Giant snake day

[sabotabby]

Today isn't the day that a fascist, racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic rapist becomes the Pissmonger In Chief.

Today is the day that a moderate does. A centrist. Yesterday's extremist, hard-right views are now, as of 11:30 today, the mainstream.

I'm listening to the radio—the publicly funded, reality-based, Canadian radio–present this story as if there are two equally correct opinions, as if there is a fucking chance in hell that Trump may not be that bad. I'm listening to people on the radio say that he is not that fascist actually.

Debating whether the media has it in for him, as if the media didn't create him in the first place. This is the new balanced. This is where the Overton Window has settled. 

Good luck to all of you.

Comments

[chickenfeet]

The CBC is just doing what the BBC has been doing for ages. "Today we have in the studio a mouth foaming racist Nazi and, for balance, a marginally less racist Tory."

I look forward to new documentaries; "Pinochet the Social Reformer", "Franco; Unifier of Spain" and so on.

[sabotabby]

The Star was doing it too today. I can't believe this, except I can.

[subbes]

nope nope nope nope nope nope nope i refuse to normalize this

[sabotabby]

I'm resisting with all my might.

[lapinlunaire]

I wanted to make a joke but it was too gallows humour and was actually depressing. RIP jokes

[sabotabby]

Make it anyway. I'm a grim motherfucker.

[lapinlunaire]

I was going to say that it's ok. Things will improve at some point over the next four years. We'll end up in a better place, free from all worries. He got the nuclear codes today, after all.

[sabotabby]

See, I laughed. There's something wrong with me.

[kore]

Yeah, we're fucked.

[sabotabby]

We are all so fucked.