“We had to start a war because they were going to start a war…”
“We have to kill them because they said they want to kill us…”
“We can’t let them have a nuke so we’re going to nuke them…”
…at what point are we just them?
I don't want to hear "Trump lied to us" without finishing the sentence.
Trump lied to you, and it worked, because you are ignorant, and foolish, and easy to deceive. You will be tricked again, the next time a liar comes along, because you are ignorant, foolish, and easy to
"Calm down. He won't be that bad."
"He won't go after political opponents."
"He won't try to overturn an election."
"He won't start a stupid, costly war."
"He won't purge the military."
"He won't use nukes." <--- We're currently here.
He won't be impeached and his cabinet won't remove him because he's surrounded by evangelical right wing Christian nut jobs trying to force rapture to happen so they can go live forever with their favorite fictional character from a book they claim to live by except they don't.
I cannot relate to anybody who doesn’t feel like an insane person doing a facade of normalcy these days. I walk around looking at strangers and wonder “are you doing a facade as well? Are you going insane the same way I am?” I cannot disguise my disconnect with the “sane” world.
My problem with the “he wouldn’t actually do it” and “institutional checks would step in to stop him” arguments regarding any of Trump’s unhinged threats is that we are in this position precisely because, at every prior stage, he did do it and nobody stepped in to stop him.
A reminder: if you are a US pilot and you are ordered to nuke a civilian target or bomb a nuclear power plant with the goal of producing a nuclear disaster affecting civilians, you have a legal duty to refuse to comply with such an order
I have read a statement
that “a whole civilization
will die tonight,
never to be brought back again,”
and as I read that statement
and as I reread that statement
I cannot shake the feeling
that the civilization
from which that statement comes
is one that is already dead.
I want to be clear that we do NOT need the 25th Amendment invoked.
We need Article 2, Section 4 so we can remove the president, vice president, and his entire cabinet.