"I wonder if the Emperor Honorious, watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill, could truly realize that the Roman Empire was about to fall." That's a quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation, the third best Star Trek series. I'm going to be watching a lot of Star Trek over the next four years. I'm going to be watching a lot of old TV shows and movies that make me feel like the world isn't falling apart around me. "We all survived the last time he was president, didn't we?" is an actual comment from an HVAC repairman that fixed my furnace a few days ago. He was wearing a 45/47 hat, which prompted me to tell him that we probably weren't going to make much small talk while he worked in order to preserve civility. I wanted to tell him that a million people in the U.S. didn't survive the last Trump term, including my dad, who was a diehard MAGA fanatic and was absolutely certain that COVID-19 was no worse than a common cold and ...
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