Another reason Trump’s win is so distressing – the fact that being relentlessly horrible didn’t cause him to lose. I’ve realize that the reason I was feeling so cheerful in the last few weeks was because I thought his hatefulness was causing him to lose. It looked that way.
But no. His hatefulness was exhaustively documented, and he won anyway. He won because of it.
That makes me feel sick, and profoundly alienated.
Cruelty and bullying should cause people to turn away in disgust. They did many, of course, but to many others they were like catnip to a cat.
He’s demonstrated that cruelty and bullying are rewarded. That’s very bad news.
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I feel exactly the same way.
This from The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/article/america-not-sure-it-will-have-enough-revulsion-and-54676
@learie
„Ick kann jar nich soville fressen, wie ick kotzen möchte.“ (Max Liebermann, January 30th 1933)
I have been inconsolable. Today is the first day I’ve ventured outside of my games, and B&W is the only thing I’m checking. Baby steps.
Translation needed!@lurker
Amateurish attempt @2:
“I juss can’t eat as much as how much I wanna puke.” (?) Also, note the date.
I’m thinking that we’re not going to see so much a President as we’re going to see some mad Roman Emperor. No real policies, no real idea of what he can and can’t do. No idea as to the legality or constitutionality of what he wants to do. A foreign policy based on who called him how quickly to congratulate him on his win. An enemies list approaching the size of a phone book. A cabinet made up of toadies, lackeys, yes-men and lickspittles.
Not Bruce, I’ve been saying for months that Trump was running for Caesar. I was too kind, though. He was running to be Nero.