Thank you!!!

Twice in my lifetime, too, sir.

The last one unnecessarily squandered more than four thousand American lives in a war we were lied into fighting in Iraq. Not to mention many multiples more of innocent Iraqi citizens, and untold numbers of priceless historical treasures. Because of some imaginary WMD that never existed.

THIS time what’s being destroyed right now, in real time, it’s OUR country and all its respected and honorable institutions, our own sacred honor and the value of trust in our word, and the bonds we’ve formed over the years with allies we’re now turning our backs on.

Not MY President.

It'd almost be worth it to watch him laugh in trump's face during the debates.

His chuckling at Sarah Palin during the VP debate in 2008 sure took her down a peg - or 15.

I've been asking - "how is this NOT obstruction?!?" for the longest time.

I am not a lawyer and don’t have that level of expertise. Strictly civilian. But shit - every one of these instances that the media has been tiptoeing around and not wanting to say it out loud or connect the dots, just seems so obvious to me. I’m very gratified to see that all this shit has been identified as obstruction. Taken all together instead of tweezering out example here and example there and so seldom trying to put them together to see the whole picture.

That’s been largely what the media has done. Looking at each separate offense, time after time, without connecting them to reveal a VERY clear and explicit trend - it’s reminding me of that proverbial group of blind men examining an elephant for the first time. One of them is at a leg - AHA! It’s a tree! One of them at the trunk - AHA! It’s a snake! One of them at the tip of a tusk - AHA! It’s some sort of spear! Nobody realizes what the actual whole is - a big-ass adult-size elephant. They only know little separate disjointed, disconnected relatively insignificant parts of it.

Few people have had a chance to see the wide-screen view with the full cast assembled. Til now. Thanks to Mueller’s 400+ pages of compiled crimes all together under one cover. I think (at least I hope) that enough voters will read it all and realize what a colossal crook a few too many allowed themselves to be taken by.

Another great graphic! I've started collecting them.

I love this graphic!

AND - even more worrisome: are they NOT aware that nothing's been done to stop Russia from violating

our sovereignty again? NOTHING’S been done. I submit, again, that nothing’s been done on this because they want that help AGAIN. I suspect they want that help even more desperately now, since the cover’s been blown and Democrats have made decisive hard-to-ignore gains in the House of Reps and in state legislatures across America.

Their “Job One” going forward is to try to blunt those gains, take it all back, flip the House to red again so Kevin McCarthy gets to take the Speaker’s gavel from Nancy Pelosi, and all those inconvenient and annoying committee investigations can come to an end. And they know it’s an uphill battle with everything the public is starting to see some of the hidden truths. That’s why they’re working so desperately hard on the “no collusion” crap and what I just heard MSNBC’s Kristen Welker say about a GOP wish to “turn the page” and try to lead the public perception toward moving on to other crimes-OOPS-I-mean-“agenda-priorities”.

Just watch: they’re gonna try in one way or other to push the “we need to move on” stuff hard. They’ll push the “nothing to see here” and “no collusion” crap AND the “now we need to investigate the investigators!” crap. They’ll try to obstruct and drag out the process long enough that the Dems can’t get much done on the very necessary investigations now underway, til they hope they can regain the House and stop that pursuit of accountability cold.

They want Devin Nunes back in Schiff’s Intel Committee chairman’s Chair. Sure was pretty effective last time, ‘eh? They want Congressman See-No-Evil chairing the Judiciary Committee. They want Congressman Hear-No-Evil back in charge at Ways and Means. They want Congressman Speak-No-Evil running the Financial Services Committee again. And Congressman Sergeant-Schultz back in control of the Oversight and Reform Committee. Why? Because then they can muffle all those inconvenient questions and make all that bothersome investigation stuff go AWAY. And once again, the way will be smoothed for their lord and master to do whatever-the-fuck he wants. With impunity.

THAT’S why we need to keep the pressure up, protect AND BUILD ON our gains in 2020, and Get Out The Vote like our lives, liberty, and our very democracy depend on it. Because they DO.

We CAN’T let up.

We CAN’T AFFORD TO let up.

And we sure as hell can’t rest on our 2018 laurels or decide we’ve “got this” and roll over and go back to sleep like we did in the 1970s. When we thought we “got this” and the ERA was almost a done deal (we’re there! Just three more states!) and Vietnam was finally over and we’d gotten rid of Nixon leftover Gerald Ford and put Jimmy Carter in the White House.

DO NOT forget what happened then. Carter was cheated out of a second term and the dreadful age of Reagan and the long-desired wrong-wing rebirth and return to dominance began.

The devil you say, Sarah?

Here’s a hint: consult your boss about that attacking-the-FBI stuff. He’s the expert.

Absolutely.

Accept no substitutes.

Sometimes it lets the bad guys down below shoot us in the chest.

Or lure us off a cliff.

I don’t want to “go high.” That never guaranteed you’ll win. Especially when you’re up against people who cheat.

If one side plays fair and the opponents cheat to win, what good is playing fair? How do you play on the proverbial level playing field if YOU play fair and the other side puts a big thumb on the scale, or cuts corners, or tries to rig the game?