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Every time Lying Donald calls Senator Warren Pocahontos or calls any Democrat by his fourth-grade recess name tags, it’s time that the Dems turned it right back on the Liar-in-Chief. They need to get in touch with their inner child and deal with this psychotic retard in the appropriate manner.

undermining prosperity.

Aaron D. Knochel runs the numbers at The Converation:

“While the present administration and the conservative movement claim they’re simply trying to save taxpayer dollars, they also ignore the significant economic impacts of the arts. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the arts and culture industry generated $704.8 billion of economic activity in 2013 and employed nearly five million people. For every dollar of NEA funding, there are seven dollars of funding from other private and public funds. Elimination of the agency endangers this economic vitality.”

If you had any doubt that Trump and his entourage are insane Fascists, one day of listening to Stephen Miller should make you see the light.

And this is the guy who’s going to make anything great except his bank account?

At Daily Kos, “David B” recounts another story of the unmentionable’s insatiable greed and self-interest.

And Hillary could not create a counter-narrative to THIS guy?

Sean Spicer’s turning it into an alt-right echo chamber, crammed to the gills with extremist specialists in fake news.

At The New York Time, Larry Buchanan and Karen Yourish survey the wreckage of a once-legitimate Before-Trump democratic institution.

How do you train for it?

I guess when the DeVoses, the “de” Kochs and the Mercers endow a Kellyanne Institute of Propaganda at one of the universities they’ve bought, we’ll really be able to find out.

The picture accompanying both The New York Times’ and the Daily Telegraph’s obit of singular tenor Nicolai Gedda is actually a photo of singular bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, who died in 2004.

And Senator Schumer writes a very good editorial about it for The New York Times.

“Judge Gorsuch’s behind-closed-doors admission that he felt ‘disheartened’ by President Trump’s attacks on judges could well be akin to Judge Roberts’s ‘balls and strikes.’ Judge Gorsuch told it to me in private; when Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and I asked him to say it in public, he refused. Clearly he wanted this to be seen as a marker of his independence, because his handlers immediately told us, ‘You can tell this to the press.’”

Are any Republicans above board?

Sen. Paul gives us a heaping helping of mind fuck:

he might have voted against Sessions if the Democrats hadn’t been so mean to him!!

The almost unimaginable, traitorous evil of Donald Trump:

Paul Krugman in The New York Times: “The really striking thing about Mr. Trump’s Twitter tirade, however, was his eagerness to see an attack on America, which would show everyone the folly of constraining his power.”

And provocateur-in-chief Bannon is even worse.