They can’t pass anything in the House of Representatives even with leadership support. They only need a simple majority but they can’t get that because of the Freedom Caucus.

Sure, we can do that fifteen years from now. Good luck, Joe.

True, but I kind of feel like nominating psychopaths is like playing Russian roulette with the entire country. Yeah, OK, it might work out but why risk it??

I love how Jeff Sessions basically spends half of his day plotting to rip apart minorities and immigrants and the other half of his day patiently explaining to conservative wingnuts that he can’t actually turn the US Department of Justice into the research wing of “InfoWars”.

Do you think that he dates human women? I always assumed that his species reproduces by stunning other creatures and laying eggs in them before they wake up. It’s more of a quantity vs quality strategy.

Someone should tell Don Jr that he doesn’t have to sleep with Kimberly Guilfoyle to get good press from Fox News. Based on Hannity’s fawning coverage of Trump and frequent late night chats, Daddy is already taking care of business.

Jezebel should interview that one other woman who was apparently attending their date as a third wheel. What was it like to try and talk to Don and Kim while they were all over each other? Did she even try? Or did she just sit there, in resolute silence, staring intently at her plate while trying not to see or hear…

Plus, it’s like a thousand degrees outside. Wearing a jacket at all wasn’t really a good idea. They can’t even use the excuse that she just grabbed a random jacket without looking at it.

He doesn’t coordinate with his own press team; why would he coordinate with Melania’s people??

My rule of thumb; if someone says something like, “your argument is invalid because you’re a whore”, then they are not a nice person. It almost doesn’t matter what else they said.

I always feel bad when I read about the music streaming industry. On one hand, I do think artists deserve to be paid more for their work. On the other hand, I really, really don’t want to live in a world where I need four or five separate music streaming services to follow all of my favorite artists because they each…

Trump didn’t hypnotize them. These themes have even part of the right wing bubble for decades. If anything, they indoctrinated Trump.

What other current targets? The Clinton obsession has been preoccupying the right wing since the mid 1990s. They can’t move on because if they do they’ll have to spend time trying to defend Trump which is increasingly difficult.

I’ve always been skeptical of Robin Hood narratives. Typically, as you noted, when you peel back the layers the damage usually goes well beyond the super rich and hits a lot of people who really can’t afford the loss. Trump scammed a lot of rich investors and banks, who could take the hit, but he also screwed over a…

They presumably can leave after serving their time in federal prison after being convicted of illegal entry. The challenge with that is that kids can’t be incarcerated with them, for reasons I hope are obvious, and once the parents serve their sentences they still have to find their children — who could be anywhere —…

Grifters are so cute and funny and charming right up until the point where they steal billions of dollars or dump poison into the environment or start separating children from their parents. The key is moderation, I think; figuring out the fine line between reading about one in a news article and then moving on vs.…

One thing about the Trump Administration — an inimitable sense of humor.

DC already has a lot of those programs. It struggles to keep up in part because the housing market there is artificially constrained due to really tough zoning rules that make building affordable multi family housing extremely difficult in large chunks of the city. Ironically, a big part of the reason for that is…

The Italians turned the boat away before Spain agreed to take them in. They had no idea if the people on the boat would be okay and they didn’t care what happened to them.

I agree, that’s definitely going to be tricky politics. While the attention rightly is on the Trump Administration’s abusers right now, it’s improtant to remember that many if not most countries mistreat migrants and refugees. If anything, you could even argue that the US’s detention policies are marginally better…