In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Steve Bannon –  career bigot and now chief strategist to Cheeto Jesus, asserted that:

“Darkness is good.  Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It only helps us when “they” [liberals and the media] get it wrong. When they’re blind to who we are and what we’re doing.”

and there’s more – a lot more.  Here’s another nice jewel from before the election:

“I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist.  The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get fucked over.  [Sorry, Momma] If we deliver, we’ll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black and Hispanic vote and we’ll govern for 50 years. That’s what the Democrats missed. They were talking to these people with companies with a $9 billion market cap employing nine people. It’s not reality. They lost sight of what the world is about.”

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Mike Pence showed up tonight to the evening performance of Hamilton on Broadway.  There were a few cheers, but he was roundly booed by most of the crowd.  At the curtain call, Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaror Burr, with the cast assembled behind him addressed Pence saying,

“We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our alienable rights, sir.  But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us. We truly thank you for sharing this show, this wonderful American story told by a diverse group of men, women of different colors, creeds and orientation.”

Have a look:

https://youtu.be/ZDIGpZnGgIo

Trump University settled the lawsuit (the only person who didn’t actually see that coming is Stevie Wonder) for $25,000,000.

There are 6,000 victims.

The lawyers take 40% off the top.  That leaves $15,000,000 divided by 6,000 … carry the 2, subtract the discounted settlement, add some gall and you have — ta da! $2,500 a person.

Trump tried to put the case off until after the inauguration citing the “critical and all-consuming” work the president-elect has to do before he takes office in January.

Yeah, like look up the phone numbers of the biggest racists in the country and offer them a job.

Once again, Trump crews the little guy and gets away with it.

The House GOP —

See, this is diverse.  There’s a tall white guy, a short white guy, a skinny white guy, a chubby white guy, a bald white guy, Paul Ryan, an old white guy, another old white guy, and 5 white women.  So, there ya go. Diversity, GOP style.

Yes, the man often seen with the back of his hand held trembling to his forehead while heading for the fainting couch will be our next attorney general.

In Name-That-Cabinet, today’s leading contender is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a man named after a Civil War general and President of the Confederacy, for Attorney General. Alabama’s contribution to the Build A Wall movement, Sessions was also turned down for a federal judgeship during the Reagan administration for racist statements while prosecuting African Americans in Alabama.

And to keep the fun moving right along, the Koch Brothers pet congresspoodle, was appointed CIA director.

[Mike] Pompeo, 52, a third-term congressman from Kansas, was a surprise pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. He was on the House of Representatives intelligence and energy and commerce committees, as well as the committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

Yeah, the Benghazi committee.

He also opposes abortion even in the case of rape and said that Muslim leaders who fail to denounce acts of terrorism done in the name of Islam are “potentially complicit” in the attacks.  He thinks that Edward Snowden should be tried and then given the death penalty.

But hey, y’all, have a great weekend!

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