had elected the Visigoths.

could be the beginning of the end of the country. That doesn't make me happy. I'm a patriot at heart.

Essentially, I agree. It is the Republican Senates fault. Their complicity is the real lynch pin. Trump is clearly either insane or in the pocket of Putin and perhaps both. That is why the Republican Senate is to blame. They are still sane and not treasonously compromised. They still have a chance to save the country and all they have to do is reopen the fucking government.

The founders anticipated a corrupt president willing to destroy the nation to help himself and his foreign benefactors.

But their solution for that was impeachment.

The founders couldn’t plan for a complicit Congress, so in the pocket of rightwing billionaires that they were also willing to destroy the country for money.

In 2016, when Mitch McConnell refused to make a bipartisan effort, at the request of Obama and Biden, to act to preserve this country's electoral process from Russian hacking, he BECAME A TRAITOR.

And, there are many others in the Senate and in the House who are/were just as complicit.

No, they ARE treasonously compromised - in this ugly shit up to their nose hairs.

I firmly believe that when the shit all comes out from the Special Counsel, America is going to be fucking shocked.

The NRA, the RNC, and a shit-ton of Koch fucker think-tanks are so far up Putin's ass you can see Mitch McTurtles smiling face every time Putin opens his mouth.

The ReTrumplican Senate can't and WON'T do a fucking thing to stop Donnie Shit for Brains, because their own complicity and criminal activity would come out.

They saw the Obama coalition. They saw the way the demographics of this country were going, AND THEY PARTNERED WITH AN AUTHORITARIAN THUG TO HELP KEEP THEM IN POWER.

They're packing the courts with a bunch of Russian/Koch funded pricks from the Federalist Society to try to fucking save their sorry asses...and it just might work.

But please make no mistake...the Retrumplican Party is fucking owned by Putin right now. It's the only logical explanation for their inaction in the face of this fucking madman.

The objective is to weaken or ruin America and, by extension, the Western Alliance.

He's taking every thing down, bit by bit.

It's not incompetence.

It's not impulsivity.

He is out to shutter government, crash the administrative structures, eliminate the protections and the safety nets, ruin trade with tariffs and taxes, skew the economy, sow discord, and muck up everything to a grinding halt.

Open eyes, citizens.

It's not like Bannon didn't announce it outright just months into this nightmare.

And Trump provided the clown circus to keep the plates spinning.

Agreed....

Yes on all you said...

knows that this is the only way they can survive. We have an entire fucking political party that has sided with Putin and happily welcomes his help.

I don't know how we get out of this without bloodshed.

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past 2 years I'm not holding my breath for any awakening, action or demonstration of a conscience from the complicit Republicans in the Senate and House.

the idiotic BS coming out of his mouth. I was really impressed with the coverage.

I barely trust MSNBC. Joy, Rachel, and Lawrence are trustworthy. I don't know about the rest of them. Call me circumspect. I believe I have every right to be.

Ana Cabrera. I had to stop what I was doing and double check the TV station since I was so impressed considering it was CNN and not MSNBC.

CNN would be rabidly anti-Rump, but they are not. To me that's a tell tale sign of the fishiness of corporate media. Even Faux has been laying into the Rump lately, so I am extremely suspicious (not that I listen to Faux. There have been plenty of threads here about it).

I would love to see the Dems run ads in Kentucky asking Mitch why he isn't doing his job.

If he wants to be reelected (which he may not - given his abysmal ratings in his state), he may pay attention.

But Mitch is already filthy Effing rich because of his wife, so he may spend the next two years making our Judiciary thoroughly toxic before he waltzes into the sunset. I'm hoping Mr. Mueller has some dirt on Mitch too. Love to see him in an orange jumpsuit.

Hang in there, Lucky, and keep talking to us at DU. We can make this happen!

on reopening the government piece by piece. Keep track of the House Republicans who vote no. If McCpnnell refuses to bring the smaller bills to the floor we need to hound him.
One of the first bills that Pelosi is going to pass and send to McConnell is reopening the IRS so that people can get their refunds. The pressure needs to mount on Mitch and the Republican/Trump Senators.

We have to expose the motherfuckers.

Stuck in LAX, flight delayed changed, been in airport 6 hrs and 3 1/2 more hrs till delayed flight might come. I could be here all night and headache feeling like i caught something on last flight.

Just a bad flight day.

And back in Medford at 4:30pm. Slept a few hours at airport hotel.

Normally I would have just had a few drinks at bar, found someone to talk to, watched a video, etc I was feeling sick yesterday, much better almost gone today thank god!

My question is what are we — the real patriots — going to do about it? Will we demand punishment or simply be happy when this has up and gone away — until next time. I really don’t care about the nuanced legal definitions of treason. If it looks like, walks like, quacks like .... The GOP is rife with treasonous traitors. What are we going to do about that?

I used to be intelligent, but not no more.

Allow this to continue, the more of them will be voted out of office, and trump is already running republicans away from him and their party in huge numbers, so they're only making it worse for them in 2020 election. Looks like they didn't learn a thing about what happened to them from the the Mid Terms. 2020 is looking like it'll be much worse for trump and the republicans in Congress. You can't hurt that many people with health care robbed from them , tariffs destroying their economy, and shutting down the government hurting millions more without serious consequences. Its backfiring on them , and they know it. Lets hope the Democrats do nothing now and let them suffer from they're own greed, and corruption. Republicans are losing every day this goes on.

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in Donald Trump's life would lead any reasonable person to conclude he is capable of empathy or compassion.

American he is doing this for Putin. McConnell needs his ass to be thrown out, really sad that there are those who totally unaware of what putin's puppet is doing to the US. Fear is how dictators rule, but we on the front line and we can end this.