What happened to all the stories about drumpf's

[cilla4progress]

Or his org's imminent criminal charges???

Remember yesterday?

Poof?!

[everyonematters]

1. Still coming, any day.

[Hoyt]

2. What happens when we believe he'll pay with every bombshell headline.

[Effete Snob]

8. Seriously

It’s the flip side of the dumbasses who think he’ll be re-installed as president sometime soon.

[Hekate]

3. According to Chuck Rosenberg et al., this is only the beginning, & is how it always starts...

Only the beginning.

[brewens]

6. "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the

beginning." -Winston Churchill I sure hope so.

[brooklynite]

4. What stories?

[Effete Snob]

5. Same as Matt Gaetz and this entire genre

The “so and so is about to be indicted” category of non-actual-news story is pretty much a bullshit waste of time. Lucy has been yanking that football for years, but some people never seem to notice, and play along.

It’s done for the clicks. Eyeball traffic. Come look at our advertising. It’s not actual news.

News is about facts. “So and so is about to be indicted” is not a fact. It’s pure speculation - but it is tantalizing enough to lead you on, like next week’s episode of the Lone Ranger.

Lots of stuff gets investigated. Lots of folks testify before grand juries. Lots of stuff also gets dropped for a host of reasons.

At the end of the day, if someone gets indicted for something - GREAT! That’s actual news, and it would be wonderful news that scumbags are going to be tried for their various scumbaggery.

But people can’t fucking pull themselves away from the fantasy that the indictment fairy is going to fly down and lock up all the bad people like some baroque vision of the last judgment painted above the altar of a church somewhere.

And, this genre of bullshit is popular for the same reason as those sorts of medieval paintings. It is not only comforting to believe that “those bastards are going to get what’s coming to them”, but it is also useful to keep people in line, or else they might catch on to the fact that those bastards are doing fine and not going anywhere.

Don’t worry. Keep on keeping on. You’ll be rewarded in the next life and those bastards won’t.

[Enter stage left]

7. Patience, grasshopper...

sometimes justice takes time...we have time...TFG is running out of time.

[ansible]

9. Billionaires will never go to prison and be punished for crimes

Money is all that matters in this country

[Enter stage left]

12. You may be right...

but, first, I don't think he is a billionaire, and even if he is, he owes more than he is worth...

and...EVEN IF HE IS...I think the democrats are going to make an example out of him to the other "billionaires" out there...you are not exempt from our laws.

There has never been a more deserving example of total and absolute corruption and disregard for our laws.

He needs to brought to justice!

[ansible]

13. I hope you're right but I'm not holding my breath

I thought 1/6 would be the tipping point but even here people are already forgetting. Americans have such short memories even the goldfish are embarrassed.

[Enter stage left]

14. Oh yum...

goldfish. What a delicacy...

Did you ever see "A Fish Named Wanda"?

One of the all time great movies with an amazing cast.

Don't want to hijack your response, but just had to when you mentioned goldfish.

Sorry.

[Baked Potato]

10. Waiting for the Mueller report so no conflicts.

LoL.

[StarfishSaver]

11. A good reminder why it's not a good idea to speculate about things we know nothing about

None of us has any idea what's going on within these investigations/prosecutions - and that includes the people who are paid to discuss it on television 24-7.

There has been rampant speculation based on various signals people are reading, but we don't actually have the first clue of what the investigators and prosecutors are doing and what their timing is for doing it. Nevertheless, folks get all worked up assuming something's going to happen tomorrow or the next day or next week and then get frustrated and disappointed when their baseless speculation doesn't pan out.

As they say, those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk.

This will happen when it happens. People need to be patient - and if they can't be patient, they at least shouldn't expect things to happen on a timeline based on no actual information.