NYT : "Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign"

[epicurean]

specialk said:

epicurean said:

If you think what Trump Jr did was a crime, the Clinton team did the exact same thing, and much worse. This was known BEFORE the results of the election, when everyone and their dog thought Clinton would win. 

Misleading on a few accounts. 

1.) Politico's original reporting on this matter came out two months after the election ended. 

 

2.) "Worse" here is pretty subjective, but I feel that it's best to hold fast on my commitment not to discuss and irrelevant Daily Caller opinion piece about Hillary Clinton.

epicurean said:

Why would you not be oppossed to this crime then? I find it pretty hard to believe once she was elected that on that day you would've made a post and made a huge deal about it now that she was elected. Your insane amount of bias is showing.

I'd rather not discuss further as well with someone who would make such an insane arguement, anyway, so at least we agree on that much.

Conversations are generally easier and more productive when you stick to responding to what the other person is actually saying. I find it pretty hard to believe that anyone should take your assessment of me, and what I would or wouldn't care about in a hypothetical situation seriously, given that I'm an Internet persona that you literally just started engaging with today.

I object to your use of "insane" here. You're free to disagree with my conclusions, but the entirety of my discourse with you has been calm, rational, and fact-based.

epicurean said:

"An Attack on US Democracy" - which hasn't been proven. 

The CIA, NSA, FBI, and ODNI released a joint statement that said they had high confidence that Putin ordered an interference campaign in the 2016 US Election.

That is as close to "proof" as you can really get on something like this.

epicurean said:

What has been proven was the attack on US Democracy by the DNC in keeping Bernie out. Have you posted about your outrage on that yet?

Conversations are generally easier and more productive when you stick to responding to what the other person is actually saying. 

The DNC sucks. Bernie was a better candidate in my estimation than Hillary was. That being said, the DNC is under no obligation to nominate a candidate in a manner that I consider fair or just. Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat. He is an Independent who became a Democrat since it was his best chance at winning office. It probably would have been in his best interest to aware himself of the ways that the DNC does business with regards to nominating their candidate before he switched his party affiliation for the sake of political expediency. 

I'll point out, once again, that I've been very cordial here. I've responded point for point to everything you've said, despite that fact that very little of it addresses what is ostensibly the topic of discussion here, and much of it is strawman arguments that make assumptions about who I am, and what I care about.

Sometimes people just grate against each other. Hopefully you can see in my conversations with others I have been level-headed as well. I find some of your comments hard to believe, but you are obviously free to believe them. Probably best we just stay clear of commenting to each other further. I appreciate the lack of escalation. Hope the rest of your day (and posting) is fun. :)