So this happened:

• Trump is inaugurated.
• Not a lot of people turn out for it.
• People post tweets showing photos of empty stands during the parade and comparing the National Mall crowd to Obama’s 2009 inauguration.
• The media report this.
• Press Secretary Sean Spicer spends the first White House press conference scolding the media for reporting fake news ( Read more... )

ITEM: Mark Hamill reads D.Trump’s gloating New Years tweet in his Joker voice.

The Trumpster quote #1 #ANewJeersToast https://t.co/qZQEGU18r6
- Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) January 8, 2017

The joke’s on you,

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We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decisions. They are representatives of abstract forces who have reached power through surrender of self. The ( Read more... )

Well. Talk about a twist ending.

And yet one I had a strange feeling we were going to see. When the nominees were selected, I called the election for Trump. I was kind of joking, and yet I never really wrote him off because he was never supposed to make it past the silly season last year.

Consider the traditional litmus test that the GOP usually ( Read more... )