This has me very concerned. A bit scared. Feels like the times when we hid under our grade school desks just in case there was a nuclear war. WTF?

Our Dear Leader has lost his fucking mind. And he’s showing it on social media, for all the world to see. Also feels like the Dr Strangelove finale scene where Slim Pickens rides the nuke into the sunset and the apocalypse.

Paul Waldman just published one of the best descriptions of Convict Donny I’ve ever read. Here’s the key quote, but the whole essay is worth a read:

The picture he paints is one in which everyone — individual people, countries, the world as a whole — is an eternal spectator in a constant state of awe, slack-jawed in amazement at either events as they unfold or, more often, the greatness of Trump and his accomplishments. Everything he does is something no one has ever seen before, and our purpose is to stand back and behold him in his glory.

This is the perspective of a man whose brain has been poisoned by his life-long pursuit of fame and admiration. He exists only if he’s being watched, and his decisions are good only so far as they are seen. This is why Trump is the purest expression of this cursed moment in cultural history: He is every fame-lusting Real Housewife, every hungry influencer trying to boost their middling follower count, every looksmaxxing douchebro, taken to a terrifying extreme.

And underneath all the desperate bravado is a well of insecurity so deep and dark it would destroy the world. 

Yep, that’s our boy. The demon-imitating-a-man that 48% (ish) of our country voted for and elected twice.

I woke up this morning thinking about the tragedy that many of my friends who have fallen into the Faux News / MAGA belief pit. Even though they take in a stream of misinformation, I still can’t quite understand how they rationalize the team they’re on. The Dems and liberals aren’t angels – many are just as corrupt as the MAGA kings. But my core belief is that government, funded by our tax dollars, has one overarching purpose – to make the lives of US citizens better. And to me, better means clean air, clean water, a culture emphasizing education and science, preservation of America’s land and resources. It means assisting those who need help, first at home and then abroad. It means a strong economy and economic policies that allow lower-income folks to make their way upward if they work at it. Better is *obvious* to me, and I don’t understand why it’s not obvious to my Fox-addled friends.

We have to make it obvious. Stop playing into the hands of the right-wing propaganda machine by emphasizing culture war issues (preferred pronouns, sexual orientation issues, pro-Palestine loudmouths) and get back to common-sense basics. I want the elections of 2026 and 2028 to be about making life better for Americans. Simple.