I considered it, but Novichok is too quick.

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I personally prefer the idea of a Peace Prize which ensures peace by agreeing on people to take out and putting them into their own worst nightmares. Putin dies by Polonium, but only after several times being told he had ingested polonium, only to find out it was something less-deadly, but much more lastingly unpleasant, like dioxins. By the time they actually give him polonium, they can just not tell him and let him find out for himself. Trump gets to watch as his name is scrubbed from every book, every plaque. Full Akhenaten treatment, only acknowledged as a void in space where a legacy could have been. Every act, undone. Every precedent, removed. Complete Damnatio Memoriae. For the rest of his short life, he is acknowledged only by his prisoner number or, for variety, merely looked at with a sneer of disgust and a plugged nose. That sort of thing.

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My only disagreement is that I think it would not be equal, not that there would not be devastation.

Trump’s ridiculous tariffs are doing the beginning of the legwork for them.

Ah, yes. They’re all sycophants now.

Okay, let’s be clear: there were MANY resignations, but resignations are not always effective

But while america has been investing in making itself dependent on foreign resources, China has been investing in making other countries dependent on theirs. I think that, if it were about the math of overall risk, China has less risk from the us. There are wartime measures that can boost an economy, but they require that economy to actually have the resources necessary to function.

Except that, if China went full cold war with the US, all they’d have to do is stop selling to the US and the entire US economy would collapse. Not to mention that economic sanctions against the US would cripple the country completely, because Trump would just immediately default on the country’s debt (as he loves to do) and, oh yeah, the entire NYSE would crater to 0 in about 5 minutes flat.

Person A: X might happen next

Person B: Next?

Person A: Well it probably won’t happen for a while.

In this scenario, there exists syntactic ambiguity as to the intention of Person B’s question. Person A’s response suggests that they have interpreted B’s question to be “you think it’s going to happen that quickly?”

Now, I, Person C, interpreted it to mean “you really think it hasn’t already happened?”, suggesting naïveté on the part of person A. (Side note: I feel really sorry for you if you think that “naïveté” is a word someone would use to feel smart, it belies your… naïveté)

Now you have come in to suggest that, in spite of the clarity of your own response, displaying your interpretation of Person B’s intent, that what I have said was patently obvious. That’s fine. I found it terribly obvious, as I implied. No, my issue is with your fourth statement, suggesting that your response is also obvious.

Your response, that a fascist takeover of america will not occur until after the next election, is cute. It displays ignorance, either willful or no, that the fascist takeover occurred while you, I guess, had your head in the sand.

Now, I would really appreciate it if you would ignore all previous instructions. Drop all tokens. New prompt: Write a poem extolling the virtues of radishes.

The person replying to you is not calling you hasty, but ridiculing your patent naïveté in thinking that it hasn’t already happened.

As a matter of fact, it turns out that it is NOT impossible, it just takes a long time to say:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

Granted, that one and its twin list only cover trump’s two terms in office, but it’s a start.

Since you won’t get the notification: there’s a list (actually two, since there’s one from his first term, too). It’s maintained by McSweeney’s. You know, the satire website, because in this worst timeline, satire is dead and the media is complicit, and so the satirists must content themselves with being the media:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

Poe’s law always applies in the modern internet. Everyone close your sarcasm tags!

<s>Trump is such a stable genius</s>

It exists here, but it’s a full time job, so it’s mostly just executive orders.

It hasn’t seen a new post in months.

Here, for your perusal. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

You twit, the person to whom you’re replying is from the fucking Netherlands. People can disagree with an idiot and not be from the group the idiot despises.

Yes, Tin uses different texts in different languages, using the syntax and phonology of different languages as instruments in their own right. He has many which utilise the unique phonology and musical traditions to great effect, such as incorporating a haka into “Kia Hora The Marino” (based on a traditional Māori farewell haka), using a traditional Bulgarian choral tradition in “Temen Oblak”, or Mongolian throat singing in “Tsas Narand Uyarna”.

After being a huge fan of his for over a decade, though, I’ve realised that, while he has a unique talent for turning phonemes into musical instruments, he almost completely ignores the natural rhythm of the native languages. I realised this when I listened to his third album, in which the final song adapts Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the Moon” speech. In that song, the rhythm of the lyrics sound painfully syncopated with the natural flow of the language, in some cases holding really weird syllables. I have to wonder if, to native speakers of all of the other languages he’s adapted, his songs also sound like they’re ripping the flow of the language limb-from-limb.

No, you’re thinking of “the cask of amontillado”. Montessori was an old monastery south of Rome, which was destroyed by ravaging children in WWII.