The problem is that cluing in the world to the reality, that the PEOTUS is a moron with the geopolitical knowledge of a clueless child, doesn’t really do the US any favors, either. That, in and of itself, is offensive to the rest of the world or indicates that he’s someone they can manipulate and use.

“made their stealing WORSE by adding another copyrighted image”

“Even if the original image is still under copyright (which I doubt)“

The supreme irony is that the fossil fuels companies are now admitting it’s real - and even advocating for climate change agreements - because they finally figured out how to work it into their business plans. So the Republicans that they brainwashed via lobbyists are like vestigial organs that no longer serve any…

Oh, this is such bullshit. Even if it’s true (and since it’s Breitbart, no), it would be misrepresenting a drop from a temperature spike which would still show a warming trend. Like similar warming denial claims a year back that there was more sea ice at the North Pole than the previous year, so global warming was…

“Unsurprising but horrifying nonetheless.”

I need some new coping mechanisms to deal with these horrors, which seem to be both unending and fractal (the closer you look, the more small horrors you find).

Almost all the Trump appointees are people who were uncritical supporters of him. Which means they’re either crazy idiots or cynical, evil bastards (with some racist and/or extreme corporatist agenda). The Guardian has an article just up, “Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it”* that discusses…

Yep, he’s our very own Cheeto Mussolini.

“My conflicts of interest will be yuuge! The biggest!”

Yep. In one of the more recent school shootings, the only kid who died was shot in the leg. Also, the whole point of shooting someone in self-defense is to stop them, and the only way you actually do that is to kill them. Being shot doesn’t magically render one unconscious. The whole Hollywood thing where you can…

“most people, unless they’ve been properly trained and practice regularly, can’t hit the side of a fucking barn”

Well, unless your income derives from your ownership of capital, you’re a worker...

The problem is, the kind of “boom” you get from having a pro-business guy in power doesn’t extend to the actual workers. The only “expansion” that occurs is in corporate profits and CEO pay. This isn’t even a vague hypothetical, the specific policies that Trump is advancing are things that have been done, and those…

“keeping things juuuust barely on the legal side”

“well at the very least, he didn’t use the wrong email instead of the right email, so.”

Mentally, I’ve just not been up to fully grasping the consequences of the tRump win - I can only consider bits and pieces of what it means. I hadn’t gotten around to thinking of him as commander in chief. It’s blowing my mind. This is a guy who literally has a child’s notion of the military - that it could use…

“these fuckers ascend to the Presidency, and consider even that office to be so beneath them”

“But Antarctica isn’t underwater?”

This is peak Trumpism. An abusive, racist man-child freaks out at a Starbucks for reasons that aren’t clear (though he admitted to being off his meds), and credulous Trump supporters rally around him because white dude something something minorities/women. So one petulant man-baby creates a meaningless “social…