Social media definitely makes it harder to shut people out. For all the **** the liberal base takes, they are engaged, connected, and well educated, and are on the lookout for voter suppression schemes etc. R states will jam some stuff through and yes, Jeff Sessions is now AG, but I think liberals can make enough of a fuss to avoid a lot of the worst timelines where huge swaths are outright prevented from voting.

We (this board, as well as society more broadly) often forget how much our politics is dictated by scared white old people, *because they vote.* Young people don't vote. Not because they are prevented from doing so, but because they are lazy. That laziness is in part bc of a belief that it doesn't matter anyways as all politicians are the same. What if that changes?

I think they (the base, and young people more broadly) will punch back hard. There is a sense of defeatism in liberal boomers/Gen Xs that were politically conscious through the Bush years that I dont see in Millenial and Snapchat progressives. Many of them have only known Obama and this is such an aggressive and transparent regression from that that they feel no choice to take to the streets. 45 is doing and proposing such nonsense; it shouldnt be surprising that a simultaneously well connected and well informed group is rising in unity to resist. You see it in the protests. Of course this is going to result in more turnout.

Also, the tea party did serious work with like 1/10th energy and numbers, to say nothing of tech savvy and raw intellect. Yes, it was coopted by smart, powerful people for their own ends, but I'd still take replacement level resister over replacement level tea partier in terms of potential to make something happen.

In sum - yeah it's bad and we are right to fear direct attacks on voting rights, but the optimist in me replies that the egregiousness of this takeover has awoken and mobilized the young in a way that could significantly change the map.

Spicer is extra-spicy today. He could lose it at any moment.

spicer briefing delivering today

Wow this is amazing. Spicy about to hit that dude with his podium.

Have press briefings been like this for previous administrations?

Lol when the White House is so far over the line that Chaffetz can't even ignore it.

Sweet ramping up the drug war. Just what we need.

this is 100% a circus and embarrassment.

I hope Trudeau doesn't take too much **** from this clown administration on Monday. He seems like such a flake, I hope he has more grit than meets the eye.

lol'd at this

in case you're serious, no they have not

Trudeau gonna be all

Yea I guess I'm just not optimistic about 2020. I hope I'm wrong.

Spencer seems agitated like he's gonna lose his job soon.

This is a good point and I hadn't thought of it before; especially the bolded part.

@RealDickNixon would have been lit. Firing shots at Woodward or Archibald Cox, probably drunkenly tweeting at Mamie Eisenhower or @DeepThroat.

Is the business cycle no longer a thing? The economy has been slowly growing since 2010. There's probably going to be a recession. If Trumps lucky it will be quick.

There's just way too much we don't know to be at all certain.

You have to keep in mind that we've had three weeks of complete idiocy and incompetence coming out of the Trump Admin, and this is literally all self-inflicted. Not a single outside thing has broken remotely against Trump and he still has an absurdly leaky White House that can't keep itself without a scandal for twelve consecutive hours.

Imagine once bad things actually start to happen. And this whole useless, demented apparatus of morons and demagogues stumbles over itself and screws absolutely everything up it can, and still finds new self-inflicted wounds for itself to boot.

There really must be a limit to how long this can go on for.

We still haven't reach the level of the Larry Speakes AIDS cringefest. But I'm sure we'll get there in no time.

A depression doesn't matter as long as the people that voted trump are fine.

Clownface's Yemen mission gets a SEAL and child killed, Clownface shows up to the National Prayer Breakfast and asks people to pray for...Arnold

Tornadoes rip through Louisiana, Clownface tweets about...Nordstrom

The right got played so ****in hard man

Nah that's what they want. They want the Federal Government to be treated with such disdain and abhorrence that no one will dare put their faith in the systems of government again.

So clearly there's a ton of internal dysfunction that is creating or intensifying the incoherence and craziness and also leading to many of these leaks. What I'm wondering is what happens when some internal faction wins and solidifies supremacy, eliminating the internal conflicts?

Hallie Jackson of MSNBC is one. Wasn't paying attention enough to notice who the others were.

Wat

who needs to tweet about tornadoes when ivankas shoes are going in the clearance rack.

It seems like that faction only wins when Trump loses so I'm not sure of the specifics but it can't be bad.