Yup. As the ScarJo joke goes, they are all "Complicit". I find it a little weird (and sexist?) that there's always a desire to give the ladies a pass. Does that work for Spicer, Uday and Qusay, Bannon, or Rex? They all chose to be there. Tiffany gets a pass because she's not in on it.

That works for episodes of Dexter or Girls, but I have an actual interest in figuring out what people care about in terms of politics (or what passes for it).

But, they can. Their base is not demanding - so this carnival act works well enough. Trump could literally shoot up Congress and then shoot himself and the narrative would be that the liberal media made him do it. It would play, because anything does.

Except he's literally done this for decades. He's a horrible man and he continues to be horrible. The only difference, I guess, is that he continued to be horrible as President. I don't know why anyone expected an undisciplined piece of shit to develop discretion and kindness in his 70s, though.

Yes. But that would require him to expend actual effort at the job. Trump can do three things:

It's hard to benefit from nepotism otherwise. Jeez, don't you know anything?

Pray for his cancer or heart attack. It's the best path forward.

I'm confident that the line will be, "The President is a man of faith. It's unfair for the left to criticize him on matters of belief… yadda yadda yadda."

The problem: it doesn't matter if they're hypocritical. They've created a perfect narrative where no logic, evidence, or contradiction can stop them.

Nah. She got in on the gig knowingly, trading on her daddy's reputation. Fuck her.

While I sincerely loathe Trump, I'm not really sure why the Mika/Twitter story is getting so much play. Isn't this basically who the guy is, all the time? I hate it and I wish cancer on him, but it doesn't seem like he crossed a new boundary. What am I missing?

Yup. The disenchanted working class and poor need to be heard. The actual deplorables? Fuck em. I hope they get the plague.

That would be the best comeuppance to him - to invalidate him with his own version of the "No Homers Club". For the final punch, we should elect another dude named Donald next (or ideally a woman, but that's an awful name).

But, emails! Giant douche and turd sandwich, amirite?!

And… Reagan was awful, but he's worse! I've talked to a friend about the long-term impact of Trump. To me, the worst thing is he's assailing any and all notions of what rules and principles look like. And that's why we should perform the democratic equivalent of the French Revolution on his Congress and base. No…

But, they're not all bad people!!!! J/k. They're awful. Anyone supporting him is a horrible human and I hope to have no association with them at any point in the future, extending into possible afterlives.

I assume you mean, "Let him live in Fox News." And, yes, that's the best remedy. Let's ship him there, let all of the FNC fans have their own world, and never speak to any of them ever again.

Good point. I thought Rothko was a stupid scam artist until I saw Red. I saw pieces and disregarded him entirely.

The evidence suggests its likely. Though Trump feels more like a Vonnegut villain than a Dick one.

Maybe the ones you know. The ones I know haven't actually determined whether they like TV or not. They have decided to stop watching TV because of how it was in the 1980s and 1990s.