#stop him

"Shat out and turned out to be a pristine vase," More like a black-molded infested chair with a broken leg, all alone in a corner of a room filled with dust. "and look how I turned out. Clean as a whistle, clean and you can the rays reflecting off my ass cheeks."

He grabbed both of Kisumi's arms and attempted to bonk the birthday boy on the head with his own hands. "Stop hitting yourself. What are you doing? I get you're a drama queen, with whatever's bothering you. You don't want to grow bald like me, the more you keep hitting that empty noggin."

Stop hitting yourself

Stop hitting yourself

David A. Graham

Excerpt:

“Though Trump rarely speaks clearly, this threat would appear to meet the definition of genocide under the 1948 United Nations convention: ‘acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.’ The president has spent the past few days warning that he would attack civilian infrastructure, which most experts agree would constitute a war crime, but an apparently explicit threat of civilizational erasure is unheard of outside of cartoon villains; even most real-world génocidaires have denied that’s what they’re doing.

“But Trump’s message this morning is also notable for the autocratic view that underpins it. His position is that if he wants to wipe out ‘a whole civilization,’ then that is his decision to make—unconstrained by American law, international law, Congress, or public opinion. ‘Only President Trump knows what he will do, and the entire world will find out tomorrow night if bridges and electric plants are annihilated,’ the White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told The Wall Street Journal.

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“A rundown of the Trump administration’s scandals and crimes resembles, with shocking likeness, the grave, sweeping charges laid out in the Declaration of Independence against the last American king. ‘He has excited domestic insurrections against us,’ the Founding Fathers wrote about George III in 1776. Is there any better way of describing Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021? He supported a violent mob aiming to overthrow the government; he maintains a similar disrespect for the institutions of American democracy to this day. In early February, he threatened to ‘nationalize’ American elections in a lawless and perhaps impossible bid to keep Democrats from retaking Congress.

“The similarities do not end there. The declaration describes the king ‘cutting off our trade with all parts of the world’ and ‘imposing taxes on us without our consent.’ Sound familiar? Since last spring, Trump has used a Cold War–era sanctions law to unilaterally impose trillions of dollars in tariffs upon American customers and businesses. The law makes no mention of tariffs, and in February the Supreme Court accordingly struck them down.

“Foremost among the Founders’ fears of threats to liberty was the potential misuse of the military. Trump, to borrow their phrasing, ‘has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.’ In a show of propagandistic force, he has stationed thousands of National Guard troops from around the country within the District of Columbia despite the opposition of local government. The president frequently threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to send military forces into Democratic-led states and cities.”