Nights like this showcase DU members at their worst

[stopbush]

Who needs the RWNM spinning the release of the Mueller report when half the posts at DU do their work for them? Bunch of worry worts.

Seriously, it’s like clockwork.

[samnsara]

1. yep..im flipping thru posts to find something new to read..

[ripcord]

26. You mean the sky isn't falling?

But that would mean most of the posts here tonight are meaningless.

[Downtown Hound]

2. The right is able to manipulate the left

primarily because we make it easy for them. You'd think we would have learned by now.

[USALiberal]

5. What news story tonight says Trump is is bad shape? I would love to see it. nt

[Downtown Hound]

7. Yawn. Go look for your own doomsday articles if they're so important for you to find

I have better things to be doing, like, waiting to see what's actually in the report before I declare myself supreme knower of all things as so many here have done tonight.

[USALiberal]

9. Reality is that we expected charges against Trump or his family. It did not happen. nt

[Downtown Hound]

11. No. YOU expected that.

Many of us who read more about the process saw this as a very likely possibility. And it doesn't mean that this is over or Trump is out of danger. Not by a long shot.

[USALiberal]

14. Just me, I am the only one? Wow, that is weird. nt

[Downtown Hound]

17. Well in fairness, I really don't know how many people were expecting that or if it was just you

But I do know that lots of other people were prepared for something like this and just see it as the beginning of the next step.

[bearsfootball516]

12. Not everyone was.

I was never anticipating Mueller bringing Trump down. I’ve been working since day one to beat Trump at the polls in November 2020.

[Codeine]

20. Why did you expect that?

Proving a crime in this instance was always going to be difficult.

[JI7]

23. nope, many of us did not

[USALiberal]

25. And many did, it's a fucking discussion board, who cares if someone is disappointed? nt

[Cattledog]

3. It is quite astonishing.

[USALiberal]

4. So you think blind belief is better than reality? This is not good news at all. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Getting one's panties in a knot without knowing what actually happened isn't concern over "reality."

It's getting your panties in a knot when you don't know what to get them in a knot about, or whether you should at all.

[diva77]

6. I think it's more lack of understanding, myself included, as to

what would happen once the report was handed in. Regardless of the report, people are worried about a lot of things, and justifiably so.

[Bettie]

8. Remember when Comey read that letter and

everyone said "stop with the doom and gloom, we've got this!".

That was the last time I believed that.

[USALiberal]

10. Yes, and everyone said Nate Silver saying it was close was wrong and Nate was an idiot. nt

[stopbush]

13. No, I don't remember that. I remember DU being up in arms

about Comey’s action.

[JI7]

24. doom and gloom never helps. it's just people wanting to drag everyone down

how the fuck is spreading doom and gloom going to help ?

[Brawndo]

15. I think the anxiety is understandable

Granted, we need to see what's in the report first. But I would forgive the hand-wringing given the way things have been going since June 2015. Instead we could highlight the other ongoing investigations to bolster morale on DU rather than berate legitimate concern.

[UniteFightBack]

16. Meh...it's just people being people who are all in a tizzy. I'm doing just fine with my vape and my

wine.

[Jane Austin]

18. Yes, it's awful.

Lot's of immature reactions tonight.

[mcar]

19. It's discouraging

But never changes.

[Joe941]

21. Where are the indictments for collusion?

[mcar]

22. Collusion isn't a crime

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. There's no crime called "collusion."

There is a crime called conspiracy, but it can be hard to prove if you don't have some record of what the alleged conspirators did, said, or intended to do. Maybe the evidence they had didn't amount to proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and in the federal system, prosecutors won't try to indict unless they have evidence likely to convince a trial jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, of all elements of the crime.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. It's the same old hair-on-fire shit we see every time something happens

that isn't all unicorns and cookies with sprinkles. It gets old, and it's stupid.

[Ilsa]

28. No one should have expected an army of frogs marching (or leaping)

to jail today. It's not over, not by a long shot.