Best joke cabinet pick so far…folks are recommending Audrey Marie Schneider of Houston as Transportation Secretary. 
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This is the best news I’ve seen in a couple of weeks. I forwarded it to some friends.
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Of the various (numerous) conservative editorialists at the NYT, David French seems at times to be the most thoughtful - the most likely to try other than just rattling off republican talking points (e.g. Douthat, Stevens). Today he raises one factor which, while rather obvious, hasn’t appeared in this form in the “the democrats done it!” melted down media: Presidential voters can be divided into two groups, those who are paying attention and read stuff (which French calls “activists”), and those who passively accept their immediate media environment and vote their narrow self interest and quickly retire to their couches (which French calls “the majority”). Some of us, in the doldrums of despair, tend to characterize the latter as mixture of selfish low information racists and misogynists; but I suppose “the majority” also serves -sigh-
Here’s a ~link to the David French article “Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail” It actually comes off as rather optimistic for us lefties …well, a bit.
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Here’s fodder for part-time conspiracy theorists: If putin were permitted to make trump cabinet appointments, would he have done (much) differently than the current rogues’ gallery?
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The quote skeet:
A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
Hancock County Commissioner John Jessup guilty plea in Las Vegas sex. assault case
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I guess all the tough talk about executing pedos doesn’t refer to their own pedos.
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They’re just looking for an excuse to kill Democrats…
Apparantly, I’ve talked to you too much, cause the system is yelling at me and telling me to send you a PM instead!
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You know how they feel about “evidence” and “facts.” The more evidence there is against someone, the more innocent they are. The only facts are those that are unproven.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5000006-speaker-johnson-transgender-bathroom-policy/
As expected, he’s nothing but spite.
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I’ll never understand this recent incessant need to govern bathrooms.
Without question, they have been in a bathroom before with someone whose underwear contents differed from theirs and they were blissfully unaware as they stared into space and tinkled.
All he had to do was nothing. Pretend it was like his normal governing job.
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It’s not a genuine concern, or disgusting, or whatever. It’s whipping up the passions of their followers by dehumanizing and demonizing an Other.
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I know weird, right? Why can’t I keep talking to you? How many replies is too may replies? I think I’m having an existential crisis over this now!
The cruelty is the point. They absolutely know that trans women are not men pretending to be women to rape women. They just hate trans women and want to hurt them.
Yep. 
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Even here in the Chicago area, most of the political messages I saw were about the border.
We’re nearly 1500 miles away from the Mexican border (because you know they aren’t talking about Canadians). Yes, we have a lot of refuges here because we offered to host them plus we had Abbott busing extras here, which was only his fault (and, again, no consequences), but that was the #1 message we heard.
It would have been nice to hear more about the progressive topics. Both sides here talked border border border immigration lost jobs all the time.
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A definite “hear! hear!” for that one (posted here previously, i think) That guy comes off as properly empathetic, utterly rational, and as ‘traditional’ (for those who like that sort’ve thing) as possible. I wish that could be widely media dispersed; if for nothing else as a admonishment of sorts to the 51% of the voters who have endangered us all.
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It’s almost as if some people want an issue to run on and are afraid to fix it; thinking they’ll lose support after it’s done.
LGBTQ nondiscrimination legislation was introduced in Congress by Bella Abzug in 1974.
50 years ago
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