This is a pure spin game being played, quite effectively, by the wily McConnell, demonstrating that if the water is hot enough even a turtle can move right quickly.

This didn’t happen overnight, it’s been happening since 1980—even before, really, going back to Phyllis Schlafly’s dark-money-funded attack on the Equal Rights Amendment, which presented a bizarre, Kochs’-eye vision of manly men being unmanned by manly women.

So what does the guy’s new CNN contract look like? I mean, I’m assuming Jeff Zucker has the same kind of deal for him that he had for Corey Lewandowski back when old Corey got into a small spot of trouble for roughing up a woman.

I’ve always been a gentle soul, but I find myself having quite bloodthirsty thoughts nowadays, as I contemplate what these bastards have done to us all.

I see in a lot of newspaper comment sections in these already-routine stories about Donald’s unprecedented tsunami of pre-inaugural corruption, that Donald’s voters are responding to every new outrage by resorting to the oldest dodge in the Donald playbook: whining about how the press keeps harping on Donald.

For yea, verily, I say unto you, The Blacks are the real racists.

The faithless electors won’t save us, but they deserve credit for refusing to cast their lot in with the old fascist, and we should be talking about them all the damn time,and praising them to the skies, even if they carry on like loons or cast their vote for that idiot Kasich.

Read Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. She’s a good journalist, and offers as close to a rational explanation for all this that I’ve seen.

The fact that Armstrong Williams is vouching for Dr. Carson just makes it all so much the better. DonaldWorld is a grifter’s paradise, and Armstrong is a champion grifter. Is it too early to start the day’s drinking?

I’m old. I was alive when Kennedy was assassinated. I remember when American men and women were murdered in the American South because they had taken a stand for human rights. I was young when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King were assassinated. I lived through the protests and riots of the 1960s. I saw the West Side of…

I don’t see how this ends well in a Court in which John Roberts is chief justice and a man like Samuel Alito even exists at all. Kennedy is a coward, and Thomas is a tool, and who knows what an aging and increasingly curiously petulant Stephen Breyer is going to do?

I don’t know what they can be thinking. It’s so curiously protective of Conway at the expense of comedy as well as of reality itself that it doesn’t make any sense as a creative decision, although I suppose as a corporate/political decision it has its own logic—there are some people you just don’t want to risk…

I can hardly watch SNL because McKinnon gets Conway so, so wrong—you can’t make a funny, oddly charming, reality-grounded silk purse out of an icy-blooded fascist sow’s ear, and yet McKinnon keeps trying to pull it off.

Yet the New York Times and Joe Scarborough keep telling me that the reason these people are so utterly vile is because people like me say mean things about them.

You vote for Jack Smurch, you shouldn’t be surprised when you end up with Jack Smurch.

Some Freds are, I assume, good people.

Also a lot of them, including a lot of the worst of them, get there through inheritance (between 40 and 50%, by some estimates).

“...it certainly does make a person want to dig a hole in the ground and climb in.”

He’s not smart enough to be scared.

Remember, Godwin himself says it’s okay to break Godwin’s law (which is not an actual “law,” and the breaking of which involves no actual fines or prison time):