The President publicly announcing a new policy, then making zero effort to implement it is insane and permanently damaging to the office. I mean, this policy was stupid and bad and shouldn't be implemented, but imagine you were reading about something like this in a third world country—the head of state announcing a…

Also, Russia has responded to Congress etching the Russia sanctions in stone by passing new sanctions against the US embassy, which resulted in over 700 US embassy workers being asked to leave.

International news: Voting for the Constitutional Assembly happened in Venezuela was today. It did not go well. Opposition protests were out in full force, blocking roads to polling sites. Polling centers in opposition centers were basically deserted, while Socialist strongholds had lines going around the block. Nine…

Trump has gone golfing over 40 times in six months.

Unite with the Night King to do what? Kill Cersei? That makes no sense!

When Tyrion was with the Lannisters, he was pretty on the ball.

Elvis was killed by a crossbow?

I was the one that pooped in the pillows!

Not much in the South, though

For a freshman Senator, Harris is skyrocketing. Maybe not Obama in 2004 levels, but comparable I would say. She could start building a national base by becoming a surrogate for some 2018 midterm candidates, and she'd be a force to be reckoned with.

Priebus privately accused Scarramuci of being corrupt and offering to sell White House influence to Chinese investors. But I guess he didn't swear when he did it, so Scaramucci wins.

To be fair, "tax reform" probably just means "lower taxes." Replacing existing numbers with smaller numbers seems manageable.

Yeah, people need to accept that he's never going to get 0% approval, or that the Russia story will ever transcend politics. Majorities win elections, don't worry about consensus.

I've never watched Power, but it's pretty well agreed that 50 Cent is a terrible actor. Unless he's demanding skulls.

Fetishizing black bodies.

Yeah, rumor is that McConnell doesn't care for Trump's attempts to tell the Senate what to do or how to do it. McConnell has managed to stay clear of the Trump vortex so far, so it's probably safe to just ignore anything Trump says about the Senate,

So, he's basically Mike from Breaking Bad, but as a lame supervillian?

Trump is blaming the failure of the healthcare bill on the filibuster, which was not used, and the bill failed on a vote of 49-51. I assume this isn't Trump being an idiot, but instead that Trump is assuming we're idiots, and is trying to lay the groundwork to nuke the filibuster.

Trump lied to McMaster and Tilerson about how much authority they would have.

Most profiles on his corporate management style indicate he likes having underlings competing against each other for his approval.