Finished reading the Mueller Report-One Observation

[kairos12]

What struck me was Drumpt's overriding consciousness of guilt.

His go to phrase was "I'm not ordering you do do anything, but....."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Yes. He knew exactly what he was doing.

He talks like a mob boss, just as both Cohen and Comey described.

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3. yeah. "shame if something were to happen..."

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Same line

The exact same line that Putin gives Trump.......

[OnDoutside]

2. That's apparently how he orders people.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Yeah, fairly common among mob bosses and tyrants the world over...

plausible deniability and all that, you know.

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4. he couldn't act more guilty if he tried. seriously, it would be comical if it weren't so scary.

he's a caricature of a guilty man trying desperately to avoid responsibility and hoping we won't notice that he's acting absolutely nothing like an innocent person would ever act.


imagine, just for moment, that he's actually completely innocent of everything. if so, you'd be struggling to come up with an explanation for his actions. what innocent person in his right mind would behave like he does?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. "Don't look in the trunk of my car. Really, there's nothing in there

but a spare tire and a jack and some jumper cables. Really. There's no reason to look in the trunk. Nobody has ever looked in the trunk!"

"So why can't I look in the trunk if there's nothing important in there?"

"Because it's my trunk and, and, there's no reason to look in it because there's nothing there."

"So there's no reason why I can't look."

"Yes, there is, because you're mean and nosy and you want to look in my trunk."

"Is there a dead body in there? Your car smells kind of bad, even from a distance..."

"A body? No, of course not! No body! No body!"

"So why won't you open the trunk and show me that there isn't a body in it?"

"Because there isn't a body in it. No body!"

"So why does your car smell like rotting meat?"

"It doesn't!"

"Yes, it does."

"Well, maybe I forgot to take some groceries out of the trunk. But not a body."

"If it's just groceries that have gone bad why don't we open the trunk and take them out?"

"Because there isn't a body in the trunk. No body! No body!"

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7. "no body! no body! some say there's a body in *your* trunk!"

[Wounded Bear]

9. I ain't got no body...

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10. !

a classic!

[skypilot]

19. To your knowledge...

...has anyone on any of the Sunday morning political talk shows ever said anything like what you just posted? I gave up on those shows because it seemed that no one ever seemed ready to say any of this. If anyone ever said it I missed it.

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20. I gave up on those shows years ago.

My impression is that the only ones who come close are "obviously liberal" shows like rachel Maddow or Samantha bee.

[skypilot]

21. I have recently given up on them as well.

I've never heard so many people talk so much and yet say so little.

[empedocles]

6. Important point to remember, that 'overriding consciousness of guilt.'

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11. not to be confused with a guilty conscience....

[Wounded Bear]

12. Repub conscience: That little voice inside you that says "Somebody is watching."

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13. these days they don't even care about that.

they're only bothered if they think there might actually be some consequence.

or rather, some consequence they can't buy or spin their way out of....

[empedocles]

22. Fine point

[lunatica]

15. The use of language when eating souls in small bites.

Comey nailed it in that statement.

[Poiuyt]

16. Heh, that reminds me of when I was a track coach

"Well, I'm not a doctor, so I can't prescribe any medicine, but if it were me, I'd take a couple of ibuprofen."

[NewJeffCT]

17. It's the modern day equivalent of

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

Later "OMG, I didn't mean kill him!!"

[Hamlette]

18. what struck me was how obsessed he was about it all

and how much time and effort he spent trying to stop it/find out what was going on.

It seemed like everyday he was hounding someone, talking to someone about it.

I agree, it was his "overriding consciousness of guilt". I can't think of any other reason for his obsession.

[LuckyLib]

23. On the phone or digging with underlings to find out what was going on, alternating with

eating and tweeting. He does absolutely nothing in office as pResident.