Jonathan Ross you're going to jail!

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison: "There is no statute of limitations on murder. So this case is not going to be over even if they try to block a high quality investigation."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 13, 2026 at 9:15 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Sssssss.....

Pop! Pop! Pop!

And that sound you hear is the sound of millions of Democratic bubbles bursting...

Keeping in mind that I'm the guy who predicted Sarah Palin would be the republican Presidential nominee in 2012, and that Hillary Clinton was going to win in a rout, it's hard to see how Donald Trump's speech to Congress last night isn't anything but bad news for Democrats.  Coming on the heels of the uninspired choice of Tom Perez to head the DNC (yes, he's better than Wasserman-
Schulz, but he's not the candidate who is going to fire up the young folks that we're going to so desperately need in 2018 and 2020), Trump seems to have figured out what Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Charles Grassley, and numerous other republicans have known for some time:  you can say the craziest shit imaginable as long as while you're doing it you don't come across as an insane, hateful asshole.  Now it remains to be seen if Trump is capable of doing it consistently, but I'll be mighty surprised if his approval ratings don't improve and Democrats do their usual backpedaling and sell us out as they've done so many times before.

Trump's selling the same bullshit ideas as he had the day before, but as long as he looks rational doing it, the media and most Americans are going to shrug their shoulders and move on.

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Come up screaming

Well lookee here--I don't know if they're coming out of shock (I learned these past few days that I can still laugh) or developing a spine, but Democrats had a good weekend:

• Rep. Keith Ellison--and pretty please can he be the next chair of the DNC?--said ten days in and we've already given Trump his chance.  He appointed a Nazi to his inner circle (Bannon), an avowed racist to be his Attorney General (Sessions), and an Islamaphobe to be his National Security Adviser (Flynn).  In a nutshell, fuck Trump already.
• When speaking to a liberal group this past weekend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren vowed Democrats will not compromise on their basic principles surrounding inclusion and diversity.  She also invoked Martin Luther King, Jr. to remind them that economic problems are not solved by racism, misogyny, or homophobia.
• Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi promised Greg Sargent of The Washington Post that like they did against George W. Bush's plans to privatize Social Security in 2005, Democrats were already united against Paul Ryan's plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system, and weren't going to stand idly by while healthcare for Americans in their golden years is turned into a Corporate America crapshoot.
• Even ol' Chuck Schumer got into the act--sort of.  While still being under the delusion that we might be able to work with Hitler, Schumer did acknowledge that the Senate's Democrats would be the last barrier to Trump and republicans' excesses.  Of course this was largely offset by Trump praising Schumer , and learning that every single member of Trump's family at one time donated to Schumer's re-election campaigns.  Jesus H. Christ was Schumer a piss poor pick at a piss poor time...

While I'd still prefer a kick 'em in the balls kind of obstructionism, at least it's a start.

We'll call them baby steps.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee