Inconceivable

The rot runs deep. Kavanaugh is a fucking perjurer (and perhaps worse), and he'll get on the court. I almost really can't believe how aggressively Republicans were willing to trade the country for power. If we were cell-mates in prison, they'd have sold us for a pack of Lucky's.

I also fear there'll be no tumbrels, no climbing off the Fascist Slide – see, in part, above. If the election is rigged, and why should we assume it's not, where does it stop??

And now school has started, and it's really hard to look away from it all, but the year is going to be busy AF.

FSM help us.

Hint: Hitler only last 12 years in power, and some of his lieutenants were executed. Other supporters were blacklisted. Whenever the reckoning comes, I'll enjoy watching some of these folks swing. 

Yes. Yes, I will. 

Just going to live blog this one

I am glad I left campus/office hours a tad bit early.

And that I cheated on dinner tonight - delicious Brockton-based Cape Cod Pizza which is pretty stellar.

It could be an eventful night. Things today have developed in the ongoing snuff-show Live-Action Treason – Michael Cohen got raided and Trump is losing it. He's so unbelievably incoherent. I can't believe that people actually accept that such a powerful person sounds like a complete fking dipshit. (Seriously - see transcript below.)

Ironically, while I was making cookies this weekend, I was watching All the Presidents' Men again. I don't know I will be able to sleep, and I sure won't be able to work tomorrow in my break. I'm on Twitter overdrive.

So: last seen, Trump was having a "War Cabinet" meeting (chickenshit: see Fussell, Paul) and had a WATB-Meltdown. (God, this guy is such a putz it hurts.)

• Going to prognosticate: a few big things will happen this week, maybe involving DOJ firings; it will escalate significantly. Republicans will do nothing. Trump will also do some major damage to Syria, which will also escalate profoundly shit with Russia, which (hypothesis) is actively blackmailing Trump through this crazy Back Channel that was actually set up. So Trump is pinned in. 
• And this – Dobbs is setting the agenda and counsel. This is exactly what happens, 72 hours. +/- 

Also, that idiot said these things, surrounded by an august group of men and women in uniform. Conservatives/gun-h**pers and Trump supporters your support of "the troops" is an insulting joke. Anyway, that idiot said amidst his war council:

Wreaking Havoc, Generating Change

Bummer: in Spring semester I have to teach the Hist. Presidents class again. I like the class, but fear this spring will be consumed by Impeachment. I'm trying to decide how much of that I intend to feature. It takes me back to my MA stuff at Northeastern; I graded for a Professor who taught a course on Clinton's impeachment. Going to have to find those notes.
Anyway, it's still hard to "historically" do Dobelieu, let alone Obama or the Short-Fingered Vulgarian. (H/T if you don't know)
Unless he's impeached and makes abundant history! Let's Hope!

Anyway just wanted to document an observation, if there were ever to be a silver lining to the Vulgarian Regime: The Michigan Daily today published a story that the University's Greek Council had voted to suspend all social activities. It referenced a similar decision of a Florida university in response to common incidents - moronic undergrad Greek partying, including drugs, hazing, sexual assault (and death in the FL case).

Now, I just want to propose that if the terrifyingly normalized behavior of the Vulgarian - his crudeness, mendacity, staggering incompetence, sexual predation, et seq. ad nauseum - has touched off a wave of serious and appropriate surveillance of awful, criminal activity (ROY MOORE LOOKIN AT YOU!), wouldn't that be a positive thing, at least in that respect?

Put another way, if the Vulgarian's presidency* generates a serious backlash against entitled, spoiled, noxious and violent behavior with serious criminal and financial consequences, I at least will consider that one positive thing to emerge.
(But only after the Vulgarian is impeached.)