None of this news (spies, lawyers, collusion, etc.) matters right now.

[Stinky The Clown]

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]

1. I'm afraid you may be right.

Taking the House back in 18 is the only hope of saving the country....

[FreepFryer]

2. We won't be discouraged, nor dissuaded. Until the end comes (whatever end) we will fight for justice

I'm gratified that despairing and discouragement-oriented posts like this are becoming less and less common as the momentum builds...

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Read the post again

Its factual and it is intended to get lass ass whiners off their ass and out to vote.

Get it?

[FreepFryer]

8. LOL nice dig, nice try. I read it. Your argument is fallacious. GOP support isn't a lock. (n/t)

[FreepFryer]

14. If that was coded language, it went over my head. Democratic pressure on Russia matters NOW.

Taker a bath and wash your big floppy shoes, Stinky.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Did you actually read the whole post or just the big letters at the top?

[FreepFryer]

12. I read the whole 'lass ass' post. And I think your argument is unpersuading garbage. (N/t)

[Quanta]

3. Just one arrest would get the ball rolling.

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]

21. An indictment would work too. Flynn indicated on a espionage, for example.

[hurple]

4. Hey!

The Stinky The Clown Show was my favorite Saturday morning TV show!

[Binkie The Clown]

5. And global warming will kill us all before we sort it out. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

11. n/t

[Progressive dog]

6. What people talk about for the next

year and a half matters. We can't let the GOP and their Russian allies continue to control the conversation.

[FreepFryer]

9. Exactly. Can't listen to the stinkiest of our clowns. This is a time for fragrant clowns. (n/t)

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Just hanging here while your site's down?

Quite the little gadfly, aren't we?

[FreepFryer]

16. WTF are u on about?

[FreepFryer]

17. THIS is my site and I'm glad to ber here! I've been a member since 2004 and proud of DU. (N/t)

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Oooo. Sensitive.

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]

19. The last word is - I'm no Republican. Your radar is 100% broken. I'd assume better faith next time.

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]

20. People had better be calling their Republican senators asking them to OPPOSE Trumpcare

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]

22. NOTHING matters until there is a perp walk

[DefenseLawyer]

23. I remember when Patrick Fitzgerald was the no-nonsense straight-shooter

That was going to come in and save the day. I need to knock it off with those negative waves, man.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. As said in the OP, I think Mueller's gang is working hard and is ALL OVER this.

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]

25. It matters...I predict Trump will resign in the end.

[Squinch]

26. We are where we are today because a large segment of our population is cloistered from the truth.

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]

27. Democrats must retake the House next year

[ck4829]

28. Everything matters and we can do things starting today, question is, are we willing to work for it?

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]

29. Keep one thing in mind about Saturday morning cartoons

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.