Why doesn't McCain - or Trump - salivate like this over other mass killings?  And make no mistake, there's a whole lotta salivatin' goin' on here.

I don't think he has an Edward Norton, Kathrine Heigl reputation of being horrible to work with, I just think he's rubbed some people the wrong way and that's part of why some in Hollywood are lashing out at him.

How we shouldn't believe the victim since he didn't speak up back in 1986 and that makes him somehow personally responsible for every bad thing that Kevin Spacey has done ever since...
...Isn't that more or less what you've said about every other case?

Since that's not what I've said about every case (certainly not this one) you made a straw man argument.

In comment after comment, you routinely go after the woman's credibility, motives and agenda.

I understand, if I suggest there might be more to a story involving an alleged female victim, I must hate women.  If I say something about a cop accused of a crime, I'm a cop lover/black person hater.  People like you, see what you want to see.

The bad news is this guilty plea, for false statements, by campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, signed on October 5, but only unsealed today. That plea makes it clear that 1) the campaign had, as an explicit goal, making friends with Russia 2) a month and a half before the June 9 Trump Tower meeting, Russian handlers dangled the stolen Hillary emails 3) Papadopoulos has cooperated beyond what has been laid out in the guilty plea.

As the plea lays out, Papadopoulos learned in early March he'd be a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign. Within weeks, a professor fresh off a trip to Moscow started cultivating him, and introduced him to a woman pretending to be Vladimir Putin's niece. After meeting that handler, Papadopoulos attended a meeting with Trump and others where he explained "he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin." The plea makes clear that Papadopoulos kept the campaign in the loop on his "outreach to Russia."

And it makes it clear that on April 26 -- three days before the DNC figured out Russia had hacked them -- Papadopoulos' handler told him Moscow had dirt on clinton.

After learning the Russians had emails on Clinton even before Clinton learned it, Papadopoulos "continued to correspond with Campaign officials," including his Senior Policy Advisor and a High-Ranking Campaign Official. (One of these may be Manafort; another almost certainly is Jeff Sessions.)

In response, the campaign decided to send someone low level "so as not to send any signal."

It turns out, Papadopoulos lied about some of this the first time he spoke with the FBI about it on January 27. For example, he claimed he learned about the emails before he joined the campaign, trying to pretend that he didn't learn about them only because he had just been named a top advisor.

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My favorite part of the plea is the last paragraph:

   On July 27, 2017, defendant PAPADOPOULOS was arrested upon his arrival at Dulles International Airport. Following his arrest, defendant PAPADOPOULOS met with the Government on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.

I'm betting the FBI asked him about this detail, from a March 31 meeting.

   On or about March 31, 2016, defendant PAPADOPOULOS attended a "national security meeting" in Washington, D.C., with then-candidate Trump and other foreign policy advisors for the Campaign. When defendant PAPADOPOULOS introduced himself to the group, he stated, in sum and substance, that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin.

And there's even a photo.

I just fail to see how it can be a bad thing to keep people energized, active, interested and engaged in the process to work for the kinds of changes we badly need.  It has led to more people deciding to run for public office.  It has encouraged people to hold their elected representatives accountable.

Bernie didn't say people weren't paying attention, he said he didn't think people were worrying about it, which is not the same thing.

And is your problem with Sanders' message or that he is the messenger?

I'm more worried about those victimized daily by an unnecessarily cruel and unusual economic system, immigration system, justice system, health care system. Worry about myself?  My lifestyle would indicate I'm not all that worried about myself;)  

I mean c'mon Towanda...when Bernie was speaking of the undue influence of domestic big money on our elections and policies his detractors said shut up and deal, it's the way it is.  Now those same detractors are up in arms about Russian influence.  Robert Mercer, the Kremlin, the Kochs, the powerful lobbies...what's the difference when they're all about usurping the power of the people of these United States.  None have the interests of the ordinary American at heart, only their own.  

Russian collusion with the Trump campaign is under investigation, and it will take sometime to complete. Soap opera updates every day/hour/minute aren't helping anyone as far as I can tell, or changing any minds.

I feel like I am in a similar place in life as you are - although I am still working for the next year: kids with children of their own, paying a good deal of their income for health insurance and child care, trying to inch ahead faster than the costs that could sink them.

On some level, they know what's happening with Russia and Trump has meaning to the future and direction of the country, as do all the policies being put into place, but what mental energy they have is spent on managing the chaos of little children, household finances and the ever-present work/life balance.

Sanders speaks to the issues that keep young families - and us older folk - awake at night.  He keeps those issues in the spotlight, and as near as I can tell, isn't selling us down the river when no one's watching.  He didn't grow up with money, he knows what struggle looks and feels like, and these basic life issues have been his thing for decades, so I have no idea why, as a person approaching his 80's he should be excoriated for being a "millionaire."