Ideally people would have seriously punished Ford for letting that Nixon prick get off scot free and fought against the personality cult that was built up for Reagan, but if we’re talking about this century, the democrats should have come up with something as soon as the tea party lunatics got in position to kneecap public sector unions during the first Obama administration.

It didn’t help that the occupy protesters were made to look like their message was a motley hodgepodge of pet causes with no real cohesiveness.

Meh, doubtful anything will come of it even if/when it happens

I quit paying any attention to all of that clickbait Meidas Touch/Krassenstein/[insert Hashtag Resist grifter talking head] bullshit during the 45th administration, why the hell should I do any different now.

I hope his premium skyrockets over increased risk

I’m neither queer nor am I otherwise in any immediate danger, and I decided on the day after the election that I’m buying a couple of guns. It’d crossed my mind during the 45th administration and now I realize that I should have committed myself to it sooner.

We should all be preparing ourselves whether we’re in danger or not, if only to be there for those who are endangered.

One-Eyed Monster, Penis for short (likely literally for him given his posturing)

Exactly, these ghouls want to ban treatment because it prevents suicide, it isn’t remotely about protecting children

I think that what is… idk, encouraging? about it is that we finally saw them flinch. After years of seeing justice go unserved and the villains thumb their nose at the law with full confidence that they’ll walk away unscathed, we got to see a slight chill, like they just learned that they may be mortal after all. Unfortunately, it’s also shown that the institutions can’t be trusted to do the right thing, and as long as they continue to be as feckless as they are, we’re going to see more of this. So, ultimately, inadvertently, the institutions are encouraging this vigilantism.*

I fully expect this to fade away soon as our “society” has the collective attention span of a dust mite, but we have to celebrate small victories wherever they come.

*or they could be encouraging it intentionally as a means to further break down our foundations </tinfoil>

I saw a comment somewhere saying Trump will immediately pardon our hooded modern folk hero… we need to form a team for Olympic-level mental gymnastics with the galaxy brain takes some of these jamokes have

Normally I’d say that I don’t want this to happen to a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, but drinking raw milk is preventable and not contagious, and therefore entirely self-contained, right? So yeah, sow those seeds, guys, I’m totally owned.

[preface and disclaimer: I’m remembering off the top of my head something I read over 30 years ago, details may not be exactly correct]

Not sure whether you remember the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, in which there was a student who nobody liked, who was a real asshole and wore a stinky raincoat. The kids kept trying to take off his raincoat, but underneath was another, stinkier raincoat, just layers and layers of progressively stinky raincoats, and with every raincoat removed, the kid just became a bigger asshole and his laugh louder and more high-pitched.

At the very end, he turned out to be a dead rat in a pile of stinky raincoats.

That’s what the whole administration is shaping up to be. Except we knew this was coming and allowed it to happen, so I guess that, ultimately, we are the dead rat.

What if she was just there to sell dick pills, like any normal patriotic American? I can’t believe one would need an invite to sell dick pills! Surely, Mr Tate, that can’t be harassment, can it?

Fuck it, nothing matters anymore; they’ll do “something” and we’ll vote him in again

Who cares whether he’ll be 82 by then, age clearly wasn’t the issue this time

I’m not sure I”m ready to call anyone “trustworthy” at this juncture

I have a sinking feeling a lot will just be skipping the cult part

I’d venture that the same can be said for those who put their hopes in gen z

Who’s to say it’s not just going to be a repeat of the Dubya/Cheney dynamic? Trump’s just gonna sit there eating fish delites and double-fisting diet cokes, rage-watching RSBN, and just soaking, marinating in his filth. Meanwhile, Stephen Miller is going to snarf down a handful of chidren’s teeth for breakfast,* crack his knuckles for forty-five minutes, and decide which urban center gets hit with the first big wave of avian flu.

*he waits until sunset before he unhinges his jaw and swallows a dog whole

Women are too emotional to be president? Shit man, maga and their current figurehead are fueled by extremely volatile emotion, no matter how much they crow about facts vs feelings. Rage is an emotion, and it’s what’s driven the movement for years before it even had a name. Citing emotionality as a reason not to elect a woman is just an excuse—a very poor one, at that—and everyone knows it.

The emoji was standing in for the “A” for “ackshully”

Welp, got my number; I wasn’t fully aware, and that’s my mistake. In that case, yeah, by all means, fourteenth that bastard the hell out of office. Too bad our legislature comprises cowards, halfwits, and enablers.