The ship is sinking, the rats are scrambling

Charles Pierce:

...Let us sum up, shall we? We have a deeply corrupt and incompetent president, who’s never been entirely on the rails, sensing quite accurately that he’s very close to being run to ground by a prosecutor he can’t bully or bribe out of his way. And as the ship continues to list, the traffic down the ratlines is getting awfully heavy...

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