I don’t think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population. My impression is that Elon has driven away most good and reasonable people.

If he were a normal president who cared about Congress and the future of his party in fair and free elections this would matter a lot. Unfortunately he isn’t and his plan is to make certain there aren’t any free and fair elections, so we’ll see what happens.

“That’s too insane for him to actually do” is exactly the sort of complacency that got us into this mess.

There’s a simple explanation for that: they’re more committed to fascism than to their own self-interests.

It’s important to remember that the only reason he can get away with everything is because lots of other powerful people are going along with it.

It’s pretty impressive just how thorough Trump and Elon are being about destroying every single thing that used to be good about the USA.

I’m hoping that Vance won’t be able to hold MAGA together. The thing about cults of personality is that when the dear leader is gone they tend to fall apart. Fingers crossed.

They thought the leopard would eat other people’s faces and not theirs. Remember that one lady from his first term? “He’s not hurting the right people.” That quote tells you everything you need to know about his voters.

it does seem excessively lurid to suggest, without direct evidence, that they have been raped in captivity for the past several months

But you’re just going to do it anyway?