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Maru Kitteh

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11. Fucking shake it off and GET TO WORK. It's what we all need to do. ALL of us. Act like we mean it,

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Wed May 1, 2019, 11:41 PM

May 2019

act like we are willing to fight, like we care, like we still have the capacity to believe.

Yes.

We can.

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I'm starting to really realize this is over [View all] SHRED May 2019 OP

Not me. Iliyah May 2019 #1

I'm very upbeat! Kaleva May 2019 #2

Good to hear SHRED May 2019 #3

The retaking of the House in 2018. A great field of candidates running for president. Kaleva May 2019 #8

Here, SHRED. From an author of the special counsel regulations: Hortensis May 2019 #43

Thanks! Cha May 2019 #54

Reassuring to me. Hortensis May 2019 #62

Neal Katyal wrote an op ed for those of us feeling down oregonjen May 2019 #4

That's fine SHRED May 2019 #5

+1, ... and screw you we'll win in 2020 with Russia helping Trump again doesn't make sense either uponit7771 May 2019 #28

Russia helped last time and they won because those on our side voted for Stein in Demsrule86 May 2019 #47

Russia and Republicans will just turn up the vote flipping watoos May 2019 #53

+1 uponit7771 May 2019 #65

We don't know that, we do know Russia hacked our electoral system down to a minute degree uponit7771 May 2019 #64

Russia and likely Nuggets May 2019 #81

+1, I thought that too every state where Clinton was up by 2 - 3% in 16 but lost by 1% was a red uponit7771 May 2019 #82

It will be increased and all Nuggets May 2019 #85

+1 uponit7771 May 2019 #86

Thanks that does help. He is like my human Xanax. nt UniteFightBack May 2019 #13

Same. Chuck Rosenberg as well. oregonjen May 2019 #15

Rosenberg pissed me off. Skidmore May 2019 #40

THERE IS PLENTY OF HOPE, IN THE HOUSE, AS THEY PROSECUTE TRUMP! Jeffersons Ghost May 2019 #27

I like the guy but he did a shitty job. Any report should be sent to both houses Demsrule86 May 2019 #46

Neil Katyal, who wrote the special counsel regulations, doesn't agree. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #6

That's all good and well SHRED May 2019 #7

Paul Wellstone: "Stand up! Keep fighting!" Grasswire2 May 2019 #9

and have you seen the number of Republicans who tell pollsters they will definitely NOT.. Grasswire2 May 2019 #10

Provided we have safe and fair elections SHRED May 2019 #14

PAPER BALLOTS HAND COUNTED LOCALLY Grasswire2 May 2019 #16

We will not have paper ballots counted locally either, so what's next? I'm trying here but lets keep uponit7771 May 2019 #29

I understand what you are saying but what is your suggestion? SlogginThroughIt May 2019 #58

Contempt of congress fines of 10k a day, let them fly ... whistling past the graveyard doesn't help uponit7771 May 2019 #63

Who will collect the fines? watoos May 2019 #83

Congress uponit7771 May 2019 #89

They'll still vote for him. dawg day May 2019 #21

Fucking shake it off and GET TO WORK. It's what we all need to do. ALL of us. Act like we mean it, Maru Kitteh May 2019 #11

Good Cha May 2019 #56

Love ya Cha! Maru Kitteh May 2019 #88

Here's one possible ending-- Ponietz May 2019 #12

Get to work. We can beat them. Demsrule86 May 2019 #38

Or worse... Zoonart May 2019 #51

Right, extremely concerned about rogue nukes Ponietz May 2019 #57

Mueller Report is #1 book in the USA. Pete Buttigieg's book is #2. People applegrove May 2019 #17

HA....do you realize how FEW copies of a book have to sell to make that list? Moostache May 2019 #80

In movies, there usually is a point, right before the climax, when all seems lost MrScorpio May 2019 #18

This is such an excellent response. ZZenith May 2019 #26

OK, so we're not in a movie ... and even in movies the good guys fail to grasp situations and cut uponit7771 May 2019 #30

You can give up if you want, but I'm not and neither are lots of people here. StarfishSaver May 2019 #44

Thank You, StarfishSaver Cha May 2019 #59

How is pressuring representatives to protect out elections giving up? How is pressuring represenativ uponit7771 May 2019 #68

Your post that I responded to did nothing to "pressure representatives" StarfishSaver May 2019 #75

I Think we will too. Demsrule86 May 2019 #37

It is darkest before the dawn... N_E_1 for Tennis May 2019 #61

KEEP CALM AND Mme. Defarge May 2019 #19

... so it can be hacked, or suppressed or manipulated with Russia helping Red Don. Just makin uponit7771 May 2019 #31

Because the system is rigged Mme. Defarge May 2019 #66

Which can be defeated by already hacked machines, how about pressuring our reps to protect uponit7771 May 2019 #69

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi....that's why DonaldsRump May 2019 #20

Don't look now, but the truth is winning. nt coti May 2019 #22

repubs are playing a long game: 1 - locking up courts for decades, 2 - voter supression Demovictory9 May 2019 #23

Don't forget brainwashing the youth to hate Liberals dustyscamp May 2019 #25

And had some looked at the long game in 16 ...we would not be here with a packed court. Demsrule86 May 2019 #35

Yep Demovictory9 May 2019 #73

It's not over, but don't expect any meaningful heroics from Dem leadership Azathoth May 2019 #24

What would you have them do? Impeach? It is unpopular and could give Trump Demsrule86 May 2019 #33

+1, when they start putting peoples asses in jail for inherent contempt of congress I'll take em uponit7771 May 2019 #34

The house can do only do so much and do not want to act in such away that gives Demsrule86 May 2019 #32

The polls show we're near the same place we were with impeachment of Nixon. We don't have a choie uponit7771 May 2019 #36

It's a bad idea...this is a different time. Demsrule86 May 2019 #45

You're right about it being a different time, Red Don is not as popular as Nixon or Clinton so we'd uponit7771 May 2019 #67

The primary argument against impeachment now ... Whiskeytide May 2019 #72

Politically that's a falacious argument too. Clinton's popularity grew but dems won nothing after .. uponit7771 May 2019 #77

But WHY are trump's numbers worse? I suspect ... Whiskeytide May 2019 #87

"and conducting serious investigation" This isn't going to happen because they can stonewall.. uponit7771 May 2019 #90

The voters hate ump each mentioned and will give Trump four more years. Demsrule86 May 2019 #74

Hoick those shorts back up and pretend to be brave Hortensis May 2019 #39

I tend to agree philf99 May 2019 #41

A lot of people up and awake this late late KPN May 2019 #42

It can help to focus on your local community and to work with issue-oriented groups rather than WhiskeyGrinder May 2019 #48

My hope is that the Mueller people will keep leaking. spanone May 2019 #49

You can't live in the political moment. Now is June which is not December which is not election day themaguffin May 2019 #50

Just because traitors Lindsey Graham and TrishaJ May 2019 #52

We must be living in two different realities... Blue_Tires May 2019 #55

Nope, none. Nt lostnfound May 2019 #60

Never underestimate trump's ability to fuck things up for himself. Paladin May 2019 #70

If the Democrats issue subpoenas and the Republicans just don't show up, what can we do? jalan48 May 2019 #71

No. ooky May 2019 #76

Not to worry, soon there'll be a new sheriff in town... President Sanders!! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2019 #78

I get like this too sometimes Botany May 2019 #79

Go ahead and throw your hands up in defeat lunatica May 2019 #84