It's just the end of the beginning

[Cyrano]

The orange creature and his minions think it's all over. Or they're making believe it's over.

The reality is that the Mueller Report is just the end of the beginning.

Did anyone really expect Barr, Trump's submissive at the DOJ, to betray his master? Did you actually believe that he'd tell us what Mueller found and/or recommended? C'mon. Fish gotta' swim, birds gotta' fly, and a swinish prick like Barr has gotta' be a swinish prick.

The imbecile occupant of the WH doesn't realize that it ain't over. He's peddling shit trying to make everyone believe it, but only fools will buy it. He's spreading as much bullshit as he spread when Trump Steaks, Trump University, and failed Trump casinos all went down the sewer.

The grotesque orange creature doesn't realize that the Mueller report is just the beginning. The SDNY, New York State, Virginia, and so many other venues are looking at his finances. Money laundering, cheating the IRS, dealings with the Deutsche Bank, Russian "loans." He's so up to his neck in financial crimes alone that he could get sentenced to a few hundred years in jail. And that's before you even get to years of obstruction of justice, and who knows what else.

The bad news is that he will never spend a day in jail. Were he to be jailed, no Dem president would ever again be safe under a Republican congress. GOP pricks would impeach, indict and jail a Dem prez if he cut a fart. And if you don't believe that, remember what they impeached Bill Clinton over.

Nonetheless, Mueller's report will eventually become public no matter how much they try to bury it. (Mueller has a copy of it.) Put that together with all the other ongoing investigations and all of the creature's tweets, public comments and tantrums will be all that's needed to make him an un-indicted, un-jailed co-conspirator. He'll spend the rest of his life as an outcast who will be socially acceptable only at Mar-a-Lago and white supremacist rallies.

[Chin music]

1. Hope you're right.

[hibbing]

2. I've lost faith in everything n/t

[Cyrano]

3. Don't give in to that kind of thinking

Have you ever read Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If"? Here it is. Hope it helps.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

[Hugin]

4. +1

'cuz it's Kipling.