Robert Mueller is testifying as type this, and we are all hoping that matters will be clarified, defined, and brought into the light for any sensible person to understand.

Trump's reaction to this was "No, I'm not going to be watching, probably, maybe I'll see a little bit of it," Trump told reporters on Monday in the Oval Office. "I'm not going to be watching Mueller because you can't take all those bites out of the apple. We had no collusion, no obstruction."

Trump will watch part of it, but he'll have his staff watching with a fine tooth comb*, finding ANYTHING to object to, complain about, and in general oppose. They will then translate that into palatable comments for Trump to report or tweet on. I'm certain of it - as certaina s I am that Trump will both object to Mueller's findings at the same time as accepting them to exonerate him. Yup... he'll say Mueller is wrong and right simultaneously.

*Yeah, I know... but it's Trump. ;)

We'll have to see what develops, but Trump is not a smart man. I'm sure he had his cronies read it, and then tell him what he wanted to hear, i.e., total exoneration. I'm not certain that Trump understands all the laws involved in this, and I don't even know if Bill Barr gets all of it... but Barr is Trump's go-to guy on this.

But this, along with Representative Al Green's** introduction of articles of impeachment, may be a huge challenge to Trump and the boys.***  I have worried for the past week that Tuesday or Tuesday night would see some horrid and drastic action (such as, say, a war with Iran) to distract from this. I still am extremely uncomfortable with the possibilities of Trump's attempt at magic to distract us****

**"Let's NOT get together..."

***I guess that makes KellyAnne Conway one of the boys. Stolen from Scott Pilgrim, thank you very much.

****Doesn't work so well when we can SEE HIM put the rabbits into the hat. But Trump knows as much about magic as he does about presidenting, I figger.

There was no question that the water would get to the bottom of the hill, despite Trump's best wishes to the contrary. I think that today is when we see some of that, and I hope that the resolution isn't destructive... there are a lot of good Americans who deserve, and have desergved better, for a couple years now.

The audience is a huge factor in this hearing. I wonder how many people will watch or hear about the proceedings and still want to carry the water back to the top of the hill. And seeing that he spoke at the Turning Point USA summit to lots of young people is worrisome. Instilling ignorance and blindly following a supposed leader at a young age is scary to me.

The results of the hearing will be chopped up and fed back to the public through the stupid-o-tron there will be droves of people waiting to lap it up. The lack of skepticism and critical thought in the GOP supporters is the real enemy, but I don't know how you fix stupid.

Time constraints are an issue here with so much time wasted for Mueller being directed to certain pages of his lengthy report while under the clock.

Schiff: “Trump and his campaign welcomed & encouraged Russian interference?”

Mueller: “Yes.”

Schiff: “And then Trump and his campaign lied about it to cover it up?”

Mueller: “Yes.”

This is the type of directness and clarity that should be everybody’s goal, in these hearings.

Brian, that projection is funny if it is done in protest, but scary if it is just someone trying to own the libs. Either is plausible and that fact is also frightening.

Someone once questioned "why do you want a leader with morals if they get results". I am paraphrasing, but the hearings yesterday illustrated that if anyone is immoral then they are more easily black mailed. Illegal and immoral activity is hidden by the perpetrator(s) and they typically want to keep it hidden. Sometimes doing whatever is necessary to keep it hidden. I still have trouble understanding that there are large portions of the US population that think they are going down a primrose path toward some idyllic end.

(Note the middle-right of the poster)

UPDATE: Yep, that's exactly what happened: LINK

There's alot of fuss over why Congress doesn't do their job, but hardly ANYONE puts ANY pressure on the Senate when they constantly fail to co-operate with Dems in Congress. I know politics is a dirty business, but this is getting blatantly ridiculous!!

-C!