It’s funny, because that’s the same damn day the Confederacy won the bleedin’, bloomin’ Civil War.

Fight on. People got married and had kids in Germany when you-know-who was in charge. Affirm the human race. Move forward.

My heart breaks for my kids. As for my own crushed dreams of democracy, oh well. Fascism happens. It has happened to millions upon millions of other humans in other countries and other times, and now some form of it has happened to us. I guess I get to give up my dreams of knitting and become a little old lady…

I think McCain is going for what has always been his winning formula with the Beltway political press.

Actually, with O’Reilly “Stand Your Ground” tends to work the other way around. Back in the day, he led a national propaganda campaign against Dr. George Tiller, one of only a handful of physicians in America who offered support to women needing late term abortions because of previously undiagnosed catastrophic…

I am suffering the fate all people suffer when they make movie metaphors: one gets beaten to death with one’s failure to have evoked a different cliche. Gah.

Not quite so. The ties between the fossil fuel industry and the Republicans are deep and complicated and pervasive, and most of the dirty money flows into Republican pockets.

Point taken, and it’s an important point, despite the fact that Republicans have been in control of Congress and most of the states throughout this whole tragedy. Democrats have been silent, and Obama never did use that much-touted ‘bully pulpit’ and the press continues to treat Standing Rock like an irrelevancy.

But the South has always had all the style. In the North it was just women in rollers, screaming at terrified little kids as they got off a school bus (remembering Boston and the attempt to desegregate the schools). In the South, it was the whole way of life; those long, lazy nights, those coded, genteel expressions,…

It’s painfully true that Obama has not shown courage on this one. I can’t even imagine what’s stopping him, now that the election has been lost and you’d think there’s nothing left to lose.

This is actually an incredibly bastardly thing to do. The more I think about it, the more bastardly it seems. Whether or not they have the stones to admit it, Ace corporate has picked sides, and the side they picked is the side that’s spraying human beings with fire hoses in bitterly cold weather.

Why would anybody wait 30 or 40 years? Steve Bannon is already there, although Giuliani and even Conway will probably end up as mere footnotes, afterthoughts—malignant little thugs in service to the regime.

Yeah, the inauguration is going to be ugly, although not nearly as ugly as living in a fascist country for the next 20 or 30 years is going to be.

It’s the Times. Take it with a grain of salt.

The assault on the legitimacy of Clinton’s popular vote majority almost certainly isn’t merely the old orange loon lashing out: it has its practical side as well, its Team Bannon reverberation.

Assuming the reason they went in there looking for delicious, wholesome cheese at that hour is that they were stoned and had the random munchies, they could easily lose track of time in a CVS as well.

I think she’s a genuinely evil human being. There’s nothing in her history, at any rate, to suggest she’s not.

So much this. Upon realizing the Yanquis had—with a little help from the Russians—elected (ahem) themselves a vicious strongman thug who takes his geopolitical ‘advice’ direct from Moscow, he fell about laughing until he drew his last breath in this world. He may still be laughing in the next.

I can’t get past the fact that CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker, an odious little man hated and feared by every lowly underling who has ever had the bad fortune to work for him, is a personal friend of Donald’s.