this is what worries me. someone comes along with the exact same ideals and policies as Trump, but isn’t quite as disgusting and dimwitted, and is 5% better at hiding his bigotry and 5% less obvious about his dog whistles ... they’ll probably win in a landslide. America is racist as fuck and desperate for someone to…

It only took that long, plus 250,000 needless deaths AND a lost election to start using the word “lie.”

Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, she had Trump nailed for exactly what he is. Unfortunately, a gleeful 25 year long campaign of character assassination against her made most Americans not pay attention.

This.

“The tyranny of this dictatorship isn’t primarily the fault of Big Business, nor of the demagogues who do their dirty work. It’s the fault of Doremus Jessup! Of all the “conscientious”, “respectable”, lazy-minded Doremus Jessups, who have let the demagogues wriggle in, without fierce enough protest.”

Yah, I didn’t want to go too far back (partly because who wants to go back to Amerca’s inter-war love affair with Hitler?) as I was exclusively thinking about the context of online political discourse - but you’re right that the rot started to set in long ago.

I hope in a few days or weeks, Colbert and the rest of us who have been shaken by the realization of how precarious the democracy is right now and for the immediate future, and that we’re basically in a civil war with a bunch of desperate lunatics, that we can bear down, focus, and strategize about how to win. We have…

It won’t be done until I hear Biden say “You’re fired!” to Dump in his inaugural address. 

I think most people who have pointed out right-wing fascist tendencies growing since the Reagan Bush years can now feel thoroughly vindicated in saying “I told you so”.

New Zealand seems mostly nice. And they’d probably let him live in one of those leftover Hobbit holes.

It’s NEVER ‘done.’ An election means nothing is ‘over’ and we SHOULDN’T ‘breathe’. We need to keep fighting.

It’s really great that mainstream media has realized they can just cut away or not show the footage when Trump is lying. It only took them 5 years.

I think most people who have pointed out right-wing fascist tendencies growing since the Bush years can now feel thoroughly vindicated in saying “I told you so”.

All the “you’re being alarmist, what will you do when a REAL fascist shows up?” people – the whole half-of-an-electorate of them –have proven conclusively…

I’ve been thinking this too, and honestly isolation is the only way I can make it through alive.

We don’t need to speculate. We know how this particular law enforcement agency treats neo-Confederates. They calmly try to de-escalate things with angry white men. https://www.gettyimages.es/detail/fotograf%C3%ADa-de-noticias/alamance-county-sheriff-terry-johnson-calms-fotograf%C3%ADa-de-noticias/1226303242

Alamance county is one of many racists counties in NC. Sitting between Guilford (Greensboro) and Orange (right before Durham) counties, it is home to very wealthy and very poor white people. This same sheriff’s department was investigated for racial profiling of Latinos several years ago.

Whooo boy! The greys never disappoint.

A few others have said this as well, so it must’ve been my mistake. No apologies to Trump, as we all know he's thinking it anyway, but apologies for mis-hearing it.

Like you, I heard “good” at first, but I think he said “go ahead”. I could absolutely be wrong, though.