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I took the analogy not as "Trump equals terrorism and death" but that Trump's attack on the rule of law and the Constitution is at least as big of a threat and should be met with an equally vigorous response by a united United States. The cartoonist could have done it in the style of the Pearl Harbor attack and it would have achieved the same metaphor, though probably wouldn't have had the same gut-punch effect.

Point is it should be a lightning rod for America to act. Sad that it is not.

Also, not condoning the wars that followed 9/11 and the Patriot act and all of the other bullshit we got because of it.

Which one will resort to political assassination first? That's who wins. And it is the bottom right square on my 2025 'murica bingo card.

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Worked at a place with a guy named Todd. Then we got another Todd who was less than bright. He got nicknamed Re-Todd.

Popped into my head randomly today so I queued it up. The universe sent me that song just so it could be in my ass.

Bette Davis Eyes in my ass.

I can't understand how more people don't understand this. There's no depth to any of this. An immature, ignorant, narrow-minded idiot doing immature, ignorant, narrow-minded things. The media's sane washing is to blame, I guess, if not the straight propaganda from right wing outlets. But at this point if you're still giving the benefit of the doubt you're part of the problem.

I had this thought the other day and this seems as good a place to leave it as any. Trump seems to be running the economy like it is a simplified version of the 1980s. Like the macho, bold, no compromise leadership style we would have expected from a white collar "hero" of that time period. As if that's when he learned what a leader looks and acts like and never changed his mind. Absolutely no consideration for evolving culture or the infinitely more complex, interconnected world we live in. Let alone the complexity of the stock market, global trade, and US consumer economy.

Just oversimplified notions like, "We have to tear it down to rebuild it! You don't have the balls to do something like that! I'm leader!"

Though, more likely he's just dementia riddled and controlled by a foreign government and too dumb to realize any of it.

In a properly designed and functioning system, reelection and caring about the people should go hand in hand. Stop caring, treat them like crap, someone gets to replace you.

We are not in a well designed, well functioning system.

So, easy then! We know insurrections aren't a big deal and have no real consequences. Full steam ahead!

/s just in case

TBH, he might turn out to be right and we'll be begging him to teach us his ways.

Can't remember where I heard it but someone posited this to me and it stuck: Nobody ever does anything they believe is wrong.

If you take that at face value then how you explain evil is that a person has justified to themselves that death, suffering, pain, and unhappiness are all balanced against what they believe is the right way things should be. I can't imagine being in a ecosystem of people where the things I believe start justifying the way these people behave. But, I'm not a billionaire. Or religious.