Why do they look like they were added in post

This, more than anything, is what the right realized in the wake of the 2000 election: in a moment of chaos or crisis, they can do anything -- *anything*, no matter how overtly criminal or gross -- & just smooth it over later with "both sides" pablum. "Let's not fight, let's look forward," etc.

I think Trump experiences fear, jealousy, pleasure, disgust, rage, & that's about it, emotionally speaking.

Barely a peg above lizard shit.

Beyond that I think he's basically a glitchy human AI, trying to spit out a facsimile of human-sounding language without any real processing or understanding.

Saying "it's good that this is happening" isn't the same as saying "the people who are doing this are good."

Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.

It's a weird psychosocial terror of being feminized by penetration, but the penetration is "your feelings being affected by people you care for," a basic element of being a social creature. They want to amputate a key chunk of human nature in the name of being totes alpha masc bros.

The scamming and grifting, the mob style shakedowns, the Christian nationalism, the technofascism, the MAHA eugenics, all reflect the same deeply felt and simple-minded need for rigid zero-sum hierarchies (where those already at the top and bottom respectively are rightfully there, natch).

Defining things in a binary, zero-sum way against what they are not is central to how these people simplify reality down to their comfort level and it sucks, including but not limited to in the domain of gender

Masculinity does not need to be anti-femininity to be real, but that idea’s beyond them