What's doing in fvcking Sydney then? Apart from cheap, borderline hooker women

[redgunamo]

It's whataboutery, of course, but the fact is Russians are always trying to meddle in everyone's elections; this was nothing unusual, nothing special, except for the attempted soft coup aspect.

Why would there be the need for contrition? The report makes it clear that the Russians did interfere in the election and while there was some superficial evidence to indicate that there may be ties to Trump, when it was investigated in more detail there was no evidence that a crime had been committed.

If governments weren't capable of this sort of investigation I'd be more concerned.

[WES]

It's whataboutery, of course, but the fact is Russians are always trying to meddle in everyone's elections; this was nothing unusual, nothing special, except for the attempted soft coup aspect.

Oh quite, and the fact that the beneficiary of their meddling is so reviled (possibly because he comes across as so utterly immoral) by the opposition that they couldn't let it lie, they couldn't pass up the chance that there might have actually been something there.

Sadly for them, the Donald is both immoral and street wise - this is precisely the sort of thing he can get away with.

[redgunamo]

It's more than that. He is a genuine existential threat to them precisely because he knows where all the bodies are buried. So to speak.

Do you think he's more immoral than Hillary Clinton, electorally?

Oh quite, and the fact that the beneficiary of their meddling is so reviled (possibly because he comes across as so utterly immoral) by the opposition that they couldn't let it lie, they couldn't pass up the chance that there might have actually been something there.

Sadly for them, the Donald is both immoral and street wise - this is precisely the sort of thing he can get away with.

[Ash]

Do you think he's more immoral than Hillary Clinton, electorally?

"If that motherfùcker wins, we all hang from nooses!" she is supposed to have said.

[redgunamo]

This is rather good too, as it was Mueller who took down the original version, way back when.

"If that motherfùcker wins, we all hang from nooses!" she is supposed to have said.