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(In which we will always believe Trumpism is a cult.)

At the Alabama-LSU game will be an artificial president inflated with hot air and then there will be the Trump balloon.

Fucking A, we'll be just fine on Black Friday, don't you worry.

Remember the phrase attributed to Orwell, "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"? This is the new samizdat.

Listen, Fredo, until a foreign enemy lobs bullets and bombs at you and yours, kindly STFU and carry your plate to the kiddie table.

This is from my former GOP governor.

Virtually every country has global ambitions. Many of them want to dominate the world. These include Israel, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia. Every one of these countries has deeply infiltrated US tech companies not just financially but also, as in Saudi Arabia's case, had embedded spies in Twitter. And if Twitter was infiltrated by Saudi Arabia, then is it really a stretch to imagine other rogue nations doing the same with other social media platforms? And if you're a rogue nation that wants to dominate the world, then it stands to reason you need to either permanently undermine the United States or completely destroy it. And our so-called "president" is doing just that and is being aided & abetted by the corporate cunts that run our corporations, which is another reason why you should not or ever trust any corporation or the executive psychopaths who run them. The Russians through, again, Twitter had installed one of their willing stooges in the very Oval Office. Let's not find out how much worse this espionage can get.

“These reports raise serious concerns about the president’s perception of the Justice Department as a partisan political instrument and his willingness to use the power of federal law enforcement in pursuit of his own objectives." — Sens. Kamala Harris, Richard Blumenthal and Sheldon Whitehouse in a Nov. 8 letter.

One. More. Time. These are the actions of a paranoid dictator. And they are ALL paranoid.

The GOP is planning on using every dirty trick in the book to sabotage the impeachment proceedings. And these are the ways the Democrats are going to use to stop them.

Lucian K. Truscott IV connects some of the dots between Manafort, Giuliani, Parnass and Fruman.

Uhm, excuse me. Isn't using the White House to raise campaign funds and to campaign in general incredibly illegal?

With perhaps one exception, all these writers are women. So fuck this "quid pro quo" shit.

He left the government two and a half years before the phone call, you fucking morons.

24 Things You Didn't Know About Lindsey Graham: #7 I once kissed Trump's ass so hard, I could taste Hannity.

Bloomberg's also the right wing asshole who changes parties more frequently than we change our socks and crushed Occupy Wall Street, so shut the fuck up, you moron.

Meme intermission.

The Germans give Trump a head start on his wall.

I vividly recall a Rachel Maddow episode from over two years ago in which she reported Trump talking to a father who'd lost a son in battle and he promised to cut him a check for $25,000... which he then didn't even cut until the media got wind of it and he was embarrassed into it.

Then Trump tried it again with the Dunns after springing on them that the woman who killed their son Harry then fled the country after invoking diplomatic immunity was in the next room. The Dunns angrily rejected both the meeting and the check Steve Mnuchin was ready to cut them.
To Trump, consoling grieving parents is just another deal to make and that money will make the grief and loss go away. This is because Donald Trump is purely and simply a sociopath. Why more of us aren't saying this is a mystery to me.

If Amy McGrath doesn't make hay out of this next year, then she's an idiot. If any one thing that ever came out about McConnell this year shows how utterly corruptible he is, this is it.

Finally, something to help us cope with the holidays.

Oh, sure, NOW they agree to do this, after most of the leaky fucking pipeline's been built. Note the state of South Dakota never offered to strike those unconstitutional laws from the books and I don't recall reading in this article whether any of the water protectors who were arrested and charged will have those charges dismissed, either. There's also no enforceable guarantee that I see that South Dakota law enforcement won't abruptly begin enforcing the anti-protest laws that are still on the books.

So I am very deeply unimpressed with this "deal."

This is amazing. Koko the gorilla and other great apes aren't the only ones who can articulate thoughts. That already puts this dog one step above the machine Democrats.

Go ahead, just TRY using that old right wing-Machine Democrat trope on me that "Socialists can't beat Trump."

In 11 days, Texas will execute an innocent man named Rodney Reed, something they've already done before. Don't let it happen again. Sign the petition. And finally...

This is one of the saddest stories you'll ever read. Christopher Dennis, a Superman wannabe who couldn't even help himself, was a Hollywood Boulevard icon on a par with the Naked Cowboy in Times Square. Shortly before his death, Dennis was found dead headfirst in a clothing donation bin. Just prior to this, he'd been beaten and robbed of his laptop, money and costume.

This is what Los Angeles does, what the whole world does- To paraphrase Sylvia Plath, It eats dreams like air. But LA is a bit more ravenous than most.