Many people here are commenting that handwritten letters are taken more seriously. This is true.

Except... the provision for allowing the sale of insurance across state lines (as in Ochre Ogre’s health plan) is designed to undermine that power. Insurance companies flock to the states with the least regulation and soon you can’t buy a “New York State” health care policy any more.

I lived in Ithaca for two years, then again for five. Although it was a quarter century ago, I recommend it. Recreational opportunities abound, (beautiful lakes and gorges, boating, bicycling, hiking, state parks) and the political culture is very “alternative”(as in, not .alt)

I spent nearly a year in Mozambique, but never mastered more than “Obrigado”, which I had to learn because everyone was always helping me. I’m a typical American, I’m afraid.

You caught them all except “peole” (people).

Traditionally, presidents have been able to call on ex-presidents for advice and counsel. Who’s the Ochre Ogre going to turn to? GHW Bush? Hates him and is nearly dead. GW Bush? Hates him and is stupid. So that leaves WJ Clinton, whose wife Trump campaigned against, and BH Obama, who Trump slandered. Ironically, I…

What I absolutely LOVE about this statement is how he can’t even own that he turned on CNN to see how much attendance they were reporting.

“Maybe you second amendment people...”

Yes. I would not be surprised if he abolishes elections at some point before 2020.

I confidently predict we will have a war before the end of his first term. It seems to be standard procedure for recent Republican presidents, to make supporting their re-election the only patriotic option, but in his case it will more likely be an easily avoidable blunder that escalates into a military conflict to…

1) We can’t seem to ignore him, and

Calling the Ochre Ogre a “fucktard” is an insult to fucks. And ‘tards.

Someone on (Vice.com? Salon.com?) wrote a recollection of His Orangeness visiting the holocaust museum. It was about what you would expect. No interest in the subject, some interest in the presentation, but only when there were cameras.

Practicing chokeholds sounds like just the sort of thing a TrumpDude would do so he can touch other men.

My car, post müsen.

I think that’s nighttime with weird lighting, not winter. But yeah, marginal tread even for summer.

So then, the same impulses that make me a Democrat?

I agree with every political position you express here, yet I identify as a left wing democrat. How did you find yourself in the Republican party?

And maybe he wouldn’t have said “nuculur”. TWICE.

Nixon deployed other tactics as well: