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I'll be honest I was stunned when the Mueller report came up with nada, but further news reveals that isn't quite what happened.  The guy that Trump put in as AG, almost surely because the guy had written that the report should never have happened, and who was confirmed by the reps who have the majority, decided that it all added up to nada.  And now all the reps who were demanding that the report be released in its entirety are like well we have to be careful to not reveal too much, and now the AG and his henchmen are examining it to see what can be released but there are no signs that they are in any particular hurry.

It seems like there are two issues collusion and obstruction and Barr has taken on himself, without revealing as yet the evidence against it, that there was no collusion, and obstruction, well it seems obvious to me, but it's a messy issue that has been left open.  It seems reasonable that the Barr and Mueller be brought before congress to explain themselves.

But you know, it doesn't really matter.  If the report reveals that Trump had a liplock on Putin's love lolly while his forces worked at overthrowing the election, that would not mean a thing to the Trumpists, they would just say well, he's a little unusual, but how about those supreme court justices, and therefore the reps would never, never ever, vote to impeach him.  And the dems, well even if it came out that Trump didn't notice the Russkies at work because he was too busy helping little old ladies across the street, well we still wouldn't like him.

It's kind of like elections under the electoral college, the big red and blue states don't really matter, and the fate of the nation rests on a handful of podunk purple states.  So likely the next election is in the hands of that narrow range of folks who are neither Trumpists or anti-Trumpists, though I have never met such a person.


When Beagles discovers the busboy at his local eatery has a long and drooping mustache and is secretly replacing all the ketchup with bottles of salsa then I will start worrying about the invasion.


I've long been puzzled about Brexit, going so far as to peruse a couple copies of The Economist, and it seems like there are two solutions, to stay in the EU or to drop out with no conditions.  There was thought to be a third way which amounted to leaving, but with some agreements between EU and Britain, but apparently the tories can't come to an agreement on what agreements to keep, and then there is the border with Ireland,  I predict wiser heads will prevail and they will decide to stay in, but I have been wrong about wiser heads in the past.