re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I always thought that the Press would eventually turn on Trump as a candidate. I see less chance of it now that he is President.

He is still too much of a ratings magnet for them to kill their favorite cash cow, and I fear that they will simply turn on any among their ranks who seek to revoke their lunch tickets.

Unstable governments are good for a handful of oligarchs who are positioned to profit from chaos. And that is what scares me.

ABC would not have run that interview if they wanted to cover for Trump. The optics were horrendous.

Rather, the problem — and the crisis — is that even if the alphabet networks were populated by nothing but Kurt Eichenwalds and David Fautenholds and Lauren Ducas who DID THEIR JOBS CONTINUOUSLY… you still have a core block of voters that STILL wouldn’t believe any of it. The Republican Party abdicated any semblance of sanity, logic and reason and embraced pure nihilism.

That’s what’s frustrating. Even if WHEN Trump get Amendment 25-ed or worse (shudder)… these RWNJs will fall 100% for whatever conspiracy theories are put forth by Bannon/Breitbart, SMOTI, Laura Ingraham and Alex Jones/Paul Watson. Moreover, I betcha those whackjobs have those theories in draft mode, ready to be rolled out when Pence takes the oath.