I have to admit, it's light years faster than I imagined.

Though Trump is piss ass stupid, I figured there would be at least a few people who would try to hold the ship steady instead of dumping kerosene on every god damn fire the imbecile lights.

This is too complicated for someone from the USA.

The blunt disregard of *everything* honorable declared for more than a century definitely surprised me.
As if a fassade fell down.
Up to the oh so well praised troops everything is a peak, evil "parody" of even "Idiocracy" now.

Hollywood is doomed, because reality can't be beaten when it comes to insane, unlogical scriptwriting now.

I had a writing teacher explain how to Get Things Right in either the future and the past:

Find the distance between today and then. Look at what has remained the same, what might have changed is just incidental.

We were warned. The annotated Federalist Papers should be required reading in high school.

I don't hear them laughing now.

Mainly because I purged those short sighted fucks the first time they laughed.

I'm not surprised it's happening, when you think about the history of this place & how things were heading, but I admit to being surprised at the pace. I never expected ALL our elites & institutions (our "checks & balances") to fold at once with nary a whimper of protest. So much for the "home of the brave."

Chickens always come home to roost.

like tectonic plates slipping

I thought it would more deliberate and less dumb.

This dramatically, *this* quickly? No, but I did see where everything was headed (like all the racist rhetoric being thrown around during Obama's campaign without much pushback from the media or politicians on both sides), which was a big reason behind me moving here.