her activities.
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She's currently in gaol, and keeps being visited by Russian diplomats. Several people with knowledge of how the Russians run intelligence operations are saying that those visits do not bode well for her continuing health.
 
Sherkeu said:
If Woodward is right today, as he was then, then the basis for the Mueller probe is 'garbage' and there is no evidence to be found for collusion. He tried really hard to find it and could not.
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Woodward wasn't looking for evidence of a conspiracy at all.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
The thing about Confirmation Bias is that it only applies if there is not enough data to make accurate inferences.
We could guess that the Stormy Daniels story was accurate, because Trump has a proud history of infidelity.
It is much harder to come to the conclusion that Clinton is running a pedophile ring.
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Do you forget the "facts" provided by right-wing propaganda, frequently tailor-made to target them and pointedly fallacious (which also has the side effect of undermining critical thinking in general)? Demoncrats are lying, immoral, bleeding-heart scumbags who came to power by the votes of illegals and dead people, after all.
 
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Aridas said:
Do you forget the "facts" provided by right-wing propaganda, frequently tailor-made to target them and pointedly fallacious (which also has the side effect of undermining critical thinking in general)? Demoncrats are lying, immoral, bleeding-heart scumbags who came to power by the votes of illegals and dead people, after all.
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Matt Taibbi was not exaggerating here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...s-was-one-of-the-worst-americans-ever-111156/

Roger Ailes Was One of the Worst Americans Ever
Fox News founder made this the hate-filled, moronic country it is today
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We are a hate-filled, paranoid, untrusting, book-dumb and bilious people whose chief source of recreation is slinging insults and threats at each other online, and we’re that way in large part because of the hyper-divisive media environment he discovered.

Ailes was the Christopher Columbus of hate. When the former daytime TV executive and political strategist looked across the American continent, he saw money laying around in giant piles. He knew all that was needed to pick it up was a) the total abandonment of any sense of decency or civic duty in the news business, and b) the factory-like production of news stories that spoke to Americans’ worst fantasies about each other.
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