I want to believe this is sarcasm. Please let it be sarcasm.

“Hello? Yes, this is the Owner of the Forest Lake Country Club. I need a black. What do you mean a black what? Look, I don’t have time for games, just send me the finest quality black you can. I need to put a black in my club so the PC heat can die down and we can golf in peace without harassment from the coloreds.

what’s the deal with hispiters!!!

Steve Bannon is like if Dick Cheney and 4Chan had a baby

I might be coming at this slightly uninformed - but wouldn’t a tax on these goods just be passed along to the consumer in the form of higher prices for these goods? So, in effect, we’re still paying for the wall out of our own pockets?

maybe.... don’t treat your LEO job as an excuse to punch people in the face?

We’ll force them to do us an embarrassing dare like yell they like sex in public and also they owe 12 favors, 1 for each billion; one good use of a favor would be a beer run for the Senate.

“There will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form,”

I guess we should be thankful to this officer for not shooting her because she could have spit on him in such a way that puts his life in danger. From recent events, we now know that any plausible danger to an officer (no matter how unlikely) authorizes them use to overwhelming or deadly force.

... And this godforsaken buffoon was somehow preferable to a woman who had been in public service her entire life because ...emails.

I hope our legislators will be moved to do all they can to stop him from burning our damn house down.

I agree, and thank you - but I did have to Google search...so: “A kakistocracy is a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.”

We are now a kakistocracy, his appointments and behavior are nothing short of that.

Contemporary sociologists trace the origin of the phrase “alternate facts” back to the 2015, the year that the Super Bowl champion Carolina Panthers became the first team in NFL history to go undefeated.

What can we, as citizens, do about stuff like this?

While it is true that it is very common for the President to temporarily shut things down during the transition there are some unusual aspects of this.

I think you’ve described their thinking very well. I also think, well, this:

I think that Democrats have calculated that allowing Trump to appoint incapable stooges to these cabinet posts will improve Democrats chances at winning offices in 2018 and 2020. Basically, it’s the Republican playbook of 2009, just instead of having to obstruct the Republicans to make the public blame them for…