In over his head or no, I think Reince Priebus is enough of a party loyalist that he is judiciously making sure Pence is kept out of the loop on all of the treasonous and highly illegal things to make sure the fantasy scenario above does not happen. I gotta assume from Day 1 the Republicans have been making…

Pence is horrible, but he at least has enough political instincts that it somewhat moderate his horribleness (not very much, but still). Trump’s only standard of judgment is Trump. “Does this policy negatively impact me?” “No? Sure, I’ll sign it.” “Does this policy directly benefit me?” “Yes? I will sign it.” He does…

Kiefer Sutherland was actually born in England, so Trump’s America First imperial fantasies will have to progress pretty far before you can claim his birthplace as American soil. But good instincts, since 95% of the Canadian population lives within, like, 100 km of the American border (because frozen wasteland)

Trump very obviously feels the same way about women. The fact that he really likes his daughter (and only one of them, I might add) was somehow brought up as evidence that he’s not a misogynist predator, despite all evidence to the contrary. If he couldn’t find at least one or two women he could grudgingly respect,…

I love that he thinks that his daughter converting to Judaism and having kids somehow makes him immune to accusations of anti-semitism. Lots of high level Nazis, for example Eichmann, had Jewish friends and lovers they considered to be “good jews” - the problem was what they did, not who they ate dinner with.

I think when she says that shit, it’s simultaneously manipulation and shade. It’s manipulation because a chorus of voices from his campaign and administration, including Conway, on the record, have made it clear that the way to get ahead in Trump’s crew is to lavish him with praise, and the only way to really make…

Trump has made statements that make it clear he believes elected representatives only represent the people who voted for them, and anyone else in their district is supposed to just shut up and get out of the way and let the “winners” do whatever they want until the next election. He truly does not understand how…

Trump is 6'4" in the same way he won by a landslide and has a net worth of 10 billion dollars. That’s just something he said because he thinks it makes him more impressive. And I don’t even think he claims to be that tall anymore - I’m pretty sure it got downgraded to 6'1" or 6'2" with the advent of constant candid…

Please forgive my ignorance, because I’m not from the US - but is the end game for the Republicans’ constant focus on “state’s rights” the elimination of the federal government? Like, is the Republican party’s goal, ironically, the end of the Republic? Because it seems to me that if the federal government is saying…

You’re totally right. I went to school with a couple of people who had abusive and sociopathic parents, and I went out of my way to mock and punish them, because it seemed to be the right thing to do, given that they chose to be born to parents like that, and they were already suffering constant abuse, so what…

Money confused the hell out of me as a child, but I really started to figure out the more concrete landmarks of class and affluence once I reached school and was interacting with a wider cross-section of children, but particularly when we got old enough to start getting input into the clothing we were wearing.

I suspect all of the candidates except the crazy ones insisted on having their own staff, and that Trump and co are just saying yes, knowing this guy can’t quit when they back out after-the-fact. They told Tillerson he could pick his own staff and then reneged.

It’s been fascinating seeing all of the, fairly uniform, reports that Flynn used to be a fairly reasonable guy who seemingly just went off the rails and became a conspiracy theorist within the past five or six years. I’ve seen many reports from military people saying they used to know Flynn and they don’t understand…

Save the fact that this guy has such a good reputation, and Trump and co. such a shitty one, that I’m pretty sure if shit goes sideways people will assume it was Bannon not letting this guy do his job.

It’s frustrating, but they can’t comment until they have more information so that whoever did it isn’t able to defend themselves in court saying they were railroaded and the police had already made up their minds before they were caught, the trial has already been tainted in the court of public opinion because of…

It’s frustrating, but they can’t comment until they have more information so that whoever did it isn’t able to defend themselves in court saying they were railroaded and the police had already made up their minds before they were caught, the trial has already been tainted in the court of public opinion because of…

I love, reading all of the chatter on this appointment that, we’ve reached the point where people feel the need to explicitly specify that a person is “not insane,” when discussing the qualities and qualifications of Trump’s appointees. The bar has plummeted pretty low, very fast.

That’s the face of a man who was put up against the ropes by the eminently qualified Harward’s refusal to take the job, and ended up having to hire a guy who - to quote David Frum - literally wrote a book about the importance of standing up to bad civilian leadership. This is not the sort of person Trump wanted in the…

If you’ve spent more than a year complaining about rampant sexism and sexual harassment and the only result has been more abuse and to have your performance review retroactively downgraded, I don’t think anyone would consider your eventual departure to be of your own volition. I think any decent lawyer would point to…

Let’s not be unreasonable: even sociopaths have to eat, shower, work out, and go to the bathroom.