Not bad news, but *Darrel Issa*, of all people, called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Russia-Trump situation.

The Supreme Court is hearing a couple of gerrymandering cases this year, so depending on how they rule, we might see something like that in every state.

I think, for Trump’s diehard supporters, his appeal was that he’s not affable and gentlemanly. If that’s what they wanted, they would’ve voted for someone else. They wanted someone who was willing to get up and say all the awful nasty stuff in their hearts, like that Mexicans are all criminals and Muslims are all…

Yeah, I’m pretty confident that Pence, at least, believes in and values democracy and the continuation of the US. I honestly don’t think Bannon does. I think Bannon only believes in power.

I think you should add “+ possible end of real democracy in this country” to the Trump equation.

Pence has shitty policies, but they’re policies that - if we maintain the integrity of our democracy - can be changed later when we vote him out in 2020. If we devolve into an authoritarian kleptocracy under President For Life Bannon Trump, then we’re just fucked.

Yep, definitely.

CA has such a huge economy that that those $0.05 adds up, though. I reallllly doubt Delaware’s $0.50 is enough to be paying for SC’s $7.87.

That’s fair. Civil war, if it came to that, would definitely be a huge drain on resources all around.

If you’re running for national office, but people not named Donald Trump usually start out running for local or state office, which is far less expensive. I just checked, and where I live it costs $25 to register to run for local office. Of course, then there are campaign costs, but you can do fundraisers to at least…

I saw that and was immediately like ??? because it does not cost that kind of money unless you’re trying to begin your political career by running for national office, in which case your only hope is being rich and famous anyway.

Yep. Thouh apparently, they think these planets orbit in time with their rotation, the way the moon does with the earth - so there’s a “light side” that always faces the sun, and a “dark side” that gets no light at all. If that’s true, then there wouldn’t be any seasons at all.

California is a “donor state” - that is, they pay much more in federal taxes than they get back in benefits from the federal government. Their tax dollars go to support states in the rust belt, deep south, etc. Seceding would cause CA (and the other states) a lot of problems, but CA losing federal benefits is…

You know California is where your food comes from, right?   They’re the #1 agriculture state in the US by a very large margin. They’re also where the tech companies are, many of the ports, etc. They’d be fine.

Just like the Confederacy. Which is the joke, dude.

That’s the best thing I’ve read all week.

We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

Racists are often willing to accept that there are “good minorities”, who they consider to be the rare exceptional individuals capable of rising up from their otherwise inferior group to earn a place among white people. (*gag*) They can then use these individuals to delude themselves and others into thinking they are…

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what it means. Someone else also proposed that............ Hitler.

I think it means that you deport everyone who’s not white and Christian.... which is what Hitler proposed, too.