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the END of the BEGINNING?
It isn't over. We will see the report. This is just starting round three. Listen to our Dem reps...it isn't over FOR THEM so it isn't over yet. They will be fighting like mad to get the report and speak with Mueller and Barr and continue their investigations. Breath deep.
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)only to find it's handkerchiefs. Do you ignore all the other presents and cry over the handkerchiefs?
I mean, sure, we had to wait a lot longer for this Xmas than any other. We were expecting great things, including immediate gratification. Now mean old uncle Barr is demanding we eat breakfast before opening any other presents.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)As Winston Churchill once said, at a time when the Fascists of the world had seemed to be on the verge of world conquest. However, Winston Churchill's side won World War II.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)raging moderate
(4,305 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)He's going to use it as a cudgel to eliminate any doubts that he is the legitimate president, so he can do whatever the f*ck he wants without any limitations.
If you think Act I of the play has been horrible, with scandal after scandal and corrupt players entering and leaving the stage continuously, wait until Act II. IQ45 has eliminated almost all non-loyalists from the government, replacing them with sycophants or not replacing them at all. That means there is nobody who has the courage -- let alone the abiity -- to restrict the impulses of the Mad King.
Act II will have at least one military action, probably against Venezuela. He will pull out of NATO and every other international security alliance, and cancel every trade treaty because "they were horribly negotiated" (i.e., "I didn't do it." ). The drumbeat for an investigation of Hillary Clinton will reach a fevered pitch. And Trump's relationships with dictators and autocrats will get cozier. He has already expressed his admiration for the fact the Chinese leader holds his office for life. His Supreme Court -- driven by Kavanaugh -- will decide that "the King can do no wrong."
And he'll finally get to nail Ivanka, which was his main purpose for running for president in the first place.