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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNone of this news (spies, lawyers, collusion, etc.) matters right now.
The GOPee congress won't do jack shit about it.
The DOJ leadership won't do jack shit about it.
The news is just water cooler fodder.
On the other hand, the special counsel is almost certainly all over it. In secret.
It will only matter to US if one or both of these events occur:
1. The Special Counsel releases its findings and takes appropriate action.
2. Democrats regain control of one or both houses of congress.
Until then, this is all little more than Saturday morning cartoons.
Funtatlaguy
(10,886 posts)Taking the House back in 18 is the only hope of saving the country....
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)I'm gratified that despairing and discouragement-oriented posts like this are becoming less and less common as the momentum builds...
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Its factual and it is intended to get lass ass whiners off their ass and out to vote.
Get it?
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Response to FreepFryer (Reply #8)
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FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Taker a bath and wash your big floppy shoes, Stinky.
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Quanta
(195 posts)It's obvious laws have been broken already after all. Doesn't even have to be a good arrest, just need to get one person under oath.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)hurple
(1,306 posts)The Stinky The Clown Show was my favorite Saturday morning TV show!
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)year and a half matters. We can't let the GOP and their Russian allies continue to control the conversation.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)Quite the little gadfly, aren't we?
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)I'll be the grownup here and have nothing more to do with you. You get the last word.
But . . . . you gave yourself away. Gad. It never ends, does it?
Anyway, as I promised, the last word is yours.
By the way, can you use "lass ass" in a sentence?
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)People can disagree with you - in my case, insisting that ongoing pressure on the Russia scandal matters - without warranting your accusing them of being Republican. That's just low.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)Rather than bothering much with the scandals. Nothing will get done about them until/unless Mueller releases his conclusions AND one house of congress is controlled by Democrats.
Meanwhile, EYE ON THE BALL - healthcare, budget. FIGHT IT. EVERY. DAY. Call, email, go visit your Rep's offices if you can. EVERY. DAY. Go to town halls and protests and raise holy HELL.
HAB911
(8,914 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)That was going to come in and save the day. I need to knock it off with those negative waves, man.
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)The news we get is all based on leaks. I don't think it is "fake news" but I do think the real story is still developing in secret.
I DO have hope.
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)Squinch
(51,007 posts)ALL OF THIS matters now. You are probably right that we will not be able to do anything about it for some time, but you are dead wrong when you say this news doesn't matter.
It is more important than ever that the rest of us, the ones paying attention, know what is happening when it is happening. It is more important than ever that this news gets out as much as possible to as many as possible.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)Stop with the "respect for the office of the President" nonsense. We've got protecting the environment and standing up to authoritarianism and bullying on one side and this 'respect' on the other, we are lunatics if we side with the latter. We need to crack the bully pulpit.
We need to target any and all systems that reinforce corruption and hate. We can do this from the bottom as easily from the top via representatives.
There were tropes and cliches that bolstered this injustice, if we're not deflating them, then we're not really fighting the Trump administration.
DFW
(54,437 posts)Most presidents ignored them. Trump takes everyone as a personal affront and threatens thermonuclear war every time he sees something he doesn't like. People like that make bigger and quicker mistakes than those with level heads.
They hit the roof at the tiniest bit of negative press covfefe.