Here's the amazing thing to me about this dude: He's so fucking insecure and brittle. He visibly bristles at any criticism and he protects himself self-consciously and petulantly.

TO BE FAIR "being talented makes it okay to not be an asshole" doesn't really qualify as "nuance." TO BE FAIR

It's a thought I have pretty much whenever he does anything, so yeah, I'm not surprised.

Dear Lupe Fiasco,

I had been worried the Russia thing was fading. Well, nope, turns out, three or four days without an appalling EO, and boom, Russia's back!

I think Bannon should be played by Vanessa Bayer doing one of her typical vacant-eye, grinning characters. In minimal makeup. Just have her show up and smile blankly at the camera and say horrible things, and people are like "OK, Steve Bannon."

"You take that one, Little Wooden Boy!"

I grew up in Chapel Hill, so we were all always rooting for Ben Folds. I still think the peak is the self-titled album… Jackson Cannery and Philosophy is such an amazing one-two punch.

Honestly, the most baffling thing about this whole disaster is that a c-level celebrity from the 1980s has become president.

Am I alone in not being particularly creeped out by the situation the zoo humans are in? Their way of thinking and acting seems pretty appropriate and adaptive to their world, and there doesn't ultimately seem to be much sinister or dystopian about them.

That…. is eerily similar to Charles Manson's plan.

Oh, I was misunderstanding this guy and didn't realize he possesses absolutely no ideology.

I will, in this case, happily criticize you for thinking video games are an important political issue.

Trump is a maze without a center, but I think Bannon has reasons for what he does. I think it's important to know, because he'll be dictator-for-life if there's a big terrorist attack, and even if Trump is impeached, Bannon's schtick is what the younger generations of the far right is going to look like.

Right! Shit, I forgot he instituted Sharia law.

I think Trump wanted to have it unmonitored; Priebus and Pence insisted people be listening. He was sketchy as hell, and all the mainstream repubs in the WH are pretty convinced there's something going on.

"advising." He's writing his speeches and, as this ban shows, creating policy. Trump doesn't give a shit about immigration; it's all Bannon.

All the sketchy-but-plausible insider sources seem to be implying insider republicans like Pence and Ryan are feuding with Bannon over Trump's ear. I think they're terrified too.

But that's exactly the thing: Institute this ban and THEN a terrorist attack? That's counterproductive.

Judging by his interviews, this is true (though he is a troll, so who knows, there). But what does he get out of chaos?