Thank you, Sorting Hat.

Yeah, you know what? I’m not one of those people who believes that not voting for anyone is the same as voting for Trump. I do believe that your vote matters, and no one should force you to vote for anyone you just can’t get behind. It’s just sad (among other things) that the voting system for President in the US is…

Yeah, I fell into that hole yesterday and was roundly abused for it. I ended up going with Umberto Eco’s list.

Well sure, but that isn’t the issue.

There are no perfect candidates. Best one can do is pick the lesser of two weevils. In this case, either the Washington-insider, status-quo-lover, probably-a-continuation-of-the-last-eight-years candidate, a Hufflepuff. 

Yeah, I know, it’s a little of everything. Courage, Americans. You may need it!

Ok. I hope your last paragraph is right. I don’t think he is imperialist or isolationist. Just a narcissist without any real core principles besides that he should be loved by others as he loves himself. His administration may well be a benign clusterfuck, or it might turn out to be truly dangerous. As I said, I hope…

Just because someone always votes Republican doesn’t make them not racist or stupid, but the fact that they were willing to vote for a man who promised to run a fascistic administration kind of gives it away.

To your first scenario, read Underground Airlines, a novel that asks the question, “What if the Civil War had never happened and slavery was alive and well in 2016?” It’s fucking terrifying mainly because it’s so believable.

Weird, in Toronto, if squirrels want to root through the trash and eat leftover chicken wings, they first put on raccoon suits.

Right you are! Somehow you managed to pull an intact rabbit out of a burning hat.

OK, I’ll admit to lazy linking. Sorry! I should have spent 5 goddam seconds researching, instead of linking to the first such list Google provided. I’d never heard of Rense... But! The list wasn’t terrible as these things go.

There was like this brief window a week ago when I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the argument that Trump voters shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand as either A) racist or B) stupid as fuck because ... something, something, working class whites ignored for too long.

Being a fascist dictator means never having to hear dissent.

A hundred times this.

“The Theater must always be a safe and special place.”
–Donald Trump

It’s even more when you consider how many Trump supporters just wrote their Ashley-bashing tweets on pieces of paper and put them in the mailbox.

Absolutely. The only method I have to pick who will win the presidency from the R and the D on the ticket is this (and it’s very nearly a tautology):

Sounds like someone told Metallica that autotuned vocals are the newest thing!

Nice try, but surely there’s someone even more experienced and insidery than Hillary was. That’ll do the trick! I think the Democratic party knows what kind of candidate will be attractive to the American voting public. Someone like a ‘68 era Humphrey or an ‘84-era Mondale....