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L.D.Michaels's avatar

Welcome to the dawn of the Golden Age of Political Buffoonery!

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Fred Jonas's avatar

One correction to 5.: You rightly mention the "toddler in chief." Children are newborns, infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and then school students. So when you then mention the "hubristic pride of a first grader receiving [his] first participation trophy for simply showing up to class," you have gone beyond a toddler. You were right the first time. The clown is much more toddler than first grader. And now that his gait is unsteady, and his talking is rambling and nonsensical, he provides more of the characteristics of a toddler. Although if you were thinking of the rampant name-calling, I would agree with you that this is far more characteristic of school children.

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Dr. Eileen Antalek's avatar

As my brilliant ADHD "look at things sideways" husband says, the Fauxbel (I love your wordsmithing, and you deserve your own special prize) is made from crushed macaroni noodles spray painted gold.

If this regime has taught us nothing else, things can always get worse. We delivered a bunch of toys to Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, NC) due to a lack of donations, and not having been to Charlotte in years, I was stung by the abject poverty that I witnessed, with people living in tents alongside the highway. Yes, folks, it is worse already. Welcome to s--thole country, Amerikkka, where the billionaires hoard the wealth, and we scrape together what we can to bring a smile to a child's face for a few minutes before they die of measles because a brain worm and a cancerous white man said they need to prove their worth.

I'm so done with this regime. When is the revolution starting?

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Kathleen Connor's avatar

One day soon our Carnival Barker-in-chief will leave The People’s House. And while we are collectively taking deep breaths of fresh air, Shady Vance will pick up the sword.

Though some things will change rapidly, too many things won’t. Our institutions have been decimated. Crypto will reign throughout the land, and further economic pressures will accelerate as a result. Wall Street is about to implode and AI is reliant on hype, with its massive bubble awaiting The Big Burst.

America’s promise is effectively dead. France will probably collect its gift of the Statue of Liberty as a result.

There is much work to be done in resurrecting American freedoms, and there will be much pain to come as we seek redemption.

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Elizabeth-Jane Baird's avatar

Congratulations on inventing a new word. A brilliant new word! I Googled it and the only “fauxbel” around the place is a little-known country singer. Others will no doubt steal it, and it will eventually end up in both the Oxford and Collins dictionaries (by way of the Urban one), but all here will remember where we heard it first. 👏👏👏

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