GOP is constructing means to extend minority white rule

There are many countries around the world where an ethnic minority has ruled over an ethnic majority for many, many years. Consider: South Africa, Syria, Liberia, Iraq, etc. Any place in the colonial era. There's a while Wikipedia article on the topic of a "Dominant minority". Republicans, fronted by the current President, are well on their way to instituting the means to do the same in the U.S.:

The move to denaturalize some citizens is just the latest in a larger drive by Republicans—led by key figures in the Trump White House—to preserve a white majority in American politics. At the state level, Republican lawmakers take steps to protect GOP districts, dampen voter turnout, and otherwise hinder participation, which raises the chances of Republican victories for Congress and the White House. In turn, Republicans in Washington nominate and confirm judges who give voter suppression the cover of law, giving incentive to new efforts at restriction and disenfranchisement. What Donald Trump brings is an explicit effort to write nonwhite immigrants out of the body politic, removing as many as possible and presenting the rest as a suspect class. 

Slate.

Republicans are Trump

An aspect of the ongoing Trump radioactive dumpster fire: as is the fashion for useful idiots, he draws attention away from the Republican party in general.

This seems slightly odd. If the world were just, Republicans would be tarred and feathered with his excrement on a daily basis. By rights, they should be smeared in perpetuity with his foulness. GOP voters and leadership don't resist, push back, stop, leverage, complain, or disavow his actions. The ongoing filthy, rude, foul-mouthed, sexist, racist, violence-toned, child-ripping, ally-offending, trade-war-starting, nuclear-saber-rattling, fear-mongering, corrupt insanity is something they should rightly own. We should never again hear any conservative GOP voter complain about anyone's morals or family values (we will, but their credibility has been atomized).

Moreover: Arguably the horrible policies that are coming out of the Executive branch are actually more emblematic of the Republican party than Trump himself. All evidence is that Trump is effectively senile/narcissistic/mentally incompetent, can only remember the last single thing anyone said to him, and probably had no essential principles before that (he was, of course, previously registered as a Democrat and held many positions opposite to what he asserts now). But the policies being implemented -- such as appointing young and extreme right-wing judges, cutting health care assistance, zero-tolerance policy of jailing asylum seekers, huge tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, etc. -- are all core Republican policies, and have the scent of Trump being "handled" by far more cunning operators.

Trump's actions shouldn't even be called that. Everything he does should have "Republican" in the headline, because that's a truer representation of what's happening. And by rights that stink should never, ever wash off the party or its voters or supporters.

The Trump administration: Where your pride goes to die

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/28/the-trump-administration-where-your-pride-goes-to-die/

One single insane day in Trump America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/07/28/daily-202-trump-s-hardball-tactics-backfire-as-skinny-repeal-goes-down/597a7cf630fb045fdaef0fd5/?utm_term=.4d97b2a2105c

McCain gets honest, so will die soon

Apparently John McCain came out of surgery with a diagnosis of aggressive brain cancer and almost immediately put the blast on Trump.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, a Russia hawk and occasional Donald Trump critic, blasted a report on the administration's new Syria posture just hours after revealing he had a cancerous brain tumor.

McCain's statement faulted the administration for reportedly ending a covert program begun during the Obama administration to provide arms to Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad.

'If these reports are true, the administration is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin,' the Armed Services Committee chairman said in a statement...

Making any concession to Russia, absent a broader strategy for Syria, is irresponsible and short-sighted,' he said.

This is how we can conclude that McCain is not long for this world. Republicans have a decades-long tradition of getting honest, ripping off the ideological veneer, often apologizing for their entire political careers, after they are out of power and no longer have any effect on the institutions.

So based on this, it is clear that McCain knows he'll never run for re-election again. It's likely that he'll be dead by the end of the year -- and within the realm of possibility that he'll never cast another vote in the U.S. Senate. If he starts issuing political apologies, then we'll know that the end is days away.

Daily Mail

Religious people primed to support Trump

The truth is that Donald Trump is simply out of his mind crazy. Infantile, stupid, narcissistic, illiterate, sociopathic. Likely some kind of brain degeneration. Rarely acts like he has object permanence.

But there is still a fairly large cohort of people who "Try to decipher what he means", thinking he's some kind of Machiavellian master manipulator, pulling strings and sending coded "3D chess" messages. Of course that's nonsense. He can't even string an English sentence together, can't put together the discipline to stop sending nonsensical rants out on Twitter at midnight.

His supporters are largely religious people. And the thing is, these people have been indoctrinated  all their lives specifically to look for secret coded meanings from random happenings in the world. "God works in mysterious ways." I've heard these people explicitly argue that the most trivial of happenings, like any given leaf falling off a tree, has some critical effect in God's ultimate plan for the universe.

This indoctrination of many of our fellow citizens that the chaos in the world secretly communicates ineffable truths is what will feed into this destructive cycle on an ongoing basis. Religious training is what has predisposed people to be firmly anti-fact, anti-evidence in the first place. The more bullshit that Trump spins out, the more aggressively our religious peoples will adhere to secret plans and meanings in the chaos.

White House releases personal information of voters worried about their personal information

The White House on Thursday made public a trove of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission. The commission drew widespread criticism when it emerged into public view by asking for personal information, including addresses, partial social security numbers and party affiliation, on every voter in the country...

Unfortunately for these voters and others who wrote in, the Trump administration did not redact any of their personal information from the emails before releasing them to the public. In some cases, the emails contain not only names, but email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and places of employment of people worried about such information being made available to the public.

Washington Post