“It will not be enough to simply reverse Trump’s policies or unwind his executive orders when a new Democratic president takes office. The next administration must commit itself in addition to purging the aesthetic rot of Trump’s second term from our national life. Detrumpification must be celebrated as an act of victory and an exercise in joy.”
Every single person who voted for him, every single person who supported him, must be forced to wear a scarlet letter for the rest of their hopefully miserable lives.
Never, ever, let them forget what they did, and make them pay.
America is going to need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to unfuck the country after a decade of MAGA capping decades of Republican bad faith governance.
That’s not a bad idea.
With a third of the country being fine with autocracy as long as it’s their side doing it, I’ve wondered how we keep this from happening again.
Recognizing that we need to try is a good first step.
Unfortunately, dem presidents don’t want to spend their administrations punishing lawbreakers in the previous republican one, especially in the first two years when they control Congress, and could actually do something. Obama let the war criminals in the bush admin get away with it, and biden did very little about the traitors and insurrectionists in trump’s first term. I think the people in his second term will get away with it too. :(
In these more stoic cultures, it’s like, if I don’t know you, you’re not in. But the moment you are in, I will fucking die for you. Once Shane was in, Ilya was like, “You’re mine forever. I will do anything for you.” — Connor Storrie
Donald Trump has linked his repeated threats to seize control of Greenland to the fact that he has not been awarded the Nobel peace prize in an extraordinary letter sent to the Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre.
The US president said in the letter – the authenticity of which was confirmed by Støre to the Norwegian newspaper VG on Monday – that after failing to win the prize, he no longer felt the need to think “purely of peace”.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” he said, adding he could now “think about what is good and proper” for the US.
Støre told VG that the letter had “come in response to a short message to President Trump from me earlier in the day, on behalf of myself and the President of Finland, Alexander Stubb”.
Trump has ramped up his rhetoric against Greenland, a largely self-governing part of Denmark, in recent weeks, saying the US would take control of it “one way or the other”. He said on social media at the weekend: “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!”
Hard to know how to feel when everything is very scary but also deeply stupid
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