by
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EMMERT/AFP
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On
March
19,
President
Donald
Trump
met
with
Japanese
Prime
Minister
Sanae
Takaichi
in
a
doomed
attempt
to
rope
Japan
into
his
unpopular
war
with
Iran.
“Why
didn’t
you
tell
me
about
Pearl
Harbor?”
Trump
said
to
Takaichi
in
response
to
a
question
from
a
reporter
about
why
he
did
not
tell
American
allies
about
his
unprovoked
attack
on
Iran.
The
attack
on
the
U.S.
naval
base
at
Pearl
Harbor
famously
occurred
on
December
7,
1941.
This
was
five
years
before
Trump
was
born
and
20
years
before
Takaichi
was
born.
For
over
a
decade,
Trump
has
gotten
away
with
one
insult,
one
outrage,
one
crime
after
another.
“I
could
stand
in
the
middle
of
Fifth
Avenue
and
shoot
somebody,
and
I
wouldn’t
lose
any
voters,
OK?”
said
Trump
in
2016
remarks
at
a
supposedly
Christian
college.
“It’s,
like,
incredible.”
It
is,
like,
incredible.
Trump’s
core
base
is
so
morally
depraved
and
intellectually
enfeebled
that
nothing
he
does
or
could
possibly
do
will
make
them
change
their
minds
about
him.
These
people
are
very
stupid,
very
poorly
informed,
and
very
stubborn,
in
that
order.
Even
though
they
were
just
as
surprised
as
anyone
when
it
happened,
it’s
no
surprise
at
all
that
Trump’s
cheerleaders
have
swept
in
to
defend
him
for
illegally
embroiling
the
United
States
in
another
unnecessary
war
at
the
behest
of
Benjamin
Netanyahu.
Iran’s
ruling
regime
was
no
picnic,
but
so
far
the
war
hasn’t
done
anything
to
change
it
beyond
switching
out
the
figurehead
at
its
top.
At
any
rate,
if
America’s
now
in
the
business
of
removing
any
leader
who’s
badly
running
a
country,
I
would
suggest
we
start
at
home.
So,
what
can
we
actually
do
about
the
Trump
sycophants
in
our
midst?
These
dummies
will
still
be
around
long
after
our
79-year-old
commander-in-chief
has
passed
on
to
(hopefully)
his
eternal
punishment.
I
doubt
they
will
coalesce
into
a
functional
political
movement
around
the
painfully
uncharismatic
JD
Vance
or
the
insecure
shrimp
Marco
Rubio.
In
the
meantime,
though,
we
(by
which
I
mean
every
sane,
decent
American
of
any
party
or
no
party
who
wants
democracy
to
survive
beyond
the
end
of
this
year)
have
to
win
the
midterms.
At
a
minimum,
Democrats
in
Congress
must
get
subpoena
power
for
there
to
be
any
hope
of
slowing
this
rolling
nightmare
of
a
presidential
administration.
In
a
best-case
scenario,
Democrats
could
win
back
enough
seats
to
actually
impeach
and
convict
federal
officials.
Your
most
important
role
in
this
is
to
cast
your
ballot
in
the
right
way.
That’s
not
all,
however.
Sure,
try
to
make
some
donations
if
you
can.
Volunteer
for
a
local
campaign
or
party
if
you
can.
Yet,
it
doesn’t
take
any
excess
cash
or
extra
time
commitment
to
do
what
I
think
is
probably
the
most
important
thing
you
can
on
a
day-to-day
basis:
push
these
kooks
and
morons
back
into
the
margins
of
society
where
they
belong.
Now,
don’t
do
any
violence,
obviously.
Also,
if
you
know
someone
who
is
not
otherwise
an
irredeemably
awful
human
being
who
has
supported
Trump
in
the
past,
use
your
own
judgment
on
perhaps
enticing
them
with
some
softer
rhetoric.
But
if
you’re
at
the
mall
or
whatever
and
see
some
rando
wearing
a
big,
dumb
Trump
sweatshirt,
or
a
stupid
f*cking
red
hat,
tell
them
to
go
ahead
and
eat
a
bag
of
dicks.
It’s
not
these
people’s
fault
that
their
parents
were
siblings,
but
I’m
sick
of
them
ruining
the
country
because
of
it.
Before
Trump
came
around,
people
didn’t
say
racist,
awful,
ignorant
shit
all
the
time
because
they
knew
others
would
react
negatively
to
it.
We
can
go
back
to
that.
Reason
is
never
going
to
win
over
people
who
somehow
still
remain
hardcore
Trump
supporters
three
months
into
the
hell
that
is
2026,
but
belittling
them
and
making
them
feel
as
stupid
as
they
are
every
time
they
display
their
support
for
Trump
will
help
prevent
them
from
infecting
others
with
their
idiocy.
Three
months
into
this
year
we’ve
already
dealt
with
Trump’s
unaccountable
goons
murdering
Americans
in
the
streets,
transitioned
from
invading
Greenland
to
invading
Venezuela,
and
now
we’re
all
apparently
supposed
to
have
forgotten
about
everything
else
as
we
continue
to
bomb
Iran
in
order
to
ruin
the
economy
and
spike
gas
prices.
None
of
this
was
exhaustively
planned
out.
It
is
the
random
neural
excrement
of
an
old
man
in
decline
who
was
never
an
intellectually
impressive
specimen
to
begin
with.
Don’t
let
Trump
supporters
turn
this
country
back
into
a
monarchy
on
its
250th
anniversary.
They
don’t
know
shit.
Get
out
there
and
remind
them
of
that.
Jonathan
Wolf
is
a
civil
litigator
and
author
of Your
Debt-Free
JD (affiliate
link).
He
has
taught
legal
writing,
written
for
a
wide
variety
of
publications,
and
made
it
both
his
business
and
his
pleasure
to
be
financially
and
scientifically
literate.
Any
views
he
expresses
are
probably
pure
gold,
but
are
nonetheless
solely
his
own
and
should
not
be
attributed
to
any
organization
with
which
he
is
affiliated.
He
wouldn’t
want
to
share
the
credit
anyway.
He
can
be
reached
at [email protected].