I feel a strange sense of schadenfreude mixed with a heavy dose of terror and uncertainty now that the American people have elected someone with no experience whatsoever who tweets things like this:
Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 29, 2014
On the plus side: LOLs at liberals in my timeline.
On the minus: Potential global upheaval/depression/war.
So, swings and roundabouts.
The BBC were just now asking about Trump’s famous plan for a wall with Mexico, still presenting it as a hugely controversial idea. This always struck me as a pretty strange focus; walls and high fences are used all over the world, in Israel, Tunisia, Kenya and India, and they’re very effective.
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