“The open question now is whether you will be remembered in history as a laughingstock, or whether you will actually supplant Buchanan as America’s worst president.

But the crucial point is this: regardless of what you achieve or fail, your legacy is erased. Everything you have built is ashes. You are going to be judged purely based on what you do, or fail to do, starting January 20th. All else is irrelevant.”

An open letter to Donald Trump | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy

There are simply no words for the scope of incompetence we are about to experience. Woodrow Wilson was more able at the job after he was bedridden. Trump applied for a difficult job he knew very little about

I just signed this. And I thought twice about whether I wanted to identify myself to the White House, which is *why* I signed it.

Appoint Garland Now (Senate Has Waived Its Rights) | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

WWII is remembered as our Greatest Generation. We, right now, all of us, will likely be remembered as our worst.

Donald Trump and the end of history

Article says protests are “increasingly tense” nationwide and “virulent” in Portland after shooting there. Man drives up, shoots a peaceful protester. Police release no information about shooting except to say “he’s not a counter-demonstrator” but “wanted to cause trouble”. What? What’s the difference?

This is how protests are being treated *now*. Imagine what happens after 1/20.

Protester shot in Portland as anti-Trump demonstrations sweep U.S. cities

I am genuinely conflicted whether I agree with this.

A Russian Dissident Explains Exactly Why Clinton’s Concession Speech Was So Dangerous

Terrifying, and in my view, totally accurate assessment. The default starting position of the media will be “benefit of the doubt” unless they consciously decide differently.

The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency

This tweet links to a (deliberately?) leaked analysis by the Clinton campaign that basically concludes: it was Comey.

D.J. Grothe on Twitter

“The original point of the electoral college was to prevent the democratic mob from sending someone to the presidency who was manifestly unfit for office. Well, now the democratic mob has spoken, they’ve spoken for Hillary Clinton, and thanks to the rules we’ve elected the other guy, who is manifestly unfit for office.”

Musings about “Not my president” | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy

“Let’s be *extremely fucking clear* about who is now explicitly a Republican. I don’t know how many Republicans are neo-Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists, or currently race-bashing women in hijabs, but I’m pretty fucking sure that it’s large enough to have been well over Trump’s margin of victory…. Democrats need to reach out to sane independents and Republicans not because it’s a good strategy, not because it might help win an election, but because it’s the *American* thing to do.”

Dissecting the postmortems | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy

For all of the people out there expecting moderation, restraint, and slow bureaucracy: this is a better picture of what’s coming. Will Donald Trump destroy America?

“This is the language of fascists. I didn’t expect to see the tarring of half the nation as the enemy until the first bad thing happened to Trump’s approval rating, but of course, I was being optimistic. It happens immediately. It will go on relentlessly.”

Fascists don’t have opponents, they have enemies | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy