Early Warning Signs of Fascism

This supposedly hangs in the US Holocaust Memorial:

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/31/the-12-early-warning-signs-of-fascism/

Welcome to Trump's America....

Hilarious old Donald Trump computer commercial and spoofs film Ghost.

How prescient can an old ad be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2coF40vSE&feature=youtu.be

Apparently, a lot: incompetence, ham-handedness, cheating by paying people off, breaking things he knows nothing about, and unwanted sexual advances. Yay.

AARP President: Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan Could Hurt Seniors

Seniors vote, so this could be influential:

http://time.com/4653571/aarp-paul-ryan-medicare/?xid=newsletter-brief

The Inevitability Of Impeachment

Music to my ears!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-inevitability-of-impeachment_us_588e8d52e4b0b065cbbcd09f

It takes a special kind of stupid to crash and burn this quickly. I wonder if any of his voters will experience the shame they so richly should feel.

Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon and the Coming Crisis in American National Life

Inside Bannon's thinking:

http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/

Let's hope he's kicked out when Drumpf gets impeached....

Trump's debacles with the refugee ban

The results of one of Shitler's first actions:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-muslim-refugee-ban_us_588cb24ee4b0176377948a09

And the backlash:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/court-blocks-trump-refugee-ban_us_588d4b53e4b0b065cbbc6a6f

What would we do without the ACLU?

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Insidious!!

http://www.theonion.com/article/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-en-35788

Pro-life hypocrisy at its finest

Donald Trump Promised To Bring Back Jobs. For These Workers, He’s Taking Them Away.

Is there nothing he can't taint?:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-hiring-freeze_us_588b9f18e4b08a14f7e5c121?eo3td6fsnf7nqxgvi

What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash

This free-market, cash-based system could result in better care and should appeal to Republicans...but it still ends up looking a lot like Obamacare:

http://time.com/4649914/why-the-doctor-takes-only-cash/

Republicans Trying To Replace Obamacare Still Don’t Have Any Idea What They’re In For

This could be the Republican Party's Waterloo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-retreat-obamacare-replacement_us_5888f549e4b0024605fd474a

I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah

This is long but truly creepy, frightening and important:

https://www.autostraddle.com/i-was-trained-for-the-culture-wars-in-home-school-awaiting-someone-like-mike-pence-as-a-messiah-367057/

Breeding people to take over government for the religious right? Yikes.

Trump’s government looks an awful lot like a badly run business

There is too much damn shit that Trump keeps dishing out like a hippo with ebola, but some of them are worth reading if you've missed them, starting with this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-government-looks-an-awful-lot-like-a-badly-run-business/2017/01/26/8b9e4886-e40d-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.8ae27cbbc0a3

Jake Tapper's Response To Steve Bannon Is A Model For Journalists Everywhere

Short, sweet and to the point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J86ILX3-DTY

Trump punching bag

Nicely done cartoon:

https://www.facebook.com/rtpnoticias/videos/1213379418748419/

Trump Acts To Sabotage Obamacare Enrollment, Days Before Deadline

This is just dickish...and people will die as a result:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obamacare-enrollment_us_588a9451e4b0230ce61b0b40?vetgfi0iwyul92j4i

The Democratic Base Is Marching Right Past Its Leaders

The Democrat Tea Party, essentially:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-march-democrats-base_us_588a490ce4b061cf898d7e98

The magnitude of response is very encouraging.

West Wing leaker goes dark after pulling back the curtain: Trump "irrational", staff "demoralized"

It's schadenfreude time!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/26/1625349/-West-Wing-leaker-silenced-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-Trump-irrational-staff-demoralized

Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private Rnc Email Accounts

Hypocrisy, thy name is Trump:

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191

Scientists Are Planning A March On Washington, And It Looks Like People Are Totally Down

This is SO damn important:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-planning-march-washington_us_5888f55de4b061cf898c487f?w01dag0uueopqfr

A Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump's Inauguration

So this is how it REALLY went down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gneBUA39mnI

Do cake designs count as intellectual property?

First Melania plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbiGsDMmCM

Then Trump basically used Bane's speech: http://theslot.jezebel.com/donald-trump-plagiarized-bane-in-his-inaugural-speech-1791429625

Now Trump has copied Obama's inauguration cake: https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/flip.it%2FbrsvKD-do-cake-designs-count-as-intellectual-p/f-9a48440c8a%2Fqz.com

Can we all agree that we hope Trump plagiarizes Elvis Presley's death? Like, soon?

Trump Fuming Over Women's March

A great The Young Turks report of what went on behind the scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciVG4b7P3I&feature=youtu.be

A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today

This is depressingly creepy. From Carl Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark":

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

How true. I can't believe I miss George W. Bush...well, at least by comparison.

Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land

JUST as Trumplethinskin signs the go-ahead for the Keystone Pipeline, this happens:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-pipeline-leak-idUSKBN1572UJ

Sucks, but good timing!

A Detailed Forensic Analysis of Melania Trump’s Creepy, Devastating Inauguration Smile/Frown

Watch the video for yet another telling insight into Trump's character:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/23/watch_melania_trump_s_smile_melt_into_a_frown_at_the_inauguration.html

‘Emoluments’ Lawsuit Against Trump May Get Kicked Out Of Court

Another bad news piece. Hopefully someone will still take up the charge even if it is tossed out of court:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-emoluments-lawsuit-crew_us_58866248e4b096b4a233ceed

Fake News Did Not Affect the Election, Stanford-NYU Study Finds

Hmm, I would think a steady drum beat of fake news would likely at least have an unconscious effect:

http://bigthink.com/arpan-bhattacharyya/fake-news-did-not-affect-the-election-new-study-finds

Watch the difference in how Trump and Obama greet WW2 veteran Bob Dole and his wife

Another example of how Obama treats people vs. how Trump treats people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIL-Szy4RyA

British Reporter rants about Trump's Bizzare Inauguration

Truly epic. There are just some things that have more impact with a British accent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAbT-qkzAnM

The REAL difference between the Obama vs. Trump crowd size

Father and son accused of rape want ‘only law book that truly matters’ at their trial: The Bible

This should establish officially that the Bible is not a law book:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/01/23/father-son-duo-accused-of-rape-wants-only-law-book-that-truly-matters-at-trial-the-bible/?utm_term=.01f0b4c4911a

The difference between Barack Obama and Donald Trump in two videos

It does say a lot:

https://www.indy100.com/article/difference-barack-obama-donald-trump-two-videos-playback-7538906

The ACLU Announces Mass FOIA For Donald Trump's Business Conflicts

Let loose the dogs of war! 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-aclu-foia-conflicts_us_58824218e4b096b4a231543e

Liberals Plot Revenge as Donald Trump Assumes the Presidency

http://time.com/4641901/trump-inauguration-david-brock/

A couple great political cartoons

http://m.imgur.com/5Bm5ERq?r (only slightly altered from the original quote)

http://m.imgur.com/6c5rEpW?r

Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain

How Trump gets away with his lies:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658

Trump Trackdown

This is an incredibly prophetic episode from a 1958 western show:

https://youtu.be/Gs6UcgiDwg0

Donald Trump Plagiarized Bane in His Inaugural Speech

Are you surprised?

http://theslot.jezebel.com/donald-trump-plagiarized-bane-in-his-inaugural-speech-1791429625

Robert Reich: Trump's infrastructure scam

Clear and powerful as always:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l96myiBa16Y

Evangelical Leaders Celebrate the Day Before Donald Trump’s Inauguration

What kind of bizarro land to these people live in?

http://time.com/4640436/evangelical-leaders-donald-trump-inauguration/?xid=newsletter-brief

Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood

What level of stupid does this require?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html

Economic Experts Are Worried About the Populist Revolt, Blame Capitalism

http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/world-economic-forum-notices-populist-trend

The Domestic Conspiracy That Gave Trump The Election Is In Plain Sight

If even half this stuff is true, then this is a far worse scandal than Watergate and it would be criminal if the press lets this go:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9

After Obamacare report, Republicans want to kill the CBO. Again.

This is a great breakdown of how the CBO has used basic math again and again to show the Republican position on healthcare to be a lie:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/17/1621637/-After-Obamacare-report-Republicans-want-to-kill-the-CBO-Again

In 2 Terms, Barack Obama Had Fewer Scandals Than Donald Trump Has Had In The Last 2 Weeks

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-scandal-legacy_us_5875a0fce4b05b7a465c67ed

Republicans Plan to Roll Back Parts of the Landmark Endangered Species Act

Republicans seem dead set on destroying every advance we've made on society and the environment:

http://time.com/4636033/republicans-gop-endangered-species/

Politician Arrested for Pinching Woman’s Genitals ‘Said He No Longer Had to Be Politically Correct’

What a swell fella:

http://time.com/4635835/christopher-von-keyserling-sexual-assault/

U.S. House Passes Bill to Allow One Step Trashing of Multiple Obama Administration Federal Rules

Major fuckery:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/05/1617127/-U-S-House-Passes-Bill-to-Allow-One-Step-Trashing-of-Multiple-Obama-Administration-Federal-Rules

These 8 Men Have As Much Money As Half The World

This is simply insane:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/income-inequality-oxfam_us_58792e6ee4b0b3c7a7b13616

Put another way, if all their funds were distributed around the world, EVERYONE'S net worth would double.

Yet another performer backs out of the Inauguration, here's the remaining county fair line-up

So the idea of great bands putting on a free concert at the same time as the inauguration doesn't seem to be happening, but at least Shitler can't get any one to play for him. After losing a cover band, he's down to two has-been singers:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620758/-Yet-another-performer-backs-out-of-the-Inauguration-here-s-the-remaining-county-fair-line-up

But don't cry too much for him. Martin Shkreli will be at the inauguration:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/14/1620423/-Trump-Finally-Lands-An-A-list-Celebrity-To-Show-Up-At-His-Inauguration

The most hated man in America...how appropriate!

Republicans, in lather over question of Trump's legitimacy, want—wait for it—Obama to 'step up'

This is SO delicious:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/15/1620765/-Republicans-in-lather-over-question-of-Trump-s-legitimacy-want-wait-for-it-Obama-to-step-up

Hypocrisy and irony lightly blended together in a cool dessert topping for the shit-show mousse surprise!

Life Accordion To Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S65jqrHQi_c&feature=youtu.be

President Trump: The Inauguration, 4pm, BBC One/ STV

Supposedly an actual TV listing from Scotland's Sunday Herald:

Why Do People Believe Fake News?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-is-fake-news_uk_5878e135e4b04a8bfe6a612e?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000001

Why a New Group Aims to Elect More Scientists to the Government

About damn time:

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/we-need-more-scientists-in-the-government-and-this-new-group-wants-to-make-that-happen

A Utah Elementary School is Now Home to an After School Satan Club. (Thanks, Christians!)

Because this is the perfect way to show fundies why separation of church and state is so important:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/13/a-utah-elementary-school-is-now-home-to-an-after-school-satan-club-thanks-christians/

Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele's frustration as FBI sat on Donald Trump Russia file for months

If this is all true, this could be huge:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-file-investigation-hacking-christopher-steele-mi6-a7526901.html

A Message To My Doomed Colleagues In The American Media

This is powerful, disturbing and insightful:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexey-kovalev/a-message-to-my-doomed-colleagues-in_b_14138842.html

Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia

This just keeps getting better and better:

http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/

Honor and Effort: What President Obama Achieved in Eight Years

A good list of all Obama has managed to accomplish:

http://time.com/4616866/barack-obama-administration-look-back-history-achievements/?xid=newsletter-brief

Bryan Fischer – If You’re Not a Christian, You’re a Traitor

Great, so now we're traitors for belief, which is beyond our control. Nice:

http://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/bryan-fischer-if-you-re-not-christian-you-re-traitor

Donald Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy by Russia crime bosses

Surely there's enough evidence to demand full financial disclosure from Twitler. This should not even be a partisan issue:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/9/1618540/-Was-Donald-Trump-bailed-out-of-bankruptcy-by-Russia-crime-bosses

Here Were McConnell's Requirements For Obama's Nominees

McConnell HAS to hold the record for ultimate political hypocrite. He refused to allow Obama's SCOTUS pick to come up for a vote, then got all upset when Democrats said they may reject Orange Hitler's nominee. Now there's this:

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/8/1618252/-Here-Were-McConnell-s-Requirements-For-Obama-s-Nominees

Trump to cede 13 Million jobs to China over next 4 years, in just one industry

The term "penny wise, pound foolish" was invented for people like the Wee-Handed Tangerine Tweet Monkey:

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/08/1618236/-Trump-to-cede-13-Million-jobs-to-China-over-next-4-years-in-just-one-industry

Poll: Most Americans Say Don't Repeal Obamacare Without A Replacement

It looks like the Republicans are setting themselves up for an epic fail:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/06/508379529/poll-most-americans-say-dont-repeal-obamacare-without-a-replacement

Keith Olbermann Has A Message To Share With Your Trump-Supporting Friends

This is a quality example of "humbleranting," which is like "humblebragging" only for rants, of course:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-trump-supporters_us_586f0eede4b02b5f858825ca

It'll Take More Than "Free Money" To Reform Social Welfare

There needs to be more than the Universal Basic Income:

http://bigthink.com/natalie-shoemaker/basic-income-wont-fix-everything-we-still-need-regulation

History Won’t Forget How Barack Obama Was Treated

More Republican hypocrisy. It's actually hard to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i39IqeS8-4

A new brain study sheds light on why it can be so hard to change someone's political beliefs

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/28/14088992/brain-study-change-minds

"Billionaire" Trump Can't Pay His Transition Team's Salaries

Another hint that Trump is poor?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/2/1616547/--Billionaire-Trump-Can-t-Pay-His-Transition-Team-s-Salaries

Trump's Poor. And Putin knows it.

When Trump was roasted, he allowed people to make fun of his hair, his family, his taste, etc. But the one topic that was off-limits was to question his wealth. So naturally, that should be the one thing we question the most:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/31/1615891/-Trump-s-Poor-And-Putin-knows-it