Gud, if your friend is saying that everyone on the Left should passively allow Trump to do whatever he wants without objection or comment, I'd quote Edmund Burke at him:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Timelies all!

Help, I have a cat on my lap. Well, I did, until Mr. S(aka Mr. Grabbyhands) scared her away. Sigh.

Hil, I'd push back on that too. Don't let that stand as is on your official review.

Yeah, get it in the record that that is not your understanding that online teaching is an accommodation and you did not ask for it as such, at the very least.

Watching last night's Scandal, and the one thing that made me think, "But that would never happen!!" is about the electoral college.

Jesse, I watched it last night too. I agree that would not happen wrt the electoral college. They would likely pick someone, anyone from the same party rather than the opponent. Also, I'm pretty sure Jake had something to do with the assassination since he was missing when the results were coming in, and I'm also suspicious of Vargas's wife for no other reason than I think all that time spent on whether or not she had her cellphone is going to be important.

Got an email tonight that if you donate $25 to Elizabeth Warren's 2018 Senate campaign, you get an official "Nevertheless, she persisted" shirt. So I'm probably going to have to do that.

One of saddest things about leaving Massachusetts is that she isn't my Senator anymore!

Edited to include the link in case anyone else is interested!

Agreed on all points, sj.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Thanks. I'm looking to persuade, and that's a great quote.

In a discussion with an old college friend that I know took classes with the prof who wrote books about Edmund Burke (and assigned it to be read in the relevant class), I justified my possibly ineffectual Facebook activism as my attempts to not be doing the nothing which would allow Trump to succeed.