No, I don't think that. I think the investigation will die as soon as the GoP gets a House majority in the next midterm.
Exactly what do you expect to happen? No GoP politician in "good standing" will grant validity to anything that comes out of the committee. No Cult members will be convinced by any amount of any kind of evidence. Indepe…
No, I don't think that. I think the investigation will die as soon as the GoP gets a House majority in the next midterm.
Exactly what do you expect to happen? No GoP politician in "good standing" will grant validity to anything that comes out of the committee. No Cult members will be convinced by any amount of any kind of evidence. Independents might agree that Trump is a PoS, but then many did not vote for him at the time... but they will still vote for other Republicans now because... inflation, wokeness, the socialism, or any other excuse--because the LAST thing they want to admit is that the Republic is in actual danger.
The committee will come out with some findings, which pretty much every GoP politician and media personality will dismiss as a partisan attack and a bunch of lies. They will be believed by those who want to believe. Some minor players may be charged by the DoJ. None of the major players will be. This will all drag through the court system multiple times until it gets memory holed or the GoP retakes power.
There is no will to actually do much in response to any of this. The large number of people in the middle voted for a return to normalcy (LOL) and are busy trying to pretend everything is normal and that none of these scumbags actually means what they say. I am sure many of the politicians don't mean much of what they say--but the fact that they have to say it says something in and of itself. These politicians do not actually have any control and exercise zero leadership--they follow the demands of the mob, which are echoes of what Trump and the Right media push... The media is just trying to make money--but Trump and a number of his followers mean what they say and say what they want.
Mobs are notoriously fickle, stupid, and prone to violence.
I expect a full blown disaster over the next few years because sane people lack the courage to act or the ability to act effectively (if they do have the courage).
A pretty fair assessment, I think. Feel much the same way myself. Btw...I'm about as "in the middle" as you can get, and not pretending anything is normal. But I know there are a lot of us middle ground folks who are, and that's pretty scary.
Didn't vote for a "return to normalcy" but to keep the country from going over the cliff. Normalcy or anything resembling it, if it is to return, is a long way off and will not likely look as it did in the past. (And that may not be such a bad thing.) I voted to silence the piper's flute and stanch the flow of lemmings marching toward the precipice. Wouldn't have cared much if they went over, just didn't want the rest of the country to be dragged over with them. No, I voted for stability, which we have to some very small degree now, relatively speaking at least. Which buys a little time to gird for the more well-organized assault on our freedom and liberties that I'm unhappily rather certain is coming.
It's pretty much always been Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil about one thing or another in our country. But the sun always rises, and for the most part Good, to one degree or another, has more often been revealed in its light than Evil. And I hope it will be so this time around as well. But hoping won't git 'er done. And, sadly, neither will voting for Republicans, as there don't seem to be enough good ones left (i.e., Cheney, Kinzinger, Meijer) to make any difference. Not in the short term anyway. And if you want to win a war - be it hot or cold - you need to use the most effective tactics.
At my age I doubt I'll be around long enough to see what any long-term "return to normalcy" looks like. It took a long time to arrive at the point at which we find ourselves at the moment, and an election cycle or two, even if the results are "good", won't produce much more than some much needed and hopefully stronger stability. But you know, if that means I can go to bed at night with a reasonable expectation that if I get up on the right side of the dirt the next morning, I'll be arising in a country that's still a democratic republic, and not one preceded by the name of a certain yellow fruit from south of our border, I'm good with that.
No, I don't think that. I think the investigation will die as soon as the GoP gets a House majority in the next midterm.
Exactly what do you expect to happen? No GoP politician in "good standing" will grant validity to anything that comes out of the committee. No Cult members will be convinced by any amount of any kind of evidence. Independents might agree that Trump is a PoS, but then many did not vote for him at the time... but they will still vote for other Republicans now because... inflation, wokeness, the socialism, or any other excuse--because the LAST thing they want to admit is that the Republic is in actual danger.
The committee will come out with some findings, which pretty much every GoP politician and media personality will dismiss as a partisan attack and a bunch of lies. They will be believed by those who want to believe. Some minor players may be charged by the DoJ. None of the major players will be. This will all drag through the court system multiple times until it gets memory holed or the GoP retakes power.
There is no will to actually do much in response to any of this. The large number of people in the middle voted for a return to normalcy (LOL) and are busy trying to pretend everything is normal and that none of these scumbags actually means what they say. I am sure many of the politicians don't mean much of what they say--but the fact that they have to say it says something in and of itself. These politicians do not actually have any control and exercise zero leadership--they follow the demands of the mob, which are echoes of what Trump and the Right media push... The media is just trying to make money--but Trump and a number of his followers mean what they say and say what they want.
Mobs are notoriously fickle, stupid, and prone to violence.
I expect a full blown disaster over the next few years because sane people lack the courage to act or the ability to act effectively (if they do have the courage).
I expect them to finish up before the election next fall.
Bannon in July leaves time for Trump in September.
A pretty fair assessment, I think. Feel much the same way myself. Btw...I'm about as "in the middle" as you can get, and not pretending anything is normal. But I know there are a lot of us middle ground folks who are, and that's pretty scary.
Didn't vote for a "return to normalcy" but to keep the country from going over the cliff. Normalcy or anything resembling it, if it is to return, is a long way off and will not likely look as it did in the past. (And that may not be such a bad thing.) I voted to silence the piper's flute and stanch the flow of lemmings marching toward the precipice. Wouldn't have cared much if they went over, just didn't want the rest of the country to be dragged over with them. No, I voted for stability, which we have to some very small degree now, relatively speaking at least. Which buys a little time to gird for the more well-organized assault on our freedom and liberties that I'm unhappily rather certain is coming.
It's pretty much always been Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil about one thing or another in our country. But the sun always rises, and for the most part Good, to one degree or another, has more often been revealed in its light than Evil. And I hope it will be so this time around as well. But hoping won't git 'er done. And, sadly, neither will voting for Republicans, as there don't seem to be enough good ones left (i.e., Cheney, Kinzinger, Meijer) to make any difference. Not in the short term anyway. And if you want to win a war - be it hot or cold - you need to use the most effective tactics.
At my age I doubt I'll be around long enough to see what any long-term "return to normalcy" looks like. It took a long time to arrive at the point at which we find ourselves at the moment, and an election cycle or two, even if the results are "good", won't produce much more than some much needed and hopefully stronger stability. But you know, if that means I can go to bed at night with a reasonable expectation that if I get up on the right side of the dirt the next morning, I'll be arising in a country that's still a democratic republic, and not one preceded by the name of a certain yellow fruit from south of our border, I'm good with that.