Ha, "Wrong John Silver". It's so stupid, but why am I still laughing about it? Probably because I've had this exact conversation with Bernie people who were earnestly explaining why we don't have to worry about a Trump presidency.

This is the "Stranger" that I remember from the '90s: clever, pithy, not long-winded and either mealy-mouthed or condescendingly preachy.

@2: "we've got the old Stranger back again!" nostalgist, please. wrong.

Yup, we crossed the imbecile Rubicon. No going back now and never. You can hope and waste your hours trying to cast spells (a.k.a. "praying"), but amercia is over. It's just a pathetic yard sale with a surplus of welfare queens screaming, "who will pick my fruit?"

@3, Actually, no, I don't think, "We've got the old Stranger back!" What is is. And what "The Stranger" is now *does* include some very good reporting. I just wanted to make note under this piece of enjoyable fluff that, for me, it does harken back to an earlier incarnation of this paper (something the publisher and editors might actually be interested in hearing, seeing as they posted a survey to readers this week).

By the way, I don't consider nostalgist to be an insult; not enough consideration is given to the past these days.

Impeached? By who, the Republican Congress that needs Trump to sign their crazy ass looting legislation?

Indited? Again -- by who?

The Trump appointed Justice Department loonies? The Attorney Generals Trump will fire?

We're fucked, and we're already in just the first of the many wars Trump will wag the dog with.

And just the beginning of The Trump Great Depression, the upcoming worldwide financial meltdown.

Not gonna pass a fucking thing. Not even a budget. That's going to be a tough record to run on.

There will never be another presidential election. All hail the daughter of the god, and our first female ruler: Empress Ivanka!

Thanks for this. After reading this, I kinda hope the Big One hits and Seattle sinks into the ocean.... assholes.

@10, you sound like that curmudgeonly Ombudsman column "The Stranger" used to have!

@10 like the mystics and statistics say it will