Defying GOP's Wet Dream of One Party Rule of U.S. Government

"The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous."

--Garrison Keillor, "We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore"

August 26, 2004

February 17, 2017

 * 1) Mark Your Calendar. The US is preparing for its first ever nationwide general strike

Citizens

 * 1) Theodore De Mont, If you picked "three days before the inauguration" as the moment when the first protester would try to light himself on fire in front of the Trump International Hotel, your prize is waiting for you
 * 2) Senate confirmation hearing for AG-nominee Jeff Sessions interrupted by hecklers, KKK attendees
 * 3) Protester booted from Sessions confirmation for laughing at idea he treats 'all people equally'
 * 4) Most of the 230 rioters arrested in Washington D.C. following Donald Trump's inauguration will be charged with felony rioting, which carries a punishment of up to 10 years in jail and $25k fine
 * 5) Petition on Whitehouse.gov calling for Trump to release his tax returns has 250,000 signatures. That means he's got to release them, right?
 * 6) A half-dozen reporters have been arrested and hit with felony riot charges (possible 10 years, $25,000) for filming the unrest during Trump's inauguration
 * 7) Trump's unpresidented meltdown proves protest works

Scientists

 * 1) Grab your lab coat: scientists are planning a March on DC
 * 2) Scientists yesterday: We need to march on Washington. Scientists today: fark it, let's run for office

Juggalos

 * 1) First, Donald Trump awoke the fury of women, who marched on DC. Then he angered scientists enough to organize their own March. But now...now...he has awoken the fury of the Juggalos

Celebrities

 * 1) Meryl Streep brings down the house during her Lifetime Achievement award acceptance speech. Donald Trump to declare war on Hollywood in 3... 2...
 * 2) Donald Trump can't handle Meryl Streep's criticism, so he goes on Twitter and calls her a "Hillary lover" and a Hollywood hippie
 * 3) Overrated Meryl Streep gets record breaking 20th Oscar nomination. Trump gnashes his teeth and threatens to arrest all of Hollywood
 * 4) Kal Penn took a racist troll's Twitter post and turned it into a fundraiser for Syrian refugees ... and raised over $200,000 in less than 24 hours
 * 5) Julia Louis-Dreyfus gave one of the best speeches at an awards show tonight, castigating the president and his heinous actions

Former Presidents

 * 1) Former president to current president: That's not how you president, you chucklef*ck

Former Vice Presidents

 * 1) Diamond Joe Biden launches charitible foundation to provide desperately needed cases of Hurricane High Gravity malt liquor and Molly Hatchet albums to hot unwed mothers

Corporations

 * 1) Alphabet/Google
 * 2) In a move that will rustle no jimmies whatsoever, Google Doodle remembers Fred Korematsu this morning
 * 3) Do evil
 * 4) Budweiser
 * 5) America The Beer prepares to be deported on Sunday
 * 6) Harley Davidson
 * 7) Harley Davidson to Trump, "Everyone hates you and if you come to our factory they'll hate us"

Former Nixon Staffers

 * 1) John Dean
 * 2) When the lawyer who defended Nixon and was jailed for Watergate thinks you're a bad dude, it's probably best to have a think about your conduct

Rogue websites

 * 1) Social media postings from the official US Department of Defense accounts sometimes provide an important window into a person's #mentalhealth. Know what to look for
 * 2) Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue, starts tweeting scientific facts about climate change in defiance of President Trump
 * 3) Official Death Valley National Park feed now rogue, posting about Japanese internment camps. This is in addition to resistance from Badlands and @AltNatParkSer
 * 4) NASA has decided to make all the scientific research it funds absolutely free and available online. I wonder what brought this on. Hmm, I guess We'll never know

Resignations

 * 1) Entire State Department senior management team resigns
 * 2) Trump: "The Border Patrol endorses me." US Border Patrol Chief: "Hasta la vista"

Ignoring direct orders

 * 1) USDA
 * 2) USDA tells its employees to GBTW and ignore President Trump, who is clearly an idiot
 * 3) Acting Attorney General Sally Yates
 * 4) The person responsible for sacking the people ordering immigrants to be detained has been sacked
 * 5) Trump to federal agencies: YOU WILL BOW TO ME NOW Said agencies: Ummm, how about no
 * 6) The little people at the State Department are revolting

Middle Fingers

 * 1) State Department going rogue, activating Dissent Channel over Trump's immigration order
 * 2) Leaked memo from the EPA reveals no one at the agency--including its new director--knows what the hell is going on with the agency now that Trump's in charge of everything

Media

 * 1) Reuters to treat the Trump regime the same way they treat other authoritarian governments
 * 2) CNN producer detained at Atlanta airport will challenge Trump travel ban under two federal laws