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Cirque du So-What

(25,808 posts)
2. Is it too much of a stretch
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 08:02 AM
Feb 2018

to suggest that those who survive, politically, become resistant to that particular antibiotic? I hope this round is strong enough to wipe out vast swaths of vermin.

mobeau69

(11,074 posts)
3. I think your concerns were real to Mueller. That probably explains why he chose
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 08:10 AM
Feb 2018

to go with a speaking indictment.


While, IMO, he did not missuse it, as this article is titled, it is informative on the concept none-the-less.

http://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/sites/lawjournalnewsletters/2016/11/01/talk-is-cheap-the-misuse-of-speaking-indictments/

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. In Foxxxland it is doublespeak. All fault of Democrats, Russians were antiTrump and
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 08:26 AM
Feb 2018

Democrats want Russians to continue to meddle...unfortunately they are being smacked about the head by 37 pages of written facts.

How can one TV network lie so much and not give 2 fucks for the country?

Stardust1

(123 posts)
5. Greed
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 08:33 AM
Feb 2018

Decades of being told that greed is good has made some of us care more about ourselves then the bigger picture. Thats how. (At least thats my speculation).

Laurian

(2,593 posts)
7. Agreed. Citizens United opened the floodgates for greed to corrupt our politics.
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 09:12 AM
Feb 2018

Money, money everywhere with no accountability. I will NEVER forget how disheartened President Obama was by that ruling and how snide that slimy Alito was about it. I hope the SCOTUS justices who voted for that feel forever shamed.

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