I’m including some of this week’s magazine covers about the mayhem of Emperor Baby Fists’ first two weeks in office. The Der Spiegel cover is getting a lot of attention, mostly by pearl-clutchers who believe that the cartoon image is too “gory.” Personally, I think it’s completely apt. I also find the New Yorker cover to be haunting and devastating, and the Bloomberg Business and Economist covers are completely appropriate. I won’t post the Village cover (it’s an Irish magazine) though, because I do think the editors took it too far.
Anyway, what’s going on Baby Fists’ America? Well, unfortunately for Jared Kushner, his father-in-law still falls apart whenever Jared and Ivanka turn off their phones for Shabbat. This weekend, we’re still feeling the fallout from last weekend’s Muslim Ban, including the fact that tens of thousands of once-valid visas had been revoked under Trump’s executive order. The ACLU and other lawyers are still taking the EO to court, which is what happened in Seattle – a district judge named James Robart quashed the temporary Muslim Ban. Judge Robart was appointed by George W. Bush, and Judge Robart seems like a pretty average white guy, perhaps even the kind of guy who might have voted for Baby Fists. But even this judge was like “this Muslim Ban needs to stop, this is insane.” But of course no one can question, correct or reverse something said or done by the EMPEROR. So Trump went on a tweet-storm throughout Friday and Saturday:
We must keep "evil" out of our country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2017
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
There are obviously more tweets, which you can read here. This reminds me of Baby Fists’ attack on a Hispanic judge who was overseeing one of the many lawsuits against Trump. That happened last year, in the middle of the campaign. Trump attacked that judge for what Trump believed to be the judge’s inherent conflict of interest, because no one Hispanic or “brown” can be fully American. That’s basically what it is. I bet Trump wishes so hard that Judge Robart was someone other than a bland-ish white guy, so Trump could REALLY go after him. As for the reality we are now faced with, that the President of the United States is attacking a Senate-confirmed and Republican-nominated federal judge for merely interpreting the law and putting an end (however temporary) to a crass, illegal and immoral Muslim Ban… all I can say is that this is our world now. Get used to it.
Also: GO FALCONS!! The Patriots are absolutely “Trump’s Team.” So I’ll be rooting for the Falcons tonight.
Magazine covers courtesy of The Economist, New Yorker, Der Spiegel & Bloomberg.
Go falcons!!
There was a CNN opinion piece about how Trump is going in so hard on Islamic Extremism for a reason– he’s focusing on it, the type of extremism that kills the least Americans, and taking all the focus away from white nationalism, the type of extremism that kills the most Americans. He’s taking care of his own. He’s keeping his promises to the people who voted for him, and he will never be the president to those of us who didn’t. He thinks we’re just as bad as the judicial system he’s currently undermining.
My god that’s scary but really has a ring of truth to it…
Go Falcons!!(My sister & bil live in Atlanta)
Love this editorial cartoon.
http://twitter.com/ronniejoice/status/828150467872055298
Go Pats!!! My home team.
Don the Con is getting closer to impeachment with every stupid tweet he makes.
Go Pats! Not the whole team are Trump supporters. Don’t hold it against all of our guys. Brady became friendly with Trump during a pagent judging and he set Tom and his wife up. Tom didn’t just meet him during the race for president.
Kaiser!
Did you see Matty Ice get offensive player of the year and MVP?!! YES. Finally.
Go Falcons! I’m in Miami and not a Pats fan.
Rise UP Dirty Birds!!
It’s very true. All this shouting about online Islamist radicalisation and absolutely NO acknowledgement that white supremacists are radicalised in exactly the same way.
Here’s a Twitter thread outlining it via gameification: http://twitter.com/morganmpage/status/827725357704953856
And another, just after the election, explaining the dynamics of alt-right groups on Reddit: http://twitter.com/SiyandaWrites/status/796286719058382848
The far-right terrorist who assassinated an MP in the UK last summer was radicalised this way. As are the American far-right terrorists. You can trace it right back to Anders Breivik.
‘the The far-right terrorist who assassinated an MP in the UK last summer was radicalised this way’…….unfortunately he also had a history of mental illness , mental illness is also a fertile ground for any form of radical input.
Yes, it is. A wide range of factors are associated with a vulnerability to radicalisation, including mental ill health. The same factors are associated with a vulnerability to grooming into sex abuse.
But I wonder if you would seek to explain away all such cases, for example Michael Adebowale, murderer of Lee Rigby, who is borderline schizophrenic and has PTSD.
Or is it just the white perps that get explanatory context? Only white perps who might also be victims too?
Either way, what does it matter? The fact is that white supremacist radicalisation is responsible for more and more crime, including killings. Why do we only have systems in place to address Islamist radicalisation?
Agreed. But I think that over and above servicing his constituency, his strategists actually need an extremist attack to happen. They are urging him on because at this rate an attack is imminent. And an attack does three things. It gives them ammo against “soft” liberals. It allows them to limit civil rights in ways that are useful for such an unpopular president. And most importantly it allows them to go to war which means they can beat the “Patriotism” drum, can revive manufacturing such as the steel industry satisfying their base, can make a stronger anti environment case for oil exploration and can secure a second term early based on American historical trends.
I dont know if they’ll call it a war or a “military engagement” but there will be American guns and blood on foreign soil.
Exactly. All this. It’s just a matter of time. Hopefully circumstance and pushback from the public will mitigate it, but the intent will be to galvanize his base and exploit it. The WH has the upper hand and they know it. All we can do is stay engaged and fight back but they are going to fatigue the public and strike when vulnerable.
You summed it up perfectly. This is so utterly terrifying and true.
I just came say Go Falcons
Oh and middle finger up to you Trump
I am not American, but I will go with the falcons as they havent won since 1999 as far as I know. Also he really is a such a childish horrible despicable deplorable person, who puts down and makes little off people, who doesnt agree with what he does. I cant wait for the day he is taken out of office and ridiculed for the terrible person he is, that day cant come soon enough.
If someone can’t make him see sense fairly soon and get him to tone it all down , without doubt he will be ‘taken out’ of office before he can do too much damage and they may just choose the quickest route possible. AKA Kennedy.
Our county’s Republican prosecuting attorney and our state’s former chairman of the Republican party have joined the ACLU!
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trump-drives-two-prominent-state-republicans-to-the-aclu
Our state used to have 10,000 ACLU members, since the Drumpf election, statewide Washington State’s ACLU has grown to 50,000 members.
Drumpf is criticizing a highly regarded judge that also happens to be a GOP appointee.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/judge-who-stalled-travel-ban-is-a-highly-regarded-gop-appointee/
Happy Sunday folks!
Thanks for posting that @Mary mary. Good to see there are still sane people left and I’m THRILLED about the ACLU’s growth!
I’m not happy about that…ACLU takes money from the NRA to fight any and all attempts to remotely regulate or restrict gun ownership. So as soon as they aren’t fighting this, all that extra help and money will go towards fighting so that anyone can buy all the guns they want. I can’t get behind that organization because I am against loose gun laws.
I wish Kaiser hadn’t dismissed Judge Robart as a “pretty average white guy” who might have voted for Trump. Judge Robart was the guy who blocked the Seattle police union from attempting to stymie reform efforts and who proclaimed “Black Lives Matter” from the bench.
As much as I wish those were the words and actions of average white dudes everywhere, they’re simply not. Judge Robart’s decisions in both cases are extraordinary for the very reason that he’s a white guy installed by a Republican administration and Senate. Let’s give him some credit.
Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/17/james-robart-federal-judge-declares-black-lives-ma/
the government will no longer track or do anything about white supremacist organizations/armed anti government groups (because they’re white Christians, yo)/KKK/neo-Nazi groups. As far as the administration is concerned, Muslims are the only ones with extremist groups and whatever the white supremacist base wants to do to anyone who isn’t white and sufficiently Christian is A-OK by Trump
These seven countries were named by the Obama administration as high terrorist nations.
And that is why visas are required. As I understand it, “extreme vetting” is already being done as part of the process for people from these countries to get a visa to enter the US. These visas were supposedly not easy to get even before the seven country ban. And that is as it should be.
Will he ever go away?
Eventually… in hand cuffs if karma is a real thing.
I don’t even know what to say anymore. I hate Twitler and Bannon so much.
I know we have a few supporters here who supported the liar and racist in chief. Is it possible to say what you think of your vote now? I would really like to hear if you are happy with what you have done to our country, or the hate for BO and HC so strong that you are pleased with yourself.
Well, I didn’t vote for him. I read on Twitter that some people regret voting for him. They thought he would give up his Twitter account and so on.
They have been strangely absent. I wonder how many of them were Russian trolls.
I’ve noticed a lot of Trump supporters who used to spam forums/sites I frequent are suddenly gone. Some I’m sure were paid russian trolls who are gone now that they’ve fulfilled their duty, but I think others are trump voters who are ashamed now that they realize what they supported. Like that one commenter Sheree, who told a cute little story about her husband threatening to arrested teenage girls at a rock concert for “disrupting the peace” by dancing. I notice she doesn’t post anymore, hehehe.
Probably a lot just like CB got trolled by Scientology ones when Katie divorced Tom.
I think they are still there, but being silent. There has been a few vocal defections, but most are secretly happy even if a bit embarrassed at his heavy handed approach. I still hope for eventual impeachment but I actually think a second term is more likely. If the dems don’t make ground in 2018 they’re in dire straights.
Have you checked out areyousorryyet(dot)com? ‘A Collection of regretful Trump voters’.
I love it. And hate in equal measure, imagine if all these people didn’t vote for him. There may be some semblance of sanity in the administration..
I didn’t vote for Trumpy and think those who did, who weren’t far right but on the fence , thought he was just being obnoxious and bullying in order to win and that he would become more presidential when sworn in. They were mesmerised by the show and the media who kept attacking him also gave him a platform purely to up their viewing numbers and click bait which was the worst possible thing to do. So you can also put the US media on top of the blame list even though they were opposing him.
Read the book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Niel Postman, written in 1985 which predicts just such a president and government. I think you can read some chapters online (Pdf) , it’s a book that has been used in college media courses for sometime.
The Village cover is just a bad suggestion. Not only is murder wrong, of course, but it wouldn’t solve anything. T***p is chaotic evil; Pence is pure evil. And they’re both puppets anyway.
The next 4 years will be tough no matter what. Pence is definitely scary as well. What were people thinking when voting for these monsters
Why can’t both be taken care of?
@Lex that leaves us with Ryan. The GOP is fine with Pence enacting a nice, caste system with White Christian men at the top.
I don’t know in the US but, in France it’s a regular high school philosophy question. Would going back in the past and kill Hitler before 1933 be considered murdered? Would it be the right thing to do? Even knowing how it ended, the opinions are always 50/50.
I think that Trump, pence and Ryan are as much a problem as a symptom. So even if for some, murder is sometimes the only moral thing to do, that’s a lot lot lot of people to kill. To many people to kill to be a practical solution, all moral and philosophical questions apart.
At this point I would prefer Pence over Trump because I think Pence wouldn’t be Steve Bannon’s puppet.
Trump is a rattlesnake makes lots of noise but you hear him and can react before he strikes. Pence is like a boa constrictor.Comes up silently behind you and before you know it has wrapped himself around you to strangle(take your rights away) you.
If trump goes, more than likely bannon, conjob, ivanka, jared, uday, qusay, and many others would go. I’m not sure which is worse – true believer pence or loose cannon trump. USA is screwed either way.
It’s not about worse at this point … it’s about predictability. And if the American people/govt manage to topple Trump the optics are really bad for Pence, McConnell and Ryan… they will be weakened too.
I saw someone use the most perfect distinction, straight out of D&D:
Trump is chaotic evil, but Pence is lawful evil. Choose your poison but know what you’re dealing with in either case.
Yes, Trump/bannon have to go. Pence does not have the magical power cloak of celebrity, or that group of children of the corn who are going to rob us blind. Celebrity power is a particularly unique American phenomenon. Pence merely wishes to merge church and state–that is an issue much more easily fought that Bannon’s apocalyptic war drum beating and building of his global white supremacist org with Putin. It is missing the whole point of the power of Trump’s celebrity to say Pence would be worse.
Yeah I agree with @adastraperaspera,
To me this is a no-brainer.
Pence is terrible but Trump is the biggest threat we’ve ever faced as a country.
Pence IMO is a “known evil” There are lots of versions of him in the Republican Party. But the reason I’d rather deal with this known evil than Trump include:
1) Pence doesn’t have the cult of celebrity surrounding him. He would be judged in a normal manner by the public. If the economy fails to picks up, he’d lose support. At this point I fear that no matter what Trump does his cultists will still support him and keep pressuring the GOP establishment to support him.
2) Pence will not tweet storm us into WWIII, crashed international markets or destroyed alliances.
3) Pence will at least maintain a grudging respect for our basic norms and institutions. Part of what makes Trump so dangerous is that he doesn’t give two shits about anything. Ex: He didn’t release taxes, he didn’t fully divest himself from his companies, etc We have no clue how much kleptocracy is at work. Even Nixon, a full blown criminal, had enough grudging respect for our institutions to resign when push came to shove. I think Trump will have to be pulled out kicking and screaming. There might need to be a miltary coup. I am only half joking. Anyway Trump needs to go.
@Keaton- I agree with all you just said, and as far as trump being pulled away kicking and screaming- this will be the most dangerous time, I think. If he is impeached I am afraid of the window where he still has access to nuclear codes. His ego will be scorched and Bannon will see this as his last chance to start a war.
You and Keaton make some great points.
I agree. After the election, I was like, “Well Trump and Pence are equally bad, so it doesn’t matter.” But: 1.) At least Pence wouldn’t tweet us into a nuclear war, which I think is a very real possibility with Trump. 2.) Pence at least has government experience and knows how these things work. And 3.) As immoral and wrong as I think Pence’s values are, he at least has values. Values that you could appeal to and compromise with. Trump has no values, other than himself. He’s a simpleton who goes with whatever the last person who complimented him wants. And that makes him far more dangerous than Pence.
He basically trying to undermine an entire branch of our government. Again if people are not worried by now they are super late to the party. The system is going to collapse on itself eventually because you’ve got a bunch of idiots and Nazis in the WH that doesn’t understand the basics of the govt. Our depts will fail because they are for the first time run by people who don’t have higher degrees in the field (or degrees in the field period). It’s a mess. America will be destroyed im just wondering who or what will do it. China who has said war is a great possibility? Our own stupidity when the people rise against the govt and we have the military coming for protestors? Or will it be ISIS who have brand new recruiting tools to last a decade and we are only two weeks in?
Don’t forget Russia. I think Putin loves seeing us in such chaos.
Of course he does. Putin is no stranger to using covert tactics to destabilize and undermine national elections in countries that he targets. It seems like the Cold War is still happening, don’t you agree? Tr*mp is such an idiot and Putin played him. I think all of the aforementioned covers are very apt. I wake up every day with a lump in my throat and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. My heart breaks every day for the country I knew just a few months ago. I’m so petrified with grief and worry when I look at my baby girl and wonder if her reality will be some handmaid’s tale dystopian nightmare…
Putin’s puppet is at it again.
http://twitter.com/chessninja/status/828212708482834434
Justjj, Yes, Trump foolishly bumbled right into Putin’s clutches, you could practically see that unfolding in real time. Trump’s ignorance of geopolitics always seemed obvious and now that Bannon is pulling his strings who knows what will happen next. It is indeed frightening…I’m sick with grief and rage and worry, too. I have teen boys and they have been my greatest love and joy but one day last week I was feeling really regretful that I ever decided to bring kids into this world.
If we could ever see Trump’s tax returns, I think we’d find that his whole biz structure is based on loans from Russian oligarchs, banks and govt deals with Putin. I don’t think Trump is bumbling into Putin at all–I think he’s his guy, because he’s owned by many Russian mob/bank networks who are funding everything. Of course Bannon is in with all of these vipers as well. Traitors.
Keep calling your legislators and demanding the tax returns — 202-224-3121.
This is what happened in the UK with the court case about the Brexit notification needing the assent of Parliament as well as the result of the referendum. Our pro-Brexit newspapers called judges enemies of the people.
Populations need fast education on the RULE OF LAW and what it is and why it protects them.
Yes Sixer. When a president is undermining a branch of government to this extent, it’s very frightening. On the Russia thing, I have to believe Tr*mp bumbled into it, I can’t accept that he colluded with Putin at the expense of American democracy. I just don’t think he’s smart enough. And besides, that would just be too much. Where was the CIA???? I keep wondering how we didn’t know. I don’t like Bill Maher in particular but he described a “silently moving right wing coup” on his show months and months before the election, if I recall correctly almost a year before it happened. He repeatedly warned people not to stay home and that Trump would be the president. Why couldn’t he be stopped if there was really such an extensive network of money and communication between Donald and Russia? The fact that the CIA has been silent in all this and Dems have more or less relented is almost as scary. Honestly, what are they doing? Isn’t anyone trying to bury Tr*mp and get him and Steve Bannon out of there?
It makes me a little sick to my stomach that so many people in the US need remedial education in how their government works. I’ve lost track of the news stories where the headline is, “What is an Executive Order” or “What powers does the Judicial branch have”. My local news station actually spent a few minutes explaining the articles of the Constitution that outline judicial powers and ended the story by saying they’d posted a link on their website to the full text of the Constitution if anyone was interested in reading it.
Every person needs to know – and vigorously protect – the controls that exist to curtail the power of any one branch of government, otherwise we aren’t going to notice when the system fails or is intentionally sabotaged. If the Customs and Immigration people don’t abide by the court ruling it’s going to get very frightening very quickly. Hello fascism.
The New Yorker cover is haunting indeed. The Village cover takes it too far, absolutely, and I really should hate it. Working on that.
“I really should hate it. Working on that.” – LOL
Me too Alix
+1! I know! I don’t hate it, honestly. Trying to get there.
Clever and funny post.
The Village cover goes way too far and is an echo of what Sarah Palin did to Gabby Giffords.
“Working on that”
Me too.
The Village cover is a bit harsh, but I honestly don’t hate it. I laughed a little
This is all I wanna leave here, we MUST stay on our calls We Must cause it’s working and We must cause the aim of all this b*llshit tweetstorms and poorly thought out legislated rascism every f*cking Kushner sabbath is This : https://twitter.com/mspackyetti/status/825717522410385409
QQ, yaaas! I just posted a long reply that didn’t post so I’ll go brief this time. Love that Twitter feed and message, it is truth and spot on! This barrage of attacks on civil liberties is deliberate and malicious. But we see it, recognize it, call it out, resist and rebuild. We must stay focused and united even though we may have different reasons for resisting. At the core we all resist because what they are doing is morally, ethically and legally wrong. Human rights!
I love that thread.
Yes QQ! Thanks for posting.
I heard that congressmen said calls are up 900% over last year!
If you can’t get through to call, fax! Faxzero.com gives you up to ten free faxes a day. And then try calling again, all offices in your state as well as the DC one.
And even better, visiting the office with a personal story or going to a town hall.
Working to #dumpdevos, #dumpbannon (from NSC mtgs), and #stopsessions as well as keep ACA.
These lame ass Repub congressmen are claiming that the increase in calls is due to paid professionals hired to harass them and that real constituents aren’t the ones calling….smh
Email them. That way you list your name, address, and in some cases home address. Giving your real name prevents anyone from claiming a contact was “paid for”.
I totally agree that this is similar to Trump’s attack on the judge during the campaign, proving he is incapable of learning or growing. I also agree that it’s probably a letdown for him that Robart is a white male. And I think Shambles is right on with the assertion that Trump is focusing on Islamic extremism for purely political reasons.
So what are these devastating magazine covers going to do to our thin-skinned PO(TU)S? I can’t even imagine.
Side note: Did anyone see Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer on SNL? Brilliant. One of my only laughs as of late.
OMG Yes, I watched it this morning … so funny!!
Just saw it this morning.. And she is so on point. I never thought of a woman playing that part (slap hand) But she nailed it. And the part about the apology had me on the floor. I hope she comes back time and time again to play him. This is going to be CLASSIC.
SNL to me is always great when they can get politics. And we know the Drumpf is watching. Which makes it even more funny.
Watched it this morning. I haven’t laughed that hard since oh…. early November?
Melissa McCarthy was brilliant last night.
MM was pure poetry.
“I would like to issue an apology, on behalf of YOU to ME, for the way you’ve treated me these last two weeks. That apology is NOT ACCEPTED.”
😂😂😂
Yes! She was awesome as Spicer:) An out of the box casting pick that really worked.
Their portrayal of Prez bannon was spot on, too.
It was so good! I just caught it on youtube across the pond (do you guys call it that or if it just us in the UK?), it was hilarious. ‘Those are YOUR WORDS’ ‘Da-f**k?!’
Also, Chrissy Teigen has been giving it one on Twitter recently, to Trump voters and my favourite to that tweet of ‘We must keep “evil” out of our country!’ her response was ‘When should we call your Uber?’. Keep it going Chrissy! He’ll only get madder and more brilliant orange.
It.Was.So.Good! And sobering too, because this is actually happening…
I think in the end America will be by itself. Not even Russia will be by America’s side anymore. Trump wants to isolate the USA and countries like China are laughing.
Russia wants to isolate the USA and Put in is only pretending to be Trump’s BFF. Bannon is a nihilist enabling neo-Nazi groups. PLEASE support the investigations into Trump ties to Russia and efforts to get Bannon off the National Security Council.
Trump actually thinks Russia will side with over Iran lol. He is delusional and so is his team.
I don’t understand any of this. Did no one in Trump’s circle of advisors think of making sure this ban was legal before he signed off on it? Did rotten orange think of asking for legal advise? Now he is going after judges that refuse to toe the line?
It is almost like people around him ( side eye at Bannon, Pence) are purposely seeing how far over the edge the rotten orange can be pushed. Then when their agenda has been fulfilled remove him from office for his erratic behavior.
Hollywood could not make up this stuff
Those EOs are apparently just to dismantle, so it’s easy to sign away and let others suffer potential problems with the ban, wiping out Dodd-Frank, etc. It makes it look like he’s working so hard.
Comparing to a household, I think it’s like an impulsive relative suddenly throwing out your home’s appliances (most of which work just fine) and letting someone else deal with the resulting interruptions and time/expense.
I am convinced that all these executive orders are Steve Bannon’s way of testing institutional resilience in the US. Which agencies will cave? Which will resist? Can the web of democratic institutions resist on all fronts? What would it take for them to fail?
The success or failure of any one particular order is not the point.
They are just stress testing the system.
I think that you are spot on. And so far, the part of the system who have shown themselves to be utterly craven is congress. I utterly despise them. I’m pretty proud of the park service, though. 🙂
I agree, Sixer.
Yes, that’s exactly what seems to be happening.
I agree. He’s seeing just where the limits are as well as distracting from the more dangerous moves he’s making, such as elevating Bannon to NSC:
https://medium.com/@jakefuentes/the-immigration-ban-is-a-headfake-and-were-falling-for-it-b8910e78f0c5#.b7q0x7qo9
“Popular attention must focus less on whether we agree with what the government is doing, and more on whether the system of checks and balances we have in place is working. It is a much bigger deal that the DHS felt they could ignore a federal court order than that Trump signed an EO blocking green card holders in the first place. It is a much bigger deal that Trump removed a permanent military presence from the NSC than that he issued a temporary stay on immigration. The immigration ban may be more viscerally upsetting, but the other moves are potentially far more dangerous.”
Trump may only be stopped by our independent judiciary. The GOP-controlled congress will capitulate, so it’s up to the courts to defy him. We’ll need all the Judge Bobarts in the country aligning against him to keep him from behaving as a dictator.
That’s a brilliant article, Bonzo. I’m going to share it far and wide.
Yep Sixer. Nail on the nose.
That’s the truly frightening prospect, isn’t it? There really is very little holding our system of government together, aside from all the institutions involved agreeing to honor the checks and balances written into our Constitution. If one or more government agencies decide they are just going to ignore court orders outright, or are ordered by the President to do so, there is very little anyone can do on a practical level to stop them. I naively assumed the rule of law would protect us all from the worst that Trump’s administration would try to do, now I’m not so sure.
I agree @Sixer. They are testing institutional resilience.
I also think it has a hell of a lot more to do with curbing immigration from “non-white” majority countries than it has to do with safety. I wish the resistance would push back more on the fact this ban does nothing to make us safer, it actually makes us LESS safe.
THIS! Anarchist tactic in progress.
That’s what I assume, too. They’re pushing the boundaries on purpose to see where they have to make changes to undermine the system in the long run. As it stands, Bannon has more or less stated that his plan is to destroy the America we know and rebuild it in his image from the ground up. Scary, scary stuff.
Speaking of the Super Bowl, I’m from New England, so Go Pats. FWIW, lots of Pats fans (virtually all of whom hate Trump and are in agonies over the team’s connection to him) are pledging to donate $1 to the ACLU for every point the Pats make tonight. Tom Brady: great quarterback, dumb guy.
I’m confused. I thought I read the judge’s decision was overturned? Is the ban in effect again ?
Trump lost again, no travel ban for now.
Thanks! Good
As of right now, it still stands. Judge Robart issued a nation wide restraining order against the ban and this allowed those stranded to be boarded onto flights to get to their destinations. The DoJ filed an immediate emergency stay to combat this, but as of today, Robart’s restraining order still stands.
Judge Robart was also able to make the order span the US. This covers all of the cases that were currently sitting in courts for individuals. Smart man. I also have to say that I like that Governor Inslee came out and said “No person, even the President, is above the law”.
I truly feel for people around the world. The President’s idiocy effects us all. Canada has been taking care of many stranded travelers since the ban went in. What happens to one, happens to all. Sadly, Americans aren’t the only one’s concerned over the next 4 years will bring.
““No person, even the President, is above the law”.
This makes me think of Nixon and Watergate. I hope Trump has his own Watergate happening.
Trump’s emergency filing was denied by two judges late last night. I posted that below.
I’ve never been more proud to be a citizen of Washington State than I am right now. Our governor, our Attorney General and our US Senators are fighting the good fight.
The appeal will be filed in the Ninth Circuit – the most liberal circuit in the nation. This stay will pretty much remain if Judge Robart got all his ducks in a row. I see this going all the way to the Supreme Court.
Orangino should ask his sister (Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry) how the judiciary works. Judge Barry was nominated to the district court by Bush and promoted to the Circuit by Clinton so she has bipartisan support. It is so surprising that they are related. Maybe Orangino got dropped on the head as a baby…
There are multiple court decisions floating around because cases have been brought in multiple states. In one of the Boston cases, a judge denied a request to extend the TRO on the grounds that it was no longer necessary for the particular plaintiffs – they’re here now; their case is moot. However, a judge in Washington ordered the ban completely lifted for all. Trump filed an emergency appeal and two appeals court judges denied his appeal very late last night.
When I saw Trump’s comment about the “so called judge” on Twitter, I laughed but not for the reason you might think. I laughed because I don’t think Judge Robarts gives a damn what Trump thinks. I was a lawyer for over twenty years and you get sh*t thrown at you all the time. I was working for a child protection agency when my team apprehended the children of a Satan’s Choice biker. Lots of fun. I was working for a government agency when I noticed there was an armed guard sitting right outside our hearing room – especially for us. Once I took mace spray into a hearing (same guy as for the armed guard) because the crazy ex-employee was going to be seated between me and the only exit. If he freaked out and got violent (he had before), I was trapped. So Robarts has spent forty years ducking crap being thrown at him and having people call him every name in the book. Robarts has stood up to the Seattle police department – and Robarts lives in Seattle! So yes, Trump’s comments are extremely disrespectful and he is throwing shade at the entire judicial system because unlike Trump, they know how the Constitution works and they are willing to fight for it. But Judge Robarts is not going to lose any sleep over what Trump says.
Trump thinks he is a dictator and can do what he wants. Maybe Michael Moore is right that the reason why he will be impeached is because he constantly breaks the laws.
Yep … the Spiegel cover brilliantly expresses what so many feel.
So-called president Trump is busy developing a coup strategy by delegitimizing democracy, truth and justice so he can become more like his idol Putin. He continues to talk down judges, the media, facts, the ballots, the immigrants … hey, they all suck and only he can fix it.
JK Rowling was right; Donald Trump is like Lord Voldemort. Ann Coulter is Bellatrix Lestrange, and the rest of his cabinet members are all death eaters. So who are the dementors?
Any and all of his supporters.
Conway and Bannon
No.
Bannon is Voldermort. Trump is Wormtail. Kellyanne is Umbridge.
Who is Fudge? wandering around trying to deny is even happening? anyone who uses “chance”.
The people who voted for him in the first place — and who still think it was a good idea.
The Dementors are Congress.
You know how “I am Lord Voldemort” is an anagram for Tom Marvolo Riddle? Well, donald trump’s anagram is Lord Dampnuts.
Love these !
Bannon is beind that ban and he knows it’s causing chaos that will rile up the people to demonstrate and in hopes of escalating violently which it did in Berkley. He wants Martial Law.
Bannon looks pretty unhealthy and like an alcoholic… I usually don’t wish death upon other people but I make an exception for this horrible man.
Yes I have also said, and my friends have agreed, that Bannon looks like an angry lonely alcoholic that wakes up each morning in his sweatpants on his couch surrounded by empty bottles and food wrappers.
Happy to see some churches are stepping up and doing what they should.
http://twitter.com/twittermoments/status/828233704619204608
A small church near me recently had a sign message that *hoped* the end of earth was near. I was so offended I cannot remember the exact wording, but it was not anti-DT. This particular church always posts highly judgmental messages though.
I have to say… I have always been a happy person but since Trump is president, I feel like sh-t.
I think that mental health professionals will be making a lot more money in the coming months.
Yeah, me too. I’m in sales and I had a bad month in January. Depressed and lost my mojo. I’m feeling better now, but it’s so upsetting to see all these f@cked up things happening. But all these protests have warmed, cause it tells me other people care too and they are not going to let this regime of hate go unchecked.
I feel that. My bosses listen to Rush Limbaugh daily and they are treating us(the employees as the minions in their fascist regime). I used to love my job, now they scare me.
You are not alone, amy. I feel like my only escape is my kids basketball games. For a few hours a week I get lost in her games and forget about our current national nightmare.
It’s important to talk about how you feel. Don’t keep it to yourself. I’ve had trouble sleeping and have been doing some binge eating since all this also,ugh. We have to seek help if needed and stay strong so we can fight back. I know that taking action like calling my senators and making online donations to good groups has made me feel better. I hate trump/bannon/repugs for what they are doing to all of us. RESIST!
I’ve had a problem with anxiety and binge eating for years, and this election, in addition to the crummy winter weather, has really triggered my unhealthy coping mechanisms again. I’m slowly getting better, mind you. I really let myself go during the holidays though, yikes…
Trump and Bannon are using fear to govern. Remember his RNC speech? Only I can keep you safe. And everything he’s done and said to date supports that “get people afraid and they will blindly follow and support me.” I wish people knew their civics and history more…perhaps we wouldn’t be in this mess right now. I thing back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, when he told the country in the depth of the Great Depression that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Fear allows you to control people and that’s what the Trump Reich is doing.
Absolutely. The culture of fear is a well known and well researched ideal, especially in politics.
Does this sound familiar? Like something that is happening right now?:
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
Sure it sounds familiar, especially that last bit about being attacked. Know who said that? Hermann Goering, the second highest ranked Nazi tried at the Nuremberg trials. He was in his cell and was speaking to Gustave Gilbert. Gilbert was a psychologist and intelligence office who worked with the prisoners during the trials. Gilbert published all of his conversations and work in a book titled the Nuremberg Diary if you care to read it (not for the faint of heart) but here is the entire section that the above quote is taken from:
“We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
“There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Having studied 20th century world history as well as being involved in politics, this presidency has me extremely concerned. All of this has been done to create war so many times over throughout history that it’s almost as if Trump and his people have taken the Julius Caesar Guide to War 101 and are running with it. The sad thing is is that from Caesar to Hitler, it has always been easy to get people to support a war. Scare the sh*t out of them with nonsense and away you go.
Thanks for that summary – it’s interesting in a horrible way. I usually avoid books like that (I’m faint of heart, I admit) but maybe avoiding the issue is a luxury we can no longer afford. Who would have thought burying our heads in the sand wasn’t a good long term strategy? ☹️
It occurs to me that 99% of WWII docs focus on the battles and the bravery of the fighters. Not to take anything away from those men, but maybe there should be more docs on the psychology used against the public. Maybe more of us would have the courage to stand firm in the face of being called unpatriotic.
This is sadly something that humans discovered early on. Psychological warfare is something that we as a race have always used on each other. There are hundreds of books dealing with the culture of fear and how it has been used to justify many horrible things. WWII is the most recent, most referenced use of it that we all know about. Here are a few books:
-The Culture of Fear – Barry Glassner
-Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society) – Uli Linke & Danielle Taana Smith
-Fear Itself: The New Deal And The Origins Of Our Time – Ira Katznelson
There are literally pages of books I could list, but if you start researching the “culture of fear” you will find a mountain of material. Just a warning, it’s a freaky hole to wander around, this is where a lot of tinfoil hat people get their start. However, it is very true that we are most easily swayed by our deepest fears.
The way the orange turnip attacks people on twitter, there has been a growing demand for him to be banned from that social media. Can you imagine if that happens? I think he would burst a blood vessel.
The world would not be safe with baby fists gone. We would then have to deal with Pencey Poo who is a hell of a lot worse. Just look at his record in Indiana.
Does anyone have any ideas how to make that happen?
Does reporting his tweets over and over result in an automatic ban, like the system itself does it when there are too many reporting an account?
That seems to be a strategy worth investigating, and quickly.
I’ve been wondering this myself lately. I don’t use social media, but I know I have heard of accounts being banned on Twitter. So I’m wondering whether those with Twitter accounts could create a petition requesting a ban and see what Twitter’s response is.
But seeing him melt down on Twitter keeps us informed of how unhinged he is. I think it’s like a PSA.
Is the US media covering the legal changes Agent Orange has made to deregulate the financial sector (advised by former Goldman Sachs guys)? Clocks are basically turned back to before the financial crisis 2008.
This got a lot of attention in my country, as this this might lead to another financial crisis. 🙁
It’s all so depressing. I keep on checking out these hilarious videos made by various European late night shows in response to the “America first, America first” statement by Agent Orange during his inauguration speech: http://everysecondcounts.eu
I know this does not help you guys in the US, but at least European countries are uniting to oppose Trump in a humorous way. My fav so far is the one from Switzerland.
Yes, the rule he’s trying to revoke that makes financial advisors for retirement funds put their clients’ best interest first. And does not allow advisors to suggest high fee high risk investments over lower fee investments. And it pisses me off how I’ve seen it worded as revoking it allows people more investment options? Yeah, investment options that make their financial advisors a higher commissions.
There is so much being flung, media has barely covered the D-F repeal.
Instead of taking time to discuss and consider what parts were of merit, the whole thing was repealed. You are exactly right about the clock being returned to pre-2008.
Two appeals court judges denied Trump’s emergency appeal of the ban last night. One is a 44 year old woman, appointed by Obama. The other is Senior Judge William Canby, 85 years old, appointed by Carter, former JAG corps, former Peace Corps, and author of some powerful decisions on gun control and the ADA. Don’t mess with Judge Canby, Trump!
And wasn’ he supposed to spend this weekend with Melania? So much for her work on internet bullying.
ETA #Go Pats! Do your job! Counting on you, McCourty, Hightower, Chung, Butler, & Ninkovich!
How dare those two appeals court judges deny Fidel Castro’s …oops sorry Donald Trump’s emergency appeal of the ban!! This is outrageous. Don’t they so-called judges know that HE is the top authority of this country.
These activist judges. It’s Jimmy Carter’s fault. Worst President. Ever. Believe Me.
Go for it, Drumpf. Go for Carter. Jimmy will fight back and destroy you with one thoughtful, eloquent sentence.
He is spending the weekend with Melania – in Florida. For all those who bitched about the vacations that Obama took, why are you not complaining about Trump and/or Melania going back and forth to DC from NYC or Florida? Read somewhere the trip this weekend cost minimum $3 million.
And people are calling the house, causing all sorts of disruption with the phone lines. Not to mention the protesters outside.
And then we have Eric’s business trip to Uruguay.
Yes I agree, he has only spent two weeks in the Whitehouse and he is already off for the weekend to Florida. Also saw him at the airport with Melania and he went to take her hand and she just kind of shoved him off and walked on, it was so funny, the cracks are starting to show now in that ‘show’ marriage.
So, he’ll have mucho to tweet about tomorrow morning. Knew about the protesters but not about the phone calls. Bet that landline goes private quickly!
No, he was spending the weekend with his rich donors, collecting lists of requests from the wealthy and secretly powerful cabal.
Mike Pence makes menervous, and Idon’t get nervous easily. I have seen that face before..it’s the face of every radical zealot who will do whatever it takes to adhere to (thir interpretation) of the word of (their) god. They are in every religion, in every belief system. They are the ones who frighten me. They are the ones who smile while setting down a pipe bomb at a marathon. I know Trump is doing awful things, but look behind him. Imagine the combo of Pence and Bannon.
That Econmist cover is perfect. It also could say, Terrorist in The White House, bc the scariest terrors we’re facing are right there on Pennsylvania Ave.
We have radical religious and political extremists in the White House and somehow a Muslim guy with a beard is considered a terrorist automatically?
George Takei’s Twitter is giving me so much life.
His response to Trump’s “We must keep evil out of this country”: Too late. It’s in our White House.
I wanna marry some of his tweets.
George Takei is a national treasure.
He really is the best.
The cover says, America First. America is much like the Modern Family tv show. It’s a rich mixture of all sorts who have their ups and downs but in the end want the best for one another. Now what if any one of them piped up and yelled ME FIRST about everything and even refused to let Gloria’s mother visit because she was from a foreign land! That’s what Trump and his cohorts make America sound like … immature, selfish, insecure and sorely misinformed.
Of course, everyone wants to be safe. No one says don’t be safe. But there are intelligent ways of going about it. P*ssygrabbing so-called president Trump doesn’t admit that there are good vetting processes in place and people are constantly working to make them better.
To be fair I think it is at least as important that he who holds the nuclear codes be vetted. Think of the extreme damage he can cause. Has Trump been properly vetted? We still haven’t seen his taxes and he’s up to his eyeballs in conflicts of interest.
You can make your own satirical executive order and share it here:
http://hepwori.github.io/execorder/
I wish I was clever enough to do that. Some people are just so talented that way.
Can just imagine if a PM in the UK spoke about the judiciary like this.
Or, you know, a Lord Chancellor who swears to uphold the RULE OF LAW and refuses to condemn newspaper headlines accusing judges of being the enemies of the people. Or, you know, a PM who also repeatedly refuses to condemn the same headlines. Or, you know, a PM who spends countless millions of public £s to block parliamentary sovereignty.
Just imagine if the UK was like that. Oh. Wait…
People in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing stones, spidey. It’s faux outrage and wilful self delusion.
Just stumbled across this article from the Christian Post. It sounds legit: Next EO will target religious employers’ rights to discriminate against LGBTQ communities and female reproductive rights. Interestingly, the CP was against Trump during the election because of his connection with the alt-right.
Good God, what have we done?!?
http://www.christianpost.com/news/leaked-trump-executive-order-religious-freedom-gay-marriage-abortion-lgbt-174089/
Check out the preview of his interview with Bill O’Reilly. He is going on again about Putin and how he respects him. And excusing it by saying America isn’t innocent and has blood on its hands. Wtf?? How is this not treasonous? How can anyone support a president who talks like this?
Actually, I agree that all countries have blood on their hands. Even this last US raid killed innocents, including children. I hope they do an investigation as I fear so-called president Trump took shortcuts and wasn’t wisely informed or properly prepared to make the call regarding this mission.
Cue the filings for reparations. Words have consequences.
Exactly lightpurple- words matter. DT thinks has the best words. But he’s a fool.
Sure, it’s true America, and most countries, have blood on their hands, but a President saying this is just…. Bonkers. And let’s not forget that Putin is a dictator, and the blood on his hands is quite different than America’s
That interview scared me more than what has come before. Apparently, O’Reilly said to Trump “Putin is a killer” and Trump replied “There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?”
So we have lost even the pretense that we aspire to be a decent country. If Putin can be a killer, so can Trump.
Steerpike- yes! How can our President say such negative things about our country? Disgusting. And all the while, he’s crying how we need to keep evil out of country with his Muslim ban? Such cognitive dissonance.
And the freaking Republicans in Congress will just covers their ears and pretend nothing was said, proceed as usual! Are they all compromised by the hacking into the GOP emails? All of them should be under investigation, all of them!
Trump has run down politicians, public servants, intelligence services, senior military and judges. Denigrated them. Derided them. And surrounded himself with a cabal of unelected advisers like Bannon . That seems textbook fascism to me. Undermine the apparatus of the state and put power in the hands of a few in an unaccountable inner circle.
pence was just on Face the Nation and would not answer the question about that, just mealymouthed around about that and trump’s remarks about the judge as usual. That’s pence’s role so far, go out, look calm and never give a straight answer. How do these people live with themselves defending this insanity?
I’m super critical of US military actions and interventionism in the world (my Latin America has suffered a lot because of it), but we all know Trump wasn’t saying it because he is aware or because high morals, he said that because he doesn’t want to upset Putin.
spot on!
The Republicans destroyed Obama for saying far far less.
https://twitter.com/codykeenan/status/828039438089478146
But see this is part of what makes Trump’s deviance unique and dangerous. I knew when he said this he’d get some progressives on his side. No I’m sorry but the US is not morally equivalent to Putin. We aren’t murdering journalists for example. Do we have blood on our hands, yes. Should we do better? Absolutely. I’m with President Obama on this. But we are not morally equivalent to Putin. This is the same Hillary vs Trump false equivalence shit all over again. Bannon throws these curve balls out here just to keep people confused and questioning who the real enemy is.
I’m beyond disgusted by the anti Hillary Progressives attacking the last vestiges of Never Trump Republicans. Fuck trying to convert Trump cultists. We need to be allying with the last sane voices in the Republican party to get this jackass out. We need all the sane voices left on our side.
“President Trump’s comparison of America to Russian autocracy reflects little about our nation, but much about his aspirations for it.” ~ Evan McMullin
Trump would have had people killed already, if he could, no doubt about it…
This So-Called President is going to ignite the Reichstag Fire himself. He’s undermining democracy and engaging in a constitutional crisis and it’s day 15!
When will our civil liberties be thwarted? Right after the Reichstag Fire event.
We have to be ready to fight back. And, in the meantime, we need to keep demonstrating so that Bannon doesn’t get the idea that we will go quietly.
Fair warning: Fungus Face is on the cover of the new Time.
@Eric:
I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your comments on this catastrophe. You are spot-on with the parallels to the rise of Nazi in Germany. I am a WWIII junkie and have been watching documentaries with my kids so they stay aware of what happened then compared to what we are facing now. It’s terrifying. I’m not trying to scare them, but honestly they should be scared. I am. I want them to stay aware and fight back.
Thanks Juls.
My favorite cover is The Economist. babyfists throwing the flame of liberty as a Molotov cocktail as he screams FU is about as succint as you can get.
Yes. My favorite too.
Pence can’t say to Dickerson on Face the Nation that the United States is morally superior to Russia. Could NOT say it.
That’s all you need to hear.
What a disgrace. I’m ashamed to be a US citizen.
Are you serious?? Holy shit
Yep, as usual he refuses to give a straight answer. That’s pence’s job, deflect, deflect, deflect. I hate Every. Single. Person. in this Misadministration.
Yeah maybe we just just examine this Pence lack of a statement once again. He can’t (CANNOT) say to the Face the Nation host Dickerson that the United States is morally superior to Russia.
If you didn’t know, “Mr” Pence, Russia is a dictatorship with suppressed elections (if any exist at all), they engaged in the poisoning if political dissidents, they killed their leaks involved with hacking the DNC, they illegally encroached on the sovereign country of Ukraine, they illegally annexed Crimea, they deliberately hacked the DNC and RNC, they purposefully denigrated HRC to put a puppet in the WH, they killed an ex-operative with poison in an umbrella in broad daylight in London, UK, they are colluding with US administration officials in the WH, they have a state-run print press and TV station. Plus a slew of other information we have no clue about.
And you, “Mr” Pence cannot say that the United States is morally superior to Russia?
Pence is a moral weenie. He compromised himself to get on Trump’s team and he is forever tainted. He has no backbone and his “Christianity” isn’t worth sh!t.
Eric- holy hell, what is this administration doing?
Dismantling our democratic government and preparing us for life in a dictatorship.
Pence is an amoeba whose real passion is legislating to force everyone to think like he does as a rabid evangelist. He is completely out of his depth when talking about anything that requires substance. Pence has always been a coward who latches onto other people’s platforms to give himself political heft.
Yes, that’s about right. He is almost as clueless as Trump, just packaged in a slightly less revolting veneer. Emphasis on slightly.
I didn’t see the spot. Perhaps he is just conscious of the fact that offending Putin publicly might not help them in their upcoming meetings and negotiations. Just a thought.
Anytime pence is interviewed he is ALWAYS asked about the latest insane/outrageous trump tweet/statement. He NEVER answers the question, just pulls the ka conjob routine of ignoring it.
Y’all, I don’t think those tweets are his. You know how easy it is to impersonate him? Not to mention the tweets are too coherent.
His dementia is probably stepping up due to stress, and someone takes over his account especially on Saturdays when Ivanka isn’t around. Since his twitter is on a private device, who knows who is actually behind the wheel.
Big Brother newspeak cult of personality with a Lenin admirer pulling the strings behind the wizard’s curtain holding a country hostage. Did Nostradamus say anything about the color of the anti-christ?
True story- yesterday, I started randomly reading DT’s anti judge tweets to my mom, without saying whose words they were.
Mom: “People sure say lots of nonsense on the internet. What idiots said that? Why are you reading them?”
Me: “Mom, that’s Trump’s twitter feed!”
Mom: “Figures.”
Best cartoon of the day
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3582MaUEAED7A7.jpg
Yes. He also threatened our president to send his troops to Mexico to take care of the “bad hombres”, those news were received here with same levels of wtf, fear and laugh… I’m just afraid that in a tantrum the Twitler Cheetolini could do something to us…
I’m so sorry that you are being affected by our mess.
Is it John Roberts or robart?
Judge James Robard. John Roberts is the Chief Justice of the Supremes. This case hasn’t gotten up to him yet.
Thank you. Not sure why I saw John for James
“We must keep “evil” out of our country!” – D. Trump, 12:08 AM – 4 Feb 2017
Not sure any other country will take you tho, Rolandmcdonald
The header photo ie last photo on this page is dreadful and considering Trump’s advancing age, we all know now what he looks like when straining on the toilet.
Theory: Trump is trying to get impeached so he can go back to being a celebrity. The Apprentice is losing viewers, guys!
I just want to praise Melissa McCarthy on SNL. I never would have pegged her doing Sean Spicer. Simply brilliant! Laugh out loud funny.
OMG … I needed that laugh!!! I would love to know how the idea of Melissa came up to do Spicer. It’s out of the box and she did a brilliant job.
She totally nailed it. Awesome!
Since people are fighting this muslim ban, wanna bet there will be a “terrorist” attack soon, which Cheetolini will use to justify said ban. #weseeyou
Look up Reichstag Fire and how the Nazis then suppressed free speech, the press, and removed certain civil liberties from its citizenry.
After the Reichstag Fire, the Nazis passed the Enabling Act, which consolidated power into a functional and legal dictatorship in Germany.
Then some other stuff happened after that…
Judge Robart said “Black Lives Matter” in open court when reading the haunting statistics involving the deaths of black men by law enforcement. He may have been appointed by W but I highly doubt he voted for Trump.
Hmm, how to say this without it sounding like praise for Trump and a backhander to Obama. :scratches chin:
Trump has “hit the ground running” and is going to make the most of having control of both houses, even if it’s only for two years. I’d love to see a progressive president, with control of both houses, do the same.
You will need a progressive president to do exactly that, to correct all the shitstorm that is happening right now. And maybe a constitutional revision, because there are so many weaknesses and flaws in the democratic process. This situation should have been prevented by a simple mental assessment of the candidates and stronger ethical evaluation of everybody in congress and HoR.