I was just faced with the question, “Would I rather have Trump or OJ Simpson as president?” and I honestly don’t know the answer to that.

20 years from now...

You know, it’s stuff like this that makes me suspect maybe he’s just a racist shithead.

This is a little outside the issue of the travel ban, but the US embassy in Kabul has stopped visa interviews for Afghan interpreters:

They were on Colbert last night and have gone right back into being fascinated by everything Trump does. The lack of concern or outrage, especially from Halperin, was very telling about the kind of people they are and privilege they have.

Yes, the guy is the worst. I like John Heilemann, though, he’s much more level-headed (he’s also a good pop culture critic). Even last night on Colbert, you could see how the two of them approach Trump very differently. Heilemann needs to go out on his own.

So, you’re into BDSM, then?

I’m a little concerned that nobody’s dishing any campaign-related dirt on Pence yet. I can’t believe he knew nothing as the running mate, and it scares me to think we’d have to start all over with a new corrupt scumbag who’s much less stupid about running his mouth in public.

And only if the impeachment resulted in lengthy prison terms for a minimum of a hundred very high-ranking people. It has to be so earth-shattering that it makes Watergate look quaint and adorable.

We need a *loooong* time before this should happen. Like decades and a complete turnover of the House *and* the Senate. I watched The Big Short a couple of months ago, and it was too soon for that even though it’s been several years.

I loved how he kept going to Cabinet nomination hearings and positioning himself in the frame.

Too soon!

Mark Halperin spent a year normalizing Donald Trump every damn day on their Bloomberg/MSNBC afternoon gabfest (since cancelled). Then once Trump was elected, he announces (on Colbert) “this is as bad as the Great Depression, WWII and 9/11 all in one.” Asshole.

I’ve heard of lots of people who are really into working out hungover. I tried yoga once hungover and Jesus fuck I wanted to die. When you are hungover you sleep forever and then you watch TV on the sofa for the rest of eternity. There is no other way.

Yeah, as noble as the “When they go low, we go high” mantra is, sometimes you need to jump in the mud with them and play dirty.

Jared Kushner is an orthodox Jew, so he is not around to talk Trump down from his paranoid rages during Shabbat (from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset), so that is when Trump typically goes off the rails with no one other than Bannon or his team of sycophants and courtiers to try and control him.

If Rachel Maddow’s Shabbat theory is correct, we have about twenty-one hours until the batshit commences.

There were plenty of stories about that before the election.

Must be a weekday. Someone with flesh-colored normal-sized fingers is working Trump’s Twitterfeed. Everything reads normal and sane.

Breaking news: the FBI has been reviewing the activities of the Russian bank Alfa Bank, and stumbled into a connection between the bank and Trump’s servers. The plot thickens...