I've just dipped in now and then today, but I get the sense this thing is about to explode

[NRaleighLiberal]

in so many different directions. Mueller time will (hopefully) be cataclysmic for trump, his family, his inner circle, and a whole lotta complicit republicans.

Our country CAN. NOT. WAIT. It is over time for this piece of shit to be removed from office in any way that will work.

[kentuck]

1. Yep.

[vlyons]

2. Feels like a big pimple that's about to pop out a gob of pus

I'm sorry for being so vulgar. I can be patient and wait a while yet for the Trump saga to get ever more entangled in degenerate sewer slime. Honestly, I think our country and all those Trump voters and deplorable cowardly Republicans that won't stand up to him, need a gigantic dose of his filthy slime. Need to rub their noses in it.

This country is so tired of Trump and his endless vile scandals, that any mediocre Dem with basic human decency and honesty and virtue will be so welcome.

[Ilsa]

8. LOL. Pimple is nothing. Trump & co are a giant boil on

the ass of the US. He's an infection that needs to be lanced, scooped out, and disposed of properly so the body can heal.

[lagomorph777]

9. That's not vulgar.

Popping a dog's anal gland, now that would be a vulgar analogy.

[benld74]

16. Search Youtube for Infected Cyst removal

THAT

is this administration AND tRump

[Ligyron]

17. and now you've got me addicted.

Hard to unsee and yet I keep watching.

[Codeine]

23. Cyst and pimple videos are a rabbit hole

that has no bottom

[Honeycombe8]

24. You know, having owned dogs for some years, I've done some things....

I never thought I would. Relieving impacted anal glands becomes a necessity now and then. And a good dog owner will do it.

[lagomorph777]

32. Oh I know - no insult to the veterinary profession intended.

But surely that procedure would have been one of your least favorite and grossest, yet provides the most relief.

[Honeycombe8]

39. +1. nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

45. O M G

We had to have this done to our male Welsh Springer Spaniel. The vet took care of him. I thought I was going to pass the eff out. For those of you who have never had this unforgettable experience . . . this is NOT for the faint of heart. Trust me. You thought baby poop was bad. This is whole 'nother level of vile and disgusting.

[FakeNoose]

55. Paging Dr. Mueller

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I cannot agree more with your reasoning, my dear NRaleighLiberal!

In any way that will work!

[duforsure]

4. Trump's terrorizing this country,

And the world, and everyone is waiting for the nightmare to end, which can't be soon enough. I hope its sooner than later too. This will doom the Republicans even more the longer this disaster continues, and greatly increase voter turnout to vote all Republicans out of office for what they've done, and for what they've refused to do. If he somehow escapes justice , their party will never be looked at the same after siding with putin and trump over the American people. They may be doomed anyway.

[MineralMan]

5. Yes, like a giant boil on the ass of America.

The sooner it drains, the better we'll feel.

[jalan48]

6. A Constitutional crisis, which is what Trump's fall back strategy has been all along.

[certainot]

46. his success will depend on thinking americans continuing to ignore talk radio. limbaugh and

spawn continue complete denial. they're setting this up for disaster to force compromise.

in any national emergency those 1500 think tank-coordinated stations are the loudest in the country and dems are continuing the biggest political mistake in history by ignoring them.

media is full of talking heads who will be be watching the trump talk radio base go nuts based on the alternate reality which talk radio gods push all day reinforced by kremlin trolling, considering it legitimate 'popular opinion', and they will help the GOP push dems to compromise to 'save the country' etc, which will allow the republicans to escape the total makeover required to get serious about real problems like global warming.

[RandomAccess]

7. I've been fascinated by how the addition of Guiliani to the legal team

has been such a catalyst toward the explosion you sense is coming.

Much like adding heat to the climate, or certain chemicals to other certain chemicals will bring about and increase the intensity of the activity.

I do want to caution, tho, from what I can tell this whle thing is far from nearly over, though I do agree there'll be one or more explosions soon. There are so many tentacles, so many players, so much wrongdoing it will likely take years for the entire investigation to end (if it's allowed to continue). I'm hoping that a huge piece on Trump will end relatively soon because I totally agree that the country can't wait -- we must remove him, and soon. Or we won't last as a nation, or certainly not as a democracy.

[dameatball]

12. I share this opinion. Decades of massive corruption does not unravel overnight.

However, a good swift kick in the ass and some jail time is a good way to start.

[beachbum bob]

10. Problem. Is we have entire political party willing to throw our country away.

To protect trump.....never seen before. Something is going to blow big time any day. I gotta a bad feeling

[Boomerproud]

11. The only way I can stand much more of this is if the investigations put 45 in a place he and

his enablers cannot possibly ever escape and redeem themselves. Air tight, baby.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. I'm sorry but I really don't like these teaser OPs

I remember hearing every day during Bush's last term how any day now they'd all be led away in handcuffs.

Mueller's team just said a few days ago that they wouldn't even be dealing with Flynn for another two months, let alone the Don.

I think one must be mentally prepared for this to go on for another year, maybe longer if the Trump team manage to rally his peons to come out in droves to protect their Dear Leader in the mid terms. Hopefully sooner but I'm not ruling out anything. Like just before any indictments come down, Trump will get Mueller fired. Then it will take months before enough pressure is built on the GOP to allow the investigation to continue but they will fight like dogs for months more in deciding which Trump stooge is best to replace him. Then that appointment will cause friction with Mueller's old team which will delay it all more. If the Dems win the House back a replacement will still be bitterly fought over and dragged out. And when the investigation finally gets back on track, there will be some new strategy, maybe a declared war, to derail it further.

If I am wrong, and Trump is forced out of office sooner, I'll be happy then.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I am agreeing with you even though I wish I weren't.

Your post is spot on. With the GOP putting Party Over Country we are pretty much screwed. Even if we win the midterms the Dem House could impeach him but the GOP Senate will never convict him, never EVER! Mueller has enough on his plate to keep him going until next Spring easily. I want this over and done with ASAP but the country will take 20 years to recover from this fiasco.

[lunasun]

53. Possibly multi generational at this point . They actually have done a lot of destruction already

And if I was a deplorable I would be satisfied with my choice of trump

It will be slow and as any criminal who does not want his day in court it will be nothing but stall stall stall on the trump side more time for this more time for that
If something happens early that's nice but I'm not waiting on it .
I am waiting on 11/20 it will help and maybe cause a resignation
although he seems erratic enough to push some kind of civil unrest instead . And still , house can't do it alone .
They will go to the stupid and absurd to obstruct at this desperate point. At some point like many crooks his age he will maybe have some fake episode that will delay because of health , all sort of scams , he already was able to cop two doctors who would fake it for him.

I've seen mob trial ploys before & crooks can get inventive . Trump is not so smart but he will try.

I saw recently somewhere a story about a guy who didn't want to go to court, so every court date his girlfriend called in a bomb threat to the court house and they would have to close down and reschedule him
Yes , really stupid he got caught , but I would guess that trump would read that and think it's a great idea

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. it's not meant to be a teaser OP - it is my intuition based upon what I've been seeing lately

meaning I could be completely (and sadly) wrong!

[LiberalLovinLug]

34. I know.

Its so tempting to believe that the alarm clock to this national nightmare is set to start ringing any second. And we will all wake up very soon to rainbows and a Democratic majority.

I don't blame you. We all need a bit of hope. I've just learned to temper my expectations after W "won" his second term, so I don't go into a crushing depression if it turns out not the way we want. After feeling the hit after the last election, I don't think I could take another one on that scale

[quartz007]

28. Party pooper!

We are just having some much deserved fun about the giant boil being popped.

[WestMichRad]

14. It's been exploding into a s*tstorm for months

...and just keeps getting stinkier every day. But if there is anything that team trumpwad is highly skilled at doing, it's delay and obfuscation. And with the republicking legislature running interference, i won't be surprised to see this drag on at least until after the mid-term elections, and maybe beyond that.

Wish I could be more optimistic, but the corruption, it appears to run so deep....

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. I expect that the "explosion" will be Trump firing Sessions and Rosenstein...

and getting someone else he installs as acting AG to fire Mueller. The only question is, what will the Republicans in Congress do then? If it's allowed to stand, the USA is officially over.

[ffr]

20. THESE Pieces of Sh*t to be removed

Fixed. McConnell, Ryan, Pence, Sessions and anyone who has ever broken bread with them.

LOCK THEM UP!

[Ligyron]

21. Something legislative needs to be done to protect this investigation.

It does feel like if we don't do something, they will. And soon.

As long as Mueller is in place to do his job, all will be well eventually. If they manage to shut it down somehow, any criminality will still be exposed, but...

Already Ghouli- anny is saying Sessions needs to un-recuse and step in to obstruct justice. Team Mueller needs to lay something heavy on the American public, like when he indicted those Russians. THAT, shut them up for awhile and made it hard for them to say "nothing here" folks, it's a witch hunt.

[quartz007]

30. Legislation? with repug majorities?

Not likely. Earliest possible date for that legislation would be February 2019, when the congress turns democratic majority.

[Honeycombe8]

22. The zit has become ulcerated. Anything can happen, now.

But it could fester for a while.

[alwaysinasnit]

25. But what then?

Unless Pence is taken out at the same time, we will get an extreme, evangelical fundamentalist running the show. Somehow, I am more afraid of Pence at the helm than I am of tRump because Pence actually looks reasonable in comparison so some of the extreme shit he may come up with will not be opposed.

Or am I just being paranoid?

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/mike-pence-thinks-become-president-soon/

[quartz007]

29. May be, but Pence is unlikely to bang porn stars?

[madinmaryland]

33. No, but he is banging his "mother".

[quartz007]

35. I can not believe that from a religious nut like Pence

but then you must have some evidence? Please tell more!
Then we can get rid of both tRump & Pens.

[madinmaryland]

36. Mother is his nickname for his wife. Nt

[quartz007]

47. hehe...i did not know! nt

[PearliePoo2]

57. Oh My!

[NewJeffCT]

48. Pence knows government a helluva better than Trump, however

He does not have the con man's charisma of Trump that will make Pence be the focus of the media day in and day out, 24/7 like Trump. Pence has almost no charisma and was very unpopular in red evangelical Indiana before Trump chose him as VP.

Trump already has evangelicals in his pocket, so that will not be a big difference with Pence.

If Trump resigns or is forced out and Pence becomes president, he will be a wounded lame duck and likely would not run again in 2020 because he'll have been tainted by Trump and the train wreck and chaos around Trump.

[alwaysinasnit]

49. I sure hope you are right.

Religious extremists scare me more than narcissistic, sociopaths.

[AllaN01Bear]

26. my internal alarms have been going off since he who shall not be named's election

ps: they also have been going off since nixon.

[hurple]

27. I want...

EVERYTHING to come out.

ALL of it.

In big, bold, annotated, referenced, footnoted, undeniable bushels of facts. I want video, audio, documents. I want such clear-cut, absolute irrefuttable evidence that even the most brainwashed trumpie can't deny the reality.

I want them so ashamed that they ever supported this mess that they crawl back under their bridges and go back to just terrorizing goats.

But, that's just my 2 cents.

[Brother Buzz]

31. It sure appears to be ready to explode, and it may, but one thing is certain:

Developments are accelerating at an incredible pace.

[Grammy23]

37. I think the analogy to a pimple or boil does not go far enough to define the danger.

tRump’s presence in the White House, along with his entire administration, is a cancer on our government. It will eat away and undermine us until we are destroyed. It has already done damage as all cancers are prone to do. But we can still survive this if we have the treatment to rid us of the disease. tRump is the tumor, but like the crab that a cancer represents, our problem has tentacles that go out throughout our government. Every department and branch has been invaded. It has metastasized quickly and viciously. Like a growing cancer, the burden that the cancer puts on every organ in the body, this cancerous invasion by tRump will eventually be too much. And we will not survive.

I am not being overly dramatic for the sake of drama. I see no sign that the Congress is doing anything to save us. I see no sign that tRump will stop doing the things that are destroying us from within. The longer he remains in place, the longer he can work with impunity to undermine us and aggrandize himself. So we delay dealing with this issue at our peril. Those that say well, we will oust him when the Democrats take over in a few months (provided elections are allowed to proceed as usual), are ignoring the fact that even waiting that short time may be a fatal mistake.

I have no idea how we will get out of this dangerous situation. There seem to be no easy answers. But delay, wait and see will not serve us well. That part is clear.

[elocs]

38. We need to temper our enthusiasm and be patient because this case must be done right,

built solid brick by brick. It will take as long as it takes and I'd rather have it done well than fast.

[Hortensis]

40. Of COURSE we can wait! This is right-wing pot-stirring,

no matter how innocently it may be brought here.

What sites have you been hanging on, NRaleigh? WE CANNOT REMOVE TRUMP BEFORE WE TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS. But this is worse than just stupid talk.

I suggest you take a long, cool look at who this inflammatory rhetoric benefits. Because NOTHING is more likely to anger Republicans into turning out in large numbers to vote than premature calls for removing the president they elected.

Until then, we need to wait and, above all, stop carrying kerosene for the GOP and Kremlin.

COUNTDOWN TO THE MIDTERMS: 186 days!

[NRaleighLiberal]

41. We will have to agree to disagree about this. The malignant

tumor must be removed. 186 more days of destruction is 186 days too many. Lives are being affected. Done playing nice here.

[Hortensis]

42. We will NOT agree. Stop helping the GOP, Kochs and Kremlin

by doing exactly what they want and desperately need if they're to turn this wave around.

[NRaleighLiberal]

43. I find your responses utterly baffling.

[demmiblue]

51. I don't.

That one is a special sort of, ahem, something... best to ignore.

[Hortensis]

56. "Republicans Seize on Impeachment for Edge in 2018 Midterms"

As Republican leaders scramble to stave off a Democratic wave or at least mitigate their party’s losses in November, a strategy is emerging on the right for how to energize conservatives and drive a wedge between the anti-Trump left and moderate voters: warn that Democrats will immediately move to impeach President Trump if they capture the House.

The appeals have become a surefire way for candidates to raise small contributions from grass-roots conservatives who are devoted to Mr. Trump, veteran Republican fund-raisers say.

But party strategists also believe that floating the possibility of impeachment can also act as a sort of scared-straight motivational tool for turnout.

Last week, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas used his re-election kickoff rally to introduce a video featuring a faux news anchor reading would-be headlines were conservatives not to vote in November: “Senate Majority Leader Schumer announced the impeachment trial of President Trump,” one of the anchors says.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/us/politics/trump-impeachment-midterms.html

Why the GOP Is Making 2018 All About Impeachment - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/midterms-impeachment/557609/

Pushing Impeachment Would Backfire On Democrats, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll Finds

The survey finds that 47 percent of registered voters would definitely vote against a candidate who wanted to remove Trump from office, while 42 percent would definitely vote for a candidate who would make such a promise. Forty-seven percent of independent voters — whose opinions could be decisive — also say they would vote against candidates favoring impeachment.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603408469/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-poll-pushing-impeachment-would-backfire-on-democrats-in

Three Turnout Wild Cards: Guns, Impeachment, and SCOTUS

So what could turn this around? What could build Republican intensity and turnout to something comparable to what seems to be forming for Democrats? There seems to be three possibilities: guns, impeachment, and a Supreme Court vacancy.

As for impeachment, one of the best reporters on the political beat, Jonathan Martin of The New York Times, wrote Sunday that GOP leaders see the issue as a potentially potent one to energize the Trump base on behalf of the Republican Congress. ...

President Trump’s job approval among Republicans and independents who lean Republican was 84 percent, with a disapproval of just 15 percent. ... For the electorate as a whole, Trump today is a net liability, but to the extent that the Left pushes impeachment and Republicans can amplify that threat to conservatives, we could see the energy levels of the two sides come more into balance, something that can make a real difference, particularly when pollsters screen down to sample just likely voters.

http://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/three-turnout-wild-cards-guns-impeachment-and-scotus

Republicans Are Trying to Use Impeachment to Scare Their Base to the Polls

By and large, candidates (following the advice of congressional Democratic leaders) are avoiding the question or addressing it indirectly by talking about “holding Trump accountable” or “upholding the rule of law” or pledging to investigate Trumpian actions that congressional Republicans are ignoring.

One argument made by progressive opinion-leader Markos Moulitsas is that by focusing on driving Trump from office, Democrats would be passing up more effective messages that take advantage of the Republican Party’s unpopularity.

Journalist Elizabeth Drew contends that Democrats shouldn’t “go there” until there is the kind of bipartisan support that led to Richard Nixon’s impeachment and resignation. And the extreme improbability of a Senate conviction of Trump even if he’s impeached is a broadly shared concern. Do Democrats really want to excite “the base” by making a promise they are in no position to keep?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/why-republicans-are-talking-so-much-about-impeaching-trump.html

Democrats are eager to impeach Trump.

Trump supporters consider the president under siege. They are livid that Democrats have blocked his agenda – and indeed the functioning of the government – through their brick wall of “resistance.”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/04/13/democrats-are-eager-to-impeach-trump-heres-why-their-dream-could-backfire-big-time.html

A forgotten lesson of Watergate: conservatives may rally around Trump

...some of the lessons of Watergate should worry Trump opponents more than soothe them.

That’s because the Watergate affair turned conservative skeptics of Richard Nixon into hardcore supporters, drawing out the immediate crisis and deepening divisions in the long term. Conservatives at the time refashioned the scandal into a tale of Democratic hypocrisy and media hostility — a narrative that many Republicans have adopted once again to explain away the emerging Trump scandals.

In perhaps the boldest stroke of all, when the evidence of Nixon’s wrongdoing became undeniable, the right attributed the president’s crimes to the growing institutional power of the presidency — making Watergate, in a sense, a “liberal” scandal after all.

Until the very end, Watergate gave Nixon a stature on the right that he had previously lacked.

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/12/15630372/watergate-impeachment-conservative-public-opinion-trump-history

[Kaleva]

60. Opinions, speculation and wishful thinking.

Not actual evidence to support your claims. The special elections are showing that the Dems are energised while the Repubs are depressed.

[Kaleva]

50. Where is your evidence that such talk supports Trump and the GOP?

We've been flipping seats in special elections and the Repubs are being forced to defend once safe seats.

Dems are energised nationwide.

[NRaleighLiberal]

61. I found it to be a really unhinged response....I guess we just are supposed to lay down and take it?

[Blue Owl]

44. 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

[Orsino]

52. Our country can ONLY wait.

I think that Mueller is handling it about as well as anyone could, and that's going to mean dotting every goddamned i. He's building a case that's gotta be airtight, watertight, bulletproof, ray-shielded, particle-shielded and TEMPEST-hardened. What he produces is going to be pretty much perfect, and unfortunately will involve a lot of legalese that Fox News and their captive Congresscritters will begin deliberately misinterpreting immediately.

He'll be backed by statements and leaks from several state-level investigations, and the extent of Trump's corruption will be hard to deny--or would be in a sane reality. Our eggs are very nearly in that one basket, unfortunately, with Congress and the judiciary almost hopelessly compromised and a public confused by deliberate disinformation.

I want to believe that Trump will have to resign, or that Congress can be forced to consider impeachment, but how creatively can they reinterpret "high crimes and misdemeanors" to exempt him?

[LittleGirl]

54. I hope qso

But WTF is it going to take to get that maniac out of our WH?

[left-of-center2012]

58. I've read so many of these posted predictions of future events

[PasadenaTrudy]

59. They are comical after a while... n/t