Watching deep-brown Kashyap attempting to outfash the fascists is quite a pathetic spectacle. His ancestors must be spinning in their graves.

Even this idiot Vivek Ramaswamy realized he was being used as the token MAGA person of color and had the good sense to pull out at the last minute.

Yeah… Too bad the guys with the guns are the fascists.

The Internet Watch Foundation said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered a number of scenarios including “child prostitute in a hotel”, “sex with your child while your wife is on holiday” and “child and teacher alone after class”.

Does it have to be this explicit? I’m sure asking for a Trump Enigma would yield plenty of pedo material.

Thanks. But it’s been 22 years.

Everybody should give a fuck because, sadly, America has an outsized influence on the rest of the world.

If Luxemburg or Lichtenstein started oppressing trans people, nobody would give a fuck outside of Luxemburg and Lichtenstein. But when America does it, a lot of neo-Nazi fascist-adjacent ultra-religious nationalist crazies the world over feel empowered to try pushing the same shit in their own corner of the world.

My Dad had frontotemporal dementia. My sibling and I had to deal with the consequences - until we couldn’t cope, when my Dad became properly violent.

We’re looking at Trump and let me tell you, it feels eerily familiar. The confusion, remembering stuff from the past but not the present, but most importantly - and that’s one of the defining traits of frontotemporal dementia - the constant aggressivity that stems from the sufferer’s incorrect world views and beliefs being at odds with a reality that everybody keeps reminding him of, that leads him to believe everybody is against him… When it gets bad enough, the person literally assaults people who contradict him out of frustration. Ask me how I know…

We see the signs in Trump. Clear as day. And I bet everybody who’s had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.

The difference is, our Dad wasn’t a sitting US president with a penchant for fascism and autocracy. He was a random dude and he was institutionalized before he could harm other people.

Fetterman’s brain is scrambled.

I think it was a figure of speech to highlight how incredible it is that it’s America’s turn to become a godforsaken country from which a persecuted minority of the citizenry of feel compelled to flee.

Stop telling me I’m easily offended! It’s triggering!

You mean not at all?

Doesn’t it bother anyone that Gaza is being annihilated and the only thing the media seems to care about is whether Israel will be allowed to participate in some pointless soccer game or in the fucking Eurovision contest?

It’s nauseating.

Common mistake!

It must have something to do with the fact that the Goebbels wannabe currently heading the FCC is called Brandan Carr.

And that Carr is censoring Jimmies. So ya know, it can get confusing.

Trumps lies are making Newsom sound like a cool politician. Sadly he is just another piece of shit that simply happens to have humor.

At this point, I’ll take anything to get rid of Trump. The enemies of my enemies… We can deal with Newsom later, when the Trump regime is dispensed with.

It’s incredible the number of people who wants to keep this dead kid talking.

I for one never want to hear from this right-wing once-in-a-century wunderboy ever again. Now that he’s silent, however deplorable the circumstances, let’s keep him that way.

I’ll just leave thishere.

In case anybody has any doubt about what’s going on…

If you want to be extra sure you don’t end up on team Epstein, no question is a stupid question when it comes to ascertaining someone’s age.

Why gee, 8 months later, the latinos who inexplicably voted for the guy who spat right in their face finally realize he’s not their friend?

MAGA voters of all stripes ain’t too bright I guess…

As I got older and I reflected on all the grumpy old men waving at the clouds and complaining constantly about this-or-that being better in their days when I was a kid, I realized why.

Now I’m the old man and I avoid becoming bitter my reminding myself of the following truth:

• When you’re a kid, the world belongs to the grown-ups - your parents, adults of authority around you.

• When you reach teenage years, the world starts being yours: you’ve developed tastes for things people your age do and create. As you go through puberty, your identity is reinforced with things of your time, and other young people your age with which you do the same things. You all have a bright future in front of you.

• When you get out of puberty, hopefully you get our of school and start working: the world is fully yours. The trendy things in the world are things you find trendy too. Other people speak like you. You’re not a powerless kid and you’re not weaker old guy/gall yet. You’re fully part of it and it suits you. You may not like the world, but it’s yours. It shares your values and your values are what makes the world go round at that point in time . Your personality, your cultural identity and the cultural norms you respect, and your value system are fully developed, and a pure product of their time.

• And then they stay that way. But the world keeps evolving. Slowly but surely, the things you learned become deprecated. The things you like become old. The way you speak becomes strange to younger ears. The values you believe in no longer apply. The world slowly shifts beneath your feet, but it’s happening very slowly, year after year, until…

• You reach an age at which you’re very visibly and obviously out of sync with the world. Even you notice it at this point.

And here lies the trap: you can either reflect on how the world has changed and acknowledge that it’s not your world anymore, but it’s younger people’s now. People who are now the age you once were: it’s their turn to have a go at owning the world. You’re just in it for the ride.

Or you can take refuge in your old values, wallow in the old things you’ve liked for decades, and bitch and moan about the world going to shit. It’s not going to shit, but it feels that way to you. It’s easier to reject the world around you than admit it’s just not how you like it anymore, but it’s poisonous: it turns you into a bitter person everybody hates.

I choose to ignore the things I dislike - which, at this point, constitute a lot more of the world than the things I like from the past, from my youth. But I also choose to not pass judgment on them because they’re not from my world: they’re from today’s youth’s world, and I have no say in it.

If you’re old and angry, think about this. You might find some comfort in letting go.

The corollary of all this is: there is no better America in the past: the past simply seems rosier to older eyes. America has always been as great or as shit as you find it to be today.