I had an idea for a story about Steampunk Radical Reconstruction in 1880s and some of the characters I imagined looked like him, but with a top hat.

Beyond him being an idiot and a racist and evil, who the fuck talks like this?

He called the UK and France “random countries” when dismissing their importance to mutual security agreements.

He talks like a 4chan dipshit. Which he probably was. Even if he is completely blocked from power for the next four years, just having this moron one heartbeat away from the Presidency has done truly horrific damage to the respect and prestige of the Office.

If by some miracle Trump steps back from the tariffs and the concentration camps and the blatant authoritarianism and the wholesale destruction of the federal government, the damage to America as an idea is something that none of us will live to see undone.

In his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan cited one of his objections to Louisiana’s public transit segregation law as being that it effectively left the execution of policy to railroad porters. Homer Plessy was a light-skinned Creole man whose family was free before the Civil War. He would have enjoyed roughly equal rights to Whites up until the first generation of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s. Harlan pointed out that the criteria for “White” and “Black” for the purposes of segregation was not solid, just being whoever was in charge of the segregated facilities looking at them and determining what they are.

There is nothing new under the Sun.

He does and thus far nobody with the power to say otherwise has.

I wonder if he’d lift all the bans, like he did with Xitter, considering he is responsible for a decent chunk of them.

I seriously hate these people more than Trump.

I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were? What the repercussions would be for those in her line of work? Did it not occur to her that the migrants she pays shit wages to were the people he was ranting about deporting?

The answer, of course, is no. She did no research. She dedicated no meaningful thought to it. She wanted to fuck the liberals because they put Harriet Tubman on a twenty dollar bill and she heard about the three trans athletes in her entire state and that was about where her consideration of the matter ended.

On a just barely positive note, we dedicate a frankly stupid amount of funding to keeping farms going despite their being laughably uncompetitive, most of the funding not really helping our food supply or economy, so it would probably be for the better if these cuts stick and idiots like her are forced to actually run their farms like businesses instead of thousand acre welfare queens.

Evolution meant to tell you to get out of the gene pool.

This will be the thing that finally gets us gun control.

Frankly, I’m surprised he hasn’t already.

I remember hearing Trump’s foreign policy described as “isolationist.”

He’s not an isolationist.

He’s on Russia’s side.

I would prefer if he were an isolationist.

And nobody who refused to accept it the first time will accept it now.

They will continue to die and let their children die to spite the rest of us.

With all the screeching Republicans do about Democratic corruption, you think Trump would treat prosecuting Adams like a slam dunk.

It really is like Trump is embracing corruption as a matter of policy.

Either Trump will boot Musk out because he can’t stand the perception that someone is giving him orders or this will be literally the only time that he has not done the stupidly petty thing, because the one thing you can rely on Donald Trump to do is the worst possible thing.

I would typically roll my eyes at something like this, but in less than two weeks Trump has taken great strides towards destroying the federal civil service, any semblance of a rules-based international order and our relationships abroad, while doing everything but publicly endorsing violence against his political opponents.