P.S. Revenge for Hillary being cheated gets you: nowhere. Imagine if she had won the electoral, it would have been almost nearly as bad a time as we are having now if she had won the Electoral but with the same Congress and Trump out there tweeting to his fans. She'd basically be powerless with constant attacks from the right and extreme obstruction from Congress.

He's not going away even if impeached. And if he had never been inaugurated she couldn't have done much of what she promised, spending her time on trying to get a different Congress with rhetorical counter attacks. The discord and distress could actually have been worse than it is now. Maybe more help from governors and the few moderate Republicans in tamping down shit like screwing up Obamacare via a tax bill. Maybe more help from the Goldman Sachs wing. But nothing like what she was hoping to do.

Getting the Russia trolls out of the news business worldwide, now that's something she might have been able to do in the meantime.

More what I'm referring to is what Palmer notes re: SNL:

 Trump who knows the end is near thanks to Michael Flynn, and it was hilarious. But what struck me most about this particular episode of SNL was one moment during Weekend Update in which Michael Che said what we’re all now thinking about Trump.

The short of it is that after Flynn cut a deal to sell out Donald Trump in the Russia scandal, the Republican Senate frantically passed a half finished and absurdly sloppy tax scam bill for the wealthy. It didn’t want to wait one more day to regroup and try to pass this thing with more coherency. Why? Because, in the words of Che, “they know.”

Based on publicly available evidence, we already know that Flynn has enough dirt to take Trump and his cohorts down. But the Republicans in the Senate know more. Some of them sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Some of them have seen high level classified evidence about the Trump-Russia scandal. They know what Trump did. They know who can rat him out in ways that will destroy him. And now that Flynn has decided to indeed rat him out, they’re trying to finish the job on behalf of their wealthy donors as quickly as they possibly can.

The Republicans in Congress know that Donald Trump is a goner. They know it more thoroughly, and more convincingly, than we do. They know that Michael Flynn was the linchpin all along. Once their tax scam is fully in the bag, they’ll no longer have any motivation to try to keep propping up his dying presidency. In fact they’ll have motivation to try to move on without him, because they know he’s toast anyway.

To keep the clock ticking, Mueller met with McGahn on Thursday. That's another vat of background skinny to behold. Plus tied to the "stopped watch might be interesting once or twice a day, Louise Mensch reminds that Nunes was on Trump's transition team.  Why so interesting? Because once it was scandalous that that team was "inadvertantly" surveilled. With Manafort and Flynn both in the "guilty" realm, it's now a question of "what else was picked up in these taps?" And Nunes leads into the heart of Congress. No wonder they're spinning their awful legislation as quick as they can.