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For anybody on a normal network, this would be cause for immediate professional execution.

 

Drew Magary ...

Trump didn’t orchestrate this all on his own. All of this shit didn’t just magically happen. America was waiting to become this. The table was already set. All Trump did was give Republicans a permission slip to fully unleash their conservative id, which was always rotten in its bones. That id is entrenched everywhere now: in business, in law enforcement, in certain newsrooms, and especially in judicial appointees who will hang around long after Trump finally chokes to death on a Whopper. It was the brainchild of a corrupt GOP operating efficiently in whatever America was before Trump proved fertile ground for that plan to come to fruition. This isn’t a fucking anomaly. It’s not a fad. It’s easy to think of Trumpism as such because the man himself is so absurd and his everyday musings and doings are so repulsive and freakish. But there’s a reason Trump now holds the GOP under his little thumb. He is an unpopular president, but among his base he is frighteningly popular, so much so that I have to sit here and genuinely worry about whether or not he’ll willingly leave office once his tenure ends, and what his people will do if he actually does so. He will have protégés. Many of them. He already does.

That’s America right now. That’s the America leaders need to reckon with, and that reckoning does not mean you just remove one particularly vain and miserable agitator and then assume we’ll all hug it out. This isn’t an old episode of Entourage. Cory Booker, though he may be an opportunist of the highest order, made it clear in one of last week’s 2020 demolition derbies. From the AP: “Sen. Cory Booker says the nation’s ‘crisis is Donald Trump, but not only Donald Trump.’ Booker says beating Trump ‘is the floor, not the ceiling.’ ”

He’s right. Getting rid of Trump is not the fix; it’s merely the start of what has to be fixed. The hatred and spite that Trump has unleashed was never his creation. It was always there, deeply rooted in America’s history. And now his adherents feel freer and more alive than they’ve ever been. They don’t “know better.” They know this is EXACTLY what they’re supposed to be doing.

Trump Is Not a Cosmic 404 Error

 

Poor Trunpist needed a safe space because he was triggered by a hat.

 

What Would Jesus Tweet?

 

Trump, Jesse the Body, Woody and Melania at dinner ...

 

I agree with Woody that burning one every now and then is a great way to weather The Trump Storm for a few hours at a time. But it eventually wears off and I return to reality.

 

It's in bad taste to talk about someone's looks, but Tucker Carlson looks like he's no-life-in-those-eyes brain dead.

 

Normal being the operative word here.

 

Poor persecuted Bill O'Reilly. Cry me a fucking river, Billy Boy.

 

From today's STFU file:

 

Right here. Right now?