Um, no dude, the hearings are done, and so is the Attorney General. Loretta Lynch closed the investigation four months ago. It is not being re-opened. There is no need for it to be re-opened.
Your "trying to be objective" paragraphs contain a great number of distortions that I am not interested in going through with you, because you're clearly a grownup who can do your own fact-checking. That you bothered to assemble so many distortions in one place tells me something else: You are doing exactly what I described above. Combing your filter bubble for only what reinforces your feelings, and then passing that construct along. Welcome to the club: There are already millions, and millions, of members.
I'm going to assume you are asking your question seriously, and not rhetorically.
If you're wondering why the other half of voters are not as upset about Clinton's emails as you are, well, all you need to do is look at the mirror-image of that question, the one that I've seen asked incredulously - even rhetorically - all the time in my own social circle:
Why aren't the other half of voters more upset about Trump's multiple bankruptcies, his absolutely reprehensible statements about women, his total lack of foreign policy knowledge, his total lack of humility, his utterly inane promises about building a border wall across the entire southern portion of the United States, his refusal to release his tax returns followed by his false claims about being "unable" to followed by his not actually releasing them at all despite claiming he would, and his ridiculous tax plan that threatens to balloon the deficit to massive levels while also - coincidentally - lining his own pockets, and so on, and so on...?
Followed by rampant speculation, like, "are they just idiots?" "Are they racists, and xenophobes?" "Are they low-information voters?" Et cetera.
You need to understand that this is exactly what the other half has been doing with regard to your candidate when they look at him, and rather than being "unable to find anything damning", the list is actually quite long and diverse. You can go down that whole list item-by-item if you like, finding some reason to ignore - for example - the fact that he is a racist, on record making a plethora of racist statements, on record being sued for racial discrimination. (And the fact that he threw money at the lawsuit to make it go away is immaterial.) ... But you still won't be absorbing the basic lesson here: You are guilty of the same filtering as everyone else. You are not above it. You are not a champion of truth; you are selectively building - and passing around - the narrative that lets you feel like one.
There is a whole smorgasbord of stuff to loathe about Trump. It goes on for pages, and decades. Did you really just vote for a guy who is due in court for fraud three weeks after his election? Yes, you did. If you are interested in "the scientific theology", why don't you investigate that first? Tell me how that changes your outlook.
Yeah, I voted for Hillary. Yeah, I'm pissed about the email scandal. I've also patiently done a lot of reading about it, and decided that it has been blown way the hell out of proportion. It was already out of proportion even before the attorney general investigated it, and when she dropped it, I was fine with that. Yet, here you are. You are one of the people continuing to blow it out of proportion. I'm sure you feel the same way about my above identification of Trump as a racist. Sure, it bothers you, but it doesn't bother you enough to actually vote differently. Sure, a bunch of priests are pedophiles, but that doesn't convince anyone to stop being Catholic. See what I'm getting at?
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Date: 2016-11-11 07:25 am (UTC)Your "trying to be objective" paragraphs contain a great number of distortions that I am not interested in going through with you, because you're clearly a grownup who can do your own fact-checking. That you bothered to assemble so many distortions in one place tells me something else: You are doing exactly what I described above. Combing your filter bubble for only what reinforces your feelings, and then passing that construct along. Welcome to the club: There are already millions, and millions, of members.
I'm going to assume you are asking your question seriously, and not rhetorically.
If you're wondering why the other half of voters are not as upset about Clinton's emails as you are, well, all you need to do is look at the mirror-image of that question, the one that I've seen asked incredulously - even rhetorically - all the time in my own social circle:
Why aren't the other half of voters more upset about Trump's multiple bankruptcies, his absolutely reprehensible statements about women, his total lack of foreign policy knowledge, his total lack of humility, his utterly inane promises about building a border wall across the entire southern portion of the United States, his refusal to release his tax returns followed by his false claims about being "unable" to followed by his not actually releasing them at all despite claiming he would, and his ridiculous tax plan that threatens to balloon the deficit to massive levels while also - coincidentally - lining his own pockets, and so on, and so on...?
Followed by rampant speculation, like, "are they just idiots?" "Are they racists, and xenophobes?" "Are they low-information voters?" Et cetera.
You need to understand that this is exactly what the other half has been doing with regard to your candidate when they look at him, and rather than being "unable to find anything damning", the list is actually quite long and diverse. You can go down that whole list item-by-item if you like, finding some reason to ignore - for example - the fact that he is a racist, on record making a plethora of racist statements, on record being sued for racial discrimination. (And the fact that he threw money at the lawsuit to make it go away is immaterial.) ... But you still won't be absorbing the basic lesson here: You are guilty of the same filtering as everyone else. You are not above it. You are not a champion of truth; you are selectively building - and passing around - the narrative that lets you feel like one.
There is a whole smorgasbord of stuff to loathe about Trump. It goes on for pages, and decades. Did you really just vote for a guy who is due in court for fraud three weeks after his election? Yes, you did. If you are interested in "the scientific theology", why don't you investigate that first? Tell me how that changes your outlook.
Yeah, I voted for Hillary. Yeah, I'm pissed about the email scandal. I've also patiently done a lot of reading about it, and decided that it has been blown way the hell out of proportion. It was already out of proportion even before the attorney general investigated it, and when she dropped it, I was fine with that. Yet, here you are. You are one of the people continuing to blow it out of proportion. I'm sure you feel the same way about my above identification of Trump as a racist. Sure, it bothers you, but it doesn't bother you enough to actually vote differently. Sure, a bunch of priests are pedophiles, but that doesn't convince anyone to stop being Catholic. See what I'm getting at?