The Electoral College vote isn’t the final step in naming the next president. After they vote, the Senate must confirm the vote. Any single Senator can “challenge” a vote, providing the basis for the challenge (e.g., voting against the vote of the people of the state they represent), and then a majority of the Senate…

Speaking of which can you imagine the shitstorm if that was a potential Clinton appointee being photographed with sensitive documents? There would already be six congressional committees assembled to investigate. Fox News would be calling for her impeachment.

well at the very least, he didn’t use the wrong email instead of the right email, so.

Wasn’t it also that during this time they believed in “bad air” and thought burning herbs or using certain oils or whatever could prevent you from becoming infected.

I assume you mean detachable.

I think I’m this girl and I don’t want any of it except the desk thing.

This is such a beautifully written and heartbreaking piece. It really boggles my mind that there are people who are all “let’s give Trump a chance” and “he’s not going to be THAT BAD as the media is portraying”.

This was SO good. One big part of my schooling (human rights studies) was devoted to conflict resolution, but when the conflict is genocide, rape, internment, the words that bubble up in you rarely come close to asking a question that can be answered.

Thank you for this. It hurts me that after what your grandparents endured they have to see a return of this hateful rhetoric. The fact that there is not an international outcry that the US government is even talking about internment camps is a travesty.

They’ve pretty much settled on, “we were too mean to the racists.”

I remember a particular scandal in which liberals and moderates stayed home or voted third party.

Whatever Trump is pointing at, look the other way; he’s a master of misdirection.

Bread and circuses!

I mean, it’s not that he’s incorrect on that point. McDonalds is going to have fewer health code violations than your local farm to table place because it has standardized corporate procedures and nukes its food to death. It’s just that most of us are willing to tolerate a little risk in return for food that actually…

I have sympathy for Barron, and to a lesser degree for Tiffany. I don’t feel sorry for Marla, but I maybe have a smidge of respect for her for realizing she married and had a child with a monster and getting the hell out of there.

I, for one, have no sympathy for her. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, I’m annoyed that she’s getting press coverage and the like (the meme circulating that’s showing her from some shoot where she’s nude is particularly gross to me). Trump is the biggest shithead to ever be elected to office, and certainly is now up there in…

wasn’t pretty white enough

You seriously don’t think that the modern Presidency involves a role for the (fine) First Spouse which the President’s spouse is expected to fulfill? If Michelle Obama had come in and just spent her days in the residence reading books, can you even imagine what a racist shitstorm would have ensued?

And yet, I have no pity for Melania. NONE. Not that I took from your post that you feel for her, but other people the past few weeks have been suggesting they feel bad for her. Wut? I’m sure she’s crying from her literal gilded tower. If you assume that she actually loves Trump, then this is the part where she steps…

Oprah is a shameless opportunist and it is about time she was called out for it. She preys on society’s most vulnerable members and feeds them consumerist pablum as way to ‘fix’ their problems.