@Joanne Leon
thought through what would happen if Trump gets impeached? I wonder if they have thought that line of reasoning through to its conclusion which means that Pence becomes the president.
If he does then we are still going to get everything that Ryan wants, but we'll get a huge dollop of his extreme Christianity on top.
The Deep State out did itself this last election.
Hillary, or Trump then Pence. Either way they win.

#2.4 It's a President Pence owned by the deep state, and every subsequent potential candidate who might have the inclination and ability to try to buck the system or rein in the intelligence and permanent war complex, terrified to ever try it because it's been proven that (s)he will be taken down mercilessly with the surveillance apparatus of the state, the Deep State Media, and no real evidence ever actually presented. Just ravenously cheering mindless partisans sustained by a diet of 24/7 hate (either meatless or junk food, whatever applies to the rabidly *partisan subjects of the day).

* When I use the word partisan, I don't necessarily mean loyal to a party. I mean a loss of independent, critical thinking, prone to and manipulated into rabidly taking sides to the extent that they'll see entities like intelligence agencies as their savior and lose all sight of their own best interests.

@Joanne Leon Add Dominionism to the Deep State and what is likely to result?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dominionism+pence&t=ffsb&ia=web

https://fsrn.org/2016/11/2016-election-winwin-for-the-christian-right/

#2.4 It's a President Pence owned by the deep state, and every subsequent potential candidate who might have the inclination and ability to try to buck the system or rein in the intelligence and permanent war complex, terrified to ever try it because it's been proven that (s)he will be taken down mercilessly with the surveillance apparatus of the state, the Deep State Media, and no real evidence ever actually presented. Just ravenously cheering mindless partisans sustained by a diet of 24/7 hate (either meatless or junk food, whatever applies to the rabidly *partisan subjects of the day).

* When I use the word partisan, I don't necessarily mean loyal to a party. I mean a loss of independent, critical thinking, prone to and manipulated into rabidly taking sides to the extent that they'll see entities like intelligence agencies as their savior and lose all sight of their own best interests.

@thanatokephaloides

#2.5

Is brain cancer better than massive stroke?

Would you rather die from Cyanide or Nicotine?

@janis b

I may not agree with them about much else, but I find it encouraging that they at least, are able to see through msm's blatant lies and misrepresentations. If only the Democrats could be equally perceptive, we might be able to arrive at something approaching honesty.

#3.3

from Nashville ...

Trump's base is still loyal and passionate.

@ggersh

#4.1 5 of the most fucking scariest words ever put together

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal the McDonalds Resistance , stinks of those consultants who rule the politician's brains, what little is left inside. For me it is precedent setting, it is "What's the point?" to the eXtreme. Taking the piss out of solidarity, Ds are lost in a propaganda war trying to start a real war, while citizens go homeless and hungry, can't pay bills etc.. The slide continues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss

Much ado for very similar crooks on both sides, why bother to defend either? Evil is as evil does, dominion or whatever. Who cares if I get burned at the stake, or starved on the street? Nobody, no Ds no Rs, maybe Bernie but so what. I can't believe people fall for such blatant b.s., this is where the "suspension of disbelief" would come in handy again I guess.

Peace

#5.1 Always has.

The only thing that's worse is Hillary leading the McDonald Resistance.

@Joanne Leon thanks, nice to see another voice for peace. Keep going.

Hi Fidelity was one of my favorite films, I went around counting Top 5 everything for years, in fact I still do it sometimes. Opensecrets does it too. That record store lives inside me, reminds me of the one on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village across from the building my aunt and uncle lived in. It was still there on street view last time I snooped. Vinyl lives on, amazing.

John and Joan Cusack, admired them both. Good people, I thought. These are strange times.

Peace

#8.1 and my apologies to Cass.

All day long I see Dems and others from the left raucously cheering for impeachment as a solution. Have a look at Jeet Heer's Twitter lecture today. Tons of people see him as a voice of wisdom and rebroadcast his messages. I'm talking about people we would tend to follow and read. https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/865226931448369154

John Cusack (who unless my memory fails me used to be a pretty rational actor and good activist) is crooning to the fbi (you probably think I'm kidding but I'm not). Same kind of thing happening with journos and writers who are highly respected by progressives.

Maybe worst is that so many of these people have been so wrapped up every detail of the election and political battle for the past 2 years that (unlike the people here at C99) they haven't been watching the slow, careful drumbeat for a major war for the past 3+ years in E Europe, 6yrs in Syria/Iraq. They haven't paid attention to warnings from people like Stephen Cohen and his allies. They bought the unprecedented war propaganda around the Syrian war. They don't see the real geopolitical factors driving the post-election chaos. By some miracle the ones that supported Hillary didn't bother to pay attention to the war plans her defense secretary Michele Flournoy was rolling out before the election either, that would almost certainly spark a war with Russia and Iran.