This is embarrassing. And frightening.

(2-16 "press conference&quot

Last time I saw a speech like this was in a newsreel from the 1930s.

Most of the world remembers that as a horrible warning. Clearly, Trump sees it as a template.



Fuck.


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Facepalms

One ringy dingy, two ringy dingies...

I just now called both Colorado senators about the Mulvaney nomination.

Gardner's office answered with the recorded after-hours leave a message tape.
Bennet's office, a real person answered, took note of my comments, and then THANKED me for calling.

Senator Michael Bennet (D): 202-224-5852
"senator" Cory Gardner (R): 202-224-5941


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Not just the times that are a-changin'

Back in the 1970s I rented a 4-bedroom 2-bath house with a large yard and garage. The lease was one page.

Today, I renewed the lease on my little, very unfancy apartment; the document is 27 small-font pages long.

Something sure as heck has trickled down into landlord-tenant stuff.


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Heart

shrug

Gloves coming off?

“...reckless, incompetent, and strategically incoherent.” — Pelosi, describing Trump administration.

(at this morning's presser)


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Want to take a walk?

Tip a wheelbarrow of marbles of varying size onto a patio surrounded by steep cliffs. There are no railings. Toss some loose boards on top of the marbles. Fling a few handfuls of broken glass into the mix while squirting streams of oil into random spaces. Kick off your shoes and socks, tie a blindfold securely around your eyes, and put your wrists in handcuffs behind your back. Spin around a dozen times. Now, how confident are you in walking across that patio and back? That’s what it feels like to navigate a once-familiar landscape now under the pall of Trumpworld.


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Roster

It must stop.