Well if all this is true, I guess there was a conspiracy all right...they just got the players all wrong.

So not shocked by the fact that there was something to even barter with in the first place from the supposedly squeaky clean Obama administration?

Maybe you missed the dossier, but this is what politics have become these days.  It really doesn't matter who started it, you're either for it or against it regardless of who is involved.

If by some miracle Trump gets impeached, there's zero chance of a Democrat winning.  Republicans will vote in numbers never seen for whoever it is (probably Pence) and the Democrats will wonder why they didn't just let Trump actually fuck up before trying to impeach him over and over again.

The reason we don't have a viable solution to climate change is that the powers that be don't want one.  They are making a killing selling the fairy tale that's changed from global cooling to global warming to climate change in my lifetime (or maybe just before).  Most the things that were predicted by the science experts happened, but nowhere near to the extent that was predicted.  Cities aren't under water.  The world isn't doomed (yet).  Very few people don't think climate change is real; what people don't believe is all of the doomsday scenarios that keep getting thrown out and never happen.  They also don't agree with the "why" the climate is changing.  Those are reasonable doubts to have, but the left automatically dismiss them as stupid or not listening to science.