If Robert Mueller is fired, is all hope for America lost?

[NewsCenter28]

I'm sorry but breadcrumbs being left for some unknown prosecutor in some unknown state is not enough to save the union in the slightest. There needs to be someone with the power to punish people and tie it together on a national scale. My only hope is that the government has not been funded yet and Democrats can insist that a continuation of the special counsel be part of the year-end budget deal, but will they?

The day Mueller is fired, if it comes, will be the worst day of my life bar none and it will be akin to Hitler's purge in 1934 where he personally killed his political opponents. It will be the day that America's bright star is extinguished.

What's scary is that, in the end, with a complicit GOP congress, Trump has a blank check to do whatever he wants and if he wants Mueller gone, he's gone, that's that, and Russia will be forgotten by the media.

Scary.

Edit: I waited for the public to rise up in protest when the Supreme Court stole the presidency from Al Gore. I waited a long time...

[rzemanfl]

1. Bookmarking for in the morning.

I have to get my socks out of the dryer and then it's bedtime.

[NewsCenter28]

2. Thanks-I've been crying a lot

Over this possibility in the past few days. I even upped my anti-anxiety/depression pills on Saturday and then ended up unable to sleep and feeling nauseous all night. So that went out the window.

[rzemanfl]

19. There's enough to cry about that actually has happened without speculating about what's next.

I ended up with two stray socks. I don't know how people can keep track of their socks for years. Not me.

[ChubbyStar]

11. I have some socks that need ironing

Will you come over and help before bedtime?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Well, that was a cheerful thought for us to ponder. We are doomed!?

[NewsCenter28]

7. Democrats need to bring all congressional business to a halt

If the Fuhrer wannabe does this.

[meadowlander]

4. If Trump isnt immediately impeached

In the aftermath, yes.

[USALiberal]

5. For the 1000th time Trump will never fire Mueller! n.t

[NewsCenter28]

8. Tell me why?-n/t

[USALiberal]

9. Because even the GOP leadership would have to turn on him. n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

21. No they wouldn't

The GOP is all in on Trump, he's their new Vladimir Putin.

Trump will fire Mueller and the investigation will end, and the GOP will not lift a finger to help America.

[brooklynite]

6. Is today Find something to be miserable about Day?

Mueller will get Fired.

Doug Jones will lose

TRUMP will set up a Dictatorship.

ISPs will shut down DU

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Fired? Is he being fired?

What did I miss?

Oh, wait, this is just another one in and endless series of DU posts: Mueller is going to be fired. When was he appointed? I think the first of these posts started the very next day.

Someone who is more clever than I am should produce hypothetical DU threads for the Saturday Night Massacre.

[NewsCenter28]

12. Rachel is what set me off tonight

Rachel is convinced Mueller will be fired. She said tonight "at least we can't say we weren't warned." She said that in the last few days, something has "clicked" in the right-wing sphere and there is an all-out assault on Mueller by the Reich Wing. She then went on to post a series of articles saying that Mueller is in grave danger.

If she hadn't led her show tonight with this, I wouldn't be particularly worried, tonight anyway, about it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. I used to respect Rachel a lot, and watched her show faithfully.

But then I noticed that it took her an hour to deliver ten minutes of content and gave up on her.

Plus, the "OMG! Mueller is going to be fired!" has been constant here ever since he took his job.

It's a bit amazing that no one here seems to know the story of the boy who cried wolf.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. If you want to worry about something, focus on the 2018 midterms.

If Trump fires Mueller and the backlash helps Democrats win majorities in the House and maybe even the Senate, the investigation will come back stronger than ever in the form of a Congressional investigation.

And if Republicans have a strong showing in November, you can pretty much bet that Mueller is gone, and then you can go back to counting down the days to the end of the republic.

[GulfCoast66]

14. Uh, no.

There will be elections next year. We may win a majority in the house, may not. Then elections in 2020. Same story.

Win elections, get the government you want.

[Iahotdog]

16. If trump thought he could get away with it he would have already done it

and I would bet Mr.Mueller has already has a plan in the works if he does.

[defacto7]

17. There's a pile of sealed grand jury indictments.

Mueller or no Mueller they aren't going away. It might slow things down a bit... or it could speed things up if there's a lot there that could be unsealed upon Mueller's exit.

I don’t think he's going anywhere. The GOP has too much to lose.

[L. Coyote]

18. The sky will fall. Count on it.

[treestar]

20. It's kind of amazing he exists in that Donnie Two Scoops

is in charge of the Justice Department. Seems this Republic has functioned on goodwill and people not lowering themselves for 240 years.

Then it would look really bad to try to stop an investigation, like admitting guilt and you are using your power to be above the law. But the scary thing is there seems to be no low Donnie will not go to and get away with.

[Iahotdog]

22. When Tricky Dick pulled that the whole country

went berserk,it was the beginning of the end for him.

[kentuck]

23. This is a very different time.

The country is much more divided, in my opinion. There are no Republicans that are ready to march over to the White House, as they did back then.

[Iahotdog]

24. 60 to 68% of the people in this country think this guys a joke

we can still scream pretty loud if we're provoked enough. Just my opinion.I think people in this country still believe in the rule of law.