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  MY PERSONAL REQUEST: STOP ELECTING STUPID PEOPLE! Trump defies court order as sycophants on Kennedy Center board vote to put his name back on the building Donald Trump's lap dogs on the Kennedy Center board voted 20-3 to put the wannabe dictator's name back on the Kennedy Center facade in direct defiance of a federal court of appeals ruling that only Congress can change the once-venerable institution's name. Trump himself called into the meeting, so you can imagine how THAT conversation went. One of the few dissenting board members, Rep. Joyce Beatty, said, "This latest development is a transparent effort to circumvent the Court’s ruling, and flies in the face of the statutes that Congress passed. I will continue to fight for this treasured national monument." While this may seem like a petty effort to indulge Trump's insatiable ego, it's actually a very, very serious dip-of-the-toes into the black, fetid water of judicial defiance. This is how it starts...