Guys like this liked Trump because while Trump identified some economic problems, he laid the blame in entirely the wrong places, which provided a nice distraction, while also promising big tax cuts for rich people, which is what he really supports. Working people who voted for Trump thinking he would be their…

All these Republican “apologies” seem to amount to one thing: “I was willing to overlook that he was a dangerous, racist, narcissistic idiot because I thought he would lower taxes on rich people. Turns out everything he touches turns to shit, so I’m not even going to get that.” Double fuck those dudes.

He also now expected to have an opinion on a wider variety of topics, so there are more things for him to be terrible about. Before he was limited to the topics he cared about, which was mostly inconsequential crap about himself.

By “it” I’m thinking of whatever tiny trace amounts of cognitive abilities and emotional stability he had when he was younger (which were clearly never significant, and things like compassion, maturity and leadership he never had in any quantity, I don’t think). Based on old interviews, he seemed to once have traces…

Even if we accept that being willing to overlook racism isn’t itself an indication of racism, at this point in his presidency, all his supporters are racist. Everyone else has recoiled in horror.

The Aristocrats!  The President of the United States!

“Is he losing it?”

Trump’s multiple responses to this have been amazing. I’m used to “non-apology apologies,” but this is the first time I’ve really seen “non-condemnation condemnations.” He was soooo careful not to piss off the Nazis or sound like he was singling them out for disapproval. He’s spoken more harshly about Nordstrom,…

I suspect NK is a ways away from being able to reach the continental US with an ICBM, but they could always load up a short-range missile and put it on a boat if they were motivated.

I suspect, in the plan for using the weapons, North Korea wants to actually do more than a symbolic strike - it’s about the deterrence value, so the retaliation would have to be significant. I.e. targets with large populations and/or economic value. Hawaii is not a bad target from that perspective, but the…

Oh, I’m sure detectable amounts of radiation will be trackable globally. They just won’t be getting a significant dose across the country that’s any worse than what they’ve already gotten historically.

Well, I’m just saying that the amount of radiation middle America is going to get will be minimal - Trump supporters won’t even notice the mutations.

If SF got hit, wind patterns mean that North Bay will get it, but it’ll mostly miss the areas of the state where Trump got most of his support... Most of the state’s Trump supporters aren’t really near anything.

Well, NK has recently promised their nukes would only target the US in retaliation of an attack - which seems a little too likely with Trump on the button. So they’re trying to assure other countries they aren’t targets (and probably realize the threat of destroying a third party has no deterrent effect on the…

NK doesn’t have that many bombs - by the time the fallout hits the depopulated middle of America, it won’t do much... certainly not compared to being in an urban area hit with a bomb. Just a couple bombs could kill hundreds of thousands of people and wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars of the country’s most…

Presumably they’re talking about just a nuclear exchange with North Korea, which doesn’t have all that many bombs, presumably. So besides North Korea going bye-bye, it’ll be a limited number of US/South Korea/Japanese targets.

So Trump may accidentally cause a nuclear exchange because he literally doesn’t know how to respond to conflicts except to escalate them. Trump’s base, meanwhile, will love it - some of them are gleefully calling for the total destruction of the coasts, after all. So that actually gives him a motivation to also do…

$9.4 million - Total amount pledged to successful video game projects on Kickstarter in the first half of 2017.

Nieto seems to let Trump run on for quite a while uninterrupted and then simply suggests they not talk about it.  I’m sure, from the start, he had a pretty good idea of what he’s dealing with in Trump and understood the futility of trying to have that discussion, so he just humors him and moves on. Reading the…