Maybe. Not right now. But republicans have a way of falling in line when the pressure’s put on them. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the Freedom Caucus caves, or at least enough of them to put it over the top in the House.

Celebrities: They’re Just Like Us!

Can’t we just remember you as Sam on The West Wing? Why spoil golden memories with Bigfoot-chasing?

The Jill Sobule song? Same title, different song entirely.

Dumb man with persecution complex makes dumb historical analogy, news at 11.

Again, I must confess, here deep in this thread, that I’m as uncertain and afraid as you are. And that a certain amount of my ledge-downtalking is aimed at myself.

“Eternal General, Donald Trump, Who Descended from Heaven with Technological Hair of Spun Gold.”

Breaking: Donald Trump to receive “Extremely Handsome, Great Taste and Not At All A Con Man Award” from group funded by Donald Trump.

I enjoyed the chat, too! Thanks for that.

Exactly! Until this year we thought of Baghdad Bob as a laughable foreign thing. These chuckleheads have showed us otherwise.

I guess... be prepared to think of yourself as part of a team, and to make choices based on what’s best for the team, and not necessarily yourself.

Yes, absolutely right, I’m in NYC. We’re going to be fine. We’ll be the last beacon of anti-Trump sentiment outside of California, should the world go dark. He’s from here, and we know him better than anyone for his lifetime as a con man and a chronic liar. This is our privilege.

I was probably one of those commenters.

I hope you are right, I think you are optimistic, maybe I’m pessimistic. I try to be humble and open to your vision.

Science and facts have always had a hard row to hoe, but the needle continues to move in the right direction, albeit in fits and starts and slower than most of us would like. If you think that’s new, I’d invite a review of Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which traces that strain in our polity…

Also, I’ll defer to Barney Frank last night on the subject of the media:

(I probably don’t need to say this, but I respect you and your thought processes, chritter. I am grateful for civil and thoughtful exchange of ideas, and you have always provided this.)

See, I don’t agree. People, or a certain large subset at least, have always been dumb and uninformed, throughout the whole of our history. We are not stupider today than our grandparents were. We are, if anything, more bound together, less parochial and more informed by the technological advances of the last century:…

The audience is the whole of our country, and the venue is the 50 states. Your argument is that people are just dumber than they used to be? More gullible? More tasteless?