If you were concerned that the current pandemic of derangement spreading around the nation in response to the election of Donald Trump was fading into the background, fear not…

November 14th, 2016: I predict the “kitten” will be Flint.
March 17th, 2017: Trump’s EPA Sending $100 Million to Michigan for Flint Water Relief
h/t Kyla

Rachel Maddow tonight. pic.twitter.com/zxLyJjzN4n

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) March 15, 2017

MRC;

What Maddow and the fine folks over at MSNBC actually managed to do was get part of a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return. Which was already 12 years old. And which the White House had already released.
And which the Wall Street Journal had already reported on – a year ago.

Rachel Maddow just reported that Trump paid a higher percentage of income tax (25) than Obama (19) or Bernie (13). Winning 👍😂😂😂

— Bill Hicks (@Billhic02785574) March 15, 2017

And @ggreenwald— The moment people began realizing this wasn’t going to be devastating for Trump was when they speculated that Trump might be their source.

A long-standing rumor that Palin is being considered by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada has gained momentum in recent days.

Morning bump: Full transcript here.
Live audience reaction.

I think Nancy Pelosi must not feel well. I have this same expression when I eat too much grass. pic.twitter.com/gs6osTU2CJ

— K Dog (@thelifeofkdog) March 1, 2017

Post speech survey says: “82% called the speech ‘Presidential’, including a majority of Democrats.” But the most surprising comments of the night came from CNN’s Van Jones;

Related:

I’m no longer a Democrat (it’s been many years now), and though on the rarest of occasions I worried I’d made a mistake, Tuesday night watching the shell-shocked faces of the Democrats on the floor of Congress while Donald Trump delivered his magnificent speech, I knew I had made no error. I even wondered what was going on in my head in those isolated moments I doubted myself.

“Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.”

Still, these things seem oddly familiar;

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
– Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
– Blocking oil and gas pipelines
– Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
– Cutting U.S. military spending
– Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran
That Trump is planning to do precisely the opposite of these things may or may not be good policy for the United States, but anybody who thinks this is a Russia appeasement policy has been drinking way too much joy juice.