Dear Republicans-- you've elected a blithering idiot for president

A dotty old racist asshole.

What else can anyone say at this point?

Whatever goes wrong in this country from this point on is entirely on you.

Remember nuclear holocausts are bad-- they are the worst!

God help us all.

Nixon "I'm not a crook"

Search #kakistocracy on twitter and see what pops up!

Someone did a good job.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/kakistocracy?src=hash

Donald Trump's staff get him to agree to policies by saying 'Obama wouldn't have done it'

Source: UK Independent

Military officials got Donald Trump to agree to the botched Yemen raid by suggesting Barack Obama would never have had the courage to do it, it has been reported.

The raid, which had been planned for two months before Mr Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office, killed 30 civilians and one US Navy SEAL but failed to kill its alleged target, al Qaeda leader Qassim al Rimi.
(snip)

Mr Obama had reportedly been told about the plan to kill al Rimi, who took over control of the Yemeni affiliate of the terror organisation in 2015, but held off approving it because his advisors had wanted to wait until a moonless night which would not have happened again till after he left office, the New York Times reported.

But Defence Secretary, General James "Mad Dog" Mattis, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, reportedly convinced Mr Trump to go ahead with the raid by suggesting Mr Obama would never have been so bold as to actually go through with it.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-yemen-raid-agree-to-policy-barack-obama-would-not-do-james-matthis-qassim-al-rimi-a7566861.html

Super Bowl Poll!!!

Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl???

You may or may not know that the Patriots are surrogates for Trump, and the Falcons are surrogates for the Trump opposition (also their fan base is a huge black community in Atlanta, and their representative is John Lewis-D).

It's being played in Houston, which is very pro-immigrant too!

Trump's disastrous first military strike had previously been rejected by Obama

Source: The Week

Saturday's Navy SEAL raid in Yemen — which resulted in the death of an 8-year-old American girl — had previously been rejected by former President Barack Obama, The Guardian reports. President Donald Trump approved of the raid in his first military strike as commander-in-chief:

[Colonel John] Thomas said he did not know why the prior administration did not authorize the operation, but said the Obama administration had effectively exercised a "pocket veto" over it.

A former official said the operation had been reviewed several times, but the underlying intelligence was not judged strong enough to justify the risks, and the case was left to the incoming Trump administration to make its own judgment. [The Guardian]

Yemeni officials say at least 10 women and children were also killed, including the 8-year-old daughter of U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was himself slain a 2011 drone strike. Read more about how things went wrong here. Jeva Lange

Read more: http://theweek.com/speedreads/677442/trumps-disastrous-first-military-strike-previously-been-rejected-by-obama

Sadly, polls show more Americans support Trump's Muslim ban (48%) than are against it (41%)

though at least it doesn't crack 50% support

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/31/reuters_ipsos_muslim_ban_poll_finds_support_for_order.html

It's depressing that so many people are either falling for the demagoguery or don't understand the EO.

Trump picks Colo. appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

Source: Wash Post

President Trump selected Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday, opting in the most important decision of his young presidency for a highly credentialed favorite of the conservative legal establishment to fill the opening created last year by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Gorsuch prevailed over the other finalist, Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, also a federal appeals court judge, and Trump announced the nomination at a televised prime-time event at the White House.

Trump broke tradition by entering the White House ceremony by himself, rather than alongside his nominee. He declared that after the most transparent judicial selection process in history, he had delivered on a campaign promise to find the very best judge in America for the court.

Gorsuch, 49, said he would strive to be independent and impartial, and that he would follow the law to its rightful outcome. A judge who personally agrees with the outcome of every case, Gorsuch said, is probably a bad judge.

Gorsuch and Hardiman, 51, emerged from a list of 21 as Trumps most likely choices. A third person on the shortlist U.S. Circuit Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of Alabama saw his chances diminish as some Senate Republican leaders have said his confirmation would be difficult.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-picks-colo-appeals-court-judge-neil-gorsuch-for-supreme-court/2017/01/31/2b08a226-e55e-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.a75789e263d9