1589

It’s crazy how naive people are sometimes.

1590

I’m pretty sure they will have no problems raising the debt ceiling to borrow for building more prisons.

1591

This seems to be a part of the GOP playbook now. When Hogan came into office he assigned a special liaison to our group who is here to make sure treat the industry we’re involved with fairly. This person has already been caught passing along draft and really early/evolving plans to the industry that have kicked up problems.

1592

Yeah, the wheels are already coming off, per those stories in New York Magazine the last couple of days.

1593

We’ve been downgraded to a “Flawed Democracy”, which certainly seems fair enough.

1594

You’ve seen the comparison photos of Obama’s and Trump’s inaugurations. One in seven. I wonder how that number might change as the indoctrination continues?

1595

America is fucked. We had a good run.

1596

I don’t think this is awful news. 85% of Trump voters are willing to accept clear facts even when they go against their political biases. It doesn’t take a lot of folks switching to get this bozo out of office.

1597

I read Juan’s post the other way.

1598

Yeah, I mean, it’s almost half the crazification factor, or a quarter if you look at the total population, which has to be a good thing.

1599


America First!

1600

To this day most of the US electorate could not tell you the origins of the 9/11 perpetrators. Most of them think Bin Laden was from Iraq.

1601

I have to admit even I didn’t think we’d hit this point by Day 6.

1602

God damn, I feel like I’m living in the neo-USSR or something.

1603

Maybe, before long, complete with complementary party organizations for every level of government.

1604

Well, the sooner he makes a show of trying to meet each of his campaign promises (eta week 2), the sooner he can pull the old “Mission Accomplished” banner out of storage and fly it high when he throws himself a retirement party, resigns, and lets Pence take over; walking into the sunset as the most accomplished president ever.

1605

Lysenko’s fetid corpse shifts, maggots spilling from empty eye sockets, and on his skull there appears what you might imagine to be a smile.

1606

Trumpmerica 2017: so named because we’re burning this bitch to a cinder before we’d need to change the last digit.

I’m waiting for a complementary* CFC-filled spray can of faux hair for every man woman and child.

* Requires mandatory $500 donation

1607

USA is turbofucked.

I never consider thing where going to become this bad.

1608

People will start to leak leak leak as soon as this stuff starts. It’s one of the signs of a functioning democracy. Won’t be long before Wikileaks gets some stuff on Trump, I suspect. If not them then others will get it. The question is whether there are enough GOP senators with a sense of decency and duty that will recognize what’s happening and intercede. I suspect they will, but not until significant damage is done. So far, they haven’t done much more than start implementing the policies they’ve been harping about for years.