Remember when his administration declared that for school lunches ketchup could be considered a vegetable? Or when his Secretary of the Interior said we didn't need to preserve the earth because Jesus was coming soon?

Pence has actually governed before, and has a consistent (albeit vile) ideology. And the only political capital he currently has to worry about is with the GOP caucus in Congress, who would certainly be delighted to not have a wackjob heading the executive branch whose antics were getting in the way of doing tax cuts…

Which is why a President Pence is actually a bit scary.

Trump won't denounce Nazis, but he'll denounce by name a CEO who resigns from his advisory panel because Trump won't denounce Nazis.

Oh please — you are literally arguing that we should be courteous to fucking Nazis. Go clutch your pearls elsewhere.

You can have sex with ponytails?

Sauron's army was hugely diverse.

Symbol of freedom, except for, you know, all those slaves.

I think mining bitcoin by hand might be more difficult than literal mining.

Turned the stone and looked beneath it
"Peace on earth" was all it said

Sure, Bitcoin. And make sure you sign up for Blue Apron so you can have food delivered to your shelter in the now-wastelands.

I'm sticking with canned peaches.

But if Congress has to decide the presidency, that is not that far removed from the largest party in a parliament having its leader made Prime Minister. Multiple non-majority parties could create a coalition to decide on the president. Throwing the presidency to Congress is not necessarily a problem, if there is a…

I would have thought that respect of the Statue of Liberty would have also fallen in there somewhere, so I figure anything's on the table at this point.

The 60 vote threshold is merely tradition, and not actually part of the explicit formal institution. It can be changed, or ignored, pretty much on a whim.

Parliamentary systems have the nice feature that parties are easy to form, which lets new non-centrist parties rise easily, and which provides a mechanism for factions within major parties to bolt without taking over the party completely. If the US had a parliamentary system, it is likely that the Tea Party would…

"? and the Mysterians"

In the remake, he'd be upset merely by seeing the statue.

Yep, America is pretty fucked right now. I really hope it recovers its senses.

Props for the phrase "Presumably because she’s a woman who doesn’t smile on command".