One dead soldier is a hero. Thousands of dead soldiers and billions of wasted dollars are a clusterfuck. There’s a reason Bush left office so unpopular, and it wasn’t just because he tanked the economy.

Oh, it’s worse. The FBI is part of the DOJ. Sessions is Comey’s new boss.

Americans often don’t understand the difference between patriotism and nationalism. Germany’s got that figured out.

It’s nationalism. The fusion of xenophobia and extreme patriotism that brought us such lovely leaders as Mussolini, Hitler, and Steve Bannon.

It’s nationalism. The fusion of xenophobia and extreme patriotism that brought us such lovely leaders as Mussolini, Hitler, and Steve Bannon.

For some reason, that reminds me of the actual true fact that the Japanese government helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi-occupied Europe and let them settle in Japanese-occupied China.

White people walking in a black neighborhood at night are scared of being the victim of armed robbery or similar. Speaking as a white person, in that situation, white people are not afraid that they’ll be arrested, or that they’ll be shot “in self-defense”, just for walking down the street. If we’re the victim of a…

His daddy was rich, but yeah, I don’t think he’s old money.

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

Considering current issues with Russia, I’m not willing to take the chance.

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.