Paul Waldman -- here and here.

#SCROTUS - So-Called Ruler of the United States

America First? Do we really want to go there?

The New York Times discusses the lack of enthusiasm among performers to appear at Trump's inauguration (link). Trump pretends not to care:

Mr. Trump has maintained that he does not want A-List celebrities at his inauguration. (“I want the PEOPLE!” he tweeted in December.)

Trump wants the "PEOPLE!"? Well, maybe he should go here...

Just to reiterate the point from here and here (and it can't be reiterated enough):

I hate to be the one to say this but we're embarking on a period, maybe as long as a decade, that'll make the 60s look like the 50s.

So I was reading through an article in the Chicago Tribune titled "Chicago's AirBnB Home-sharing Rules Are 'Draconian,' Lawsuit Says" and I was wondering who in the world would be on the side of AirBnB -- who would be arguing, as the article relates, that restrictions on AirBnB are both "unconstitutional and punish responsible homeowners". Then I got to this sentence:

"Liberty Justice Center, a Chicago-based nonprofit litigation center representing the plaintiffs in the case, teamed up with a Phoenix-based think tank called the Goldwater Institute on the suit in hopes of blocking the regulations...."

Enough with the crazy-talk. Clinton faced an extremely common problem after eight years of incumbency, namely lack of enthusiasm on the part of the Dems:

In Wisconsin, overall turnout was lower than in the 2012 presidential election. Trump actually was a few hundred votes shy of 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney's total in the state, but Clinton was around 240,000 votes short of Obama's 2012 tally. She ended up around 24,000 votes behind Trump in the state.

? No... ☹

Four years straight of Bengazi-Whitewater (courtesy of the GOPers in Congress).