No, I haven't given up on politics

[drwex]

Instead, I've just gotten used to the daily ravings of the dumpster fire in Washington, by which I include the entirely awful Republicans in Congress(*) as well as in the White House and installed at the tops of various Federal agencies.

Also, people who are smarter and more knowledgeable than I am keep writing things better than I would write. Here, for example, are two very concise lawsplainers from Ken White on Popehat about the first real legal moves in the ongoing Mueller investigation.

https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/30/lawsplainer-the-george-papadopoulos-guilty-plea/
https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/30/lawsplainer-the-manafortgates-indictment/

Treason's Greetings, folks, and may we all have a Merry Indictmas this year.

(*) Interesting thing - Trump and the Senate have sucked nearly all the air out of the room. When was the last time you read a story on something in the House that had substance other than "House rubber-stamps the latest horror show"? I can't recall and it's a delicious irony that people who've worked so hard to puff themselves up in importance have now faded to a sideshow. That's what you get for hitching your wagon to a cult of personality - there's no room in the spotlight for anyone other than the Dear Leader.

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You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[c1]

You keep on using the expression "dumpster fire." I feel compelled to redirect you, because there are far better and far more accurate metaphors.

In practice, dumpster fires are very tiny fish. To start with, they're the canonical example of "self contained" by their very nature -- five sides are made of steel, which doesn't burn under most circumstances. 99.999% of the time, the fire department comes along, dumps a bunch of water into the dumpster, pokes around to make sure the fire is well and truly out, and then heads back to the station. I've not heard of a dumpster fire occupying more than ten minutes of an engine company's time in something approximating forever. And while I've been toned out to many house fires, I've never been toned out to a dumpster fire. Seriously, a car fire takes more time -- and I've been toned out to those.

Maybe "all encompassing shit storm", "slow motion train wreck", "runaway hazmat incident" or something like that?

Re: You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[drwex]

LOL. OK, fair enough. it has the advantages of not being profane and being concise. But I do like the "runaway hazmat incident" metaphor.