I find the silver lining in the fact that assuming we make it through this it’s possible everything can swing very progressive in 2-4 years. People really despise losing rights and Trump isn’t smart enough to make people feel comforted by authority (a vital piece of the puzzle).

I’m afraid the mechanism by which we “bounce back” from upheaval will be the first things Trump will dismantle. This is why the GOP went after their own congressional ethics committee right away. This is also why he’s going to gut federal agencies which are capable of collecting evidence of their kleptocracy, and…

Just look at the reaction to repealing Obamacare. It’s gone from “keep government out of my healthcare” to “but what are you guys going to replace it with?”

It seems like we need these shakeups every few generations to rattle us out of complacency. In the past, social upheaval has been followed by an expansion of civil liberties and prosperity for a while, then the tide moves back out (but not as far out as it was before), and we start again. That’s what I’m hoping will…

That’s a good point. “You’re not the boss of me” is a founding principle of this country.

It’s at least possible. Americans do have a centuries long squirrelly relationship with leadership. Not that we should rest easy knowing that.

Trump ejected one of the Koch bros from his golf course because of who he was golfing. It’s already happened.

Sometimes I think “a random person is going to kill him”, it feels like everyone is playing with him.

My parents are visiting for the long weekend and I really just need my dad to explain to me what is going on. I’m 32.

Or gambling, or whatever vice he has, or he has been taking their money.They are tugging him hard. It has to be something huge. I would bet Flynn is on their payroll.

I’m genuinely getting worried about the prospect of violence. There is obviously a war going on within at least the intelligence community, right now, and more shit is going to come out that will show the election was compromised. In an election decided by fewer than 80,000 between three states, any little thing could…

I like the way you say “the Trump” that way I have sometimes said “the Plague” “the War” or “the Measles.” You adorable article lover, you. Seriously, you have made me smile.

I know, but the bombshell will be what has compromised him. Do the Russians have him by the balls as well?

Yes, one of the people came out and said “Comey has no credibility.”

HE IS. Comey is being blackmailed.

Trump will be sworn in as President, but I honestly do not think he will last long. The left hates him. The right only tolerates him at the moment because they still think he will rubber stamp anything they pass, but they see him as expendable, and will impeach him as soon as he becomes a greater liability than an…

I mean to be totally honest, you might want to wait for him to ruin the economy- if you have savings, you will probably be able to pick up a bargain after the next crash (if our currency isn’t horribly debased in the meantime, which it may well be).

i’m trying to buy a house right now.

I feel like I’m wearing a tin-foil hat here, but here goes: something in the meeting is leading the dems to think Comey himself is compromised at this point.

Could someone tell us what the fuck is really going on?