Mar 25th 2019, 10:38:49
To buy into a civil war, you have to buy into the narrative that Trump will be both impeached and removed from office for something that has been investigated three times with nothing substantial found. There's no precedent for such a thing, so that would be a singularity, something with unpredictable ramifications. But there's no reason to believe he will be either impeached, let alone removed. The opposition party constantly talks about impeaching sitting presidents because it is politically beneficial in motivating people to the polls. The whole world is divided right now, maybe more than ever, but every generation has their controversy. Almost undoubtedly nothing will happen other than two completely retarded fringe movements like the alt-right and antifa having the occasional street brawl around election time. Mueller had incentives to find something damning on Trump and didn't. All he did was find things on a few Russian nationals that had nothing to do with Trump and a few people very loosely related to Trump that were either part of the swamp that existed long before him or were naive in their interactions with the FBI. Not really interesting at all. The only interesting part was the fact that the media was complicit in what even my far left friends label modern-day McCarthyism (with exactly the same end result).
Now that this silly business is over we can all watch the much, much more interesting story in the world -- Europe, and what will happen with the European Union in the next decade or two (reform, militarization, or collapse?). That will have much broader, far reaching global implications than whether Trump gets re-elected or not, and a large change on that front is currently and has been happening. Not only because of the implications for a peaceful European hegemony but also because it raises questions about the ultimate nature and viability of customs unions as opposed to free trade agreements.
tldr; no there there, now we can be spectators to the (much more interesting) European theatre
PS: saying things like it isn't a total exoneration, and that Trump's lawyers were vague on whether it should be released, etc are kind of silly. That's from a law blog? No evidence isn't a total exoneration? Mueller might have said it, but who cares? He saw no reason to continue investigating, meaning there was nothing further to investigate... the implications are pretty clear. And if there is no reason to release unnecessary documentation, I don't think you'll find a lawyer that isn't an ambulance chaser that will tell you to release the information anyways. That would be a wholly political move (and the right move IMO as I am a firm believer in transparency in government), not a legal move.
Edited By: sinistril on Mar 25th 2019, 10:47:43
If you give a man some fire, he'll be warm for awhile. If you set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.