...alas. When they get out, they'll have book deals, right-wing welfare, plushy jobs given them by 1%ers who will always regard them as martyrs...etc, etc, etc. It's only the poor, the dispossessed, and of course the people of color, who end up penniless in this society after prison.

...and received and read 12,000 letters from prisoners, I'm going to disagree with your statement.

...but someone mobby could likely be relegated to protective custody in perpetuity, and that means solitary. And even then, it's possible for the Russians to get to the prisoner somehow. That's a night terror.

Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have gone into hiding. It is after all,all about the Money from fat cat donors like Sheldon Adelson,who just cut a check for 25 million to McConnell this week towards the RNC Senate reelection fund. He also gave Ryan 20+ million the day the Tax Bill pasted.

This is all about protecting the Oligarchs.

Those who aren't publicly obstructing justice and therefore brought down by their own hubris (Devil Nunes, Gym Jordan, Lyin Ryan, and Mitch McTurd).

Congressional Committees. So,2019 will be real interesting if predictions hold. My guess is this,there will be a ton of Special Elections next fall.

but,most States have Election time frames built into their Constitutions. But what the heck,love the idea of sooner rather than later.

I get you now. Thought you meant '18.

brings a smile

because, you know, popcorn.

Early Saturday here. The Friday news dump gave us Trump's accountant flipping. In an hour I'm heading up to the Murray River for ten days - and will have NO INTERNET ACCESS!!!

By the time I return I fully expect him to be deceased, deranged (and committed), impeached or indicted.

This last week, been thinking a lot about how the end game will play out. Cohen has flipped but he has enough years ahead of him to change his ways; same with George PapaD and Rick Gates. Trump will die in disgrace - he's too old to be rehabilitated, even if he wanted to. The best part - for the rest of their lives those three fuggers, Uday, Qusay and Marie Antoinette will live the rest of their miserably useless lives in shame, tied to a name that reeks of corruption and cruelty.

See ya when I get back.

Enjoy your trip.

But not for long I hope. He's a hard-right idiot. Next federal election is due by May 2019 or before. Labor party is looking good.

This job isn't finished because a few people go to prison or because a couple of people lose their elected offices. There's a corruption of our system and country that needs to be taken out, root and branch. After Joe McCarthy died and the Red Scare dwindled, we didn't take care of it. So we got Richard Nixon. Nixon resigned, but we didn't take care of it. So we got the Iranian revolution followed by the October surprise and Iran/contra. We were working on that when Poppy Bush pardoned his cronies in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992 after he had lost re-election. Then we got Bush the Stupider, invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Great Fiscal Meltdown of 2008. But then we decided to look forward to the future, not backwards to the past, because we didn't want to criminalize political differences. Then we got the Trump administration.

If we don't address this, right fucking now, I don't know that the United States will survive the next wave of Republican corruption. It's going to be tedious and messy, a labor to compare with the cleaning of the Augean Stables. But it's gotta be done. Whole political careers will be devoted to it, when those worthies would be more inclined to do something else. But none of those utopian ideals will be achieved, or if achieved will last, until we've dealt with what's gone before.

....out of this Copper Mug.....

https://odditymall.com/giant-moscow-mule-mug

And got enough to last awhile cause its getting pretty close to starting. Can't miss this.

Next week should be something else

Real fast. Damn fast. Trump will be in a foreign country before the press have confirmed his resignation.

he will be sequestered in country such that he can't escape to safety under pootie's vampire cape.

the demise of the repugnant party.

No doubt.

as they say ....