People in the know were talking about Obama, but the general public didn’t know who he was. His announcement in Springfield, Ill., that he was running was generally met with shrugs.

Chuck is famous in certain circles for never picking a side on a controversy until he hears how it’s polling. He’s a fine lieutenant but not much of a leader.

I heart Tammy bigtime, but she’s not quite ready for primetime yet. Her speechmaking is still very stilted. I like her as VP/understudy to someone more polished, and then taking over in 2028.

A Gillibrand/Duckworth ticket would lay waste to the GOP. The women-haters would drop the dog-whistle in rage, and the lumpy centrists would vote Democrat for fear of being labeled as misogynists. Also, Gillibrand is a terrific politician and Duckworth has a great story.

When I was watching the new Wonder Woman movie, it occurred to me that in the next World War it might be the Germans who are the good guys, saving the world from the Americans.

Upon reflection, maybe Priebus has already done this and what we’re seeing are the cream of the crop of Trump’s tweets ...

If I was Reince Priebus, I’d have a bespoke pseudo-Twitter built and have the app secretly installed on Trump’s phone. This app would allow me to screen his tweets and only release the relatively non-stupid ones to the world. The extra stupid ones would be sandboxed within this fake Twitter where an army of paid…

Let’s grant him that Twitter may have helped him win the White House, just for the sake of argument. Even if you concede that point, it doesn’t change the fact that campaigning and governing are two different things.

Because that was all a smokescreen anyway. He envisions a U.S. that is a Muslim-free nation.

He could try to stack the bench like FDR tried to do, and I expect this Congress would be amenable to the idea. Then he just adds two more Gorsuch’s and he’s guaranteed to get his way on everything.

My Time in the Offal Orifice

You’re hired!

I’ll admit, when I first saw the Dean clip I thought, “What in the heck is he doing? That’s weird.” Then I later learned that what we were hearing was isolated audio and the crowd was super loud. What a stupid reason for a man’s political career to fall apart ...

They really do have every flavor of stupid covered. It’s impressive in its own way.

This whole mess is all because Paris Hilton won’t sleep with him. If someone sends him a copy of her sex tape he’ll probably change his mind.

I’m willing to take a seat on the board. I run Edfonzo’s Crazy House of Trump Memes. We don’t actually have any memes yet, but if I get a seat on the board I’ll definitely have some to bring along to the next meeting.

That would be excellent, yes.

I think Neil “Fascism Forever” Gorsuch will deliver the vote his masters expect. Little fascist dickbags are great at falling into line when they’re told to.

I love it!

March 2003, when we invaded Iraq just ‘cause we wanted to, and dragged along most of our allies by threatening them.