Yes, exactly! Even Betsy Devos acknowledges that education should *exist*. Even Jeff Sessions acknowledges that law enforcement should still take place.

Relatively compared to what? A lot of people were worried that Trump would pick someone like John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani for the job, but Tillerson is basically doing the horrible things that people were afraid that Bolton would have done if he had been SOS.

People have been calling him sane since the appointment was announced, and a lot of people even argued that Tillerson, McMaster, and Mattis were the big three keeping foreign policy from imploding. Nothing against the latter too, but Tillerson has revealed himself to be way, way out of his depth and completely…

I don’t think Tillerson is as sane as you think he is.

Tillerson was awful. He’s been systematically dismantled the State Department for months, to the point where retired senior staff members have cried foul from the past three administrations have cried foul. Even top Republicans like Bob Corker are sick of this stuff, to the point where Corker admittedly recently that…

I hope she hasn’t gone the way of Louise Mensch.

My theory — Chuck and Nancy owned him so hard during the last meeting over the debt ceiling that he was scared to face them again. He needs his Republicans only safe space.

Damn, those footnotes always get me.

The best part is that this plan to unite the US and UK will only last for a maximum of 8 years even if everything works perfectly.

Real life might as well be a TV show. Melania and Tiffany could go public with their torrid affair tomorrow and it would just get the same confused shrug from most people that everything else does these days. It might not even make the news if there’s something else more insane going on, which there will be. At most…

To be fair to them, the top right wing journalist to these people is Sean Hannity, who routinely has unvetted sources spouting off random nonsense. It probably doesn’t occur to them that most journalists have more attention to detail than this.

That’s what bothers me about this. The same logic that says that Franken should be exempt because he’s useful to the cause is the same logic that compelled people to protect Weinstein and Bill O’Reilly and so many others. It’s no different than saying, “he’s a genius” or “he makes us a ton of money” or “he’s a loyal…

That’s fair, but tenure shouldn’t be the only measure.

Oh please. They can swap him out for someone else (another Democrat) at the next recess without losing any power.

No one should be held to the abysmally low moral standards of the Alabama Republican Party. Everyone needs to be better than them.

Chelsea does have prior experience in the role.

1. Ewwwww

IIRC she is an unpaid special adviser to the President with an office in the White House. She isn’t even claiming to just be someone who talks to her father; she actually works there.

Anyone who faked enthusiasm would be caught immediately as a pretender. Melania’s antipathy is part of why she’s convincing; no one really likes Trump so anyone who claims to is instantly suspicious.

What do you mean?