What is it about the psyches of the Trump cultists and other right wingers that gets them hysterical over a single defection from a preordained result?

Two reasons to support Bloomburg in spite of ideological  differences. First, tons of money thrown at Trump in attack ads. Second, Trump has broken the federal government  so badly, it requires a real manager to put it back together.

Something to think about when the dust has cleared

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I think that Mr. Trump's genitals reside in a box in Mrs. Pelosi's trophy case.

After Pecker's cooperation on the campaign finance crimes, it takes wilful blindness to believe that Trump is innocent.

Paul Ryan leaves as he arrived, a complete fraud. The House slipped into the Farm Bill a provision that would prevent the U.S. from fast tracking withdrawal from the horrible war in Yemen

Events moving too fast .

Random thoughts on recent events.

I knew the GOP would be fine with Trump's racism and criminality. What will they do when the treason is exposed? The clue is that they were fine when McConnell refused to go along with a non partisan statement on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

I don't care if Trump goes to jail ( although that would be nice), the real question is to what extent he has compromised our national security.

Any pardon Trump gives, or gets from Pence, should be challenged in Court as a corrupt bargain.

Pence would be just as bad a president as Trump, but easier to beat in 2020.

The slogan "Trump 2020" should be changed to "Trump 10 to 20 with possibility of parole after 8".

Apart from being Putin's Useful idiots, the GOP is subverting democracy by trying to nullify the results of this year's elections in various states.

Fox is just mailing it in.

Fox "news" doesn't even bother to try anymore. They don't even cover stories that might reflect poorly on Dear Leader and his minions. They spend hours broadcasting in full Trump's unhinged campaign rally rants without a hint of criticism. And now, Bill Shine, who was forced out of Fox for covering up sexual harassment claims, is a White House deputy chief of staff. This relationship is something any despot would be thrilled to have.

Poor Alan Dershowitz.

Poor Alan, he can't get invited to all the dinner parties on Martha Vineyard since he decided to waste his legacy and reputation by shilling for Trump. So of course he claims it's because he supports Israel.

Civility My Ass.

Trump threatens every norm and institution of representative government. His advisors proudly announce that "culture wars" will be the centerpiece of his reelection campaign. His immigration policy is pure racism and is being carried out in a totalitarian manner with deliberate cruelty. His attorney general is a flat out racist who couldn't be confirmed for a Federal judgeship 30 years ago by a GOP controlled Congress. Every agency is headed by someone who is antagonistic to the purpose of the agency, is corrupt, or both.

So what do Schumer and Pelosi clutch their pearls about? Maxine Waters says it's right to get in the face of the liars and pushers of this evil. And people like Huckabee Sanders are not welcome in some places. Maybe they'll come to the rescue of poor Alan Dershowitz.

To Chuck and Nancy, fight or get out of the way.

Where the hell are the Dems?

Every day I get emails from various Democratic fund raising committees begging for money. I have not seen a single thing they do with the money they get. The funniest one is from the "Instant Response" team. Their response to everything is to ask for more money. Where are the ads showing the GOP legislators kissing up to Moscow, the cruelty on the border, and especially the House GOP committee proposing a budget to cut Medicare and Medicaid and defund CHIP? No more from me, until they do something.

Three dogs that didn't bark.

The people who voted for Trump out of "economic anxiety" not complaining about $3 gas.

Complete absence of armored vehicles and SWAT teams along Royal Wedding parade route.

Another school massacre and right wing media not considering guns part of the problem.

Puzzle solved

It has long puzzled me why the Congressional GOP has gone to such great lengths to use its legislative power​ to obstruct the Mueller probe.

They could have diverted by holding legitimate inquiry into Russian attempts to affect our electoral process.

Instead they chose an institutional attack on our counterintelligence capability.

To protect that wonderful individual DJT? I don't think so. Pence would sign their same crappy legislation. So why?

The answer is blindingly clear. Various parts of the GOP have been colluding with the Russians for years.

Details to follow.

Not quite a lie.

Apparently Perdue and Cotton think it's ok to say Trump didn't say shithole because they heard him say shithole.

All you have to know about Trump and his cronies is that the White House, in the name of the United States, issued a false transcript of the televised DACA meeting.

Back in the game.

I'm​ getting back in the game with political content here, and leaving Facebook for social stuff.

Both sides do it.

Thomas Mann and Norman Orenstein, a centrist and a conservative, have written a book, and WaPo op ed, clearly stating that Washington gridlock is almost entirely the fault of the GOP. Neither has been invited on the Sunday talk shows to discus this thesis, even though they are widely regarded for their anaylsis on many issues. It seems pretty clear that the reason for this is that the professional centrists who are the establishment media can't bear the thought of actually discussing any issue without constructing false equivalences. They are invested in decrying policy differences as extremism. Artificially manufactured consensus is their vision of the future.

Their influence is unmistakable, as Democrats now enthusiastically speak of "Grand Bargains", which are really just way stations on the road to right wing evisceration of the social safety net and economic mobility. No matter what happens in the November election, the lame duck session of Congress will be a nightmare for progressives and for peopleof no particular political ideology who rely on the social contract they have honored for their whole lives.

The participation of certain Dems, including Bill Clinton, in Pete Peterson's annual "kill social security" event is a grim harbinger of things to come.

Thoughts on the GOP presidential debate. The main difference between liberals and "conservatives" (really radical rightwingers) is that liberals respect our institutions and the people who represent them. Rightwingers never accept the legitimacy of a duly elected officeholder if he/she is not one of them. Liberals do. As much as we disliked George W. Bush and the way he reached office, we respected the fact that he was President. In Ocober 2001 his approval ratingacoording to Gallup was 90% in spite of the fact that he lost the popular vote. He was our president. Both the so-called mainstream Republicans and the rightwing base do not give Obama (nor did they give Clinton) the respect due the office and the man.