> I really don't see how you can include the Russia investigation on that list. I really don't see how you wouldn't. "Russia" investigation I think includes no

> I really don't see how you can include the Russia investigation on that list. I really don't see how you wouldn't. "Russia" investigation I think includes not just the investigation itself but the insinuations and rumors around it. The time and money spent talking about it, writing about it and so on. It started with the Russians hacked our elections idea. As in KGB agents in the bushes in Wisconsin with laptops twiddling bits on voting machines. Remember the Stein's recount. /r/politics was abuzz with everyone sure how it will be discovered and Trump will swap places with Hillary next Tuesday. https://patch.com/michigan/detroit/hillary-clinton-could-still-win-2016-presidential-election https://patch.com/michigan/detroit/hillary-clinton-could-sti... except in the end it gave Trump 3 more votes. Then it went to Trump colluded with Putin. And how at the G20 they were exchanging secret coded hand gestures between them: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/07/20/trump-appears-to-gesture-at-putin-orig-tc.cnn https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/07/20/trump-appears... Then Comey's hearing. People took the day off to watch Trump's collusion being exposed. /r/politics talked about him being impeached next Tuesday again. It turns out that Trump was mean to Comey and nothing else happened. Then it was the piss "dossier". That surely would impeach him next Tuesday after it came out. Except that it didn't. Notice how the goal post keeps moving every time and how it's always "next Tuesday" when the impeachment is coming. This is not unlike the doomsday cults where the day comes and then you'd think, finally the followers will see it was a scam and go home. But in a counter-intuitive way many stay and become even more zealous. In the end some Russians were indicted because they were internet trolls. Half supported Trump while others supported BLM, Muslims for America, Bernie Sanders and Hillary. Even organized an anti-Trump protest in New York. I was invited and almost attended that one. It's sure good thing to catch those and worth a few weeks of reporting, but not a whole a year of hysteria? Didn't all the media companies, the blogs and the journalists who should have known better play into the Russians plan to destabilize and demoralize the country. It looks like they did. Did they "collude" as well perhaps? Are they secret agents, maybe? (/s) The saddest part is really the opportunity cost. Some were working on fixing the DNC, there is effort in flipping some legislative seats in Congress with good results. But a lot more could have been done had the effort not been wasted on the "Russians".