This is why I keep saying we must never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us. We have to learn from the failure of Reconstruction, and punish them, so it never happens again. We can't let them just move on, and pretend that they never did any of this.

There is a very real chance that the monsters, fools, and lunatics of the Trump regime may ultimately be responsible for more deaths than Hitler.

Was asked by a boomer last night why I was so cynical. It's only cynicism, I told her, if it's not actually happening. Otherwise it's just paying attention. If the rule you live by is, "I don't want to hear anything but unfounded optimism," it is little wonder the world is in the state it is.

If ever there was a time not to normalize Trump’s authoritarian fever dreams, this is it. This should be impeachable. ‘War ravaged’ Portland? He’s insane - & insanely power hungry. The script is set - call an imaginary group a terror group and then send in the troops.

Whatever is in those files is far, far worse than "Just" Trump raping trafficked teenage girls. Bestial perversity to equal the worst excesses of Caligula.

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

It's time for your Friday reality check! Trump is so weak and insecure, he had a childish tantrum about an escalator. He is in such severe cognitive decline, he can't pronounce "acetaminophen" or walk in a straight line. He's a rapist, a felon, and a national disgrace. Don't surrender in advance.

The steps between waving the gun and shooting into the crowd, I posit, will likely be measured in months, if not weeks. Get ready. Too many stupid people have been armed and sent out to do completely illegal things for the relative peace to last long.

There is no nuance, no mental gymnastics possible to avoid this conclusion. You can't pretend this is all going to work itself out, anymore. They are going to try to kill us all. Full stop.

This is why we call you Nazis, JD, because you KEEP DOING NAZI SHIT

The comparisons people are making between this abomination and the works of Albert Speer and the Nazis are not hyperbole. And not a coincidence.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

The laser-like focus MAGA has on trans people is the clearest example in my lifetime of "First they came for the...". Straight up '30s Germany shit. You should be terrified even if you aren't LGBT+. If you think this'll stop before it gets to you, you are laughably naive.

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

I was actually versed enough in history to know the OG Nazis were all creepy nerds and resentful failsons, but having to live it in real time fucking sucks so much ass.

Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.

Live your life so that 97% of the stories about you aren’t bad.

I can’t believe such a wretched, morbidly obese, drug addicted, deviant, illiterate, sexual predator found the secret sauce to turn half our country into absolute lunatics. Turning a blind eye daily to the most rampant corruption in American history as they genuflect before him.

I feel like we're operating at a rate of a Watergate-and-a-half a week.

Things have already been "all stick, no carrot" for a while, but now they've moved onto "How can we make the stick hurt more?"

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

These people are insane. It’s madness. Generations put in effort barring the doors to hell shut and they want to open them because they think the demons will politely eat a few libs and queers then leave everything else tidy and unmolested. They are risking millions, perhaps billions of lives.

They’re going to kill hundreds of thousands of children.

Free Speech in America being completely and openly dismantled by both parties because... (Checks notes)... a profoundly unlikable, openly racist, annoying twerp minor celebrity was shot. As insane as it would have sounded in 2015, honestly it fits with the last nine months.

The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule

He raged at his minions that he needed something big to distract everyone, and he certainly got it. The Epstein files must be so much worse than we can even imagine. Trump knows that even his cult won't stand for whatever evidence there is of his abuse and depredation. Keep up the pressure.

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

You think of all the folks who sacrificed for this country and to watch it get dismantled in such short order by a drug addicted charlatan who has raped more women than he has read books in his life is really something. We should have locked his ass up when we had the chance.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

now is the time for every media personality to stand up and speak out, because what this shows is that nothing will save you they’re coming for all of you, unless you’re a true believer your days are numbered and your bosses are eager to comply do something you can be proud of on your way out

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. F*ck Trump and F*ck ABC/Disney. I’ve met Jimmy and I’ve met Trump and one is a smart, funny and empathetic man and one is an illiterate racist POS.

I once saw, no joke, a Trumper -a middle-aged grown man- start crying over some of the elves being black in that Hobbit TV show.

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

It’s a lot easier to understand what’s happening when you accept that this country is having a collective mental breakdown and some people are trying to fix it and others are leaning in real hard.

the anti-immigration strategy of this administration seems to be to make the country suck so much that nobody would ever willingly come here

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This last week has been a real eye-opener in the “who’s a secret nazi” department

Charlie Kirk was a man so deeply committed to freedom of speech and enlightened, reasonable debate that you are not allowed to quote anything he said ever again.

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die people don't have to be threatened and bullied into pretending they're sad about it.