Days after AT&T announced $1,000 bonuses after Congress passed huge corporate tax cuts, AT&T will lay off over 1,000 employees. https://t.co/BJcmc4YDEt

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) December 26, 2017

 

Maybe someday Days in Prison will be added to this statistic (*fingers crossed*).

 

President Trump is at his West Palm Beach golf club, marking the 85th day at one of his golf properties and 111th day at a Trump property since taking office https://t.co/den2jWBtto pic.twitter.com/sMyof2gWuY

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 26, 2017

I guess Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were on Fox saying that SNAP needs to come to an end.  There really is no bottom here.  I just hope they can't make it happen before they lose power.

1 hour ago, Juliajms said:

I guess Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were on Fox saying that SNAP needs to come to an end.  There really is no bottom here.  I just hope they can't make it happen before they lose power.

 

They truly are psychopaths.

 

Too bad they won't report that on Faux News.

I think I just saw on CNN that Bannon The Nazi said Ryan was "Dead to us". My prayer for 2018.....that all these people just disappear. 

^ Since they won't, I'm sort of enjoying the civil war.  Not entirely though, because whatever problems they have they still have two branches of government under their control.  God save us if another Justice dies or retires.

Just yesterday, Trump and conservatives were bragging all over social media about how Trump had supposedly wiped out ISIS.

Today, there is a ISIS generated terrorist attack that killed 40 people.

 

No words, really.

This is apt.

 

.@JoyAnnReid: "If you think of the presidency as a national avatar, Obama is who we hope we are, and Donald Trump is who we fear we are." #LastWord https://t.co/nS3G9DOIUE pic.twitter.com/UYxBbZmQKW

— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) December 28, 2017

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/28/2018-america-new-year-economy-everything-is-awesome-216159

 

Politico has this every year for the last few years - it was especially glaring last year as I felt like we were going to hell.

 

This year even he admits that anything "good" in America is stained by our resident and that the wonderful, wonderful economy actually isn't going to matter much for most people. 

9 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/28/2018-america-new-year-economy-everything-is-awesome-216159

 

Politico has this every year for the last few years - it was especially glaring last year as I felt like we were going to hell.

 

This year even he admits that anything "good" in America is stained by our resident and that the wonderful, wonderful economy actually isn't going to matter much for most people. 

Which we did.

4 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

Which we did.

 

True. At times it's felt like a purgatory to me, with the worst to come (and I'm not one of those who is waiting for "Santa Mueller" to save the day so I don't even have that). I dearly hope that next year will prove me wrong, but I wake up every day wondering if this is the end. I guess a lot of people in the world have felt that way all their lives, so it reminds me of how privileged I was - and still am - compared to many.

36 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

True. At times it's felt like a purgatory to me, with the worst to come (and I'm not one of those who is waiting for "Santa Mueller" to save the day so I don't even have that). I dearly hope that next year will prove me wrong, but I wake up every day wondering if this is the end. I guess a lot of people in the world have felt that way all their lives, so it reminds me of how privileged I was - and still am - compared to many.

We'll know in the fall of 2018.  If there is a crack down and even higher levels of voter suppression we'll know that our democracy is really screwed.  If there is a relatively free and fair election we might be at the beginning of the end of this nightmare.   Assuming 45 doesn't get us into WWIII, of course.

 

I see that a lot of people smarter than myself seem to think that Mueller will come up with evidence of money laundering and that Kushner was involved. We'll see. It takes some hubris to go down that road after you've seen your own father do time.