Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Impeachments and assassinations

Are we sick of winning yet?

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Sep 16, 2024
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Someone has allegedly fired a rifle at Donald Trump for the second time in the last year. People do not decide to try and assassinate a former President of the United States at random. There is always a chain of events leading up to the moment when shots get fired.

Well it seems that the man who has encouraged more stochastic terrorism than anyone else in the past decade now has to constantly look over his shoulder everywhere he goes for the rest of his life. That can't feel good. You wouldn't want to feel like that.

Although I guess we all do in our own American way thanks to people like him. The thought creeping in every now and again that this might be the day. It might be at long last our turn.1

As a kid, I had no idea how badly humanity was doing in regard to our social systems. If Trump did one positive thing for me, it was teaching me that a lot of my fellow humans are batshit crazy. I did not realize that one insane person could be a lodestone for all the other insane people. I di…

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