I remember seeing The King's Speech in a theater where Black Swan was playing next door and I kept hearing Natalie Portman's feigned orgasms over the movie I paid money to see. So there's that.

The worst thing Taft did was fall asleep in meetings. I would trade that for anything Trump's doing now.

Is there even a runner-up?

I can't even hear his voice any more without screaming in rage.

Great interview with a great actor. Only notable omission I could see is was his role in the George C. Scott Christmas Carol.

Plus, if the never-ending shitshow with repealing the ACA has shown us nothing else, it's that Republicans of all stripes are incapable of governance. Things won't suddenly get better with Pence. The unique danger here is the man in charge being absolutely insane and dragging the country down with him.

CounterPunch has been publishing articles on how Obama is as bad as Hitler and that the Russia scandal is just distracting from the Real Issue of Democrats not being progressive enough.

You are really pushing this line in the age of America First and eroding our alliances and economic relationships out of spite?

Wrong. The world is filled with caramel, you are filled with hate.

Physically, perhaps.

You're the one making a claim. Go ahead.

Only if you outlaw homosexuality and thus make them subject to blackmail. You reactionary dogpiles are big on self-fulfilling prophecies.

Wasn't Koba in the latest Ape franchise a bonobo, too?

Up thread he's lecturing us that democracy is bad. We should have figured it out sooner.

At least I didn't call him an anteater.

Why are any of those things bad?

Since you evidently think hate and bigotry are different things, it's not worth explaining anything to you. I look forward to your learned discourse on the Flat Earth next.

A sane person might wonder whether arbitrarily discharging thousands of servicemen and women from the military because they make some bigots uncomfortable is a good idea, especially when American troops are currently fighting in several overseas conflicts.

Never stopped you before.

Fighting liberal orthodoxy, huh? What a brave, lonely struggle you wage. You truly are a hero to Nazis everywhere.