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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy isn't MSM covering the sanctions news?
I think that's a bigger be deal than this far fetched memo mess.

still_one
(97,439 posts)Cosmocat
(15,092 posts)1) The Admin has come out and said that it will not implement the Russia Sanctions passed by congress
2) The Admin is under investigation for colluding with Russia during the election
3) The House is not operating as a political operation to protect the Admin from the Russia investigation.
The republican party has been coopted by Russia, and this country faces the most grave threat in its history, with Russian controlling this POTUS and most of Congress.
Everything else is sideline issues at this point. THIS is what EVERY democrat needs to be saying.
But ... No. They play by gentleman's rules while Rs are coopting this very message with all of their "deep state" bullshit.
We are NOT going to win this battle, and this country is lost, unless Ds get into the fucking game.
Generic Other
(29,019 posts)but when the president of the US refuses to implement legislation that passed near unanimously, it is not an exaggeration to say we have crossed a line we cannot uncross. The Russians must be jubilant.
Our great experiment in Democracy is failing. Republicans killed it in order to maintain power. Traitors. They will cause a second civil war.
Cosmocat
(15,092 posts)We will be smoking hot angry over it, but ...
We aren't the ones who will draw blood over it.
1/3 of the country will be cozy in their dark hearts of hatred.
1/3 of the country will sit in their corner, sucking their thumbs, babbling "they are both the same ..."
We are pushing mud.
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)Brian Williams was about to cover it.
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)madaboutharry
(41,619 posts)wishstar
(5,580 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)With people who uphold the constitution. WTF?
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,570 posts)The Constitution is remarkably neutral.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)She stresses me out something fierce.
Kilgore
(1,812 posts)I would estimate 95% of my coworkers consume zero to almost no news.
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)I find this to be a much bigger deal, than the memo.
Kilgore
(1,812 posts)I would say the most engaged I have ever seen them was the last election.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)"how could people NOT be talking about this or that". It's just stunning how uninformed most people are in large swaths of the country. Getting everyone to absorb the complex details of Russia and collusion..will be impossible. If we want the country to universally condemn Trump..it will have to be a simple horrific act.
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)About politics, the only person in my life I can even speak to about politics, is my 20 yr old son. Yay! Millenials.
I wonder how horrible it's going to have to be, for people to wake up?
Kilgore
(1,812 posts)In my case its a unionized industrial environment that was shrinking. Post election, our mill started growing and workers were called back from layoff to start a second shift. All credit goes to Trump and MAGA. Thats all they see, and need to know.
uponit7771
(92,389 posts)whathehell
(30,030 posts)Your co-workers aren't necessarily representative.
Kilgore
(1,812 posts)whathehell
(30,030 posts)Kilgore
(1,812 posts)Think timber, lumber mills, pulp & paper
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)both original sanctions laws and Trump's refusal to apply the new sanctions law.
2. The "memo" is an attempt BY CONGRESS to obstruct justice through legislative insurrection and lying to the American people, and is even treasonous in its attempts to protect those working with Russia and giving aid to Russia.
3. "Redoing the judiciary" to make all these and more crimes legal. They're packing with names of people Trump never heard of, just as the idea was not his.
Sure, these are all huge.
But the Republican House intelligence committee's active collusion in the coverup, abetted by the rest of the Republicans in congress -- and the failure of the FBI to protect the nation -- is nation-shaking.
What we hoped wouldn't happen has. Two of our three branches of government are under the control of betrayers of America who are ruthlessly willing to overset democracy to protect themselves. They are now overtly working to do just that and are knowingly accepting Russia's help to keep their hold on power.
They are facing loss of control of congress, ruin of careers, and investigations and even some of them indictments. They're desperate and very dangerous.
(Btw, I record all the MSNBC evening programs from Chris Hayes through Brian Williams (also Ari Melber), and they all covered this big move to stop Mueller intensively. BIG TIME.)
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)They are now flooding the appeals courts with "new blood" that will poison the system for decades.
The GOP and their corporate funders see this time as the culmination of years of molding the electorate with RWNJ politicians, voter suppression, and gerrymandering. Their hope is to remake the levers of government into a permanent ruling class, an oligarchy.
They only have a finite window to complete their plan before demographics change everything. Trump is their "Hail Mary" pass to lock it in.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Can you guess the reply to Cuomo?
"Why no concern when the last Administration wanted to push a reset button?"
Ligyron
(7,930 posts)Torpedo the investigation into Russian interference in our democracy and...oh, by the way, we're just not going to impose those sanctions Congress imposed on them for doing so with a veto-proof majority.
If anyone had any doubts about what's going on up to this point...
whathehell
(30,030 posts)Moostache
(10,284 posts)We have a co-opted POTUS, a complicit GOP (House AND Senate) and a Judiciary stacked with illegitimate appointees and the SCOTUS stocked with bloodless zealots standing-by for more...
Trump needs to be removed by any means necessary, up to and including a military coup today.