Aaand DeVos is confirmed.

He will get confirmed anyway. They probably all will. Fuck these people. Fuck this country.

I agree. These calls for him to show us certain documents aren’t taking us anywhere. All I can say for them is that they rile up the left. But we need to be careful about calling for too many things in this dramatic manner, because if one of them turns out to be harmless and they release it, the right will just insist…

And the rest of the Republicans are doing everything they can to shield him.

This is the problem right now, and why Trump is winning this war for the actual power in America: people are still dealing with him in civil and normal terms, as if both sides of this fight were operating inside the same boundaries of democracy and public accountability. As this Senator is doing, expecting that such a…

I need the adoration 24/7. Hence, 4 cats!

No, dogs are just inadequate cats.

And when the protests get to be too much for his ego, martial law, and then elections “postponed”.

Some of these acts could be deemed treasonous. They are making this country less safe.

He will need the backing of the military or Homeland Security to hold the office from being thrown out. It looks like his own party is slowly waking up to what a cluster fuck these people are, and are trying to lay some roadblocks. Ultimately, this is going to end in a very ugly and violent way, one way or another…

You know shit is rotten when I’m (extremely distantly) hoping for a military coup based on the oath they take, which is to the constitution first versus the president, and to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. A code which basically outlines that yeah, they’re allowed to disobey orders if those orders are indeed…

Just a clarification, Congress can change the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts, but not the Supreme Court. So they can’t cut the Supremes out of this dispute.

Sorry for the double reply, but I’m thinking the Judiciary will be attacked next to strip Federal judges of any power to rule against an EO. Or even the power to call in the Federal Marshals.

I shared that link up thread. Also, Friday February 3, 2017, Congress may be stripped of their power to check the office of the president. All the attacks on our democracy happened on a Friday (so far) and that was no mistake.

According to an FEC filing, 45 has already signed up for 2020 candidacy. When was it filed? 5 hours after 45's inauguration - 5 FUCKING HOURS AFTER HIS FUCKING INAUGURATION!!!!

Oh I agree - I read the piece early this morning on my way to work (where, btw, the company I work for contracts with the Department of Stat and hoo boy are they about to blow) and it is way too possible because it can’t be adequately explained by incompetence. although there’s plenty of that too. It’s clear there’s…

I will reply. I will also read your link.

This is definitely the worst-case-scenario and catastrophist thinking. Which is not to say it isn’t entirely possible - it is frighteningly possible right now. I usually adhere entirely to the “don’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence” school but the key word in that is…

This is, hands down, the most terrifying thing I’ve read since November 8.