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I'd like to not have a handsy president, personally. Whatever your friend is spouting about shrugging off and subsequently ignoring inappropriate touching, it doesn't reflect well on a goddamn POTUS candidate regardless of what it says about the people they've made uncomfortable.

If we could get one that's under like fucking sixty it'd be great, too, really. I'm getting increasingly tired as I get older of sucking up shitty old people in our highest office.

Of all the things I'd imagine you wouldn't end up happy with, USA intervention south of the border is like... the first one. Especially under a GOP POTUS. Our record on that front isn't exactly good, and having a(nother) go under a blantantly racist commander in chief that's specifically been targetting south/central americans with their vitriol isn't what you'd call good conditions for a new try

As for closing the border, it's just fuckstupid fuckstupidity. If you're looking for a good reason you're not going to find it. If you're expecting it to substantially effect the undocumented immigration rate you're barking up the wrong, xenophobic, increasingly senile tree. If you're thinking it would hurt everyone involved, the US very much included, for little to no gain and pretty certainly significant net loss, well, you'd be right. Welcome to the GOP.

Also there's a timer ticking down that will eventually drop the floor out and dump everyone involved into lava. Noble dwarven furnishings, the real game.

... more than that, Barr's summary doesn't actually say no evidence of collusion. At all. I just re-read the thing, and found a searchable version just to make sure I didn't miss something. Those are literally not words the summary uses. Nor does it use 'no evidence of conspiracy', or any possible related variant you care to spit out. The closest it comes is barr saying meuller did not find that it had happened -- which, as should be noted, without further context would at most mean he didn't find sufficient grounds for DoJ standards to prosecute, which is a fuck damn long distance from 'no evidence' -- and barr quoting the report saying the investigation didn't establish it. Which, again, without context is a major, major difference from 'no evidence'.*

Barr's wording also pretty strongly suggests meuller's investigation didn't actually touch on the substantial cases for conspiracy people have been clamoring about, which would be a whole different set of problems. The actual report would clear up a lot of things that barr seems to have gone out of his way to obfuscate, really. Some of it might even be better for trump's lot than this current bullshit (though given how much GOP folks seem to be suddenly fighting the release it's probably pretty unlikely, ha).

Though, all that said, there's definitely been some tone shifts. Issue there is more the fourth estate fucking its job up one side the proverbial street and down the other. Reporting on the subject has just been kinda' fucked the last handful of days (at a minimum). That people have been picking up the message 'no evidence of collusion' is case in point.

E: * Like, the crazy thing is that people paying attention didn't expect there to be any indication of conspiracy over the election, especially not specifically with russia's IRA or drect government agents. That the report seems to have said they couldn't establish it, instead of some other wording, suggests that the investigation actually fucking found something, that they uncovered enough evidence to begin establishing a case but not enough to meet DoJ 90+% confidence standards. Which would actually be kinda' wild, out of left field when the much more likely collusion/conspiracy issues involved other shit entirety.

... not thinking about how fucking stupid they all look.

Which is mildly odd, considering from a distance that seems to be literally the only thing they're actually accomplishing at the moment. Is there really no self-awareness as to how much of a farce all this is among the UK parliament?

Yeah, those are actually not photoshopped or... anything. The whatever he was indeed put exactly what you see in front of Congress.

Yet another example of the Onion becoming increasingly capable of just turning to actual news without anyone being able to tell the difference.

This may be more politics adjacent than politics proper, but the charges against Jussie Smollett for his fake hate crime have been suddenly and inexplicably dropped. The county prosecutor who apparently made the decision did not explain her reasoning to the press. Any idea why they would just let him off for nothing more than keeping the $10,000 he paid as bail?

Best conjecture I've seen is that the CPD fucked up somewhere, probably massively and with a racist and/or corrupt bent, as the police department that used black sites to torture suspects is inclined to do. The CPD has traditionally been a massive ball of corrupt bigoted fuckwit, which occasionally bites their various works in the ass. One of the worst large scale police departments in the country screwing up almost doesn't qualify as news, heh.

The bail thing is actually kinda' interesting, as the law for that area seems to say that more or less literally the only way you can lose your bail is if you violate your bail conditions somehow or another. You can't volunteer to give it up, about the closest you can come to it is not fighting back when a judge decides to keep it. It's fairly likely the bail being forfeited is orthogonal to the charges being dropped (or dismissed, or whatever), in other words. Smollett may have talked to someone or went somewhere they shouldn't have but the charges got stuffed for some other reason.