These ghastly Republicans take all the fun out of being a conspiracy nut, what with their crazy, grifty, corrupt, actual conspiracies.

No, stay where you are to create alternative nation-states to which we secret, increasingly uneasy red state leftists can migrate when the fucking Republicans take down the rest of the country and transform it into a post-apocalyptic hellscape, or a bleak feudal oligarchy not unlike the worst and most heartbreaking…

Trump’s team has long since entered Julius Streicher territory (no apologies to the Godwin police, so don’t even try). Between this guy and Steve Bannon and the neo Nazi boys at Breitbart, it’s feelin’ like a White Christmas, all right, God help the poor old country.

Points for pseudo-rationalism, and extra points for smug. You know as well as I do that this isn’t an ordinary circumstance—that these women are being forced, under threat of loss of their jobs, into the middle of a political windstorm, which is not part of their contract.

Well, the CEO of the firm that owns the Rockettes used to work for CAA, the same talent agency that Donald’s talent agent, Ari Emanuel, used to work for, so maybe they all did lunch once and this guy felt obliged to take the call when Donald rang up.

The course’s name strikes you as being the immediate problem here.

There was no probable cause for this warrant in the first place: this was a hunch-driven warrant, coming out of a reactionary element in the FBI. So there’s that.

Calling out racism is The Real Racism.

Me to Scott Baio, and also every Republican: go fuck yourselves. A) you didn’t “win,” and B) in case I didn’t mention it already, go fuck yourselves.

Absolutely. It’s a set of oddly quiet observations, journalistic yet quite personal,and you come away with a deep sense of loss. 

After having managed to avoid it for decades, I finally read William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich just this year, starting in the weeks leading up to the election and finishing about a week after the election.

These are Donald’s people, the little creep Spencer, as well as Anglin and Heimbach and Jared Taylor and Steve Bannon and the rest.

Republican priorities do not, based on the best evidence, include the nation at any point on that list. Their priorities are 1) themselves, 2) the dark money oligarchy, and 3) really, come to think of it, there is no 3, and 2 has pretty much slipped up to the number 1 slot by now.

Donald seems to be moving quickly and efficiently to guarantee that the bloodshed will be global, not merely domestic, and that we won’t have to go through all the trouble of waiting (the Chinese are already reacting to Donald’s yammerings; can the Palestinians be far behind?)

I know. Although this was a foregone conclusion—never has a killer been guiltier or more obviously revolting and hateful, never have victims been more helpless, more lovely, more decent than these men and women inviting the boy to join them in prayer—the recent exonerations created a lot of understandable apprehension…

The problem with the creatures who are gathering around Donald isn’t their wealth per se, although it’s true that income inequality in this country has long since surpassed mere colossal obscenity and now approaches cosmic, gob-smacking, twilight-of-the-gods levels of obscenity.

This is another thing that would have been funny up until a few weeks ago....