Yes and it’s to the 2020s what Florida was to the 00s, a swing state with a reputation for the elderly and the crazy

It’s the Arizona of New England.

She encouraged him to invade. She’s kissing the ring not sacrificing dignity for country.

I don’t think it’s dementia that did that, I think it’s a very specific type of psychological abuse that results in thinking that way. I suspect it’s from his father encouraging him to be a bully, placing high expectations, and not caring enough to watch him actually earn awards, just checking that he has them. This is all in line with the childhood his niece described in her book Too Much and Never Enough.

A childhood like that could easily shape one’s understanding of achievement away from “doing the thing” to “having the rewards/symbol of having done the thing”. And if someone thinks having the trophy is more important than having won the competition I don’t see any reason they would feel the divine would think any differently. And I think even pre dementia he’d slowly drift from “I have the 2025 Nobel peace prize” to “I won the 2025 Nobel peace prize” slowly reshaping his memories until he doesn’t remember how he got it.

They’ll gloss over a lot of it just like they do with Hitler. You hear about the big things like the beer hall putsch, maybe the street fighting, the Nuremberg laws, kristalnacht, maybe the nighr of long knives, the concentration and death camps, the blitz, the attacks on western and Eastern Europe, and the seige of stalingrad. That’s a lot, so they often don’t address stuff like the bizarre structure of nazi command (it was far more about who could claim to have the ear of who than a rigid structure), the fact that Goering was an opiate addict from the time he joined the party to the time he was hanged for it, the fact that the party was super anti drug and Hitler and his wehrmacht were on meth, the fact that anti semitism basically gave the united states nukes thanks to brain drain, the insistence on spreading efforts into many super weapons rather than committing to a small number given all the resources they could possibly need, the fact that Himmler was a weird nerdy loser whose power came from being the least obviously threatening option to many party members…

Or we could go to WWI Germany, because Kaiser Wilhelm was barely discussed in my history classes other than just him being in charge and having been largely led by the actually competent Bismarck, but this guy was a weird crazy little motherfucker. And I mean that in a “this guy was attracted to his mom” way.

Ooh or you could look at the Roman Empire, the whole empire is largely glossed over with a bit about the Julians then Constantine and Justinian and the fall of the western empire. But like, a decent portion of the roman emperors were some variety of bonkers according to the history (but roman historians are much more like highly partisan propagandists than dutiful recounters of happenings).

In short, people already forget his scandals from a year ago, much less last term. Many books will be written about him, but ultimately his primary strategy is “flooding the zone” ie keep doing controversial shit that gets your name in the news so nothing is able to stick, and if it does then who cares, that means nobody’s reporting on your current bad thing. The internal crackdowns will be condensed and simplified to major turning points and the external aggression will be condensed and simplified similarly. And in that way the next fascist movement will involve the “you’re exaggerating” for years before it becomes “yeah, so what”.

So MDMA + prolactin. Then it’s all fun and games until you lactate

Yeah, or just Mississippi having 10 or so cognitive tests and by weird coincidence black people keep getting the really hard ones

How many? If it’s 22 I’m ecstatic, if it’s 2 I’m unhappy, if it’s 52 I’m impressed.

Collateral damage by blunt force of law without trial is tyranny. I fully support trying all people named, but I don’t want to trade the restraints we hold on the government for an emotional attack on people who may or may not have participated in an evil conspiracy. When you surrender such protections you don’t get them back without a long and difficult fight

We try people, by jury, with firm rules. And we accept that some guilty free are better than some innocent punished.

Oh I don’t think it’s actually going to fucking happen. But I’m going to keep demanding it

Yeah Bush Jr did. Trump just took them from a militarized anti immigrant police force to a militarized anti “non American” police force that will disappear you for "un-American’ ideas or skin tones

Yeah I got my issues with America, but I’m a true believer in the enlightenment and I love that this country is philosophically grounded in enlightenment ideas and the idea that the state’s ability to project force onto it’s citizens should be limited. I know about our contradictions, and I’m disappointed as all hell in what we’ve done with ourselves in the past decades (and longer), but part of me loves this country and believes it could be better.

But first and foremost I’m an international anti fascist. I don’t care that I love my home, it’s fallen to the fascists and is attacking the world, I can love it again once it’s been stopped.

Impeachment is a necessary precursor to conviction and removal.

Hell a lot of American whites are a blend of European ancestries. Hell, mine blended before coming here

Because he didn’t think of “Work will make you free”

Growing up to your south I always saw Ontario as a magical place across the lake where the government worked. Yeah, the Fords really brought my perception to reality. Your country and province are still better run than my country and my old state, but jeez I wish we’d been competing to be better

Really? He just started, it’s a bit soon for him to strike.

Fr though, that’s great

Even dumber because if we asked Denmark to build a base there they’d respond by asking if we really need another one

“A superlative you say?”

Listen, if he didn’t want the most universally beloved branch of the government to hate him he should’ve noticed that they’re all environmentalists and that it’s the gayest branch of the government before establishing his policies that piss both groups off