Yeah this is the potentially scary part. I hope everyone read the Intercept reporting about what our special forces has been up to in Afghanistan. It's some real Blood Meridian ****, just scalping people and desecrating corpses for fun. I'm not sure these guys will oppose a President who's going to let them do anything they want.

Urine Nation

The internet tells me the movie is "Finding Dory." http://mashable.com/2017/01/29/donal.../#55YYvDI1miq9

obviously Home Alone 2

Whitehouse down.

Think I read it was confirmed "Finding Dory"

No because he is a thoughtful guy and secondly he is probably in shock he couldn't take a one week vacation after being president before the world was lit on fire.

i heard the library of congress just dedicated an entire wing to showcasing thousands of copies of Home Alone 2

Classic. Trump really is a very strange dude.

Birth of a Nation.

To Kill A Mockingbird?

I mean yeah agreed, but I don't think he expected to have to get involved this quickly. I would guess he is thinking (remember when the Pres used to do that) about the best course of action.

Truly hard to comprehend. Jared Kushners grandmother was a refugee and now he is a part of the administration banning refugees.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...t_another.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/no...mily-and-mine/

I've heard this a few times now. Sounds like an awful law, can't imagine it plays out like that. Center would not hold there.

Eat all the dicks.


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X-positng from sport-atics.

Good article by Chait arguing that Trump is a more of a death rattle than sign of things to come:

"Some liberal journalists have greeted each new Trump action by solemnly insisting that we “take him literally” and that he will do what he says. But what exactly should we take literally? His promise to provide terrific health insurance that covers everybody, at lower cost? Forcing Mexico to pay for the wall? Resuscitating the declining coal industry? The complete eradication of Islamic terrorism? The most competent president would not achieve these goals. And Trump is a political amateur who has surrounded himself with other political amateurs. He will wreak a fearful toll on this country before he is finished, but the assumption that Trump will “do” what he promises extends him credit he does not deserve.

The argument of my new book is that Trump (who was an important character in it even before the election) represents the death rattle of a declining vision of American retrenchment, and Obama represents the future. The civic values our grandchildren will celebrate and be taught in schools will be Obama’s, not Trump’s. American history in punctuated with horrors. Yet the reality that life in the United States is better – more affluent and more egalitarian – than it was 50 years ago, and 50 years ago it was better than 50 years before that, at which point it was better than a half century before."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...=twitter_nymag

Slate's Trumpcast on Friday had a great forum with David Remnick, Jacob Weisberg and others on Trump and the media. It's interesting in its own right, but the issue that kept cropping up--which is I think THE issue--is how can one educate Trump voters to see what a lying buffoon he is, completely out of step with American norms and values.

I remember when I was like 12 arguing with my grandma over Reagan, with me saying he was great. I was smart, even at 12, but I was completely uninformed and didn't really have a "news diet," much less a history, public policy, or philosophy diet. By the end of high school I was reading a bunch, including the LA Times and New Republic, and I realized I was just shallow and uninformed when I had had that argument (which probably lasted 5 minutes) years before. My world view hadn't radically changed, it had just grown deeper and more nuanced, with more empathy.

What I see from Trumpers is mainly less smart versions of myself who, while they may be 25 or 75, are basically clueless (which an assist to Fox, etc.) about the actual facts of things like being more likely to be killed by an armed toddler than a foreign terrorist. Sure, some are hardcore racists or delusional or lack any empathy, but most are just uninformed. So, as I see it, the issue is how to get 20-40% of Trump supporters to jump on the information bandwagon.

While Federalist Society (US conservative legal society--the legal society for nonconservativesis called "passing the bar") members are, as a group, not overly bright and ultimately have a theologically-oriented worldview (like most conservatives), most are "establishment" types. Trump has never actually convinced the GOP establishment--much less the GOP lawyer establishment--they just keep their mouth shut because they need the support of Trumps' voters or, if not elected, are trying to ride the Trump gravy train.

Thing is, these considerations don't apply to federal judges appointed for life. I would expect Trump to have a much rougher time even with Bush-appointed judges than almost any other republican President. The Congress may be spineless and hoping to use Trump for their legislative ends, but he's going to have a really rough go of things with the judiciary. As far as I can tell, he's now 0-5 with judges on the immigration order, and it's not going to be much easier on other issues.

Also, keep in mind that "conservative" judges have a tendency to become a good deal more liberal after being confirmed and once they have to make arguments, in writing, to support their judgments - this doesn't only apply to judges on the Supreme Court.

Donald J Trump is bringing Jesus Christ back to the White House! He was right with me, helping me make the decision to refuse any more refugees. He agrees with everything, believe me. We are #MAGA together!

Lame

triumph of the will

I'm getting resigned to the fact that "you can't fix stupid". There's a reason why Trump loves the poorly-educated. "Just build a wall". "Just bomb ISIS".
"Just ban immigrants". "Just do it". It's a philosophy they're comfortable with. They see things in simple terms and Trump plays into that. I think converting them is a difficult goal.

I think there are a lot of people, especially young people who are so caught up in their own world that they seldom check in on the larger world. We need to get them off their phones for a minute and into the voting booths. In short, outnumber the Trumpkins.

Twas for ever and ever we've been trying and failing to get the young to vote in numbers. We should probably tell them it's a protest.

Nazi family portrait.