"We're going to need to get a few breaks to be able to have some places in my hometown of Chicago ... where we can create some factories. I think it would be cool for them be Trump factories because he's a master of industry, he's a master builder. I think it would be cool to have Yeezy ideation centers."

“I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and connected with a neuropsychologist. He looked at my brain. I will go ahead and drop bombs for us. 98% on IQ test, 75% of all human beings. Eight numbers backwards. I'm going to work on that one…He said that I actually wasn't bipolar. I had sleep deprivation that can cause dementia 10 to 20 years from now where I wouldn't remember my son's name.”

“Another thing is black people have a problem with the word again ... because time is a myth."

Soooooo, that happened.

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Meanwhile, down at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and while people were piecing through the rubble of the Florida Panhandle, the Senate was confirming a climate denier to lead the Justice Department's environmental division. From The Hill:

Lawmakers voted 52 to 45 to confirm Jeffrey Bossert Clark to be the assistant attorney general for environment and natural resources. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), both running for reelection GOP states, joined all Republicans present in voting to confirm Clark. Clark is an attorney at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, where he has represented numerous industry clients, including oil giant BP in its efforts to fight certain claims from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and spill, and the Chamber of Commerce. He’s said climate change science is “contestable.”

Also, the Senate confirmed a guy named Eric Drieband to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights. From Reuters:

Dreiband’s nomination was strongly opposed by some civil rights advocacy groups, who pointed to his legal track record of representing companies in high-profile discrimination cases and articles he wrote that were critical of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The Civil Rights Division has undergone tremendous changes under Sessions’ leadership and reversed course on many Obama-era legal positions, including two significant voting rights cases. Last year, Sessions also issued a memo declaring that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect transgender people from workplace discrimination.

Among some of the topics that have been prioritized by the Civil Rights Division under Sessions include the defense of “religious freedom,” such as backing anti-abortion centers in a case over a California law requiring notices be provided on where women can receive state-funded abortions. The division has also pushed to file more cases against towns that discriminate against houses of worship.

Yes, Kanye's Excellent Adventure was a freak show amid a freak show. The real news was several blocks away, where a couple more vandals were installed to do the real damage. That was where a few good "motherfckers" were appropriate.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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