Just me too!! I decided to make what I wanted because fuck the world. I get stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy. Also a bottle of white whine. While the stuffing sits and absorbs all the good time flavors, I’m taking my ass to go see Fantastic Beasts. It’s going to be the best! I’m honestly…

It’s similar to national polling. They call people around the country until they get their sample size (usually in the low thousands). Statistically, no one you or anyone you know would be asked because your odds of being asked are significantly less than 1% (probably closer to .001%). 3 - 5 thousand out of over…

It’s gone up, but it’s not great. Most first term presidents enter in the high fifties and low sixties. He can’t even crack 50%. The next few months will be the high mark for him. Historically, the approval rating starts to go down after the person is in office. His decision not to “go after” Clinton (as if that…

This is what kills me about the global reaction to the Syrian refugees. All of those people fleeing Syria are ISIS’s tax base. They are severely underfunded at the moment. One of their big recruitment draws was their ability to pay competitive wages. Now, that’s no longer the case. We should be welcoming them in.…

No one’s blaming the victims. Progressives are pointing out that it’s a vicious cycle that gets perpetuated over and over because we keep doing the same stupid shit. ISIS wants the West to crack down on Muslims because it feeds their ranks. If we are truly interested in stopping terrorism, we need to have an honest…

It should be required that all Americans learn about the internment of Japanese Americans. In addition, we should also teach kids that even after shoving them into camps and treating them like scum, Japanese American men actually volunteered serve in the military to defend their country. The 442 Regiment fought in the…

I mean, I hope he is. He clearly hates this more than anything. If the fate of the actual planet wasn’t at stake, I’d find it hysterical.

Serious question: do you think they would notice if he just stuck around a couple of weeks?

Not the president, his children. The intelligence community is—with good reason—cautious about who it extends security clearance to. He would have to make a case for his kids receiving security clearance, they just wouldn’t get it by virtue of the fact that he wants them to have it. They would have to be in an…

Flash of brilliance: what if his horrible children don’t get the necessary security clearance to receive classified info? (Not a stretch, they really shouldn’t). Then, he gets caught passing classified information to an unauthorized person? I think we might all die from irony overload.

I hate Pence as well, but I do believe that Pence would refuse to use nuclear weapons in the event of an attack. I am not so sanguine about Trump.

I vacillate between the two. Pence scares the ever living hell out of me for the reasons you mentioned. However, Trump is so fucking insular and narrow minded that he’s refusing to hire anyone who hasn’t been “loyal” to him. As a consequence, he’s alienated everyone in Washington with actual experience. My best case…

He’s going to pull a Palin. It’s a category 5 dumpster fire and it’s been a week. I honestly don’t think he has the fortitude for this. Should he somehow make it to the Inauguration, he’ll lose his shit the second the senate refuses to confirm his appointment (Rand Paul has already flat out stated that he’ll refuse to…

Good question. I suppose it would depend on what he did. If he can make the argument that he was pushed out due to elites, then maybe he can live his dream of a TV network. On the other hand, if he ends up in Leavenworth after being impeached, he’s fucked.

I’m not sure. I think unambiguous ties to Russia (as in, you can literally see the check, and it says To Trump, and the memo field is like “undermine the US”). I think no matter what it would have to be very clear cut corruption, something that he would clearly end up in federal prison over.

I can’t believe that sack of shit has reduced me to defending Christie, but fuck Kushner. Christie was doing his job. Kushner should reserve his anger for his father. Who are these fucking people?!?

My original theory was that he would get impeached 6 months in (give or take 3 months). My new theory is that he will quit before the inauguration.

My genuine hope is that the legislative branch takes over the majority of the governing. Yes, I realize the GOP controls both houses, but their collective idiocy is better than...whatever Trump’s doing.

Excellent! I lived for a time in eastern Washington state, so snow is not a totally foreign concept. The program I am applying for pretty competitive, so my fingers and toes are currently crossed (which honestly makes typing a bitch...)