In Un’s case, his position is not entirely secure. No one in the NK hierarchy is, it’s a constantly shifting mass of allegiances. So it’s conceivable for a situation to arise where he’s killed or deposed if he doesn’t launch a nuke. His disincentives are uncertain.

“Mr. Mueller, I have the president on the line for you.”

That’s the worst, when you score a truly devastating point and your foe is so dumb it goes right over their head.

Is it a good idea for Trump to piss off the oldsters? Aren’t they 80% of his base?

Cutler’s the union factory worker who takes the new guy aside and says “Stop working so hard, kid, you’re making us all look bad ...”

It appears that perhaps drafting pre-injured linemen was a bad strategy.

I don’t think the Jets could compete in the SEC, either.

Your loopy is better than most people’s lucid, so by all means, keep it up!

Huh. So there’s that.

I am not, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time there and I have Hoosier relatives.

Nah, we generally like our genitals more than we like the Mets.

If Pence is dirtied up in the course of a Trump impeachment to the point where it’s clear that his own prospects aren’t too good, then Congress would not likely consent to anyone Pence nominated for VP. So the office would remain vacant.

At 1 a.m. tonight Ivanka and Bannon will be frustratedly trying to get Trump to understand why he can’t just “go testify to the grand jury that I’m innocent, and this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is all made up!”

The problem for Kush is that he’s super-duper guilty. He might be looking at 20-30 years inside. He’s in way worse shape when it comes to legal exposure than Bannon or Priebus or the rest of the inner circle. And his dad already went to prison ,so he should have no illusions about what it’s like. If they threaten him…

Given the complexity of the issues, this is actually astonishingly fast.

Chavez: a totalitarian masquerading as a populist. His name should echo through time as one of the most ruinous national leaders of our age.

Yup, that was my Islanders reference. Guy had no money!

Does he think he’s the first president ever to enjoy stocks hitting an all-time high? The Dow hit a record high closing 122 times during Obama’s second term. Trump seems to think stocks were going down the whole time.

Flynn and Manafort are going to be indicted, I don’t think anyone on either side of the aisle disputes that. The rub is that the deplorables say it’s going to stop there. Those of us living in reality disagree.

OK, so then the state court renders a verdict, and Trump says “That’s invalid, I pardoned myself” and refuses to turn himself over. Is he considered a fugitive from the law in NY state? Can they use asset forfeiture laws to seize Trump Tower? That would be kinda awesome.