Invoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far. I’m unconvinced there’s anyone else likely to successfully take on the mantle of cult leader after him. I guess we’ll see eventually.

Nobody else has the ability to be the cult leader that he is. But maybe they’ll be entrenched enough that they don’t need the cultists’ support any more.

It won’t be falling via a peaceful transfer of power. Voters made sure of that. However it happens, it will be violent.

We already had him in office for four years and it was a disaster. So what do these stupid fuckers do? VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN. I get the cultists who worship him doing that, they’re thoroughly brainwashed, but there is NO excuse for anyone else to be surprised by this shit.

We really are. Those damn Puritans!

This reminds me of an event my mom likes to recount: We moved to Germany when I was a kid. We went to a beach where other kids were running around naked. I looked around and immediately took my clothes off and ran across the beach.

“The willing horse is always overworked.”

What a horrible thing to say!

If you reveal what your plan is it’s less likely to succeed.

It’s clearly not a genocide. I know this because the media has told me to reject the evidence of my eyes and ears. It seemed pretty final and essential.

Oh, also true.

Ah, the original, unironic meaning, now largely extinct through misuse.

What’s it called when you live on the right side and agree with the labels?

“That pavement marking can’t stop me because I can’t read!”

True, though it was an American in this particular instance.

Liberia’s Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti told CNN that “there was no offense” from the Liberian president’s perspective and that “many people do not understand the linguistic borders or linguistic demography of the African continent.”

Undiplomatic translation: “We’re used to Americans being ignorant as fuck.”

The right thing for the wrong reason.

Not a bug with fascism, a feature. Doesn’t matter what they have to say or do, acquiring power is all that matters.

Of course, it often then becomes a comma splice; in that case, a period or semicolon works (but I use comma splices constantly anyway).

are you heartbroken?

Yeah, they just said they were!