We are heading towards an Idiocracy!

[BitVyper]

I think what you ideally want is for the Russia investigation to plague him and undercut everything he does up until midterms, and for him to get ousted immediately after, preferably with as much of his admin as possible. That seems like the best possible scenario to me.

[Sithdarth]

So Trump pretty much just did what no one else could do. He eroded his most fervent and intractable base of support with the Syrian strike. Not sure how this is going to play out.

[Nikose Tyris]

Many of us have heard by now, but Senators were recalled to Washington 2 days ago to discuss a pre-emptive strike on North Korea. I got an alert on the topic when Merkley of Oregon made the trek to Washington.

[mauve]

Trump's also trying to do away with the Obama-era net neutrality regulations. Basically, Trump's pick for the new FCC chair, a former lawyer for Verizon, is suggesting that in the place of actual laws keeping internet service providers from limiting or obstructing consumer access to websites, ISPs can just "make a promise" that they won't do that.

Cuz, y'know, that'll totally work.


John Oliver has set up the website GoFCCYourself.com (which redirects to FCC's public comment section) and urges everyone to go leave a comment. Article.

[RobinStarwing]

Hey guys I am back and boy has the last twenty-four hours been interesting to say the least.

I like what Snake laid out up there in his wall-o-text.

[Tev]

Right, so with all the utter insanity going on over Trump sacking FBI Director Comey on top of everything else, there was this one glimmer of news that I really wanted to share:

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson really wants to be president.

Speaking with GQ in a wide-ranging profile about his political ambitions and all around nice guy charm, Johnson calls a run for presidency “a real possibility.”

“A year ago ... it started coming up more and more,” he said. “There was a real sense of earnestness, which made me go home and think, ‘Let me really rethink my answer and make sure I am giving an answer that is truthful and also respectful.’”

“Personally, I feel that if I were president, poise would be important. Leadership would be important. Taking responsibility for everybody. [If I didn’t agree with someone] on something, I wouldn’t shut them out. I would actually include them,” he explained. “The first thing we’d do is we’d come and sit down and we’d talk about it.”

And like....I know that this is some fluffed up stuff between both GQ and Huffington Post....and I know that there are most certainly tons of people more qualified to be in that office than The Rock....and I know that having Trump in the White House right now makes it seem like literally anyone (who is a guy with money and fame/infamy) can get in there as well...and I know that the Idiocracy parallel is running at near-peak capacity since we have this in the Oval Office:



...but on some deep cathartic and primal level, I just want to briefly live in a world like this...



Where this guy....



....is face to face with Mitch McConnell?

[RobinStarwing]

I've heard rumors that Jess Ventura is considering coming back into the Political arena in 2020 as well as Lewis Black...

One of which would cause Minnesota to turn Purple.

[Gregness]