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Stay safe and balanced Dr. Mercieca. your insights are essential.

I haven't been doing explainers on Trump's rhetoric lately because, honestly, it's boring. I've said all these things for the last 10 years. A lot of this thread was written in 2019. But jumping in now to say this: this is new. This is different in important ways. This marks the end of the republic.

seditionists play pretending as patriots is the theme for them today and every day

I think it’s Charles Manson as Jesus.

Goddamn so much of the system relied on high integrity and professional shame and once that was stripped away by lack of consequence it was just a ticking bomb right.

We thought the system was protecting us and we could fuck around electing anyone.

But we were supposed to be the system.