Sunday, March 22, 2026

The Arc of Exceptionalism May Bend or Whatever but It Does End

When you look at the current president and his cabinet of 5th-year senior fuckwads you realize that America's history as a country is the personification of the way family dynasties usually go:
Old Man Joe Kennedy: hustled his ass off to build the family fortune
JFK, RFK: brilliant progressives who used the family fortune to try & enact their vision of how to best push the country forward
Their kids: dear god.
Founding Fathers: brilliant statesmen, clearly the best of the best
Every Politician Between the Founding Fathers and 2016: indisputably qualified players with varying degrees of good & bad behavior but all under a presumptive agreement of norms
Trump: dear god.
I believe I speak for everybody when I suggest: 😬

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