Also because he’s a dude and she’s not.

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

“More so than Trump? How?”

“The dishes were dirty. I saw no choice but to set fire to the curtains.”

This is less “drain the swamp” and more “top said swamp up with ooze”

No puppet. You’re the puppet!

Right? I mean, who believes the intelligence agencies anyway? No one trusts information these days. We all know we’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

“Why is a culture blog rubbing cultural stories in my face?”

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

That’s not personal responsibility. In fact, that’s the definition of collective responsibility - it requires everyone to do the right thing.

If I’m already not acting like a child, I then need everyone else to do the same, otherwise Big Brother steps in regardless?

Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

I find their use of the term“enter”, to mean “that we have in our book” really jarring.

You want them to act like assholes but not actually be assholes.

I hear he has email.

Right, but that means the Chinese are more likely to forgive him. Because it can be assumed he’s a towering mountain of ignorance. Which, technically is positive? If you squint?

I mean, yeah, and I assume that’s what Kissinger means. But the reason he could be a clean slate is because of his assumed incompetence. He can do things that would cause other world leaders seriously diplomatic incidents because he won’t be taken as seriously. Which I suppose is a bright side? But given the choice…

I like explaining to people that military spending is essentially Keynsian.

The President Elect called him it’s founder. I take your point, but felt that was worth pointing out.

He literally has the power to accidentally plunge us into a war with an ill advised tweet. Oh, sure, most of the things he farts out onto it won’t impact me personally (at least not individually), but the fact that such potential exists is petrifying.