Doozy quote for the day (and some really good news).

[kstewart33]

“If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”

— Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), quoted by Politico, at a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha’s Vineyard.

[link:https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/24/extra-bonus-quote-of-the-day-425/|

[unblock]

1. whatever jaw-dropping over-the-top outrageous crap is revealed in the next couple month,

real life will have left it far behind in the dust.

[smirkymonkey]

2. I really hope this isn't just a tease.

It's getting a little tiresome.

[kstewart33]

3. It isn't.

Mark Warner doesn't tease.

[empedocles]

5. Warner also said earlier, that much could be wrapped

up this year. Just 2 more dots which may get conneted.

[shraby]

6. He doesn't even joke much. He's a serious person as a rule.

[kstewart33]

7. Yep.

He's been tight-lipped throughout the Senate Committee's investigation. I posted the quote because IMHO, he has a good deal of credibility.

[OhNo-Really]

15. He better be, or risk tainting investigations

too much at stake for idol gossip

[Tipperary]

17. i know. Didn't Avenatti post the same type thing a few weeks ago?

The “fasten your seat belt” thing? And nothing happened.

[empedocles]

4. Promising.

Hopefully this Mueller quiet time is giving trump co-conspirators time to beef up their records for indictment.

[FreepFryer]

8. Thanks for the excellent work countering the Eeyore parade!

In the words of Shawshank Red, “We each have a choice - get busy living, or get busy dying.”

I know which one I choose!

[Ohiya]

16. Also from Bob Dylan

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn that he not busy being born
Is busy dying

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. I don't drink but let me tell you

It's exactly all the stuff you suspect.

[PearliePoo2]

10. I remember last year during an interview Mark Warner said he...

considered this investigation the most important work he would do in his lifetime.

His face was red, he looked frightened and he wasn't joking.

[yonder]

11. Hopefully it's the real life version of this:

I saw this last night; I think it's a repeat.

I've got to think more than hope that there really is a "there". The old adage "Hope springs Eternal" works most of the time but lately that spring seems to be drying up, being replaced by that same anxious ache experienced right after the election.

Gosh, something just has to pop loose, right?

[Collimator]

13. I'm struggling to hold onto hope, too.

Was reading unfortunate comments by Trumpst types on Yahoo, predicting a red wave in the midterms and talking about how stupid and hypocritical and useless everyone one the Left is. (Some of us are just as one-sided and broad brushing in our thinking.) Just thinking that there are so many of those sorts of cold-hearted people made me lose faith at that moment.

I told my friend that if there really are more of those kinds of people in the world than those who can care about someone who isn't their direct kin or countrymen, than I am not sure that I want to live in it.

There has to be more good than bad than in this world. There has to be more light than dark. And, yes, in a way I am being a bit one-sided in my thinking and painting people with a broad brush. I try not to automatically assume that all of anything or anyone is altogether bad. Just as I don't want to believe that all politicians are useless and self-serving, I don't want to believe anyone with an "R" affixed to their voting affiliation is inherently evil.

What I believe is that most people don't think that much beyond their own comforts and social connections unless something forces their attention in that direction. After that, most people are marginally complacent and morally cowardly. I know that I can be.

Now, it is my hope that we have matured enough as a people to extend fellow-feeling to those whose looks and lives and experiences place them outside outside our own understanding. I want us to push ourselves to see us in them, rather than seeing the world as us verses them.

We really are one human race in this world and I pray to whomever that we are a decent race, able to learn from our mistakes and our growing knowledge of the physical universe.

Sorry for getting wordy and philosophical and possible tangental. It's kind of how I cope.

[yonder]

19. Good, thoughtful words that should carry us as people.

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"matured enough as a people to extend fellow-feeling to those whose looks and lives and experiences place them outside outside our own understanding."

That is what should make us, as a species, different than other animals. Hell, I'm struggling enough with "matured enough as a person" all the while slowly losing hope that as a citizen, then a human, with the Wheels of the World in our hands, we're losing our way.

[calimary]

21. A very thoughtful commentary, Collimator.

I suspect you’ve put words to what a LOT of us have been feeling and processing.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. I don't expect to be surprised

bits of the skeleton have been hiding in plain sight for decades. Revealing half of it would probably topple them.

[PearliePoo2]

14. Steve Schmidt told Stephanie Ruhle that...

when all this comes out (and he said it will) that the American people are going to have their mind's blown.
He said this is the biggest scandal in U.S. history.

Stephanie's jaw dropped, her eyes got wide and she looked into the camera and said, "Did you all hear that?"

I wonder what all Schmidt knows?

[worstexever]

18. Can't wait! N/T

[0rganism]

20. all i can say about that now: "you're on the clock. tick tock. tick tock."

every day that passes is one less sunset left on American democracy. the time for action is slipping away, our last shot at meaningful resistance to Trump World is approaching quickly, 4 months now. Mueller has to move decisively and fast, or it won't matter one bit.

tick tock tick tock

[kstewart33]

22. Absolutely.

Every bit that has any possibility of getting released in the next two months had better be released.

The public wants the facts, the sooner the better. And they don't seem to care that the Watergate investigation lasted 2 years and Whitewater was longer than that.

If not released by September 1, the results won't be released until after the midterm election. That's why Warner says in the coming two months, before that date.