emptywheel

Go look at the news reporting. Seriously. The meetings, the trips, the various contacts. All of the things that could be confirmed have been. Or is it “ignorant” when you actually pay attention?

Please read the posts. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You make Trump opponents look like Alex Jones fans.

I would say “your blog sucks” but it doesn’t. You’ve done a good job. But your standards seem to be substantially different than mine while focusing on exactly what I wouldn’t.

Right. I'm focusing on facts. You're focusing on vague generalizations. Which a lot of people are. Which is why they make Trump opponents look like Alex Jones fans.

You have a lot of things that you say that would be facts if I could confirm them, but that I’ve literally never heard before. That no other reporting I’ve read says, and that are mixed in with massive amounts of “The Democrats fucking suck!” opinion.

Such as? You do know how to press link-thingies, don't you? Honest, for your own self-respect, don't be such a chump.

Yeah. No. I was listening to you but you’re so abrasive that it’s not worth it to see if there are any links that don’t loop to your blog (that’s all I saw when I was clicking). If you’re right other sources will have it, but I’m muting you. Cheers.

I'm impressed with your handling of this convo. She was verbally abusive from the start and you kept it totally respectable

Um, no. It's a factually accurate thing to say. You are batshit. That's the part you're getting confused.

Can you tell me which parts have proven true?

Yeah. Except that's a factual shit show. Can you MATCH claims from the Page transcript w/the dossier? In fact, transcript, IF TRUE, refutes the key claims.

What I primarily see are attempts to rationalize and move the goalposts.

Yes, Bertrand undoubtedly did do that. Again, there were SPECIFIC allegations in the dossier. You (and Betrand) are now saying, Welp, other facts that happened in the general vicinity are exactly the same. Truth doesn't work like that. But Alex Jones does.

No, no, no. YOU are moving the goalposts. I appreciate your attempt at being deliberately obtuse, though. All I said was that parts of the dossier have been confirmed, then you tried to move the goalposts by insisting that the most damning parts have not yet been confirmed.

I didn’t specify which parts had been confirmed, only that some of it had. You can rationalize all you want so long as you’re aware that you are, indeed, rationalizing.