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Blecht

(3,803 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 06:13 PM Mar 2019

Counting on the Mueller investigation was just like buying a lottery ticket.

It reminds me of a character in Graham Greene's book, Our Man in Havana. In one passage, Dr. Hasselbacher was throwing around money in a bar with a lottery ticket for the next day in his pocket:

‘Tonight I have won,’ Dr Hasselbacher said in a loud firm
voice. ‘Tomorrow I may have lost, but nothing can rob me of
my victory tonight. A hundred and forty thousand dollars, Mr
Wormold. It is a pity that I am too old for women—I could
have made a beautiful woman very happy with a necklace of
rubies. Now I am at a loss. How shall I spend my money, Mr
Wormold? Endow a hospital?’


Like Dr. Hasselbacher with his lottery ticket, many of us have been dreaming of all the wonderful things to follow once Mueller concluded his investigation. Now that the report is in, and Barr has provided his summary, it's looking more and more like we are going to have to get a real job instead of counting on the lottery of a Republican-lead investigation to save us.

That real job involves doing everything we can to defeat the orange fucker in 2020, and focusing our energies in support our Democratic Representatives in the House as they continue their investigations without worrying about how it might look to the deplorables.






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