277 Comments

Trump Hotel commercials.

Expand full comment

Trump and Rethugs continue to loot the treasury, and steal the furniture and window coverings as they head out the door. A version of Russia's scorched earth tactic in WWII. They figure they'll break so much stuff, the Dems will spend all their time fixing it (like Bush financial meltdown as Obama came in). Dems will spend time releasing Trump's taxes and Barr's shenanigans before indictments.

Expand full comment

If by purge you mean indict, convict and imprison then yes. What I’m worried about is that while trumpkins can be removed, the institutional damage they’ve caused will take much longer to repair. If it can be repaired.

Expand full comment

Right. Every country in the world will think if the U.S. did it once, we can do the same thing again. The world will continue to slowly pull away from U.S. control after seeing Trump extort even our allies to push through his regressive and stupid policies, like tearing up the multinational agreement with Iran, or pulling out of the Paris Accords on climate change and the Trans Pacific Partnership. The last one continuing without the US, which made the TPP a weaker counterbalance to China and left America out of an important alliance with several countries on the Pacific Rim, from Japan, Vietnam, and Australia to Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Peru.

Expand full comment

Make America More Like the Stalin-era Soviet Union Again

Expand full comment

God, I miss those guys and being that young.

Expand full comment

Can we get the promise of a SWAT team breaking down the doors and gunning everyone down in a welter of blood? Now, that would be a memorable wedding!

Expand full comment

That's mostly because there's less fuckup than expected.

Expand full comment

So are these guys in Yes this year?

Expand full comment

Is it possible for any media outlet NOT to reflect the biases of its owners?

Expand full comment

But whose truth? During the US invasion of Iraq, I would watch CBS News from the United States and Canal Onze (Mexico's Politechnical Institute channel) ... very, very different coverage of the same exact attacks. A state run media is going to reflect the "truth" of its owners, not some Platonic truth.

Expand full comment

The Voice of London is coming soon!

Expand full comment

Oh, I completely agree. I just think of propaganda as largely false.

If you asked me if these stations are slanted heavily for a pro-USA bias, I would completely agree. They aren't neutral at all, and I'm not proposing that they adhere to some observer-independent version of the truth. Just that they are unlikely to lie blatantly as they used to do.

Expand full comment

I have to start wearing padding on my head for all the times it hits the desk.

Expand full comment

The good news, all those people can be rehired in January.

Expand full comment