Rachel is trying to save America.

[madaboutharry]

Just now: Is Rex Tillerson a Russian plant?

The entire Trump administration is a Russian asset.

The government has been infiltrated. And the republicans are complicit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Trump didn't know Tillerson before the election. Never met him.

But Tillerson knew Putin very well.

Under Tillerson the State Department, which in the past has supported dissidents and human rights efforts, is being neutered.

Draw your own conclusions.

[Auggie]

2. This has been an awesome show tonight!

[calimary]

16. Another awesome show tonight.

She's been hitting it out of the ballpark every night for almost a week now.

She's also mentioned Congressman Eric Swalwell's connect-the-dots guide, which I looked up:

ERIC SWALWELL, D-CA (15th District, NorCal)
https://swalwell.house.gov

CONNECTING THE TRUMP-RUSSIA DOTS
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/protect-our-democracy

If you haven't been able to keep track (because it IS rather convoluted and we seem to keep finding more new elements, players, and inter-connections), or you've been unable to take notes fast enough on Rachel Maddow's "Trump-Russia Master Classes" on MSNBC especially over the past week or so, here's some good reference info.

This is getting out of control.

But in another regard, it's also starting to boil down like a good red wine reduction steak sauce. I keep thinking about this image Chris Matthews conjured up to describe what we're all seeing the White House unspool before our very eyes. He compared it to a jigsaw puzzle. You start looking for all the pieces along the edge. Those edge pieces will have one a straight line (for their place on the edge!), so they should be fairly easy to spot. And once the edge takes shape, you can start moving inward, filling in the center to get the completed image. I feel like we're filling in the blanks of the edge, and in some parts maybe starting to move inward.

I've never seen anything like this. And I was around for Nixon and Watergate, and we all thought that was terrible.

[lagomorph777]

19. Worse than Watergate, but moving so much faster.

I remember Watergate fairly well, and that was more like one bombshell a month. This is a bombshell or two per day.

[madaboutharry]

3. I am sorry I posted this in the wrong place

I meant to post in GD. I hope it's ok.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. You are perfect just as you are. ♡

[madaboutharry]

12. Thanks!

[procon]

4. What happens after Trump finishes hollowing out the State Dept

and all the other govt agencies that are getting severe cuts to their regular operational budgets? Is anyone going to be available to monitor all the hot spots around the globe, or will anyone answer the phone if an emergency develops? Will anyone even be left who would be knowledgeable enough to hold things together?

Our govt is barely functioning, and now we have possible Russian moles in key positions throughput the Trump administration and hour by hour this whole bizarre nightmare is being flogged from one chaotic incident to the next by a lying, incompetent egomaniac. If another country decided that this was the perfect opportunity to strike the US, would Trump respond with a series of carping tweets, nuke the whole goddamn world, or jet down to Florida for some golf?

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Golf is what we should hope for ...

Followed by lightning. Lots of lightning.




http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/weather/truths-and-myths-about-summer-lightning-and-golf-south-florida/Fkb0HW5c0ytumWa4kVfZ4H/

[Akamai]

8. That was a heck of a show my FBH and I just watched Rachel deliver! Shocking picture that should be

further investigated.

[gibraltar72]

9. Every

denial that no one in Trumps orbit met with Russians has been found to be a lie. My guess if feds sit these guys down many are gonna sing. witness JD Gordon saying he had platform changed at Trumps personal insistence.

[calimary]

14. Welcome to DU, gibraltar72!

Yeah, it's ALL lies. Seems to me that fits right in, considering how the man at the top is a pathological, congenital, unrepentent, and compulsive liar. Why wouldn't all his little sheep follow right along?

My bet's on Carter Page as the first one to sing. He's already doing interviews, and Chris Hayes on MSNBC the other night rather painstakingly peeled away several layers of his lying. He strikes me as someone who would fold like a piece of paper once he's told in detail what kind of serious prison time he may face unless he coughs up a few things. Watch the birdie!

[lagomorph777]

20. Agreed - he was twitching like a ferret on crack.

Either Carter Page or Steve "Gerbils" Miller - they look the part.

[calimary]

21. When I watched that, he struck me immediately as the kid in third grade who's in the principal's

office, being confronted with something bad they know for certain that he did. He'll sit there twitching and wiggling uncomfortably in his chair, hemming and hawing and trying to avoid having to confess to anything.

That's what I saw in my mind while watching Carter Page on the hot seat with Chris Hayes.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. I came away with two things.

The RNC was hacked. How else would they know, or care, what was in that party platform?

Tillerson is not a patriot.

[mulsh]

11. So glad to see someone covering the gutting of the State Department. I've been screaming about this

n my Facebook timeline and with friends and family as its been unfolding. If I didn't know better I'd think that a foreign adversary had taken control of our government and was destroying it from with in.

[zentrum]

13. I know the Repugs

....are complicit.

It's really like Italy under Mussolini when all the corporate powers supported him.

We are in deep, deep trouble.

[Hekate]

15. Yes she is

[chimpymustgo]

17. She is putting the country on her BACK and trying to save it! nt

[ancianita]

18. Anyone who makes these claims has the burden of proof. I just hope the evidence dossier is

coming together and the U.S. Marshals will actually make the arrests and detain these traitors at an undisclosed location under the Logan Act.

A whole host of replacements has to be ready. What does that scenario look like to you.