It's kind of funny that this thread is entitled #1, as the previous two times, election threads went rather long. But here we are nearly a decade later, and somewhat innoculated to The Donaldness. Nothing is outrageous if everything causes outrage.
Which is why I kind of want to point out that there's been a qualitative change over the past month or so. It's not so much that Trump has gone unhinged, which is basically expected. No, we are in a new phase. There is no hinge, there are no more hinges. We are living in a post-hinge world.
So we've now got a combination of showmanship over policy, blatant lies, blood libel, purifying society against the enemy within, violent restoration of order, and the leader's book in every classroom. Except, like, it's all so dumb. All of it. Are they like a dumb version of Nazis, or were the original Nazis also this moronic?
Which is why I kind of want to point out that there's been a qualitative change over the past month or so. It's not so much that Trump has gone unhinged, which is basically expected. No, we are in a new phase. There is no hinge, there are no more hinges. We are living in a post-hinge world.
- Trump declares himself ‘father of IVF’ [in vitro fertilization] at town hall with all-female audience
- Trump cancels town hall in middle, plays music and dances on stage for 39 minutes
- Apparently Haitian migrants still eating dogs in Trumpworld
- Trump suggests he’ll use the military on ‘the enemy from within’ the U.S. if he’s reelected
- Trump says "one really violent day" of policing will end crime -- is he thinking of The Purge or Krystallnacht?
- Oklahoma wants a Trump Bible in every public school classroom - somehow only one bible on the market met the specifications required for a classroom bible.
So we've now got a combination of showmanship over policy, blatant lies, blood libel, purifying society against the enemy within, violent restoration of order, and the leader's book in every classroom. Except, like, it's all so dumb. All of it. Are they like a dumb version of Nazis, or were the original Nazis also this moronic?
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