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A President who is "obsessed with decor" and a VP who loves "The Wizard of Oz" and going to B'way musicals. Seriously, people, who did we elect into office? Trump and Pence, or Frasier and Niles?

I think this is the first time I've seen "Doug Davidson" and "interesting" in the same sentence.

But, as I've been saying all along, at least we (or at least the ones who keep resisting) will go down kicking and screaming, not shrugging and saying, "Well, what are you gonna do?".

If it reaches that point and he makes that demand, then I'd say "no dice" and I would wait out the rest of his term. His high-water booty doesn't deserve "go away money" for all the havoc he has wreaked both here and abroad.

And I still think we need to be ready for when he wins that second term, because people think he should be given the opportunity to finish what he started (just as they had said once upon a time about Dubya).

You'll have to forgive me, Vee, if I don't take your word for it. If anything, I think he's capable of playing the "useful idiot" for others in order to make them stumble on their own presumed intellectual superiority. I just don't trust this man at all.

So...which catastrophe is he attempting to distract us from this time?

Like Dorothy Parker said when Calvin Coolidge died: "How can they tell?"

I guess I'm like one of those "radical left-wing extremists," lol. I don't want Congress to "work with" Trump and his goons, just as I didn't want to "wait and see" about what he'd do once in office or "give him a chance." And I don't want to hold off on fighting him HERE because I think it'd be more to the left's advantage to fight him THERE. I want the liberals and moderates to fight Trump HERE and THERE and everywhere else. I want them all to block (or try to block) the crap out of everything he even THINKS of doing, regardless of whatever some think it'll cost them; and when and where they can't block, I want them to make it known to all who are paying attention that they couldn't block him AND WHY. In short, I want the Democrats and everyone else on their side to say "No." Every. Damn. Time. No exceptions, no excuses. Like I said before, this is not politics as usual. This is war against the forces of fascism, and it's being fought in the WH, on Capitol Hill and across this country. The Democrats didn't bring the war, the GOP did. But if it's war the GOP wanted back in 2008, it's war they should have now. And if it all ends with the Democratic Party dead and American democracy gone and forgotten, then I, for one, want to know that the party I sided with once I DID choose a side fought the good fight.

No, I'm sorry, but I refuse to pick battles with Trump. In my mind, picking battles means compromising. That's something that, quite frankly, we cannot afford to do with this dictator-in-waiting, on anything. It isn't about Gorsuch and it isn't even about payback for Merrick Garland. It's about not giving into Trump, win or lose, now or ever. Because if the Democrats give in even once, they will never stop. Okay. But don't be surprised if we get to that point and the Democrats don't have anything, not even their precious filibuster, to stop him, because they've compromised away everything and basically handed the rest of the country over to fascism. Don't be surprised if this opening gambit on Trump's part to dupe the Democrats (with a Scalia replacement, something that, on the surface, doesn't seem like a big deal) leads ultimately to the right AND the left lookin' gobsmacked as Trump and Bannon have duped them right into a totalitarian regime where they, and they alone, control everything and neither the Dems nor the GOP have a hand in anything. (You know how much I love y'all...but I'm just gonna have to disagree here.) Frankly, I say, take away the damn filibuster. It's the difference between fighting with something to lose and fighting with nothing to lose. Maybe it won't change anything in the end, but maybe it'll stop the Democrats from being cautious and willing to give Trump an inch on anything he does. Who knows? Without things like filibusters to fall back on, they might be forced to work a little harder in getting more voices on their side. (It's a thought anyway.)

You know, it pains the hell out of me to see folks on both sides of the aisle say that Neil Gorsuch is a "gift" to the Democrats and they should take it. Perhaps he IS a gift, but I feel like the Democrats are missing the point. Trump is handing us this "gift," because he (or Bannon, or whoever) knows the Democrats will have a hard time passing it up. He isn't trying to appease anyone, not even Republicans. He's trying to own the Democrats, thereby making it tougher to resist his continued march toward facism. The Democrats HAVE to fight this. Even if defeat is guaranteed. This is more than "just politics." This is war. We (meaning, the Democrats) give him THIS without a fight, he'll know how to win us over the next time...and the next...and the next. The F? I can't tell if that was a tribute to MLK, a brag about WH knick-knacks, another screed against the Liberal Elite Media, or a combinatiom thereof! Seriously, Trump, you're so stream-of-consciousness that you're putting William Faulkner to shame!

It's still incredible to me how Teen Vogue, of ALL publications, has stepped up since the election. Don't get me wrong, I applaud their work. But it's just so bizarre. Next thing you know, Black Hair Monthly's gonna blow the lid off Trump's plan for martial law in predominantly African-American communities.

Trump called his wife "ugly" and Cruz STILL ended up campaigning for the S.O.B. If I were Mrs. Cruz, I would have told Ted to expect his [!@#$%^&*] on the front lawn and the divorce papers in the mail.

Frankly, I'm not surprised by those numbers. For the most part, Obama kept us safe from radical Islamic terrorism. However, as long as groups like ISIS remain on the West's radar, many will continue to feel anxiety, which, in turn, will lead them to support ANY measures that will restrict immigration. That's when it's up to the more clear-minded ones to remind the others that our own fears and prejudices are the greatest weapons the Islamic State have against us, and that the minute we endorse anything that says, essentially, "We KNOW we're supposed to be the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, but we don't want you here, because you're not Christian and you scare the bejeebus out of us," the terrorists have indeed won. That's one reason why I admire Justin Trudeau despite what his critics maintain about him. He told the refugees and others what, frankly, we should have told them all along.

Frankly, more news organizations need to be treated the same way as CNN and the Washington Post. I don't like the idea of a presidential administration censoring anyone from the media. However, this might force these entities to stop being lazy and kissing ass in order to get their scoops, and do some actual reporting and investigating.

I think the GOP really saw Trump's electoral victory as a mandate handed to them by voters and not what it really was: a breakdown of an antiquated system (meaning, the electoral college) that was supposed to prevent something like this from happening in the first place. Seventy thousand votes, spread across three states, might have won Trump the electoral vote, but even if you ignore the three-plus million votes Hillary Clinton gained over him in the popular vote, that does not suggest the American public handed him OR the Republican party a mandate for anything.

He's dumping them both and doing away with the Supreme Court altogether.

And not a moment too soon. When they allowed Trump to host -- something that never would have happened even during the Dick Ebersol era -- they lost whatever credibility and respect they had managed to hold onto. Now, if we could find some way to get Fallon booted from "The Tonight Show".... For some reason, I'm curious as to why Paul Ryan felt that press conference was a waste of his time. Does he hold as much contempt for the media as do Trump, Bannon and Spicer? Does he know that no amount of press conferences with pat statements will put an end to this circus? Is it a combination of the two? Is it something else entirely? Why, Paulie, do you think that press conference was a [!@#$%^&*] waste of time?

Hey, I know I would be there! A check is a check!

You know, maybe there WAS something to all those rumors suggesting that, back in the glorious '80's, Ivana was the real power broker at The Trump Organization.

From what I have heard and read in the past, we were supposed to learn that Allison Perkins had switched Jessica and Natalie. You know the story: Viki gives birth to Jessica; she and Clint bring Jessica home to Llanfair; Allison, under Mitch's orders, dons the red wig and tight-fitting dress to kidnap the baby while Viki is drugged (again); Allison's mother turns out to have the child, who is rescued and brought back home. (There's also Maria Roberts' participation, but that's too complicated to explain and beside the point.) But, in fact, red-haired Natalie was supposed to be Clint and Viki's daughter -- their ONLY daughter -- whom they had brought home from the hospital; and blonde Jessica was Walter and Roxy Balsom's little girl, whom Allison gave to Ruth Perkins, and whom Clint and Viki wound up raising after they THOUGHT they had reunited with their baby. (Also, I make the point of mentioning Jessica and Natalie's respective hair colors, because that was sort of the reason why they thought of the story. Pre-kidnapping, newborn Jessica appeared on screen as a redhead; after the kidnapping, however, she was blonde.) Like I said, that was how Gary Tomlin, Lorraine Broderick and Christopher Whitesell's story was supposed to go (...allegedly); and while I can't recall offhandedly to whom she said this, I think Ilene Kristen, when she was hired to play Roxy, was under the same impression. (Just as she said, years later, that Rex was supposed to be her and Charlie Banks' kid before THAT got changed.) However, viewers caught onto what Tomlin and his HW's were trying to do with Jessica and Natalie so that's when they began all the crazy rewrites that ended up with Viki giving birth to Jessica AND to Natalie but by different fathers. Now, if you ask me, I think the whole idea was screwy BEFORE the convoluted rewrites threw us off-track. First of all, Clint and Viki had to have been pretty damn stupid not to recognize their own daughter when they brought her back home. Second, you mean to tell me, OLTL, you're gonna build an entire retcon on a baby's hair color? No doubt, the show had "recast" the infant portraying Jessica without giving hair color a second thought (it's a baby, for God's sake). But seriously, THAT was the motivation (or justification)?

So that's 200 more people out of work.

It makes more sense than whatever he's supposed to be now.

The thing is, Congressional Republicans might reach that point BEFORE they can accomplish everything on their agenda. I, too, wonder whether they expected this amount of pushback from the public. I could be wrong, of course, but provided the protests and efforts to resist continue at this level or intensify, Congressional Republicans will soon have to make that choice: either screw their agenda (and possibly, their final grasp at relevance) and save the damn country, or press ahead, even if it means the entire United States being broken apart permanently. Silence and passivity will no longer be options. At this point, I think we have to prepare for the worst.

I always said I wanted to know what life was like during the Watergate era. #bcarefulwhatuwish4 That's especially true now that we've had our first Monday Night Massacre. Again, I say, Vee is right: this [!@#$%^&*] cannot go on.