Tonight on Fox News: the Anne Frank Center is the real Nazis!

Yeah; I was skeptical that he was the right choice at first, but I think Trump has really given him something to fight, and his insights into this kind of weirdness are useful and not something that Samantha Bee or John Oliver can provide.

This state of affairs was always possible in theory; maybe even unavoidable given the way we can all choose our own realities right now and don't really have a cohesive, shared society on any meaningful level.

I think I like it as much as I do because I'm also a fan of that … like, era/style of American theater? (I wouldn't call it particularly Shakespearean; it reminded me more of Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams.) It's a pitch-perfect parody and I guess I find that intrinsically fun.

He really is delightful. (Another good transition the show made: from his character being a fairly obvious CIA caricature to a drug-fueled sex fiend that occasionally plays the banjo.)

To be momentarily, perhaps dumbly, serious -

As a kid I used to watch the apocalyptic Christian TV shows, then later TBN during Bush, and I always found them laughable but also a bit scary; how eager they were for the end of the world.

My intuition - and that's all it is, so grain of salt, etc. - is that that's a big factor in all this right wing populism/neo-reactionary shit on the rise all over the Western world.

Historians, should there be a history in the coming years, will no doubt look back at our times and note that the likes of Rivera were the first signs of the coming Trumpian era, where weirdos and hacks with no real skills or even ideas could rise to power and, then, abuse it over and over again for utterly selfish…

His soul; both are empty, pointless things meant to do nothing more than draw ratings.

Lately I'm torn. I live in a place where I know for a fact there are good people but the place also sent its collective will in support of Trump.

I think that's exactly right.

It might come sooner than later: Milo looked awful uncomfortable once the panel was laying into him.

Agreed. It's clearly a "don't feed the troll" situation, but at the same time, Maher - an arrogant dick, obviously - does seem to be earnest in his desire to talk about ideas.

Maher and Roger Ailes have a type, who are we to judge?

Nice work if you can get it…

No.

Ah, but the Hendrix estate is very strict about not letting his music be used in conjunction with depictions of drug use!

Now that's a version of Lord of the Flies I can get behind.

The devil you say!