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I have resorted to reading young adult fantasy. It's very comforting.

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Aotk.

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Totally completely plausible. Obama/Kerry/Clinton were the ones pushing for a two-state solution. Conservatives in both the US and Israel saw it as negotiating with the enemy.

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/Trump's whole cabinethttps://farm9.staticflickr....

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I am positively, absolutely, gobsmacked unable to get my head around this. What the ever-loving FUCK? I grew up in an age where I never ever had to see tittie pictures of the FLOTUS before she became the FLOTUS (Not that I don't like pictures like that...I just never expected to see the First Lady's breasts. I just thought, you know...Barbara Bush...Pat Nixon....um, don't need to see them). Now this...THIS?! I can only imagine that, without my knowing, I woke up in a parallel dimension where a misogynist, white supremacist is the primary counsel to the POTUS, while at the same time, the president's wife is providing masturbatory fuel for teenage boys and their fathers.

I read a lot of history...mostly of the military type. It's not Trump (oh, the Irony that his name has a German history)...It's his followers...and his alt-right followers (aka Brown Shirts) I think I've seen this movie before. It didn't end so well for the "protagonist".

Serious question: What the fuck can I do? I don't have much money to donate, and I have precious little time to spare. This has to be stopped. I'm watching my country Wiemar off the deep end and it's breaking my heart.

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That's how getting rid of a free press, to the extent that we have one, begins.

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Hate to have to say it, but don't hold your breath.

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Well, on the upside* he's no longer trying to shove his kids into cabinet or committee positions anymore.

*There is no upside.

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The appointment of Bannon puzzles me. I thought Trump was smart enough to keep the guy in the closet, It looks like Trump line about being everyone's Pres is BS. That may not be so surprising but I didn't think it would be so blatant. What does Conway think of this?

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I guarantee Sarah Palin won't accept any real position in government, none that will require her to actually do any work.

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Oh, she says Reince and bannon are great guys and they wouldn't have won without them.

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I confess that since I was raised in traditional Christian religion, I have been thinking of praying for some pinpointed smiting.

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Behold the Senate Hold! https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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Like Mussolini didn't actually?

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"I thought Trump was smart enough"

Please delete that phrase from your vocabulary. There will never, ever be a need to refer to it again.

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