@proflac
Professor, IUBloomington. Shakespearean, Dog mom, private pilot, landlocked surfer. Author of Notorious Identity (Harvard UP); Hamlet’s Heirs (Routledge); assorted products in the Divine Right to Democracy aisle. Political Psychology at eye-level.
He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job.
Still and forever
This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November.
Ubermensch, jah.
He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why.
This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic.
Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up.
Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom.
Hegseth is effing terrifying.
Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care.
I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice.
Bury him in his own words. OD:
And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment.
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N95–it’s not just for Covid anymore!
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in the David Brooks school of dewy-eyed discovery
The pressure of normalizing him grows exponentially with each passing week. The insanity of his “merry Christmas go to Hell” post should be front page news; but the shrug of inevitability has kicked in. I don’t know how to deal with it.
He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all.
Think. Think harder.
The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right.
Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year.
British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column.
Americans—We deserve this. We pay for a service we don’t receive. Enough is enough. This should be the top goal for the Democratic and Independent parties. Demand it and don’t stop until all voters understand that it will protect ALL of us from needless death, despair, misery, and bankruptcy.
