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which means we own the store . You work for us, buddy!”

Stephen Colbert takes down Dauphin Jared’s inane, insidious, conception of the democratic republic called America.

He gave a great speech on the Senate floor opposing–and anatomizing–Gorsuch.

Marjorie Cohn at Alternet describes the way that Gorsuch is just the man to bring down the “administrative state,” i.e. America, that Bannon rants about.

Gorsuch believes that health and safety concerns are “ephemeral and generic.”

It is time to identify Gorsuch for what he is: an Ayn Rand Libertarian Fascist who believes in the hegemony of a master race of the rich, entitled, and white, and is concerned with protecting only the interests of the corporate oligarchy.

As Alliance for Justice asserts, “Judge Gorsuch would tie the hands of precisely those entities that Congress has recognized have the depth and experience to enforce critical laws, safeguard essential protections, and ensure the safety of the American people.”

It’s the lone-mogul theory of government competence, by which the top-down, profit-by-any-means behavorial model of the private profit sector is somehow considered suitable for government.

In reality, the two sectors have completely different goals–or at least they should have.

Business has nothing to do with democracy.

True to form, Trump is gifting his unqualified son-in-law with yet another portfolio leaf: a task force that aims to bring business practices to the public sector.

Just about the last thing America needs more of.

Apparently tax evasion is one of the business models to be endorsed, since Tim Cook is among the moguls on board.

Kali Holloway writes at Alternet: “Like every other aspect of her dad’s campaign, the marketing of Ivanka as a force for good behind enemy lines is a lie that withers upon contact with observable reality.”

Senator Murphy warns us in The Huffington Post.

Interesting moments in that three-day sham-a-thon when the tension of projecting such a fraudulent self-impersonation shone through his militantly equaniminous surface.

The United States is the single prosperous nation not to fully address the health care needs of its population. It’s a catastrophe in so many ways. Do we understand that it makes us look terrible on the world stage, and the Bannon/Trump cult of xenophobia to the contrary, that is something that matters.

I went three times–last time was Tuesday this week–I should have written before–was too transfixed by politics–lots to see there!

It looks like he’s attempting to purge the State Department of anyone who won’t go along with his attempt to make it a veritable arm of Breitbart. The White House today is, of course, itself a veritable arm of Breitbart.

Nahal Toosi and Andrew Restuccia report at Politico.

As Sen. Merkley said of Bannon, “This individual has no business being anywhere near the capital of the United States. . . .”