There are tears in my eyes

[conuly]

But I don't know if I'm laughing or crying.

Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Trump

Comments

[l33tminion]

And also announced a presumably-related guilty plea by a US citizen who was selling stolen identities. This one doesn't seem to be so obviously a shot across the bow as some of those earlier unsealed indictments, though it could be that, too. (The "conspired... with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury" bit must not be very comforting for those as-of-yet-unindicted conspirators who haven't decided to come clean and cut a deal yet.) But it sure undercuts the argument that all this super-obvious obstruction of justice the President's been doing is NBD because "there's nothing to obstruct".

[conuly]

I hope we get some smackdown on his bullshit claim that he's "not convinced" about collusion etc.

There is some smackdown

[dewline]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-russia-hoax-turns-out-to-be-real/2018/02/16/be3d174a-1346-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html

Re: There is some smackdown

[conuly]

Sweeeeeeeeet.

[wendelah1]

It's awesome.

[conuly]

I really, really never expected this!

[robby]

In addition to disparaging Clinton, they denigrated other candidates, "such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio," and they supported Bernie Sanders and then Donald Trump. In the latter half of 2016, they used groups to discourage minorities from voting in the 2016 presidential election.

After the election of Donald Trump, the defendants allegedly planned rallies in support of President Trump. They also planned rallies against Trump titled, "Trump is NOT my President."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-indictment-2016-elections-rod-rosenstein-announcement-today-2018-02-16/

[conuly]

Thanks.

[wpadmirer]

It is excellent news, and a smart move by Mueller to indict the Russians first.

[conuly]

I haven't really been following this in any sort of detail! So much else has been going on, and to be honest, I never thought we'd get much in the way of results anyway. So now I'm still in shock!

[julian]

The great thing about Mueller is, he doesn't leak. So this was not really out there as a possibility. (So everyone else is banjaxed, too.)

[conuly]

Banjaxed?

Simon Pegg and Jenna Coleman not being in the room to explain it...

[dewline]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banjax

(Despite Merriam-Webster's attribution of it to Ireland/Eire, it's also in common usage in Scotland.)

whoops! Re: Simon Pegg and Jenna Coleman not being in the room to explain it...

[julian]

I had known it (and used it here) as "really freakin' surprised", as opposed to broken, so I will remove that meaning from my vocabulary.

Re: whoops! Re: Simon Pegg and Jenna Coleman not being in the room to explain it...

[conuly]

If other people in your speech community use the word that way, then that's a valid definition even if the dictionary hasn't caught up yet.

[dewline]

Both laughing and crying. It makes sense to do both right now.