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Carl Sandburg: “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”

Or, if you’re a right wing media provocateur seeing your president collapsing, attack the prosecutor. While it is possible Trump’s media supporters are preparing the ground for covering him if he fires Mueller my hunch is they’re arming up for an impeachment war they fear coming.

• Newt Gingrich on FOX last week: “Robert Mueller is corrupt. The senior FBI is corrupt. The system is corrupt.” [On May 17, 2017, Gingrich tweeted: “Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm down.”]
• Laura Ingraham: “What we’re seeing here is a pattern and practice of Mueller hiring known Clinton and Obama political insiders and boosters, supporters, to undo a presidential election.”
• Sean Hannity: “Mueller is frankly a disgrace to the American justice system and has put the country now on the brink of becoming a banana republic.”
• FOX host Greg Jarrett: “The Mueller investigation is illegitimate and corrupt. And Mueller has been using the FBI as a political weapon. And the FBI has become America’s secret police. … It’s like the old KGB.”
• Steve Doocy, FOX News anchor: “The people who are handling all of these sensitive investigations look like they’ve had their thumb on the scale of justice, tipping it toward Hillary and away from Donald Trump.”
• FOX Anchor Jeanine Pirro: “The stench coming out of the Justice Department and the FBI is like that of a third world country. It’s time to take them out in cuffs.”
• FOX commentator Michelle Malkin: “There has to be a root and branch removal of this cesspool of crap weasels that have infested the highest echelons of all of our law enforcement agencies.”
• More Hannity: “Robert Mueller’s partisan, extremely biased, hyper-partisan attack team – these Trump-hating investigators need to be shut down and shut down immediately.”

Carl Bernstein about FOX (on CNN): “They’re abetting a cover up.”

By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor

Something for the season. Everyone has a favorite selection from the Nutcracker. This is one of mine.

Enjoy the music, the dance, but most of all your day!

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By Blue Bronc, a Trail Mix Contributor

When did you decide to be straight? Did you know?

Sirius Radio and XM Radio were competitors in the early days of satellite radio. Due to cost and only so many people willing to pay to have radio in the middle of nowhere, or a lot of channels of talk and music, they were losing money and merged.  One of the channels was OutQ, the first LGBTQ radio channel that had more reach than local.

OutQ provided listeners with gay broadcasters, gay news and a place for LGBTQ people to have a station which confirmed they existed no matter where in the Northern Hemisphere they lived.  I bought Sirius just to listen, back in 2007.

I remember so many of the extremely few reports in the media of the channel as “Sirius XM is really going out on the ledge to allow them gays to have a radio channel”  That is 2007+.  At least now we have a lot more going for us.

Yeah, sure.  SiriusXM killed OutQ in early 2016.  So much for the gay channel.  Should have heard the excuses when I stopped.

But, to make the world feel better SiriusXM has hired Steve Bannon to bring a bit of the great white supremacist life to radio.  That is quite the trade off.  Open life versus hate and whites only.

So……..

It is time to get rid of SiriusXM completely.  I had already dumped off one radio due to the tossing of the gays overboard.  Now it is time to dump the  other radio for bringing in something that would be scrapped off the feedlot.  I no longer need satellite radio to drive across the country.  Cell phone coverage is getting much better now.

HUFFPOST: Seth Rogen won’t do SiriusXM press tour because of Steve Bannon

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Democrats hedged and stumbled but finally made it to the high ground regarding John Conyers and Al Franken. Republicans hedged and stumbled but finally made it to the low ground regarding Roy Moore.

Query: Did Democrats make a dumb move?

My take: No.

Zero tolerance of sexual misconduct is the right thing, but there’s also a pragmatic reason. The recently surprising race for governor of Virginia showed that suburban voters, especially women, in reddish counties are open to electing a Democrat. My guess is that across the country in 2018 a GOP party best known for Moore and Donald Trump will drive those swing voters, who are increasingly repulsed by the Republican brand, to the party on the high ground.

What’s your take?