He also played the aptly-named Goldmember.

I used to be able to read stories like this and be glad I didn’t live in a country that had nationally state-sponsored things like this.

I won’t be able to feel that way any more.

You know what would help this situation? Letting a fascist become President of the United States. Again.

Poe’s Law is gonna hit hard.

Even if it did, Musk would just buy it.

I guess they do already have the market cornered on lying.

I live in California, but I’m worried about just how much resistance a state can do against the Feds.

I will be stunned if he ever acts like a decent human being. Hasn’t happened yet.

I genuinely believe that the ideological divide is far too wide in the US to be able to say that “America” believes this or that.

That would shock me. Sane people in power might piss and moan about him, but they never actually do anything about it.

They’re unlawful until the SCROTUS says they aren’t.

Nah, they’re cool with authoritarianism.

He was this timeline’s Anchor Being. Now we’re doomed.

I raise the spine of sympathy, Lifts-Her-Tail.

If I were him I’d just say “fuck it, I’m done,” hand over the presidency to Kamala for the next couple months, and enjoy my retirement.

Now?

The question was whether or not things will get better, not extinction. We’re unlikely to go extinct, but things will absolutely get worse for us.

Humans needing to be “gone” was hyperbole - we just need to not have enough people to be able to damage the climate any more.

Not for humans. Fascism can be recovered from, but climate change can’t at this point until humans are gone.