I’m guessing that is because the more drama there is at his end, the less ability his opponents have to respond, and the more opportunity will present itself to profit from insider trading on unseen drivers of the ensuing chaos.
I realize that sounds banal.
At 68, I’m not sure my body can withstand another four years of the anxiety, stress, and sleep deprivation like I experienced during Trump’s first term. Just hearing his voice makes my head pound, reminding me that my mother and grandmother were both felled by strokes. Wishing his supporters a slow painful death will have no effect on them and will only raise my blood pressure. Besides, this kind of useless outrage only breeds despair and apathy — and that’s what our enemies are counting on.
My mother, who survived five concentration camps and two death marches, told me that the hardest thing to forgive the Nazis was the anger they planted in her heart. “It’s like a cancer,” she would say. She’d often speak at local schools, determined to share the cautionary tale of how hate destroys. After she came to this country, she went on to become a pediatrician, one of only three women in her graduating class. I should work on my rage to honor her legacy.
The words of historian Howard Zinn have been of comfort: “The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” The best I can do right now is to live as I would want other humans to behave. And that includes not hating others. But it’s so hard.
Tattoos are explicitly proscribed in the Book of Leviticus (the same part of the Bible that condemns homosexuality) yet Christian Nationalists never seem to have a problem with this sort of thing.
Debatable.
People usually get those of sort tattoos covered or lasered off in their 30s. Apparently that guy got them in his late 30s…
Damn, it sure would be ashamed if they got an E. coli infection from that food. 
Why do I have a strong feeling that what this mope consider censorship differs considerably from what I consider censorship?
This comment on the article caught my attention:
He’s a Christianist, not a Christian. Big difference.
I hadn’t heard that particular term before.
this man is fucking enraging… Be warned, you’ll rage out.
well, IMO, if she doesn’t hang with the donald, may she hang separately!
And unfortunately, the genocide is about to get much worse and will spread to the west bank… Anyone who really believed that Trump would stop the genocide and bring about a better policy with regards to this issue were delusional. The bloodbath is going to get worse. 
I don’t think that’s a moral victory…
His current picks have not only displayed strong evidence of future loyalty, but whose loyalty can be ensured by being the type who—if not protected by him—could be easily thrown to the wolves and eaten alive, i.e., he’s got shit on them and thereby be controlled.
I’m pretty sure these people make their own hell here on earth with how awful they are, the problem is they keep trying to drag everyone else into it too.
For T**** supporters, as long as that bloodbath is Muslims and maybe a few Jews, that’s what they voted for.
Yeah… I know. Fuckers. And the ones who don’t want that, but voted for him anyway… well, I hope they feel like shit forever. I have so little grace for anyone who voted for him right now… I don’t know if that’ll ever go away. I just hope it’s not as bad as I’m afraid it’s going to be.